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Top 5 Robot Trends 2022
The operational stock of industrial robots hit a new record of about 3 million units worldwide – increasing by 13% on average each year (2015-2020). The International Federation of Robotics analyzes the top 5 trends shaping robotics and automation around the globe.
“Transformation for robotic automation is picking up speed across traditional and new industries,” says Milton Guerry, President of the International Federation of Robotics. “More and more companies are realizing the numerous advantages robotics provides for their businesses.”
1 – Robots adopted by new industries
Segments that are relatively new to automation are rapidly adopting robots. Consumer behavior is driving companies to address demand for personalization of both products and delivery.
The e-commerce revolution was driven by the pandemic and will continue to accelerate in 2022. There are thousands of robots installed worldwide today that did not exist in this segment just five years ago.
In an effort to address labor shortages, companies that have not previously considered automation will reconsider. Businesses that rely on service workers, such as retail and restaurants, are unable to fill job openings, and as a result, we can expect to see them invest in automation to meet patrons’ needs. Relatively new robotics customer industries like delivery and logistics, construction, agriculture and many more benefit from technologies advancing by the day.
2 – Robots easier to use
Implementing robots can be a complex task, but new generations of robots are easier to use. There is a clear trend towards user interfaces that allow simple icon-driven programming and the manual guidance of robots. Robot companies and some 3rd party suppliers are bundling hardware packages together with software to ease implementation. This trend may seem simple, but offerings that focus on complete ecosystems are adding tremendous value by reducing the effort and the time to operation.
The trend for low-cost robotics also comes with easy setup and installation, with specific applications pre-configured in some instances. Suppliers offer standard programs combined with grippers, sensors, and controllers. App stores provide program routines for various applications and support lower-cost robot deployment.
3 – Robots and Humans up-skilling
More and more governments, industry associations, and companies are seeing the need for basic robot and automation education at an early stage for the next generation. The journey of data-driven production lines will focus on education and training. In addition to the training of workers in-house, external education routes can enhance staff learning programs. Robot manufacturers like ABB, FANUC, KUKA, and YASKAWA all register between 10,000 and 30,000 participants in their robot classes across more than 30 countries every year.
Robotics is changing job profiles of factory workers for the better. As the recent “Great Resignation” shows, people want to work in a modern environment where they can build a career. New training opportunities with robotics are a win-win strategy for companies and employees alike: Dull, dirty, and dangerous tasks get automated while people learn key skills for the industrial workplace of the future and increase their earning potential throughout their careers.
4 – Robots secure production
Trade tensions and COVID-19 are driving manufacturing back closer to the customer. Supply-chain issues lead companies to consider nearshoring with automation as a solution.
One particularly revealing statistic from the US shows how automation is helping businesses get back to business: According to the Association for Advancing Automation (A3), robot orders in the United States in the third quarter of 2021 were up 35% over the same period in 2020. More than half of the orders are from non-automotive sectors.
And this record growth isn’t just robotics either—machine vision, motion control, and motors are also seeing big increases. “The pandemic and the resulting disruptions to supply chains and labor availability appear to have been the push that many needed to justify the investment,” says Dr. Susanne Bieller, General Secretary of the IFR. “The companies most likely to invest in automation are those that have been considering it for a while but just hadn’t taken the final step.”
5 – Robots support digital automation
In 2022 and beyond, we see an emphasis on data as key enablers of future manufacturing. Data collected from intelligently automated processes will be analyzed by producers to make more informed decisions. With a robot’s ability to share tasks and learn through AI, companies can also adopt intelligent automation more easily in new environments, from construction to food and beverage packaging facilities to healthcare labs.
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Texas Spiny Lizard
South Texas Part II: Into the Thornscrub
Common Pauraque
Beyond the South Texas coastal dunes, marshes, and prairies lies a unique, biodiverse community dominated by a variety of shrubs and small trees. Variably referred to as South Texas brush country, mezquital, and Tamaulipan thornscrub, this semi-arid, subtropical community occurs in South Texas and the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila. It is home to plants and animals found nowhere else on earth, and in South Texas, marks the northern extent of several Latin American species that just barely enter the United States.
Tamaulipan Thornscrub with blooming Lady Finger Alicoche alongside Strawberry Pitaya.
The Tamaulipan thornscrub in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas is one of the United State’s premier birding locations. My parents and I have made a number of birding trips here in the past, drawn in by the promise of catching a glimpse of one of these South Texas specialties. During this trip the birding was fairly slow, but we did see many of the typical Rio Grande Valley species including Plain Chachalacas (Ortalis vetula), White-tipped Doves (Leptotila verreauxi), Green Jays (Cyanocorax yncas), Long-billed Thrashers (Toxostoma longirostre), Altamira Orioles (Icterus gularis), and Olive Sparrows (Arremonops rufivirgatus). Unfortunately these species did not present me with any good photo ops. I did luck out, however, when we found another Valley specialist, the Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis) roosting alongside a trail. These members of the nightjar family are nocturnal and rely on their camouflage to roost on the ground during the day. It was nearly invisible among the dried leaves and sticks littering the earth. I utilized the dense natural debris to create the window effect seen on the photo at the start of this blog entry.
Many mammal species also reach the northern extent of their range in deep South Texas. Unfortunately many of them are now gone. The last Jaguar (Panthera onca) in Texas was killed in the Tamaulipan thornscrub in the 1940’s. There are some that still hold onto hope that there may be a few Jaguarundi left in the Rio Grande Valley. Though there have been no verified sightings in many years, there have been unverified reports. Ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) are still hanging on in the brush country, though they are now rare, and protected under the Endangered Species Act. In our explorations of the thornscrub we observed a number of mammals including White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and Collared Peccaries a.k.a. Javelinas (Tayassu tajacu). The only mammal I was able to photograph was the little Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) pictured below.
Eastern Cottontail
There are many reptile and amphibians whose United States distribution is also limited to the Rio Grande Valley. Being an amphibian enthusiast, I was disappointed that we missed the heavy rains that brought out such rarities as the Mexican Burrowing Toad (Rhinophrynus dorsalis) and White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis) by just a couple of days. These species are explosive breeders that emerge to breed after heavy rains. I did spend some time looking for the beautiful Speckled Racer (Drymobius margaritiferus), a primarily Latin American species that is known from only a couple of sites in South Texas. I struck out on the snakes, but was able to photograph a couple of the areas conspicuous lizards: the Texas Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus olivaceus) and the Rose-bellied Lizard (Sceloporus variabilis).
Rose-bellied Lizard
The Rio Grande Valley is also world famous for its butterflies. While we observed many species, the only one I obtained a decent photo of was the Common Mestra (Mestra amymone).
Common Mestra
The Tamaulipan thornscrub is named for the typically thorny shrubs and small trees that dominate the community. Typical species of this community include Mesquite (Prosopis gladulosa), Chaparro (Ziziphus obtusifolia), Whitebrush (Aloysia gratissima), Texas Paloverde (Parkinsonia texana), Texas goatbush (Castela erecta), Saffron Plum (Sideroxylon celastrinum), Blackbrush Acacia (Vachellia rigidula), Corona de Cristo (Koeberlina spinosa), Guayacan (Guaiacum angustifolium), and Ebano (Ebenopsis ebano). These shrubs form often impenetrable thickets. On some sites, particularly as one moves further west in the Rio Grand Valley the shrubs may become more scattered, forming dense clumps with areas of exposed gravel and caliche. It was in areas such as this where we observed the rare Baretta (Helietta parvifolia).
Texas Paloverde
Occasionally growing in the crooks of mature Ebano, a real botanical treasure can be found. The epiphytic bromeliad Tillandsia baileyi, commonly known as Bailey’s Ball Moss barely enters the United States in South Texas, where it is rare. It is much more striking than other members of its genus, which includes the familiar Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides).
Bailey’s Ball Moss
A conspicuous component of the South Texas brush country is the Anacahuita or Mexican Olive (Cordia boissieri). Its bright blooms illuminate the native brushlands, and it is a popular native ornamental in South Texas. The tree was reportedly utilized by native cultures and Spanish settlers to make jellies and dyes. The leaves can be brewed in a tea that may help with rheumatism and various ailments of the lungs.
Anacahuita
Many invertebrates can be found utilizing Anacahuita leaves and flowers. The Wild Olive Tortoise Beetle (Physonota alutacea) is found exclusively on these small trees.
Wild Olive Tortoise Beetle
Many pollinators also frequent the blooms. They due so at their own risk, however, because predators lurk beneath these flowers. We observed this crab spider (Mecaphesa sp.) awaiting an unsuspecting victim.
Crab Spider
South Texas is also home to a variety of native lantana species. Brushland lantana (Lantana achyranthifolia) could occasionally be found scattered about the thornscrub.
Brushland Lantana
We also observed a couple of species of heliotrope, including the widespread Seaside Heliotrope (Heliotropium curassivicum), and the more range restricted Scorpion Tail (Heliotropium angiospermum) which occurs in South Texas and southern Florida.
Seaside Heliotrope
Scorpion Tail
Fiddleleaf Tobacco (Nicotiana repanda), a species of central and southern Texas, was also fairly common.
Fiddleleaf Tobacco
Shrubby Blue Sage (Salvia ballotiflora) occurs in the U.S. only in southern and western Texas.
Shrubby Blue Sage
Over the millennia, the meanders of the Rio Grande has slowly changed course, leaving in their wake old depressional oxbow scars. The scars eventually filled with rainwater and runoff and developed a unique flora. Known as Resacas these unique wetlands provide habitat for a host of rare plant and animal species. We observed many Least Grebes (Tachybaptus domincus), another bird species whose U.S. distribution is restricted to South Texas in them. We also observed the rare Runyon’s Water-Willow (Justicia pacifica) here.
Runyon’s Water Willow
As one moves further west along the valley, one begins to notice more and more of a desert influence. I observed many familiar species that I have photographed in West Texas including Snapdragon Vine (Maurandella antirrhiniflora) and Cenizo (Leucophyllum frutescens). The latter blooms in response to rainfall and humidity.
Snapdragon Vine
I observed Purple Groundcherry (Quincula lobata) here. These showy groundcover primarily occur in the southwestern United States.
Purple Groundcherry
I also observed Bearded Prairie-Clover (Dalea pogonathera) here. This member of the pea family is primarily a species of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Bearded Dalea
South Texas is also home to a few woodsorrel species that do not have the typical “lucky clover” leaf. Pictured here is Peonyleaf Woodsorrel (Oxalis dichondrifolia).
Peonyleaf Woodsorrel
The open caliche hills were home to the beautiful Berlandier’s Nettlespurge (Jatropha cathartica), which is restricted to South Texas and adjacent Mexico.
Berlandier’s Nettlespurge
The most spectacular element of the Tamaulipan thornscrub, however, were the cacti. These famed succulents were my main target in South Texas, and I was fortunate to observe many species. Though my next two blog posts will be dedicated to the incredible diversity of South Texas cacti, I have decided to provide a preview of things to come below.
Lady Finger Alicoche (Echinocereus pentalophus)
Glory of Texas (Thelocactus bicolor)
Heyder’s Pincushion Cactus (Mammillaria heyderi)
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Identity, Class, and Bite Me, David Horowitz
By Susie Day (Posted May 30, 2006)
ClassCommentary
All my life, I have wanted to be a cutting-edge, Queer Studies academic. And now that I have written my first opus deconstructing a Western literary classic, I am! All I have to do is send this in to the London Review of Books, and wait to be mercilessly attacked by rightwing critics like David Horowitz, who will call me a “PC Thug” and/or “Terrorist,” thus ensuring me years of fame and several financially rewarding speaking tours. So please do not plagiarize the following; it took years of research:
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town
Upstairs, downstairs, in his nightgown. . . .
At first, this poem appears wholesome and innocent, until we employ an interdisciplinary, multicultural system of inquiry. Then it makes us sick. For, once we unpack things in a scholarly fashion, we find that (a) there really was a “Wee Willie Winkie,” and (b) he has been totally misrepresented by totalizing, heterosexual supremacists.
Tapping at the window, crying at the lock,
‘Are the wee ones in bed, for it’s now eight o’clock?’
The image of Wee Willie gadding about in a long white frock, and peering into children’s bedrooms, has become the cynical tool of white, middle-class, sexually Manichaean, pseudo-monogamous parents who seek to inculcate their progeny with mind-numbing bromides about a sanitized, desexualized “bedtime” privileging the maintenance of a fascistically-gendered, patriarchal hierarchy. We are sorry we had to write such a long, erudite sentence there, but we were pissed.
More to the point: the mythic Wee Willie lulls erotically polymorphous youth into accepting, yea welcoming, control by a voyeuristic police state. A police state that closes down gay bars! A police state that never cared about the real Wee Willie! But Queer Studies cares. Caringly, we present his story.
Newspaper accounts of the Victorian era describe Wee Willie Winkie as a four-foot eleven-inch Scottish immigrant who left Glasgow rather hurriedly in the spring of 1872, due to an obscure morals charge. He settled in London’s East End and, true to his working-class roots, found employment there in a women’s nightgown factory. According to “Cut on the Bias: Tragic Homosexuals and Ladies’ Sleepwear: A Quarterly,” Wee Willie “fit right in” to workaday life.
Yet Wee Willie felt the social unrest of the times, and he took to stealing bits of ribbon and thread from the factory. At home, by candlelight, he began designing a stunning array of nightgowns, which he wore to Hyde Park. There, among the revolutionary orators, he would enhance the ongoing socialist debate by climbing atop his little soapbox to model his creations. Legend has it that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, strolling by one evening, developed the theory of commodity fetishism, simply by glimpsing the cut of Wee Willie’s peignoir. Wee Willie himself was attracted to the idea of a proletarian dictatorship and longed to join the workers’ struggle. His fellow proletarians, however, with their limited class analysis, dictated otherwise, and he was blackballed from the First International for “identity politics.”
Ostracism from the organized Left drove Wee Willie to drink, at a neighborhood pub called the Cock and Rubber, where he would regale patrons with accounts of his handiwork. “Eh, Sailor, ye want to cum ta me flat fur a look at me wee bonny nighties? Hic.” His nightie-viewings proved so popular that, one glorious evening, Wee Willie was asked to model his creations at the pub.
Wee Willie’s great-great-grandniece, Wee Winnie Winkie, agreed to be interviewed for this study. She recounts Wee Willie’s big debut: “Grreat Grreat Uncle was staggerin’ down the runway, bonnie as a sprring day, when the hem of his magenta Empress Josephine nightie caught fire on one o’ the footlights. In half a second, the daft thing burned clean up ta his waistband. All the lads started shouting, “Blimey, Wee Willie’s got a wee winkie — woo woo!” The dirty, alliterative bastarrds.”
Just then, Her Majesty’s vice squad burst into the pub. Clapping eyes on Willie’s singed member, the officers proclaimed they would shut it down. (The pub, that is). Delirious from shock and semi-nakedness, Wee Willie bolted out the door and into history. We pick up his odyssey in the March 12, 1874 issue of the London Daily Colonic:
The diminutive Scotsman led her Majesty’s constabulary forces on a chase through the city’s affluent sectors, upstairs, downstairs, through servants’ quarters, butlers’ pantries, drainpipes. Mr. Winkie was finally apprehended as he attempted to crawl into the nursery window of the Finance Minister’s young son. A disquieted Mr. Winkie explained that he wanted to make sure ‘The wee one was in bed,’ noting that it was ‘now eight o’clock.’ This might have proved plausible, had Big Ben not been tolling 4:00 a.m. Mr. Winkie was taken to headquarters, given a vicious bias beating, and charged with endangering the sleep of a minor. The Finance Minister remarked that this incident alone should be enough to tighten laws on immigration.
But because of Wee Willie’s heroic distraction, the Cock and Rubber was saved. To show their gratitude, pub patrons composed the immortal “Wee Willie Winkie” poem, later co-opted by the heterosexual free market mainstream. The lads at the time were jubilant, however, and cries of Queer identity struggle echoed through Hyde Park as they chanted, “Wee Willie Overcome,” and “All Power to the Winkies.” So righteous and proud were the lads that they failed to notice when Wee Willie was carted off to an immigration detention center, where guards regularly awakened him to jeer at his grey, institutional pajamas.
So you see, identity politics has its problems, too, but not as many as David Horowitz. The end.
Susie Day lives in New York City where she writes a humor column for feminist and gay publications. She has also written on U.S. political prisoners and labor issues and thinks her girlfriend, Laura Whitehorn, is hot stuff.
About Susie Day
Susie Day is a writer. Her book Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power is available from Abdingdon Square Publishing.
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Mandzukic Leaves Juventus For Qatar Clubside
December 25, 2019 Roland Arum 0 Comment Atletico Madrid, Dybala, Juventus, Mandzukic, Qatar
Mario Mandzukic has departed Juventus to pitch his tent with Qatari side, Al Duhail.
The Croatian has been frozen out by Juventus boss, Maurizio Sarri, failing to make even a single appearance this term.
The Qatari club has now announced the signing of the 33-year-old.
Al-Duhai have landed Mandzukic on a free transfer with the striker being repeatedly linked with a move to Manchester United during the summer transfer window.
Mandzukic terminated his contract with the Turin giants, a deal which was set to run through to next season.
The Qatari club will be hopeful that the Croatian can help them to a domestic title. They currently sit atop the Qatar Stars League standings with nine wins and two draws from 11 games.
Mandzukic leaves the Turin capital after a four and half year spell there, having joined from Atletico Madrid in 2015.
He’s netted 44 times for the Biaconeris in 164 appearances. However, it was a clear sign of things to come when he was left out of the club’s Champions League squad in September.
Though the 33-year-old has failed to make a single appearance this term, he has experienced a lot of success since his arrival at Juventus.
He has won four Serie A titles during his four complete seasons at the club, along with three Coppa Italia titles.
He helped the Biaconeris reach the finals of th4 Champions League in 2027, scoring a spectacular overhead kick in a 4-1 loss to Real Madrid.
Mandzukic asides Croatian outfits have at some point represented Wolfsburg, Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid and Juventus. He was also close to making a switch to Manchester United in the summer but the deal didn’t go through.
The folks at Old Trafford came for the veteran striker after losing out on signing Paolo Dybala. However, the Red devils ended up with neither of the players.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law requiring schools to offer 100% in-person learning option
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a requirement Friday morning for Iowa schools to give parents the option to send their children to school five days a week.
"It's time to put local control into the hands of parents, where it belongs, so that they can choose what's best for their children," she said before signing the bill, surrounded by a small group that included state legislators, parents and students. She signed it at a state Capitol event, just hours after both chambers of the Iowa Legislature approved it Thursday.
The requirements will go into effect Feb. 15, giving Iowa's public and accredited private schools that currently offer a mixture of in-person and virtual instruction two weeks to make the transition. Many schools already offer an in-person option, but some do not due to continued community spread of the coronavirus.
The bill passed the Senate by a 29-18 vote Thursday afternoon and passed the House Thursday evening by a 59-39 vote. All Republicans in both chambers voted for the measure. Rep. Wes Breckenridge, D-Newton, was the lone Democrat to vote in favor of the bill.
In the Senate, a separate, wide-ranging education bill introduced by Gov. Kim Reynolds also won approval Thursday. The bill, which would provide publicly funded scholarships to qualifying students to help them attend a private school, passed 26-21, with three Republicans joining Democrats in voting against it. That measure will now head to the House.
New law requires schools to offer in-person classes starting Feb. 15
Reynolds in her Jan. 12 Condition of the State address had called for the Legislature to send the legislation to her desk "immediately." Republicans in both chambers moved the in-person learning bills through the committee process swiftly this week as their leaders sought to fulfill Reynolds' request.
“Parents are upset. Parents want their kids back in class. They recognize that their kids are falling behind,” Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, said Thursday.
The new law will not prevent schools from continuing to offer hybrid options or a fully virtual option for parents who request it. However, some school districts that are currently instructing partly in person and partly online expect to drop that hybrid option once the law goes into effect.
The law will require school districts to give parents at least five days to decide which option to select for their children.
In Des Moines, spokesperson Phil Roeder said Thursday that the district, which currently offers hybrid and remote options, plans to offer a five-day option for students, perhaps as soon as Feb. 8, while continuing the virtual option.
Schools could still request waivers from the requirement from the Iowa Department of Education, if Reynolds allows that through a public health declaration. The measures would require the department to factor into the decision issues such as the number of teachers quarantining due to the virus, and shortages of substitutes, food service workers and school bus drivers.
If schools do not comply, the hours and days of instruction would not count toward their instructional time. The requirement would extend until the end of June.
Democrats: New law a 'smackdown' on larger districts
Reynolds and Republicans have emphasized that students in some districts have missed out on the advantages of in-person instruction, which include mental health benefits and access to several services. They have also pointed to evidence that grades have fallen during the pandemic.
Rep. Phil Thompson, R-Jefferson, said many school districts are already holding in-person classes, but students at districts that aren't offering them aren't receiving equal opportunities.
"There's no doubt in my mind that every member of this chamber understands that our classrooms provide much, much more than quality academic curriculum, although that is a major factor in proposing this bill," he said.
Democrats and others say Iowa first needs to reduce community spread of the virus and ensure schools have enough resources to reopen school buildings safely. Iowa will begin vaccinating teachers and other school staff Feb. 1, but they will not be fully vaccinated by Feb. 15.
Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, called the bill a "smackdown" to large school districts that have taken longer to return to in-person classes because of their unique challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as ensuring social distancing in crowded classrooms.
“This bill is nothing more than Gov. Reynolds settling a political score with large urban school districts that disagreed with her,” Bolkcom said on the Senate floor Thursday.
During debate Thursday, Republicans voted down several changes that Democrats proposed.
Those proposals included applying the requirement only to schools following federal guidelines to contain the spread — such mask wearing, social distancing and ventilation. Another would have pushed back the effective date until teachers and school staff have a chance to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. A third would have expanded the types of staffing shortages the state would need to take into account when exempting schools from the requirements.
"The problem is that Rep. Thompson, the governor and a lot of people seem to be working on this fast track to implement this thing," said Rep. Bruce Hunter, D-Des Moines. "The only problem is, they're not implementing it to be safe."
On Friday, Reynolds applauded schools that had already returned to in-person learning and said the state plans to support schools with personal protective equipment and federal coronavirus funding.
"Sadly, the biggest risk to our students is their continued absence from school," she said, adding that national research and achievement results within Iowa have shown more students are falling behind.
Senate passes governor's 'school choice' bill
The Senate on Thursday also passed the governor's education "choice" bill, which would allow students at certain schools to qualify for state-funded education savings accounts to help them attend a private school.
The bill would widen the number of students eligible to open-enroll in other schools and allow groups to form charter schools without applying through their local school district.
“At its heart, Senate File 159 is a bill that places parents back in the driver’s seat for their child’s very personal educational journey," Sen. Amy Sinclair, R-Allerton, said Thursday.
The bill passed 26-21, with Republican Sens. Dawn Driscoll, R-Williamsburg, Tom Shipley, R-Nodaway, and Annette Sweeney, R-Buckeye, joining Democrats in voting no.
Reynolds, many Republican lawmakers and "school choice" advocacy groups have said the legislation would give parents more options for where to send their children. Democrats and several groups representing educators and public schools have opposed the bill, saying public money should remain with public schools.
“Every year you’ve been chipping away at public education, and this is the grand doozy of it all,” Sen. Janet Petersen, D-Des Moines, said during Thursday's debate.
Republicans also moved that bill through the committee process earlier in the week. Though the bill moved through the entire process in the Senate over the course of one week, House Speaker Pat Grassley, R-New Hartford, told reporters Thursday that he expects House Republicans to move at a slower pace.
He said the large size of the proposal and simultaneous work on other priorities, such as passing a school funding package, would likely slow the process.
"We're continuing to look at the governor's proposal and definitely are very open to it," he said. "But as far as (how) quickly as it moved in the Senate, at this point in time where I'm at, I don't see it moving as fast as that. We have other things that we're doing at the same time as well."
Ian Richardson covers the Iowa Statehouse for the Des Moines Register. Reach him at [email protected], at 515-284-8254, or on Twitter at @DMRIanR. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9322084784507751, "wiki_prob": 0.9322084784507751, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line816714"} |
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Sony Xperia 10 III Now Listed On Malaysian Product Page; Priced At RM1999
No word on an official release date yet.
by Ikmal Rozlan
Sony’s new mid-range smartphone, the Xperia 10 III, is the cheapest yet in the company’s latest Mark III series. The phone looks almost indistinguishable from its predecessor, the Xperia 10 II, but it does come with a few spec bumps.
The new Xperia 10 III comes with a 6.0-inch 1080p OLED display with a 21:9 aspect ratio, the same as last year’s phone, along with the faster Snapdragon 690, up from the Snapdragon 665.
The phone’s battery capacity has also been beefed up from 3600mAh to 4500mAh and its RAM has been increased from 4GB to 6GB, with 128GB of storage. Additionally, Sony claims its Xperia Adaptive Charging monitors the phone’s battery health and keeps it healthy even after three years of use. The Xperia 10 III ships with Android 11 out of the box with the screen protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 6.
Camera-wise, the triple camera main array comprises a 27mm wide-angle 12MP main sensor, and two 8MP sensors, a 54mm telephoto and a 16mm ultra-wide-angle. The Xperia 10 III also uses AI to determine the best shooting modes for varying situations. It also has an 8MP front shooter with HDR and a wide-angle lens.
As for durability, the phone is certified water-resistant and dustproof (IP65/68). It uses a fingerprint sensor on the side and a dual-sim tray that supports additional storage. Oh, and it comes with a headphone jack. According to Sony’s website, it comes in blue and black and will soon be available for purchase at RM1999.
(Sources: Sony, Nanoreview)
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Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and child neurodevelopmental outcomes
Daniel J. Corsi ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7063-33541,2,3,
Jessy Donelle4,
Ewa Sucha4,
Steven Hawken1,3,
Helen Hsu5,
Darine El-Chaâr1,6,
Lise Bisnaire7,
Deshayne Fell2,3,
Shi Wu Wen1,3,6 &
Mark Walker1,6
Nature Medicine volume 26, pages 1536–1540 (2020)Cite this article
Cannabis use in pregnancy has increased1,2, and many women continue to use it throughout pregnancy3. With the legalization of recreational cannabis in many jurisdictions, there is concern about potentially adverse childhood outcomes related to prenatal exposure4. Using the provincial birth registry containing information on cannabis use during pregnancy, we perform a retrospective analysis of all live births in Ontario, Canada, between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2012. We link pregnancy and birth data to provincial health administrative databases to ascertain child neurodevelopmental outcomes. We use matching techniques to control for confounding and Cox proportional hazards regression models to examine associations between prenatal cannabis use and child neurodevelopment. We find an association between maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and the incidence of autism spectrum disorder in the offspring. The incidence of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis was 4.00 per 1,000 person-years among children with exposure compared to 2.42 among unexposed children, and the fully adjusted hazard ratio was 1.51 (95% confidence interval: 1.17–1.96) in the matched cohort. The incidence of intellectual disability and learning disorders was higher among offspring of mothers who use cannabis in pregnancy, although less statistically robust. We emphasize a cautious interpretation of these findings given the likelihood of residual confounding.
Chronic prenatal delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure adversely impacts placental function and development in a rhesus macaque model
Victoria H. J. Roberts
, Matthias C. Schabel
… Jamie O. Lo
Scientific Reports Open Access 24 November 2022
Sperm DNA methylation alterations from cannabis extract exposure are evident in offspring
Rose Schrott
, Jennifer L. Modliszewski
… Susan K. Murphy
Epigenetics & Chromatin Open Access 10 September 2022
Impact of converging sociocultural and substance-related trends on US autism rates: combined geospatiotemporal and causal inferential analysis
Albert Stuart Reece
& Gary Kenneth Hulse
European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience Open Access 02 July 2022
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This study was supported by ICES, which is funded by an annual grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC). The opinions, results and conclusions reported in this paper are those of the authors and are independent from the funding sources. No endorsement by ICES or the Ontario MOHLTC is intended or should be inferred. Parts of this material are based on data and/or information compiled and provided by CIHI. However, the analyses, conclusions, opinions and statements expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of CIHI. This study is based in part on data provided by BORN, part of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. The interpretation and conclusions contained herein do not necessarily represent those of BORN Ontario. Funding was received from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (D.J.C., D.E.-C., H.H., D.F. and M.W.). The funder was not involved in study design, analysis or interpretation of data. The funder was not involved in the writing of the manuscript or in the decision to publish.
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Daniel J. Corsi, Steven Hawken, Darine El-Chaâr, Shi Wu Wen & Mark Walker
CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Daniel J. Corsi & Deshayne Fell
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Daniel J. Corsi, Steven Hawken, Deshayne Fell & Shi Wu Wen
ICES uOttawa, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jessy Donelle & Ewa Sucha
Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Helen Hsu
Depatment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Darine El-Chaâr, Shi Wu Wen & Mark Walker
BORN Ontario, CHEO, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Lise Bisnaire
Daniel J. Corsi
Jessy Donelle
Ewa Sucha
Steven Hawken
Darine El-Chaâr
Deshayne Fell
Shi Wu Wen
D.J.C., M.W., D.F. and H.H. contributed to the conception, design, analysis and interpretation. D.J.C. wrote the manuscript. J.D. and E.S. performed all statistical analyses with contributions from S.H. and D.F. D.E.-C., L.B. and S.W.W. contributed to data interpretation and critical revisions of the manuscript. D.J.C. served as principal investigator.
Correspondence to Daniel J. Corsi.
No authors declare no competing interests.
Peer review information Kate Gao was the primary editor on this article and managed its editorial process and peer review in collaboration with the rest of the editorial team.
Supplementary Tables 1–7.
Reporting Summary
Corsi, D.J., Donelle, J., Sucha, E. et al. Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and child neurodevelopmental outcomes. Nat Med 26, 1536–1540 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1002-5
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Confessions From Dangerous Minds
Madonna may miss it, but you heard it here.
By Jason Bracelin on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 4:00 am
Megastar confessions
"Leave a confession," Madonna purrs. "And remember, by leaving your confession, you're agreeing to allow your message to be released in any form, at any time, until the end of time. So think twice, if you've been naughty."
Oh, we've been plenty naughty, which is why we called Madge's new toll-free hotline (1-888-2-CONFESS) to get some stuff off our chest. To help promote her new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna has set up the line to spur hot talk, though not much is being said about where the confessions will end up.
But come to find out, we're not the only hugely famous celebrity to have dialed up the Material Girl recently. Thanks to some of our big-time music-industry contacts, we were able to get the transcripts to calls from other notables. Read on to see what a few other megastars had to confess.
Kung-Fu Fighting Mad
"I gotta admit, I'm a little cheesed off that everyone's laughing at me like I just walked out of the crapper with toilet paper stuck to my shoe. It all started with my recent announcement that I'm making a blues album. Yeah, my fellow actors haven't fared so well when it comes to producing records. Bruce Willis set white people back a good hundred years with his blues LP, and most folks would rather subsist on a diet of toenail clippings than sit through one of Billy Bob Thornton's discs. But that doesn't mean I can't hang. Hey, I've been giving film critics the blues for years with such brain-negating fare as Above the Law and Out for Justice. I'm confident that I can have the same effect on music fans. See ya." -- Steven Seagal
"I must confess, I wish I'd never written that damn song. I just heard that Sharon Osbourne has convened a bunch of pop music's most annoying performers to cover 'Tears in Heaven' to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia last year. C'mon, haven't these people suffered enough already? First they lose all their worldly possessions, then they have to hear Robert Downey Jr. duet with Pink? That's like bandaging a burn victim in sandpaper. And whose idea was it to pair Kelly Osbourne with Phil Collins? I'd rather listen to an alley cat get fed into a paper-shredder. I'd donate millions to charity to not hear these A-holes sing. The check is in the mail, bitches. Toodles." -- Eric Clapton
Giving Peace a Chance
"We did it! We just ended the war in the Persian Gulf! Seriously, we aren't supposed to tell anyone about it yet, but I just can't hold it in any longer. My band, Drowning Pool, recently announced that we were heading to Iraq to play some shows. Upon hearing that we were coming, the insurgents immediately surrendered. They said that servicing Beelzebub in the burning depths of hell while Jason Priestley and Alf fondled their corpses was preferable to a visit from us. I'm not sure what any of that means, but I think it's just a fancy way of saying that we kick major ass." --Ryan McCombs
A Rocker Repents
"Yeah, I've made some bad choices in my life, like that time I got shitfaced in '84 and invited Teri Garr to join my band, only to find out later that it was Sammy Hagar (I still get those two confused). But now I've hit rock bottom. As MTV News reported last week, it looks like Van Halen is gonna be featured on that Rock Star reality series -- you know, the show where formerly famous bands audition a bunch of shitheads to try and find a new singer. Sure, that show's OK for a group like INXS, who no one's given a rat's ass about since legwarmers were in style. But Van Halen was once the biggest rock band in the world -- we used to snort coke until our noses bled like stigmata. Now, we can only afford to huff glue out of an old gym sock. I mean, fuckin' Joey Lawrence thinks I'm washed up. Shit, my buzz is starting to wear off. I gotta go. Later." -- Eddie Van Halen
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The rise and fall of a spiritual rebel
Nadeem F. Paracha Published September 21, 2014
Illustration by Abro
As a young man, Ghulam Ahmed Parvez would frequently wonder: why is the unvarying practice of Islamic rituals by Muslims not creating more upright men?
He would repeatedly ask why all this ritualism isn’t creating the kind of a society that Islam’s holy book talks about.
He would often be advised by his worried elders to keep his inquires to himself. But Parvez continued to study the Quran and other Islamic literature under various religious scholars to look for answers to all that was perturbing him. He then went on to bag a Master’s degree from the Punjab University in 1934.
Ghulam Ahmed Parvez was now on his way to becoming one of the most well-informed and prolific Islamic scholars in South Asia. When he migrated to Pakistan in 1947, he rapidly rose to become a prominent figure on the rationalist sides of the Islamic discourse in the country.
Consequently, he also became a controversial thinker who would often clash with the traditionalists and the so-called obscurantists until the early 1980s when he finally slipped into a state of disillusionment and self-doubt, passing away as a broken old scholar in 1985.
What would our society have been like if Ghulam Ahmed Parvez’s unique message had not been rejected half a century ago?
In the 1930s, after mastering the works of some of Islam’s leading scholars and texts, Parvez moved towards studying the faith’s esoteric strains, such as Sufism.
He also managed to strike a friendship with famous poet and philosopher, Muhammad Iqbal, and took him as a mentor.
His relationship with Iqbal helped the young Parvez come into contact with Muhammad Ali Jinnah — the future founder of Pakistan.
Impressed by the young man’s intellectual energy and prowess, Jinnah asked Parvez to edit an Urdu weekly, Tulu-i-Islam — a magazine Jinnah’s All India Muslim League had begun to use to fend off the attacks Jinnah and his comrades would face from orthodox clerics and anti-Jinnah Islamic parties who accused him of being a ‘fake Muslim’.
In one of his editorials, Parvez claimed that Islam (unlike other monolithic faiths) was not supposed to be an organised religion. He maintained that Islam’s holy book is a philosophy that goes beyond rituals and that anything practised or believed by Muslims that was outside the holy book was a fabrication.
According to Parvez, a majority of Muslim traditions were concocted by forces who wanted to portray the faith as being amoral and violent.
Parvez had become a prominent ‘Quranist’ — someone who rejects any Islamic text that was not part of the Quran.
Understandably the orthodox clergy and scholarship labelled him as a ‘heretic’, but Jinnah insisted that Parvez was to be the one to edit Tulu-i-Islam.
One of the first cover features to appear in the magazine (under Parvez) was titled, ‘Mullahs have hijacked Islam.’ In it Parvez lambasted conservative Islamic parties and the clergy as being ‘agents of rich men’ and the enemies of the well-being and enlightenment of common Muslims.
After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Parvez became part of the Muslim League government but retired in 1956 to concentrate on his scholarly work.
In 1961 Parvez created an uproar of sorts in the ranks of the orthodox Islamic scholars when he attempted to popularise the saying of the Muslim prayers (namaz) in Urdu, a language he said most Pakistanis understood (unlike Arabic).
In the 1930s, modern Turkey’s founder, Kamal Atta Turk, had already attempted to introduce prayers and the call for prayer (aazan/baang) in Turkish. Parvez wanted to repeat the experiment in Pakistan with Urdu.
Though Parvez’s idea was initially supported by the Ayub Khan regime (1958-69), the government soon backed out when Parvez was vehemently attacked by conservative religious parties and scholars.
Undeterred by the criticism that was being continuously hurled towards him by religious parties and conservative Islamic scholars, Parvez kept emphasising and propagating his views through a number of books and lectures.
In the 1960s when a group of young leftist intellectuals led by Hanif Ramay was working on an ideological project to merge socialism with the Quranic concepts of justice and equality, the group incorporated a number of ideas that were first aired by Ghulam Ahmed Parvez.
The group would go on to join the PPP in 1967 and the resultant project would emerge as ‘Islamic Socialism.’
Throughout his career, Parvez not only managed to invite the wrath of the conservatives from within Pakistan, but also in various other Muslim countries.
For example, in the mid-1970s his books were banned in various Arab states — especially the UAE and Saudi Arabia, countries that were (and still are) ruled by monarchies belonging to the more rigid strands of the faith.
Parvez responded to the bans by accusing the Arab monarchies of behaving like ancient Muslim kings who had used ‘fabricated religious traditions’ to justify their rule, subjugate the people and demonise their opponents.
By then Parvez had even begun to upset some of his supporters as well. Though the conservative Islamic scholars had continued to lambast him for ‘undermining the institution of Islamic tradition,’ and the clergy, a few progressive Islamic scholars began to complain that his writing style was coarse and that he was too much in favour of using his interpretations of Islamic scriptures to create a leftist political ideology.
Parvez’s ‘leftist’ stage lasted till about the late 1970s in which he continued to insist that religious rituals and laws based on ‘non-Quranic traditions’ were contrary to the revolutionary as well as the rational spirit of Islam’s holy book.
If one continues to study Parvez’s writings beyond those that he wrote prior to the mid-1970s, one is bound to notice that some time from the late 1970s onwards his views had already begun to move away from his Islamic interpretations of leftist ideologies.
Interestingly, a detailed 1979 essay that I managed to glance through some two years ago (that did not carry a by-line), actually accused Parvez of being ‘pro-West’ (because he had suggested that modern-day (Western) scientists were closer to the holy book’s emphasis of enquiry and progress than the ulema and the clerics).
Though he was still being hailed by many labour unions as a pro-workers’ Islamic scholar, he was, however, attacked with shoes in 1978 during a lecture that he was delivering at a function organised by the Mughalpura Railway Workers Union.
Some of his supporters suggested that his move towards becoming ‘pro-West’ and ‘pro-capitalism’ provoked the attack, but a report in Urdu daily, Nawa-i-Waqt, quoted some of the participants claiming that the attack was engineered by his conservative opponents.
Though by now, the Machiavellian and reactionary General Ziaul Haq had become the new ruler of Pakistan (after toppling Z.A. Bhutto’s regime in July 1977), he resisted the demands of Parvez’s right-wing opponents to declare him and his followers heretics.
Maybe Zia had already sensed that Parvez was getting old and posed no threat to his ‘Islamisation’ project?
In the early 1980s, when Parvez entered the 80th year of his life, he began to rediscover the Sufism that he had first studied in the 1930s.
In 1983, he dropped out from the mainstream and decided to visit Makkah to perform Haj. And did that by refusing to wear any footwear whatsoever throughout the trip. He roamed the streets of Madina barefooted and alone.
In spite of the fact that the Zia regime discouraged book-stores from selling his books and Parvez was now too old to give lectures, his previous lectures began appearing on audio-cassettes.
But Parvez was slipping into depression and disillusionment. Not only due to the political triumph of the obscurantists he had battled for over four decades, but perhaps also due to the ultimate failure of his own hectic intellectual project that desired the creation of a progressive and socialist Muslim society based on the egalitarian concepts of the holy book and modern scientific thinking.
In 1985, suffering from self-doubt, disillusionment and intellectual exhaustion, Parvez quietly died at the age of 83. The news of his death was only briefly reported in the press.
Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, September 21st, 2014
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Excellent sketch. Parvez was a rebel who gave up in the end and became a deluded conformist.
Abbas Ali
Please read Leslie Hazelton about translating Torah, Bible, Quran in other languages, especially in languages other than samitic languages. Hebrew, Aramiac, Arabic belong from semitic family, and can be translated easily into each other while maintaining the essence. But the essence is lost while translating into any other language, whether Urdu, English, Hindi, German. The case in point are two words" Ahad" and " kullo Wahid" both mean "ONE" in Urdu but are used in Quran. Why the two different words in Arabic for the same word in Urdu? Same is true for the words in Aramiac and Hebrew. This is the reason that original Latin, Sanskrit liliteratures are not translated into the language of the masses.
Ganga Din
@Abbas Ali: Essence may be lost but what's the point in reciting something without knowing what it means. Most of the problems of Islam came about because of misinterpretation. Earlier on, instead of clinging to Arabic, if everything was translated into native languages, there would be some uniformity of understanding. Quran has been translated into many languages and the message conveyed remains the same. What's lost is the ability to recite, instead you just read.
Nadeem, you are reporting a story, this is very good - but you didn't offer your comment on it. Without it, the story has no relevance. There have been many "ideas" - but why do they fail - why did Pervez fail to convince others? What was he trying to convince anyone of? What happened to his original question - you didn't answer any of those. From what I can see, there is no difference between him and Maulana Mufti -- both migrated, both preached their views, somewhat diametrically opposed to each other and both achieved rather little.
@Abbas Ali Dara Shikoh, the Mughal prince translated the Upanishads from Sanskrit to Persian which was then translated to Latin. This version was read by Schopenhauer who was highly impressed by it. Case point being that the message might get diluted but it is still worth the efforts to translate.
taimoor shaukat
Ghulam Ahmed Pervez was a scholar an eminent one - just could not face the wrath of mullah gang in the end. He did not advocate the "namaz in urdu concept" this was only mentioned in the fatwa isued by maudoodi. An anti mullah genius, just like all of us got fed up of the insanity around him in the end. May the great man rest in peace ( amen)
Nauman M
Good reading once again. I think a lot of ideas need to be re-visited.
He seems like a very insecure person, trying his best to prove to himself that his faith has the solution. Twisting and turning everything to fit his interpretation. Bu then, that is what even his opponents were doing. Maybe he should have read the Upanishads. It sure helped the likes of Schopenhauer (philosopher), Dara Shikoh (prince) and Schrödinger (physicist). Sometimes, if you are not getting an answer, it pays to question the basic hypothesis. There are other faiths in this world too, you know. Maybe you should "broaden your horizons" a bit.
Aboo B Rana
G. A. Parwez has written more than Nadeem has written in his whole lifetime. Nadeem has downplayed a man (who remained a devoted thinker and scholar on Quran all his life, yet he never claimed himself of being an authority on Quran like the present clout of Maulanas) in order to give importance to the present preachers. Parwez is a scholar who will be remembered for centuries to come.
Abbas Khan
Nadeem Parcha believed what he read without investigating its authenticity. Even, I listened to one of the interviews of Pervez, whr he bluntly criticized Abdullah Chakrlvi who had persuaded people to read Nemaz in Urdu. Even, Pervaz published placards telling people not pay heed to this assertion. Secondly, Nadeem Parcha wrote this column by taking historical facts from the books etc which most of us already knew. It might have been good if he write critically. Thirdly, old age might work to make Pervaz as self delusional and nothing else. Mental evolution might also be one of the factors. To suffice nothing new in the column except laborious repetition.
Khaled.
A good and informative article, people rarely delve upon. keep it up Mr.Paracha
The efforts of Mr.Parvez are highly commendable, but i feel all such religious reform attempts are bound to fail due to the fundamental unchangeable nature of religious dogma. The hope for transformation is not internal debate among the scholars but external pressure from the knowledge of science, pleasure of art and the comfort of culture. For real reform people will have to be educated and made to recognize that these ancient texts were written for the people of those times, most of the knowledge of religious texts is either outdated or in need of reinterpretation and in some cases clear amendments to be relevant to the modern world. This reminds me of a talk from Dalai lama where he said that Buddhist texts had got the geography of himalayas wrong and that he now no longer believes in existence of any mount meru, a mystical mountain. It would be great if all religous leaders had such openness, but even for Dalai Lama it needed the external force of scientific evidence to change his beliefs. Slowly but surely the people of the world will realize the wisdom of thinkers like alrazi and aryabhatta who were willing to question religious dogma.
Three factual inaccuracies in the article; 1) Pervez was not a 'Quranist'. He did not reject all islamic texts that were not part of the Quran. Unlike the Quranists his contention was that all non Quranic Islamic texts be judged against the Quran. Those not in contradiction with the Quran be followed. Those in contradiction be discarded. A number of his speeches n writings bear testimony to his criticism of the Quranists on these lines. 2) Pervez is on record a number of times to have always denied the false accusation that he wanted muslims to pray in Urdu. He advocated no change in prayers except to plead that its better to understand the meanings of the words one is uttering in Arabic while praying. 3) The statement that in the end he suffered from self doubt is not correct. Disillusionment; Yes. Intellectual exhaustion; Yes. Self doubt; No.
AdHawk
The likes of Pervez would be eliminated at the earliest opportunity in today's Pakistan. Just two days ago we lost an eminent KU scholar Dr. Shakeel Auj who also took a contrarian view to mainstream religion.
nasiroski
Islam is a religion which is as old as perhaps homo erectus or for others 1400 yrs, and it has it's fair share of sects and sub-sects and school of thoughts and whichever way it can be sliced and ... and the fact is there will be people with new thoughts and interpretation, some different from mainstream some extension if the old some heretic some more logical .... to cut to the chase this should all be acceptable and should be appreciated, criticize yes denying the right of expression of ideas no, declaring anti religion No, let it all come out, educate people so they can skim through the ideas themselves. After all the when Quran orders to Ponder it is not only for Scholars and Mullah, it is for everyone. Muslims should be receptive of new ideas, rejection without entertaining the idea because it is new or different from what you believe is ignorance and counter evolution.
Masood khan
Wish the writer had done the due diligence before putting pen to paper So many inaccuracies !!!
Asif Jalil
I am shocked to read this article which is totally based on hearsay and no reference is given in support. Here are some points: 1. Allama Parwez never suggested the prayers to be in Urdu instead he wrote against this idea. 2. I have personally taken all of his books to Saudi Arabia openly. 3. He wasn't pro west or pro capitalism. Yes he admired scientists of west as no one existed in Islamic world. 4. He had never gone for Hajj but he went for Umra with his friends (not alone). 5. He was not depressed nor disillusioned. He gave his lectures until he had his surgery for backbone and was recovering but died because of wrong injection by the hospital staff. 6. I am not sure about coverage of his death in theress but it was the headline of PTv with a condolences message of Gen. Zia. For your information he was gold medalist of Pakistan movement.
PakObserver
"why is the unvarying practice of Islamic rituals by Muslims not creating more upright men?" - Ghulam Ahmed Parvez was not the only man pondering this enormous paradox. Millions of us ponder on this issue to date, and will do so in the future also.
Agha Ata
Parvez was my first teacher who taught me alyf, be, te (in my bismyllah ceremony, in Simla INDIA)) in 1938. He was a good friend of my father. All I can say about him is that he was born too early for this nation, just like Qua e de Azam. We were not ready for Pakistan or even for freedom yet. We were not ripened as a nation as at all. We still aren't!
ThisIsMe
@Abbas Ali: sir great
Sohail Pirzada
Some pains/challenges I feel being a Mudlim: #1. Lack of education in the Muslim world. #2. Superiority Complex indtilled among the Muslims #3. Always looking for shortcuts or pressure-cooked solutions. #4. Not willing to do the homework Pleasure/Solutions: education education education education
faitma
Salam, I extend my felicitate towards dawn news that to write pertaining to parwez struggle explicitly but my humble request is that if you had taken information from idra touislam then your article whould be authuntic . regards, fatima
S. A. M.
@Sohail Pirzada Bigger challenge for you is tp TYPE correctly. prehpas yuo cna raed cpr73ctly!!!
I'll be honest, there was a point I couldn't stand Nadeem F. Paracha. I followed him briefly on Twitter a couple of years back and unfollowed him just as quickly. But now whenever I read any article on DAWN.com which happens to be intelligent, well-balanced and well-researched, I know for a fact it's written by NFP which I confirm by scrolling up again to specifically check who the author is. Great style of writing and true journalism! Keep it up.
S Light
@sadia I agree with you, and would like to add a fourth major inaccuracy - Parwez was never pro-capitalist even for a moment.
think_then_speak
@Abbas Ali If something cannot be translated , it can not be understood. The same language, after a few generation become alien for the speakers of future. What about Arabic, is not every interpretation somewhat removed from reality, that takes place of the texts in classical format? You always have an "idiolect" that acts as a subjective lens to look at the larger socially existing linguistic resources...
Ali S
@Sohail Pirzada how do i write a comment in a gigantic font like that?
What is criteria Dawn uses to publish the comments? Why my comments hardly get's published??????????????????
zubairulhassan
i think one must read this article and rethink our political crisis and we are not far to reach that we are moving towards the goal of change and we are subtracting mullaism in our urban society but this act is still vibrant in unawared rural class which can be increased if people like paracha sahib move to electronic media as well. nadeem bhai hats off to your work.keep it up sir.
He was a searcher and in the end he found the truth and died rich. Wa wa jadaka da allan fahada He became a lover in the end when he realised the truth. What else will cause him roaming barefoot in Harmain Shareefain. Remember Hasan al basri ? Those who have never tasted love, will not understand this.
Mujaahid
I possess and read most if not all his exposition about Al-Qur-aan. He was an excellent research oriented scholar, He never said that his findings are final. I must admit i am a better Muslim after learning from him and Nadeem did not do justice to that amazing personality. You should go and read some of his work.
saleem gurmani
Well! and he never did his M. A from Punjab University. He was just B. A. and he never been a labour Unions leader! :)
Also to add to my previous points.. parwez and written and made so many statements against tasuwwuf, even dedicating an entire book to it.. that for you to say "he began to rediscover" sufism in his 80s highlights the ridiculous quality of this article
'... Urdu, a language he said most Pakistanis understood (unlike Arabic)' --- really ?
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Because Bush Lied, More Children will Die
By now, most of us have seen pictures of the innocent children who were murdered by nerve gas, provided by the Syrian regime. Truly horrific. If anyone in our country did that to, say, a kitten or a penguin, the punishment would have been severe and already have been meted out. But Assad has killed thousands of human beings and is now gleefully thumbing his nose at the world. Why is he getting away with gassing little kids?
One word: Iraq. Because the Bushistas lied the world into invading that country, nobody believes Obama now. We hear it at the UN, see it in Parliaments and Congress, and read about it in the media. Citizens of the world hear “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and immediately say “bulls***”.
Bush The Dumber has much to answer for, from 9/11 to the Middle East and the global economic collapse. But this may be the most heartbreaking result of his ill-advised and illegitimate occupation of the White House: because he and his cabal lied about WMD in Iraq all those years ago, people are justifiably suspicious when a President talks about WMD being used today.
And that suspicion leads to inaction. Said inaction is then taken by a brutal, murdering dictator as tacit permission to kill at will. Which he is doing even as we speak.
Another hod of brimstone will surely be heaped upon the fire when the Shrub meets his maker. Punishment for the deaths of these poor children, who died convulsing in agony and struggling to breathe through the lungs that were destroyed by chemical weapons in Syria. But Bush’s eventual and eternal punishment will not bring the kids and their mothers back to life, nor will it make it any easier to stop such international war crimes from happening in the future.
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The Majority is Supposed to Run America
Ancient Rome occupied quite a bit of real estate at one time, and though they were a minority in most of their Empire, they were able to rule over the majority through various means. Eventually, though, the majorities in each occupied nation got tired of being screwed over, and revolted. Buh-Bye, Roman Empire.
England once occupied even more of the globe than Rome, and though the English were a minority in most of their empire, they were able to rule over the majority through various means. Eventually, though, the majorities in each occupied nation (like America, India, Scotland, and so on) got tired of being screwed over, and revolted. Buh-Bye, British Empire
We are seeing this happen elsewhere on a smaller scale in Syria today – minority is ruling a majority and screwing them over. The majority has gotten sick of it and is revolting. Pretty soon, it’ll be Buh-Bye, Assad. We saw it in South Africa, too. Majorities eventually get tired of being boinked and rise up, usually causing a lot of death and destruction in the process.
Today, America is increasingly heading towards minority rule – a small group of wealthy individuals are using the tax code to their benefit, buying our “representatives”, using their ownership of the media to give us the mushroom treatment, rigging elections, and so on. Pretty much the same thing as Caesar and Quadaffi did in their times; and Americans are slowly waking up to this reality. When enough of them get ticked off enough, it will not be pretty.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are both members of this minority. They could be poster children for this group, in fact. They do not understand the lives of ordinary Americans, but they wish to rule a nation full of them. Say what you will about Obama and Biden (and this writer has said plenty), neither of them was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Hell, half the time they didn’t have silver of any sort, but they each worked their own way up and made themselves successes.
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April 18, 2014 | William D. Kickham, Esq.
In my previous post on this subject, I wrote about how people sometimes ask me how I can defend clients accused of sex offenses, and of how my answer is always the same: Not everyone accused of a Massachusetts sex offense is guilty. A recent example is a young man by the name of Ross Currier, 26 years old, who was recently arrested by Boston Police, jailed, fingerprinted, and arraigned on charges of Assault & Battery and Indecent Assault & Battery on a Person Over age 14. He was brought into court, his name brought before the media, and his reputation ruined in the process. After being released on bail, he was forced to wear a visible GPS device, tracking his movements at all times. There was just one slight thing wrong: Currier was completely innocent; he never committed this crime.
On February 15 2014, a woman reported to Boston Police that she was jumped by a man, from behind, early that morning outside her North End apartment. She reported that the man threw her to the ground, groped her sexually, and took a photo under her skirt with his smartphone. About three weeks later, Boston Police arrested Currier on March 10 after the alleged victim saw him in the North End and told patrol officers that she was “90 to 95 percent positive” that Currier was the man who had attacked her.
Another slight hitch: It seems the alleged victim had previously also misidentified another man in a photo array she had been showed by police, who – unbeknown to her – just so happened to be incarcerated at the time of the alleged assault. Worse, Currier had an alibi, specifically that he was at home with his fiancée at the time of the alleged attack. Notwithstanding, Currier was charged with this extremely serious crime.
On Wednesday, April 9, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office issued a statement asserting that while prosecutors believe the alleged victim was acting in good faith when she picked out Currier in the photo array, Boston detectives later “Developed evidence to suggest (Currier) was not the assailant.” That evidence included investigation of Currier’s alibi, a forensic examination of his smartphone and relevant cell tower location records, as well as closer examination of a Boston sexual assault on March 16 that was very similar to alleged attack on Feb. 15 for which Currier was arrested and charged. The GPS device that Currier had locked on him as a condition of bail proved that he did not commit the March 16 assault. Click here to read a story on this published by The Boston Globe.
I credit the Boston Police Department for good detective work here, and for outing the truth that Currier did not commit this crime. And Suffolk DA Dan Conley, a District Attorney I admire and have written in this blog positively of previously, did drop the charges against Currier. But the Suffolk DA’s office did, through a legal filing known as a “nolle prosequi,” which translated, means that the Commonwealth chose not to prosecute the case. In my professional opinion as a Wrentham, Massachusetts sex offense attorney, that is a very legally ambiguous, and anemic, way to deal with exonerating someone such as young Mr. Currier, whose name and reputation have been forever sullied. A much clearer, much more just and much more adequate manner of dealing with this would have been for the Suffolk DA’s office to file a motion known as a “Motion for Dismissal with Prejudice.” This motion would have made it much clearer, as matter of public record, that the Commonwealth was completely in error in charging Currier with these crimes.
The DA’s office will say this is semantics. Tell that to Ross Currier. But before you do so, Google his name, and see what you find first. Then tell him that the full measure of justice was done here, in “exonerating” him.
Anyone still wondering how I can represent clients accused of Massachusetts sex offenses?
William D. Kickham, Esq.
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CHENEY – Cheney city leaders are being asked to consider allowing drinking wells and individual septic systems for a potential housing development on the northeast edge of the city.
During last Thursday’s Cheney City Council meeting, engineer Logan Mills – representing developer Roger Zerener – asked the city to waive its requirements that new homes in the city connected to city water and sewer services.
Zerener is looking to develop Bison Ridge, a housing development that would be accessed off of Shadybrook Drive and Hoover Street. Generally speaking, the development would be located east of Lubbers Cars, Dollar General and Cheney Baptist Church.
The original proposal calls for lower cost lots in the 75- to 82-foot range on the south end, with larger lots along the creek that runs through the property. Plans call for these homes to be on paved streets with all city utilities.
North of the creek, the development would have lots ranging from three to nine acres in size. Because of the size of these lots, special assessments for paved roads and utilities would be much higher. That is why Zerener is asking the city to allow drinking wells, private sewer systems and dirt roads. The development was first presented at the July 2020 city council meeting. The issues regarding streets and utilities were raised in that meeting, too.
Last week’s request also included a waiver of the city’s prohibition against propane tanks. City administrator Danielle Young explained to the council members that the city bans propane tanks within city limits for safety reasons.
Young said the city normally pays the cost to extend natural gas lines to new developments. It seemed likely the council would not waive that prohibition.
Council members also would need to provide special permission for the wells, septic systems and dirt roads.
Council member Jeff Albers expressed concern about what a waiver might mean in the future.
“It seems like we’ve cleaned up some messes that 15 years I’ve been on the council that were handed down from previous councils,” he said. “I want to make sure we’re not creating an effort down the road. … I want to make sure we have some time to think it through.”
Mayor Phil Mize also raised concerns while saying the city wants to see the development succeed.
“It seems like we’ve told people in the last couple, three years, we haven’t allowed it because we’ve worked out problems,” he said. “I think it’s a good use of the property, but I think we have to be careful.”
Mills said he did not see a problem with abandoning the plan for propane tanks if the cost of providing natural gas lines was covered.
In most cities, developers of new housing additions pay for needed infrastructure like roads, water and sewer. As properties sell, those costs are then passed onto property owners in the form of special assessments. If properties do not sell, the developer is responsible for those costs. That risk is the concern for Mills and Zerener.
No action was taken at the meeting.
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• The council approved an ordinance adopting the latest Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department codes. It was discovered that MABCD had adopted new codes that the city was not aware of. That left the city with different building codes. That is a potential problem because inspections are done by Sedgwick County and inspectors would use the most recent MABCD codes. The new ordinance automatically adopts any MABCD changes, eliminating the potential for discrepancies.
• Council members were asked to approve a grant agreement with the Land and Water Conservation Fund program. The city previously won the grant, which helped pay for the Main Street sidewalk that connects downtown to the north edge of the Cheney Sports Complex on the south end of Main Street. The city has been waiting on reimbursement, which was held up because the agreement wasn’t signed. It was not signed because it had not been sent to the city due to a delay with the National Park Service. Now that the paperwork is done, the city will be receiving the grant money. That money also will help pay to extend the sidewalk to the north edge of the parking lot.
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Mom allegedly left baby in car while getting nails done
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VALLEJO, Calif. - A young mother was arrested by Vallejo police after her 3-month-old baby was left alone in a hot car while she got her nails done, authorities said.
Selena Cook, 19 allegedly left her infant in the car unattended for at least 30 to 45 minutes on Tuesday while she was being serviced at Unique Nails.
Denise Tran, who works at the salon, said, "She walked through the door and asked for her eyebrows waxed. So I waxed her eyebrows and she asked to do her nails."
A group of good Samaritans found the child sitting in a car seat in the backseat of a BMW and alerted police. Officials said all four of the car's windows were rolled down, but temperatures were upwards of 81 degrees, even hotter in the car.
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"One of the most fundamental responsibilities we have as parents is to protect and care for our children above our own needs," Chief of Police Shawny Williams said. "As a parent, it was extremely disheartening to know that a 3-month-old was left in a hot car unattended and defenseless."
The baby was removed from the car.
Officers who responded to the scene searched the shopping plaza where the vehicle was parked and quickly located the child's mother.
Police said Cook admitted that she was getting her nails done and had left her baby.
Cook was arrested on charges of child endangerment and her baby was transported to a nearby hospital for medical evaluation. The child is now in the care of Child Protective Services.
Tran said staff at the nail salon had no idea the woman left her child alone in the car.
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Tran said Cook returned to the salon on Wednesday to retrieve a shopping bag she had left behind.
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Evaluating Battle for Azeroth – Could It End Life as a Good Expansion?
Something that occurred to me the other day is that I cannot evaluate Battle for Azeroth solely as BfA, the product – yet.
Because I realized that where I am today, right now, is actually pretty similar to where I was two years ago in Legion. 7.2 had burned me out, I was feeling like I didn’t want to play the game much, Stormblood had just come out for FFXIV and I was playing that all the time, and the flying grind wasn’t even disguised in 7.2 – do all 11 weeks worth of Broken Shore, although probably less content-intense then compared to now.
Broken Shore was a desolate fel green zone, everything I know I didn’t want out of Legion because Warlords of Draenor’s 6.2 fel green everything had bummed me out too. I only did Cathedral of Eternal Night once or twice, just to see the story and get the acheivements racked up in my score, and I was talking about finding a static in FFXIV and trying Savage raiding.
In the end, I didn’t do that, and I came back around pretty quickly once the initial flying grind was done. FFXIV faded from my gameplay, not because I was unhappy with it, but because it wasn’t my first (gaming) love – WoW was. Once I was over the hump of unlocking Pathfinder and had a few weeks to reflect, the process felt better, and I ended up coming around on it. Legion remained in high acclaim for me, and I began my grind to 36/36 Mage Tower appearances – not even conceiving of it as such at the time, because I thought I wouldn’t be able to build the skills with my underplayed alts, even though I ended up sticking the landing and getting all 36.
It raises an interesting question for me. Will Battle for Azeroth end up being perceived as a “good” expansion to those who currently dislike it?
Okay, jokes and fake post cliffhangers aside, I do think the answer is no, but yet, I have a little bit of suspicion that Blizzard is going to try and pull it off.
Legion started off, for me at least, fairly strong. I was enjoying Demon Hunter gameplay, the artifacts were fun and empowering, I was logging in regularly to send Class Hall missions and keep Artifact Knowledge up to date, to the point that I installed the game on my old Macbook Air so that a business trip to a conference would not stop me from gaining AP, and was about to have to do the same for Blizzcon (fortunately, the Legion phone app added the ability to pick up and re-queue AK orders around that time).
7.0 turned into a bit of a grindy experience, and it wasn’t particularly alt friendly. My opinion on Legion was souring, rapidly. Then 7.1 launched, and there was a little bit of content worth doing, plus the Suramar Insurrection stuff, which I enjoyed. Some alt-friendliness measures began to make their way into the game – mostly, the ability to catch-up on Artifact Knowledge on alts through rapid purchases, rather than needing alts to go through the 4 day waiting period on each new rank, at least until they were 5 levels below the highest AK on your account. This made playing an alt feel better, but not as good as I would have liked.
7.2 had some alt friendly additions, but largely was focused on Pathfinder, and then the Tomb of Sargeras raid, unlocked in 7.2.5. I think this was something of a breaking point for me, as Tomb of Sargeras was incredibly dull in raid design – some fights were fun, but far too many had soaking damage mechanics and the end result was that the whole thing felt a bit repetitive. Coupled with the Stormblood release on the same day, and well, my attention was stretched.
7.3, coupled with returning to writing here, started to refocus me on WoW. 7.3 became far more alt friendly, with automatic, global AK, new gear tokens for 880 base gear or 910 raid-quality items, and the power enhancements of the Netherlight Crucible, as frustrating as those could be, also offered an improved feeling of power, especially on alts. 7.3.2 brought Antorus, which I liked a fair amount, and then 7.3.5 came with the leveling changes and pre-order Allied Races, and we were set for the rest of Legion.
That recap, besides allowing me to showcase how much dumb trivia about WoW I remember, also serves as a bit of a reminder to me about the cycle of WoW content. Due to the nature of Blizzard’s own release schedules, the last patch of an expansion is nearly always the longest lived, and so when any of us look back on an expansion as a whole product, we tend to think heavily of the play time in that last patch. In Legion, it was great – I maxed out all my alts, I got my 36 Mage Towers completed, I unlocked and leveled both Alliance Allied Races from the preorder bonus to 110 and got Heritage Armor, we ground our way through Antorus until we got our Ahead of the Curve, and in the end it felt pretty freaking great.
Part of me believes that with as rocky of a start and mixed of a middle BfA has had, that is proof-positive that they could stick the landing in 8.3 if it delivers good enough content. I mean, Legion’s 7.3 also had the flying restriction on Argus, pulling us right back to the ground after unlocking it, which was not popular, and yet there wasn’t much of a backlash against the game as a whole due to that – the content on offer was well-received enough to mitigate those effects.
However, Legion appealed more to the core audience at the beginning, and I think that kept people engaged longer than they have been in BfA. Legion’s main issues at launch were generally alt-related (AK sucked for alts, off-spec artifact grinding was bad) or grind related (player choice largely, but the incessant grinding of Maw of Souls keystones for AP, which forced Blizzard to equalize rewards based on dungeon length to avoid people running literally hundreds of MOS runs a week, the Artifact system in general, Legendaries as a system until the vendor).
BfA’s core problems have had deeper impacts – dungeon layouts and increased trash have impact down to the most casual players, world mobs scaling to item level makes raiders less likely to engage in open-world gameplay until they’re over the hump while pushing out more casual players altogether, the Azerite system still encourages some grinding but the new Knowledge system means that hardcore players hit a point of minimal return faster, Islands largely offering little new gameplay and no real predictable rewards outside of Azerite until 8.1, Warfronts being overly simple and un-loseable (unless you do Heroic), raid design being a little worse off, and the general structure of systems like the early War Campaign, Allied Race unlocks, and the absolute awful state of professions. Where in Legion, I saw mostly casual players burn out early in the expansion, BfA has seen more of a mix, at least from my perspective. My most hardcore raider friend dropped out of Mythic, joined my guild, and then hasn’t raided since Eternal Palace came out – he’s been playing FFXIV mostly. A more casual friend of mine dropped out of raiding during Dazar’Alor and is just now starting to come back to raid. Our guild started the expansion at around 16 raiders, and by Dazar’Alor we were down to 13, of which, around 12 show up regularly for Eternal Palace.
These metrics do point to a difficulty in retaining a player base that will negatively impact any such miraculous recovery in 8.3. Legion managed to stick the landing because people stuck with it through the rough patches near the beginning and middle. BfA has not had the same degree of retention.
My personal take is that I don’t think it will stick the landing, as it stands. The delayed patch schedule of BfA compared to the tight 11 week turnaround for everything up to 7.3 in Legion means that we’re likely to spend less time in 8.3 content than we did in 7.3 – probably a lot less. 7.3 was out in the end of August 2017, and was the active content we played for around 11 months. My expectation is that we’ll get 8.2.5 in September or October, already nudging us nearly 3 months behind Legion’s schedule, and I suspect 8.3 won’t be out until January 2020 at the earliest. If we assume that August 2020 is Blizzard’s target for a 9.0 release, that means 8.3 is only going to have 8 months, give or take, to make a lasting impression. Even if it ends up being the best content the game has ever seen (and I’m open to insane optimism!), it’s not going to have long to really stick out in our minds and erase what came before. What worked in Legion’s favor is that the awful stuff in the early parts of the expansion were quickly swept over, and within a year of release, we had 5 patches, each with enough content to keep us engaged, but most importantly, with the changes coming fast enough to erase the negative perception of some systems in the launch state of Legion.
Recounting the early state of the game, I only remember aspects of it because of how annoying it was to me individually. Artifact Knowledge in the 7.0-7.2.5 state sucked, especially once I had alts at 110, and especially because my job at the time had me traveling a fair amount and having to figure out ways to claim it. Alt management in general stands out because for a brief time in 7.0, I had my monk and priest geared and maintained to a reasonably high level and was trying to keep them semi-current in case I didn’t like the way Demon Hunter played in raids. The majority of the expansion was spent under the much better 7.3 systems – Artifact Knowledge being a freely given treat, alts being far easier to gear and maintain, and the amount of content available being much larger and more fulfilling with a variety of activities across world content, instanced solo challenges, strong dungeons, and mostly good raids. I spent the last year doing Antorus, a far better raid than Tomb of Sargeras, which was 22 weeks of agony, and followed the excellent launch and 7.1 raid trio of Emerald Nightmare, Trial of Valor, and Nighthold. Frustration over the launch artifact experience and the Paragon trait was gone by 7.2, when the trait was essentially scrapped and replaced with the 4th points for launch traits and Concordance of the Legionfall.
BfA’s biggest problem in this way is that the systems that caused the most player anguish were made to be expanded within the base design – even though the Azerite traits of launch are largely secondary to the much better Essence systems, you still have to play with both and be reminded of the launch state. Further, this expandability plays against it – the Artifact expansion worked because it was constrained to a single UI panel, and the Netherlight Crucible, while adding another panel, was a low-interaction option that you set and left alone until you acquired a new relic. If you min-maxed, you probably messed with it a fair bit more than most, but for many players, you’d reach your best relics, set your traits, and be done. Essences have a more hands-on management, which is fine, but the whole system feels held together by tape – the necklace level feeding 3 unrelated slots, and then the necklace becoming important again through the essences and the leveling game it introduces.
I don’t doubt that Blizzard is going to make a strong effort for 8.3, and it seems like they are pushing to bring big plot elements in. Wrathion, N’Zoth, Calia Menethil, the return of Thrall, and all of these things are converging on what will be an epic patch. However, there just won’t be much time out of the total of the expansion, a large number of players have already left, and the end result of all of that is going to be that players will have mostly the same opinion of it they already had when they left. Blizzard’s model is both fundamentally unafraid on making bigger system shifts through addition as an expansion goes on, while also unwilling to divorce systems from the core of an expansion once they’ve already become the albatross around the game’s neck(lace).
BfA is going to be the disjointed Azerite expansion, and the best Blizzard can hope to accomplish going into 8.3 is to make the system a more baseline, nearly invisible part of the content. I imagine they won’t do this, but if they could – 8.3 could be special to many more players than it is likely to reach.
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Since 1950, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement has been awarded annually to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to scientific research and has demonstrated an ability to communicate the significance of this research to scientists in other disciplines.
The prize consists of a bronze statue, commemorative certificate, and an award of $10,000. The Procter Prize recipient receives a $5,000 honorarium and designates a younger colleague, usually in the same field of research, to receive a $5,000 Grant in Aid of Research. Presentation of the Procter Prize is traditionally a principal event at Sigma Xi's annual meeting or other suitable venue.
The deadline for submission of nomination materials is January 31.
Nominations for the William Procter Prize should include:
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A brief (~25 word) introductory statement of the nominee's accomplishments that led to the nomination
The impact of the nominee's work on the current state of physical, biological, mathematical, engineering or social and behavioral sciences - how it has resulted in new approaches, new ways of thinking, or led to especially promising areas of inquiry.
Ways in which the scientific community has recognized these accomplishments.
Influence on education through publications, teaching activities, outreach, mentoring, etc.
Ability of the nominee to give an address at the Sigma Xi Annual Meeting that is dynamic, engaging, and readily understood by scientists across the disciplines.
One or two additional letters of support of no more than one page each.
Submissions, including letters of recommendation, should be submitted by e-mail.
William Procter (1872-1951), was the grandson and heir of one of the founders of the Procter and Gamble Company. After graduating from Phillips Exeter, Procter majored in chemistry at Yale, obtaining a Ph.D. in 1894 from the Sheffield Scientific School. He organized the investment firm of Procter and Borden in 1902, retiring from it in 1920, though he continued to serve on the board of directors of Procter and Gamble.
During his boyhood summers at Newton, Connecticut, he became interested in insects. At age forty-five he enrolled in the department of zoology at Columbia University where he was elected to Sigma Xi in 1939).
In 1928, he built a field laboratory on Mt. Desert Island, Maine and began publishing a series of surveys that gained him a reputation as a distinguished natural scientist.
In addition to his active support of Sigma Xi and its affiliated organization, the Research Society of America (RESA), Procter was connected with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (England), the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Entomological Society, the Royal Academy of Science of Canada and the London Ray Society.
Procter endowed the award that bears his name in 1950, the year before he died. Karl T. Compton, then Massachusetts Institute of Technology president and RESA chairman, was its first recipient. RESA merged with Sigma Xi in 1974.
William Procter Prize Recipients
2022 Rena Bizios
2021 Baruch Fischhoff
2020 Marcetta Y. Darensbourg
2019 Ben Santer
2018 Anna Marie (Ann) Skalka
2016 Jan Achenbach
2015 David Williams
2014 Jenny Glusker
2013 Rita Colwell
2012 Solomon W. Golomb
2011 Supriyo Datta
2010 Michael Spivey
2009 Deborah Jin
2008 Charles Elachi
2007 Stuart L. Pimm
2006 Susan L. Lindquist
2005 Bjarne Stroustrup
2004 Murray Gell-Mann
2003 Darleane Hoffman
2002 Benoit Mandelbrot
2001 Alexander Rich
2000 Francisco Ayala
1999 Lynn Margulis
1998 Carl Djerassi
1997 Philip Morrison
1997 Edward O. Wilson
1996 Jane Goodall
1995 Michael E. DeBakey
1994 Stephen Jay Gould
1993 Walter Stockmayer
1991 Leon Lederman
1990 Robert D. Ballard
1989 Janet Rowley
1988 Sir John Kendrew
1987 James Van Allen
1986 Thomas Eisner
1985 George C. Pimentel
1984 Victor F. Weisskopf
1983 Winona and John Vernberg
1982 Joshua Lederberg
1981 George W. Beadle
1980 Herbert A. Simon
1979 Saunders Mac Lane
1978 Russell W. Peterson
1977 William Nierenberg
1976 Morris Cohen
1975 Dixy Lee Ray
1974 Percy Lavon Julian
1973 William O. Baker
1972 Lewis M. Branscomb
1971 Jacob E. Goldman
1970 Lloyd M. Cooke
1969 Margaret Mead
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1967 Abel Wolman
1966 Elmer Engstrom
1965 William H. Pickering
1964 Hugh S. Taylor
1963 Edwin H. Land
1962 Joel H. Hildebrand
1961 Edward Ray Weidlein
1960 Alan Tower Waterman
1959 Charles Stark Draper
1958 Chauncey Guy Suits
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Watch Of The Week: Restaurateur Simon Kim’s Rolex Datejust Ref. 116233
Rolex, Watch Stories
Cara Roux
The Cote proprietor owns a JLC and an AP, but he always returns to Rolex.
Originally published by Simon Kim on HODINKEE, October 18th 2021
In Watch of the Week, we invite HODINKEE staffers and friends to explain why they love a certain piece. This week’s columnist is restaurateur Simon Kim.
I came to America from Korea at age 13, not knowing a word of English. When I was 16, my mother opened a restaurant in Tribeca and I became a bus boy. As a kid, I liked to wear Swatches, which introduced an element of fun that resonated with a young me. But my first real watch was an Omega Seamaster gifted to me by my father when I graduated from high school.
My father cared about watches, and still does. When I was growing up, he wore an all-gold Rolex. He inherited it from my grandfather. It seemed so opulent. It popped off his arm. Rolex became a brand I aspired to.
After college in Las Vegas, where I studied hospitality, I returned to New York and worked for some of the great chefs in the world, including Jean Georges and Thomas Keller. In 2013, I opened Piora, a fine-dining Italian restaurant. When we earned a Michelin star in our second year, it was a dream come true. But I always wanted to open a Korean restaurant. In 2017, I finally did it. The restaurant, Cote, truly represented who I am as a person. I’m from Korea, but I’m definitely American.
In Cote, I married Korean barbecue to the great tradition of the American steakhouse. Then came the opportunity to open a second location, in Miami. Doing this in the midst of the pandemic was so risky. The original Cote was facing collapse, and now we were opening a new place?
I had the option to withdraw from the deal because of the pandemic, a force majure clause in legal parlance. But I believed that, just as the Roaring Twenties followed the Spanish Flu, there would be an influx of demand for restaurants as everyone started to get vaccinated. My investors also believed this, and we pushed forward on Miami.
It was a frightening time, but I knew that I had a capable team – and that I needed to continue their dignified living, as opposed to furloughing them and closing. The desire was simple: To keep as many employees on-board as possible, at full salary.
I pivoted the New York location to delivery and partnered with Goldbelly. When we were allowed to open for outdoor dining, we unboarded our windows and used the material to fashion tables. We started to stay afloat and I was able to keep every one of my managers and chefs on at full salary through the entire time. And when we opened Miami in February of this year, I couldn’t have dreamed of a more successful restaurant opening.
My father’s a very stoic person who doesn’t often give out compliments. But this time he said “congratulations” and gave me a watch, an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph, to mark this accomplishment. It’s a great watch. An amazing watch. I have a great Jaeger-LeCoulture Master Ultra Thin Date, as well. These watches are fascinating. But I always return to Rolex.
When I was growing up in the restaurant business, trying to advance in my career as an ambitious person, a more expensive watch seemed to equal a better watch. I thought of a watch as a symbol of status, a symbol of wealth. But as I matured – I’m 38 now and have two kids – my view on this has changed. I think a watch should represent who you are. Just as a suit shouldn’t wear a man, a watch shouldn’t wear him, either. The most special watch to me is the one that best represents the person I am. For me, it’s a Rolex Datejust.
The exchange of watches as gifts is a tradition of Korean weddings. My wife and I exchanged Datejusts, which to me exude elegance and grace. I wanted this exact model because of its white dial with simple indexes, which I think goes well with a white shirt. Wearing a white shirt is important to restaurant folks. It shows you’re professional and clean, and that you’ve readied yourself every day to host your customers. Chefs wear white, too.
That said, if a toilet breaks, I’m also the first person who needs to just get down and fix it. So the more delicate timepieces are not the ones for me.
My watch also represents punctuality. It takes a village to run a restaurant. I need to have an advertising team, marketing, production, a publicist. There are so many moving pieces that must coordinate and cooperate with precision. Without a respect for time, all of those moving pieces can’t come together.
Today, my dream is to build a culinary brand that represents the same things Rolex stands for. Rolex, to me, is similar to Mercedes in that it’s obviously very high end, but it’s also something one can work toward. An attainable goal. And it’s the highest quality, which I think is most important. I want people to come to Cote without thinking they’ll have to spend a month’s rent on dinner. But if they want to come and spend a month of rent, they can. I have a cellar with $10,000 bottles of wine.
Rolex, in a way, is like that. If you want to go big, you can go big. But if you want a super-functional, super-durable, super-well-made watch, Rolex of course has that, too.
My Datejust has been with me as I’ve made some of the biggest business decisions of my life. You might laugh, but if I’d been a soldier in the making, clasping the Datejust onto my wrist for the first time was akin to putting on my suit of armor. I vividly remember the feeling of how the Jubilee bracelet wrapped around my wrist. I felt empowered, ready to go out there and compete.
Follow Cote proprietor Simon Kim on Instagram @simonkimnyc.
All photos, Tiffany Wade.
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# Activity
Part All Plant Seed Shoot
Low PPM
High PPM
StdDev
0 19-ACETYLGNAPHALIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 19-ACETYLTEUPOLIN Plant -- -- J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
0 6-ACETYLPICROPOLIN Plant -- -- *
0 6-METHOXY-GENKWANIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
1 1 8-ACETYLHARPAGIDE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
16 16 ACACETIN Plant -- -- Abstract (See species file)
10 10 ALPHA-AMYRIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
2 2 ALPHA-HUMULENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
28 28 ALPHA-PINENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
101 101 APIGENIN Plant -- -- Abstract (See species file)
0 ARACHIDIC-ACID Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 AUROPOLIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
9 9 BETA-AMYRIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
13 13 BETA-EUDESMOL Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
13 13 BETA-PINENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
47 47 BETA-SITOSTEROL Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
35 35 BORNEOL Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
12 12 BORNYL-ACETATE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
4 4 CADINENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
41 41 CAMPHOR Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
3 3 CAPRIC-ACID Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 CIRSIDIOL Plant -- -- J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
3 3 CIRSILIOL Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 CIRSIMARITRIN Plant -- -- List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
1 1 COPAENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 CYASTERON Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 CYCLOPENTYLALDEHYDE-DERIVATIVE Plant -- -- *
0 EO Shoot 400.0 900.0 -0.87 Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 FAT Seed -- 146000.0 -0.63 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
8 8 FRUCTOSE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
1 1 GALACTOSE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
11 11 GAMMA-TERPINENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 GNAPHALIDIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
6 6 HARPAGIDE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
9 9 HEDERAGENIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 ISOPICROPOLIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
75 75 KAEMPFEROL Plant -- -- Abstract (See species file)
7 7 LAURIC-ACID Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
60 60 LIMONENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
27 27 LINOLEIC-ACID Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
78 78 LUTEOLIN Plant -- -- Abstract (See species file)
8 8 MARRUBIIN Plant -- -- List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
5 5 MENTHOFURAN Plant -- -- List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
0 MONTANIN-B Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
22 22 MYRCENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
2 2 OCIMENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
18 18 OLEIC-ACID Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
16 16 P-CYMENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
13 13 PALMITIC-ACID Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
4 4 PHELLANDRENE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 PICROPOLIN Plant -- -- List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
7 7 PIPERITONE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 PROTEIN Seed -- 148000.0 -0.76 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
28 28 PULEGONE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
1 1 RAFFINOSE Plant -- -- List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
0 RHAMNOSE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 SACCHAROSE Plant -- -- List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
0 SALVIGENIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
6 6 STACHYDRINE Plant -- -- List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
8 8 STEARIC-ACID Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
14 14 SUCROSE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
35 35 TANNIN Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
18 18 TERPINEOL Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 TEUCARDOSIDE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 TEUCRIN-H-3 Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
0 TEUPOLINS Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
89 89 URSOLIC-ACID Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986.
3 3 XYLOSE Plant -- -- Rizk, A.F.M., The Phytochemistry of the Flora of Qatar, Scientific and Applied Research Centre, University of Qatar, Kingprint, Richmond, UK, 1986. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9873935580253601, "wiki_prob": 0.9873935580253601, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1072855"} |
Turkish Convoy Was Attacked in Syria; Attack on Houthi Targets; Russian Artillery Live-Fire Drills
By TOC On Aug 20, 2019
PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on August 20 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com:
Turkey says 3 civilians killed, 12 wounded after air strikes hit Turkish convoy in Syria
Three civilians were killed and 12 more wounded after regime air strikes hit near a Turkish military convoy that was heading to an observation post in Syria, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Monday, Yeni Safak reported .
“We strongly condemn this attack that contradicts existing agreements, cooperation, dialogue with Russia,” the statement read.
The convoy was heading to Observatory Point No. 9 in Syria’s Idlib, and Russia had been told in advance about the convoy, it added.
The observation post, located 88 kilometers (55 miles) from the Turkey-Syria border, was established in Arpil 2018.
The province of Idlib — one of the most targeted areas by the regime forces — has been a stronghold of opposition since the beginning of the civil war in Syria. Its population has reached four million due to internal migration.
Yemen coalition strikes caves used by Houthis to store missiles and drones
The Arab coalition in Yemen launched an attack Monday on Houthi military targets in Sanaa, Arab News reported.
The coalition advised civilians to stay away from the targeted areas, Saudi Arabia’s Al Ekhbariya TV channel said.
A report by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted Col. Turki Al-Maliki, coalition spokesman, as saying the Joint Forces Command carried out at past 10 p.m. a specific military operation “to destroy a number of caves used by the Houthi terrorist militia to store ballistic missiles, drones as well as weapons.”
The caves are located in Faj Atan and Al-A’amd camp in the capital Sana’a, he said.
Al-Maliki stressed that the targeting process “is in accordance with international humanitarian law and customary rules, and that the command of the joint forces of the coalition took all preventive measures and measures to protect civilians from any collateral damage.”
Baltic Fleet’s missile corvettes to hold artillery live-fire drills
Small missile ships and boats and auxiliary vessels of the Baltiysk naval base started anti-ship and air defense drills with an artillery live-fire exercise, the Baltic Fleet’s press office reported on Monday, TASS reported.
“After practicing combat training missions at their home station, the warships of the Baltiysk naval base have taken to the sea for drills where they will accomplish a set of assignments until the end of the week,” the press office said in a statement.
The drills involve about 10 warships and auxiliary vessels, the press office specified.
At the Fleet’s sea ranges, the warships will accomplish a series of anti-ship and air defense measures and perform live-fire artillery exercises of various complexity against air and naval targets, the statement says.
Aircraft and helicopters of the Baltic Fleet’s naval aviation will be actively involved in the drills to provide for combat training assignments. The landing of the amphibious assault force onto rough terrain of the Baltic Sea coast at the Khmelyovka training range in the Kaliningrad Region will be a major stage of the drills.
Read more: Russia Kill Civilians in Syria; Syrian Defences Destroyed Missile; Russian Fighter Jets on Interception Missions
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IKEA and Neste take a significant step towards a fossil-free future
The two companies are now able to turn waste and residue raw materials into polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) plastic.
IKEA and Neste are now able to utilize renewable residue and waste raw materials, such as used cooking oil, as well as sustainably-produced vegetable oils in the production of plastic products. The pilot at commercial scale starts during fall 2018. It will be the first large-scale production of renewable, bio-based polypropylene plastic globally.
IKEA wants to have a positive impact on people and the planet while growing the business, which includes using more renewable and recycled materials and explore new materials for IKEA products. As part of this journey, IKEA is working to change all of the plastic used in IKEA products to plastic based on recycled and/or renewable materials by 2030.
Plastic is traditionally made from virgin fossil materials, which contribute to climate change and is a finite resource. By changing to plastic based on renewable material, IKEA can secure the production for the future, and eliminate the need for extraction of fossil fuel for the purpose of making plastic.
One of the ongoing projects towards eliminating virgin fossil-based raw materials in plastic products is a collaboration between IKEA and Neste, which was initiated in 2016. Thanks to this collaboration, IKEA and Neste are now able to turn waste and residue raw materials, such as used cooking oil, as well as sustainable vegetable oils into polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) plastic. PP and PE plastic are some of the most commonly used plastic.
"This new material represents a significant step towards a fossil free future. No one has ever before been able to produce PP plastic from a fossil-free raw material other than on a laboratory scale. Together with Neste, we are ensuring that there is an opportunity to scale up the production of this material”, says Erik Ljungblad, Category Manager Plastic Products at IKEA of Sweden.
"The production of bio-based plastics at a commercial scale is a major achievement in the cooperation between Neste and IKEA, while it also marks a significant milestone in Neste’s strategy. IKEA is the first company to benefit from the developed supply capability that helps companies and brand owners towards replacing fossil-based raw materials with sustainable bio-based raw materials,” says Senior Vice President Tuomas Hyyryläinen from Neste’s Emerging Businesses business unit.
The pilot at commercial scale of PP and PE plastic, chosen to contain 20 percent renewable content, will start during fall 2018. The production of bio-based plastics will be based on Neste’s 100 percent renewable hydrocarbons. IKEA will use the new plastic in products that are part of the current product range, such as plastic storage boxes, starting with a limited number of products. As capacities improve, more products will follow.
Neste in brief
Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates sustainable solutions for transport, business, and consumer needs. Our wide range of renewable products enable our customers to reduce climate emissions. We are the world's largest producer of renewable diesel refined from waste and residues, introducing renewable solutions also to the aviation and plastics industries. We are also a technologically advanced refiner of high-quality oil products. We want to be a reliable partner with widely valued expertise, research, and sustainable operations. In 2017, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 13.2 billion. In 2018, Neste placed 2nd on the Global 100 list of the most sustainable companies in the world. Read more: neste.com
IKEA in brief
IKEA is one brand and many companies. Around the globe, a large number of companies operate under the IKEA trademarks. IKEA Range & Supply, consisting of IKEA of Sweden in Älmhult and IKEA Supply, have the responsibility to develop, design, produce and supply IKEA stores around the world with home furnishing solutions available to the many people. Each year IKEA Range & Supply introduces 2,000 new products in the IKEA stores. The total range is almost 10,000 products.
Contact: Lars Börger, Head of Product Marketing, Emerging Businesses business unit, Neste
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Candidate #2, Former Arkansas Gov Mike Huckabee: Republican Presidential Hopefuls (pt 2)
Jason Tolbert in his article “A Thousand Pardons,” Arkansas News Bureau, Feb 20) states:
In contrast to his predecessor, Gov. Mike Huckabee, who issued over 1,000 pardons and commutations, Beebe has only commuted one sentence.
“I am pretty liberal on pardons after people have finished their sentence and if it is a nonviolent crime, particularly kids that have been involved in drugs or something like that,” explained Beebe on his monthly call-in radio program a little over a year ago. “Commutations where you shorten somebody’s sentence and let them out early is something I have been very reluctant to do and I have done it once in three years.”
Perhaps part of this reluctance is based on the damage — both political and otherwise — that Beebe has observed from some of the high-profile prison releases occurring under Huckabee. Most notably are Wayne Dumond, who raped and murdered a Missouri woman after being paroled under Huckabee’s watch, and Maurice Clemmons, who went on to murder four police officers in Washington years after his sentence was commuted by Huckabee.
This is Huckabee’s biggest challenge to overcome. Can he overcome it? I think he can. If he doesn’t then we will be stuck with Mitt Romney who basically imposed Obamacare on his state when he was governor. Can Romney be forgived for that? I think he can since he has since changed his position.
Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with Bush several times. He told him that the Religious Right did not have enough votes to get him elected on their own, but if he ever went against the pro-life view then they could definately derail his election bid.
I think that Huckabee would be willing to change his view on this prison issue, and if he does then I think he will be electable.
By Everette Hatcher III, on March 8, 2011 at 4:05 pm, under Adrian Rogers, Jason Tolbert. No Comments
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ExecuJet MRO Services Malaysia a Centre of Excellence for Falcon Maintenance in Asia
Madie Werner December 14, 2020 Press Release 0
KUALA LUMPUR – ExecuJet MRO Services Malaysia is now certified to work on all in-production models of Dassault Falcon aircraft, making it the leading maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organisation in Asia for Dassault Aviation civil aircraft.
Leading aviation authorities have certified ExecuJet’s Malaysian facility to work on Dassault Falcon aircraft, including: The US FAA, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Cayman Islands Civil Aviation Authority, Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam and the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia.
“We would like to thank Dassault Aviation and the civil aviation regulators from the US, Europe, Malaysia and other countries around the world for helping us to achieve this significant milestone,” said ExecuJet Regional VP Asia, Ivan Lim.
Thanks to the comprehensive approvals from regulators around the world, ExecuJet has now completed significant maintenance checks on all current production models of Dassault Aviation civil aircraft, namely the Falcon 900, Falcon 2000, Falcon 7X and Falcon 8X.
Some notable examples include completion of a 24-month maintenance check on a Philippine-registered Falcon 900EX with ADSB-Out upgrade and a few 24-month/1600 flight hours inspection on Falcon 2000 series aircraft.
ExecuJet MRO Services, which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dassault Aviation in early 2019, is a global network of MRO facilities.
The Malaysian facility has factory trained maintenance engineers and can readily assist Falcon customers with Dassault warranty tasks as well as full FalconCare coverage work. Being a Dassault-owned facility has many advantages and access to Dassault’s technical resources is a key differentiator.
“Many Falcon customers prefer to send their aircraft to a Dassault owned facility for peace of mind, knowing that their aircraft will be taken care of to the highest standards” says Lim.
“Falcon aircraft accounted for less than 10% of ExecuJet’s Malaysian business in 2019 being an inception year, but by the end of 2020 Falcon aircraft will account for 15-20% and next year we anticipate Falcon aircraft will account for at least a third,” continues Lim. Falcon aircraft maintenance events increased by a staggering 169% over the last year. ExecuJet Malaysia is also an approved service centre for Bombardier and Gulfstream business jets and continues to see year-on-year growth from both product lines as well.
ExecuJet’s hangar, workshops and office occupies 64,000 square feet of land at Subang Airport but, as a temporary measure so it can cater to the increased flow of maintenance work, it has expanded into a second hangar that is 32,000 square feet and is adjacent to its main facility.
Due to its growing business, the company plans to move into a new, purpose-built facility at another section of the airport that will be dedicated to business aviation. The new facility will be 100,000-150,000 square feet and have a hangar large enough to fit 10 to 15 large cabin, long-range business jets simultaneously.
“The new facility will help serve the increasing number of Falcon aircraft in Asia, amongst others,” says Lim.
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Most cat owners are confident in their ability to look after their pet, but feline welfare could be better in some respects. By Zazie Todd, PhD This page contains affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no cost to you. New research by Tiffani Howell ( La Trobe University ) et al investigates how people care for their cats. A representative survey of pet owners in the Australian state of Victoria included questions from feeding and sleeping arrangements to how much cats cost over their lifetime. “ In general, Victorian cat owners appear to be meeting their cat’s welfare needs, with a few areas for improvement,” says Dr. Tiffani Howell. “For instance, nearly half of owners allow their cat to roam free outdoors, which could lead to injuries. “Female owners report higher levels of satisfaction with their cat’s behaviour, and fewer behavioural problems, than male owners. Older owners were less likely to have irretrievably lost a
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A survey of homeless youth finds that pets bring benefits – and difficulties. Photo: Brad Steels/Shutterstock By Zazie Todd, PhD This page contains affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no cost to you. 23% of homeless youth have pets, according to research by Harmony Rhoades et al ( University of Southern California ). The team surveyed 398 homeless youth at two drop-in centres in Los Angeles. While previous studies have shown that pets can be very important to homeless young people , this is the first quantitative study to look at pet ownership, mental health, and the use of services amongst this group. 88% of the young people in the study had attended the drop-in for food during the previous month. Other services they had used included clothes (69%), job help (52%), housing (49%) and health services (47%). Of those with pets, dogs were most common (53%) followed by cats (22%). Other pets included a hamster, rat, chinchilla an
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This rug is inspired in the ancient understanding of the tree of life common to many cultures around the world. The ancient believe system of the Mexica people teaches that the universe was split in two parts to create the current world, the goddess Cipactli was pulled by the brothers Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca to make the earth and the sky and in order to keep them from collapsing again they planted four trees in each corner of the world with a central tree in the middle.
For the Mayans, this tree is called Ya'ax'che which is a ceiba tree that has nine levels in the branches of the sky, four levels in the existential plane of the earth (as in the four directions) and nine levels in the underworld.
In Benizaa culture we have also have a Ceiba species of tree from which our spirit is tethered to in the sky before we are born and under which we are buried to start our journey back to the sky after our mortal dream. My grandfather used to say that on the earth we should walk the path of the warrior, always doing our best to uplift our spirit and transform the earthly matter into beautiful art. The only true time to rest is when we are resting under the shade of the Yaag Chei.
The tree of life was represented in Ancient times with a cosmic bird sitting on top of it and a snake or crocodile in its roots at the base of the trunk. This duality represents the original two aspects of creation, the sky energy and the earthly one. In his book the Cosmic Tree, Frank Desmedt describes the 'Astronical' explanation of this duality. The Mayans made precise observations of how the galaxy appeared in the Sky, to the south it points to the Serpent constellation and to the north to the Canis Major which in our cultures has the shape of a bird.
Our grandparents always observed the night sky. I remember, my grandmother always making predictions about the rain pattern by looking at the position of the stars and the tilt of the milky way. In fact, the word for Milky way in Benizaa language is the same word for corn plant, this is because the growth of our corn plants is intimately joined with the subtle astronomical phenomena in the sky.
So in this light, we cannot ever just talk about the earth alone, we must remember that the tree of life has its branches in the heavens and roots in the underworld. When you see the Serpent descending on the steps of the Chichen Itza sacred site, it is announcing the beginning of the rainy season, just like the snake like lightning storms that prelude the big rains. The rains permeate the earth and sprout the seeds of life and this water will travel to the depth of underground rivers and water tables only to evaporate again and complete the water cycle. Every aspect of the ancient world was cyclical and had a reason to be; from the heavens, the surface world and the underworld. With respects to the current world situation, we have come at a time in history where we need to radically transform our way of life to respect and restore the life support systems of the earth. What aspects of our live need to be buried underground and be transformed into a new way of life? May we transition from an ecocidal modernity to a restorative society that seeks the elevation of the human spirit and needs to focus more on the immaterial aspects of life that make our lives more worth living. During this great slowdown of the industrial and economic machinery we are turning back to slow, small and sustainable living. We are seeing a great rebalancing of nature's energy flows. This virus doing some work for the underworld, like the great crocodile monster that takes our dead bodies to the lord and lady of the underworld. Like the composting of nutrients that will allow other seeds to be reborn and live the mortal dream once again. May the earth heal and may the cosmic awareness of our higher purpose in life illuminate our governors and society for the great rebalancing of the forces of life.
The sacred Jaguar represents the Beæz energy that connects us to nature through our intuition and to the spirit world through our dreams, this energy is hosted on the organs on the left side of our body. The jaguar represents the pursuit of excellence in all aspects of life.
We recommend hanging this rug in your ritual space or wearing it over the shoulders during meditation or ceremonies or drape it over your blankets at night to call the Jaguar spirit and teachings into your dream world. The Jaguar is an endengered animal in the Anahuac (American) continent and it is the largest cat roaming these lands connecting South America with North America and influencing all cultures in its range. Part lf the problem with the USA-Mexico wall being pushed by the Trump administration is that it will isolate the northern population from the rest of the corridor. Please consider supporting the Jaguar's habitat and freedom. You can learn more at https://defenders.org/wildlife/jaguar as an example of the work being done to protect them.
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Re-school Your Senses: Two Demos with The Counter Kitchen
The Counter Kitchen (TCK) is hosting back-to-back demos in June led by two of NY’s most creative entrepreneurs. They will make you want to breathe in deeply and smile, because we’re talking fragrance and chocolate.
Don’t miss out, sign up early and join us in The Counter Kitchen to re-school your senses! Each demo costs $10 per person, which includes admission, tastes, take-aways, and recipes.
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On June 15, from 6:00-8:30pm, Amanda Walker, creator of A Perfume Organic, will help us delve into the mysterious world of fragrance. In a commercial bottle, fragrance can equate to hundreds of non-disclosed chemicals (protected from public scrutiny by something called Confidential Business Information). Amanda thinks this stinks and has made it her business to produce scents differently or by distilling herbs, flowers and spices that will captivate your senses but won’t strip the paint from your walls. We will deconstruct the ubiquitous air freshener, Febreze, and make our own air spritzers or car freshener “little trees” during this demo.
On June 16, from 6:00-8:30pm, Daniel Sklaar, founder of the Brooklyn-based Fine & Raw Chocolate, will share how he crafts his decadent confections using innovative low heat techniques to keep chocolate’s raw vitality and flavor. In his TCK demo, he will roast raw cacao beans “street food” style, using just a wok and a hot plate, taking us from bean to bar. For comparison, we will break down the more numerous and suspect ingredients in commercially produced chocolates such as Lindt Truffles and learn, for example, why we don’t need soy products in our candy bars.
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Amanda Walker is a perfume addict, and has been since kindergarten when her friends made fun of her for exclaiming, “I can smell in my mouth!” As a vegan, organic, local, and raw food advocate, she turned her environmental focus to the cosmetics she uses. Perfume became an obsession for her while working for Manhattan based, multi-billion dollar beauty corporations. She wanted to offer a natural, healthier alternative to synthetic perfumes. While studying with Master Perfumers and Distillers, she was reminded perfume was originally produced from flowers, fruit, herbs and spices. As chemicals are a cheaper alternative today, most perfumes are now formulated entirely with chemicals.
Amanda’s A Perfume Organic offers exquisitely crafted perfumes blended from the finest USDA certified organic botanicals, hand-poured locally in Manhattan in small batches to maintain purity. Amanda has gained acclaim for creating 100% organic blends and sharing her knowledge with her peers through meetings with her local group NYC Natural Perfumers.
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Fine & Raw’s chocolatier/founder Daniel Sklaar grew up in South Africa and studied Business Science at UCT in Cape Town. He has garnered experience and adventure through extensive world travel in several continents. Swimming the English channel and climbing to the highest base camps in the Himalayas has guided his ideas of team work and creativity.
As a professional, Daniel has worked as a financial analyst in top tier banks and boutique finance houses. After leaving the finance world, Daniel started Fine & Raw chocolate, a start up artisan chocolate company in Brooklyn. Fine & Raw has had a pop-up store in Chelsea Market, is an active member of the Brooklyn Flea, and has a national and international distribution for spreading yumminess and goodness.
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Last Updated: 4th March, 2020 18:57 IST
The season 15 of Criminal Minds came to a close on February 19, 2020. Though the show was still evidently loved by fans, the makers reportedly thought it will be best for them to pull the plug on the show. Besides this, the show featured a number of characters which were a pivotal part of the series. But one of them who evidently stood out was Spencer Reid. The character goes through a traumatic experience during the 12th season of the show which involves prison time. Read below to know why did Spencer Reid go to jail.
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Dr Spencer Reid’s character spends almost half of the season 12 of Criminal Minds in prison. The BAU agent gets framed for murder when he visits Mexico. It is shown to the audience in season 11 that Spencer’s mother is suffering from Dementia.
Following that, in season 12 it is shown that Spencer’s mother is then selected into a study on Alzheimer’s which had visible signs of curing the disease. But due to unfortunate events, her mother is cut down from the study which disheartens Spencer and sets out himself to find his mother the proper help to ease her pain. Spencer Reid then travels to Mexico in order to import medicines that can help her disease to slow down.
But things go extremely bad when the body of Rosa is found in the same hotel where Spencer Reid was staying in. Rosa’s real name is revealed to be Nadie Ramos and the Mexican authorities take Spencer Reid under custody for suspicion of drug distribution and the murder of Nadie Ramos. The season then follows the journey of Spencer Reid fighting to bring himself to justice.
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Sumary: Why did Spencer Reid go to jail? is evidently one of the biggest questions the fans of the show ‘Criminal Minds’ have had. Read below to know the answer.
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Intro: Why did Spencer Reid go to jail? ‘Criminal Minds’ story explained Last Updated: 4th March, 2020 18:57 IST Why did Spencer Reid go to jail? is evidently one of the biggest questions the fans of the show ‘Criminal Minds’ have had. Read below to know the answer. The season 15 of Criminal Minds came to a close on February 19, 2020. Though the show was still evidently loved by fans, the makers reportedly thought it will be best for them to pull the plug on the show. Besides this, the show featured a number of characters which were a pivotal…
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Sumary: While some fans were divided over the complicated storyline involving Spencer Reid, others were simply confused. We’ve tried to clarify.
Matching Result: In the episode titled “Spencer,” Reid is arrested in Mexico on charges for drugs as well as the murder of Rosa Medina, who ended up being a …
Intro: Why did Spencer Reid go to jail in ‘Criminal Minds’? With its intense storylines and suspenseful mysteries, Criminal Minds has grown its already substantial fan base since the show was put on streaming platforms such as Netflix and Hulu. It follows the adventures of Quantico’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (The BAU) as they use psychological and sociological tactics to determine who their culprit is, or, as described in the show, the unidentified subject (the unsub). The show has had its twists and turns, but one almost no one saw coming was beloved character Spencer Reid, played by Matthew Gray Gubler, ending…
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Sumary: Dr. Spencer “Spence” Reid is a Supervisory Special Agent with the BAU. He is hailed as a genius and an autodidact. Spencer Reid was born on October 12, 1981 to William Reid and Diana Reid. He graduated from high school at the age of twelve. In his youth, his father left him and his mother as he could no longer deal with her paranoid schizophrenia, among other things. Reid once mentioned that he was a victim of bullying in school where he was stripped naked and tied to a goalpost in front of othe
Matching Result: In “Amplification”, Reid and Morgan go to Dr. Nichols’ lab, believing that he is the unsub. They discover Dr. Nichols’ corpse and a broken container of anthrax.
Intro: Spencer Reid Dr. Spencer “Spence” Reid is a Supervisory Special Agent with the BAU. He is hailed as a genius and an autodidact. Background Spencer Reid was born on October 12, 1981 to William Reid and Diana Reid. He graduated from high school at the age of twelve. In his youth, his father left him and his mother as he could no longer deal with her paranoid schizophrenia, among other things. Reid once mentioned that he was a victim of bullying in school where he was stripped naked and tied to a goalpost in front of other students. After waiting…
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Sumary: Matthew Gray Gubler pulls off another blinder of a season for his character Spencer Reid.
Matching Result: Dr Spencer Reid spent all of the second half of season 12 of Criminal Minds in prison after being set up for a murder in Mexico. The young BAU …
Intro: Why is Reid in prison in Criminal Minds? (Picture: Getty)Criminal Minds on CBS tells the story of a group of FBI profilers who deal with some of the most complex criminals and try to catch them through behavioural profiling. TalkTV star James Whale says he’s dying of terminal cancer in heartbreaking speech The characters on the show are some of the most loved on television with one character in particular carving his way into the hearts of the biggest fans of the show, that is Spencer Reid. Played by Matthew Gray Gubler, Reid is characterised by his intense intelligence and…
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Matching Result: In the episode titled “Spencer,” Reid is arrested in Mexico on prices for medicine in addition to the homicide of Rosa Medina, who ended up …
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Matching Result: During his last strip, Reid finds himself disoriented in a Mexican motel with Rosa’s dead body. Reid is arrested on the spot for multiple …
Intro: Why Does Spencer Reid Go To Jail? A Crime Worse Than Murder!If you are binge-watching Criminal Minds (2005-2020) nowadays, I am sure one of the reasons behind this obsession is Spencer Reid, the brilliant FBI officer with charming looks. However, if you are midway through season 12, the first question that will come to your mind is, Why does Spencer Reid go to jail? Criminal Minds ended its fifteen-year long run in 2020, under the title of Netflix’s longest-running series. Produced by network CBS, the plot of entertainment Criminal Minds revolves around a group of criminal profilers who work for the…
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Sumary: Dr. Spencer Reid, the socially awkward genius on CBS drama Criminal Minds, found himself on the other side of the law when he landed in prison after being accused of murder in episode 13, “Spencer.” To make matters worse, after being incarcerated he…
Matching Result: Played by Matthew Gray Gubler, Reid had been sneaking across the border to Mexico to obtain a mysterious medication for his mother. Reid was …
Intro: Why is Reid in jail on ‘Criminal Minds’? Here’s how the doctor found himself behind bars.Dr. Spencer Reid, the socially awkward genius on CBS drama Criminal Minds, found himself on the other side of the law when he landed in prison after being accused of murder in episode 13, “Spencer.” To make matters worse, after being incarcerated he was attacked in prison during episode 16, “Assistance is Futile.” But what were the circumstances leading up to his arrest?Played by Matthew Gray Gubler, Reid had been sneaking across the border to Mexico to obtain a mysterious medication for his mother. Reid was accused of possession of drugs — a relatively…
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Sumary: CBS’ long-running series, Criminal Minds, has upped the stakes in its 12th season, sending its resident genius, Dr. Spencer Reid, to jail in an arc that began in episode 13. During a trip to Mexico, Reid is implicated in the murder of Nadie Ramos.…
Matching Result: Spencer Reid, to jail in an arc that began in episode 13. During a trip to Mexico, Reid is implicated in the murder of Nadie Ramos. While it has …
Intro: ‘Criminal Minds’ season 12, episode 19 reveals a new clue about why Reid is in jailCBS’ long-running series, Criminal Minds, has upped the stakes in its 12th season, sending its resident genius, Dr. Spencer Reid, to jail in an arc that began in episode 13. During a trip to Mexico, Reid is implicated in the murder of Nadie Ramos. While it has been theorized that Reid had been framed by Peter Lewis (aka Mr. Scratch), episode 19 has called that assumption into question. In the latest episode, titled “True North,” Tara tries to help Reid piece back together his memories of his…
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Sumary: Season 12 of Criminal Minds saw Dr Spencer Reid spend half of the season in a Mexican jail, after being framed by Cat Adams and Lindsey Vaughn.
Matching Result: This is as viewers were treated to the thrilling journey of Reid proving his innocence after he was framed during his trip to Mexico, which …
Intro: Who framed Spencer Reid in Criminal Minds? Season 12 of Criminal Minds saw Dr Spencer Reid spend half of the season in a Mexican jail, after being framed by Cat Adams and Lindsey Vaughn. Criminal Minds gave television viewers a fifteen-year run from 2005 until 2020, when it was cancelled. In the fifteen seasons the show gave the viewers, there have been multiple storylines that have continued to capture the imagination of viewers.One such storyline is seen in season 12, through the character development arc for leading character, Dr Spencer Reid, played by Matthew Gray Gubler. This is as viewers…
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In 2016 or 2017, Lindsey somehow got into contact with Cat Adams, another hitwoman who had been manipulated into surrendering by Reid and subsequently imprisoned. The two put together a plan to frame Reid, apparently as retribution for his involvement in both of their lives.
Unbeknownst to Malcolm, Reid had spiked the drugs with poison earlier in an attempt to kill Frazier and Duerson.
Plot Summary (2) A series of acid attacks draw the BAU to Philadelphia, while Reid adjusts to a new reality. Denied bail for being deemed a possible flight risk, Reid is sent to a correctional facility in the general population for holding instead of in protective custody in the overcrowded jail.
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For every 100 days that Reid spends in the field, he has to take 30 off. It feels like a probation, but Prentiss (Paget Brewster) is able to explain that it’s just a temporary safety measure to make sure that Reid doesn’t freak out on duty.
Reid joined the FBI when he was 20 years old. While there was “no psychological exam or test the FBI could put in front of him he could not ace inside of an hour”, he did struggle with the more physical aspects of his job, and ultimately received waivers for those requirements.
Garcia eventually becomes involved with an old flame, Sam. In the final episode of season 15, “And In the End…” , Luke Alvez asks her out for dinner, an offer which she happily accepts.
And off goes the light bulb for Reid: His dirty little “secret” is that he enjoyed poisoning his fellow inmates. Their full conversation, including Cat’s confession about her pregnancy, is played for Lindsey, who had no idea Cat was with child and surrenders herself — and Diana — to the BAU.
Reid later gets released from prison after the BAU manages to prove his innocence. The BAU later realizes that Reid was framed by Lindsey Vaughn, who in ten years became part of an international drug cartel, and Cat Adams, a hitwoman who Reid directly captured in “Entropy”.
He kept his visits hidden from the FBI and his colleagues at the Behavioral Analysis Unit. But midway through Season 12, Reid wakes up disoriented in a Mexican motel room where he is arrested for drug possession with intent to distribute and the murder of Nadie, who had been stabbed to death.
Criminal Minds delivered an emotional and unforgettable moment during its 15th and final season premiere on Wednesday. The two-hour premiere saw JJ (A.J. Cook) profess her love for Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler) after he saved her life when she was shot in a parking garage.
Spencer Reid began a relationship with a woman named Maeve, whom he had never met in person because she lived in fear of a stalker. This star-crossed relationship came to an abrupt?and tragic?end when Maeve was kidnapped by a deranged ex-student of hers.
Question: What drug was Reid addicted to? While being held hostage and tortured by serial killer Tobias Hankel, Reid was forcibly injected with dilaudid. As a result, Reid suffered serious withdrawals and began attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
Reid has been kidnapped, and the BAU’s only things to profile are a house, a computer, and the live feed the kidnapper is sending to them. Reid has been kidnapped, and the BAU’s only things to profile are a house, a computer, and the live feed the kidnapper is sending to them.
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After being separated from fellow BAU agent J.J. Jareau, Reid is subdued and abducted by Tobias. Held captive in a caretaker’s hut in a estate graveyard, Reid is beaten and drugged by several of Tobias’ multiple personalities, while the rest of his team watches, helpless, on an internet live feed.
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HomeCOMMENTARYWhere is the virus? Fear is the only virus. [A Jon Rappoport report]
Where is the virus? Fear is the only virus. [A Jon Rappoport report]
Where are the observers?
August 24, 2020 This article was posted by TLB Staff COMMENTARY, HEALTH, Spotlight, TECHNOLOGY 0
Where is the virus? Fear is the only virus.
Conventional researchers “discover new viruses” in their hidden labs, without independent observers watching and filming every step and move, so virology has become a mystical farce.
They SAY they’ve found a new coronavirus that is infecting and killing people, justifying the fear and the lockdowns and economic and human devastation. But they may as well be saying they’ve found a pink and purple ghost in a closet, and we should huddle in the dark until it goes away.
Longtime friend, colleague, and relentless independent investigator, Harry Blazer wrote this in a blistering email to his list:
“…science has even co-opted and bastardized the term ‘isolated’ to mean putting a sample [from a patient] in a cell culture, adding various agents to create a reaction including antibiotics and various caustic chemicals to see if the cells die – REALLY!!! How could you possibly know what caused what to happen when you are adding all kinds of shit to cause something to happen? It is like adding adjuvants (poisons) to a vaccine in order to produce an antibody response to prove that the vaccine works. REALLY!…”
Yes, in that mystical lab ritual, researchers are putting together a cell culture, which includes what they claim is the new virus; and then to “prove” this supposed virus is harmful and kills those cells, they add caustic substances that do, indeed, cause harm to cells.
This reminds me of animal experiments back in the 1970s, at the US National Institutes of Health, where the obsessed (and failed) goal was proving viruses could cause cancer. To “prepare” the animals for injections of the purported viruses, all sorts of toxic chemicals were jammed into the animals—in an effort to weaken them to the point at which the viruses would hopefully “create uncontrolled cell growth,” the hallmark of cancer.
There’s a simple name for this sort of lunatic research: stacking the deck.
What Harry Blazer is referring to in his statement is just one piece of the arcane lab protocol designed to “find a new virus and prove it is harmful.” We need EVERY piece of the process brought out into the light for all to see and understand and analyze.
A hundred years of Rockefeller-medicine propaganda has entrained gullible populations to “fear the germ,” forget the inherent strength and resilience of their own immune systems, and forget what health is.
As I keep mentioning, if germs were the basic problem, we would all be dead a thousand times over, because the gigantic number of microbes in our bodies and the environment is incalculable.
In several key articles, I’ve described how a proper large-scale study should be done, utilizing electron microscopy, in order to demonstrate the likelihood that a new virus is present and causes illness. Such studies are never done. The reason is clear. The naked results would torpedo absurd hypotheses about supposed viral epidemics.
Expert propagandists know, and have stated, that the best lie to tell is a huge lie. Sell that one, and you’re in. For example, once the population has internalized religious faith in The Germ, reversing that belief seems preposterous.
“You mean they’ve been lying to us about THAT? No, that couldn’t be…”
Yes, it could be, and it is.
“You mean, they’re a selling a STORY about a virus?”
Bingo. We have a winner.
Back in the 1980s, when I was writing my first book, AIDS INC., I decided to check up on efforts to infect animals with (purported) HIV and produce AIDS. These animal experiments involved chimps kept in sealed facilities across the US.
Keep in mind, the chimps were no longer living in their native environments. They were no longer among their traditional communities. They were existing in cages, kept there for long periods. Years. In other words, every possible psychological assault on them was being deployed—in order to impair their immune systems.
I spoke with the scientist who was in charge of tracking every one of those lab chimps. I asked him whether the injections had caused any “AIDS effects.”
No, he said. Not in any of the animals.
Robert Gallo (pictured here), the “co-discoverer of HIV,” was reported to have said: “Let me take a crack at those damn chimps! I’ll infect them!”
Who knows what horrors he would have unleashed on the animals, to make it appear their immune systems were failing from “the virus.”
Eventually, researchers did announce they had been able to “infect” some chimps. This is like saying, “We dropped bombs on the enemy and they continued to fight, so we dropped much, much bigger bombs, and then they gave in…”
Welcome to the science of virology.
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Oink review
Update: Oink has been shut down. There is a press release statement on the oink website along with an option to extract your Oink content. The founders have decided to close Oink and move onto other projects. You can read the full statement and enter your email address to Download your Oink content at the Oink website http://www.oink.com.
Oink is the latest iPhone app from tech guru Kevin Rose and the Milk Inc. development team. It’s currently available at Apple’s App store for the iPhone, iPod Touch , and iPad for free. Oink aims at taking the Foursquare concept of”checking in” to a location that they visit, such as a restaurant, to the next level of connectivity. Rather than sharing places, Oink wants you to rate products you enjoy, and share where you can get them. This lets users include more nebulous products that have no particular location, such as a band. The real genius here is that it will let you include a place to find that item, whether it be a website, or perhaps tie it to a local record store you like to share with others as well.
All of this is tied together by integrating with Twitter and Facebook, in addition to manually adding other Oink users. You can opt out of tying into social media, though this will take away from the experience. It lets users follow and be followed ala Twitter, and it all appears in a feed on your screen. It also makes use of keyword tags to organize all posts in the system.
The application is easy to use, especially for anyone already familiar with social media. It’s best described as what would happen if Facebook and Twitter had a baby, but was adopted out and raised by Google Maps and Yelp. It has all the connective social aspects users have come to expect, allowing them to see what their friends are in to, but also what’s trending nearby. To find a great slice of pizza in city you’ve never been to, for instance, simply bring up the map and you’ll get relevant suggestions, making Oink especially useful as an iPhone app .
One unique concept to Oink is the concept of “cred”, from the street slang for credentials. Essentially, the more you “oink”, or share reviews, the more cred you receive, making your voice more important in the crowd. Your cred is tied to chosen subjects, such as tech or food, and increases with each item you review under that tag. This really does motivate the user to keep oinking, as well as providing ratings that will let you discover new people to follow.
Overall, this Oink does a great job of tying together many other user generated content sites like Yelp and Foursquare in a way that not only lets you share amongst friends, but also lets you discover hidden gems in the city around you. The software itself is fast, responsive, and intuitive with an interface that blends nicely with the whole iOS experience. The one issue with the service at the moment is that in larger areas is sometimes struggles to keep up with the input it’s receiving, resulting in occasional crashes and services gone wonky, but this is most likely an issue that will be ironed out in the months to come as they make enough money to expand their number of dedicated servers. However, as Oink is free this is a minor blemish. Oink may not be a good choice for people living in small communities, since it is dependent on user feedback to generate results, but for everyone else, it is definitely at least a “must try”.
Here is a video demo of the Oink app on the iPhone
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I’m Tim Johnson with Taap.it, a mobile app that lets users to rate specific items inside stores and restaurants (very similar to Oink). In addition, you also unlock local merchant rewards and win weekly giveaways, while you’re taaping items on the go. We have 4 million items in our database to date and about 5000 merchants.
With the discontinuation on Oink and the duress that’s caused, we offer a little solution to make the world a little less bleak for loyal Oinkers. With a simple, one step Oink-to-Taap Import Tool located at http://taap.it/import-oink, former Oinkers can convert their painstakingly accrued “Oinks” into “Taaps”. In such, participants can then use their new “Taaps” to unlock local deals and earn rewards in weekly contests.
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Government ends pay guidelines to nationalised companies
27 febrúar 1997
At the end of January 1997, the Prime Minister ended the practice of issuing
pay guidelines to France's nationalised companies.
Only one firm in five has a works council
In the Works Constitution [1] Act (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) of 1972, works
councils [2] in Germany are given extensive rights of information,
consultation and co-determination [3]. The employer has to provide the works
council with both timely and comprehensive information on all matters related
to the discharge of its functions. In establishments with over 20 employees,
information must be given "in full and in good time" on reductions in
operations and the introduction of new working methods. Consultation rights
cover planned structural alterations to the plant and prospective changes in
equipment and working methods that affect job requirements, all decisions
relating to manpower planning, and individual dismissals.
[1] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/efemiredictionary/works-constitution-0
[2] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/efemiredictionary/works-council-2
[3] www.eurofound.europa.eu/ef/efemiredictionary/co-determination-2
Legislation increases national minimum wage
A recent decree-law issued by the Government has increased the national
minimum wage from 1 January 1997. The monthly rates have risen by up to 5%.
We review Portugal's minimum wage system and the reactions to, and
implications of, the 1997 increase.
Minimum wage, Pay and income
Bank service fees dispute averted
Recently-announced plans by banks to levy service charges on the accounts
into which employees' salaries and wages are paid, have resulted in trade
union protests and the dropping of the proposals.
European Parliament debates employee consultation measures
At its plenary session of 13-17 January 1997, the European Parliament debated
two important measures relating to employee consultation in European
companies. After the European Works Councils (EWCs) Directive was passed in
1994, the Commission published a Communication on the future of employee
consultation in November 1995, in order to revive a legislative issue which
has been under discussion in various forms for over 15 years. Its aim was to
explore whether the model used for determining the structure and operation of
EWCs could be used in a wider context as a basis for making progress with the
long-delayed European Company Statute.
Battle against "clandestine" employment intensifies
Following parliamentary controversy, a law clamping down on illegal and
undeclared "clandestine" employment was adopted in February 1997.
Union opposes end of postal delivery monopoly
As the legislation regulating the postal delivery monopoly will expire by the
end of 1997, on 18 February Germany's governing coalition parties proposed a
new law which would limit the exclusive licence of Deutsche Post AG, the
national postal service, to handling letters weighting under 100g, and this
only until the end of 2002. According to the Ministry responsible, this
proposal would reduce Deutsche Post's current monopoly to 87% of the standard
letter market. The proposed new law would also open completely the bulk mail
market to licensed competitors from 1 January 1998.
UGT assesses collective bargaining in 1996
According to the UGT trade union confederation, during the 1996 collective
bargaining round pay increases were generally settled in line with the Social
Concertation Agreement for that year.
Training or work experience for unskilled young people
Unskilled young people aged between 20 and 24 must undertake training or work
experience programmes in order to maintain their right to receive
unemployment benefit, according to a recent amendment to the Act on Labour
Market Support.
LO executive committee proposes new action programme
The executive committee (sekretariatet) of the Norwegian Confederation of
Trade Unions (Landsorganisasjonen i Norge, or LO), the largest union
confederation in Norway, has recommended a programme of action containing a
set of policy principles for the period 1997-2001. The programme encompasses
a wide variety of social and economic issues and is to be adopted at the
confederation's congress on 10-16 May 1997 after a plenary debate.
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In Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the Avant Cycle Cafe builds community
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It all started with a flat tire. A man cycling through Lake Geneva, Wisconsin was charmed by the historic town but really wished it had a bike shop to fix his flat. This cycling mishap has morphed into Avant Cycle Cafe, a community hub that combines a full-service bike shop with excellent coffee and pastries.
“Cyclists have a natural inclination to coffee,” managers Ann Esarco and Andrew Gruber told Inhabitat. “When the two worlds came together, it was just a natural fit.”
The city of Lake Geneva sits 10 miles north of the Illinois state line in southeastern Wisconsin. Its population of about 7,700 swells in summer, when droves of people from Chicago come for boating and other warm-weather sports. The architecture is another draw. The area saw an upsurge in construction at the end of the 19th century, and many Victorian mansions still stand. This makes the town and environs a compelling place to explore on foot or by bike.
Local sourcing at Avant Cycle Cafe
The cafe’s menu focuses on hot drinks and treats. Avant Cycle Cafe serves cider made from locally grown apples and has a case full of baked goods. Don’t expect to just order a regular coffee. You can choose from drip, pour over or French press, plus the full range of espresso drinks. You might also be surprised to find that a cafe in a small town in the famous dairy state of Wisconsin offers almond, soy, oat and coconut milk alternatives.
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This is no ordinary coffee, either. Avant Cycle Cafe sources its beans from Lake Geneva Coffee Roastery. Owner Jeremiah Fox started roasting his own coffee on his stovetop in 2012. Now, the coffee entrepreneur, who is visually impaired, uses his other senses — hearing, taste and smell — to fine-tune his commercial roast profiles. Talking timers and special tactile points on the controls of his machinery allow him to adjust the air flow and temperature for his small-batch coffee. Fox uses electricity for a clean air process, versus roasting with gas, which pollutes both the beans and the air with hydrogen sulfide. According to Fox, his process also makes for coffee that’s easier on customers’ stomachs.
Building a cycling community
Tourism is seasonal. While some people do visit in winter, summer is high season for Lake Geneva. Avant Cycle Cafe values its summer customers and is happy when they return for more coffee and another bike rental.
Both tourists and locals join a series of summer Sunday breakfast rides, where groups pedal together to area restaurants, diners and cafes. The rides are casual with a no-drop policy, meaning nobody gets left behind. Once, the group rode out to see Fox’s coffee roasting operation in the nearby town of Elkhorn. The rides are usually 12 to 15 miles each way.
Avant Cycle Cafe believes in cultivating local community year-round, not just when the sun is shining and tourists fill hotel beds. “Our locals are fantastic,” Esarco and Gruber said. They even have one customer who comes in three times a day. In addition to the cafe and bike shop, an upstairs area called The Loft is a rustic, bright and cozy room open to customers for studying and relaxing. It can also be reserved for private events like engagement parties, bridal showers and youth group meetings.
This year, Avant Cycle Cafe is hosting a weekly Tuesday night program called 13 Weeks of Winter. “It’s an effort to engage the community in providing entertaining and enriching activities when most people aren’t even thinking of cycling,” Esarco and Gruber explained. While some topics are very on-point, such as a talk by cycling icon Lon Haldeman, an intro to bike maintenance and learning opportunities about the history of coffee, others draw on the community’s wider expertise. Local art gallery ReVive Studio will lead a mosaic pendant class in March. Another night, people can come for Reiki healing. The Chili for Charity contest brought together 10 local restaurants and recently raised more than $1,000 for local organizations. As Esarco and Gruber put it, “Cycling and coffee is just the meeting ground. The community expands out from there.”
What’s next for biking in Lake Geneva?
Workers at Avant Cycle Cafe are actively making Lake Geneva a better biking town. They’ve begun working with the national Rails to Trails Conservancy, which takes disused railroad tracks and converts them to multi-use trails for hiking and cycling. They are also lobbying elected officials to incorporate bikes into urban planning. “Our aim is to include a marked bike lane on the renovations to Highway 120 from just outside Lake Geneva to the White River State Trail,” Esarco and Gruber said. This 19-mile trail follows a former rail corridor and is only a few miles from Lake Geneva, so a marked bike lane would greatly improve safe access.
Avant Cycle Cafe just started selling and servicing e-bikes, which could give some would-be cyclists an extra boost of confidence. This summer, the cafe will also be offering private, guided tours around the lake. “It’s been wonderful to be in a position to get more people on bikes, having fun and riding around beautiful Lake Geneva,” Esarco and Gruber said. “We want to make Lake Geneva the place to be for cyclists.”
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The cafe frequently hosts community events about cycling as well as other topics, like art.
After getting a flat tire, one man realized he wanted a cafe that doubled as a bike shop.
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The Secret of Scripture by Felix Alexander
An International Murder Mystery About the Conflict Between the Three Abrahamic Religions.
An ancient prophecy.
A devastating revelation.
The Holy Land on the brink of war.
When a theoretical physicist is found dead on the steps of the eastern triple arched Huldah Gates of the Temple Mount hours before a technological summit in Tel Aviv is set to begin, Professor of Biblical Studies Aiden Leonardo is sought for questioning in connection to the murder. But what begins as a simple inquiry about Aiden’s meeting with the victim on the previous night erupts into a race against the clock to prevent the unthinkable from occurring in Jerusalem.
Tension in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached its peak. With rumors about a “Jewish Plan” to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque and build the Jewish third temple on its remnants, and growing resentment in the hearts of Palestinians toward their Israeli neighbors, a technological summit threatens to push the conflict beyond its tipping point with Artificial Intelligence presenting a philosophical perspective that will change our view of religion forever.
Religious extremists hold Jerusalem hostage when a message reveals that bombs are scattered throughout the Old City. The United Nations convene as militaries around the globe prepare for war. With time ticking away, Aiden joins forces with a chief inspector of the Israel police force, and a director of the technological summit well-versed in religious history to locate the and disarm the bombs.
They embark on a frantic hunt through the catacombs of the ancient city, sacred sites, and forgotten tombs, using scripture and the Dead Sea Scrolls to reveal their enemies and prevent Armageddon from occurring as the prophets had foretold. Their only hope lies in the words that remained unchanged for 2,000 years, but could threaten the validity of the most revered faith on earth.
Targeted Age Group:: YA and Adult audiences
Heat/Violence Level: Heat Level 3 – PG-13
Apart from the first book in the series (THE SECRET OF HEAVEN) having become a bestseller in Australia and frequent requests from readers for the sequel, I wanted to continue to delve deeper into the conundrum of the divinity of Christ and the humanity of Jesus.
More than anything, I hope to inspire profound thought and provide people with an opportunity to engage in an exchange of ideas.
The main character, Professor Aiden Leonardo, is who I imagine my son growing up to be, given his curiosity about the world, and the way I teach him about the religions of the world.
Nagi, a fan-favorite, is a reflection of my eccentricities, which has gained me acceptance in many circles.
Sunlight fell through the windows of Emmett’s office as Yeshua handed the sheet of paper back to Aiden.
“That’s a pretty harsh message,” the chief inspector said.
“What’s it say?” Yisrael reached for the sheet.
Aiden was about to hand it over when Yeshua reached across the desk to stop him.
“Oh, right. Evidence,” Aiden pulled back. “May I read it to him?”
“Sure, as long as he doesn’t touch it,” the chief inspector replied.
Aiden cleared his throat before he recited the words on the page:
“He was the last of the false messiahs
Another prince of the Jews claiming to be king,
The fact of his birth concealed by his death
A lie made truth by the Hasmonean kings
Each stone placed must be destroyed
To expose the lie within a god’s tower,
Written in stone by the archangel Jibril
The false faith to be stripped of its power.”
“These words are incendiary,” Yisrael looked up alarmed.
“Well, it’s not the first time such words have been written,” Yeshua shrugged.
“No, but it is the first time they are accompanied by a threat to the Old City,” Aiden interjected.
“What do you mean?” The chief inspector asked.
Aiden held up the sheet of paper and showed him what had been drawn on the other side.
“Is that a map of the Old City?” Yeshua’s brow furrowed as he walked around the desk and stood beside Aiden. He studied the page carefully.
“It appears so, but based on the shape of the drawing it resembles only an outline of the city walls with markings that seem to denote the location of the eight gates of the city,” Aiden observed.
“What are those markings there?” Yisrael peered over Aiden’s shoulder and pointed at the Stars of David drawn in red ink.
“I don’t know,” the chief inspector looked on perplexed.
“Could they be targets?” Aiden wondered.
“Targets for what?” the chief inspector asked.
“Well, on the surface the location of each star may appear random, but each star seems to correlate with the numerous Christian churches located throughout the Old City,” Aiden observed.
“Are you sure?” Yisrael asked. “Even if we pencil in the streets that divide the four quarters of the city, there isn’t a single star in the area that correlates with the Muslim Quarter.”
“And?” Yeshua cast him a perplexed glance. “What’s your point?”
“My point is that there is a Catholic Church in the Muslim Quarter, so if we are to conclude that whoever wrote this poem is targeting Christian monuments in the Old City, it doesn’t make sense that they would exclude that church,” Yisrael answered.
“Maybe it does,” Aiden said with the look of realization dawning on his face.
“How so?” Yeshua asked as he and Yisrael met his gaze.
“The Church of Saint Anne—as it stands today—was originally erected in the 12th century, and unlike many other Crusader churches was not destroyed by Saladin after his conquest of Jerusalem.”
“How does that have any bearing on the subject?” Yeshua asked.
“The location of the church was believed by the Crusaders to be the childhood home of Mary the mother of Jesus. It had been dedicated to her parents, Anna and Joachim.”
“I’m still not following,” the chief inspector said.
“Mary is venerated as one of the most important and righteous women in Islam,” said Aiden.
“You are shitting me,” Yeshua replied.
“She is the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran,” Aiden said.
“Then Muslim extremists are behind the murder of Ben Yaakov,” Yeshua concluded.
“I wouldn’t be so sure,” Aiden grimaced.
“Why not? The evidence is right there?” Yisrael blurted out.
“We still have the reference to the Book of Daniel to consider,” Yeshua pursed his lips and cursed under his breath.
“The Book of Daniel?” Yisrael asked perplexed.
“It’s part of an on-going investigation,” Yeshua replied with a sidelong glance. “Which brings us back to square one.”
“Yes and no,” Aiden said.
“Based on the contents of the poem, someone wants to attack Christianity,” Aiden began. “If we reflect on the words and review the map, we can surmise that the attack will center on locations in the Old City important to the Christian faith.”
“How can you be so sure?” Yeshua wondered.
“Well, I can’t say I’m sure-I’m sure, but given the phrases: ‘last of the false messiahs, each stone placed must be destroyed, and written in stone by the archangel,’ it stands to reason that whoever is behind this attack has zeroed in on the Christian faith.”
Yeshua inhaled deeply as he placed his hands on his hips and stared ahead pensively.
“For what it’s worth, chief inspector, I believe Professor Leonardo is onto something,” Yisrael broke the silence.
“And what is it about your expertise that supports his argument?” Yeshua snapped.
“I am a student of history, and based on the facts presented in that poem there is plenty of history to support the claims of that stanza.”
“The facts?” Yeshua wondered.”
“Let’s begin with the first line of the poem, ‘He was the last of the false messiahs,’” Aiden began. “By the time Jesus had stepped onto the world stage the Roman authorities and the Jewish high priests had grown tired of the countless preachers who claimed to be prophets and messiahs delivering messages of God’s imminent judgment.”
“They number as many as twenty-five false messiahs,” Yisrael added.
“Many whom we know by name, because of the historical record,” Aiden continued.
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This guide is intended for students/researchers studying the history of medicine at the University of Oxford, although students/researchers from any field may find it useful.
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Oxford's collection of official papers material is outstanding. The Bodleian Library as a legal deposit library receives one copy of every item published in the UK. This guide aims to give an overview of the various collections within the Official Papers section and the finding aids relevant to the study of the history of medicine. The Official Papers section is situated in the Bodleian Law Library on the ground floor. All material is on open shelf and accessible to readers. Staff are happy to help.
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The Upper Reading Room, (Old Bodleian Library) houses a significant open shelf collection for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, covering some ancient history, but otherwise medieval to modern periods. It includes both legal deposit as well as purchased materials in English and European languages. Books in this collection cannot be borrowed.
The History of Medicine Library (formerly Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Library primarily supports the needs of the University's postgraduate students and researchers in the history of medicine. Its holdings comprise around 7,000 monographs, serials and theses on diverse topics, including UK public health administration, hospitals and hospital movements, and tropical medicine.
The History Faculty Library supports teaching and learning in the History of Science. The Library primarily supports undergraduate courses, but some research material can also be found here. Books in this collection can be borrowed by current staff and students of Oxford University.
The Radcliffe Science Library has particular strengths in 19th century holdings, as it focused exclusively on science and medicine from 1810. Since 1883 the RSL has received, via legal deposit, a copy of all British scientific publications. Older and less-used material is kept in remote store (listed as "Offsite"), including scientific doctoral theses submitted for degrees at Oxford University.
The Department of Special Collections in the Bodleian Library has acquired through purchase and donation scientific books and manuscripts from the medieval period to the present day. For the early modern period the Library holds papers of many individuals of note in science and medicine. Modern collections include papers of contemporary scientists, archives of scientific organisations, and the Marconi archives. See also the Guide to Scientific Papers in the Bodleian Library.
The archives and collections of the Museum of the History of Science Library has strong modern and antiquarian holdings in those sciences most involved with instrumentation, particularly astronomy, geometry, optics, chemistry, and physics.
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Alert: China Records First Human Case of The H10N3 Bird Flu
By Olumide Oyekunle Last updated Jun 2, 2021
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The National Health Commission of China has sounded an alarm over the first case of H10N3 strain of bird flu found in a 41-year old man.
The recent development is said to be the first human case of the H10N3 strain and its coming amidst the country's criticism of its handling of Coronavirus.
The patient, a resident of Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, was reportedly hospitalised on April 28 after exhibiting symptoms, including fever.
He was later said to have been diagnosed as having the H10N3 avian influenza virus on May 28. The Health Commission says he is in stable condition.
The commission also noted that no human case of H10N3 has been reported before globally, but said the risk of large-scale spread is low and that it was a case of "accidental crossbreed."
The full genetic analysis of the virus accessed by scientists showed that the H10N3 virus was of avian origin.
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The problem with Pulitzers
I have been arguing for sometime that the Pulitzer Prize is bad for journalism, turning the profession into a circle-jerk of mutual self-love. Nick Denton agrees:
But the newspapers’ Pulitzer-chasing is most damaging because it distracts newspapers from their real challenge. Rather than impress colleagues with the seriousness of their reporting, US newspapers need to engage a readership that is drifting off to television and the internet. Pulitzer-winning journalism will win Pulitzers; it won’t save an industry which is experiencing double-digit annual declines in advertising revenue. . . .
The respect of peers is a luxury that US newspapers have enjoyed because, for much of the second half of the 20th century, they were local monopolies. They could afford to be respectable, because they didn’t need to pander to readers. In the UK, by contrast, 12 national dailies are in vicious competition. Editors fear the loss of their jobs, not their honor.
It is not as if the New York Times and Washington Post can magically invigorate themselves by eschewing the Pulitzers. America’s vastness, which mitigates against national newspapers and produces smaller local markets which can only support one title, is an unalterable fact. But, while the Washington Post and other winners may celebrate today, they should recognize a harsh truth: the same monopolies which have allowed a public-service mentality to flourish have also left newspapers unprepared for new competition. These Pulitzers are the totem poles of the newspaper industry; beloved relics of former glory.
If the Pulitzers had the future of journalism at heart, they would award innovation.
No cigar
November 28, 2006 by Jeff Jarvis
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The Pulitzer Prize has long been a dangerous influence in American journalism, and it’s only getting worse.
For too long, newspapers have been edited for prize juries not their publics, taking resources away from local reporting to write long, show-off pieces that don’t necessarily serve their communities and that skew the priorities of newsrooms. Of course, I’m not saying that all Pulitzer-winning journalism is bad; of course, not. But I am saying that pandering to the Pulitzers is a perversion of the intent of the prize and of newspaper reporting as well.
Last year, the Pulitzers allowed just a little bit of online content to qualify for a prize. This year, they open that up to include “a full array of online material-such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video.” But they still insist, stubbornly, to award only journalism from newspapers.
Eligibility for entering the competition will continue to be restricted to newspapers published daily, Sunday, or at least once a week during the calendar year. “This keeps faith with the historic mandate of the Pulitzer Prizes,” Gissler said.
I thought the Pulitzers existed to award journalism, not printing.
And the more newspapers continue to define themselves narrowly, as a club, the worse their fate will be in a world of expanding journalism. That’s what I mean when I say that the negative impact of the Pulitzers is only getting worse, even as they try to make it better.
Esteemed jurors: Open up the prize. Award great journalism wherever and however and by whomever it is committed.
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Featured: Nostalgia And Fury: Here Are Your Touring Car Legends Doing Their Jobs At Spa
Nostalgia And Fury: Here Are Your Touring Car Legends Doing Their Jobs At Spa
By Will_Broadhead
Photography by Will Broadhead
Ever since I was old enough to stand on the grass banking at Thruxton Race Circuit, in a sleepy part of Hampshire, UK, touring car racing has been one of the most captivating motorsport. No, not in the same vein as vintage F1, nor modern GT racing, but in terms of pure entertainment and relatability there’s nothing like it.
To the eye of a child at least, they look so similar to the cars that were out there on the road as my dad and I drove into the spectator parking area. Then there’s the exceptionally close on-track action, certainly watching the British Touring Car Championship throughout the 90’s, the old adage of “rubbing is racing” never seemed so accurate with the likes of John Cleland and Steve Soper et al going at it (and each other’s doors) hammer and tongs every other weekend.
As I grew older, rule changes within the British Championship caused me to lose interest somewhat, I couldn’t keep up with the seemingly endless reverse grids, sprint races and any other number of novelties designed to keep racing vibrant and exciting. Besides, motorcycles were starting to draw my eye away from modern four-wheeled racing. As well as this new-found love of two wheels, I was also starting to delve into the world of classic cars as opposed to current competitors, and these days motorsports fans like me are spoiled for choice; historic racing series abound, and the good ones can bring back the halcyon days of our favorite championships in live action.
Almost every historic event I attend these days has a touring car class on the docket, but often they are for pre-’66 cars, and as great as those are, a field of Lotus Cortina’s racing a bunch of Mini Coopers just doesn’t quite capture my attention like a CSL and a Capri hurling around a place like this. Thankfully at the Spa Classic this past weekend, there was a whole ‘nother grid of machines a generation or so back from the cars I grew up watching. It would have been nice to see the ‘70s ETCC up close in person, but this is the next best thing. Colorful, loud, unabashed in their aesthetics and fabulous to watch around the historic undulations of Spa-Francorchamps, this is the “good stuff.”
The Peter Auto Heritage Touring Cup class was open to machines that competed between 1966 to 1984, representing what many call the golden era of the European Touring Car Championship (though the ‘80s would like a word in this argument I imagine).
As you would expect, the grid is dominated by the Group 2 and 4 weapons that were the BMW 3.0 CSL and Ford Capri RS, but for all that there is a great variety across the 38 cars that made it to the track in Belgium. The earlier years of this lot were covered by 2002 Bimmers and Ford Escorts. Then there are some early-‘80s greats out and about (when the FIA replaced Group 2 with Group A and such), represented by a smattering of BMW 635s, but sadly, no Sierra Cossies. Throw in the odd Alfa, Volkswagen, or Chevrolet, and you’ve got visual and aural feast to nip into.
The cars all look great of course, especially the works CSLs in my mind, and whilst I can’t profess to any feelings of nostalgia created by memories of seeing these machines race the first time around, I was more than a bit excited to see these things in motion, having only read about them in the past and seen a handful flung around at Group 2 rally events here and there.
The circuit holds historical significance to the ETCC, as well as being a smashing place to watch any sort of racing. The 24 Hours of Spa was part of the ETCC season at various points along its timeline, originally on the 14-kilometer track and in the later years of the cars represented on this grid, the 7-kilometer version we are used to these days. There were many notable winners of that famous old race, including Jacky Ickx and Jochen Mass and a certain Tom Walkinshaw. Also, who could forget the red pig, the 300SEL that put Merc-tuner AMG on the map?
The pig wasn’t there, but the cars in attendance have their own pedigrees, with one of the Ford Capri 3100 RS machines on the grid being raced by Jochen Mass the first time around. This weekend its pilots are Richard Dean and McLaren F1 boss Zak Brown, but while oohing and ahhing at the machines and their pilot names in the open pit lane is all well and good, I want to hear engines at redline and tire torture—after all, these are racing cars right?
Thankfully there is plenty of time to salivate behind the guardrails as your hair’s ruffled by the backdraft of a screaming line of bright colors and loud noises, with just over three and a half hours of track time scheduled over the weekend just past, including the challenge of a night race, emulating the times in days gone by when these cars would have raced all of the way through a 24-hour cycle.
Somewhat rightfully it is a BMW 3.0 CSL that is the fastest car over the weekend, the “Batmobile” being so dominant in the championship in the ‘70s, but throughout the field there are some fabulous dices and battles going on in the back. Race Two in particular has an extremely close contest for the remaining rostrum positions. Regardless of the winners though, what’s clear is that it has been an optical and sonic extravaganza seeing these fabulous cars at Spa. My favorite moment though was not seeing them snake and struggle for traction through Eau Rouge, or scream along the Kemmel straight, it was listening to the cries of the engines and probes of the lights crack through the darkness of the cold Belgian night, just as they would have done during the boom years of this wonderful old championship.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trident renewal ‘assures Scottish independence,’ says navy whistleblower William McNeilly
As Prime Minister Theresa May convenes Parliament on Monday to debate renewing Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent, Royal Navy submariner-turned-whistleblower William McNeilly tells RT renewal coupled with Brexit will force Scotland to seek independence.
“They rushed the European vote. Now they want to rush the Trident vote,” said McNeilly.
“Those who support the Trident system lack vision. They talk like they are the ones who want to defend the UK. The truth is they are the ones who will destroy the UK if they get their way.
“Voting to leave the EU, then voting Yes on Trident, will guarantee Scottish independence.”
In May 2015, McNeilly, 27, leaked a report exposing 30 safety and security failures documented over his three-month tour on board one of Britain’s Vanguard submarines. Narrowly escaping jail for the leak, he was dishonorably discharged, returning home to his native Belfast.
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As MPs meet to debate the future of Britain’s constant at-sea deterrent (CASD), newly installed Prime Minister Theresa May says the UK’s exit from the European Union makes Trident’s renewal essential to national security and Britain’s commitment to NATO.
However, McNeilly says renewal will lead to the splintering of the United Kingdom, squander hundreds of billions of pounds, and offer terrorists a vulnerable target.
“Scotland is aiming to get another vote [for independence] and these people want to force the Scottish people to keep Trident. The Trident supporters are on the verge of breaking up the UK with this Trident vote, just like they broke up Europe.
“The majority of Scotland want Trident removed. If they force the Scottish people to keep a nuclear system that is damaging their land and sea, putting their lives and land at risk, costing them an absolute fortune ... then the majority of Scotland will vote Yes to leave the UK.”
Already spoiling for a second referendum on Scotland’s independence in the wake of the Brexit vote, in which a majority of Scots voted to “Remain” in the EU, McNeilly believes the Scottish National Party (SNP) will see a vote in favor of Trident’s renewal as the final straw.
“The Better Together campaign were able to secure a No vote in the last [independence referendum] because they used the European Union as leverage. Now the Scottish National Party are the ones who will use the European Union as leverage.
“Trident is the fuel the Scottish National Party needs for an independence vote… the Scottish National Party is striking its matches.”
If Scotland leaves the United Kingdom, the government “will have nowhere to put the submarines and will be forced to spend countless more billions on building a base for them or moving them or looking like complete fools by scrapping them after destroying our unity.”
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McNeilly accuses former Prime Minister David Cameron of rashness for allowing a referendum on EU membership to take place in the first place.
“They have shown recklessness with the unity we had with the European Union,” he said.
“David Cameron has shown that he doesn’t know what’s best for the UK when he allowed the EU vote… They clearly don’t know how to maintain unity and unity is our greatest defense.
“If you really want to protect the United Kingdom, then you must do what is necessary to keep us united: vote No on Trident’s renewal.”
The whistleblower is far kinder in his assessment of anti-nuclear campaigner and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
“Corbyn is attacked daily because he is smart enough to recognize that Trident is useless and a threat to the UK. Attacking Trident is like a taboo for the politicians. They need to step out of their boxes and see the truth.”
One argument against renewal is the stratospheric price tag attached to the submarines and the warheads themselves, not to mention their maintenance and the cost of safely scrapping the current fleet.
“The amount it will cost just keeps rising,” says McNeilly. “Can the UK afford it? They make cuts to everything else, but don’t even consider removing Trident.
Tens of thousands march in London in largest #StopTrident demo in decades
“Forcing the Scottish people to maintain a nuclear threat and forcing them to pay a ridiculous amount of money for it is outrageous.
“The nuclear weapons system eats a massive chunk out of our defense budget. We are fighting a war against terrorism. The only thing nuclear weapons provide in the war on terror is a target for the terrorists to destroy the UK. These clueless politicians are doing a better job at destroying the UK than the terrorists.”
McNeilly also takes to task those who argue a vote to scrap Trident will destroy jobs in the north of England and Scotland, where other skilled manufacturing industries have been decimated.
“One of the main arguments they make for Trident is jobs. That is a ridiculous argument because the staff on the Trident submarines are military.
“The Royal Navy has man power issues and they will benefit from Tridents removal… They can be moved into the hunter killer submarines or into the surface fleet… and the mine sweepers also operate out of the Faslane [naval] base.
“The base will stay open with or without the Trident submarines.
“The amount of jobs they say will be lost is just ridiculous and untrue. They are either lying or they haven’t engaged their brain cells.
“The truth is voting No on Trident’s renewal is the vote that protects the jobs at Faslane. Voting Yes on Trident is the vote that guarantees Scottish independence.”
By Rob Edwards, RT
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Volume 518, July-August 2010
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014600
A&A 518, L152 (2010)
First results of Herschel-PACS observations of Neptune*
E. Lellouch1, P. Hartogh2, H. Feuchtgruber3, B. Vandenbussche4, T. de Graauw5, R. Moreno1, C. Jarchow2, T. Cavalié2, G. Orton6, M. Banaszkiewicz7, M. I. Blecka7, D. Bockelée-Morvan1, J. Crovisier1, T. Encrenaz1, T. Fulton8, M. Küppers9, L. M. Lara10, D. C. Lis11, A. S. Medvedev2, M. Rengel2, H. Sagawa2, B. Swinyard12, S. Szutowicz7, F. Bensch13, E. Bergin14, F. Billebaud15, N. Biver1, G. A. Blake6, J. A. D. L. Blommaert4, J. Cernicharo16, R. Courtin1, G. R. Davis17, L. Decin4, P. Encrenaz18, A. Gonzalez2, E. Jehin19, M. Kidger20, D. Naylor21, G. Portyankina22, R. Schieder23, S. Sidher12, N. Thomas22, M. de Val-Borro2, E. Verdugo20, C. Waelkens4, H. Walker12, H. Aarts5, C. Comito24, J. H. Kawamura6, A. Maestrini18, T. Peacocke25, R. Teipen23, T. Tils23 and K. Wildeman5
1 LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France e-mail: [email protected]
2 Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
3 Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstraße, 85748 Garching, Germany
4 Instituut voor Sterrenkunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
5 SRON, Groningen, The Netherlands
6 JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
7 Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Science, Warszawa, Poland
8 Blue Sky Spectroscopy Inc., Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
9 European Space Astronomy Center, Madrid, Spain
10 Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain
11 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
12 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, U K
13 Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Bonn, Germany
14 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
15 Université de Bordeaux, Observatoire Aquitain des Sciences de l'Univers, CNRS, UMR 5804, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France
16 Laboratorio de Astrofísica Molecular, CAB. INTA-CSIC, Spain
17 Joint Astronomy Center, Hilo, USA
18 LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, and Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
19 F.R.S.-FNRS, Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Liège, Belgium
20 Herschel Science Centre, ESA Centre, Madrid, Spain
21 University of Lethbridge, Canada
22 University of Bern, Switzerland
23 University of Cologne, Germany
24 Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
25 Experimental Physics Dept., National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Ireland
Received: 31 March 2010
We report on the initial analysis of a Herschel-PACS full range spectrum of Neptune, covering the 51–220 μm range with a mean resolving power of ~3000, and complemented by a dedicated observation of CH4 at 120 μm. Numerous spectral features due to HD (R(0) and R(1)), H2O, CH4, and CO are present, but so far no new species have been found. Our results indicate that (i) Neptune's mean thermal profile is warmer by ~3 K than inferred from the Voyager radio-occultation; (ii) the D/H mixing ratio is (4.5 ± 1) × 10-5, confirming the enrichment of Neptune in deuterium over the protosolar value (~2.1 × 10-5); (iii) the CH4 mixing ratio in the mid stratosphere is (1.5 ± 0.2) × 10-3, and CH4 appears to decrease in the lower stratosphere at a rate consistent with local saturation, in agreement with the scenario of CH4 stratospheric injection from Neptune's warm south polar region; (iv) the H2O stratospheric column is (2.1 ± 0.5) × 1014 cm-2 but its vertical distribution is still to be determined, so the H2O external flux remains uncertain by over an order of magnitude; and (v) the CO stratospheric abundance is about twice the tropospheric value, confirming the dual origin of CO suspected from ground-based millimeter/submillimeter observations.
Key words: planets and satellites: atmospheres / planets and satellites: individual: Neptune / planets and satellites: composition / techniques: spectroscopic
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.
© ESO, 2010
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Conducting autopsies in lab is better, physicians say as Kano’s death rate forces public outcry
By Lara Adejoro
Fresh mounds of graves feared to be those killed by COVID-19 at a Kano cemetery. Screenshot TV image
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A public health physician and Director, Policy and Advocacy, Nigeria Health Watch, Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor, has said although verbal autopsy is an established way of conducting an autopsy, having an autopsy done in the laboratory is better.
Nsofor spoke against the background of the Kano State government which said it will rely on ‘verbal methods’ while probing the cause of deaths of tens of people that have died in the state in the last one week.
The Coordinator, Technical Response Team, COVID-19, Dr. Tijani Hussaini, during a Channels TV Sunrise Daily programme on Monday, said, “What we are doing is verbal autopsy to ensure that we get to the root of this seemingly increasing death rate in Kano.
“Investigations will inform decision making and the Kano State Government will take it seriously,” Hussaini said.
Nsofor, alongside a pathologist and President of the Nigerian Medical Association and the President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, expressed their opinions on the mysterious deaths in the state amid COVID-19 global pandemic.
According to Nsofor, “Verbal autopsy is an established way of conducting an autopsy. However, conducting autopsies in the laboratory is better.
“But, in the absence of that, especially when people have died and have been buried, the best to do is to use the standard questionnaire to ask family members, health care workers, the chemists, religious leaders and other people in contact with them to find out the signs and symptoms they had and the treatments they received before they died.
“When you interview these stakeholders, you will have a clearer picture of the likely cause of their death but, of course, it’s not definitive.
“By the time you are done, you can’t say for sure that the person died of a particular disease but, based on the signs and symptoms, medication and evidence of pre-existing illness, you can make a more informed decision about the likely cause of the person’s death and also rule out some of the things one is bothered about.”
The public health physician said a verbal autopsy is a standard way of conducting autopsy, especially in low and middle-income countries.
However, he warned, it has to be done using the standard checklist/questionnaire of the World Health Organisation.
Continuing, Nsofor said, “if the verbal autopsy is done the right way, one can say these are some of the reasons for their deaths.
“For some of them, we can rule out that they had died of COVID-19; it could have been for different reasons based on the interviews and analysis done.”
Speaking on reports that most of the deaths in Kano State were caused by complications arising from hypertension, diabetes, meningitis, and acute malaria, a Consultant Pathologist and President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Francis Faduyile said, “The governor is not a medical doctor and I don’t know what tests he has done to confirm that those are correct. How did he arrive at his findings?”
On conducting a verbal autopsy, Faduyile said, “There are some different levels of things and I don’t know the levels he is going and I must understand the protocol he is using.”
President, National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, in an interview with PUNCH HealthWise, said the situation in Kano is a big problem and urged relevant authorities to keep the public accurately informed.
“It appears that the Kano government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control are getting overwhelmed with the situation in the state.
“We don’t even have the true situation of things in Kano and, unfortunately, it appears politics is beginning to creep into the situation and we don’t know what is going on and we are not getting information from the relevant authority,” Sokomba said.
He said NCDC needed to open the testing centre in the state “because we need to know the actual situation of things going on in Kano because the testing is important.
“We can’t say categorically that those deaths are not attributable to COVID-19 and until testing is done, we will be able to know what is going on,” he said.
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‘Overpayment’ Reviews Causing Latest Delays To Hawaii Jobless Benefits
Many locals, still unemployed in the pandemic, are getting stuck as they try to secure extended benefits from federal COVID-relief packages.
By Marcel Honore / February 1, 2021
Hawaii is nearly a full year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic devastation that has come with it.
Nonetheless, the state’s labor department is still struggling to pay out the more complex unemployment insurance claims in a timely manner, and officials say the bureaucracy remains hamstrung by a shortage in manpower and an obsolete computer mainframe.
These days, the main holdup has to do with so-called “overpayment issues,” which typically involve discrepancies between the wages reported by claimants and their former employers.
A sign from a small demonstration in front of the State Capitol last year calls for improvements to the state labor department’s handling of unemployment. The agency is still struggling to keep pace with its workload for complex claims. Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2020
Thousands of local residents, still jobless or under-employed in an economy that depends heavily on tourism and hospitality, have been trying to extend their UI claims with federally funded COVID-relief programs once their initial state benefits run out.
However, “every single claim” must be manually reviewed first to make sure it qualifies for those federal dollars, said Anne Perreira-Eustaquio, director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
The reviews have been raising red flags on what’s still an unknown number of Hawaii’s UI claims, she said, and that’s been further delaying payments for months.
Melissa Davenport, for example, said in an email to Civil Beat that she applied for the federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, or PEUC, on Oct. 20, and that she’s yet to receive payments or updates from DLIR on what’s causing the delay, despite assurances from representatives over the phone that her payments were imminent.
“Weeks passed. I was being patient because I had seen through the (Hawaii Unemployment Updates and Support Group) that the (time) average people were waiting was about 7-8 weeks to be processed,” Davenport wrote Wednesday. “That time came and went.”
Generally, the DLIR’s reviews of claims filed earlier in the pandemic are finding discrepancies between the wages that the claimants and their former employers reported to the state, Perreira-Eustaquio said. Those discrepancies prompt further scrutiny, and it’s left to a DLIR adjudicator to decide whether the claim qualifies and can advance to PEUC. The adjudicators further have to check for fraud.
Such adjudicators, or examiners, have been in short supply throughout the pandemic, however, despite DLIR’s efforts to bolster their numbers.
Trying To Keep Workers And Catch Up
The agency put out a call in August to Hawaii’s legal community asking for pro bono help with its backlog of complex claims. That request attracted some 20 volunteers but they all eventually left, Perreira-Eustaquio said Wednesday.
“They pretty much burned out,” she said. Another 25 examiners on loan from other state agencies all returned to their home departments by the end of 2020.
The number of in-house examiners at DLIR constantly fluctuates. In August, agency spokesman Bill Kunstman said there were 47 examiners on board, including 20 hired after the pandemic hit, and that DLIR was in the process of hiring 36 more to try and catch up on all the claims-resolution work.
On Wednesday, Perreira-Eustaquio said she couldn’t give the latest number of examiners on staff because it changes daily. “We’ve had people come and go. It’s hard to keep the staff here,” she said.
The number has generally hovered recently around 36 permanent examiners, Perreira-Eustaquio added.
DLIR uses the Hawaii Convention Center for claims examiners and an in-house call center, but retaining staff has been difficult, the agency’s director said. The facility is closed to the public. Courtesy: DLIR
DLIR also contracted 100 examiners from an outside company last year using federal CARES Act money to handle less complex claims. That money has expired, and the 50 outsourced contractors who remain will be gone by March 13, Perreira-Eustaquio said.
The state agency is in the process of hiring an additional 67 examiners to deal strictly with overpayment issues, she added on Wednesday. So far, 14 of them have started, Perreira-Eustaquio said.
DLIR has had similar challenges keeping its latest call center staffed. It recently hired 100 people for the new center but 25 people declined the offer and as many as 20 others stopped showing up after a short time, she said.
Peter Yee, a volunteer moderator for the Hawaii unemployment updates and support Facebook group, said that payment delays stemming from the overpayment issues have been dominating the discussion among the group’s nearly 25,000 members.
Many of the overpayment problems discussed on the site have to do with separation or severance pay, Yee said. That pay doesn’t have to be declared on claims if it was received after a formal job separation, both Yee and Perreira-Eustaquio said.
But Yee said there’s been a lot of confusion on that matter, including from the DLIR itself, and that many employers reported the pay as regular wages to the agency. That’s led to numerous claims being flagged and stuck, unable to move on to PEUC, Yee said.
How many are stuck isn’t clear, although some 70,000 Hawaii claims are in the process of moving from one extension program to another, Perreira-Eustaquio said.
Perreira-Eustaquio said the claims dealing with separation pay don’t represent most of the overpayment issues, and that those cases should be easily resolved. Nonetheless, claimants facing that issue, such as Davenport, have been waiting months.
Complex Programs And An Aging Mainframe
It hasn’t been easy navigating the federal legislation on unemployment insurance coming out of Washington, D.C., Perreira-Eustaquio said.
The political wrangling in the Beltway has resulted in a complicated and at times confusing mix of state and federal extension programs for UI payments, and it’s not always clear to claimants which program they should apply to first.
In December, when it wasn’t clear whether then-President Donald Trump would sign the latest COVID-relief package into law, many Hawaii UI claimants applied for the state-level extended benefits program, or “EB20,” to ensure that their weekly payments would continue.
Trump did sign the COVID-relief package, however. Some claimants could lose out on the latest PEUC extension, which expires on March 13, if they get locked into the 13 weeks of benefits provided by EB20 instead, both Perreira-Eustaquio and Yee said. The latest PEUC package provides for 11 weeks of benefits. Yee said there’s been widespread “buyer’s remorse” among the EB20 applicants in Hawaii.
DLIR’s offices in downtown Honolulu remain closed to the public. Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2020
Accordingly, DLIR is sending emails to any local claimants who applied for EB20 after Dec. 13 to make sure they still want to go that route, Perriera-Eustaquio said.
Leaders in Washington have signaled, however, that a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package could be passed later this year. If signed into law, it could allow Hawaii’s jobless claimants to get all the weekly benefits they are eligible for regardless of whether they start with EB 20 or PEUC, Perreira-Eustaquio said.
Still, it hasn’t been signed into law yet, and she doesn’t want to give claimants any guidance until then. There’s a sense that the PEUC program is going to continue, but “I could be wrong,” Perreira-Eustaquio said.
The programs’ complexity has also led to problems and delays rolling them out in Hawaii due to the state’s antiquated 1980s-era mainframe, Eustaquio said. DLIR programmers have to be able to account for multiple scenarios based on when different claims expire. “You have to be able to program every single exception,” Perreira-Eustaquio said.
The programmers also have to be careful to avoid crashing the mainframe because it’s already under heavy duress from all the pandemic-related activity, she added.
The mainframe stores all the UI claim data on backup tapes. However, if the mainframe crashes, DLIR will be unable to process payments, she said.
The mainframe challenges stem from “how complicated these new programs are,” Perreira-Eustaquio said. If Congress had set up a federal benefits program that could continue without any gaps in the schedule for when that money is disbursed, life would have been a lot simpler for the Hawaii mainframe programmers.
DLIR expects to start issuing payments soon on the latest 11-week PEUC extension and $300 weekly “plus-up” payments under the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program, Perreira-Eustaquio said, but she didn’t have an exact date. (The $300 plus-up is already being added to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance payments because that separate program isn’t run on the old mainframe.)
The department reports having paid out nearly $3.5 billion in UI claims since the pandemic hit Hawaii. The state also currently has the highest unemployment rate of all 50 states, at 9.3%, narrowly edging out Nevada, another state that depends heavily on tourism and hospitality.
Marcel Honore
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Borderzine note: Our publication is more than a website that covers life along the border. It is a training tool that gives aspiring journalists from El Paso and Ciudad Juarez a real newsroom experience in multimedia reporting. This month we are asking readers to help us in our mission by making a contribution on Borderzine’s behalf to NewsMatch. Thanks to NewsMatch and two other organizations that support diversity in news, every dollar donated before Dec. 31 will be tripled.
Hugs Not Walls event gives families long divided by border precious minutes together
By Dino Chiecchi | October 30, 2019
An estimated 3,000 people gathered Saturday morning, Oct. 26, to see Borderland family members and waited their turn along a small strip of damp land just a few feet from the Rio Grande to see their kin who many hadn’t seen in years and hug them for three minutes under the watchful eye of security officials.
Many family members live just a few miles apart, but it might as well be worlds apart. In at least one case, a woman saw and hugged her father for the first time in 31 years.
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By Dino Chiecchi | July 26, 2018
Little Havana – a neighborhood immediately west of Downtown Miami – was once the placeholder for thousands of political exiles who fled Cuba. Now, the enclave remains home to many Cubans, but also is home to bars and restaurants like the Ball and Chain, El Pub, La Carreta, Versailles and other popular spots where locals and tourists alike gather for a taste of the old country. Several Cuban cigar shops dot the landscape, but the now diversified neighborhood has become a spot to see and be seen. One of the area’s many highlights is Domino Park where primarily Cuban men gather to play the game, often accompanied by families seeing the ivory pieces move across the table as other play chess.
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Dino Chiecchi’s remarks to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists during the NAHJ convention July 2018 regarding results of the national survey on job satisfaction among Latino journalists. Among the most startling news gleamed from this survey is that nearly one quarter of the respondents – many of them NAHJ members – said they are considering leaving journalism within five years. And another 32 percent said they were not sure if they’d remain journalists. Let that sink in – 54 percent of respondents are at the very least unsure if they will remain journalists or they will be gone in five years. These numbers are staggering and should be a wake-up call for this board, and for recruiters and media leaders.
Latino journalists, please tell us how its going for you at work
The world of journalism is changing – morphing into something not anticipated just a few short years ago.
With those changes, the workplace has evolved into something entirely different from what we used to know and opportunities for advancement also might have changed.
So, how’s it going? Have the changes been good to you, your career? Are you better off now than you were before the digital revolution? Are you still getting the job satisfaction and opportunities you received prior to the industry’s evolution to a more digital platform?
We’d like to know – anonymously, of course. We are polling members of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and other Latino journalists to find out.
Two researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso, professors Maria de los Angeles Flores and Zita Arocha, are conducting a survey among Latino journalists to determine how the changes have affected opportunities and job satisfaction.
Researchers will continue to collect data through the end of December and the results of the survey will be presented at the NAHJ 2018 conference in Miami.
“It is essential to identify the obstacles that Latino journalists face daily to generate dialog within their respective organizations on effective approaches to better train, retain and promote journalists of color,” Flores said.
The results will be forward to media leaders and media organizations after they are presented in Miami.
The survey will improve the organization’s ability to “comprehend, assess and map the frontier of the industry for journalists at any level in their career,” said NAHJ President Brandon Benavides.
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Slaughterhouse :: House Rules
Grant Jones June 17, 2014
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The metaphorical house of hip hop receives new tenants on such a frequent basis that inevitably, those who once graced the biggest room showcasing their skills to the wider audience and guests, end up being pushed aside and eventually find themselves down in the basement. Slaughterhouse would be the guys ciphering amongst the Rugged Mans and Canibus’ in the dirty, dank, graffiti-scrawled cellar, yet they initially entered the house as hot prospects, gracing the garden in front of thousands as they blessed top-tier productions hot out of the kitchen. Shady record deals and shelved albums pushed these lyricists aside as they struggled to push numbers on a level with weaker, inferior artists on the radio. Following an impressive self-titled debut that was a near-perfect blend of lyrics and accessibility, quad-core rhyme-processors Slaughterhouse are out to rectify the disappointment of “Welcome to Our House.” That album should have been so much better, especially with Eminem’s involvement, but was bogged down by sugar-sweet beats and lame hooks.
Given that the first Slaughterhouse mixtape was better than either of their actual albums, it’s relieving to hear “House Rules” is packed with experimental flows and wild spitting. More importantly, production is less polished and feels like it was chosen to promote the lyricism. It also gives the guys a more authentic, playful presence than the artificial corniness that was all too frequent on “Welcome to Our House”. From the first track, Royce Da 5’9″ experiments with his voice to the point of crooning and then transforms in to Bar Exam-mode on “SayDatThen”. If you enjoyed “Hell: The Sequel” by Bad Meets Evil, you’ll be glad you downloaded this free 46-minute collection of MP3s. LL Cool J once said on his “Mr Smith” album that he could fill The Source’s “Hip Hop Quotable” page for twenty years straight, but Crooked I actually tries to on “Offshore”, a mammoth 9-minute track that he dominates.
If you expected (or wanted) endless wordplay and braggadocio, you may be a little disappointed that much of “House Rules” feels more grown up and focussed. Broken homes are a frequent theme, with Crooked comparing the way his father disappeared without saying a word to David Blaine. Emotional verses are traditionally Joe Budden’s speciality, but the raw passion that the other guys have lends these songs a powerful edge. Crooked’s voice actually almost breaks on “Struggle”, a solo track that is a good listen but let down by a lame hook. Joell gets so hyped on “Life In The City” that the pop filter is still receiving therapy – yet as a refreshing, shorter slice of hip hop it helps break up the endless barrage of rhymes preceding it.
As far as DatPiff mixtapes go, this is jam-packed with content and definitely worth downloading. Shady Records may have helped pay the bills, but these powerhouses of rap need to drop an album that’s devoid of overblown productions that should be on an Eminem album, and stick to this smoother, more minimal style. I’m not one to offer tips to successful emcees, but given the tendency to drop a clanger on hooks, Slaughterhouse could really do with a DJ. Somebody like Revolution or Eclipse who can tie all the dope verses together so we don’t have to hear another underwhelming, overly wordy chorus. If they can get that balance right, hip hop may well let them back out of the basement back on to the main stage.
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He has acted in stage plays and live productions all over the eastern part of the nation! Monte has opened for such groups as: God’s Property, Eve, Second Chapter, Kirk Franklin, and Shirley Caesar just to name a few. He has worked with comedians like Brodrick Rice, Lil Duval, Ian Bagg,Thomas Ford of “The Martin Show”, and John Witherspoon of "The movie Friday." Monté has performing stand-up in clubs like: Laff’s Comedy Club, Tucson AZ, Tempe Improv Tempe AZ, Stand Up Live, Phoenix AZ, Oak Leaf Comedy Corner, Jacksonville FL, and New York Comedy Club.
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Carole Freeman is an Arizona-based comedian and board certified Ketogenic Nutrition Specialist that channels the tragedy of her near-death experiences into her sarcastic, self-deprecating delivery on stage. Audiences across the country enjoy her titillating adventures of suburban existence and true-life tales of an unbelievably disappointing dating life. Her hobbies include swiping left on Bumble and regularly staying up past her son's bedtime.
She performed in Seattle’s Laugh Off Comedy Competition; was a featured act at Seahawks Fan Fest; opened for headliners such as Bret Ernst, Susan Jones, Tyler Boeh, and Andrew Rivers; and regularly speaks at nutrition conferences across the country.
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Burberry launches new campaign “Open Spaces”
A spirit of pioneering and freedom.
‘Freedom allows us to be creative, to dream, to be anything or anyone. Burberry, like me, has had freedom at its heart since the very beginning. This campaign celebrates the fearless spirit of exploration which connects us with one another and the natural world. It’s about pushing boundaries and pursuing endless possibilities – looking to the future and connecting us all.’
Riccardo Tisci, Chief Creative Officer
Today, Burberry unveiled its new campaign ‘Burberry Open Spaces’ which is a journey through the freedom of imagination. When we dare to dream, the possibilities are infinite – we discover new realities, we break boundaries and we find the freedom to go beyond limitations.
A pioneering spirit has been part of the brand’s heritage from the very beginning. Thomas Burberry invented gabardine and created iconic outerwear to help people embrace the outdoors and explore new spaces and places. This spirit is embodied by a quote from Thomas Burberry that continues to inspire and imbue the brand’s collections today: ‘Inherent in every Burberry garment is freedom’.
As the world opens up again, the campaign explores this spirit through a youthful, dreamlike lens. For the campaign film, Riccardo collaborated on the creative and film direction with Megaforce to bring the story to life. It features four bold individuals who have the power to explore and discover, as they take us on a journey set amongst the natural beauty of the British countryside. A spirit of duality – blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
They bound weightlessly through fields, defying gravity as they take flight – resisting convention. New perspectives are explored as they jump and twist through towering forests. As they float across a lake, they challenge the obstacles of the elements and the natural world.
At the end of this hyperreal dreamscape, the four characters come together magnetically, becoming one entity flying through the sky, united in their differences. A symbol for our interconnectedness with nature and each other.
The still imagery, shot by Ewen Spencer, continues this celebration of the outdoors. The dynamic images feature the individuals in the film, shot from different perspectives surrounded by the allure of nature.
Dreams, nature and individuality become one in a journey into the freedom of our imagination.
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Kenya is gateway to African market: cabinet secretary
The Korea Herald | 20 July 2021
By Sanjay Kumar
Korean companies will archive market access through regional integration in Africa and East African region if Kenya is made base, according to Betty Maina, Kenya’s cabinet secretary for industrialization, trade and enterprise development.
“Setting up Kenya as base will access 50 million Kenyan people, 500 million people in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and a billion people in the whole of Africa,” Maina said.
“Kenya has a market-based economy with membership of other regional intergovernmental blocks such as the East African Community, COMESA, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and a lot of freedom and potential that will prosper Korean businesses.”
She encouraged Korean companies to invest in the Big 4 Agenda of Kenya – food security, affordable housing, manufacturing and affordable health care.
This comes alongside Kenya’s Vision 2030, a sustainable development blueprint to transform Kenya into a globally competitive, newly industrialized, middle-income country.
Maina said that the Kenyan government creates a framework, but investments in manufacturing, agriculture, housing or even in universal health care rely on private investment.
Maina expressed hope to improve trade balance in bilateral relations and market access of Kenya’s high-quality agro products in Korea.
According to Maina, the current trade deficit is in favor of Korea and hence, Kenya aspires to fast track processes for approval, regulatory checks and controls on its exports.
“The trade regulations around the world are fairly strict and they may not be mountable in some cases, however, since it’s a global issue with Korea and other countries, it is necessary to deal with protectionism and facilitate agro trade ensuring partners to continue business,” she said.
Maina said that balanced trade would be in the interest both countries, however, she did not comment on specific ways to minimize the current trade deficit.
She said Kenya was ready to facilitate Korean industries to expand businesses in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, automotive and electronic manufacturing.
Maina visited Korea as part of a delegation to Coffee Expo Seoul 2021. Kenya has been selected as the expo’s “guest focus country.”
Maina emphasized the consumption of Kenyan coffee in South Korea, and indicated the need of more marketing in South Korea to keep Kenyan coffee exports to South Korea steady.
According to the Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Agency, South Korea imports 146,000 metric tons of coffee from Kenya. Coffee is Kenya’s main export to South Korea and Korea ranks fourth in terms of consumption of Kenyan coffee. Kenyan coffee attracts low tariffs of 8 percent as compared to tea which attracts a 40 percent tariff.
Asked what opportunities there were in the post-COVID world, she said, “There will be life after COVID-19 and fostering Kenya-Korea private investment will strengthen global supply chains.
“COVID-19 has taught us not to only rely on particular source markets, an important learning for Korean industries to diversify source markets so that Korea can get best coffee directly from Kenya not necessarily through other indirect sources — a room for addition and strong emergence.”
The cabinet minister also sees Kenya as a potential tourism market, which will promote culture and strengthen people-to-people contacts.
“Korean tourists go all over the world. Coffee is a start but we will explore possibilities of African tourism, particularly Kenyan tourism,” she hoped.
source: The Korea Herald
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Magulification is the name of the game
John Magufuli is the Grinch who stole Uhuru, literally and figuratively. He’s also stolen a lot of other things since coming into office less than two months ago. Like luxury travel and other perks for public officials. Like free meals at official meetings. Like fat kickbacks for customs officials at Dar es Salaam port and in the Tanzanian Revenue Authority.
Magufuli, who was only elected as Tanzania’s President on 25 October, has already made lots of enemies among lazy, incompetent, dishonest or arrogant public servants. And many times more friends and admirers than that in the country at large, the region, the continent and the wider world. Though not, surely, in most African state houses.
One of his first acts was to cancel the celebration of Independence Day on 9 December, diverting the budget to street cleaning as part of a new National Day of Cleanliness. Pictures of him participating in that event, collecting rubbish, and then riding back to his office on a bicycle, were transmitted across the region and beyond.
After visiting Dar es Salaam’s Muhimbili Hospital and seeing the awful state it was in – with patients sleeping on the floor or sharing beds – he diverted 200 million shillings budgeted for ‘parliamentary parties’ to buy 300 hospital beds. He also replaced the governing board and cut the spending on his inauguration from US$100 000 to US$7 000 and gave the difference to the hospital.
Reversing the usual pattern, Magufuli promised little and is now delivering much
When he opened the new Parliament he told parliamentary chiefs to slash his speaking time, saying Tanzanians didn’t want to hear speeches, they wanted action. He is continuing in that vein. He recently diverted money budgeted for celebrating World Aids Day to buy antiretroviral drugs for patients.
Such acts of reining in wasteful expenditure in Magufuli’s whirlwind first 40 days or so in office have blazed across the continent and beyond, fuelled by social media. The hashtag #WhatWouldMagufuliDo has gone viral, as citizens of neighbouring countries fantasise about what ‘Magulification’ could do in their countries.
Reveries of Magulification are similarly preoccupying traditional media in the region.
Rasna Warah has written in Kenya’s Daily Nation that ‘The disgustingly conspicuous and gluttonous consumption – at the expense of taxpayers – displayed by our legislators and top civil servants is making Tanzanian President John Magufuli look like a saint.’
In Uganda, Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo has written a satirical piece in The Observer, asking Tanzanians to stop crowing about their new president. Just because Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has not also visited Kampala’s Mulago national referral hospital ‘does not mean he does not care about us and our health. It is because you can afford to lose your president that you would allow him to do such risky things. Do you know how unsafe such hospitals are? Would our president's security detail fit in those wards?’
He earned the nickname ‘Bulldozer’ in his previous job as minister of public works
Many other African leaders are no doubt dismissing Magufuli’s actions as gimmicky showmanship. But this view would be self-serving and simply wrong because he is not only going after extravagant public servants. He is also going after corrupt officials, in a determined fashion and with a higher and very serious purpose.
When he addressed Parliament last month, Magufuli attributed Tanzania’s development deficit to the country’s failure to attract investment, especially into industry. He blamed two groups of people for this, according to Africa Confidential: ‘leaders like us in here and crooked, deceptive businessmen.’ And so he has launched an investigation into privatised firms to see whether they are making progress since being privatised; if not the firms will be returned to the state for re-sale.
More seriously still, Magufuli has fired the head of the Dar es Salaam ports authority and suspended the chief of the Tanzanian Revenue Authority on suspicion of widespread and long-standing corruption, much of it related to missing import revenues.
What Magufuli is doing – replacing pomp and ceremony with substance and action and going after corrupt officials – is so obvious, so consistently ‘on message’ and so compelling that it could have been scripted by a good public relations company as his election campaign. Yet it seems to be spontaneous and real. These actions did not figure prominently as promises in his election campaign. Reversing the usual pattern, Magufuli promised little and is now delivering much.
Whether Magufuli can maintain the momentum, remains a big question
How did he happen? Part of the reason may be that he seems to have crept up on the country rather unnoticed. He was something of a compromise presidential candidate for the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party, which has ruled since independence, when it couldn’t resolve the contest over more prominent contenders. Once he became the CCM candidate, however, the nickname ‘Bulldozer’ which he had earned in his previous job as minister of public works should have been a warning of what was to come.
It must be said too that Tanzanians may also thank the country’s strict ‘tradition’ of observing constitutional two-term presidential limits. His predecessor Jakaya Kikwete duly stood down when his two terms expired, creating the possibility for the gust of fresh air which Magufuli is blowing through the rather musty corridors of power.
Whether Magufuli can maintain the momentum, though, remains a big question. He is poking a sharp stick into a large hornet’s test and provoking powerful enemies in Tanzania. He will have to watch his back – especially when riding through the streets of Dar es Salaam on a bicycle, one would assume.
And, apart from the enemies without, what about the enemy within? Will he himself remain as good and clean and fresh as he now looks, for the duration? One recalls that, like him, Museveni and Kagame were once also hailed as a new breed of African leader. Magufuli seems different. The others did not start quite like this. They never had his humility for one thing.
Although Magufuli has gone on to do more concrete things since then, his first act in cancelling the celebration of Independence Day was peculiarly daring and significant, in a symbolic sense. ‘It’s shameful that we’re spending money on independence when our people are dying of cholera,’ he said at the time.
Considering how shaking off the shackles of colonialism has been such a powerful symbol of independent Africa, Magufuli was sending a very strong message to his people and the continent. The almost-exclusive focus on liberating Africa, often neglecting the concrete and contemporary needs of the African people, was the great failure of the Organisation of African Unity. For many African governments, liberating their countries became the sumptuous laurels they could rest very comfortably on. And still rest on today, especially in the more-recently liberated south of the continent.
Magufuli’s central message, instead, is that it is time to rise from those long-wilted laurels and tackle the issues of today. Has he not also cut through the dense undergrowth of excuse-making for Africa’s failures, the diversion of blame to a host of external actors and factors, by simply rolling up his sleeves and getting on with it?
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Amul – how they grew during the pandemic through their (inadvertent) use of data
Amul is a household name in India. For those who have not lived in India, Amul is a dairy brand in India. Amul is possibly the biggest FMCG brand in India by revenue – $5.3billion in 2020 according to Global Dairy Top 20 report by Rabobank.
The organisation behind this brand is Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation.
The structure of this co-op has been the subject of several research projects and movies, as the purpose of the co-op is to minimise profits. The co-op sells dairy products to customers and consumers at the lowest possible prices and pays its farmers the highest possible price for the milk and maintains skinny to zero profit margins. They sell the Amul brand through their own retail outlets and also through supermarkets, convenience stores and kirana stores (bodega stores/independents)
Amul’s unique structure is not the reason for our case study. Today we explore how Amul was able to foresee the consequences of the pandemic and pivot in time to meet demand.
Learning from others’ experiences
As the MD for Amul, R S Sodhi, had been tracking the spread of infections in China, he already had a plan for how to amend operations within Amul facilities and offices to curb the spread of infection. He immediately put this plan in place.
‘I remember, on March 17, we looked at different aspects of our operations like precautions, social distancing, sanitisation, invoicing and warehousing and figured how to have a robust IT backbone to carry out our operations smoothly. Anticipating disruption, we started stocking up products in our 77 warehouses, transporting much more than what we normally would. At the head office, we split the team into two, working in two sets.’ said Sodhi, the MD of Amul.
Social distancing norms were introduced in village societies beginning 17 March along with new sanitisation protocols.
Amul’s MD predicted consumer reaction based on his family’s reaction
According to an interview of the the MD, when Prime Minister Modi announced lockdowns in March 2020, his wife encouraged him to go out and stock up on essentials and this included milk, yogurt, butter and paneer.
He realised that millions of other households would be doing the same thing and that there would be concerns around availability.
The next day he sent out a 2min phone recording to all their stakeholders, customers and farmers, and re-assured them regarding continued operations.
Predicted changes in consumer behaviour based on previous curfews and lockdowns
Gujarat, as many of you may know, has had curfews and lockdowns imposed previously, in the 1980s/1990s. R S Sodhi knew that his consumers would behave in similar ways as they did during those times, with the new nationwide lockdowns. So he diverted production to consumer focussed SKUs. Instead of packaging milk, yogurt, butter, ghee and paneer in bulk for the on-trade, he increased production of shelf ready SKUs to be sold through their retail outlets and stores.
Agile decision making
As ice creams are sold primarily through the on-trade in India, Sodhi knew that there would be a weakening of demand for Ice-creams. He also knew that school and office closures meant that demand for at-home consumption of milk (including flavoured milk), yogurt, butter, ghee and paneer would increase. So they diverted production from Ice-creams to packaged milk (incl. flavoured milk), yogurt, paneer, butter & ghee.
Increased investment in the business at a time when everyone else chose not to
When most other companies were pausing further investment into their businesses, Amul chose to go the other way. They increased employee salaries by 40-50% on average, increased margin distribution and increased advertising activity. They also invested in plant hygiene and social distancing initiatives. When they realised that people were watching a lot more TV, especially old re-runs, they re-ran Amul ads from those times taking advantage of the nostalgia element.
Their policy to never turn a farmer away paid off
During this time, several other milk co-operatives and unions were struggling with infections and absenteeism, causing them to shut down their plants. This, in turn, impacted the farmers who supplied these plants as they could no longer sell their milk. GCMMF(the co-op behind the brand, Amul) has a policy to never turn a farmer away. This meant that the co-op always had a steady supply of milk.
So what did/does this mean for Amul?
During a time when several other FMCG companies were struggling to keep their supply chains and sales going, Amul was well set up for supply chain and sales shocks. There wasn’t ever a single instance of Amul going out of stock in stores or at their outlets.
As they were still running their ads on TV and continuing with their marketing activities, they were able to not just retain market share, but also grow share exponentially.
Despite the pandemic and the resulting loss of sales through the on-trade, Amul posted a 2% growth in revenues for the YE 2020/21. Their consumer focussed SKUs grew by 8% and was offset by the significant decline in sales in the on-trade sector in 2020/21. For YE 2021/22, they’re expecting an 18% growth in sales.
Sources: Economic Times, Live Mint, ICMR Case Study – Unlocking in the lockdown
Author Veena Giridhar GopalPosted on April 15, 2022 April 15, 2022 Categories CPG/FMCG Case studiesTags agile, Amul, Amul girl, coronavirus, Covid, CPG, CPG sales, demand, FMCG, FMCG sales, gcmmf, lockdowns, Milk co-ops, off trade, on trade, pandemic, retail, retail execution, revenues, Sales, Sales intelligence, salesbeat, supermarketsLeave a comment on Amul – how they grew during the pandemic through their (inadvertent) use of data | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7061040997505188, "wiki_prob": 0.2938959002494812, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line906342"} |
The Ikea Theory on Writing (it's just as unfathomable)
I was chatting to a neighbour the other day, groaning about a particularly badly written novel I was in the middle of editing.
"Some people just shouldn't write books," I said. "It's woeful and I'm struggling to make sense of it."
"Oh dear," he replied. "Hopefully she'll just self-publish and be done with it."
I was gobsmacked.
What did he mean? Was he saying that self-publishing is only for woeful writers? Was he saying that self-published books didn't go anywhere so it would get lost in a giant black sludgepile and save us all the agony?
Whatever my neighbour was saying, it didn't bode well for me.
While I have had a book traditionally published, I now self-publish my own novels, and have nine indie books available on all the major channels. I sold over 3,000 copies last month on Amazon alone and have an average four star rating. I DIY, and I do so proudly.
Or at least I did, until we had our little roadside chat.
Despite my humiliation, I didn't call my neighbour on his words because I didn't want to embarrass him. He's actually a decent bloke and I knew that he knew I self-published books, so would be mortified by what he'd just said. I couldn't bear the look in his eyes when he realised his faux pas, the frantic backpedal, the attempt to swallow words and attitudes that were, frankly, indigestible.
Come on, guys, let's remove the scales from our eyes and modern up.
We no longer believe that the produce sold at Woolworths and Coles is better than produce from the farmers' market. That's laughable. We accept that mass produced furniture from Ikea usually fails in comparison to bespoke pieces made by a local carpenter. Yet we still cling on to the idea that if there's a Big Publisher behind a book, it must be somehow better. Surely we're better than that? Surely we're smarter? Surely we've read anything by Tara Moss, Mary Higgins Clark or Lynda La Plante?
Now before you get up in arms and accuse me of my own bias, allow me to qualify: I know all three traditionally published mystery authors are HUGELY successful and have an enormous fan base, and all power to them. I'm not saying their work is crap, not at all. But I could name at least 50 indie mystery authors I've read who do a FAR SUPERIOR job. These lesser-known authors create prose that is so much richer, characters who are far less cliche, and plots that leave you gripping the edge of your bed each night.
Yet by destiny or design, they have gone the independent route, and while some are doing really well, others are struggling. And they're struggling thanks to the attitudes of people like my neighbour who clearly wouldn't give them a whirl because they haven't got the words Pan Macmillan or Penguin or Harper Collins somewhere in the opening pages.
How short sighted of him, and oh how he's missing out!
The changing tide
The indie book publishing world IS changing, and it's changing fast. Sales are zooming, profits are booming, and many writers now choose to go it alone. Yet the general population has a looooong way to go to catch up. My neighbour was not trying to be insulting, he just has a bias that should be left in the 20th century where it belongs.
Stories are stories are stories. It shouldn't matter about format or publisher. That's an irrelevance.
All I ask today, dear readers, is that you give a book credit based on its content, not the imprint at the front. Take a look at the star rating. Look at the reviews. Read the first few chapters before you diss or dismiss. It's that simple.
Oh and be careful what you say to your neighbours. They might have just published another indie novel and be feeling pretty proud of themselves. Let's give them a pat on the back not a silent slap.
Happy (unbiased) reading everyone.
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StarQuest Singing Competition Returns
By Brian W. Carter, Staff Writer
StarQuest will celebrate five years at the 11th annual Taste of Soul (TOS) Festival on Oct. 15 as the premiere South Los Angeles singing competition. For the past four years, adults and kids have earned a spotlight thanks to their talents. And for the first time ever, StarQuest will give local talent the opportunity to enter the competition in more ways than one!
StarQuest will hold in-person auditions on Saturday (10am – 4pm) and Sunday (1pm – 4pm), September 24 & 25th at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall. The adult auditions (both days) are ages 18+ and kids auditions (both days) ages 5-17. All new this year, StarQuest will have online and mobile submissions to win a finalist spot in the StarQuest Adults Singing Competition (18+ yrs) and a spot in the StarQuest Kids Singing Competition (5-17 yrs)!
ENTER ONLINE CONTEST NOW
A finalist will be selected by the people; the People’s Choice Semi-finalist. Online submissions and mobile videos can be viewed and voted on by the general public. One vote per day, per person, per video. The winners will be selected by tallying the public’s votes. Online winners will be selected the week before the in-person auditions. Those who didn’t win the online competition are encouraged to audition again in person during the live auditions. ENTER ONLINE CONTEST NOW Please contact us if you have any issues at [email protected] Videos will be reviewed each day prior to showing up on the website. Videos with foul language will be deleted. No rap – this is a singing contest.
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It all started in 2012 where StarQuest debuted at TOS created for the community by the Los Angeles Sentinel and Bakewell Media. The first StarQuest resulted in 12 semi-finalists, who performed on the StarQuest stage during the festival were Beau Williams and Adrian Battle won the competition.
In 2013, StarQuest welcomed a kid’s competition, which featured youth ages 5-17 in addition to the adult competition. Nathan Davis, Jr. and Noah Jay won the adult and kid’s competition in 2013 respectively.
In 2014, Mothership was the winner of the adult competition and Tim Jr. won the kids competition. StarQuest winners gain the opportunity to build and expand their brand as well as appear at multiple venues and in media. As a result, many of the winners have been put on a path towards success as a result of the competition.
StarQuest has had the honor and pleasure of having some of the most iconic figures in Black Hollywood as judges for the competition including executive producer, Tony Cornelius, son of the legendary Don Cornelius creator of “Soul Train,” Yvette Bailey (former “Soul Train” producer), talent executive and Rayva Harrell (Nickelodeon’s “All That,” “The Steve Harvey Morning Show”).
TOS continues to miss and honor the memory of Harrell, who passed away in 2015. Her contributions to StarQuest and the entertainment industry stand as a precedence. During TOS, StarQuest has welcomed a host of five-star talent and celebrities as judges, which included Michelle Williams, Deitrick Haddon, Tamala Jones, Angie Stone, Rickey Minor, Willie Norwood, Howard Hewett and Darrin Henson. Other notable judges include Peter Wise, Judge Mablean, Hosea Chanchez, Sandy Christmas and David Lombard.
For more information go to http://tasteofsoul.org/starquest. Follow Taste of Soul on Facebook and Twitter @tasteofsoulla.
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RPS plan: start with hybrid model for elementary students, distance learning for older kids
Rochester Public Schools’ initial plan for the first two months of the 2020-21 school year is here. Most elementary schoolers and Lincoln (K-8) students will use a hybrid model, while most middle and high school students (grades 6-12) will stick with the distance learning model implemented in the spring.
The decision was made after Gov. Tim Walz released guidelines for school re-openings last week. Based on Olmsted County’s case incidence rate of 17, the district played it safe with their plan: the state guidelines call for in-person learning for elementary students and a hybrid model for secondary students for districts with similar rates.
Superintendent Michael Muñoz said the plan, while revealed later than other Minnesotan districts, was carefully crafted with assistance from Olmsted County Public Health and Mayo Clinic. The wait, he hopes, will be worth it.
“It took us longer, but I really think it’s going to pay off,” said Muñoz. “We had over 160 people working on this, from all areas of the district. The unknown is stressful, so I’m hoping this will help relieve a little stress.”
Here are five essential bits of information from Friday’s announcement.
THE ELEMENTARY HYBRID SETUP
Elementary students will have in-person instruction two days per week, with the rest of the week filled in by distance learning. Schools will be broken up into two groups: one that receives in-person instruction on Mondays and Tuesdays, the other on Thursdays and Fridays.
A ‘normal’ in-person learning day will allow for recess (socially distant, with masks, and including hand-washing before and after going outside), and breakfast and lunch will be served. The standard Covid-19 guidelines apply as well: all students, staff and visitors will be required to wear masks, stay socially distant, wash hands frequently, and complete the Minnesota Department of Education’s screening process before coming to school.
In-person schooling will be dismissed one hour early (approximately 2:30) to allow time for teachers to connect with their distance learning students. On the way to and from school, buses will be limited to 50 percent capacity.
THE OPT-OUT CLAUSE
Families who don’t want their elementary school-aged child in school will have the option to choose a full distance learning model. In that situation, students will be assigned one teacher for the rest of the trimester. Once a student opts out, the decision is final until the trimester ends.
To opt out, families must request a Distance Learning Form from their school and submit it by Thursday, August 14 at 4 p.m. (If families plan to have their child go through the hybrid model, no action is needed.)
HOW LONG WILL THE PLAN LAST?
Currently, until the end of October.
RPS says it will re-evaluate and adjust plans every six weeks, with an announcement on Phase 2 expected by October 16 — hopefully, according to the superintendent, by MEA break. Superintendent Muñoz added that meetings with a ‘critical advisory team,’ made up of officials from Olmsted County Public Health and Mayo Clinic, will take place every two weeks moving forward.
If the local Covid-19 situation dramatically worsens before then, Muñoz said the district could update their plans and send all students to a distance learning model before mid-October.
INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATES
For elementary students to successfully abide by social distancing, RPS will have to change the layouts of its schools. ‘Excess’ furniture is being removed and signs encouraging social distancing will be added, in addition to a full ‘calibration’ of the schools’ air filtration systems. The district says it will change air filters more frequently and increase air exchange rates throughout the day.
PLANS FOR OTHER PROGRAMS
Some RPS programs, like Intensive Special Education, Project SEARCH, or RAIL, can’t operate correctly in either distance or hybrid learning models. The district says students in those programs will receive a custom schedule after their families meet with a program administrator.
School Age Child Care (SACC), the district’s longtime child care program, will continue to operate, although the district says registration began in May and lots of schools are already full. On distance learning days, certain ‘critical workers’ are eligible to receive free child care during the school day — registration for that program starts August 17.
The first day of school is now set for Wednesday, September 2, after the district reserved the first two days of the week for additional planning time. Read the full announcement from the district here.
Isaac Jahns is a Rochester native and a 2019 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism. He reports on politics, business and music for Med City Beat.
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ARCYP Program at 2012 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Congress 2012 of the Humanities and Social SciencesCROSSROADS: SCHOLARSHIP FOR AN UNCERTAIN WORLD
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1:30 – 2:45 p.m. / Room: TBA
Project Groundings: A Transnational Approach to Art and Youth Identity Development in conjunction with SSHRC-funded Project Groundings and Toronto’s Nia Centre for the Arts
Chair: Naila Keleta-Mae (U of Waterloo)
Emerging Artists from Nia Centre for the Arts articulate their life stories through spoken word, theatre, and photography, exploring the complex ways in which Afrodiasporic identity is textured, disrupted, and devalued by everyday occurrences of violence. How might art address systemic violence in African Jamaican and African Canadian lives?
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TROUBLING NORMATIVITY IN CULTURES OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Chair: Louise Saldanha (Grande Prairie Regional College)
Krys Verrall (York University) “The Meaning of Difference”
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Chair: Cheryl Cowdy (York University)
A. Clotilde Houchon (University of Utah) “Disguised as Dick Tracy: Comics, Safe House, and Transmigrant Youth”
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Jennifer Hardwick (Queen’s University) “These Are Our Stories, These Are Our Songs: Multimedia Storytelling in Another Slice“
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Sara Dorrow and Dale Ballucci (University of New Brunswick) “Constructing Childhood at the Boundaries of the Nation: An Investigation of the Treatment of Children at the Canadian Border”
Helene Staveley (Memorial University) “Border, Nation, Playground, Gamespace: The Fantastic Spaces of Children’s Books by Margaret Atwood and Welwyn Wilton Katz (and Maybe Salman Rushdie, Too)”
Geneviève Brisson (University of British Columbia) “Québécois Young Adult Novels in Translation in Canada”
ROUNDTABLE: THE FRIENDLY GIANT’S “EMPTY CHAIR”: THE MISSING HISTORIES OF CANADIAN CHILDREN’S MEDIA INDUSTRIES
Chair: Natalie Coulter (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Kristine Moruzi (University of Alberta)
Peter Moss (Youth Media Alliance)
Leslie Regan Shade (Concordia University)
Although Canada has a long and distinguished history of producing media texts for children (children’s television, film, music, magazines, and video games), that history is often invisible. This roundtable of scholars and practitioners will begin to recuperate the history of Canadian children’s cultural industries.
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Cingrani Battles Capuano, As Dodgers Look To Stay Hot, Hot, Hot
By Scott Andes
Dodgers Lineup vs. Cincinnati
M.Ellis 4Puig 9Gonzalez 3Hanley 6Hairston 7Ethier 8Uribe 5Federowicz 2Capuano 1
Tony Cingrani-4-1 vs. Chris Capuano-3-6
So we now know I have a poor sense of direction. I think I’ll live, but boy do I have issues with parking lots. Sometimes I’m up in the press box, but sometimes I sit in the stands. Last night I was in the stands and had some serious issues finding my car. (I had stupidly left my ticket in my car) Perhaps if I had one of the countless cars that Howard Cole offers for home runs on twitter then maybe I could have used that to drive around the Dodger Stadium parking lot. Regardless of my pre-game flustering, I soldiered on.
But you know who doesn’t have any issues with anything right now? The Dodgers! The Boys in Blue are hot hot hot! Oh, see Dodgers playing, see Dodgers winning, they stay hot, hot hot. See Dodgers hitting, see Dodgers pitching, they so hot hot hot. (Photo credit-Peter Serling) Last night’s 4-1 victory in front of a sold out raucous crowd put them 1.5 games in front of the losing Dbacks.
The Dodgers are now 55-48 on the season and have won 25 of their last 31 games. Today the Dodgers look to pick up a series win over the Reds. For that they’ll give the ball to Chris Capuano. He’ll battle another left hander, rookie Tony Cingrani, in the final game of the series.
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Chris Capuano (35) reacts during the game against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium.-Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports
Rookie left hander Tony Cingrani has made 16 starts this season. The 24 year old left hander is from Evergreen Illinois, and was drafted by the Reds in 2011. Cingrani has posted a 4-1 record, and a 3.18 ERA. In a little over 70 frames, he’s whiffed 79 and walked 29. Cingrani was orginally called up to replace the injured Johnny Cueto. Cingrani’s last start was a win. He pitched 5.2 frames of two-run ball to beat the Giants.
The youngster had some issues with velocity and control of hiss off-speed pitches, or so I read. Apparently he can get up to mid 90’s with his heater. Cingrani of course has never faced the Dodgers before, and nobody has seen him. That doesn’t bode well for the Dodgers, because we know how they do against pitchers they’ve never seen before. That’s about all I know about Cingrani, which isn’t much.
But I do know, Chris Capuano. He’ll be countering Cingrani for the boys in blue. Capauno’s last start against Toronto saw him get torched pretty good. He allowed five runs on seven hits in 4.1 frames. Thank goodness the Dodgers won anyways. Before you start telling me how much Capuano sucks, remember his start before that he tossed six scoreless innings against Colorado while whiffing eight. At times Capuano can be effective, and let’s just hope that this afternoon is one of those times.
Don’t point at me Tony.
Capuano has faced the Reds in 16 games, and has posted a 3-3 record, and a 4.92 ERA. Capuano has allowed 101 hits in a little over 86 innings against the Reds. Despite Capuano having a down year, he is still able to strike guys out at a decent rate. Cappy has whiffed 50 and walked only 16 in 62 frames. He has a 3-6 record and an ERA of 5.03. The Cincy numbers versus Capuano are pretty scary. The Reds as a team are batting .303 (30 for 99) against Capuano. Votto and Phillips are both hitting over .400 versus Cappy. Check out how the rest of the Red legs are doing against Capuano.
Brandon Phillips
Joey Votto
Jay Bruce
Cesar Izturis
Todd Frazier
Chris Heisey
Homer Bailey
Bronson Arroyo
Zack Cozart
Devin Mesoraco
Corky Miller
Logan Ondrusek
A few side notes before we sign off until game time.
Tony CIngrani hasn’t allowed more than three runs in a start since May 4. The Dodger offense has outscored opponents 55-29 since the all-star break.
Carl Crawford started feeling ill on Friday night, acceding to reports. He had three hits on Friday, and has a seven game hitting streak. In that span Crawford is 14 for 33 (.424), with three doubles. Don Mattingly said that he hoped to have Crawford back for Sunday’s tilt, but it doesn’t look likely. Apparently Crawford had a pretty high fever. It was high enough to put him on antibiotics. Don Mattingly had noticed Crawford looking haggard, and decided it best to rest him after sending him to the doctor to get checked out. The Dodger called it precautionary, and it appears it’s nothing more than the flu.
Howard Cole has yet to offer a car to Skip Schumaker. That may change with the way the utility guy is hitting.
The Dodgers are now 17-5 in July. The only other Dodger team to have a higher winning percentage in the month of July was the pennant winning club of 1977. That team went 17-3 which comes out to an .850 winning percentage.
I will be on the Yanks Go Yard Podcast tonight after the game at 7:30 PM pacific time. We’ll be discussing many things, including the upcoming Yankees/Dodgers series. You can listen to the show here.
You can catch the game today at 1:10 PM on Prime Ticket. We’ll have the recap for you at the usual time, so don’t forget to join us over here after the game. Unless I forget where I parked my car again, then who knows right? I am kidding of course. Stacie covers tonight, so nobody has to worry about that. Go Blue! | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5603795051574707, "wiki_prob": 0.5603795051574707, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line1413139"} |
Content added to Dance & Music
published by Karin Dean-Kraft on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 17:05
Lots of changes and additions! Instructions & music for the Pinzgauer Landler mit Plattler and music for the Böhmerwald Landler have been added. Both were taught at the Delegates Meeting. The missing music for several dances has been added (Bauernmadl, Kikeriki, Hirtamadl, Niederbayerischer Landler, Gauplattler). A reference handout about the differences between Schuhplattler, Volkstänze, and Trachtentänze is now available. All of this is on the "Dance Instruction" section of the website.
Also added -- three songs that are fun to sing when you're with friends. They were all taught at previous workshops, and the music and lyrics are now available under the "Music" section of the website. Rehragout Polka, Kropfat Pinzgarin, and Once an Austrian Went Yodeling are the three songs. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.5586776733398438, "wiki_prob": 0.5586776733398438, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line928604"} |
Vienna - Subway Lines 2020 (Wien - U-Bahn-Lines)
Unlocks at level 8 or with the Mega Maps Pack
Created by Lionheart (all)
Territory divisions reference:
http://witt.null2.net/wirelmaps/#countryofbirth/austria/2011/48.16586/16.34869/11
U-bahn-Lines reference:
http://wiener-untergrund.at/netzplaene-zukunft_2030.shtml
Cata Cauda
https://www.warlight.net/Profile?p=8641336616
Review by Nathan on 10/6/2017.
It's a nice enough map (although there a connection broken between Ober-Baumgarten and Huetteldorf), but for a map about subway lines, it feels like the conflict over the lines themselves is secondary.
No one can realistically capture an entire line until the endgame, so they have no bonus value. Tactically speaking, it's easier to defend the land bonuses, even from multiple subway stations, than to attempt something that will span the entire map. I recommend trying something different - perhaps making each subway station worth one bonus army (or more, for the stations with multiple lines passing through them). This will force players to focus on the subway.
Response by map creator Lionheart on 8/16/2018
Thanks for the review and suggestions, Nathan.
I will improve the map with your observations possibly
Review by Bonesoul on 7/17/2018.
Another excellent map, its always great when someone takes the time to create a real environment in such detail. The only thing I would change is give bonuses for shorter stretches of subway lines, at the moment they are too long to make trying to get them an effective tactic (in my opinion only). Again well done great work!!
Review by blob on 1/23/2018.
Really cool idea. I think other maps will mimick the idea of multiple paths. I found many of the connections hard to understand without resorting to clicking on a territory. More clarity about that would make the map more fun to play. I won against 3 AIs relatively easily because I got a great starting position. I suspect that usually this map would be very difficult because of the high connection degree. Takes much longer to play than other maps I've seen with a similar number of territories.
Review by Erzherzog on 5/7/2020.
a very good and authentic map.
I am from Vienna and here are all districts and their subdivisions are well named as well.
I like that there are also the subway lines. ...only: there is no U5 in Vienna (the U6 exists - that's confusing, I know).
Review by Dr.Bormental on 1/4/2019.
Review by ciannaaperta on 10/4/2021.
Was it really necessary to oblige the deployment of ALL the troops? Late game is lame. Could be a five star map, it's gonna be a 2 star.
Review by Bob on 6/21/2022.
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The Double 2011
5.8/10 by 568 users
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced.
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Stars: Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Martin Sheen, Tamer Hassan, Stephen Moyer
Director: Jeffrey L. Kimball, John Debney, Giles Masters, Michael Brandt, Michael Brandt
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Farewell (2009)
The Human Factor (1979)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Picasso Trigger (1988)
The Serpent (1973)
Shining Through (1992)
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
13 Frightened Girls (1963)
They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
Coded Message for the Boss (1979)
008: Operation Exterminate (1965)
Atomic Blonde (2017)
The Lite Trap (1982)
The Modifyers (2007)
The Spy (2019)
Where the Spies Are (1966)
Internal Affairs (1990)
Arbitrage (2012)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Abduction (2011)
Man on a Ledge (2012)
Unknown (2011)
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
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Douglas Elliman Honors Top Florida Agents
Douglas Elliman recently honored its top performing agents across the country at “The Ellies,” the brokerage’s annual awards ceremony.
Top performers from Florida, including the markets of Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Miami Beach, Palm Beach, Bay Harbor Island, Jupiter, Wellington, Delray Beach, Manalapan, St. Petersburg and Coral Gables, were among the honorees at this year’s event.
Douglas Elliman Florida realized a banner year in 2019; the brokerage represented six out of the top 10 residential sales in South Florida for the year and closed over $5.3 billion in total sales, up 12% from last year.
“I am honored to celebrate the tremendous success our agents have accomplished this year, and I’m incredibly proud of their extreme dedication that has earned numerous record-breaking achievements in 2019,” said Douglas Elliman Florida CEO Jay Phillip Parker in a press release. “As we further cement our position as market leader in Florida, I look forward to supporting the growth and 2020 goals each of our agents look to accomplish this year.”
The Top 10 Florida Teams by gross commission income were:
Leavitt McIntosh Team, Palm Beach
The Carroll Group, Miami
The Bill and Bryan Team, Miami
Strickland Group, St. Petersburg
The Senada Adzem Team, Boca Raton
Carmenate/Duchon, Miami
The Randy & Nick Team, Delray Beach
RMI Team, Miami/Fort Lauderdale
The Cotilla Luxury Team, Boca Raton
Rubin + Morr, Miami
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WWW-Virtual Library: History Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject
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Census of pre-sixteenth-century portolan charts
Additional ('E') entries
(to the article in Imago Mundi 38 (1986) pp. 67-94 - available online via JSTOR)
Mounted on the web 7 March 2011 (with entries from E.21 onwards added later)
Portolan Charts Main Menu
Census of pre-sixteenth-century portolan charts: Additions, Corrections, Updates
A complete chronological listing of works assigned to the period pre-1501 (an Excel spreadsheet) and its Explanation
This prints out to about 55 pages
Characteristics of the newly discovered charts
How were the new charts found?
Location currently unknown (or with a dealer)
Extra charts
Provenance (Auctions, Dealers, Previous owners)
The extra entries
If you know of any other relevant information, references or illustrations
please notify the editor of this page, Tony Campbell:
The 'Census' ['Census of Pre-Sixteenth-Century Portolan Charts', Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography 38 (1986): 67-94] listed all known portolan charts and atlases definitely or possibly produced before 1501. It was the first attempt at a general census and ran to 180 items. This page describes the handful of further, supposedly early, portolan works that have emerged over the past 25 years.
The total number of new entries is small (just 29), and even smaller when those items that had been added for completeness (because of a suggested, but unconvincing, pre-1501 date) are removed [they carry an (A) suffix]. The residue - a mere 17 items - includes two in the imprecise 'late 15th/early 16th century' category. Some of those described in that way in the original Census have now been firmly relegated to the 16th century, on the basis of the meticulous re-dating carried out by Ramon Pujades, Corradino Astengo and others. Since there are only seven remaining in that original 'cusp' group and just 17 post-1986 additions that are or could be pre-1501, it means that the original total of 180 has increased to no more than 190.
It should also be recognised that, with only one of the additions having a stated date, and some of the others tentatively assigned to the end of the 15th century, it is possible that more might be moved out of the period covered by this Census. There is a general tendency to date works earlier than is justified. [The foregoing comments and figures nhave been adjusted in the light of the [re]discovery of a 1474 Benincasa atlas in Kiev (E.27), the Avignon (E.28) and Ghent fragments (E.29).] {This final sentence added 24 May 2015, amended 2 October 2017 and further updated 8 May 2021 }
Characteristics of the newly discovered charts:
A dozen or more of those described below are cut-down fragments (that had often been preserved in a book binding) and some are unfinished or possibly apprentice pieces. Early portolan charts very rarely emerge, especially those that can be assigned with confidence to the 14th century. Just three have come to our notice in the past 30 years, and two of those very recently. One was revealed in the January 2011 issue of Imago Mundi (and had been extracted from a binding in the Lucca library (E.22); the second, first sold at auction in 1980, was incorrectly attributed to Vesconte, and is still unreliably dated (E.18). The third, offered for sale by Daniel Crouch Rare Books in 2011, has the rare distinction of a highly confident attribution, in this case to Guillem Soler (E.24). It is datable to before 1385 and is an unusual example of an early functional chart, probably discarded after being worn out from use at sea. [Update: on 5 September 2014 it was announced that the fragment had been acquired by the City of Barcelona.] [Update, 2 October 2017: For a further, very early, fragment, identified in Avignon in 2015, see E.28.]
How were the new charts found?:
Where have those new items come from that are now accepted as dating before 1501? One, the well-known Catalan Estense world map in Modena was wrongly omitted from the original analysis and is here given the treatment it deserves, with confirmation of its authorship and a more precise dating. Six of the 15 were always there, in a well-established (sometimes venerable) library, but unnoticed. [Those who have brought those works to our attention are appropriately acknowledged. This now includes the 1474 Benincasa atlas in the National Library of Ukraine, [re] discovered by Anton Gordyeyev in May 2015.] How many more remain hidden in that way? Two of the works in this supplement - the ex-binding fragment in Jesi (E.21) and the complete chart in Turin (E.4) - were known to Italian scholars but have been overlooked in the English-speaking world. It is hoped that the major work done by Ramon Pujades as well as this comprehensive census (to which, I am sure, there will be additions in future) will help to break down those linguistic barriers.
The majority of the newly found works, though, have come to light via collectors' websites or the marketplace, particularly the London auction rooms of Christie's and Sotheby's. However, it should be noted that I am aware of only one having come up for sale in that way since the 1990s and that was withdrawn before the auction, E.25. [On 19 November 2014 Christie's included, as Lot 45, the 1468 Benincasa atlas listed in my 1986 census at No.179. It failed to sell.] {This sentence added 24 May 2015}
Tracking down auction lots has not been easy. While I was still at the British Library Map Library (up to 2001) I saw the sale catalogues, and those from dealers, on a regular basis. I made a point of listing portolan charts in 'Chronicle', the annual round-up of significant material appearing on the market, published in Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography [now accessible online via JSTOR]. However, it was still easy to miss portolan charts or atlases, which might have been included in non-cartographic sales - for example, those of Western Manuscripts.
Christie's and Sotheby's now place some of their descriptions online. Disappointingly, only one (already known) item was found by searching on the Christie's site for 'Auction Results', then 'Past Lots' (entering 'portolan'), or on Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive. Perhaps these resources will prove more helpful for future sales.
Another potential route is via annual records of material sold at auction, as described on the 'Map History' Marketplace page. However, the only one that seems to list portolan works is the American Book Prices Current. Now issued annually on a cumulative CD-ROM, this has the advantage of allowing a general search for 'portolan'. It also supplies some of the buyers' names. Despite that, nothing emerged that was not already known, and a number that were known were omitted. Which raises the obvious question: what else might have passed through auction without being noticed?
Location currently unknown:
Only one of the works listed below is signed or dated (E.20), a 1469 chart by Roselli. [To that should now (24 May 2015) be added the 1474 Benincasa atlas [re]discovered in Kiev (E.27).] It had been hoped that some of those listed in 1986 as 'In non-institutional hands (when last recorded)' [Census 161-180] might have reappeared. This appears to be the case with that Roselli chart, since the chart that came through Sotheby's in 1988, and has now disappeared again, is of the same size as the only recorded Roselli chart of that same date, formerly with O.H.F. Vollbehr in Washington, D.C. [Census 180].
For further information about the subsequent provenance of Census nos 165 & 177 see the notes under E.5 and E.18. The current location of Nos E.16-E.20 & E25 is unknown (at least to me - and I would welcome any clarification). That means that, despite the sometimes multiple moves that a particular item made between auction rooms and dealers [illustrating, once again, the importance of documenting as clearly as possible all the provenance steps] the original total of 20 as 'unknown location' has risen to 25.
EXTRA CHARTS:
New Number
Atlas or Chart
Date suggested earlier
Current proposed date
TC Census
Astengo
RP list
E.1(A)
Paris, BnF, Rés Ge AA 567
FrP4
Paris, BnF, Rés Ge D 7898
60x40 (Greece)
Munich, Bay. Staatsbib., Cod. icon 140 f.81
pre-1500 ?
E.4
Turin, Bib. Reale, Ms.O.XVI.5
Benincasa (follower?)
late 15th/ early 16th
Keio University Library
13x16 (frag.- Greece etc.)
Venetian?
1400-25/ c.1500
Rotterdam Maritime Museum, Engelbrecht Collection
each 34 x 43.5
Venetian - Benincasa (follower?)
1468-82?
Oslo & London, Schøyen Collection
23x17 (frag.- Apulia)
late 15th
[Lisbon, Torre do Tombo]
49x61 (2 sections)
51x26 ('frag. 1' - Atlantic)
E.10(A)
48x27 ('frag. 2' - west Med.)
E.11
Barcelona, Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona, Gràfics
54x84 (frag.)
1400-50 ?
Madrid, Museo Naval
C on paper
Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca (Palma)
54x34 (frag. - Atlantic)
Biblioteca Vivot, Palma, Mallorca
Majorcan
SpP1
Sidney R Knafel Collection
Genoese (Beccari)
[Bruce Ferrini, Ohio MS dealer, 1997]
each 24x24
1375-1400/ c.1400
[Christie's 1993]
Genoese/Catalan
[Hôtel Drouot 1992]
43x76 (cut down)
Perrinus Vesconte (?)
c.1320-25
C 9bis
[Kraus 1989]
6 chrts on 1 sh
each 14.3 square
Sotheby's 6 Dec. 1988 Lot 37
Roselli (signed)
1469 (dated)
Jesi, Biblioteca Comunale, Palazzo della Signoria
36x42 (frag. north-east quarter)
Italian (Freducci?)
2nd half 15th/early 16th?
ItJ1
Lucca, Archivio di Stato, Fragmenta Codicum, Sala 40, Cornice 194/1
60x30 (cut back on 3 sides)
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, C.G.A.1
C/map
diameter 113
Catalan (Roselli)
c.1462-4
London, Daniel Crouch Rare Books LLP [now, September 2014, City of Barcelona]
G. Soler
pre-1385?
Sotheby's 11 June 2007 Lot 201 (withdrawn)
'Venetian', i.e. Catalan --
late 15th--
mid to 2nd half 15th --
National Library of Egypt, Cairo
1312--
16th?--
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Kiev) [Added May 2015]
Benincasa (signed)
Avignon: Vaucluse Archives [Added October 2017]
early 14th (?)
early 14th
Ghent Unversity Library [Added 8 May 2021]
54x29 (partial chart)
Soler family--
The columns explained
New Number: An 'A' at the end indicates works now considered to date after 1500. 'A' numbers indirectly refer to the post-1500 section of the original Census
TC census: Tony Campbell, 'Census of Pre-Sixteenth-Century Portolan Charts', Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography 38 (1986): 67-94
Astengo: Corradino Astengo. 'The Renaissance chart tradition in the Mediterranean', in: David Woodward (ed.) The History of Cartography. Volume 3. Cartography in the European Renaissance (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2007), Part 1, pp. 174-262, including 'Appendix 7.1. Charts of the Mediterranean in public collections, 1500-1700' (pp.238-61)
RP list: Ramon J. Pujades i Bataller. Les cartes portolanes: la representació medieval d'una mar solcada [With English text 'Portolan charts: the medieval representation of a ploughed sea']. (Barcelona: Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya; Institut d'Estudis Catalans; Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània; Lunwerg, 2007), see pp. 63-70
For details of those in the original listing see the 'Census' p.90
1. Auctions
New census number
Chart or Atlas
Bought by
CHRISTIES (London)
'Genoa, 1460-80'
6 charts on 1 sheet, Venice, 1460-70
'Beccari'?, c.1425-50
Martayan Lan
6-sheet atlas, Venice, 1375-1400
'Genoa, c.1500'
December?
'Catalan, c.1550' (but repeat of previous)
1468 Grazioso Benincasa, 7 sheet atlas
{unsold}--
Christies (New York)
SOTHEBYS (London)
fragment, Greece etc. c.1500
'Perrinus Vesconte' ? c.1320-25
C9 bis
1469 Roselli
fragment, Greece etc, c.1400-25
[12 May or 5 Dec.]
fragment (Apulia), late 15th c.
6-sheet atlas, Venice c.1400
fragment, Black Sea & Caspian, 'Venetian', late 15th
{withdrawn}--
HOTEL DROUOT (Paris)
chart on paper in a volume, late 15th/early 16th
Museo Naval, Madrid
2. Dealers
Barnes, Dudley - E15
Crouch, Daniel - E24
Ferrini, Bruce - E16
Heritage Auction Galleries - E16
Israel, Nico - E18
Kraus, H.P. - E18, E19, [E20?]
Martayan Lan - E15
Quaritch,Bernard - E5
Wieder, F.C. - E6
3. New and previous institutional and private owners
Benedictine monastery of Santa Patrizia, Naples - E7
Celier, Robert de - E15
Engelbrecht, W.A. - E6
Gabinete de Antigüedades de los Capuchinos de Mallorca - E14(A)
Graff, Elizabeth - E17(A)
Horblit, Harrison D. - E20
J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu) - E20
Knafel, Sidney R. - E15
Ludwig, Peter - E20
Maldeghem, Counts of - E15
Reniu, Joan - E11
Ridolfi - E18
Santa Casa Misericórdia de Cabeço de Vide - E8(A)
Schiller, Henri - E20
Schøyen Collection - E7
Spranger, John Alfred - E17(A)
Vivot (Palma) - E14(A)
Vollbehr, Otto H.F. - E20
Zavellá, Conde de - E14(A)
Where reference is made to the 'Census' look for that number on the Census update page
Arranged by current location. An (A) after the number indicates that these are considered to be post-1500 and hence additions to Supplement A of the original 'Census'
For a chart discovered in Egypt see E.26
Paris, BnF, Rés Ge AA 567. Chart of the Aegean. 'c.1500' but probably 16th century. 73x40 cm.
Astengo (2007) p.239 (FrP4) ['16th c.']
La Roncière & Mollat du Jourdin (1984), No. & Plate 24, p.214. The plate is captioned 'c.1500', but the catalogue entry, by Monique de La Roncière, says 'XVIe siècle'. She draws attention to the unusual four-circle arrangement of the rhumb lines and the coastal elevations. Their presence on the following chart leads her to consider both by the same chartmaker. It can additionally be noted that the name label over the Aegean island of Skyros has otherwise been seen only on 15th-century Venetian work up to 1470.
Paris, BnF, Rés Ge D 7898. Chart of the coasts of Greece. 'c.1500' but probably 16th century. 60x40 cm.
La Roncière & Mollat du Jourdin (1984), No. & Plate 23, pp.213-4. The plate is captioned 'c.1500', but the catalogue entry says 'XVIe siècle'. Attention is drawn, in the note written by Monique de La Roncière, to the incomplete rhumb network, which comprises just four lines (or the eight main directions, i.e. those normally drawn in black or brown). The north-west segment of the hidden circle (which would define the position of the 16 intersection points) is just visible. This is interpreted as evidence of an otherwise complete chart whose final stage of construction would have been the filling out of the remaining rhumb lines. For another example of such an incomplete network see E.13 and also the comment to E.11 (illustrated by Pujades (2007) p. 189) which I suggest might be an apprentice exercise. See also the note to the preceding entry.
For another chart discovered in France see E.28 Top of page
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek., Cod. icon 140 f.81. 49x79 cm.
Kupčík (2000) pp. 106-9: Addendum 3 ('before 1500'). However, Rey Pastor & García Camarero (1960) p.193, had assigned it to 'Salvat de Pilestrina, 16th century', and Astengo (2007) p.242 [GeM4] also lists it as "[16th cent.]".
-- Munich, Bay. Staatsbib. Cod. icon. 138/40, f.82 [or Cod. icon 140 f.82]. See note to A9
Turin, Biblioteca Reale, Ms.O.XVI.5. Anon chart (late 15th/early 16th century?, an imitation of the work of Conte di Octomano Freducci?). 97.5x56.5 cm
Chet Van Duzer, in his BLJ article, 'Nautical Charts, Texts, and Transmission: The Case of Conte di Ottomano Freducci and Fra Mauro' (pp. 18-19), argues carefully against a direct attribution to Conte di Octomano Freducci. "While the Turin chart seems to show the influence of Freducci, there are too many differences between it and Freducci’s signed or securely attributed works for us to be able to assign it to him". This conclusion supercedes the comments that follow below. {This paragraph added 20 September 2017}
The chart covers the Mediterranean and Black Seas and extends from the British Isles to the Canaries. It has several compass roses, and town symbols with flags over Genoa (small) and Venice (large), presumably pointing to a Venetian origin. Those illustrations are similar to ones found in Benincasa's work (for example on the 1468 atlas in the British Library and on the 1482 chart). The treatment of the British Isles is close to Benincasa's, including the caption to Ireland's lacus fortunatus, referring to the 367 islands. But the Turin chart lacks what seems to be the Benincasa 'signature', the treatment of the headings for England and Ireland [see the Benincasa page under 'Headings for the British Isles' and Table 1]
The article on this chart by Corradino Astengo suggests that this is probably the work of Grazioso or Andrea Benincasa or of Freducci (see 'La produzione cartografica dei Benincasa e una carta nautica anonima conservata nella Biblioteca Reale di Torino', Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana XI, 7 [nos 4-6?] (1990): 223-30). I noticed various features that seem to point to it being by Conte di Octomano Freducci rather than Benincasa. One is its treatment of the Red Sea. Omitted by Grazioso Benincasa on his two charts of 1461, this was included in his final chart of 1482 but with a different arrangement of the surrounding rivers to that found on this Turin chart. The outline here, however, is almost identical to that on the 1497 Freducci chart [see further on the Benincasa page under 'Red Sea'].
The Turin chart's handwriting does not seem to be by either of the Benincasas, but instead shows similarities to the 1497 Freducci chart [see the Benincasa page under Works by Benincasa's successors or by copyists].
This is not known
Van Duzer (2017), pp.18-19
Astengo (1990c)
Terrae Cognitae. La cartografia delle collezioni sabaude. Catalogue of the exhibition in the Biblioteca Reale di Torino (19 November 2007 to 31 January 2008), edited by Maria Letizia Sebastiani & Clara Vitulo, with a portfolio of selected items (including this).
For other Italy entries see later additions (e.g. E.21 onwards) Top of page
Keio University Library, 170X-24/1. Chart fragment (13x16 cm) extracted from a binding, covering the heel of Italy, Greece and Asia Minor.
Sotheby's 22 February 1972 Lot 537 ('c.1500') [see 'Census' 165]
Sotheby's 27 September 1990 Lot 509 ('first quarter 15th century')
Bernard Quaritch (London) Catalogue 1147 no.121 (Venice, 'c.1500')
A brief description, in Japanese, by Takami Matsuda (p.447) and a reproduction on its front cover in: Eigo Seinen [The Rising Generation], published by Kenkyusha Co. Ltd. (October 2007).
Online scan in the HUmanities Media Interface (HUMI) at Keio University, 'European Illustrated Books and Manuscripts c.1400-1700'.
Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum, Atlas 66. Anonymous seven-sheet atlas, late 15th century, by a follower of Benincasa? 34 x 22.5 cm (atlas closed), each chart 34 x 43.5 cm.
The charts, each of which is glued to wood, are as follows:
Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea
Central Mediterranean (Italy and Greece)
North-west Africa, with the islands and part of Iberia [for a low resolution scan, enter atlas66 under 'Alle Velden', and click on 'Zoeken']
Atlantic coasts of Europe (British Isles to Spain)
West Africa (from C. Blanco as far as cauo de montte)
The Museum's brief catalogue description [enter atlas66 under 'Alle Velden', and click on 'Zoeken'] assigns the work to Grazioso Benincasa, with the date 1450, but it also states 'Vermoedelijk omstreeks 1470-1480, vervaardigd door Grazioso Benincasa' [probably about 1470-1480, produced by Gazioso Benincasa]. The similarities with the work of Benincasa are certainly striking - for example the diagonal scales across the corners. The precise treatment of these suggests that the model used here may have been one by Grazioso's son Andrea. However, the scale edging and the sheets' outer borders incorporate more lines than usual in Benincasa atlases [for details of these see the Microsoft Word format Benincasa: Table 3].
The typical three-line note is present across the middle of Ireland but, as described for the anonymous Turin chart [E.4], sheet 6 in this atlas lacks the distinctive treatment by Benincasa of the headings for the separate countries of the British Isles. In addition, instead of the invariable Scocia, the form here is schozia. The headings are also written in a different way to those on the Turin chart. Confirmation that the Rotterdam atlas is in a different hand, both to that of the two Benincasas (Grazioso and Andrea) and to the draftsman of the Turin chart, can be seen, for example, in its characteristic use of an open 'a', which appears like an 'n' [on which see the Benincasa page under Works formerly attributed to Benincasa].
The 'Colour & Shape Analysis', in which the entry for this atlas appears on the Microsoft Word table, Colour and shape on the productions of Benincasa's successors and imitators, concludes that 'if this atlas was based on a Benincasa original, the unidentified copyist was not concerned to imitate minor stylistic details'.
The most distinctive features of this atlas are found in the final two sheets, devoted respectively to the Baltic and West Africa. Sheet 6, covers the Atlantic coast from Bruges up to Norway, and then into an unrecognisable Baltic. Although the outlines are highly traditional, and are found on two Benincasa charts - the signed work of 1482 in Bologna and the chart in Florence (Archivio di Stato, C.N.9 - Census 71), whose date and signature seem to have been removed - there is no equivalent sheet in Benincasa's surviving atlases. That said, there is a precedent for Benincasan atlases with additional sheets. For example, the seven-sheet atlas now in private hands (formerly H.P. Kraus - Census 179) placed Ireland on a separate sheet and the now untraceable 1472 atlas formerly with Luigi Bossi (Census 172) had eight sheets, as does the work in Paris by a copyist (BnF Ital.1698 - Census 29).
The West African coverage includes the extra sheet introduced by Benincasa in 1468, which provides the earliest possible date for this atlas. The dividing point for the three sheets that take in the west African coast is not the same as that found in those surviving atlases for which this information is available [see Benincasa: Table 2]. However, the distinctive abbreviation for san vicenso (san v.co), at a point where space was not restricted, confirms its dependence (even if indirectly) on a Benincasan model [see Benincasa: Table 4].
For further comments on the treatment of these and other features of this atlas compared to Benincasa's signed work, as well as a discussion of the handwriting of Grazioso, Andrea and their successors and imitators, see here.
Sjoerd de Meer has kindly supplied the following notes, with English translations:
1. From the F.C. Wieder papers in the Maritiem Museum. "nr 161 Venetiaansche Zeeatlas der xve eeuw, type Benincasa. Met 7 kaarten van de kusten van Europa en het Noorden van Afrika waarvan in het bizonder vermelding verdient een kaart van de Oostzee. In kleuren geteekend op perkament in een gelijktijdigen Venetiaanschen band in bruin marokijn met blinde en vergulde stempels". [nr 161 Venetian sea-atlas of the 15th century, Benincasa-type with 7 charts of the coasts of Europe and North Africa, and also a chart of the Baltic. In colours on parchment in a contemporary Venetian binding with blind and gilt stamps.] Added in pencil is 'WAER' [i.e. Willem Anton Engelbrecht Rotterdam].
2. F.C. Wieder, 'Uit de grooten tijd der Oud-Nederlandsche cartographie', in: Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig genootschap (1916): 554-68, particularly pp. 566-7.
"Ik trof aan een dergelijken zee-atlas van het type Benincasa, afgebeeld bij Nordenskiold, Periplus. Het is een kleine folio-band, bevattende zeven op perkament geteekende kaarten, waarvan zes te vergelijken zijn met correspondeerende kaarten in Benincasa-atlassen. De zevende is een elders mij niet voorgekomen kaart van de oost-Zee, doch alleen het Zuidelijk gedeelte van een primitieve voorstelling, maar waarop de beroemde middeleeuwsche stad Wisby zeer duidelijk is aangegeven. De overige kaarten stellen de kusten van de Middellandsche Zee, West-Europa en het Noord-Oosten van Afrika voor. De atlas is gebonden in een verguld lederen venetiaanschen band uit den tijd, is zeer fraai van uitvoering en uitnemend bewaard. Hij dagteekent uit het begin der XVIde eeuw of wellicht nog uit de XVde." [I found an atlas of the Benincasa type, depicted in Nordenskiöld's Periplus (*). It is a small folio-binding containing 7 charts drawn on vellum. Six can be compared with Benincas atlases. The seventh is a chart of the Baltic not known to me. It is only the southern part, primitively drawn, but with the famous medieval town of Wisby clearly given. The other charts are of the coasts of the Mediterranean, Eastern-Europe and the North-East [i.e. West] of Africa. The atlas is bound in a contemporary Venetian gilt leather binding and is splendid in design and well preserved. It dates from the beginning of the 16th century or perhaps from the 15th.]
(*) a reference [not, as stated, an illustration] (in Periplus p.60b) to the only other seven-chart Benincasa (or Benincasa-type) atlas known, then (1897) in the possession of the Princes of Lanza di Trabia (Census 179). It could not be the Rotterdam atlas, since Census 179 was still with Prince Trabia e Butera in 1950, later passing to the New York dealer H.P. Kraus and into an English private collection.
3. "In 1924 some gentlemen of Rotterdam, Ruys, Engelbrecht, Goudriaan and Van Es (ship-owners and brokers) gave the atlas in loan as part of an extensive collection of globes and atlases. It was never researched how they acquired this collection. Part of the collection was the "zevenbladige Venetiaanse zee-atlas geteekend op perkament, pl. m. Anno 1500" (seven-sheet Venetian sea-atlas drawn on vellum, c. 1500). In 1950 the Museum bought the collection, which was known as the REGE collection (after the four owners)."
Sjoerd de Meer therefore suggests that F.C. Wieder bought the atlas about 1916 and sold it to Engelbrecht, who included it in the REGE collection in 1924.
Mentioned on p.13 of the January 2002 Newsletter of the Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle (BIMCC) as 'a most intriguing anonymous Venetian portolan atlas of around 1500 which appears not to have been studied as yet'.
[Thanks are due to Corradino Astengo and Sjoerd de Meer for help with this entry; the opinions though are my own.]
[Norway]
Oslo and London, Schøyen Collection MS 1981. Fragment covering Apulia [originally part of a chart of the Adriatic?], recovered from the binding of a religious manuscript. 23x17 cm.
'Portolan map of the Adriatic coast of Apulia in the kingdom of Napoli from Rinaldo south as far as Port Badisco, including Otranto and inland towns with little hills'. The small section of the Italian coast covered, and the suggestion from the fragment's size that it might represent about one-fifth of a complete chart, points to it being part of a chart of the Adriatic. The only illustration identified is that in the Sotheby's sale catalogue.
'Binding: Napoli, Italy, 16th century, limp vellum, sewn on 3 bands, formed of 'late 15th century portolan map', 23x17 cm'. In a manuscript of the first half of the 16th century containing religious works by Aquinas and others, written by a nun.
1. Benedictine monastery of Santa Patrizia, Napoli (16th c. -)
2. Private collector, Connecticut (-1994)
3. Sotheby's 5. 12.1994:88. [= lot 88 on either 12 May or 5 December 1994]
Lisbon, Torre do Tombo. Two sections (almost adjoining) covering most of the Mediterranean and Black seas, with a missing strip down the middle, loss at the extreme west end of the Mediterranean, and slight trimming on the other sides. Garcia gives the size as 49x61 cm.
It was originally thought to be late 15th or early 16th century. Tesouros p.70 notes the Spanish arms over Mellila (conquered in 1497) but not Oran (conquered in 1509). However, evidently on stylistic grounds, Astengo considers it to be a Catalan chart, possibly as late as the 17th century. The latest attribution, by Joaquim Alves Gaspar in June 2021, is to Jaume Olives, c.1550-60 [see the MEDEA link below for the evidence behind that attribution, in a note written by Gaspar and Sima Krtalic].
Santa Casa Misericórdia de Cabeço de Vide, southern Portugal [deposited in Torre do Tombo]
Gaspar & Krtalic (2021)
Astengo (2007) p.251 [PL2], note 43
Garcia (1990)
Pinheiro Marques (1993) (illustrated, p.43 top right, the left-hand section)
Tesouros da cartografia portuguesa (1997), p.68 (the two sections illustrated), 69-70 (with further references), 118 (no.21)
See for online illustration, the MEDEA-CHART Database.
[Compare with Census 126 describing another fragmentary chart (in this case a single square section), also now considered to be post-1500.]
E.9(A) and E.10(A)
In April 2021 Joaquim Alves Gaspar demonstrated that E.9 and E.10 were not only in the same hand but had indeed been cut out of a single chart. The separate entries for those two fragments have now been merged.
Viana do Castelo, Arquivo e Memória do Município de Viana do Castelo, 5.A5.3.1 and 5.A5.3.2. Adjacent fragments of a single chart (ex separte bindings), late 15th/early 16th century, comprising, first, a vertical strip with the Atlantic coasts of Ireland, Iberia and north-west Africa (51x26cm) and, second, the western Mediterranean (48x27cm).
José Manuel Garcia, 'Uma nova carta de marear: notícia do seu descobrimento'. Oceanos 5 (Lisbon, 1990): 25-8 with full-size colour illustration
Pinheiro Marques (1993) (illustrated, pp 42-3)
Pinheiro Marques (1989a), p.319
Tesouros da cartografia portuguesa (1997), pp.70-71 (illustrations, 70-71, 118-119 (nos 22-23) ('probably early 16th century')
See for online illustrations, the MEDEA-CHART Database.
E.10(A) see E.9(A) above
Barcelona, Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona, Gràfics. Fragments of a blank chart, with four scale bars, assigned to the first half of the 15th century. 54x84 cm.
Removed from a binding of a protocol of the notary Joan Reniu of 1430 (on whom see Pujades, 2007, note 6 (p.483)). In the absence of handwriting, Pujades considers that the style of the graphic scales fits with a similar date (private communication).
The fragment contains what might be considered to be the first stage of construction only, i.e. the mathematical sub-structure. In this case the rhumb network comprises two (unusually small) contiguous circles. However, there are two problems with that interpretation. First, the scale bars would surely not have been placed at that early stage, since, while the coastlines and names could be written anywhere on the prepared sheet, no chartmaker would have allowed a previously-placed scale to interfere with the chart's later outlines. The second factor is that there appears to be a very small, faint section of coastline, in the lower left of Pujades's illustration. Are we seeing here - as has been suggested also for E.2(A) and E.13 - an apprentice's exercise?
Pujades (note 19, p.483) suggests the following: 'It is very hard to say, given the fragment's poor state of conservation, whether or not work had begun on drawing the coastline, an issue that has its importance since, if the small strokes we perceive may not be regarded as sectors of the coast, we might be led to believe we are in the presence of an experiment in the execution of a wind network'.
Pujades (2009), illustrated p.51
Pujades (2007) p. 67 (C 55), pp. 472b, 473b, and notes 4-6, 19 (p.483), illustrated p.189.
Madrid, Museo Naval. Anonymous chart of south-west Europe and north-west Africa, drawn on paper. Originally suggested as possibly dating from the late 15th century but included in a work of 1575, and now dated c. 1550.
The Hôtel Drouot auction, Paris, 30 March 1992, Lot 20 described this as a chart of S.W. Europe and N.W. Africa drawn on paper (late 15th/early 16th century?) inserted into a derrotero for the east coast of America by Juan de Escalante de Mendoza (1583). The volume was acquired by the Museo Naval.
Luisa Martín-Merás, Carlos V. La Náutica y la Navegación (Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la conmemoración de los centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, 2001), No.20 'Carta de navegar para la derrota desde la barra de Sanlúcar a las Islas Canarias, Juan Excalante de Mondoza, c.1550'.
Palma de Mallorca, Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca, fragment of an Italian chart, second half 15th century. 54x34 cm.
The fragment shows the coast of France with clearly visible names, and likewise a section of the north African coast. There are several strange features about this chart. Southern Britain and Ireland are included, but appear faintly outlined without any visible lettering. Presumably, the intention would have been to include the whole Iberian coast, with the Balearics, and the south coast of France, but they are invisible. Rossello Verger notes that the chart was removed from the binding of a book of protocols (without indicating its date). He suggests it is a page from an unfinished atlas and points out that 'the oblique grid (67.5x88 mm) forms part of an unfinished martelory, which must have been used for transcription'. However, there is no convincing evidence that the network played a part in the plotting of portolan chart coastlines.
The rhumb line network (whose 'hidden circle' can be seen passing through Ireland) does appear to have just the eight main wind directions (those that would normally have been drawn in black or brown). It is possible that the other colours had faded, but there is a precedent for such a partial network in the Paris chart E.2(A). Indeed Pujades (2007), p.474a provides examples of charts in which there was a 'system of first drawing only the lines that appear on all charts in sepia/black, then outlining the coasts, subsequently copying the black toponyms and finally drawing the remaining lines (green and red) of the wind network'. He notes that on the 1339 Dulceti and 1439 Vallseca charts (Census 13 & 128), as well as some later ones, 'while the part featuring the sepia lines (representing the directions of the eight major winds) stretches from one end of the chart to the other, the complete wind network leaves out the land not contained within the circle, which indicates that the order of execution was the same as in the case of the chart preserved at the Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca'.
The chart has certainly suffered from its later use but the fact that the French coastline (with its clear black lettering) appears no stronger than that of Britain (without any visible lettering at all), prompts the suggestion that this might have been the work of an apprentice under training, thus supporting Rossello Verger's suggestion that it is unfinished. If so, it would presumably have been abandoned rather earlier than a finished chart, and perhaps placed in the binding closer to its date of construction. For which reason, it is unfortunate that the date of the protocols is not available. [See also comment to E.11.]
Ginard Bujosa (2006) pp.119-20
Pujades (2007) p.65 (C 76), 'second half 15th century', pp. 473b-474a, note 22 (p.483), illustrated p.189
Rossello Verger (1995) No.1 (pp.63, 361) 'its round Gothic script dates it to around 1400'.
Palma, Mallorca, Biblioteca Vivot. Majorcan chart, 16th century. 61x97cm.
The pre-1493 dating derives from a claim by Lluîs de Vilafrance (1770-1847) on the grounds that one of the Canaries has a Portuguese flag, indicating that the chart was drawn before they were incorporated into Castille in 1493. It seems that the final pacification of the Canaries happened a few years later, even if that argument was considered valid. Astengo treats it as a 16th century work. Unless its latitude scale is thought to be a later addition, that would be a good indication of a post-1500 date [see the update page to the 'Chapter', under 'The origin and compilation of the portolan charts' (p. 386a).]
Conde de Zavellá
Gabinete de Antigüedades de los Capuchinos de Mallorca [this sequence is not clear]
Astengo (2007) p.252 [SpP1]
Exposicion de cartografia mallorquina (1990) 16 (page or number)
Ginard Bujosa (2006) p.118
Montaner (1976)
Rosselló Verger (1995) Pl.15 "1500-1600"
For another chart discovered in Spain see E.24
For an atlas discovered in Ukraine see E.27 Top of page
Sidney R Knafel Collection. Unsigned 15th century chart, attributed to a Beccari workshop. 66x117(or 120) cm
It includes Antillia and the other fictitious Atlantic Islands. Christie's noted similarities with the depictions on the Pareto and Canepa charts (1455 & 1489) but notes that this includes 'Insulle de novo reperto' to the west of Antillia. The vignette of Genoa is much the largest urban depiction.
'Mr. Robert du Celier(?) Conseillier' - late 16th century ownership inscription
Counts of Maldeghem, Bruges - Christie's refers to Philip of Maldeghem (1547-1611). 'His son Robert (d.1654) was a member of the council of war of the Infanta Isabella of Spain, but later in life assembled and put in order the large family archive, and it is almost certain that the charts [this was one of a group] were then already in his library'. The collection passed to the present owner by descent
Christie's 13 April 1988 Lot 172 'Genoa, 1460-80' [Barnes]
Christie's 20 June 1990 Lot 43 'Genoa, second quarter 15th century', attributed to Battista Beccari [Martayan Lan]
Sidney R Knafel Collection [the map collection was donated in 2011 to the Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachesetts and the items are being digitised (2021) by the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center. The donor died in 2021; this chart does not seem to have been part of that donation, hence its current location is not known.]
Alfredo Pinheiro Marques (apparently unpublished paper distributed at the International Conference on the History of Cartography (Amsterdam, 1989))
Suárez (1992) pp.30-6, plates 4-6 - attributed to Battista Beccari, c.1434 [reason not explained, though possibly related to the dates on the two signed B.Beccari charts, namely 1426 and 1435]
Pujades (2007) p.67 (C 53) - 'second quarter 15th century, Genoese, workshop of B. Beccari'
[Bruce Ferrini, 1997]. A six-sheet atlas, each 24 cm square, estimated by Sotheby's as c.1400 but perhaps second quarter 15th century.
Sotheby's claimed that this 'is almost certainly the oldest European atlas in private hands, and it is the oldest complete atlas offered for public sale since 1897'. Their description notes Venetian usages, e.g., 'Zenoa' and 'Lizorno', and sees similarities with the work of the Vescontes, whose work, they suggest, continued to be copied into the 15th century. The naming of Livorno, which the Chapter (p.427a) noted was first observed on a dated chart in 1426, casts doubt on the suggested dating. However, the omission of Cherbourg (first noted in 1318) and Harfleur (1385) - see the same reference - need not, as Sotheby's claims, count against a date well into the 15th century. The failure to show fresh information may be the sign of an outdated model or, perhaps in the case of small atlases sheets such as this, the omission of some names could be due to lack of space. But the inclusion of a 'new' name cannot be readily ignored.
{Update note 3 September 2016}
Jens Finke kindly drew my attention to online scans of this atlas, conveniently arranged on a single sheet. However, they are of low quality and the names remain largely illegible even when using 'superzoom' [the uncredited images are on an undated page of the fine art reproduction company Bridgeman, Berlin]. The style is close to that of Pietro Vesconte although the images are not clear enough to compare the hands. [Unaccountably, Kunstkopie attributed the atlas to Grazioso Benincasa (fl.1461-82), whose own distinctive style is very different to this.]
The sheet featuring the British Isles is diagnostically the most useful when considering supposedly early charts. In this case, the outline and toponymy match the stage reached on the Vesconte atlases by 1318. Whereas all the British toponyms were in black on the 1313 atlas, the handful that appeared in red in 1318 are shown thus here. Likewise, the Ferrini atlas includes the four names introduced by 1318 between Portland (porlan) and Southampton (antona ). The Ferrini atlas does not depict Ireland or any of the other additions found on Vescontian works from c.1320-c.1330. There is no obvious reason - apart, perhaps, from carelessness - for the omission of the prominent London (written inland) and the usual three west coast names. [On the British Isles development see Carte Pisane Hydrography Tables – Table 1 ‘Development in the outline and toponymy of the British Isles’, and Table 2 ‘Early names along the South coast of England’.]
No conclusive verdict is possible without access to fully legible scans. The work certainly looks superficially Vescontian. The way that the Galician toponymy runs awkwardly into the outer border might suggest the work of a less competent copyist. Except that the same thing can be seen on the 1318 atlas now in Venice. However, there are at least three significant stylistic differences between this atlas and the signed survivors. One is that Vesconte's habitual border comprises chevrons of alternating colours whereas the Ferrini's segments are plain rectangles. The second concerns the dotted letter 'i', a form evidently not seen until much later. The other anachronism relates to the convention of leaving uncoloured rectangular panels (labels) within a coloured island into which toponyms could be written. These can be seen here on the gold-tinted Crete and Cyprus but that is a feature otherwise first noted on the 1330 Dalorto/Dulceti chart and was not one used by the Vescontes [Name labels.]
Taking note of the way that this atlas reproduces Vesconte's very distinctive initial letter for the England heading (Inglitera), it seems likely that this represents an unauthorised imitation of a Vescontian atlas. Given the notable additions and improvements made by the Vescontes in the 1320s, the model available to a copyist must certainly date from before that time. The presence of Livorno, and indeed the Venetian spellings mentioned in the auction catalogue - if confirmed - would certainly throw further doubt on both a Vescontian authorship and a 14th-century date. But the recently discovered (and, in my view, early) Lucca chart also includes Livorno and I have argued elsewhere that the significance of this toponym may have been overstated [Carte Pisane essay (Livorno)].
Christie's 20 June 1990 Lot 44 ('Venice, last quarter of the 14th century' - illustrating the Adriatic sheet]
Sotheby's 17 June 1997 Lot 64 ('North-east Italy (probably Venice), c.1400 - illustrating the Adriatic sheet).
A catalogue issued by Dr Jörn Günther (Hamburg) and Bruce P. Ferrini (Akron, Ohio) in Autumn 1997, 'Recent acquisitions: medieval & renaissance illuminated manuscripts' (illustrating the Adriatic sheet) [see Robert W. Karrow in The Portolan 75 (Fall 2009) p.51 - supplemented by personal communication].
Bruce Ferrini, 1997 - the collector/dealer Bruce Ferrini had his collection seized in 2005 and sold in 2008. Most were biblical items and the publicity focussed on those. The fate of the atlas is unknown. See 'Akron investor's biblical artifacts being auctioned online' by David Giffels in the Akron Beacon Journal, 14 March 2008. This describes the online auction then underway, involving 153 of Ferrini's items: 'the sale is being conducted by the Dallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries, with the actual items on view at Arte Primitivo Gallery in New York City. Online bidding has begun and will continue until the close of business Wednesday [i.e. 19 March 2008]'. While the Heritage Auction Galleries and Arte Primitivo websites includes past sales, there was no sign of the Ferrini material (in November 2008 - though the Heritage Auction Galleries requires registration).
Information was received from Dr Jörn Günther in November 2021 that the atlas had been sold to a private collector in Switzerland. It is not clear just when that happened.
Low-resolution scans are available in the relevant Medea- Chart record.
Christie's, 12 May 1993 Lot 168. Anon chart. 67x112 cm.
Christie's described this as 'Genoa, circa 1500', at an estimated sale price of £50,000-70,000. Later (date not known) it was reoffered (again by Christie's?), this time as 'Catalan School, circa 1550, at an estimate of £40,000-£60,000. The latter date is more plausible. This time the size was given as 68x108 cm.
The chart is easily recognizable, first, by the westwards extension, necessary to accommodate part of the Canary Islands, second, by the area of western Europe that has been scraped away and, third, by the topographical drawing placed over Scandinavia.
John Alfred Spranger (consigned to Christie's by his daughter Elizabeth Graff)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris. Chart by ['Perrinus Vesconte', c.1320-25']. 43x73[or 76] cm. [see Census 177]
Removed from a binding (Ridolfi family), cropped and with holes. For doubt on the attribution to Vesconte see Chapter p.407, n.274 & p.378, n.67. The toponymic analysis in Chapter pp.416-17, where it is no.12, demonstrated statistically that it is not a Vesconte work. Featured in 1990 'Portugal Brazil' exhibition as 'anonymous owner'. See also Anonymous works and the question of their attribution (No.6).
Dudley Barnes 1977 (acquired from Franco Novacco)
Sotheby's 15 April 1980 Lot A
Israel Catalogue 22 (1980) no.1
H.P.Kraus Catalogue 178 (1987?) no.187
Hôtel Drouot 30 March 1992 Lot A
James E. Kelley, On Old Nautical Charts and Sailing Directions: Technical Essays (Melrose Park, PA: Sometime Publishers, 1999), pp.114-20 [but the ‘draft’ is dated 1977, the year Kelley was shown it] – this reference was previously overlooked [5 March 2020]. Despite subsequent claims, Kelley had concluded that, although it was likely to date from the second quarter of the 14th century, the chart was not by either Vesconte.
Pujades p.65 (C9 bis) [Anon. Genoese, c. 1325-50], see p.447, note 5 (where he doubts the attribution but is unable to read the northern Adriatic names from the available reproduction)
Portugal Brazil: the Age of Atlantic Discoveries (1990), p.33
See also Census, No.177. Top of page
[H.P. Kraus, 1989]. Six charts on a single sheet, 35.5x59 cm (each 14.3 cm square). Venetian (?), c.1460-70.
This unusual work is very close, in format and content, to another 'flat atlas', the 1462 Nicolo Fiorino sheets in Vienna ['Census' 2 and the Pujades scan (A 32)]. This similarity has not apparently been noted before. The present work comprises six charts on a single sheet, similar in format to a portolan chart and, like them, with a neck at one side. Fiorino's production takes instead the form of two sheets, each containing four small charts. Since each sheet has its own neck, it is evident that they were always separate.
Although the divisions between the separate charts and the coastal outlines are not a perfect match between the two works, they are remarkably close. Both provide separate charts for the east Mediterranean, Black Sea, Aegean, Adriatic and a pair for the central Mediterranean, including, on the one hand, Sicily and, on the other, Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands. Fiorino is alone is extending to the west, as would have been expected, on two further charts that cover the western Mediterranean and then the Atlantic coasts up to the southern half of the British Isles. The truncation here would have made no practical sense and the plausible suggestion by the Christie's cataloguer in this case that the stitching holes at that end of the sheet might have attached two further charts is clearly borne out by comparison with the Fiorino sheets. The blank shield at the neck, with its surviving vellum tie, all indicate a life spent as a single, rolled-up chart.
Fiorino was a Venetian shipmaster (see Falchetta (1995) pp.60-2) and the Kraus sheet was considered a Venetian work. It is tempting to attribute the Kraus sheet to Fiorino, and the suggested date, 1460-70, matches precisely Fiorino's dated work. However, even making allowances for the more cursive hand on the Kraus charts compared to Fiorino's neat writing (and working from reproductions of the two works that are far from clear) there do not seem to be any distinctive similarities in the hands. The regular use of the 'z' letter form on the Kraus sheet, which seems not to have been used by Fiorino, and different application of long tail flourishes - on a 'g' by the Kraus's author and on an 'h' by Fiorino - point to these being the work of two different people.
Nevertheless, they are the only surviving works of that nature, are both thought to be Venetian, and are apparently from the same period. If not copied from one another, they must have shared a common model. A further, significant, linking element is that in neither case were the sheets intended to be cut up to form an atlas. Some details run across the dividing borders - a flag between the charts of southern Italy and Greece, and the Genoa vignette, for example on the Kraus sheet, and a number of place-names on the Fiorino sheets.
Other features were noted by Christie's. Most interesting is the 'apparent indication of local scales. Each inset shows the local miles i.e. mila davenezia and mila de larzipelago'. There is no sign of such an indication on the Fiorino.
In 1989, when this sheet came up for sale, the comparison with Fiorino was not made. That was understandable given that no reproduction apparently then existed. Instead, Christie's drew attention to apparent similarities with the small bound collection known as the 'Luxoro Atlas' (Census 81). This is now datable to before 1421 according to Pujades (2007) p.69 (his A 16), and the hand is clearly different from the Kraus or Fiorino works.
Despite the considerable time gap between the Luxoro Atlas and the Kraus and Fiorino sheets, the comparison is a valid one. The eight charts of the Luxoro are arranged as four facing, and unconnected, pairs, following very similar divisions of the coastlines to those found on the later works. The Kraus and Fiorino arrangements can best be seen as an extension of the format adopted by the Luxoro's Venetian author, Francesco Cesanis, into a type of flattened-out atlas, that seems to have been unique to that city. Pujades mistakenly gives the sheet size of the Luxoro Atlas as 16x23cm (being misled by an enlarged reproduction) instead of the correct 11x15 cm. These are therefore the smallest sheets recorded for a pre-1470 atlas and the Christie's sheets are not much larger. Significantly, the Luxoro Atlas extends to the western edge of the Mediterranean and then up to southern England - like the Fiorino sheets and, as has been suggested above, like the probable original format of the work described here.
Since the sheets of the Luxoro Atlas are not square (as are those of the Kraus sheet, or with their width arranged to suit their subject as are Fiorino's) its author might have found some cardinal points more convenient than others. Instead he uses all four directions, thus demonstrating the irrelevance of consistency in that respect to the users of such navigational aids. The Kraus and Fiorino sheets, on the other hand, offer a constant southerly orientation for the four eastern sheets, though they differ in the central Mediterranean. The network of 32 rhumb lines (a feature first found on Roselli's 1456 chart, and present on both the Fiorino and Kraus sheets) suggests a date not earlier than that.
A thorough comparative analysis of the three works discussed above must wait for reproductions of adequate quality, and those that allow direct comparison. If the unknown owner of the ex-Kraus sheet sees this, perhaps they might consider assisting in this way. In the meantime I would like, once again, to acknowledge the public-spirited foresight shown by Ramon Pujades in bringing this material, including the Luxoro Atlas and Fiorino sheets, within reach of researchers worldwide.
Christie's 21 June 1989 Lot 40 ('Venice, ca.1460-70', perhaps drawn by a Catalan) [Kraus]
Sotheby's 6 December 1988, 'Western Manuscripts and Miniatures', Lot 37. Portolan chart signed and dated by Petrus Roselli, 1469. 66x111 cm.
It is described as having 'emblazoned shields of many countries, nine town views, four wind discs, five distance scales...'.
Harrison D. Horblit (?)
Cologne, Museum Ludwig (Dr Peter Ludwig of Aachen), Ludwig MS XIII.14
J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (acquired 1983)
Sotheby's 6 December 1988, Lot 37 [ Schiller] "a small part of the great Sammlung Ludwig, the most outstanding library of medieval manuscripts assembled in the last half century. The collection was formed (mostly through the agency of Mr. H.P. Kraus) by Dr.Peter Ludwig, of Aachen, and was at one time on deposit at the Schnütgen-Museum in Cologne. In early 1983 the entire Ludwig manuscript collection, comprising nearly 150 items, was sold en bloc to the Getty Museum. The lots are described in the order of their listing in Anton von Euw and Joachim M. Plotzek, Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig, I-ÏV, Cologne, 1979-1985" [in Vol. III (1982), pp.302-4, Plate XIII,14]. See also 'Acquisitions, Supplement: Manuscripts', The J. Paul Getty Museum XII (1984) p.303, no.111.
It is highly probable that this chart - the only signed and dated work to surface (and then disappear again) since 1986 [but see now, May 2015, E.27] - was that formerly owned by Otto Heinrich Friederich Vollbehr (b.1869) of Washington, D.C. [Census 180]. It was signed and dated by Roselli from Majorca. De Ricci (1935, p.504, no. 15379) noted that, in that year, the chart was on loan to the Library of Congress. He described it as covering the Mediterranean, France and the British Isles, and measuring almost exactly the same as the Ludwig chart (112x67 cm). I am not aware of any illustration or description of the Vollbehr chart.
New information since 2011
Jesi [or Iesi], Biblioteca Comunale, Palazzo della Signoria, Direzione [MS number not recorded]. The north-east quarter of an Italian chart recovered from a binding, covering Italy, Adriatic, Aegean, Black Sea and Asia Minor, 36x42 cm.
The chart's rhumb centre is in south-west Italy, which implies that it would have extended as far west as the British Isles and Canary Islands. The chart is most unusual (at least for the mid-15th-century date claimed) in having inland detail, evidently in the same hand. This includes province names, stretching from Moravia to Tartaria and Armenia M[aior], along with rivers, mountains and inland town symbols. Apart from some vignettes in central and eastern Europe, and two flaming [Roman] altars north of the Black Sea, most of the settlement detail is found in Asia Minor.
This partial chart was first noted by archivists at the Biblioteca Planettiana of Jesi and communicated to Francesco Bonasera in 1985. He provided a brief description and listed the provincial names. His only evaluative comment was: 'Come epoca, dal carattere delle scritture, si può ritenere che sia relativamente tarda, cioè del XVI secolo'. This tentative dating to the 16th century was followed by Corradino Astengo (2007, p.245 - ItJ1). Bonasera's 1997 article largely repeated that of 1985, while adding a good quality illustration (Tav. XXXVI).
Patrizia Licini, in a succession of articles since 1991, based on close observation of the original, has argued for placing the chart in the second half of the 15th century. She also noted that Trebizond 'the last bastion of the Byzantine Empire, which fell in 1461, is still resisting on the Jesi map' (2000, p.63). However, it is not unusual to find chartmakers refusing to admit Christian defeats and the 1497 Freducci chart, for example, continues to show the Byzantine arms over that city. It is not clear what evidence there is on the Jesi chart that the Empire of Trebizond (Trabzon) has yet to fall to the Ottomans. Likewise, the occasional crescents that can just be made out on top of the towers of one or two of the town vignettes in Asia Minor provide a terminus post quem for the 1460s not confirmation for such a date.
Licini interpreted various German town vignettes as a record of a journey made to eastern Europe in 1452 by Aeneus Silvius Piccolomini. That directly related, in her view, to the main purpose of the chart/map, namely as 'a visual crusading sermon', or a 'manifesto', created in the context of the attempt in 1464 by that same man, now Pope Pius II, to mount a crusade (2000, pp.63-64; 2008, pp.208-210, 218). What she describes as 'dismantled' towers, indicating post-conquest Ottoman destruction, are found widely across Asia Minor. An alternative interpretation would be that these were left 'unfinished' by the map maker, as seems to apply to the larger symbols for Paderborn and Grabau. The simple, upturned table effect of the majority can be seen to form the drafting basis of the vignette construction for the few that were completed. Perhaps these, with their names, were placed there as markers, for the future elaboration that never took place. I could not find clear confirmation of an attempt to convey structural damage.
Licini's 2008 article (based on a 2006 conference paper) is almost entirely concerned with the map , rather than chart aspects of the Jesi fragment, adding for example a discursive passage about the possible influence of Nicholas of Cusa, as a cosmographer, on the work's construction. She sums up her aim as being 'to prove that the Iesi fragment offers a geopolitical plan through specific key cultural concepts expressed in the form of views of castles and in place names that lie at the heart of its strategic design. Select place names and views of cities point to Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini as the main character in the Iesi portolan chart's story' (p.208).
As to the chart's authorship, Licini, settled on the Freduccis, a powerful family of counts in Fermo near Jesi, both of which towns formed part of the Marche of Ancona. However, rather than the two already accepted chartmakers from that family, Conte Ottomanno Freducci (supposedly active 1497-1539) or his son, Angelo (fl. 1547-56), she proposed instead a radical revision of the identity and sequence of Freducci chartmakers. An earlier Count Lodovico (recorded up to 1478 - Licini, 2005, pp.117-19) was her choice as the author of the Jesi chart and she asserts that the person who signed the 1497 chart in Wolfenbüttel as 'Loctomanni' was actually Oliverotto (1472?-1502). She considers 'Ottomanno' to be a corruption of 'de lo etomanno', the region over which the Freducci family had jurisdiction (2007(b), pp.264-). If that were confirmed it would of course mean that all the charts dated after 1502, when Oliverotto was murdered on the orders of Cesare Borgia (Licini, 2007, p.30), would be the work of one or more chartmakers intermediate between Oliverotto and Angelo - and hence a significant addition to our knowledge of Anconitan chartmaking.
There is no published version of the Jesi chart in high resolution and the poor state of preservation resulting from its secondary use in a binding makes it difficult to see small details. It is also unfortunate that among the discarded sections are those in the Atlantic that are most useful for diagnostic purposes. Nevertheless, the outlines of the underlying chart do look very similar, in general terms, to those of Benincasa, which were, in turn, to be copied by members of the Freducci family for a century. Although the chart's suggested date of 1464 would fit in well with Benincasa's career, minor deviations on the Jesi chart from his remarkable stylistic consistency rule out his authorship. The lack of the habitual Benincasan scale bar in the surviving top margin is also significant.
If the Jesi chart had a signature and date it would been on the missing section; it has no meaningful provenance; and it cannot, stylistically, be confidently assigned to any known chartmaker. That is the very uncertain background against which Licini weaves a highly complex historical story with what seem, at times, to be tenuous interconnections. In what might be considered a circular argument, the chart's dating (1464) is seen to depend on a direct connection with Pius II and his failed crusade from Ancona, although that is not, in my view, adequately explained. The supposed stylistic similarities with the work of Ottomanno Freducci (which would normally be considered to refer to the work of a single chartmaker, thought to have been active between 1497 and 1539) is here used to introduce at least one earlier member of a supposed Freducci chartmaking dynasty, one who died on or after 1478. It is, however, highly unlikely that Benincasa and one of the Freduccis would have been working in the same style, and so close to the date when Benincasa is known to have started his chartmaking career (1460).
A further argument is adduced for there being a Freducci active as a chartmaker in the 1460s, on the basis of the chart in Weimar (now Klassik Stiftung Weimar). Today, it is possible to read, imperfectly, only ' Comes...' [or Contes] at the start of the authorship inscription but a century or more ago much of the same wording as that found on the clearly signed Ottomanno Freducci chart of 1497 in Wolfenbüttel could apparently be made out. There is little reason to doubt that both are by the same person but the Weimar chart's date is another matter. 19th-century scholars read it as MCCCCXXIV but W. Ruge (1904) saw instead it starting MCCCCLX ... '1424' was clearly wrong, but attempts to turn Ruge's '1460+' into c.1460 or just 1460, should be discounted. The 1497 chart's date was written as MCCCCLXXXXVII, which means that the Weimar chart, presumably repeating that formula, could have been drawn as late as 1499. There may be good reasons for thinking that the Weimar chart might be earlier than that in Wolfenbüttel but I am not aware of those. There is certainly no justification for assigning the Weimar date to the 1460s, and hence for seeing it as contemporary with the date of c.1464 that Licini suggests for the Jesi chart. Nor, in my view, is there compelling evidence anyway for the fragment's Freducci authorship.
I did notice what appears to be one small, later addition to the Benincasan norm, at the mid-point of the Black Sea's east coast. Marking the outlet of the Enguri river, beside the red-named faxio, there is an island, here as usual coloured red, shaped like an old-fashioned spanner or a catapault. In Benincasa's work up to 1469, the chronological point at which the Pujades DVD ends, the island is always left unnamed, as it had been by other chartmakers. On the Jesi chart, however, it is labelled, in the sea, as isola de colchi. I am grateful to Anton Gordyeyev for drawing my attention to other instances of this name, particularly on the 1474 Benincasa atlas, where it is included in the inland sequence. That is not repeated, however, on the Andrea Benincasa atlas of 1476 in Geneva. Most other instances of Colchi in the later 15th and 16th centuries clearly refer to the province of that name. The name does not appear on the 1497 Freducci chart in Wolfenbüttel.
One further idiosyncracy, to which Professor Licini has drawn my attention, is the treatment of Fiume [i.e. River] Esino, close to Ancona. Amost all early charts ran the elements together into a single word, for example, fiumexino. The Jesi's author presents it as f. [?]xiro. This form is not recorded for any chart up to 1469, has not been seen on Benincasa's work, and does not appear on samples of the Freducci output I was able to consult.
The handwriting of the Jesi chart is difficult to discern from the published illustrations. The best that I have seen is the enlargement of 'Armenia Minor', showing part of the northern coast of Turkey (Licini, 2000, p.60) but there are also useful details in her 2008 chapter. The hand is neat and without any obvious distinguishing characteristics. Further analysis, with a range of comparative scans of adequate quality, would be needed to test the suggested Freducci attribution.
[I am very grateful for the generous assistance provided by Professor Licini even if I remain to be convinced by her arguments.]
See, separately, under Bonasera and Licini in the Bibliography
Giovannozzi, D. 'Freducci, Conte', in the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani [1982 or later - accessed 22 July 2011].
Lucca, Archivio di Stato, Fragmenta Codicum, Sala 40, Cornice 194/1, A chart fragment, 60x30 cm, recovered from a binding.
The chart was discovered in 2000 in the binding of a book of notarial records (1611) belonging to Giovan Paolo Giampaoli, who was active in Lucca 1595-1611. It has been trimmed at left, top and right. The surviving coverage is of the entire Mediterranean (except the Holy Land), part of the Black Sea, and the Atlantic coasts between southern England and Morocco. Among its distinctive visual features are the 26 coastal towns 'represented by exaggeratedly large pictorial signs and flags', and, unprecedented on a portolan chart, fragments of scales and winds with human form.
Philipp Billion, whose 2011 article in Imago Mundi is the first study to be devoted to this chart, suggests a late 13th or early 14th date, or more specifically, 'before 1327'. He argues that its place of production might have been Gaeta or Pisa. The elements cited in favour of an early date are the coastlines of southern England and the Bay of Biscay, which are seen to fall, in developmental terms (which is not necessarily the same thing as a chronological sequence), between the representations found on the Carte Pisane and Vesconte's earliest treatment of those regions in 1313. However, it is the case that the outline given to England's south coast and its offshore islands is markedly different from those to which it is compared. The shape of Italy on the Lucca chart is shown to match better with the Carte Pisane than with the Cortona chart or Vesconte's first chart of 1311.
In the Imago Mundi article the toponymy was compared with the Pujades listings for the coasts of Valencia and the eastern Adriatic (though not his listing for the western coast) but, besides finding a number of atypical features on the Lucca chart, the results from a relatively small sample (108 names) were inconclusive. A few names linked the Lucca chart with the Carte Pisane, among them oriola (which Pujades saw as synonymous with the Segura river), a toponym that was not otherwise noted on any pre-1470 chart. Some names are otherwise first recorded on Vesconte's earliest atlas of 1313 or, in one case, on a chart of c.1325. Another name is reliably dated first to the 1339 Dulceti chart (Mazzorbo), while Cadaqués first appears on a dated chart in 1403. There is a need for a full analysis of the chart's toponymy.
City signs are first seen on the Cortona chart and, from about 1320, Vesconte's atlases, to which flags were also added. However, the Lucca's are visually very different.
Although the surviving sections of the chart cover only parts of the usual portolan chart region, the Colour & Shape Analysis was able to extract some useful information. In the first place, just two colours were used for the islands, red and blue. After the two supposedly earliest surviving portolan works, the Carte Pisane and the Cortona chart, both uncoloured, the earliest experiments with island colouring involved no more than two tints (on the undated Riccardiana chart in Florence) and three on the 1311 Vesconte. Billion identifies a number of other features that point to an early stage of development, at whatever date the chart was actually drawn. Besides the Lucca chart's restricted colour range, the C&SA findings provide other support for an early model in its island shapes.
Backing up the interpretation of the Lucca chart as containing features associated with the earliest phase of (surviving) portolan chart development are the simplified geometric shapes of some of the islands considered in the C&SA. In most cases the Lucca chart offers a broadly rectangular outline with a few indentations, of a type otherwise found only on the Carte Pisane (e.g. Zakynthos) or on the Carte Pisane and the early Genoese chart in the Riccardiana Library (e.g. Skyros). For Majorca, Corfu, Ithaca, Lefkada and Limnos, the Lucca's formulaic outlines are unlike any seen elsewhere, just as its Nile delta has a single right-hand island represented uniquely as a simple rectangle. Keffalonia, on the other hand, is already given a broadly recognisable, certainly non-conventional, shape on the Carte Pisane and the Lucca chart, in clear distinction to the Cortona chart's simple, dog-bone outline.
Insofar as these could be made out, there was no sign on the Lucca chart of any C&SA conventions introduced after the period of its suggested construction. For more on the earliest charts see Anonymous works and the question of their attribution to individual chartmakers or to their supposed workshops. Unfortunately, no comparison was made by Billion with the earliest surviving Genoese chart, that in the Riccardiana Library, Florence, which is certainly from the early part of the 14th century and could even pre-date Vesconte.
The following article should be seen as a valuable, preliminary study of a highly unusual chart, which deserves fuller analysis in the future.
Philipp Billion, 'A newly discovered fragment from the Lucca Archives, Italy, Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography 63: 1 (January 2011): 1-21.
’The Lucca Chart, anonymous Italian, around 1327’ (a note by Sima Krtalic for the MEDEA ‘Chart of the Week’, 21 January 2021, referring to the Medea-Chart record).
A detailed reassessment of the Carte Pisane: a late and inferior copy, or the lone survivor from the portolan charts' formative period? (March 2015) and Brief notes on the main documents discussed.
Modena, Biblioteca Estense, C.G.A.1 - 'Catalan (Estense) world map'. Diameter 113 cm.
This very well known and much-studied map/chart was not listed in my Census nor considered by Pujades. I now realise that it should have been included.
A detailed separate note in Anonymous works and the question of their attribution to individual chartmakers or to their supposed workshops concludes that it was, as previously suggested, drawn by Roselli, that at its heart it is a portolan chart, and that it can be dated to c.1462-4.
Oxford [now London], Daniel Crouch Rare Books (2011). [Update: on 5 September 2014 it was announced that the fragment had been acquired by the City of Barcelona.]
[A version of the following extended text appeared in Daniel Crouch Rare Books LLP, Oxford, Catalogue II (September (?), 2011), item 1. ISBN: 978-0-9567421-1-7.
A fragment (21x31 cm) of a Catalan chart, in the same hand as that of the two signed by Guillem Soler, and evidently slightly earlier than those, covering the lower half of the Iberian peninsula and the north-west coast of Africa. pre-1385?
The surviving fragment measures 209 x 312 mm at its maximum dimensions. It represents a vertical strip taken out of the lower left quarter of a dismembered chart, and covers half that chart's height. The coastlines shown include the lower half of the Iberian peninsula and the north African coast, almost from the usual termination point in Western Sahara, and then as far east as Oran in Algeria. The size of the original chart can be estimated at about 64 x 105 cm. The fragment survived because it was re-used in the binding of an octavo volume measuring 164 x 108 x 65 mm [see 'The host volume' below]. It is a sobering thought that there could be at least another seven such sections from that original chart, perhaps used for the bindings of related works. Maybe one or more might appear in future.
The full chart would have had two rhumb line networks, with the centres of the hidden circles placed, respectively, in northern Spain (just off the top of the fragment) and the Aegean. The twin centres would have met north of Sicily. The bottom of the fragment may well represent the original lower edge. On the analogy of the 1385 Soler chart discussed below, the line running beneath the scale bar would represent the lower margin of the chart's central section. At the west the chart would have continued further to the south so as to include the coast down to Cape Bojador and the Canary Islands.
It is argued below that this chart would probably have included the signature of the Catalan chartmaker Guillem Soler (fl. 1368-1402), who worked in Palma, Majorca. He is known from two, visually very different, signed productions, representative of the range of Catalan work: one a plain chart dated 1385 preserved in Florence (Archivio di Stato, C.N.3 - Pujades C 17), the other an ornate version with an undated inscription in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (Rés. Ge. B 1131 - Pujades C 14). The fragment must come from a work of similar size to that of the 1385 chart. The double-page illustration in Pujades (2007 pp.158-9) gives a very good idea of what the fragment would have looked like in its original context.
Significant features
The fragment has four distinctive features which help confirm the Soler authorship: sadra, the 'Plages arenosses...' inscription, the scale bar, and the single town vignette.
sadra
At the bottom of the chart, set into the unknown interior of Africa, is one large name, written exactly thus sadra:- It appears in precisely the same way on the 1385 Soler chart but the relevant area is missing from the undated one. sadra was not seen on any other 14th-century chart, although, being close to the edge of the vellum, this area is sometimes missing.
'Plages arenosses...' inscription
Nearby is a truncated inscription. This appears in full on the 1385 Soler chart but only its right-hand section is preserved on the undated Soler chart. The folding table in Ramon Pujades's 2009 study of the 1439 Vallseca chart transcribes 29 legends from 11 Catalan charts between 1330 and 1439. Several start 'Plages arenoses... [Sandy beaches]' and a few have a similar wording. However, the Soler inscription is unique, and the fragment follows that form exactly. The missing sections of text are supplied here in square brackets from the 1385 chart; the contractions are filled out in italics:
["Plages arenosses desertes si]no de peschados los quals dien sisotz X milles en mar [trobaretz X passes de fons per] tota esta costera segons que seretz en mar mes homenys"
Two small sections - involving milles and per tota esta coster - could not be clearly read on the 1385 chart but are here confirmed. The eight surviving words in the equivalent inscription on the undated chart are the same as the other two, underlining that this wording is specific to Soler and was carefully repeated by him.
In June 2011, it was possible to examine the chart in person, albeit through glass. It now seems that there is a second inscription running in from the West African coast, between the red names Gutzolla (just above the horizontal rhumb line with the sequence of very visible holes) and Mensa. The unusually long name between them is apparently porto meseguinam - though only the porto and the final three letters are legible. To the right of that is what looks like a black 'a' and, along and below, what appear to be faint traces of lettering. At exactly that same point on the undated Soler chart in Paris there is a six-line inscription. This is transcribed by Ramon Pujades in his 2009 work, beginning 'Aquest pas es apelat val de dara ...'. It seems highly likely that a version of that same inscription was originally placed here. {This paragraph added 22 June 2011}
Scale bar
The scale bar, with its double line above filled in with light yellow-brown wash, is typical of Catalan work of the second half of the 14th century [see Pujades, 2007 p.220 for a composite display]. What is not found other than on Soler's work is the way that the long scale strip running across the middle of the bottom of the chart is bounded by north-south rhumb lines to create a block of empty space beneath. This represents the central portion of the chart's lower border. We can therefore assume that the fragment's truncated scale bar would have run across to the equivalent position at the right side, and that it would have been repeated at the top.
The fragment is unusually devoid of decoration. It does not even contain the name for the south-west wind Libeccio within the usual circular frame. Even if the fragment is a visual disappointment, its lack of non-functional ornament makes it far more likely that this was a very rare survivor of the type of unadorned chart designed for use at sea. As such, it would have been priced down for the large seafaring market. Far more than the highly ornamented landsmen's productions, which survive in disproportionate numbers, this is faithful to the practical purpose of a portolan chart. The long water stain which runs across the chart (roughly NW-SE) must have been present on the vellum before it was cut up (and folded inwards) to form the binding. It is thus valuable evidence of the physical state of a chart at the time it was abandoned from over-use. {The previous two sentences added 22 June 2011}
Town vignette
The fragment's sole illustrative feature, the stylised vignette of trimssi, denotes Tlemcen in northwestern Algeria. This was a major trading centre in the Middle Ages, both for the cross-Saharan traffic and for that along the Maghreb littoral. Soler's almost equally plain chart of 1385 added equivalent vignettes for Marrakech (marochs) and Granada, which could have appeared here. Had a more elaborate model been followed, such as Soler's other, undated chart, the fragment would have had several flags, the Atlas mountain range and river courses as well.
Soler's formula for Tlemcen - since his three versions are indistinguishable - was to place a pair of towers either side of a central building with a tall minaret, all within a walled enclosure. This was viewed from a slight elevation, giving a sense of perspective and allowing the back of the inner wall to be picked out in red. An equivalent view had appeared on the earliest Catalan charts but neither that, nor the contemporary productions of the Cresques atelier, matches Soler's style. Despite being a luxury item, the Catalan Atlas of c.1375 pared the image down to a single central minaret. This was placed, as expected, within the walls but for some other cities the central feature was placed outside the town and behind it. Three of the four charts assigned to the Cresques atelier repeated that implausible device, while the fourth has a different design altogether (see Pujades, 2007, p. 63), as does later Catalan work. [I am grateful here for comments from Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez.]
Toponymy
The fragment includes the coasts of southern Iberia, from Porto in Portugal to Valencia in Spain. For north-west Africa, it runs from [allue]t nul, five names short of the usual terminal point, Cape Bojador (buyetder), in modern Western Sahara, up to Seuta and then east as far as tigis[mach], just beyond Oran in Algeria.
It is unfortunate that the area covered by the fragment barely overlaps with the two regions whose toponymy has been studied in detail by Pujades, i.e. the coasts of Catalonia & Valencia and the Adriatic. Only twelve names south of Valencia itself can therefore be checked against his composite listing. For the remainder, the names on the fragment have been assessed against the ongoing composite listing of Significant Names (a Microsoft Office Word 2003 table).
Any dating conclusions derived from place-names alone need to be prefaced with a note of caution. First, on account of the small size of the sample, second, because neither Iberia nor North Africa were areas of great toponymic development in this period, and, third, since Catalan chartmakers were slow to adopt the Italian names introduced in the early 15th century. That said, some interesting conclusions can be drawn.
Like the two signed Guillem Soler works, this fragment contains no place-names so far noted as having been introduced from 1367 onwards. The only exception relates to the Catalan Atlas of c.1375 (on which see more below). The twelve names south from Valencia to Guardamar are sufficient (with the supporting evidence given above) to show that this is not the work of Soler's contemporaries and neighbours in Palma, Majorca, i.e. those thought to have been associated in a joint workshop with Cresques Abraham, the supposed author of the Catalan Atlas.
Soler's alteya form (repeated here) is otillia on the Cresques atelier charts, and his cantera is given by them as alacant. Though the name is only partially legible here it certainly starts with C not an A. Most significant is the omission on this fragment and the two Soler charts of the flum de segura, found on almost all Catalan charts between 1339 and the second half of the 15th century. Among the few other charts to omit this are the two produced by Soler's successor Rafel Soler. The omission of the Riu Segura is thus one of the defining characteristics of productions of the Soler family. [For a general comment about the distinctive toponymy of the Cresques group of converts from Judaism compared to that of the Christian Soler family see Pujades, 2007 p.492b and follow the reference at the end of note 87.]
With the attribution to Guillem Soler established, how can we relate the fragment to the two signed charts already known: the one in Florence reliably dated 1385 and the other, in Paris, assumed to be earlier, conceivably as early as 1368? What place-name differences can be observed between the three works?
Three of the toponymic forms suggest that the fragment could be the earliest of them all. Cullera, next to Valencia, was conveyed as cugera on Catalan charts from 1330, until, from the late 14th century and on through the 15th, it changed to cuyera or, more usually, culera (Pujades, 2007, pp.394-7). The two signed Soler charts use the later form; this fragment has cugera . Another name, Riffiene, conveyed by rif, next to Seuta at Africa's north-west tip, seems to have appeared first on the Catalan Atlas. It is included on both the signed Soler works but not this. Another Catalan Atlas innovation, vacar (between Cadiz and Tarifa) [as distinct from torre de vacar (just east of Algeziras)] is certainly absent from the fragment but the two signed works are not clear enough to read. choria, a little to the west of Cadiz, is the only one of three relevant names first seen on the Catalan Atlas definitely to appear on both the two signed Soler works and on this partial chart.
The final, and most significant indication comes from the name to the east of the Algerian town Honaine (one). Generally, from early in the 14th century onwards, the toponym that appeared at that point was gordanea. It seemed to have been Soler who introduced a relatively short-lived alternative, muguron, identified by Pujades (2009, p.155, no.69) as Ile Mokrane. Some variant of that - in neither case is the reading clear - was included on the two signed Soler charts, but the fragment displays the earlier go[z]da[---] form. That muguron formed the standard for Soler in his later career is evident from its perpetuation in the work of Rafel (certainly on the signed work in Berlin and apparently on the attributed Paris chart). This is the strongest evidence pointing to the fragment being earlier than either of the Guillem Soler charts already known.
The fragment is evidently 'by' Soler, in the sense of the authorship of its style and content. But might it have been the work of one of the other four members the Soler chartmaking dynasty started by Guillem (Pujades, 2007, p.492; 2009, pp. 312-15) - for a convenient summary see Here (look under 'Soler')? Besides Guillem, all the others seem to have been active in the 15th century. Only one, Rafel Soler, has left surviving productions and neither of his two charts has a readable date. Despite the continuation of some toponymic conventions from Guillem, Rafel's own style is noticeably different. There is therefore no other Soler family member to whom the fragment could be attributed.
The fragment's handwriting confirms those findings. Dr Ramon J. Pujades i Battaler has examined a scan of this fragment and has made the following statement: "This fragment was copied by the same hand that wrote the nameplaces and legends on the two charts signed by Guillem Soler".
What can be said about the fragment's likely dating? One of Soler's two charts is clearly dated 1385, the other never had a date. That Pujades gave it such a large possible window, 1368-85, reflects, on the one hand the earliest evidence of Guillem's activity in 1368 (Pujades, 2007, p.491b) and, on the other, the date of one of his charts. But in what ways can the two charts be chronologically distinguished and why might the complete undated chart not be later than 1385, given that Guillem could theoretically have continued working to the end of century?
The dated chart is plain, like the fragment; the undated one is visually quite different, being ornate and using gold leaf. But the toponymy of the two signed charts, as set out by Pujades for the Adriatic and Valencia (2007, pp. 374-85, 394-5), shows no significant differences. Why could both not be close to the same date, i.e. 1385?
The fragment's few toponymic variations (discussed above) lead logically to the conclusion that it is earlier than either of the others. On the understanding that the undated Paris chart could be re-dated to c.1385, the suggested date for this partial survivor might be c.1380 or even a little earlier.
The host volume
On page 10 of the Daniel Crouch catalogue there is an excellent photograph of the verso of the vellum, distinguishing clearly the discoloured central section, which formed part of the outer binding, from the lighter strips that would have been folded in behind. Across the middle, i.e. along the spine of the volume, there is a Latin inscription. I am grateful to Ramon Pujades for the following explanation of what that is likely to indicate.
"It reads Flores Teologicarum Questionum, which seems to correspond to the work known as Flores theologicarum quaestionum, in quartum librum sententiarum. This was a relatively common theological book written by Josep Anglès [or Josephus Angulo in Latin] (1550-88). He was a friar professor at Valencia University in the second half of the 16th century, and was created bishop of Bosa (Sardinia) in 1586."
The book was first published in Cagliari, Sardinia in 1575, with subsequent editions in (at least) Antwerp, Lyon, Madrid, Rome, Turin and Venice up to (at least) 1616. Pujades is cautious about a definite identification of the printed work that was enclosed by this chart fragment for perhaps 400 years. However, neither Google searches nor WorldCat throw up other instances of the first three words of the title. The identification sounds highly likely, particularly as the size given in one instance for an edition of the octavo Anglès volume matches almost exactly the height that can be deduced from the fragment's verso.
Since there is no sign that this fragment was itself cut down from a larger, previously used section of the original chart [note the lack of discolouration on the side panels], and its current use could not date from before 1575, some two centuries would seem to have intervened before the Soler chart was dismembered. {This 'host volume' section added 28 October 2011}
Pujades (2015, 2009, 2007)
{This entry added 21 October 2013 - I had accidentally learnt about the chart in May 2011 but delayed publishing this note in the hope that a clear photograph might be found; sadly that did not happen}
Sotheby's 11 June 2007, 'Russian Books, Maps and Photographs, Lot 201 [withdrawn from the sale].
The catalogue note reads:
"Untitled manuscript portolan chart on vellum centred on the Caspian Sea. [Venice, late 15th century], 390 x 524 mm. (at greatest extent), ink and colour on vellum, folding map (originally binder's waste), some wear and discoloration at folds (with loss).
This interesting chart is orientated with South to the top of the map and covers: south of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea (to Baghdad or Tehran/Persepolis), west as far as the Crimea, east to the lands beyond the Caspian (but not as far as the Himalayas) and north to Kharkov.
In the style of the Catalan charts are 33 large-profile illustrations of towns and cities, a portrait of "lo gran amperador de tartarja", the Asktrakan delta is shown in red, green and gold and the rivers Don, Volga and Tigris and Euphrates are clearly marked with the towns of Volgograd and Saratov shown."
The catalogue includes a half-page colour illustration, which is not available via the Internet.
The size of the illustration does not allow the place-names to be read or the finer details to be made out. The following observations are therefore tentative and incomplete.
The Sotheby's cataloguer concluded that this was Venetian work of the late 15th century. The reasoning behind those two judgments is not clear. Unless Venetian elements were detected in the handwriting, or the orthography of the toponymy reveals dialect forms that point to that city, it is more helpful to assume that this is a Catalan production, since the illustrative elements are typical of Majorcan work. The transcribed label, 'lo gran amperador de tartarja', is in Catalan. There seem also to be grounds for suggesting that the date might be a little earlier.
Extent of the chart
The fragment, clearly removed from a binding which has left the marks of folds and sewing holes, represents the top right-hand quarter (or perhaps one sixth) of the original. It appears to be oriented to the south, as indicated by what can be seen here, but it is likely that the illustrations and their accompanying legends would have faced the side of the chart closest to them, hence giving a multi-orientation to different parts of the chart. The Catalan Atlas of 1375 is a good example of this convention, which was followed in subsequent Catalan work and on the Genoese chart of Battista Beccari (1426). The Sotheby's illustration follows the logic of the fragment in placing south at the top.
However, for convenience the chart will be described here in terms of a northward orientation. The outer rule marking the top and right-hand edges of the original can be clearly seen, with a simple bar scale set into the top margin. At the bottom, the fragment was cut fairly precisely along the line that ran east-west through the centre of the rhumb line network. In other words, half the height of the original survives. But what is unusual is that the chart extended to the east beyond the Black Sea, which has prompted the insertion of a second incomplete rhumb network to the right. The area of join, between the Black and Caspian seas, is mathematically complex and unusual. The normal practice was just to extend the existing rhumb lines beyond the 'hidden circle'.
Even on charts that include the Black Sea the eastern edge of the rhumb line network normally falls near Palestine. In this case it is some distance to the east of that. If the original from which this fragment was cut had twin rhumb networks there could have been two equivalent-sized sections to the west. In that case, there would have been room for the full normal extent out into the Atlantic. Alternatively, this could have been one of those (not unusual) charts that stopped at west Spain, in which case a single network might have sufficed.
Given that the surviving fragment covers half the original height and measures 39 cm, we can be fairly sure that the original vertical dimension was close to 78 cm. This is larger than average, though not excessively so, when compared with the sizes provided by Pujades for all surviving charts pre-1469 (2007 pp. 63-5). By analogy, a height of 78 cm might suggest a width of around 115 cm. The Caspian extension could imply a greater lateral dimension but the normal ratio of height to width will usually reflect the standard shape of the animal skin from which the vellum was taken.
It is only the fragment's western quarter that includes coastal names. The vertical cut at the left-hand side runs down the western side of the Crimea and across Asia Minor, retaining just the eastern halves of Turkey's north and south coasts. While toponymy, and particularly the introduction of new names, can be a useful pointer to date, the Black Sea was one of the most static areas. Between the Catalan Atlas in 1375 and 1500, no more than five fresh names were introduced by Catalan chartmakers around the Black Sea. For the south coast of Asia Minor there was a single name. So, even if the toponymy could be read, the mere incidence of names is unlikely to be revealing. It should, though, be able to confirm the chart's place of origin.
Illustrative details
The Sotheby's cataloguer noted that there are 33 city vignettes. This is a standard feature of Catalan charts, and of the occasional Italian ones that imitate their style. However, the profiles here are more varied and lifelike than the formulaic Catalan work from the late 14th and early 15th century: for example, the charts produced by the Cresques atelier and the two members of the Viladesters family. In this case they are carefully drawn, mostly individualised and, in a few cases, more elaborate than usual. What is noticeable is the narrowness of the towers, enabling far more to be portrayed. The thin vertical blue line down the side of the towers is a device intended to indicate shadow, first seen on the work of Vallseca.
The style of the towns is generally reminiscent of the later Vallseca charts (1447-49), though more sophisticated. The closest comparison, perhaps, comes with the chart drawn in 1426 by Battista Beccari, whose father Francesco had been the illuminator who worked with the Cresques on the large wall-chart commission in 1399. Given that the illustrative work was presumably carried out by specialists who might have been employed irregularly, and because Catalan practitioners continued with broadly similar illustrations into the second half of the 16th century (see, for example, the 1563 work of Matteo Prunes, illustrated in Rosselló, 1995, p.99), it may be unwise to try to identify the work of a chartmaker from the town vignettes alone.
The catalogue also mentions the larger of two ruler portraits to the north and east of the Black Sea, transcribing the Catalan legend of the larger one as 'lo gran amperador de tartarja'. This inscription is read more plausibly by Ramon Pujades as 'lo gran cha amperador de tartarja', the form found on the 1482 chart by Jaime Bertran. Such rulers were usually shown unframed, as is the case with the other, scimitar-wielding figure to the west, but the Tartar ruler is shown as if painted onto a rectangular hanging canvas. The 1439 Vallseca chart provides a good example of that same device.
Above the Sea of Azov it is possible to make out a third, very faint picture. The Florence chart attributed to Vallseca (Bib. Naz. Centrale, Port. 16 - see further below) labels this twice, on repeated illustrations, as 'alans'. In her 2007 thesis (pp.653-5, Figs 93, 172-3), Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez described the characteristics of the Alans, naked savages who used hunting dogs to attack mythical beasts or lions. It would seem that the various representations of the Alans, found first on the 1413 Viladesters chart, then on the Florence chart (Bib. Naz. Centrale, Port. 16) and the Catalan Estense world map by Roselli, may feature a lion being grabbed by a long-haired man. There is perhaps a reference to Hercules here.
The fragment is adorned with around 21 flags, though they are not clear enough to distinguish. Nor are flags, generally, a reliable dating guide. There is no obvious match between the scale bar and any of those illustrated by Pujades (2007, pp. 220-1).
Reading the faint outline of the Caspian Sea is not easy. On other Catalan work that includes the sea it has been rendered highly visible by means of parallel wavy blue lines. This might possibly suggest that this chart was left uncompleted, though the illustrations would have presumably been the last elements added and it seems that there is already a full complement of those.
The fragment's most surprising feature is its inclusion of the Caspian Sea. Because the chart's normal range was carefully extended to the east to accommodate that and, it appears, little else, this was clearly thought important to its creator (or commissioner). Few portolan charts extended beyond the Black Sea and when they did they rarely showed much detail.
A world chart is of course obliged to show the Caspian, hence the Catalan Atlas (at its heart a portolan chart) is the first to include it. Ptolemaic maps had shown the Caspian as an inland sea, presented broadly as an oval 'landscape' shape. By contrast, most medieval maps treated it as a gulf of a northern ocean. The Catalan Atlas depiction, broadly followed here, is landscape rather than portrait in presentation, and slightly larger than the Black Sea but not wholly dissimilar in shape. This form is described by Cyrus Alai as superior to all Ptolemaic and European maps produced before the mid-17th century (General maps of Persia 1477-1925 (Leiden: Brill, 2005) p.3).
The Caspian on this fragment, although simply drawn, is quite complex. Its outlines are a close match to those on the Catalan Estense world map/chart, confidently attributed to Roselli and dated by myself to 1462-4 (see Here). There appear to be no names around its shoreline besides, it seems, identifying labels placed next to three town vignettes. Where a large river is shown entering the sea at the north-west (presumably the Volga) the complexity of the delta is conveyed by a three-coloured checkerboard pattern. This can be seen also on the Catalan Atlas, was repeated on the 1413 Viladesters chart and, simplified, on the Catalan Estense world chart. This analysis should have mentioned the 1455 Bartolomeo Pareto chart (Pujades C 57), which includes the western half of the Caspian in a form that closely imitates the Catalan Atlas {This sentence added 18 July 2018}
A fragmentary version of Ptolemy's Geographia in the British Library (Harley MS 3686) was described by Marica Milanesi (1996), as "one of the earliest examples of the synthesis of portolan chart, Ptolemaic map and medieval mappamundi...". The eastern section of the Caspian Sea (Fig.7) is included, with an outline that looks broadly similar to that on the Sotheby's fragment. The author suggests a Venetian provenance and a date in the period 1436-50.
Given the close proximity of the Black and Caspian Seas on this fragment, the 1439 Vallseca chart would have had room to show at least part of the Caspian, but chose not to. The only other early Catalan chart to include the Caspian is an anonymous work in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Port. 16 (C 41 on the 2007 Pujades DVD), attributed by Pujades to the Vallseca workshop around 1440 and dated by Sáenz-López Pérez to the period 1439-60. However, its Caspian is arranged vertically and given a noticeably different outline. Quite distinct again are the two depictions in the unsigned Medici Atlas, considered by Pujades to be a Genoese work of the second quarter of the 15th century. The world chart (Sheet 2) has a relatively simple outline oriented northwest/southeast, while the right half of sheet 3, devoted to the Caspian Sea, contains a more elaborate outline with its own considerable toponymy. However, there is clearly no connection between that and the various Catalan forms.
Authorship and dating
The fragment's debt to the 1375 Catalan Atlas for its Caspian Sea, as well as the way that other elements find echoes in, for example, the 1413 Viladesters chart, the work of Vallseca (1439-49), and that of Roselli in the 1460s, points to Palma, Majorca as its almost certain place of production. Given that Catalan conservatism means that some conventions introduced in the late 14th century were still present in the 16th, dating is more difficult but somewhere in the second half of the 15th century seems a reasonable guess. The unusual sophistication of the artist responsible for the town symbols may indicate somebody whose work on portolan charts has not otherwise survived. There does not seem to be justification for assigning the fragment to any of the Catalan chartmakers who are already known.
However, as stated at the outset, this analysis is necessarily provisional until it becomes possible to examine the original or a high quality reproduction of it. If that happened - and there is no news of the fragment's current whereabouts - other expertise, particularly relating to its iconography, could be brought to bear on this most unusual discovery.
I am grateful for suggestions from Ramon Pujades and Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez, but they were only able to see poor copies of the relatively small illustration in the Sotheby's catalogue. I may occasionally have diverged from their opinions.
{This entry added 21 October 2013}
National Library of Egypt, Cairo, Map Library, Portulans POR 1
The 2009 description of this chart (82 x 125 cm) provides a date of 1312. The reason seems to be because it was thought that the Carte Pisane in the Bibliothèque nationale de France was 'très voisin de cet exemplaire' [very similar to this map], a comment apparently inspired by George Kish, La carte, image des civilisations (1980). The Cairo chart is described as 'ancienne carte nautique de la collection, d'origine pisane' but the ornamentation referred to - figures of humans and animales, wind roses, etc - are noticeably dissimilar from the supposed model.
There is an accompanying scan which can be enlarged (clicking on 'Image gallery' or the thumbnail produces the same result). Unfortunately it immediately moves out of focus and little detail can be discerned. What can be made out, e.g. a saint's (?) figure in the neck and the scale set out on a partly furled ribbon, suggest a 16th-century production. The scale might enable the chartmaker to be identified. The Atlantic is excluded but the Black Sea is shown complete.
This '1312' chart could probably have been ignored were it not for the fact that this misinformation is readily available via the internet on e-corpus, 'a collective digital library'.
{This entry added 25 May 2015}
Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Kiev), Manuscripts Department [It is evidently not included in the current online library catalogue and its manuscript number is not known, unless the earlier notation, noted below, is still used.]
Grazioso Benincasa. 6-sheet atlas, 33.5 x 42.0 cm, glued to boards, with paired calendars. Signed on the central Mediterranean sheet: GRatiosus Benincasa Anconitanus / Composuit Veneciis MCCCCLXXIIII [1474]
In May 2015 I was alerted by Anton Gordyeyev (Gordeev) to the existence of a second portolan atlas by Grazioso Benincasa bearing the date 1474. It is definitely different from the 1474 version already known (National Széchényi Library, Budapest (Manuscript Collection, Fol. Ital. 8. - formerly Magyar Memzeti Muzeum, Budapest). That had come from the collection of Count Ferenc Széchényi, who founded the Hungarian National Library in 1802. The authorship inscription in the Kiev atlas omits the words 'Anno Domini' before the date, which appear in the Budapest volume. For much of what follows I am indebted to Anton Gordyeyev, and to sight of his forthcoming English-language article for the Vernadsky Library magazine. [For the Ukrainian text see Here.
The atlas rediscovered in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kiev was described in a published volume that seems to have been wholly overlooked afterwards, at least by those interested in portolan charts, and certainly outside the Russian-speaking world, where it was considered to have been lost after 1917: Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kordt, [Materialy po istorii russkoy kartographii]. Series 1, Volume 1 (Kiev, 1899), p.15.
From two printed ex libris (p.360) stuck-down inside the cover, it can be learnt that the atlas had earlier been in the collection of Count Michal Jerzy Wandalin Mniszech (1742-1806) - 'Ex Libris Mich: Comitis Vandalini Mniszech'. Anton Gordyeyev has been able to date this engraving no earlier than 1780 because it includes the Order of the Apostle St Andrew, the third of the orders of St Stanislaus which Mniszech was awarded. Pasted over that is the later ex libris sticker, stating in Russian, 'Manuscript Division of the Imperial University Library' [of St Vladimir], No.166. A label on the atlas spine today carries the numbers VIII. 189M (horizontal line) 166.
Anton Gordyeyev has kindly supplied me with a copy of the sheet bearing the paired Black Sea and eastern Mediterranean charts reproduced in monochrome in that 1899 volume. The illustration was placed alongside a very brief description in Russian, which adds no useful information. Paper damage at the north-west corner of the Budapest version of the Black Sea, absent from the Kiev example, provides further confirmation that two different works are involved.
This is a major (re)discovery. It is the second portolan atlas to be added since the 1986 census, and one of only two signed portolan works in this supplementary listing.
The atlas comprises a calendar and six charts, in the usual arrangement:
A pair of calendars occupying the two halves of a folio, whose first table runs from 1470 to 1489, and the second covers the period 1470-1569 (in both cases apparently like the Budapest atlas). [Interestingly, a later hand has provided comments below, in Italian, while updating the first calendar for the period 1698-1716.]
1. Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea
2. Central Mediterranean (including the Aegean) [with the authorship inscription]
3. West Mediterranean
4. North-west Africa (the lower section as far as Liberia)
5. Spain and the upper section of the West African coast
6. Atlantic coasts of Europe and the British Isles
The Budapest version of sheet 4, detailing the Portuguese discoveries down to present-day Liberia, ends at Cape Mesurado. As demonstration of the fact that even two Benincasa atlases produced in the same year would not be exact replicas of one another, the equivalent Kiev chart ends at rio de [palmeri]. Not only is that three names further to the north than on the Budapest atlas but the final toponym was written right up against the diagonal scale bar, meaning that the operative final word had to be omitted. It would have been possible to have angled the last toponym so as to run, meaningfully complete, alongside the scale's outer border.
This cavalier approach to west African toponymy strengthens what was said earlier: 'It was clearly not a priority for Benincasa to include the full complement of names - they would have been meaningless to most of his users and only the Portuguese navigated those coasts - and so he continued until he ran out of space, sometimes half obscuring the final name in the margin. In other words, what was shown depended on drafting decisions, not hydrographic ones' (see the Benincasa essay under West African coast (towards the end of the 'Stage 3' section).
I am not aware of any accessible scans of the Budapest atlas, just, it seems, as none are available for the Kiev charts. Until that happens, a full study cannot be made of these two versions. It is unlikely, though, that there will be more than superficial differences between them. Certainly, the title inscription in both 1474 atlases is of the same restrained form, with the earlier long and ornate calligraphic tail - whose faint residual outline can still be made out on the British Library's 1473 atlas - now abandoned.
Where sample images from the Kiev atlas have been made privately available to me I have added the information to the respective Benincasa Tables.
The assiduous Jens Finke has notified me (August 2016) of the following online scans:
a readable but greyscale image of the Black Sea/Eastern Mediterranean pair from a 1899 publication
a black and white version of just the Black Sea (click on the image to enlarge to medium resolution)
a small detail of the Nile delta in a recent article in Ukranian (p.361, comparing the Kiev and Budapest versions)
One trifling feature that I could not find on any of the reproductions of Benincasa's work available to me, and which may therefore be unique, is the treatment on the Kiev atlas's final sheet of the large red inscription over Ireland: IRlanda que Ibernia dicitur. Whereas the main headings for the three component parts of the British islands have, as expected, a large full-stop at either side, in this case dicitur is followed by a colon whose two elements are divided by a prominent horizontal wavy line. The almost identical iterations of his atlases must have involved endless repetition but Benincasa was still capable of introducing small modifications, or perhaps needed to do that for his sanity.
{This entry added 2 October 2017}
Archives départementales de Vaucluse (Avignon), Port 01, 3E 54, 888bis
An apparently early fragment, without signature or date [which might have been on a missing section], retrieved (damaged) from a notorial register of 1534-5.
The chart covers much of the north-west section of a normal chart, with parts of the North Sea coasts (including England), France and Spain, north-west Africa and parts of the northern Mediterranean and Adriatic. It was discovered in Avignon in 2002 but its importance was first recognised by Paul Fermon in 2015.
The Avignon chart’s dating remains uncertain, despite five years of dedicated research by Jacques Mille. His preferred date of 1310 at the latest (see 2021, p.260) has to be considered alongside the evolving knowledge of the British Isles revealed on the charts of Pietro Vesconte in the 1310s. That the Bristol Channel is indicated on the Avignon chart but not recorded by Vesconte until 1318 is not conclusive evidence of a later date for the Avignon chart since the similar outlines in each case are paired with noticeably different toponymy. In other words, the different sources that seem to have been involved point to parallel development not the clear progress that can be seen on successive Vesconte charts. {This paragraph added 17 March 2022}
For illustrations, a full description of the chart and comparison with others possibly contemporary with it, and with successive summaries of our present understanding of it, see:
Jacques Mille. De la Méditerranée à la mer Baltique. 1190-1490. Recherches 2015-2020 sur les cartes marines et les portulans [Privately published, 2021]. [A 361-page, richly illustrated summation of his research into the Avignon chart, with further conclusions about the chart's North Sea coverage.]
Jacques Mille. 'The Avignon chart. Something new in the little family of the first portolan charts' (2018). [72-page, illustrated booklet, examining in detail the recently discovered Avignon chart and proposing a reading of the northern regions (Britain, the North Sea & Baltic) which are drawn very differently than on the other early charts. Self-published at the time of the 2nd Lisbon Workshop (7-8 June 2018), in 60 copies; it can be purchased from the author (jacques.mille2 (at) @wanadoo.fr)].
Jacques Mille. 'The French Mediterranean coasts on portolan charts' (2016). [60- page, illustrated booklet, examining in detail the coastal configuration and toponymy, particularly among the earliest charts, where it is suggested that the Cortona chart might be older than the Carte Pisane. Self-published at the time of the Lisbon Workshop (6-7 June 2016), in 60 copies; it can be purchased from the author (jacques.mille2 (at) wanadoo.fr)].
Jacques Mille & Paul Fermon. 'Une carte portulan récemment découverte. Peut-être une des plus anciennes conservées? La carte d’Avignon. L’histoire d’une découverte', Brussels Map Circle website, '1 May 2017' [but released on the web in September 2017].
{This entry added 8 May 2021}
Universiteits Bibliotheek Gent, BHSL.HS.0080/2
A large section of a Catalan chart, c.1440-1460, provisionally attributed to a member of the Soler family.
In February 2021 Joaquim Alves Gaspar discovered a chart fragment in Belgium (measuring 54 x 29 cm). 'Discovered' is perhaps not the right word because this has been in the Ghent University Library since the 19th century, along with another, later fragment. There is no known provenance for those. This welcome addition to the list of surviving charts prior to 1500 is the first for several years.
It is described on the MEDEA-CHART Database, managed by Gaspar at the the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. Although the chart is worn, water-stained and faded – perhaps pointing to the reason it was discarded and presumably re-purposed – much of it is legible in the enlargeable scan offered on the MEDEA site. That also provides a coverage diagram which shows that what remains comprises the greater part of the original chart, as can be seen from the extent of the compass line network with its centre in Calabria.
As to the chart's dating and attribution, Ramon Pujades has concluded, on the basis of its toponymy and handwriting, that it is clearly a Catalan production (i.e. drawn in Palma de Majorca). It is perhaps datable to the middle years of the 15th century as the product of the Soler family (on which see Pujades's 2009 publication, La carta de Gabriel de Vallseca de 1439 (pp.312-16).
One further observation, albeit one that might seem trivial. There are occasional idiosyncratic features on the portolan charts that can serve as the hidden 'signatures' of their creators. One such was the treatment of two names, Aigues Mortes and Damiata, by separating off their initial letter and placing it on a nearby island. [On this see 'Detached initial letters'.] In the case of Aigues Mortes I had noted only a single instance where, rather than just transferring the 'A', it was the first two letters (ay) that were extracted. And that was found in the chart signed by Rafel Soler (but not dated) preserved at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
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a) 6
b) 8
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b) 0.75
c) 0.85
d) 0.95
Q3. How many small hemispheres of radius 10 cm can be made from a sphere of radius 1 m?
b) 200
c) 20000
d) 200000
Q4. x% of y% of z is y% of xz% of?
a) x
b) y
c) z
Q5. Going at 12 steps per minute, a lion covers 240m. If the step size of lion is 5 times that of deer, how much distance deer covers in an hour if deer takes 10 steps in a minute?
a) 6 km
b) 1.2 km
c) 2.4 km
d) None of these
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a) Rs. 5000
b) Rs. 15,000
c) Rs.10000
Q7. (1728+2197)/(144+169-156)
Q8. A toy train of length 10 m has to move on a circular track. What should be the minimum radius of track to avoid collision if train can move in both directions?
a) 1.59 m
b) 3.18 m
c) 10 m
Q9. A lawyer goes for a daily walk and climbs up a hill at 2 km/hr. He comes back down the slope and reaches at the bottom of the hill. If he covers 4.8 km in 2 hours, how much his speed was when he came down the hill?
a) 2 km/hr
b) 3 km/hr
c) 4 km/hr
d) 2.7 km/hr
Directions for questions 10-12:
There are 6 collinear points and 6 non collinear points on a plane.
Q10. How many triangles can be formed using these points?
c) 320
d) 200
Q11. How many quadrilaterals can be formed using these points?
Q12. How many pentagons can be formed using these points?
Q13. Three circular pipes P, Q and R are filling a tank. The ratios of the diameters of these pipes are 2:3:5, respectively. What will be the ratio of time taken to fill the empty tank when pipe P and Q are open and when only pipe R is open?
a) 1:1
b) 13:25
c) 4:9
Q14. It is often said, Rome was not built in a day. But, if there are 2000 walls in Rome and each wall has 3000 bricks. It takes 2 seconds for one worker to fix a brick. How much time would have been taken to build Rome if there were 100 such workers?
a) less than a day
b) 1-2 days
c) 2-3 days
d) 4-5 days
Q15. The ratio of ages of Raja and Raju is 2:3. If the younger has completed a silver jubilee last year, what will be the ratio of their ages after 26 years?
b) 3:4
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a) 7.381 hours
b) 25.2 hours
c) 4.672 hours
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a) Rs. 98260
b) Rs. 101320
c) Rs. 62880
d) Rs.70520
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Q19. The average of first five co-primes is
a) 40.4
c) 41.6
d) 42.7
Q20. If the radius of a sphere is 6 cm, what is the ratio of its surface area and volume?
Q21. Today is Friday. The day after 56 weeks and 3 days will be?
a) Sunday
b) Monday
c) Tuesday
d) Friday
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B, D, G, J, L, N, ______
a) Q
c) R
d) J
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a) 25125
b) 52512
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a) East
b) South-West
c) North
d) South
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a) CAPNBZSREC
b) CAPQBZSQEC
c) CAPNBZSQEC
d) CAPNBCSQEC
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a) Wife
b) cousin
c) Daughter-in-law
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Bhutan’s Kurichu Dam releases floods Assam, again in 2016
Assam · Bhutan · Dam Induced Flood Disaster
October 14, 2016 July 25, 2019 SANDRP
Above: Google Map showing relevant locations (Map by Bhim Singh Rawat of SANDRP)
Several media reports have alleged that sudden water releases from Kurichu Dam in Bhutan has led to floods in Beki and Manas rivers in Assam on Oct 13, 2016 (Thursday), affecting thousands of people in Barpeta district & also reportedly Baksa district. This is not the first time that Kurichu water releases have led to this kind of situation, it has happened in the past including in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 (150 villages affected[i]), among other instances. The Indo Bhutan joint mechanism, established in 2004-05, following the July 2004 floods, has clearly failed to effectively address this issue.
Assam’s newspaper Pratidin[ii] has reported: “Bhutan opens its sluice gates of Kurichu dam, water from its foothills flow into downstream affecting Manas National Park. Heavy rain for few days in the foothills of the Himalayan kingdom had sparked fears of fresh flooding in Manas National Park.”
The Times of India reported[iii] more details, narrating far reaching impacts, “unannounced release of water from a dam by Bhutan on Wednesday inundated large tracts of land in two districts of Assam bordering the Himalayan nation, affecting more than 24,000 population… Authorities of the two districts, Barpeta and Baksa said that there was no prior warning by Bhutan before releasing the water from its Kurichu dam, which flooded Manas and Beki rivers, the two principle tributaries of Brahmaputra river in lower Assam. Large portion of Manas National Park, a UNESCO heritage site, were inundated on Wednesday night after an embankment breached. Baksa district deputy commissioner Sanjeeb Kumar Gogoi said, “The release of the water by Bhutan was unannounced and together with the incessant rains here, Manas National Park was inundated. The water has receded today morning and no animal has been affected.” According to state disaster management authority, 12 villages in Kalgachia revenue circle in Barpeta districts were inundated by the sudden rise in water level of Beki river. Barepta district additional deputy commissioner of Tankeswar Das said that the Bordanga-Ramarpar road has been breached. A lower primary school at Bordanga has also been inundated.”
Assam Times reported on Oct 15, 2016 [x]: “Dhruva Nath, a local youth, lamented that this sudden surge has washed away the dreams of many like him who were engaged in pisciculture. Fisheries in many villages—Gyatigaon, Raghabeel, Chunbari, Kaalpani and Narayanguri received a setback as the gushing waters of Beki and Manas devastated the ponds and tanks in the districts bordering the Himalayan nation.”
Bhutan’s main English daily newspaper, Kuensel hinted about this when it said in a report dated Oct 13, 2016[iv]: “Intense low pressure developed in the Bay of Bengal causing heavy rainfall throughout the country for the past two days leading to numerous roadblocks.”
Central Water Commission’s flood forecasting site[v] reported on Oct 14, 2014, that Beki river at Beki NHC crossing was flowing at 45.25 m, above the warning level of 44.1 m and danger level of 45.1 m.
Assam has been consistently raising issues about impacts of Bhutan hydropower projects. When Prime Minister of India went to Bhutan in July 2014 to lay foundation stone for a hydropower project there, Assam Chief Minister and communities[vi] promptly wrote a letter raising concerns of Assam about impacts of these projects. However, till date there has been no downstream impact assessment of Bhutan hydropower projects on India.
Kurichu Dam: Salient features Kurichu is a 60 MW hydropower project involving a 55 m high concrete gravity dam[vii]. Its spillway has discharge capacity of 12200 cubic meters per second, which can have massive downstream impacts if the downstream area is already facing high rainfall and floods.
Worst flooding: 2004 In 2004[viii], the artificial landslide-dammed Tsatichu lake (which was formed 30 km upstream of the Kurichu Hydel Project in Bhutan) burst, and water from the reservoir flowed into two tributaries of the Brahmaputra – the Manas and the Beki – spelling disaster for the people downstream. The Kurichu Hydropower Corporation authorities opened the reservoir gates to avoid major destruction to the dam and other casualties. A significant amount of Manas’s landmass and forest cover has already been washed away following excess water release from Kurichu dam… But, the high point of the conflict was the raging flood due to the Kurichu landslide dam breakage, which caused extensive inundation, widespread devastation to standing crops, homestead, life and property, disruption of road and rail communication, public utilities, water supply installations, irrigation structures and flood control structures downstream. The Manas biosphere reserve was also affected. Highways were inundated and bridges collapsed. This was an instance of how water allowed to pass through a reservoir can lead to severe destruction in downstream areas.”
The repercussions of July 2004 floods were experienced for years[ix]. So in Nov 2004 a Joint Group of Experts (JGE) meeting on flood management between India and Bhutan was held in Bhutan (a Joint Technical Team constituted between the two countries). In April, 2005, the first meeting of the Joint Technical Team on flood management was held between the two countries. In 2007, there was a breach in Beki embankment due to choking of Manas and Hakua channels. In 2008, Report of Joint Technical Team evaluated at second JGE meeting, JTT was reconstituted.
The 2004 floods have permanently changed the situation in downstream Manas and Beki river basins as can be seen from the report of the Manas forest officials in Feb 2011, see a small excerpt below.
Extract from the Report from Manas Forest official in Feb 2011 describing the impacts of Kurichu induced floods in July 2004
Why is Indian government callous on this issue? It seems that in spite of repeated floods that India has faced due to sudden water releases from Bhutan, there is still no mechanism in place to provide advance information about such water releases from Bhutan dams, to the concerned local administration and communities. Such advance information can be hugely useful to prepare the downstream people and also can help reduce the possible damages. Nor is there a mechanism to compensate the people for losses that they suffer due to such water releases. It is high time Indian government wakes up to this reality and take necessary steps. After all, if we cannot achieve this with a friendly neighbor like Bhutan, what hopes there is for achieving this in case of other upstream countries?
SANDRP ([email protected])
[i] http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/nine-swept-away-in-assam-flash-floods-109052800188_1.html May 28 2009
[ii] http://www.pratidintime.com/news.php?s=assam-trending&id=7164&t=bhutan-deluge-inundates-manas-national-park&sld=0
[iii] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/Surprise-water-release-from-Bhutan-dam-floods-2-Assam-districts/articleshow/54837420.cms
[iv] https://www.kuenselonline.com/weather-to-improve-from-today-met-division/
[v] http://www.india-water.gov.in/ffs/flood-forecasted-bulletins/for-level-forecasted-sites/
[vi] See for example: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/assambased-organisation-opposes-bhutans-hydropower-project/article6121794.ece
[vii] http://cwprs.gov.in/WriteReadData/file/onepage%20-%20water%20resources/KURICHU%20DAM%20SPILLWAY,%20BHUTAN.pdf
[viii] https://www.thethirdpole.net/2015/11/20/flash-floods-are-burying-the-lands-on-the-india-bhutan-border-in-silt/
[ix] http://www.indiawaterportal.org/sites/indiawaterportal.org/files/kurichu.pdf
[x] http://www.assamtimes.org/node/17857
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yamunajiye says:
Dam and be damned. No better example than this.
Surely Bhutan doesn’t need all that power. A ‘happy’ country should not be making others ‘unhappy’ and in dire straits? Bhutan can certainly meet its own power needs through micro-hydro and solar / wind. AMEN | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.6420020461082458, "wiki_prob": 0.6420020461082458, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line938647"} |
Icy roads keep Cape police busy
DOUG FRASER,STAFF WRITER,
HYANNIS — None of the string of snowstorms on the Cape this week has left dangerous drifting snow, or even enough to build a snowman. But the pattern of snow changing to sleet followed by freezing conditions has turned some roads into skating rinks.
Last night's storm was one of the worst.
Police across the Cape reported a rash of spinouts and minor accidents as the storm progressed from a hard driving snow to sleet in still-freezing temperatures.
Slippery conditions made routine patrolling in Bourne a dangerous business, and at one point cruisers were put on "stationary patrol" - parked along the side of roads.
State Police in Yarmouth said Route 6 was in fair shape with very slick areas between Exits 5 and 6 and at Exit 9, where there were a lot of spinouts.
The Cape's road crews had a tough keeping up with the fast-falling snow.
In Sandwich, rescue personnel were extremely busy with calls in what they called "deplorable" road conditions. With roads that bad, extra manpower was called in for the overnight shift as a precaution against having to ask anyone to drive into the station in an emergency.
Hours of sleet iced up Nantucket roads so badly even police cruisers were spinning out and had to creep around the island on patrol.
At least four accidents, all minor, were attributed to the weather.
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At least one person saw a cause for hope in the storm. Yarmouth police reported a Mattacheese Middle School student called at 10 p.m. to ask if there would be school tomorrow.
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DENVER—The National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®), in partnership with the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), proudly announce winners of the 2020 Excellence in Personal Finance Reporting Awards. Through the organizations’ ongoing partnership to encourage and support radio, television and online news outlets to report on consumer finance issues, winners from three newsrooms have been recognized for their outstanding work.
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Statutory Authority: 24 Delaware Code, Section 3706(a)(1) (24 Del.C. §3706(a)(1))
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3700 Board of Examiners of Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists & Hearing Aid Dispensers
Pursuant to 24 Del.C. §3706(a)(1), the Board of Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers (“Board”) proposes revisions to its rules and regulations.
On October 1, 2015, proposed revisions to the rules and regulations were published in the Delaware Register of Regulations, Vol. 19, Issue 4. Specifically, the Board’s proposed amendments struck the current Section 9.2.1.4, which addresses practice by telecommunications, and added a new Section 10.0, pertaining to telepractice. The new Section 10.0 sets forth standards and requirements in order to allow licensees to engage in telepractice while protecting the public.
A public hearing was held on November 17, 2015 before the Board, and the public comment period for written comment was held open for another 15 days. The Board deliberated on the evidence submitted at its meeting on January 19, 2016. Based on those deliberations, the Board made substantive revisions to the proposed rules and regulations. Therefore, the Board strikes the rules and regulations as proposed in the October 1, 2015 Register of Regulations and proposes revised rules and regulations attached hereto as Exhibit A.
A public hearing was scheduled for November 15, 2016 but has been rescheduled for February 21, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in the second floor conference room B of the Cannon Building, 861 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, Delaware, where members of the public can offer comments. Anyone wishing to receive a copy of the proposed rules and regulations may obtain a copy from the Board of Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers, 861 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, Delaware 19904. Persons wishing to submit written comments may forward these to the Board at the above address.
In accordance with 29 Del.C. §10118(a), the final date to receive written comments will be March 8, 2017, which is 15 days following the public hearing. The Board will deliberate on all of the public comment at its next regularly scheduled meeting, at which time it will determine whether to adopt the rules and regulations as proposed or make additional changes due to the public comment.
Nature of the Proceedings
A public hearing was held before the Board on November 17, 2015 in the Cannon Building, 861 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, Delaware where members of the public were invited to offer comments on the proposed amendments to the rules and regulations. Members of the public were also invited to submit written comments. In accordance with 29 Del.C. §10118(a), the written public comment period was held open until December 2, 2015, which was 15 days following the public hearing. The Board deliberated on the proposed revisions at its regularly scheduled meeting on January 19, 2016.
Summary of the Evidence
At the November 17, 2015 hearing, the following exhibits were made part of the record:
Exhibit 1: News Journal Affidavit of Publication.
Exhibit 2: Delaware State News Affidavit of Publication.
Exhibit 3: October 22, 2015 letter from Robert Overmiller of the Governor’s Advisory Council for Exceptional Citizens.
Mr. Overmiller requested a limited exception to Section 10.2.1.2 to permit occasional telepractice sessions with a regular client in the jurisdiction where the client is located.
Exhibit 4: October 28, 2015 letter from Daniese McMullin-Powell of the State Council for Persons with Disabilities.
Ms. McMullin-Powell shared the concerns set forth in Exhibit 3.
Exhibit 5: November 6, 2015 letter from Judith Page, of the American Speech Language Hearing Association.
Ms. Page expressed concern regarding the requirement that the client be located in Delaware. She also commented that Delaware licensees, who may be recognized in their field, would be limited to providing services to clients located in Delaware. Ms. Page made a number of suggestions for inclusion in the proposed rules and regulation: Telepractice services must be equivalent to face-to-face services; licensees must comply with professional standards and must have the knowledge and skill to deliver services by telepractice; the use of technology must be appropriate for each client; include calibration of instruments; assess client’s candidacy; provide written notification of the right to refuse services by telepractice; and maintain the confidentiality of records;
Exhibit 6: Undated written comments from the Delaware Speech Hearing Association.
The comments include a request that Section 10.2.1.2 be amended to reflect the client’s legal status as a Delaware resident and to include a consultation exemption.
Exhibit 7: November 17, 2015 email and written comments from Illene Courtright.
Ms. Courtright objected to the geographic borders requirement and suggested using instead the legal resident status of the client. She requested an exemption to this requirement for episodic services or informal consultation. Ms. Courtright commented that the informed consent requirement should include the risks and limitations of telepractice.
In addition, testimony was presented, as follows:
Leia Heckman, from the Delaware Speech Hearing Association, addressed the Board regarding her concerns with the proposed regulations. Specifically, Ms. Heckman noted that services provided by telepractice must be equivalent to services face-to-face. Ms. Heckman objected to the requirement that the client must be located in the State of Delaware. This proposed language would limit services for clients who leave the state. Ms. Heckman suggested inclusion of ASHA’s model language pertaining to informed consent. Ms. Heckman advised the Board that DSHA supports ASHA’s model language, and requested that the Board consider adopting the consultation exemption.
Christine Cook, a Delaware speech/language pathologist, addressed the Board regarding her concerns pertaining to proposed Section 10.2.4.2, which requires that consultations be conducted face-to-face. Ms. Cook stated that the Board had advocated for an increase in access to services. This section will limit access. Clients should be able to consult with out of state providers by telepractice. Ms. Cook requested the elimination of Section 10.2.4.2.
Liesel Looney, an audiologist from the Nemours Children’s Hospital, addressed the Board with her concerns pertaining to proposed Section 10.2.4.2. Ms. Looney reported that there is only one audiologist in Kent and Sussex County who is conducting follow-ups for newborns who fail hearing screenings. Due to the shortage, children are not getting subsequent follow-up appointments. Section 10.2.4.2 would prevent the provision of services by telepractice to this population. There is a need for providing remote services to families who live far from the hospital and lack transportation. Children in underserved areas aren’t getting infant hearing screenings and timely intervention. The professional should be responsible for assessing appropriate care.
During the 15-day window for submission of additional written comments, as required by 29 Del.C. §10118(a), the Board received the following documents, which were marked as Exhibits on January 19, 2016:
Exhibit 8: December 1, 2015 letter from Michael Kurliand of Nemours, Alfed I. DuPont Hospital for Children.
Mr. Kurliand objected to inclusion of Sections 10.2.4.2 and Section 10.2.4.1. These sections require face-to-face meetings for initial evaluation, re-evaluations and scheduled discharges. Mr. Kurliand stated that these Sections will dramatically limit access to care, particularly in underserved southern Delaware. Mr. Kurliand also objected to Section 10.2.1.2, which requires clients to be located within the borders of Delaware. Mr. Kurliand suggested that the proposed rules and regulations be amended to permit a Delaware licensee to follow established patients that are not physically in the state of Delaware.
Exhibit 9: December 1, 2015 letter from Yell Inverso of Nemours, Alfred I. DuPont Hospital for Children.
Ms. Inverso objected to the face-to-face requirements in Section 10.2.4.2. Ms. Inverso stated that this language will limit access to care for many patients, including patients in southern Delaware. Ms. Inverso commented on the impact on audiology services. Due to the limited access to audiology services in southern Delaware, infants are not receiving hearing screenings and recommended follow-up services.
Findings and Conclusions
The public was given notice and an opportunity to provide the Board with comments in writing and by testimony at the public hearing on the proposed amendments to the Board's rules and regulations.
Pursuant to 24 Del.C. §3706(a)(1), the Board has statutory authority to promulgate rules and regulations. The proposed changes seek to establish standards for the delivery of services by telepractice for the professions regulated by the Board.
During deliberations, the Board considered the testimony of witnesses and the documents marked as exhibits. The Board addressed the concerns presented through this evidence. The Board discussed the objection to proposed Section 10.2.1, which requires that the licensee shall have an active Delaware license, and during telepractice treatment, the client shall be located within the borders of the State of Delaware. Certain individuals offering public comment expressed reservations with respect to continuity of care and limiting access to needed services.
The Board declined to amend Section 10.2.1. Care occurs where the client is physically located. A licensee who is licensed in Delaware only would be engaging in unlicensed practice if permitted to treat a client who has left Delaware and is located in another state. The Board would have no jurisdiction with respect to care provided in another state. Section 10.2.1 serves the interests of public protection by ensuring that clients located in Delaware receive care from practitioners properly licensed by the Board.
The Board also addressed the benefits and disadvantages regarding Section 10.2.4.2, which requires that all evaluations be done in a face to face setting. The Board recognized the access problem presented by this language, and decided to amend this Section to specify that only initial evaluations must be performed face to face and not through telepractice. The method of treatment for subsequent evaluations will be left to the discretion of the licensed professional.
The Board noted that other concerns voiced by members of the public are addressed in proposed Section 10.0. In the delivery of services by telepractice, the licensee must meet all standards and requirements applicable to onsite care. See Section 10.2.4.3. The licensee who deliver services by telepractice must possess the specialized knowledge and skills needed for the particular technology. See Section 10.2.4.5. The licensee is responsible for determining that telepractice is appropriate for the particular client. See Section 10.2.4.1. The proposed rules and regulations also require that licensees obtain written, informed consent which includes an outline of the risks of telepractice. See Section 10.2.2.
Finally, the Board decided to strike the last sentence of Rule 10.1 as unnecessary.
1.1 Applications and other forms may be obtained from and be returned to the Division of Professional Regulation (Division). Please address correspondence to the Board: ATTN: SLP-AUD-HAD and mail to 861 Silver Lake Blvd., Ste. 203, Dover, DE 19904-2467. Information and forms are also available on the Division’s web site dpr.delaware.gov.
1.2 Fees required by statute shall be made payable to: “State of Delaware” and remitted to the Division. No license shall be issued until all required fees are paid.
1.3 The Administrative Specialist assigned to the Board by the Division performs support functions and serves as the contact person for the Board.
6 DE Reg. 1340 (4/1/03)
11 DE Reg. 814 (12/01/07)
2.0 Licensure Requirements for Speech‑Language Pathologists and Audiologists
2.1.1 To be eligible for a license as a Speech/Language Pathologist, the applicant must submit verification by an official transcript of completion of at least a master's degree or its equivalent, from an accredited college or university with major emphasis in speech‑language pathology, communication disorders or speech‑language and hearing science.
2.1.2 To be eligible for a license as an Audiologist, the applicant must submit verification by an official transcript of completion of a doctoral degree from an accredited college or university.
2.2 Clinical Practicum for Speech/Language Pathologists
2.2.1 The Speech/Language Pathology applicant must have completed a minimum of 400 clock hours of supervised clinical practicum. Clinical observation may qualify for up to 25 of the hours in the supervised clinical practicum.
2.2.2 A minimum of 250 clock hours in the area of specialty of the supervised clinical practicum must have been obtained at the graduate level.
2.3 Clinical Fellowship (CF) for Speech/Language Pathologists
2.3.1 The Speech/Language Pathology or Audiology applicant must have the equivalent of nine (9) months of full‑time or eighteen (18) months of part time (defined as 15‑20 hours per week) supervision in the major professional area in which the license is being sought. The CFY must start after completion of the academic and clinical practicum requirements.
* Supervision is defined as direct observation consisting of 36 supervisory activities, including 18 one hour on‑site observations and 18 other monitoring activities. (From standards adopted by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in 1985 and revised in 2009, which can be found at www.asha.org)
2.4 National Examination
2.4.1 The Speech/Language Pathology and Audiology applicant must have completed and passed the national examination approved by the Division of Professional Regulation for the area of specialty with at least the minimum nationally recommended score. Scores must be sent directly from the testing service to the Division of Professional Regulation.
2.4.2 A Speech/Language Pathology or Audiology applicant with a temporary license is permitted to complete the appropriate national examination during the period of the temporary license.
2.5 Application Process‑Temporary Licensure
2.5.1 An applicant must complete a notarized application for temporary licensure. Items which must be provided to the Division of Professional Regulation include:
2.5.1.1 Official Transcript(s);
2.5.1.2 Payment of appropriate fees.
2.5.1.3 In addition, Speech/Language Pathologist applicants must also provide:
2.5.1.3.1 Documents verifying the appropriate number and level of supervised clinical practicum hours;
2.5.1.3.2 A CF plan on a form approved by the Board, signed by the licensed professional who will provide the supervision;
2.5.2 A temporary license is valid for one year from the date of issuance and may be renewed for one year in extenuating circumstances upon application to the Board. The licensee shall take the examination at least once prior to submitting a request for renewal of the temporary license. Requests for Board consideration of a renewal shall be made in writing and sent to the Division of Professional Regulation 60 days prior to expiration.
2.6 Application Process ‑Permanent Licensure
2.6.1 Speech/Language Pathology and Audiology applicants must complete the application on a form approved by the Board and submit the appropriate fee.
2.6.2 An applicant who has ASHA Certification must comply with subsSection 2.6.1 and submit a copy of current ASHA certification.
2.6.3 An applicant who is currently licensed in another state, the District of Columbia, or territory of the United States whose standards for licensure are substantially similar to those of this state, must comply with 24 Del.C. §3710. Applicants for reciprocal licensure from states not substantially similar to this state shall provide proof of practice for a minimum of five years after licensure in addition to meeting the other qualifications in 24 Del.C. §3710. Verification of practice shall be by notarized letter from the employer(s).
2.6.4 A Speech/Language Pathologist applicant who has completed the supervised CF in Delaware and has a current temporary license, must submit the following documentation to the Division of Professional Regulation 30 days prior to expiration of the temporary license:
2.6.4.1 proof of completion of the CF,
2.6.4.2 national examination score unless previously provided, and
2.6.4.3 licensure fee.
6 DE Reg. 1340 (04/01/03)
13 DE Reg. 1097 (02/01/10)
3.0 Licensure Requirements for Hearing Aid Dispensers
3.1 Delaware-licensed Audiologists are authorized to dispense hearing aids, pursuant to 24 Del.C. §3702(9), and are not required to obtain a separate Hearing Aid Dispensing license. All other applicants shall meet the following requirements:
3.2 Original Licensure
3.2.1 Education: Applicants must have earned a high school diploma or its equivalent.
3.2.2 Training:
3.2.2.1 Applicants shall complete six (6) months of training. The Board will not authorize applicants to take the exam until the training is complete.
3.2.2.2 Training shall be completed under the direct supervision of a Delaware-licensed Hearing Aid Dispenser or Delaware-licensed Audiologist. “Direct supervision” means direct, on-site observations of the applicant by the supervisor. Applicants shall be under direct supervision for 100% of the time during the first two (2) months, 50% of the time during the subsequent two (2) months, and 25% of the time during the final two (2) months of the training period.
3.2.2.3 Applicants shall hold a valid, active temporary license during the training period. Training conducted while the applicant is without a valid, active temporary license will not count toward fulfillment of the six-month training requirement.
3.2.2.4 Upon completion of the training period, temporary Hearing Aid Dispensing licensees must submit verification of completion of the training period on a Board-approved form, which shall include the notarized signature of the Delaware-licensed sponsor stating that the training was completed under his or her direct supervision in accordance with Regulation subsection 3.2.2.2. Upon receipt and approval of the training verification, the Board will authorize the applicant to take the examination.
3.2.3 National Examination
3.2.3.1 Applicants for Hearing Aid Dispensing licensure must have completed and passed the national examination approved by the Division, in accordance with scores as recommended by the national testing service, National Institute for Hearing Instruments Studies (NIHIS), or its successor. Upon confirmation from the testing service that an applicant has passed the exam, the Board will issue a Hearing Aid Dispensing license to the applicant.
3.2.3.2 Applicants who fail two (2) examinations may not be reexamined for a period of one (1) year following the second failure. After a second exam failure, an applicant must complete an additional training period pursuant to Regulation subsection 3.2.2 before the Board will grant authorization to retake the exam.
3.3 Temporary Licensure
3.3.1 To obtain a temporary license, applicants must complete the Board-approved licensure application and submit:
3.3.1.1 verification of a high school diploma or its equivalent,
3.3.1.2 payment of the appropriate fees, and
3.3.1.3 a plan for completing the six (6) month training period, which shall include the notarized signature of a Delaware-licensed sponsor stating a willingness to provide direct supervision and training.
3.3.2 A temporary license is valid for one (1) year from the date of issuance and may be renewed once for an additional one-year period in extenuating circumstances upon approval by the Board. Requests for Board consideration of a renewal shall be made in writing and sent to the Division at least 60 days prior to expiration.
3.34 Reciprocal Licensure
An applicant who is currently licensed in another state, the District of Columbia, or territory of the United States, whose standards for licensure are substantially similar to those of this state, must comply with 24 Del.C. §3710. Applicants for reciprocal licensure from states not substantially similar to this state shall provide proof of practice for a minimum of five years after licensure in addition to meeting the other qualifications in 24 Del.C. §3710. Verification of practice shall be by notarized letter from the employer(s).
4.0 Expired Licenses and Inactive Status
4.1 Expired Licenses
4.1.1 A holder of an expired license may renew the license within one year of the date the renewal was due by fulfilling all of the renewal requirements and paying the late fee established by the Division of Professional Regulation.
4.2 Inactive Status
4.2.1 A licensee may apply to the Board for inactive status for up to five years. The license may be reactivated upon application on a form approved by the Board and proof of CEs completed within the preceding 24 months as required by Regulation subsection 8.2.3, and payment of the fee established by the Division of Professional Regulation.
5.0 Requirements for Audiology Aides
5.1 Certification
5.1.1 Certification of the Audiology Aide must be by the Council of Accreditation of Occupational Hearing Conservationists, or its equivalent, with documentation. The supervising Delaware-licensed audiologist must annually register each Audiology Aide using a form approved by the Board.
5.2 Direct Supervision
5.2.1 An Audiology Aide assists a licensed audiologist in professional activities with direct supervision by the audiologist. Direct supervision requires the presence of the supervising audiologist on the premises when the aide is performing professional activities.
5.3 Duties of the Audiology Aide
5.3.1 Duties of the Audiology Aide must be specified by the supervising audiologist and may include the following:
5.3.1.1 Air conduction pure tone assessment and data recording.
5.3.1.2 Hearing screenings.
5.3.1.3 Assisting with conditioning techniques.
5.3.1.4 Cursory otoscopy.
5.3.1.5 Basic hearing aid maintenance.
5.3.1.6 Routine instrument sterilization.
5.3.1.7 Biologic and electroacoustic assessment of the audiometer.
5.3.1.8 Clerical support.
5.3.1.9 Participation with the professional in research projects, in service training, or similar endeavors.
5.3.1.10 Other duties as may be appropriately determined with training from and direct supervision of the Delaware licensed audiologist.
6.0 Requirements for Speech/Language Pathology Aides
6.1.1 A Speech/Language Pathology Aide must have a minimum of a high school diploma or its equivalent.
6.2.1 A Speech/Language Pathology Aide assists a licensed Speech/Language Pathologist in professional activities with direct supervision of the Speech/Language Pathologist. Direct supervision requires the presence of the supervising Speech/Language Pathologist at all times where an aide is assisting with testing, and/or treatment.
6.3 Duties of the Speech/Language Pathology Aide
6.3.1 Duties of the Speech/Language Pathology Aide must be specified by the supervising Speech/Language Pathologist and may include the following:
6.3.1.1 Assisting with testing or treatment.
6.3.1.3 Client escort.
6.3.1.4 Preparation of therapeutic materials
6.3.1.5 Equipment maintenance.
6.3.1.7 Other duties as may be appropriately determined with training from and direct supervision of the Delaware licensed Speech/Language Pathologist.
7.0 Electronic Equipment Calibration
7.1 Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers shall ensure the annual calibration of the electronic equipment they use to assess hearing. Calibration shall be performed by a certified professional consistent with the standards set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
7.2 Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers shall indicate by attestation in the course of license renewal whether they have complied with regulation subsection 7.1 Audiologists who do not have such equipment shall attest to that fact during the course of renewal.
8.0 Continuing Education For All Licensees:
8.1 Philosophy
8.1.1 Continuing education is required by the Board to maintain professional licensure in the fields of Speech/Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing. Continuing education requirements arise from an awareness that these fields are in a continual state of transition due to the introduction of new philosophies and the refinement of already existing knowledge. Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers should continually strive to update their clinical skills in an effort to deliver high quality services.
8.1.2 The Board is keenly aware of existing educational opportunities in Delaware and neighboring states and has established regulations which will provide continuing education credit as effortlessly as possible while assuring quality instruction. Credit will be given for participation in a variety of activities that increase knowledge and enhance professional growth.
8.1.3 These regulations recognize the financial and time limitations of Delaware's professionals while assuring continued appropriate services to those individuals who require them.
8.2 Continuing Education Criteria
8.2.1 One continuing education contact hour (CE) is defined as 60 minutes of attendance/participation in an approved continuing education activity unless otherwise stated.(Therefore, credits and continuing education units (CEUs) issued by various organizations must be translated. e.g., 1.0 ASHA CEU = 10 CE's)
8.2.2 The required number of CEs varies with the date of issuance of license, certification and/or professional status. Effective as of the license renewal period beginning August 1, 2009, licensees must meet the following CE requirements:
8.2.2.1 New License: There is no CE requirement for a license issued for less than one year. If a license would cover more than one year, but less than 2 years, the licensee is required to obtain 15 CEs or one‑half of the required total hours.
8.2.2.2 Single License: Individuals with a license in only one (1) area of specialty must obtain a minimum of 30 CEs each two‑year license renewal period.
8.2.2.3 Dual License: Individuals with licenses in two (2) areas of specialty must obtain a minimum of 30 CEs during each two-year license renewal period, with 15 CEs obtained in each specialty area. One course may be split between specialty areas to fulfill multiple CE requirements. Content must be shown to be relevant to those areas.
8.2.2.4 Temporary License: All CE requirements will be waived for temporary licensees; however, individuals are encouraged to participate in continuing education activities during their CFY period.
8.2.2.5 Hardship. An applicant for license renewal may be granted an extension of time in which to complete CE hours or a total or partial waiver of CE requirements upon a showing of hardship. Hardship may include, but is not limited to, disability, illness, extended absence from the country and exceptional family responsibilities. No extension of time or waiver shall be granted unless the licensee submits a written request to the Board prior to the expiration of the license.
8.2.3 CE courses must focus on the enhancement of clinical skills and professional growth as defined below.
8.2.3.1 Clinical Skills: conferences, workshops, courses, etc., that expand a licensee’s scope of practice by enhancing skills in the areas of prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the client (minimum of 20 CEs per licensure renewal period).
8.2.3.2 Professional Growth: conferences, workshops, courses, etc., that may not directly impact on clinical services to the population being served but are of interest to the licensee and will allow the licensee the opportunity to stay abreast of current trends in the profession or related fields of interest (maximum of 10 CEs per licensure renewal period).
8.2.4 All CE activities must be approved by the Board. A licensee or CE course sponsor may request advance approval from the Board by submitting a completed Board Approval form. Approval may be requested after the conclusion of a course, but there is no guarantee the course will be approved.
8.2.5 CE is required for license renewal and shall be completed by July 31 of odd-numbered years.
8.2.5.1 Proof of continuing education is satisfied with an attestation by the licensee that he or she has satisfied the requirements of Rule Section 8.0
8.2.5.2 Attestation may be completed online. In the alternative, paper renewal documents that contain the attestation of completion can be submitted.
8.2.6 Random audits will be performed by the Board to ensure compliance with the CE requirements. The Board will determine the percentage of licensees to be audited.
8.2.6.1 The Board will notify licensees within sixty (60) days after July 31 of each biennial renewal period that they have been selected for audit.
8.2.6.2 Licensees selected for random audit shall be required to submit verification within twenty (20) days of receipt of notification of selection for audit.
8.2.7 Verification shall include such information necessary for the Board to assess whether the course or other activity meets the CE requirements in Section 8.0. While course brochures may be used to verify CE hours, they are not considered to be acceptable proof for use of verification of course attendance. Verification must include, but is not limited to, the following information:
8.2.7.1 Date of CE course;
8.2.7.2 Instructor of CE course;
8.2.7.3 Sponsor of CE course;
8.2.7.4 Title of CE course; and
8.2.7.5 Number of hours of CE course.
8.2.7.6 Certificate of completion and/or ASHA or American Academy of Audiology (AAA) continuing education registry documenting course completion.
8.2.8 In response to the audit, audiologists and hearing aid dispensers shall submit documentation of calibration of electronic equipment used to assess hearing, as set forth in Rule Section 7.0.
8.2.9 Licensees who are not audited shall retain their CE documentation for three (3) years after renewal.
8.2.10 Licensees who renew their license under the late renewal provision shall be audited for CE completion (and equipment calibration, if applicable). These licensees shall submit documents that evidence satisfactory completion of their CE requirements (and annual equipment calibration pursuant to regulation Section 7.0, if applicable) for the prior licensure period.
8.2.11 The Board shall review all documentation submitted by licensees pursuant to the CE audit. If the Board determines that the licensee has met the CE requirements, his or her license shall remain in effect. If the Board determines that the licensee has not met the CE requirements, the licensee shall be notified and a hearing may be held pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act. The hearing will be conducted to determine if there are any extenuating circumstances justifying the noncompliance with the CE requirements. Unjustified noncompliance with the CE requirements set forth in these rules and regulations shall constitute a violation of 24 Del.C. §3715(a)(7) and the licensee may be subject to one or more of the disciplinary sanctions set forth in 24 Del.C. §3716.
8.3 Acceptable CE Courses/Activities
8.3.1 CE activities sponsored by accredited professional organizations, such as ASHA or AAA, are acceptable, provided the topics are relevant to the improvement of the licensee’s clinical skills or professional growth as defined in Rule subsection 8.2.3.
8.3.2 A licensee may receive up to three (3) CE’s for training obtained from a colleague who, after attending a professional conference, gives a formal presentation of the information from the conference after developing an agenda and outline.
8.3.3 University/College coursework for academic credit in the field of Speech/ Language Pathology, Audiology, or Hearing Aid Dispensing. A course description must be submitted to the Board for approval. (1 undergraduate credit = minimum of 3 CE’s; 1 graduate credit = minimum of 5 CE’s)
8.3.4 Professional presentations. A presentation summary must be submitted to the Board for approval. Credit may be given for a presentation only once during a licensure period. (1 hour of presentation = 3 CE's)
8.3.5 Professional publication in related specialty journals. A reprint of the publication must be submitted to the Board for approval.
8.3.6 Other continuing education may be approved by the Board with documentation of content.
8.3.7 Excluded are any job related duties in the workplace such as staff meetings, CPR, etc.
9.0 Code of Ethics for Speech-Language Pathologists, Audiologists, and Hearing Aid Dispensers
9.1 PREAMBLE. The preservation of the highest standards of conduct and integrity is vital to achieving the statutory declaration of objectives in 24 Del.C. §3701. Adopting a code of ethics by regulation puts licensees on notice of the kinds of activity that violate the level of care and protection to which the clients are entitled. The provisions are not intended to be all-inclusive but rather they should serve as examples of obligations that must be satisfied to maintain minimum standards.
9.2 Standards of Professional Conduct
9.2.1 A licensee who violates the following Standards of Professional Conduct may be guilty of illegal, negligent, or incompetent practice and disciplined pursuant to 24 Del.C. §3715(a)(2).
9.2.1.1 Licensees shall provide all services competently. Competent service refers to the use of reasonable care and diligence ordinarily employed by similarly licensed individuals.
9.2.1.2 Licensees shall use every resource, including referral, to provide quality service.
9.2.1.3 Licensees shall maintain reasonable documentation of professional services rendered.
9.2.1.4 Licensees shall not evaluate or treat a client with speech, language, or hearing disorders solely by correspondence. Correspondence includes telecommunication.
9.2.1.5 Licensees shall delegate responsibility only to qualified individuals as permitted by law with appropriate supervision.
9.2.1.65 Licensees who have evidence that a practitioner has violated the Code of Ethics or other law or regulation shall present that information by complaint to the Division of Professional Regulation for investigation.
9.3 Standards of Professional Integrity.
9.3.1 A licensee who violates the following Standards of Professional Integrity may be guilty of consumer fraud, deception, restraint of competition, or price-fixing and disciplined pursuant to 24 Del.C. §3715(a)(6).
9.3.1.1 Licensees shall not charge for services not rendered nor misrepresent the services or products dispensed.
9.3.1.2 Licensees shall inform clients of the nature and possible effects of services. Care must be taken to speak to a client in lay terms that he or she can understand.
9.3.1.3 Licensees may use clients in research or as subjects of teaching demonstrations only with their informed consent. An informed consent must be explained and written in lay terms.
9.3.1.4 Licensees shall inform clients in any matter where there is or may be a conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest may be found when a client is steered to a particular provider by one with an expectation of financial gain (kickbacks) or a provider is involved in double dipping by providing services in a private practice that he or she is obligated to provide though public employment (double-dipping).
9.3.1.5 Licensees shall make no guarantees of the results of any product or procedure but may make a reasonable statement of prognosis.
9.3.1.6 Licensees shall provide services or dispense products only when benefits can reasonably be expected.
9.3.1.7 Licensees shall not engage in misrepresentation, dishonesty, fraud, or deceit. Misrepresentation includes statements likely to mislead or an omission of material information.
9.3.1.8 Licensees who advertise shall provide information in a truthful manner that is direct and not likely to mislead the public. Any written disclaimer or condition that limits or modifies an offer of services or merchandise must be provided in a clear and conspicuous manner in a type size that is at least one-half the size of the type used in making the offer of services or merchandise.
9.3.2 A licensee who violates the following Standards of Professional Integrity may be guilty of misrepresentation, impersonation, or facilitating unlawful practice and disciplined pursuant to 24 Del.C. §3715(a)(1).
9.3.2.1 Licensees shall accurately represent any credentials, education, and experience to the public.
9.3.2.2 A licensee who has evidence that an individual is practicing the profession without a license in violation of 24 Del.C. §3707 has a duty to report that information to the Division of Professional Regulation.
9.4 Miscellaneous Professional Standards
9.4.1 A licensee who violates the following Professional Standards may be subject to disciplinary action under 24 Del.C. §3715(a)(7)
9.4.1.1 Licensees shall respect the privacy of clients and not reveal, without written authorization, any professional or personal information unless required by law.
9.4.1.2 Licensees shall not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.
9.4.1.3 Licensees shall offer services and products on their merits and should refrain from making disparaging comments about competing practitioners or their services and products.
10.0 Telepractice
10.1 Telepractice is the application of telecommunications technology to the delivery of speech/language pathology, audiology and hearing aid dispensing professional services at a distance by linking clinician to client or clinician to clinician for intervention and/or consultation, subject to subsection 10.2.4.5, intervention and/or consultation.
10.2 The Speech/Language Pathologist, Audiologist, or Hearing Aid Dispenser (referred to as “licensee” for the purpose of this section) who provides treatment through telepractice shall meet the following requirements:
10.2.1 Location of client during treatment through telepractice.
10.2.1.1 The licensee shall have an active Delaware license in good standing to provide services through telepractice in the state of Delaware.
10.2.1.2 During the telepractice treatment session, the client shall be located within the borders of the State of Delaware.
10.2.2 Informed consent.
10.2.2.1 Before services are provided through telepractice, the licensee shall obtain written, informed consent from the client, or other appropriate person with authority to make health care treatment decisions for the client. At minimum, the informed consent shall inform the client and document acknowledgement of the risk and limitations of:
10.2.2.1.1 The use of electronic communications in the provision of care;
10.2.2.1.2 The potential breach of confidentiality, or inadvertent access, of protected health information using electronic communication in the provision of care; and
10.2.2.1.3 The potential disruption of electronic communication in the use of telepractice.
10.2.3 Confidentiality: The licensee shall ensure that the electronic communication is secure to maintain confidentiality of the client’s health and/or educational information as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other applicable Federal and State laws. Confidentiality shall be maintained through appropriate processes, practices and technology, including disposal of electronic equipment and data.
10.2.4 Competence and scope of practice.
10.2.4.1 The licensee shall be responsible for determining and documenting that telepractice is an appropriate level of care for the client only after an initial face to face evaluation.
10.2.4.2 Initial evaluations shall be performed face to face and not through telepractice.
10.2.4.3 The licensee shall comply with the Board’s law and rules and regulations and all current standards of care requirements applicable to onsite care.
10.2.4.4 The licensee shall limit the practice of telepractice to the area of competence in which proficiency has been gained through education, training and experience.
10.2.4.5 Licensees who deliver telepractice services must possess specialized knowledge and skills in selecting interventions that are appropriate to the technology and that take into consideration client and disorder variables.
10.2.4.6 The licensee shall document in the file or record which services were provided by telepractice.
101.0 Voluntary Treatment Option for Chemically Dependent or Impaired Professionals
101.1 If the report is received by the chairperson of the regulatory Board, that chairperson shall immediately notify the Director of Professional Regulation or his/her designate of the report. If the Director of Professional Regulation receives the report, he/she shall immediately notify the chairperson of the regulatory Board, or that chairperson's designate or designates.
101.2 The chairperson of the regulatory Board or that chairperson's designate or designates shall, within 7 days of receipt of the report, contact the individual in question and inform him/her in writing of the report, provide the individual written information describing the Voluntary Treatment Option, and give him/her the opportunity to enter the Voluntary Treatment Option.
101.3 In order for the individual to participate in the Voluntary Treatment Option, he/she shall agree to submit to a voluntary drug and alcohol screening and evaluation at a specified laboratory or health care facility. This initial evaluation and screen shall take place within 30 days following notification to the professional by the participating Board chairperson or that chairperson's designate(s).
101.4 A regulated professional with chemical dependency or impairment due to addiction to drugs or alcohol may enter into the Voluntary Treatment Option and continue to practice, subject to any limitations on practice the participating Board chairperson or that chairperson's designate or designates or the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation or his/her designate may, in consultation with the treating professional, deem necessary, only if such action will not endanger the public health, welfare or safety, and the regulated professional enters into an agreement with the Director of Professional Regulation or his/her designate and the chairperson of the participating Board or that chairperson's designate for a treatment plan and progresses satisfactorily in such treatment program and complies with all terms of that agreement. Treatment programs may be operated by professional Committees and Associations or other similar professional groups with the approval of the Director of Professional Regulation and the chairperson of the participating Board.
101.5 Failure to cooperate fully with the participating Board chairperson or that chairperson's designate or designates or the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation or his/her designate in regard to the Voluntary Treatment Option or to comply with their requests for evaluations and screens may disqualify the regulated professional from the provisions of the Voluntary Treatment Option, and the participating Board chairperson or that chairperson's designate or designates shall cause to be activated an immediate investigation and institution of disciplinary proceedings, if appropriate, as outlined in subsection 101.8 of this section.
101.6 The Voluntary Treatment Option may require a regulated professional to enter into an agreement which includes, but is not limited to, the following provisions:
101.6.1 Entry of the regulated professional into a treatment program approved by the participating Board. Board approval shall not require that the regulated professional be identified to the Board. Treatment and evaluation functions must be performed by separate agencies to assure an unbiased assessment of the regulated professional's progress.
101.6.2 Consent to the treating professional of the approved treatment program to report on the progress of the regulated professional to the chairperson of the participating Board or to that chairperson's designate or designates or to the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation or his/her designate at such intervals as required by the chairperson of the participating Board or that chairperson's designate or designates or the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation or his/her designate, and such person making such report will not be liable when such reports are made in good faith and without malice.
101.6.3 Consent of the regulated professional, in accordance with applicable law, to the release of any treatment information from anyone within the approved treatment program.
101.6.4 Agreement by the regulated professional to be personally responsible for all costs and charges associated with the Voluntary Treatment Option and treatment program(s). In addition, the Division of Professional Regulation may assess a fee to be paid by the regulated professional to cover administrative costs associated with the Voluntary Treatment Option. The amount of the fee imposed under this subparagraph shall approximate and reasonably reflect the costs necessary to defray the expenses of the participating Board, as well as the proportional expenses incurred by the Division of Professional Regulation in its services on behalf of the Board in addition to the administrative costs associated with the Voluntary Treatment Option.
101.6.5 Agreement by the regulated professional that failure to satisfactorily progress in such treatment program shall be reported to the participating Board's chairperson or his/her designate or designates or to the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation or his/ her designate by the treating professional who shall be immune from any liability for such reporting made in good faith and without malice.
101.6.6 Compliance by the regulated professional with any terms or restrictions placed on professional practice as outlined in the agreement under the Voluntary Treatment Option.
101.7 The regulated professional's records of participation in the Voluntary Treatment Option will not reflect disciplinary action and shall not be considered public records open to public inspection. However, the participating Board may consider such records in setting a disciplinary sanction in any future matter in which the regulated professional's chemical dependency or impairment is an issue.
101.8 The participating Board's chairperson, his/her designate or designates or the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation or his/her designate may, in consultation with the treating professional at any time during the Voluntary Treatment Option, restrict the practice of a chemically dependent or impaired professional if such action is deemed necessary to protect the public health, welfare or safety.
101.9 If practice is restricted, the regulated professional may apply for unrestricted licensure upon completion of the program.
101.10 Failure to enter into such agreement or to comply with the terms and make satisfactory progress in the treatment program shall disqualify the regulated professional from the provisions of the Voluntary Treatment Option, and the participating Board shall be notified and cause to be activated an immediate investigation and disciplinary proceedings as appropriate.
101.11 Any person who reports pursuant to this section in good faith and without malice shall be immune from any civil, criminal or disciplinary liability arising from such reports, and shall have his/her confidentiality protected if the matter is handled in a nondisciplinary matter.
101.12 Any regulated professional who complies with all of the terms and completes the Voluntary Treatment Option shall have his/her confidentiality protected unless otherwise specified in a participating Board's rules and regulations. In such an instance, the written agreement with the regulated professional shall include the potential for disclosure and specify those to whom such information may be disclosed.
112.0 Crimes substantially related to the practice of speech/language pathology, audiology, and hearing aid dispensing.
112.1 Conviction of any of the following crimes, or of the attempt to commit or of a conspiracy to commit or conceal or of the solicitation to commit any of the following crimes, is deemed to be a crime substantially related to the practice of speech/language pathology, audiology, and hearing aid dispensing in the State of Delaware without regard to the place of conviction:
112.1.1 Assault in the second degree. 11 Del.C. §612.
112.1.2 Assault in the first degree. 11 Del.C. §613.
112.1.3 Assault by abuse or neglect. 11 Del.C. §615.
112.1.4 Terroristic threatening; felony. 11 Del.C. §621
112.1.5 Murder by abuse or neglect in the second degree. 11 Del.C. §633.
112.1.6 Murder by abuse or neglect in the first degree. 11 Del.C. §634.
112.1.7 Murder in the second degree. 11 Del.C. §635.
112.1.8 Murder in the first degree. 11 Del.C. §636.
112.1.9 Unlawful Sexual Contact in the first degree. 11 Del.C. 769
112.1.10 Rape in the fourth degree. 11 Del.C. §770
112.1.11 Rape in the third degree. 11 Del.C. §771
112.1.12 Rape in the second degree. 11 Del.C. §772
112.1.13 Rape in the first degree. 11 Del.C. §773
112.1.14 Sexual extortion. 11 Del.C. §776
112.1.15 Continuous sexual abuse of a child. 11 Del.C. §778
112.1.16 Dangerous crime against a child. 11 Del.C. §777
112.1.17 Sex offender unlawful sexual conduct against a child. 11 Del.C. §777A
112.1.18 Sexual abuse of a child by a person in a position of trust, authority or supervision in the first degree. 11 Del.C. §778
112.1.19 Sexual abuse of a child by a person in a position of trust, authority or supervision in the second degree. 11 Del.C. §778A
112.1.20 Kidnapping in the second degree. 11 Del.C. §783
112.1.21 Kidnapping in the first degree. 11 Del.C. §783A
112.1.22 Identity theft. 11 Del.C. §854
112.1.23 Forgery. 11 Del.C. §861
112.1.24 Insurance fraud. 11 Del.C. §913
112.1.25 Health care fraud. 11 Del.C. §913A
112.1.26 Dealing in children. 11 Del.C. §1100
112.1.27 Endangering the welfare of a child. 11 Del.C. §1102
112.1.28 Crime against vulnerable adult. 11 Del.C. §1105
112.1.29 Sexual exploitation of a child. 11 Del.C. §1108
112.1.30 Unlawful dealing in child pornography. 11 Del.C. §1109
112.1.31 Possession of child pornography. 11 Del.C. §1111
112.1.32 Sexual offenders; prohibitions from school zones. 11 Del.C. §1112
112.1.33 Sexual solicitation of a child. 11 Del.C. §1112A
112.1.34 Perjury in the first degree. 11 Del.C. §1223
112.1.35 Hate crimes (felony). 11 Del.C. §1304(a)
112.1.36 Stalking; felony. 11 Del.C. §1312A
112.1.37 Duty to report child abuse or neglect. 16 Del.C. §903
112.1.38 Abuse, neglect, mistreatment or financial exploitation of residents or patients. 16 Del.C. §1136.
112.1.39 Trafficking in marijuana, cocaine, illegal drugs, methamphetamines, L.S.D., or designer drugs. 16 Del.C. §4753A
112.1.40 Distribution, delivery or possession of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of school property. 16 Del.C. §4767
112.1.41 Distribution, delivery or possession of a controlled substance within 300 feet of park, recreation area, church, synagogue or other place of worship. 16 Del.C. §4768
112.1.42 Abuse, neglect, mistreatment or financial exploitation of an infirm adult. 31 Del.C. §3913
112.2 Crimes substantially related to the practice speech/language pathology, audiology, and hearing aid dispensing shall be deemed to include any crimes under any federal law, state law, or valid town, city or county ordinance, that are substantially similar to the crimes identified in this section.
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JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM (2019) – My rating: 8/10
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is a neo-noir action thriller. It is the third installment in the John Wick film series, following John Wick (2014) and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). The film is directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams, based on a story by Kolstad. In the film, ex-hitman John Wick finds himself on the run from legions of assassins after a $14 million contract is put on his head. John Wick: Chapter 3 is strictly about the fighting and a lot of killing.
Less than an hour after the conclusion of John Wick: Chapter 2, former hitman John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is now a marked man, on the run in Manhattan. After John’s unsanctioned killing of crime lord and new member of the High Table Santino D’Antonio in the New York City Continental, he is declared “excommunicado” by his handlers at the High Table and placed under a $14 million bounty. Now on the run from all assassins of the high table, John reaches the New York Public Library and recovers a crucifix necklace and a “marker” medallion from a secret cache hidden in a faux library book. He fights his way through several assassins until he reaches The Director (Angelica Houston), a woman from his past, who accepts the crucifix as a “ticket” for safe passage to Casablanca, Morocco. Wick is then branded by the Director to signify he has used up all his favors with her.
Meanwhile, an adjudicator (Asia Kate Dillon), with the High Table meets with Winston (Ian McShane), the manager of the New York City Continental and The Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), who leads a network of vagrant assassins. The adjudicator admonishes both men for helping John Wick get away after killing Santino D’Antonio (Riccarido Scamarcio). Both are given seven days to give up their offices or face being assassinated themselves. Charon (Lance Reddick), the concierge at the Continental stands by Winston and the adjudicator recruits assassin Zero (Mark Dacascos) and his “students” to enforce the will of the High Table.
In Casablanca, John meets with Sofia (Halle Berry), a former friend and the manager of the Casablanca Continental. He presents his marker and asks Sofia to honor it by directing him to The Elder (Saïd Taghmaoui), the only man ranked above the High Table, so that he can ask to have his bounty waived. Sofia takes him to an assassin named Berrada (Jerome Flynn), who tells John that he may find the Elder by wandering through the desert until he cannot walk any longer. As payment for his information, Berrada asks for one of Sofia’s beloved dogs, she refuses, so he shoots the dog but it survives, thanks to a body armor jacket. In a bout of rage, Sofia shoots Berrada. She, John and the two dogs fight their way out of the Kasbah. Having fulfilled her marker, Sofia leaves John in the desert were he roams until he collapses from exhaustion.
As you can see, there’s a lot going on in this sequel. While the movie was exciting and full of action, it was also ultra violent. I have to deem John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum the most violent movie I’ve seen in a decade. The fighting was endless. At first the fight patterns were fun to experience but soon became boring and over the top. John and Sofia killed 40 to 50 men, one by one while fighting their way out of the Kasbah, which has nothing to do with the amount of men John Wick killed in other situations. I like a good fight scene but this got to be ridiculous. The plot carried over from the second sequel with new concepts added. Mark Dacascos was fantastic as Zero, who added humor as well as serious fighting skills to the film. Fighting and shooting should have been the name of chapter 3 — it was really non-stop! Don’t get me wrong, the story has lots of merit and lots of twist and I did enjoy John Wick. This third sequel has grossed $175 million worldwide, surpassing the entire gross of the second film in just 10 days, plus it received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the fight choreography, visual style, and Reeves’ performance. I agree with the critics analysis except the amount of fighting and killing — it was truly over-the-top. If you don’t mind the violence, you’re in for a great ride. Check It Out!
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GOTHAM – My rating: 8.5/10
The acting is a little funky but Gotham turned out to be a very good series. The story starts with the killing of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wayne. Master Bruce Wayne is still a young child played by David Mazouz (known for the series Touch) who is way ahead of his years. His role is minimal right now but we all know that he becomes Batman with his trusted butler Alfred Pennyworth played by Sean Pertwee who is raising him, at his side. Gotham is a complete mess. Crime and bribery everywhere, cheating, stealing, murder, you name it, Gotham has it. The police aren’t very effective because most of the cops are on the take along with most government officials. A new recruit and rookie detective named James Gordon played by Ben McKenzie seems to be one of the few straight cops left. He has vowed to find the Wayne’s murderer. Police Captain Sarah Essen, played by Zabryna Guevara seems to be on the straight and narrow but I’m not sure at this point. Jada Pinket-Smith stars as a corrupt night club owner named Fish Mooney, who favors women over men. There are 2 major crime families fighting for territory and James’ partner Harvey Bullock played by Donal Logue is far from 100% legit. The show is very good and action packed. There’s one other character named Oswald Cobblepot, played by Robin Lord Taylor, who I’m sure is going to corrupt things even more in the future and probably the most dangerous of all. He’a work in progress. The acting is a little premature — it will most likely get better with age. Future villains include The penguin, the Riddler, Cat Woman, The Joker, Poison Ivy, Scare Crow, Hugo Strange, Havey Dent, Mr. Freeze and Victor Zsasz. Gotham airs on FOX and is a very good series, worth seeing.
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LIVING (2022) – My rating: 8/10
CAUSEWAY (2022) – My rating: 7.5/10
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GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2022) – My rating: 8/10
M3GAN (2022) – My rating: 8.5/10
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BLONDE (2022) – My rating: 8.5/10
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (2022) – My rating: 7.5/10
PLANE (2022) – My rating: 8.3/10
A MAN CALLED OTTO (2022) – My rating: 8.5/10
THE WHALE (2022) – My rating: 8.5/10
BABYLON (2022) – My rating: 7.5/10
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (2022) – My rating 8.5/10
THE FABELMANS (2022) – My rating: 8/10
EMANCIPATION (2022) – My rating: 8.5/10
VIOLENT NIGHT (2022) – My rating: 4/10
DEVOTION (2022) – My rating: 8.5/10
THE MENU (2022) – My rating: 5.5/10
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER: (2022) – My rating: 9/10
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Justin Bieber Explains Why His Relationship With Selena Gomez Didn’t Work
Natasha Reda Published: February 17, 2020
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Justin Bieber said he was "wild" and "reckless" during his relationship with Selena Gomez.
During a new interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, the "Changes" hitmaker referenced his "previous relationship" while opening up about meeting Hailey Baldwin at a time when he wasn't ready to make a commitment. Though he didn't refer to his on-again, off-again ex-girlfriend by name, he did explain why the romance ultimately failed.
"I think I was just hurt from my previous relationship... In my previous relationship, I went off and just went crazy and went wild, just was being reckless," Bieber admitted. "I think I still was dealing with a lot of unforgiveness and all that sort of stuff. To be honest, I don't think I even knew what I was really struggling with at the time.
"I don't think I knew I was dealing with unforgiveness," he added.
The Canadian singer went on to say that he wanted to make sure he was in the right headspace before getting back together with Baldwin in 2018. "I took the time to really build myself and focus on me, and try to make the right decisions and all that sort of stuff," Bieber explained. "And yeah, I got better."
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The pop star's comments reflect an interview Gomez did with NPR last month, in which she implied she suffered emotional abuse while they were dating. While discussing her song "Lose You to Love Me," which is widely believed to be about Bieber, she was asked if it was difficult to move on from the relationship.
"No, because I've found the strength in it," Gomez responded. "It's dangerous to stay in a victim mentality. And I'm not being disrespectful, I do feel I was a victim to certain abuse."
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Jewish State Rep: Dem Candidates Should Refuse Funds From Group Hosting Omar
Posted to Politics December 12, 2019 by Michael Graham
Just days after violent anti-Semitism claimed four innocent lives in yet another deadly attack, New Hampshire Democrats remain silent on Friday’s high-profile appearance in the Granite State by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) whose repeated anti-Semitic comments have been denounced even by members of her own party.
Omar will be in New Hampshire to keynote the NH Young Democrats’ Granite Slate Awards event, where she will be joined by other prominent Democrats like former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and 2020 candidate for governor, Senate Majority Leader Dan Feltes. She will also attend campaign events with Sen, Bernie Sanders, who she has endorsed in the 2020 POTUS primary.
Not a single elected Democrat has spoken publicly in opposition to their party’s embrace of the Minnesota congressman, who has repeatedly used anti-Semitic tropes and appeared on stage with activists who support the destruction of Israel.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Senator Maggie Hassan, and Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas have all declined repeated requests for comment on Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitic statements.
Others have spoken out, however.
“New Hampshire Democrats have really gone too far,” said GOP state Rep. Judy Aron (R-Acworth), a Jewish member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. “By bringing noted anti-Semite and opponent of Israel Rep. Ilhan Omar to New Hampshire, Democrats are showing how anti-Israel the modern Democrat base is.
New Hampshire Democrat candidates who want to be clear that they stand against anti-Semitism and support Israel should refuse funding from the New Hampshire Young Democrats and any organization that raises money off her appearance, and they should make it clear they do not support her visit to New Hampshire,” Aron said.
New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley responded to Aron’s statement by tweeting “Winner of ‘putting most lies in one release of the month’ award. Shameless. Disgraceful.” He declined to name any specific lies or errors in her statement, however.
J’accuse Coalition for Justice is a think tank dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israel bias. Executive director Zach Schapira told NHJournal: “Given the critical role New Hampshire plays in shaping our presidential elections, Democratic primary voters have an obligation to hold Senator Bernie Sanders accountable for the people he associates with his campaign.
Now, in the immediate aftermath of the most recent antisemitic attack in Jersey City, it feels particularly insensitive for him to choose to appear alongside someone who has had a troubled history with anti-Semitism.”
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Healthcare IT Leaders is a Top Performer in 2018 Best of KLAS Report for Business Solutions Implementation Services
January 30, 2018 Written By Healthcare IT Leaders News
Healthcare IT Leaders, a leading healthcare IT implementation, consulting and workforce solutions firm, is ranked third (No. 3) for Business Solutions Implementation Services in the 2018 Best in KLAS: Software & Services Report.
Healthcare IT Leaders is also ranked for HIT Implementation Support & Staffing for the second year in a row.
KLAS rankings are based on independent surveys and interviews with healthcare providers.
According to Managing Director Bob Bailey, Healthcare IT Leaders ranking as a top performer in the Business Solutions category highlights the firm’s expertise in ERP solutions, a growing need for hospitals and health systems.
“Our KLAS rank for ERP and EHR-related services shows the breadth of our IT consulting offerings. We want to be a full-service partner to our customers,” said Bailey.
Customer comments collected about Healthcare IT Leaders are available at KLAS Research. Said one CIO: “Healthcare IT Leaders has been easy to work with. They are responsive. We get great value from our engagement with them, and whenever we need help, they are there for us. We have a good partnership.”*
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Healthcare IT Leaders is a KLAS-rated, national leader in IT workforce solutions, connecting healthcare provider and payer organizations with experienced technology talent for implementation services, consulting and full-time hiring. Areas of focus include EMR, ERP, HCM, CRM, and BI. Based in Greater Atlanta, our company is ranked on the Inc. 5000 (2017, 2016, 2015), and has been named a Best Place to Work by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and one of America's Best Professional Recruiting Firms by Forbes. Learn more at www.healthcareitleaders.com.
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Diplomatist > Economy > Budget 2020: Paving way for rich foreign dividends
by Nivedita Mukherjee - 7 March, 2020, 12:00 1949 Views 0 Comment
It has always been a big deal for foreign companies and foreign investors doing business with India. A small abbreviation, DDT, which actually translates into a major irritant in the form of the Dividend Distribution Tax, for every foreign stakeholder looking to repatriate profits from India. It entails a burdensome economic double taxation in the form of a tax of 20.56 percent on every rupee of dividend distributed, irrespective of the shareholder’s country and status, resulting in a more modest availability of distributable surplus for a foreign investor. As DDT is a tax on the company and not on the shareholder, it culminates in the denial of credit for such DDT by the investor’s home country.
Nirmala Sitharaman may have just changed this narrative not just in the case of DDT — by abolishing the tax – but also in the larger context of India’s attractiveness as a destination for foreign investment which has greatly enhanced through Budgetary proposals which aim at improving the ease of doing business in India, attracting more FDI and providing a booster to the industrial sentiments. With India’s prospects firmly on the radar of global observers keeping an eye on India’s prospects and growth and looking for opportunities and a share of the Indian market across manufacturing, education, healthcare, construction and a host of other sectors, the Union Budget 2020-21 sends out an irrefutable signal of the intent to achieve the level of USD 5 trillion economy by 2024-25 by focusing majorly on increasing consumption, capex and investments, infrastructural development along with various incentives for strengthening health and agriculture sectors of the economy.
A significant indicator of investor confidence in a country’s growth and vision, FDI also ensures long-term capital which is an indispensable ingredient for stimulating any economy. As per a UN report, the Global Investment Trend Monitor, in FY19, India was one of the top 10 recipients to attract FDI in 2019 and received $49 bn worth of FDI, a 16 percent increase over the previous year. Despite a slowdown in growth, the global outlook for investment in India remains strong and the Budget has served as a great opportunity to convert the global sentiment into action.
As India leapfrogs towards a five trillion-dollar economy by 2024-25, simplifying and maintaining a business-friendly regulatory environment is essential. While the abolition of the DDT removes a major disincentive to foreign companies seeking to set up operations in India, Sitharaman has walked a few extra miles to sustain the momentum and have a long queue of investors knocking on Indian doors. The Budget has come packed with incentives for the development of infrastructure, a key attraction for investors pouring in moolah in India for projects ranging from industrial corridors to metro rail networks. The national infrastructure pipeline of Rs 103 lakh crore over fiscal 2020-25 includes investments in core and allied infrastructure sectors.
To incentivise the investment by the Sovereign Wealth Fund of foreign governments in the priority sectors, the Budget offers 100 percent tax exemption to their interest, dividend and capital gains income in respect of investment made in infrastructure and other notified sectors by the government before 31st March 2024 and with a minimum lockin period of 3 years. With these tax exemptions for sovereign wealth funds who are willing to place a long-term bet on the economy, the Budget quite opportunely addresses the imperative of sustaining and increasing investor participation across sectors where investments are already visible – roads, power and airports – and which are critical to providing impetus to growth. Says Vikram Kirloskar, CII President, “The INR 22,000 crores equity support to IIFCL and NIIF to create a funding pipeline of INR 103,000 lakh crores and granting 100 percent exemption to interest, dividend and capital gains income of the Sovereign Wealth Funds in respect of investment made in infrastructure are very important initiatives for funding infrastructure creation.” Further on the external front, says Kirloskar, “reviewing Rules of Origin under various FTAs will address the issue of Indian industry getting impacted due to imports getting routed through FTA countries.”
The Budget opens up investment opportunities through proposed five new smart cities in collaboration with states in PPP mode which will benefit the upcoming economic corridors where there is sizeable foreign participation and which can draw further investment along with revitalization of manufacturing activities.
Enhancement of Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) limit for the corporate bond segment is a positive signal to foreign investors and are expected to position India as an investor-friendly nation and bring more FDI.
Another outreach to investors is the suggestion about creating an investment clearance cell providing end to end facilitation and support including pre-investment advisory, information related to land banks and facilitate clearances at Centre and State level through a portal. However, India has not had a great track record with single window clearance mechanisms in the past and this would need meticulous monitoring.
At a time when India is experiencing significant traction in indigenous mobile and electronics manufacturing and the industry is displaying competitiveness, Budget 2020 has highlighted the government’s focus on the development of the electronics industry with a scheme to encourage the manufacturing of mobile phones, electronic equipment and semiconductor packaging in the country. There is certainly a cost advantage in electronics manufacturing in India other than its immense potential to create huge employment and foreign investors would do well to factor that in. This will boost domestic manufacturing and attract large investments in the electronics value chain. By integrating “Assemble in India for the world” into Make in India, India can create 4 crore well-paid jobs by 2025 and 8 crore by 2030. Exports of network products, which is expected to equal USD 7 trillion worldwide in 2025, can contribute a quarter of the increase in value-added for the USD 5 trillion economy by 2025.
These measures are expected to position India as an investor-friendly nation, thereby making the country a global FDI destination.
Nivedita Mukherjee
Author is a specialist in international affairs (trade and investment), strategic communications and policy advocacy with M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Delhi.
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The 2022 EveryCat Health Foundation Research Update
The following grants were funded in 2022:
2022 EveryCat Health Foundation Grant Awards
Total Awarded $294,208.00
EC22-002: “Is platelet Toll-like receptor 4 the silent partner of thrombosis in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? Investigating the immunothrombotic interactions between histones and platelets.” Principal Investigator(s): Ronald Hak Long Li, DVM, PhD, DACVECC; Wan Khoon Avalene Tan, BVSc, DAVECC; Joshua A. Stern, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Cardiology); University of California Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine. $32,017.00
Heart disease is common in cats, and many develop blood clots that prove fatal. This study investigates a new theory of blood clot formation in cats with heart disease. If proven, new drugs can be developed to treat or prevent this deadly complication.
EC22-003: “Thromboelastography in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.” Principal Investigator(s): Giulio Menciotti, DVM, MS, PhD; Ashley Wilkinson, DVM, MS, DACVIM (SAIM); Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech. $31,297.00 (Ricky Fund)
Many cats with heart disease develop fatal blood clots for unknown reasons. One theory is that these cats have an increased tendency to form clots. This investigation uses a new method to measure this and determines if it’s more pronounced in cats with more advanced heart disease.
EC22-004: “Testing for Clopidogrel Resistance in Cats Presenting to First Opinion Practices.” Principal Investigator(s): Anthony Abrams-Ogg; Matthew Kornya; Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph. $13,867.00 (Ricky Fund)
Many cats are prescribed Plavix (Clopidogrel) to prevent blood clot formation from various ailments, especially heart disease, but up to 20% are resistant to it. Currently this can only be diagnosed at a veterinary school. This study evaluates both in-house and reference lab tests so these cats can more readily be identified and appropriately treated.
EC22-005: “Acute phase protein and micro-RNA signatures for the diagnosis and prognosis of feline infectious peritonitis.” Principal Investigator(s): Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore (DGM), BSc (Hon), BVM&S, PhD, MANZCVS, FHEA, FRSB, FRCVS, RCVS Specialist in Feline Medicine; Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh. $7,500.00 (Bria Fund)
Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) is a serious viral disease that has no diagnostic test and was, until recently, invariably fatal. But with the recent discovery of effective treatments, diagnosing affected cats is critical. This study evaluates two new possibilities, acute phase proteins and micro-RNA, to determine if they can be used to develop an accurate diagnostic test.
EC22-007: “EIDD-2801 (Molnupiravir): establishing an oral dose and evidence for efficacy in cats with FIP.” Principal Investigator(s): Brian Murphy, DVM, PhD, Dip ACP; Krystle Reagan, DVM, PhD, Dip ACVIM (SAIM); School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. $33,550.00 (Bria Fund)
With the recent discovery of effective treatments, Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) is no longer considered a fatal disease in cats. But these treatments are not yet legally available, so this study evaluates the efficacy of a similar FDA approved antiviral drug, molnupiravir, which can be legally prescribed by veterinarians.
EC22-015: “Effect of EPA and DHA supplementation on renal function biomarkers and systolic blood pressure of proteinuric and borderline proteinuric cats diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.” Principal Investigator(s): Ana Luisa Guimarães Dias Lourenço, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ECVCN; Tomás Rodrigues Magalhães, DVM, PhD Student; Department of Zootechnics, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal. $33,942.00 [Feline Kidney Disease Fund in honor of Vicki Thayer, DVM, DABVP (Feline) – Board Designated Match] (Sponsored by Zoetis)
While many animals, including people and dogs, are commonly given essential fatty acids (EFAs) as part of their treatment for kidney disease, this has never been investigated in cats. These researchers in Portugal will evaluate the effect of EFAs to determine if this therapy will benefit cats with kidney disease.
EC22-018: “Characterization and causative investigation of Feline Gastrointestinal Eosinophilic Sclerosing Fibroplasia.” Principal Investigator(s): Victoria Watson, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP; Michigan State University: Jared Jaffey, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVIM; Midwestern University. $9,026.00
Although rare, feline gastrointestinal eosinophilic sclerosing fibroplasia (FGESF) is a debilitating gastrointestinal disease of cats with an unknown cause. By collecting samples from across the world, these researchers will investigate possible causes, including parasites and cancer, leading to potential treatments.
EC22-021: “Comprehensive mutational profiling of the oncogenomic landscape of commonly-occurring cancers in domestic cats to pave the way for precision veterinary medicine and understanding cancer biology.” Principal Investigator(s): Dr. Louise van der Weyden; Dr. David Adams; Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom. $31,426.00 ($28,296.00 EveryCat Health Foundation, $3,130.00 Cancer/Oncology Fund) (Sponsored by IDEXX)
Targeted cancer treatments are successfully used in humans to treat a variety of neoplasia with few side effects. To do this in cats, these researchers in the UK will evaluate the genetic makeup of three common feline neoplasias (lymphoma, mammary cancer, and oral cancer) to pave the way to develop targeted feline cancer therapies.
EC22-023: “The obesity-microbiome connection – determine gut flora signatures of obese cat.” Principal Investigator(s): Xu Wang; Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine. $34,583.00
Prior investigations of these researchers identified markedly different bacteria present in the intestinal tract of obese versus normal weight cats. This study will attempt to develop a diagnostic test to identify these bacteria, leading to potential novel treatments for obesity in cats as well as people.
EC22-028: “Unravelling the blood bacterial microbiome in healthy and febrile domestic cats via 16S rRNA metagenomics.” Principal Investigator(s): Ananda Muller, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine; Katrin Hartmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. $32,000.00
The bacterial population of the blood of cats is poorly understood. This study, a collaboration of Caribbean and German researchers, will investigate this in both healthy and sick cats, leading to greater understanding of many diseases and potential groundbreaking treatments.
EC22-038: “Dexmedetomidine-vatinoxan-ketamine for anesthesia in cats.” Principal Investigator(s): Bruno Pypendop, Linda Barter; University of California-Davis. $35,000.00
Anesthesia in cats commonly involves combinations of drugs to provide both sedation and pain relief, but the most common combination negatively affects heart function. This study adds an additional drug to counteract this effect. If successful, it will result in a new combination safer with fewer side effects.
2022 George Sydney and Phyllis Redman Miller Trust Grant Awards
MT22-0000000019: “Curbing FIP by targeting and blocking the viral ion channels.” Principal Investigator(s): Gary Whittaker; Isiah Arkin, Cornell University. $34,962.00
FIP and COVID are closely related coronaviruses, and many drugs can be used to treat both diseases. This study leverages the strengths of a well-known human lab studying COVID with a premier veterinary lab at the forefront of FIP research to discover novel drugs that inhibit the virus’ ion channels, which regulate infectivity, to develop new therapeutic drug combinations.
MT22-0000000020: “Establishment of feline keratinocyte organoids and use as a model to study feline dermatophytosis.” Principal Investigator(s): Dominique Wiener, Texas A&M University. $35,000.00
Ringworm is a common fungal skin infection of cats that is not well understood. But infecting cats to study this disease is not ideal. This study will develop skin “organoids” from feline skin stem cells to enable researchers to study this disease without the use of research cats.
MT22-0000000021: “Immediate Intervention Following Tooth Extraction Using Allogeneic Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Cats with Chronic Gingivostomatitis: A Randomized, Controlled and Blinded Study.” Principal Investigator(s): Boaz Arzi, Maria Soltero-Rivera; University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. $27,392.00
This study is a continuation of previous research funded by EveryCat that developed a highly effective stem cell treatment for Stomatitis, a painful inflammation of the mouth in cats. By giving stem cells immediately after tooth extractions, it is expected to hasten the response to this treatment and improve their quality of life.
MT22-0000000025: “Continuous rate infusion thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator, pentoxifylline and cyproheptadine in acute feline aortic thromboembolism – the ALPEXC trial.” Principal Investigator(s): Julien Guillaumin, Colorado State University. $34,427.00. Adjusted Budget: $32,336.00
Blood clots sometimes occur in cats, especially those with heart disease, and is usually fatal. This study investigates a new protocol for continuous infusion of clot-busting drugs in children with blood clots to determine if it is effective in cats.
MT22-0000000028: “Development of a new whole exome capture array for cat disease and cancer studies.” Principal Investigator(s): Leslie A. Lyons, PhD, University of Missouri. $35,000.00
As genome sequencing (the identification of DNA gene sequences) has matured, new technologies have been developed to improve the accuracy and decrease the cost. This proposal takes it a step further by concentrating on the most important part of the genes, the exons, which code for proteins, and standardizing its use for the entire veterinary community.
MT22-0000000033: “Re-evaluation of the current, and development of an updated, histopathologic set of criteria for the diagnosis and differentiation of gastrointestinal small-cell lymphoma from other forms of chronic enteropathies in cats.” Principal Investigator(s): Panagiotis G. Xenoulis, Jörg M. Steiner; Texas A&M AgriLife Research. $34,856.00
Chronic intestinal diseases are common in cats and often caused by inflammation or cancer. But differentiating between the two is difficult, even with biopsies, and the treatments are very different. This study will develop a new method of analyzing intestinal biopsies to improve the accuracy of diagnosis and lead to more successful treatment.
2022 CaP-K Grant Awards
CaP-K22-002: “A longitudinal multi-matrix metabolomics approach for the identification of biomarkers of early feline renal disease.” Principal Investigator(s): Sylvie Daminet, Department of Small Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ghent. $41,601.00
Current tests for kidney disease in cats are typically diagnostic only after 70% of the kidney is damaged. This study uses metabolomics to identify and characterize small molecules in the blood and urine to design novel tests that diagnose kidney disease in earlier stages, before irreversible damage occurs.
CaP-K22-008: “Identification of urinary extracellular vesicles-derived microRNAs as sensitive and specific biomarkers for early-stage feline chronic kidney disease.” Principal Investigator(s): Candice P. Chu, Lillian Aronson; University of Pennsylvania. $23,000.00
In cats, elevations of current diagnostic tests occur only once severe kidney disease exists. In humans, alterations in the micro-RNA of kidney cells occurs in patients with early renal disease. This study investigates and characterizes micro-RNA in cats with various stages of kidney disease to see if it can be used as an accurate diagnostic test for early kidney disease, before irreversible damage occurs.
Cap-K22-011: “Effect of caloric content on phosphorus balance and kidney function in healthy cats.” Principal Investigator(s): Carmen Pineda, Ignacio Lopez, University of Cordoba (Spain). $44,099.00
The levels of phosphorus and calcium are closely related to the progression of kidney disease, where phosphorus increases as the disease progresses. This study investigates whether reduced caloric intake decreases phosphorus levels in cats.
CaP-K22-012: “Phosphoric acid implications to renal health and urine supersaturation for struvite and calcium oxalate in cats.” Principal Investigator(s): Aulus Cavalieri Carciofi, Maria Eduarda Gonçalves Tozato. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)(São Paulo State University) $49,000.00
Phosphorus metabolism is intimately related to the progression of kidney disease and the formation of kidney stones in cats, yet many cat foods contain a phosphoric acid additive to decrease the formation of kidney stones. This study investigates the effect of phosphoric acid on the occurrence of kidney disease and kidney stones in cats.
CaP-K22-013: “Screening for early feline chronic kidney disease: Unraveling the mystery of nonazotemic disease.” Prinicpal Investigator(s): Marleen Brans, DVM; Dominique Paepe, DVM, PhD, DECVIM; Emmelie Stock, DVM, PhD, DECVDI. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University. $52,225.00
Cats develop kidney disease long before elevations in current diagnostic tests which indicate irreversible damage. This proposal uses a simplified “gold standard” test to characterize early kidney disease and update the international criteria. It also investigates two novel methods to identify cats with early kidney disease, before severe damage occurs.
For a downloadable copy of the 2022 Research Update, click HERE.
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Kyler Murray to Honor Purple Heart Recipient Grandfather on Week 13 Custom Cleats
by Kayla Zadel December 6, 2020
written by Kayla Zadel December 6, 2020 2:09 pm
(Photo by Billie Weiss/Getty Images)
This Sunday is the NFL’s My Cleats My Cause campaign and Kyler Murray is remembering what his grandfather did for our country.
Murray’s late grandfather was a Purple Heart recipient, and because of that, the Cardinal’s quarterback is choosing to support the Call of Duty Endowment. He made the announcement on Instagram that he’s selecting the organization. The Call of Duty Endowment helps find and place military veterans into high-quality jobs after their service is finished.
The caption reads, “For this year’s @NFL#MyCauseMyCleats I teamed up with @callofdutyendowment in honor of my late grandfather, a veteran and Purple Heart recipient. He’d be proud of the work they’re doing to help veterans find meaningful jobs, just like I’m proud @callofduty has such a great cause behind it! 🙏🏾 #CallOfDuty_Partner“
A post shared by Kyler Murray (@k1)
In the video, Kyler Murray and his family are seen in the video that shows the inspiration behind the cleat and the design process. And of course, the second-year quarterback wants to look good while he supports the cause.
The clip starts off with Murray saying, “I got no choice but to ball. I mean… look good, feel good, play good. I’ll definitely be looking good.”
The Shoe Surgeon designed Murray’s cleats. The cleat is a purple Nike show with Murray’s signature logo, K1. The cleat also has Murray’s jersey number.
Murray’s mom in the video talks about her late father, and how much the quarterback reminds her of him. She also says that he would be proud because Murray is humble and has such a work ethic and drive to do whatever it takes to achieve his goals.
Murray’s grandfather was active in the Army and Navy.
Read more about Murray’s selected cause, the Call of Duty Endowment.
Kyler Murray is on the Right Track with Arizona Cardinals
Murray is having a breakout year with the Cardinals. The 23-year-old has thrown for 2,814 yards with 19 touchdown passes and only nine interceptions in 11 games.
During his rookie season, Murray had 20 touchdown passes in 16 games. He’s definitely on the right track of advancing past the statistic.
The Arizona Cardinals are in the hunt for the NFC West division title.
More on the NFL’s My Cleats My Cause
This is the one day a year the NFL allows players to wear want they want on their feet. It’s not so much about wearing what you want, but what sort of message they want to send.
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New Zealand vacation bubble with Australia agreed … but you can find continue to no get started date
(CNN) — New Zealand has agreed in basic principle to build a a lot-predicted journey bubble with neighboring Australia — though there’s however no business date on when the corridor would commence.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claimed on December 14 that a journey bubble can be expected in the initially quarter of future yr, meaning that people can journey concerning the two nations devoid of owning to full a 14-day necessary quarantine at either stop.
Since Oct, vacationers from New Zealand have been permitted quarantine-totally free vacation to sure Australian destinations, but they however have to quarantine when they return residence.
Ardern’s announcement usually means that the bubble — which has been reviewed for months and has been commonly anticipated by people in both of those countries — will eventually allow for for quarantine-no cost travel both equally strategies.
Australia and New Zealand have some of the strictest border steps in the world. Both equally nations practically fully closed their borders to foreigners in March, and equally nations around the world involve citizens returning from abroad to undergo a 14-working day quarantine in a point out facility at their personal expense.
But all those strict measures have also intended Australia and New Zealand have been relatively successful at containing their coronavirus outbreaks. Australia has described 28,000 coronavirus situations, which include 908 fatalities, whilst New Zealand has documented 1,740 circumstances and 25 deaths.
Ardern said that the bubble depended on affirmation from the Australian cabinet, and “no important improve in the conditions of possibly nation.” She said the authorities planned to name a date for the vacation bubble next year.
“I assume for now, New Zealanders by and significant respect the solution of the Government to make sure that we are not getting on pointless danger as we likely into summer months and a a great deal needed summer time break for New Zealanders.”
The move is significant equally for tourism — and for those living absent from dwelling.
Although the two nations are divided by about 2,000 km (1,243 miles) of sea, they have a person of the closest bilateral interactions in the planet.
Australian passport holders can journey and function in New Zealand indefinitely with out a visa, and vice versa. An estimated 670,000 New Zealand citizens are living in Australia — about 15% of the populace of New Zealand — whilst all-around 70,000 Australians are living in New Zealand.
For New Zealanders, it supplies much more tourism options beyond domestic destinations, which includes the Chatham Islands, an archipelago all-around 500 miles from New Zealand’s South Island which has been been suffering from a spike in tourism this year.
Ardern’s announcement will come two times just after the country introduced ideas to roll out quarantine-free of charge travel with the Cook Islands in the very first quarter of up coming 12 months.
Cook dinner Islands is a Pacific Island all around 2,000 miles — or all-around a four hour flight — from Auckland, New Zealand. It can be a self-governing country in absolutely free association with New Zealand, that means Prepare dinner Islanders have New Zealand passports and are ready to work and reside in New Zealand — there are more than three situations as several Prepare dinner Islanders residing in New Zealand as there are in the Prepare dinner Islands alone.
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Double world 250 world champion Jorge Lorenzo has spoken about his expectations for 2008 and how he is coping with the switch to MotoGP in Italy today.
The Spaniard said: “The M1 is a bike I like very much – it is very compatible with my racing style. You need to work with a lot of feel and of course we need to work on the engine. During the last test my time was great. I need to work a lot more to get to my limit, but thankfully we have plenty of time I think we’re a very competitive team with two very strong riders.”
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The Complaint: SuperHeavy Is Not the Rolling Stones
Of course it's not. But Mick Jagger's new "super group" begs the question: What ever happened to the biggest band in the world?
By Matt Sullivan Published: Jul 7, 2011
Out from under the Tiki-bar bullshit that is SuperHeavy's first single, "Miracle Worker" (listen at the 1:45:15 mark here), right after Damien Marley shouts Well that's your own opinion / You're entitled to it, emerges the growl that can wake up the world. It's Mick Jagger, of course, and he sounds about 67-going-on-35 — better than on his solo album a decade ago, maybe even better than why I saw him croon a medley of Damien's dad's stuff on the last Rolling Stones tour five years back. Which kind of makes you angry. Here we are, approaching the fiftieth anniversary of the Stones, and there is no anniversary tour in site, no summoning of energies for the kings of energy — just the band in exile, and Mick in something like a "super group," which, considering it includes Marley and a Eurythmic and the guy who wrote the music for Slumdog Millionaire, really isn't that super at all.
It says something when the head of the greatest group in the history of groups is struggling to assemble a super group.
Now you could blame everyone from Kurt Cobain and Sublime's Bradley Noel, who died and went to hell and left the door open for Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, to Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, who are to rock-and-roll bands what Bruce Lee was to a circle of ninjas in every direction. But would the biggest band in the world please stand up? Do the Kings of Leon have to suffice, really? Do the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with a record coming out next month that, without their drug-riddled guitar player, is bound to be as bland as the last? And so, we are stuck either with Coldplay or U2 or, (much) better still, with Radiohead — who would just as soon be the smallest band in the world, though they could do none of the things they do without, in fact, being the most influential. Unless, of course, Mick picks up the gang and wakes up the next great rock act — the Black Keys, or whomever — to be suddenly, and energetically, bigger than themselves, and thus anyone.
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“Sumbul Touqueer is too young to go to Bigg Boss 16” says Subuhi Joshi (Photo Credits – Instagram)
Subuhi Joshi, who was last seen in ‘Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai’, is currently seen in the reality show ‘Big Buzz’, alongside actors Krushna Abhishek and Kashmera Shah. They feel that Sumbul Touqueer is too young to be on the show.
He said: “For Sumbul, this is not the right time as she is very young. She was doing exceptionally well in her life but I think she is too young to go to ‘Bigg Boss’. You need to see a lot in life before going to the show. Its not his fault.
Subuhi Joshi further added, “I don’t know how one can be obsessed with Shaleen. Maybe she likes him as a person but using the word obsessive is wrong. Yes, there are some people who show their love and concern for their friends, so maybe she is like that.
There has been a huge uproar in the ‘Bigg Boss 16’ house over the current situation of Sumbul Taukeer-Tina Dutta-Shaleen Bhanot. Last week, on Weekend Ka Vaar, superstar host Salman Khan also confronted Sumbul about being obsessed with Shalin, but she did not agree with him.
Many fans of ‘Bigg Boss 16’ feel that Sumbul is too young to live in the toxic environment provided by the house.
In fact, Subuhi said that Shaleen is also to blame. “If he is older then why can’t he understand what is happening? Why do you go after him even if he has a crush on you and you don’t? You hug Tina on the other side and then you are just around Sumbul. He is just pretending to be very innocent but he is not and he is equally responsible for what is happening.
On being asked if she would like to be a part of Bigg Boss, Subuhi Joshi said: “I really wanted to be a part of ‘Bigg Boss’, but I am happy that I am not in this season as it did not do very well. There are only 2-3 topics which are unnecessarily dragged. If I get a chance in the next season, I am quite ready for it. In a recent clip, I saw Tina complaining politely That she is sitting and not taking my side. I mean why would she take your side? You insulted her in front of the country.
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David Frum was one of the leading neoconservative advocates of the invasion of Iraq. The former Bush speechwriter is a true believer, having co-authored a radical neoconservative book with Richard Perle entitled An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, which -- according to its publisher -- "calls for the United States to overthrow the government of Iran, abandon support of a Palestinian state, blockade North Korea, use strong-arm tactics with Syria and China, disregard much of Europe as allies, and sever ties with Saudi Arabia."
But in a strikingly candid essay on his National Review blog yesterday, Frum all but admits that the U.S. invasion of Iraq has been a failure, and says that the only realistic goal we can hope to achieve is preventing Iraq from becoming a training ground for Al Qaeda -- a goal which was already achieved, of course, prior to our invasion:
Hands up, everybody who believes that the "hundreds" of troops that the Pentagon plans to move from the rest of Iraq into Baghdad will suffice to secure the capital against the sectarian militias now waging war upon the civilian populations of the city? Anybody? No, I didn't think so.
To take back the capital from the militias that now terrorize it will take thousands, not hundreds, of American plus tens of thousands of Iraqis. . . . So a real plan for success in Baghdad will have to be built upon additional troops from out of area, potentially raising US troop levels back up to the 150,000 or so of late 2005.
Manifestly, neither the administration nor the Congress will contemplate such a move. Which means, most likely, continuing violence in Iraq and a continuing rise in the power of the militias, especially the Iranian-backed Shiite militias: the Hezbollah of Iraq.
Frum has been arguing for the last five years, at least, that Iran is an evil supporter of international terrorism and a monumental threat to the U.S. Indeed, Frum is credited with creating the phrase "axis of evil" when he was at the Bush White House, which famously included Iran, and even now is agitating for confrontation with Iran. And yet, by Frum's own admission, the invasion of Iraq which he and his comrades so desperately wanted, has delivered control of Iraq into the hands of our arch Iranian enemies, and Frum admits that the U.S. has no realistic hope of doing anything to reverse that result.
Frum now admits that the sectarian civil war will rage on until Shiites assert total dominion over Baghdad and all of Southern Iraq, at which point "Baghdad - and therefore central Iraq - will in such a case slide after Basra and the south into the unofficial new Iranian empire." About this result, Frum admits: "The consequences for the region and the world will be grim."
Admitting that the Bush administration, in an election year, will not deploy additional troops to Iraq, Frum says that the best we can hope for in Iraq is the essentially defeatist plan urged in a New York Times Op-Ed by Bill Clinton's Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith. Galbriath points out that the Iraqi government actually governs nothing beyond the Green Zone in Baghdad and that -- as Frum accepts -- it is impossible for the U.S. to stop the civil war or re-take control from Shiite militias without substantially increasing our troop presence there.
With those premises in place, Galbriath advocates -- and, notably, Frum accepts -- that the U.S. military should withdraw entirely from the Sunni region and re-deploy as a small “over the horizon” force in Kurdistan. The rationale for Galbraith's plan is this:
Seeing as we cannot maintain the peace in Iraq, we have but one overriding interest there today — to keep Al Qaeda from creating a base from which it can plot attacks on the United States. Thus we need to have troops nearby prepared to re-engage in case the Sunni Arabs prove unable to provide for their own security against the foreign jihadists. . . .
Yes, a United States withdrawal from the Shiite and Sunni Arab regions of Iraq would leave behind sectarian conflict and militia rule. But staying with the current force and mission will produce the same result. Continuing a military strategy where the ends far exceed the means is a formula for war without end.
So that's what our mission in Iraq has been reduced to -- ceding most of Iraq to Iranian control and acknowledging that a civil war is now inevitable and we can do nothing to stop it. Worse, the only thing we can possibly hope to accomplish is to prevent Al Qaeda from turning Iraq into its new terrorist training ground, something it was entirely incapable of doing prior to our invasion.
Put another way, in exchange for the thousands of lives lost, hundreds of billions of dollars squandered, and destruction of U.S. credibility as a result of our invasion, the best we can hope for is what we already had -- a situation where Al Qaeda cannot run free in Iraq -- along with a vicious civil war and control by Iranian mullahs over most of Iraq. And that is what one of the leading neconservative advocates of the war is saying.
Americans have long ago recognized what even David Frum (though, notably, not Joe Lieberman) now admits -- that our invasion of Iraq will produce no real benefits and that our continued presence there can achieve nothing. The newly released NYT-CBS poll shows that a solid majority of Americans favor "a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq" -- precisely what the President most steadfastly refuses to accept. With even David Frum endorsing a close permutation of the "over the horizon" re-deployment which Jack Murtha months ago advocated, Democrats should have no trouble unifying on this issue and advocating that Republicans should be turned out of office for stubbornly and destructively clinging to the prosecution of a war which cannot possibly achieve any good.
When Howard Dean, in the wake of Saddam Hussein's capture, questioned whether the invasion of Iraq would make the U.S. "safer," he was ridiculed by virtually everyone as a radical and a lunatic, with the ridicule led by Joe Lieberman. But reality has become too overwhelming for all but the most manipulative political figures to deny. As a result, there are very few people left willing to defend the invasion and occupation as anything other than a disaster, but the remaining holdouts happen to be sitting in the White House (and in one of Connecticut's Senate seats). That discrepency is disastrous for American interests, but is an excellent opportunity for Democrats to finally make the case that this administration has been a failure on every level, not just including -- but especially -- in the area of national security.
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Anonymous users and spam
Should we consider disabling anonymous editing to reduce spam? Do we feel that anyone is likely to particularly want to make anonymous contributions? Personally, I'd like it because it would stop me making edits while logged out, but it would also mean much less despamifying. A CAPTCHA extension may also be useful, but there are valid points against it. See also Mediawiki manual: combating spam. -Taepha 07:29, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Proactive or Reactive? Unless it becomes a real problem, I think it's better to react to it case by case. If it becomes a major issue then is the time to consider proactive solutions. As far as I know we've only had one instance? Zexium 10:33, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Rather a few more than one, and I'm a big fan of proactive. ;) See Special:Log/block for a list of IPs we've blocked (most are spammers, and some committed multiple instances of spamming). It also seems to be getting worse. I've blocked eight IPs today, not that doing that helps. I'm currently protecting (making user-editable only) pages after a few attacks, as once the bots start on a page, they won't stop. Special:RecentChanges seems to be filling up with spam and spam fixing. -Taepha 10:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
ns and whois lookups suggest that these may be botnets. Whether knowing this helps or not I don't know. Zexium 11:47, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Yesterday I would have agreed with a reactive stance; today we got a whole bunch of spam dumped on us. I had thought that the spam bots were naively targetting direct links from the main page (makes sense - they have less computational work to do that way), in which case simply protecting all links from the main page would have worked nicely. Unfortunately, today's aren't following that pattern.
For now, I've pre-emptively protected the main page - it's a very obvious spammer target, and I'm slightly surprised it hasn't been hit already.
In the long run, we want a solution which:
Will stop most of the spam (I doubt we can stop all of it)
Won't discourage people from just coming along and editing.
To that end, I think it's possible to use captcha without being heavy-handed about it - one of the common wiki captcha options is to require it for edits made from non-confirmed accounts which are attempting to insert links to 'unrecognized external sites'. This would have blocked all the spam we've had so far, with a pretty minimal effect on legitimate edits (especially if 'discworld.atuin.net' is a 'recognized external site'), so would be pretty much ideal. That would get my vote.
--Chat 17:33, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Happy to agree, although do I even have a vote anyway :) Zexium 17:57, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
A low level captcha would be a good approach. We will have to make some sacrifices which may discourage random editing, but that's unavoidable if we want to stop the spam. We could add a limited protection and if that doesn't stop the majority of the vandalism we could step up to a higher level. Using captcha on adding external links would not solve every problem though, as there seems to be a lot of gibberish vandalism. Rehevkor ✉ 19:32, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm for the captcha option as well; this is getting ridiculous. But looking at the history I do see a few legitimate edits by anonymous users, so it doesn't seem the right thing to block anons entirely. --Ilde 19:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Blocking anons entirely should never be an option. But we will probably have to limit it in some way. Rehevkor ✉ 20:14, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
As an aside, I managed to get the files pointed to on wiki.ubuntu.com by the linkspan (which were malware aimed at windows, what a surprise) removed, and hopefully ubuntu.com web admins will be improving their own security .... maybe it's worth remembering for an incident like this that other websites might be affected and we may be in a position to warn them too ..... Zexium 00:33, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
I know what might be useful. If the wiki could announce recent changes using an irc channel on taffyd.sydmud.com. Probably just a flight of fantasy though. Zexium 13:36, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
There's always the RSS feed:
feed://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss
-Taepha 23:57, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
We're getting pounded with spam again; I've had to block 9 IPs in the last 48 hours :(
Any progress on the CAPTCHA issue? --Chat 09:40, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Maybe instead of a CAPTCHA, etc., we could do what TV Tropes does: disallow edits from non-logged in users, but have a default "anonymous" login (with the username and password shown in the "You need to log in to edit" message). Would that be an easier thing to set up? It seems to work well for them. --Ilde 23:37, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Well, wasn't that fun. I've just finished dealing with a very large spam influx - I think I've blocked/deleted/protected more IPs/pages today than the sum of all block/delete/protected by everyone previously.
My analysis of the pages hit suggests that the spambots are all following the same algorithm:
Start at main page
Follow any link to another page
Follow any link from that page to another page
Edit and spamify
In other words, all pages hit are within two links of the main page. Unfortunately, this encompasses a vast number of pages. I've pre-emptively protected all the pages that are immediately linked from the main page, but there are simply too many for me to deal with all the second-degree links.
If we get much more spam on this scale, then we're going to be overwhelmed, so I think the case for installing some kind of anti-spam extension is becoming urgent.
--Chat 18:17, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
I hope to god that was a one off. I don't envy you having to deal with that. Further measures to stop spam will be essential is it continues on that level. Rehevkor ✉ 01:18, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Woe, looks like the spam bots got into the Special:WantedPages list and started creating many of those with spam. :(
If there's a large proportion of the spam on pages in talk and research namespaces like it seems to be, perhaps disallow anonymous users to create talk or other namespaces pages?
Otherwise if they target uncreated pages, maybe a bot could make stubs? --Frazyl 23:45, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Nah, looks like they're still following the 'two links from the front page' algorithm. They got to all those weapons through Main Page->Wanted weapons->* This is also why they hit talk/research a lot. There are simply too many potential pages for a bot to stub, and the spambots don't seem to care whether the page already exists or not, so creating them would be largely pointless in any case.
--Chat 23:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Urgh. Well, I've removed the red links from wanted weapons, so hopefully that will help nip some of it in the bud. --Ilde 00:37, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
ETA: Links are back, and those pages are now all protected. For future reference, I did this by using find and replace to turn all the page names into links starting with http://discworld.imaginary-realities.com/w/index.php?title=, having the title in the middle, and having &action=protect&mwProtect-level-create=autoconfirmed&mwProtect-reason=preemptive at the end. That makes it so that the correct protection level is selected and "preemptive" is given as a reason, and all you have to do is click confirm. Probably the easiest way to do a bunch of these without actually writing a bot for it. --Ilde 03:33, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
To bring up the CAPTCHA issue again, I think this extension would work great and be a big help. It appears to only trigger when an edit includes an external link, and it has an audio version for accessibility. I'm not sure, but it seems we might even be able to create a whitelist of allowed sites, too, since the extension it's based on lets you do this. Whitelisting Kefka's site would probably take care of most legitimate anonymous edits with links. --Ilde 06:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I think it would be fair to add a captcha of some kind, especially if it's only there when adding links to outside the wiki (possibly user registration too?) and if we can exclude Kefka's site, the priest wiki, the Tm wiki and the Discworld Mud web site we shouldn't need to see it very often. We can always add more sites to the white list too.
This should nicely prevent sudden deluge of spam edits when they find more pages for whatever reasons.
Semiprotecting pages being rather limited, time consuming and preventing valid unregistered users to edit pages doesn't make the status quo all that glamorous.
--Frazyl 06:43, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Sounds good. Spam is starting to get silly, need to do something about it. Rehevkor ✉ 12:37, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Hurray, the captcha is up and seems to be working! :) Thanks Drakkos!
Seems like the white list talk page at MediaWiki talk:Captcha-addurl-whitelist can only be edited by sysop?
When the whitelist does work I think these urls should probably go in because they are linked to a lot:
discworld\.atuin\.net/ # Official discworld mud site
discworld\.imaginary-realities\.com/ # This wiki and subsites
daftjunk\.com/ # Kefka's site, maps, itemdb
dwpriests\.com/ # Priests Guild Wiki, all rituals link there
disc-wizards\.com/ # New spellcheck site, all wizard spells link there
tmwiki\.firstserved\.net/index\.php/ # TM Project wiki, for skills tm info and misc pages
Also, should some of the pages protected because of spam be unprotected now so unregistered users can contribute or is that a bad idea?
--Frazyl 20:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Probably a good idea... it is nice for actual people to be able to make legitimate edits without creating accounts. --Ilde 21:25, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
I have added it although it's not working according to the talk page? Rehevkor ✉ 00:01, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I have removed the protection on the talk page. Can you guys conform you can/can't edit the whitelist itself? It seems to have some automatic protection but I'm unsure of the level. Rehevkor ✉ 00:15, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Confirmed I can't edit the whitelist, it just gives show source. Also confirm that the whitelist does appear not to be working, added a page with a link to discworld.atuin.net and it put a captcha. Not sure why it wouldn't work. --Frazyl 04:35, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Ack, something seems to have changed how the captcha without javascript works. If you have discworld.imaginary-realities.com allowed now you also need to allow javascript from recaptcha.net and google.com and the field to enter the challenge presents black text on black background. :( --Frazyl 19:36, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
The main talk page was getting pretty big, so I've archived the old bits off.
The process for doing this is:
Archive talk pages when you start seeing the "WARNING: This page is X kilobytes long; some browsers may have problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please consider breaking the page into smaller sections." message when editing them.
Move any sections which have not had edits within the last 30 days to the archive page.
The archive page is called 'Talk:pagename/Archive X', where X is 1, 2, 3, etc.
Put the {{talkarchive}} template at the top of each archive page.
Put (or update) the {{archives}} template at the top of the main talk page.
--Chat 17:25, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Viewing figures
Just thought you guys might like to know - unique daily visits to the site for the month of December 2009 broke 1,000 - we hit 1,001, as a matter of fact.
For interest, here are the figures for the past few months:
Mar 2010 1104
Feb 2010 1212
Jan 2010 1114
Dec 2009 1001
Nov 2009 919
Oct 2009 796
Sep 2009 676
Aug 2009 540
Jul 2009 398
Jun 2009 279
Great work everyone - many thanks for your continued work in making this wiki a great resource for DW players everywhere! Drakkos 21:54, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
January 2010 hit 1114 unique daily visits, FWIW. Drakkos 00:21, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
February 2010 : 1212
Interesting. Increasing fairly consistently. Rehevkor ✉ 13:31, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Quest pages
What's the plan for the quest pages to remain in sync? That is, quests are duplicated on several pages, odds are modifications on one page won't be made on all of them unless everyone is aware that the quest is also present on another page.
I thought that maybe there was a wiki thing in place so that sections from one page came from another or that they mirrored each other but apparently not. Not sure if that's something that actually exists. Anyone know?
Barring that, should we remove duplicate quests and replace some of them with links? Or some other way to keep all the quest text in sync?
I came up with some ways to handle the issue:
Make a page for every quest, the other pages link to the quest page. Downside is there will be lots of pages.
Put all quests on one page, then the other pages link to the section of the quest. Probably a bad idea because the page would be too big.
Make sure each quest is only on one page and that other pages are only links. Would need to decide on a level (domain/area/city) which would hold the real quest text.
Add comments in the source of duplicated quests that the other version needs to be updated as well. People could miss that though.
Insert idea here.
Or does everyone feel quests duplicated on several pages is no big deal after all? Frazyl 22:31, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
The third one would be easiest, but... eh. The first one is probably the best solution (possibly we could even stop using hidden text), but I don't like that they would then show up in Special:Random. They do currently, but it's not especially important because 1)there are comparatively few of them, and 2)spoilers are hidden and mostly below the fold anyway. There are only 1,234 content pages currently, so if we added a few hundred quest pages they'd be a significant portion of that. Maybe if we had a separate namespace ([1]) for them? Then they wouldn't show up randomly. --Ilde 02:23, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
A separate namespace sounds good especially if it allows us to show the text unhidden. As it turns out Special:Random also excludes redirects, so we could add redirects from the normal namespace for pages people might search or we want to link to... Probably only entry pages with warnings like Category:Quest pages and Unofficial_Quest_Solutions. --Frazyl 02:53, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
I actually like the hidden text as it enables me to uncover the mystery line by line if required (for example if I get stuck just because I cannot figure out the right verb, "exacto" comes to mind...). --Gunde 23:19, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
So, will someone create a quest namespace for quest articles? Or should we put them in the research namespace?
The primary advantage of a quest namespace is that this will stop quest pages appearing in Special:Random, which can send someone who doesn't want to be spoiled to a quest page and it will stop them appearing in default search (happens when the article doesn't exist) Special:Search, which will reveal the context of the search, that is unhidden quest info.
--Frazyl 18:31, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
AFAIK, creating a new namespace requires editing the server's LocalSettings.php; as such it's something that only Drakkos can do, so you should speak to him.
Please don't move quests into the Research: namespace - that will end up polluting Research: with things that aren't research, and we don't want that.
--Chat 22:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Ok, so I came up with a few ideas to improve quest pages. For the namespace I was waiting for the captcha to be installed first so as not to ask too much at once...
So I made a template {{Prehidden}} that basically is like {{prebox}} with white on white text. The advantage of prebox is that it preserves line breaks and spaces and other characters without breaking out too easily as with <p> (making a list with * or : makes everything after visible) while removing then obsolete <br> tags and allowing some formatting like bold or italic. Also it puts a pretty box around the text.
See Alchemists'_Guild_quests for examples.
If it is agreeable we could turn {{Hidden}} like {{Prehidden}} unless there something that I didn't think of.
As for quest duplication, it is possible to include pages with {{Include}}. It's only a matter of merging quests into the subpage and the template includes them with formatting and a link to the included page.
As for what includes what Unofficial_quest_solutions looks good, there's some difference to the structure of the Discworld quest pages though.
If we get a namespace for quests, I was thinking that each quest could get its own page in non-hidden text, which would then be included in the lists in {{Prehidden}} boxes. So if you don't want to be spoiled too much you can check the lists and to edit the quest and to be spoiled it would be easier to see it all at once in the quest page. It would use a tweaked include template.
--Frazyl 07:02, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Ooooo! The include templates are a neat solution for the duplication issue; kudos for that. --Ilde 03:04, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Slight issue, when including a page with the template include it doesn't work. You'd think it would check if there really was a loop, but no it just refuses to do anything. The only workaround that comes to mind is to make duplicate {{Include}} templates, one per level. --Frazyl 07:14, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Ok all pages have the same format and duplicate quests have all been merged except for Sentimentalist and Distant Exhibitionist which have several versions.
Some quests fitted several areas, put them in the most important area. To place a quest in several areas would mean putting the quests in individual quest pages and including those in all list pages that is concerned, but we said that would be too many pages so we'd need the quest namespace. --Frazyl 02:01, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
It occurred to me that while we can't include the text of the quests that could go in several places in more than one place (because we can't include sections, only pages as far as I know with mediawiki) we could place links to the quest.
Might be worth going through the quests vs the mud quest pages to put stubs for quests missing and links to quests that are somewhere else, at some point.
--Frazyl 23:20, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
I've just spotted that the contents of the sidebar (that's the bit on the left with navigation/search/toolbox) can be changed.
Does anyone have any suggestions for things they'd like to see added/removed from it?
FWIW:
I think we should probably do away with current events and random page - the former isn't really used; the latter I doubt gets much use either, and causes some problems on its own (quest spoilers, spam portal).
Adding status to the sidebar sounds like a good idea.
--Chat 21:39, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
Yes those changes sound good. --Frazyl 20:58, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Sounds good to me. --Ilde 00:42, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Need to edit MediaWiki:Sidebar, it's read only for me. --Frazyl 03:04, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
...Huh. I thought it was read-only for me, too, but it turns out it just had "create" instead of "edit" for some reason. --Ilde 03:18, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Actually, a lot of us like the random function - I used it to find new stuff. Quests are blanked out anyhow, so people should only be getting spoiled if they want to.
Please, can we have it back? ;_; Helaena 09:20, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Oh... well, I guess if people use it, maybe it's worth having linked there. Especially since our spam problems seem to be mostly gone (knock on wood). There's been talk of separating out quests so they're each on their own page without being spoilered out, though, so in that case the random page would be more problematic. I think I can get it on there again. --Ilde 09:41, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
The quests would be in another namespace if we make non-blanked individual quest pages. As far as I know random only picks real pages (not redirects) in the main namespace. So no problem. --Frazyl 19:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if this is the place to put this, or if this is just me, but I've been getting this a fair bit when I search:
Database error From Discworld MUD Wiki
You searched for pig (all pages starting with "pig" | all pages that link to "pig") Jump to: navigation, search A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:
(SQL query hidden)
from within function "". MySQL returned error "145: Table './imagi55_mudwiki/searchindex' is marked as crashed and should be repaired (localhost)".
Karesore 15:26, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I always get that these days, and I figured Drakkos is probably the only person who can fix it. I mailed him yesterday, but haven't heard anything yet.
--Gunde 16:36, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
As requested a while ago, I installed a captcha for the wiki so as to cut down on all the spam policing y'all have to do. The search feature has been fixed a couple of times, but it doesn't seem to take. I'll keep my eye on it though. Drakkos 20:01, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Woo! Thanks. And the search thing seems to be working again, too.... --Ilde 21:46, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
DNS problems
I wonder how many people came here when they found they couldn't connect. I did, and found out what the problem was and was able to get connected. Probably wouldn't hurt to make this the defacto place to go to during down times.. Rehevkor ✉ 01:31, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
That does rely on someone being able to diagnose the issue, figure out if there are workarounds, and then edit the main page announcement here. I managed to do that this time, but there may not always be someone in a position to do so. --Zexium 15:22, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Cybersquatter on "*.imaginaryrealities.com"
Just so everyone knows, there is a cybersquater on *.imaginaryrealities.com.
Remember the "-" in the domain name.
If someone wants to contact the abuse email of the ISP of the cybersquater, you can. However it is often an uphill battle getting ISPs to enforce ICANN rules, and might not be worth the frustration. --Ruedii 17:05, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
You can hardly call him a squatter when he got there 9 years before Drakkos (check the whois records)! --Zexium 20:11, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
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Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Free Pick 09/25/19
September 25th, 2019 By: BTB
The Chicago Cubs will be squaring off against their divisional rival Pittsburgh Pirates. WGN will televise the matchup and the opening pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. ET.
Chicago Cubs vs. Pittsburgh Pirates Odds
Oddsmakers are listing Pittsburgh (+165) as the underdog to Chicago (-175). Gamblers can bet on the matchup’s total with odds posted at even money (+100) for over 9.5 runs and -120 for under 9.5. Bettors can also wager on the game’s runline with the current odds standing at -120 for the Cubs -1.5 runs and +100 for the Pirates +1.5 runs.
The Pirates are 66-91 straight up (SU) and 74-82 against the spread (ATS). They’ve lost 16.2 units for moneyline bettors and 24.8 units ATS. The Cubs, on the other hand, have gone 82-75 SU this year and are 74-82 against the spread. They’re down 9.4 units for bettors taking the moneyline and 7.7 units ATS.
Pittsburgh games have an over/under record of 89-59-8 in 2019. The Cubs have an over/under record of 71-74-11.
Jon Lester will get the start for Chicago. The left-handed Lester is 13-10 with a 4.51 ERA and 161 strikeouts. He’s 3-0 with 15 strikeouts and a 3.20 ERA against Pittsburgh this year (four starts).
The Pirates will send righty Dario Agrazal (4-5, 5.08 ERA) to the hill. Agrazal has 36 strikeouts and 18 walks to his credit, along with a WHIP of 1.40. Agrazal has yet to face the Cubs this year and did not record any MLB appearances last season.
Chicago’s pitchers have allowed 4.4 runs per game and its starters own a 4.14 ERA, 1.30 WHIP and 8.94 K/9. The bullpen has managed an ERA of 3.91, along with a K-per-9 of 9.07.
Cubs hitters have slashed .253/.334/.453 on their way to 5.0 runs scored per game this season, including 5.0 runs per game against divisional foes and 3.4 per game over the team’s last five contests (0-5 SU).
Third baseman Kris Bryant and first baseman Anthony Rizzo continue to lead Chicago’s offense. Bryant is slashing .282/.382/.521 with 31 home runs, 77 RBIs and 108 runs scored, while Rizzo (.294/.406/.522) is up to 27 homers, 94 RBIs and 89 runs scored.
In the home-team dugout, Pittsburgh’s pitchers have given up 5.7 runs per game overall this season. Its starters have an ERA of 5.46, a WHIP of 1.45 and a strikeouts-per-nine of 8.3. The bullpen has a 4.99 ERA, 1.47 WHIP and 9.9 K/9. In 71 games against NL Central opponents, Pirates starters have an ERA of 5.76 and the bullpen’s ERA is 5.43.
The Pittsburgh offense is putting up 4.7 runs per outing, including 4.6 per game against divisional foes and 3.8 per game over its last five. The team has slashed .208/.238/.287 over its last five contests and is 1-4 SU during that stretch.
The Pirates’ batters have been led by outfielders Starling Marte and Bryan Reynolds. Marte is hitting .295/.342/.503 with 23 home runs, 82 RBIs, 97 runs and 25 stolen bases, and the line for Reynolds stands at .314/.378/.504 with 16 homers, 68 RBIs and 83 runs.
The Cubs have lost 1.9 units and are 61-63 ATS when facing a righty starter this season. The over has hit in 58 of those games, compared to 57 that’ve gone under against right-handed starting pitchers. On the other hand, the Pirates have lost 10.4 units and are 17-24 ATS when facing a left-handed starting pitcher. The over’s hit in 28 of those games, as opposed to 12 which went under the total.
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Pirates Prediction
Predictions: SU Winner – Cubs, ATS Winner – Cubs, O/U – OVER
The over has cashed in three of Chicago’s last seven contests.
Pittsburgh has recorded 20.7 Runs + Hits + Errors per game over its last 10 contests and 18.6 over its last five.
The Cubs have hit 16 home runs in their last 10 games. The Pirates have hit two over their last 10.
The Cubs have a total OPS of .787 this season and an OPS of .797 against right-handed pitchers. The Pirates’ OPS stands at .745 overall and .764 versus righties.
Miami Marlins vs. New York Mets Betting Pick 09/25/19
Los Angeles Dodgers at San Diego Padres Betting Pick 09/25/19
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Assam Governor assures names of all Indian in final NRC list
August 2, 2018 by sana
Guwahati: Amid massive uproar by the Opposition on Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft, State Governor Jagdish Mukhi on Thursday assured that anyone who is an Indian would surely find their names in the final list.
In an exclusive interview to ANI, Mukhi said, “Draft of NRC is a historical event for Assamese as it has been done as per wishes of the people of the state and Assam accord. Many people are worried over non-inclusion of their names in NRC. I assure them that anyone who is an Indian, their name will certainly be there in final NRC report”.
The draft, which was released on July 30, left out nearly 40 lakh people in Assam, incorporating names of 2.89 crore people out of 3.29 crore applicants. Since then, the Opposition has been at loggerheads with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre over the issue.
Supporting NRC over the missing names, the State Governor asserted that Centre has the right to know about foreigners staying in the state.
“The government assures that each and every Indian shall be included in the final NRC report and guarantees security to every citizen in the state. Central Government has the right to know about the foreigners staying in the state or country. It will be better if every state has NRC prepared, they should not only prepare NRC rather they should update it with every census, this will ensure full proof security in the country,” Mukhi.
The first draft was published on December 31, 2017, and names of 1.9 crore of the 3.29 crore applicants were incorporated.
The NRC draft features the names, addresses, and photographs of all Indian citizens, who have been residing in the northeastern state before March 25, 1971.
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LAUREN MIA x STIL & BENSE – EXISTENCE [RITTER BUTZKE]
Los Angeles-based classical pianist and composer-turned-songwriter, vocalist, music producer, and DJ Lauren Mia celebrates her first release of the year in collaboration with German duo Stil & Bense. Glistening with articulately harmonized melodic techno elements, “Existence” brims with mystique and romanticism. Lauren Mia’s articulately executed, driving production prowess is complemented exquisitely by Stil & Bense’s quintessential, minimal bass lines. Structured to be a sensible, sensorily stimulating listening experience, both parties contribute dynamic melody and percussion that places the unique intersection between the two artist’s musical identities on display.
KICE – SUCK WITH YOU [RUVA HOUSE]
Since making his producer debut in 2020 with “How Do You Feel,” Kice has consistently pushed out dancefloor-primed, feel-good tunes designed to keep the party going. Performing at high-profile venues and festivals such as Burning Man, Northern Lights, PRYSM, Sound-bar, and more, he has solidified himself as one of the hottest DJs and producers out of Chicago. Following his mega 2021 release, “Pusher,” Kice delivers what he cites as the biggest track of his career, “Stuck With You”. Upping the ante, his first single of the year is a sensual piano-house cut that oozes flavor, euphoria, and intoxicating melodies. Further exemplifying Kice’s versatility as a producer, his latest is unlike anything the Chicago-based multi-talent has ever made. “Stuck With You” meshes Kice’s affinity for ambient vocals and a riveting techy buildup with an explosive piano riff. The tried and true combination of production elements results in a stunning slice of infectious house.
DEMUR – ‘NO TIME TO DIE’ EP [POSITION MUSIC]
Fitting to the current times, Demur‘s latest EP serves as the perfect soundtrack to our borderline dystopian reality. His latest project packages his signature hard-hitting dark bass sound with a blend of blues/southern rock into a 5 track journey that feels like a soundtrack to a bar fight in a futuristic western saloon. Co-written with and vocals by Bradley Denniston, No Time To Die EP embodies the traits we have been primed for from previous releases, channeling political undertones with a gritty, raw production that provides a colorful angle to what makes modern bass so trendy today.
RIP KENNY – LOST [GET DEAD RECORDS]
RIP Kenny is the soundtrack to your adventure. At the intersection of metal, punk, and dubstep, the Oregon-based producer returns with “Lost” – the haunting, sophomore single to his debut LP Escapism. Through this second single, RIP Kenny teases at the intense thematic quality of the album. Taking you through a rollercoaster of emotions, this record brings you into the thick of what is surely a memorable ride along with this LP. RIP Kenny is a storyteller and delivers it flawlessly through a modern bass music package. Combining this with a 1st person experience of his life in the mountains, the album’s story will be brought to life with a full-length visual journey upon its release. “Lost,” with its haunting melodies and twisted dubstep hooks turns heads and ears, continuing Escapism’s quest to touch on deep emotion.
MINDCHATTER – NOTHING ON ME
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We’re surrounded. There’s no escape. Smart Phone Zombies are everywhere. In fact, you’re probably one yourself. Let’s face it – most of us are. Smart Phone Zombies – people who stare into their phones in a hypnotic state – are barely aware of life going on around them. Many people even believe that cell phones inhibit our ability to focus and pay attention. So, how can we slay the zombie within and reclaim our focus? More importantly, how can we help our children do it?
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Standardized tests are a fact of life, ranging from educational assessments in schools to the SAT to a driver’s license test to professional certifications. And as long as there are standardized tests, there will be test prep for one simple reason: it works. After all, these aren’t IQ or intelligence or aptitude tests, they’re simply tests of acquired skills. And skills can be acquired and refined through practice. Effective test preparation, therefore, provides many benefits beyond the content knowledge and test-taking strategies that manifestly lead to a higher test score.
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It’s another one of those “Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water” moments. The College Board has skipped the idea of printing future SAT’s on bamboo paper…and is planning on going all-digital, instead! Heads up, sophomores and juniors – you should be fine… but freshmen and younger students need to be AWARE!
Better Returns than Buffet's: The Bright Futures Scholarship
Last Updated by Jason Robinovitz on October 3, 2021
Are you wondering how does Bright Futures Scholarship works? Let us explain.
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Cancelling an SAT or ACT Score
ACT Scores:
You have the right to permanently remove a test score from your ACT record. From the ACT’s perspective, students own their scores, and may send the scores or delete them as they please (as long as those tests were not used to document participation in State and District Testing). Weeks or months or years after receiving an ACT score that falls below your expectations, you have the right to delete that testing record from your portfolio of ACT tests. The process is referenced on the ACT Test Scores page in response to the question, “Can scores be cancelled?” Here’s what it says online:
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Last Updated by Judi Robinovitz on July 29, 2021
What is an ACT superscore?
A superscore is the selection of your best scores. For example, let's say you took the ACT three times and received the following scores:
English 27, Math 28, Reading 29, Science 25 = Composite 27
The colleges listed above would cherry pick your best scores for their super-score:
As you can see, the super-score is better than any one of the tests. The sum of the parts are greater than the whole! And, more good news, obtaining your super-score is easier than ever. Previously, you needed to self-calculate your super-score, then send score reports from each testing date to colleges super-scoring the ACT. Now, ACT provides its own super-score report. Curious what it looks like? Here’s a sneak peek:
You’ll notice that the recalculated composite super-score appears along with the individual section scores and dates from which it was generated. Included in your super-score report are all scores from the single test with the highest composite score, and the composite and section scores from the tests used to obtain your super-score. You’ll access your super-score report in the same way you’d find the results from any ACT by logging into your myactstudent.org account and accessing your scores. Remember that you’ll only see a superscore after you’ve taken the ACT two or more times.
While there are many schools out there that superscore the SAT, the list of schools that superscore the ACT is much smaller. To aid you in search for information, we have compiled a list (with the help of fellow consultants at IECA) of many of the schools that super-score the ACT. While the list does not cover every single college in the US, it is fairly comprehensive.
Want to learn about the Superscoring the SAT? Check out our blog post on Colleges That Do NOT Superscore the SAT
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When a student is preparing for a big test at school, don’t underestimate the power of the fuel they ingest. Our Score At The Top tutors continuously praises the power of brain foods for test success. You wouldn’t start a NASCAR race on an empty gas tank – and the same mentality applies to exam day. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6102911829948425, "wiki_prob": 0.38970881700515747, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0103.json.gz/line124121"} |
Entergy Arkansas, Swepco Collect Efficiency Awards in Washington
by Kyle Massey
Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2019 12:14 pm 2 min read
Entergy and Southwest Electric Power Co. both claimed Partner of the Year Awards for energy efficiency programs serving residential customers.
Entergy and Southwest Electric Power Co. are once again Energy Stars.
The two power companies both claimed Partner of the Year Awards for energy efficiency programs serving residential customers.
Entergy Arkansas, the state's largest utility, received the national award for its Solutions in Residential Lighting and Appliances Program, and Swepco, which serves customers in western Arkansas, took the Energy Efficiency Program Delivery Award for its Home Performance With Energy Star program.
The companies were due to be recognized Thursday in Washington by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Entergy, which serves more than 700,000 homes and businesses in Arkansas, focused on energy savings by offering incentives for more efficient lighting and appliances. Swepco's program offers free home energy assessments and efficiency options like ceiling insulation, duct sealing, LED bulbs and advanced power strips, according to Sherry McCormack, energy efficiency and consumer programs manager for Swepco in Arkansas.
"We appreciate this recognition for Swepco's staff, the implementation team from CLEAResult, and the network of contractors who work every day to help customers improve the comfort and energy efficiency of their homes," McCormack said.
Entergy Arkansas has been an Energy Star partner since 2010, and Swepco was recognized for a fifth consecutive year. The program provides a government-backed endorsement for energy efficiency.
"We're proud to help Arkansas customers save energy and money through energy efficiency services and products," said Gabe Munoz, Entergy Arkansas' manager of energy efficiency.
Swepco said its program completed 1,776 single-family and nearly 2,000 multifamily projects last year, with savings per single-family home rising 14 percent year over year. The utility, a subsidiary of American Electric Power of Columbus, Ohio, also completed 375 joint projects with Black Hills Energy Arkansas, officials said.
Thousands of industrial, commercial and government organizations, including more than 40 percent of the Fortune 500, work with the EPA to save energy and money. Since 1992, Energy Star and its partners have helped American homes and businesses save nearly 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 3 billion metric tons.
In 2017 alone, the last year for which full figures are available, Energy Star and its partners helped consumers nationwide avoid about $30 billion in energy costs. A complete list of 2019 Energy Star winners is available at energystar.gov/awardwinners.
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A Guide to the First-of-Its-Kind Report on California Food
by Clare Leschin-Hoar January 13, 2014 March 15, 2022
What’s the best way to grab a lawmaker’s attention? In lieu of a substantial donation, the answer might be to let them know their votes are being closely tracked, packaged and shared with the public.
At least that’s the idea behind a first-of-its-kind food policy report tracking bills that made their through the California Assembly in 2013. The Report on California Food and Farming Legislation analyzed 27 “high-priority” bills that would impact the state’s food system reform efforts, and winnowed them down to five that were passed and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The report was produced by the California Food Policy Council – a group of 19 food policy groups spread throughout the state. Oakland-based Roots of Change staffed and funded the report.
Curious how San Diego Assmeblywoman Lorena Gonzalez voted on urban agriculture incentive zones (AB 551)? (She was in favor.) Or how Assemblyman Brian Maienschein voted on AB 191, which would increase food access through CalFresh? (He was opposed.)
The votes on those bills and three others are there for a looksee, and include San Diego lawmakers Toni Atkins, Shirley Weber, Marty Block, Ben Hueso and more.
Unlike Food Policy Action, a national advocacy group that scores members of Congress based on how they voted on food policy legislation, Michael Dimock, president of Roots of Change, said his group isn’t ready to issue grades just yet.
“There are more conservative counties and more progressive counties,” said Dimock. “There are still differences around exactly what kind of policies we want to purse as a group. When you start grading, you create more controversy with the legislators. The more ag-focused regions of the state didn’t feel comfortable with coming out of the block with grades.”
California is home to over 80,500 farms and ranches. We provide half of all U.S.-grown fruit, vegetables and nuts. San Diego County itself is surprisingly ag-based. We’re the 18th largest agricultural county in the U.S., and have the largest number of organic farmers (350 of them) producing over 150 crops.
JuliAnna Arnett with Community Health Improvement Partners and the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative, and California Food Policy Council steering committee member said there’s a lot in the new report that should matter to San Diegans.
“It does something really unique,” she said. “The counties can now talk to each other about common issues we’re seeing like water and labor. Instead of Northern California versus Southern California – we can work out issues that bring us together as a state and solve the root cause of the issue, rather than putting it off to be solved in future years when it becomes a crisis,” said Arnett.
But Dimock believes the report will have broader implications.
“Real change at the federal level won’t come until powerful states, like California, change their policies,” said Dimock. “It’s very hard to change federal policy until you get states – and their lawmakers – to buy in.”
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Effects of LDEF flight exposure on selected polymeric films and thermal control coatingsThe characterization of polymeric films and thermal control coatings which were exposed for five years and ten months to the low-Earth environment is reported. Changes in solar absorptance, thermal emittance, and transmission are compared to laboratory control specimens. Sputter-deposited metallic coatings are shown to eliminate atomic oxygen erosion of resin matrix composite materials. The effects of long-term atomic oxygen exposure to metallized FEP Teflon film is characterized. Chemical characterization of polymeric films indicates that although surface erosion occurs, the molecular structure of the basic polymeric film has not changed significantly in response to this exposure.
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Young, Philip R. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA., United States)
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Howdy! I’d such as you to consider how I’m doing this proper now. Not why I’m doing it, due to course, I’m doing it as a result of I like music and I like science and I love to do each these issues on the identical time. However how can I play music? How can I be listening to it proper now? And the way can I stroll round and play my guitar on the identical time with out falling on my face? And what’s even sound anyway? These are all good questions. Let’s begin with the final one, first. The essential reply to “What’s sound?” goes like this: Sounds create vibrations within the air that beat in opposition to the eardrum, which pushes a sequence of tiny bones that transfer inner fluid in opposition to a membrane that triggers tiny hair cells — which aren’t truly hairs — that stimulate neurons, which in flip ship motion potentials to the mind, which interprets them as sound. However there’s much more to our ears than permitting us to expertise the pleasure of birdsong, or the ache of grindcore. The ear’s usually neglected, however much more important position is sustaining your equilibrium, and with out THAT, you wouldn’t be capable to dance or strut and even rise up. And also you undoubtedly couldn’t do that! At the very least not with out throwing up. As a way to actually get to the nitty-gritty of how your ears choose up sound, you’ve obtained to grasp how sound works. The important thing to sound transmission is vibration. Once I speak, my vocal folds vibrate. When I slap this desk high, or strum a guitar, these vibrations trigger air particles to vibrate too, initiating sound waves that carry the vibration by the air. So this, sounds totally different than this, as a result of totally different vibrating objects produce in another way formed sound waves. A sound’s frequency is the variety of waves that go a sure level at a given time. A high-pitched noise is the results of shorter waves shifting out and in extra shortly, whereas fewer, slower fluctuations end in a decrease pitch. How loud a sound registers is dependent upon the wave’s amplitude, or the distinction between the excessive and low pressures created within the air by that sound wave. Now, so as so that you can choose up and determine sounds from beeping to barking to Beyonce, sound waves have to achieve the a part of the ear the place these frequencies and air-pressure fluctuations can register and be transformed into alerts that the mind can perceive. So as soon as once more, all of it boils right down to motion potentials. However, how does sound get in there? Your ear is split into three main areas: the exterior, center, and inside ear. The exterior and center ear are solely concerned with listening to, whereas the complicated hidden inside is essential to each listening to and sustaining your equilibrium. So the pinna, or auricle, is the half which you can see, and wiggle, and seize, or festoon with an earring. It’s made up of elastic cartilage lined in pores and skin, and its primary operate is to catch sound waves, and go them alongside deeper into the ear. As soon as a sound is caught, it’s funneled down into the exterior acoustic meatus, or auditory canal, and towards your center and inside ear. Sound waves touring down the auditory canal finally collide with the tympanic membrane, which you in all probability know because the eardrum. This ultra-sensitive, translucent, and barely cone-shaped membrane of connective tissue is the boundary between the exterior and center ear. When the candy sound waves of your favourite jam collide with the eardrum, they push it forwards and backwards, making it vibrate so it might probably go these vibrations alongside to the tiny bones within the center ear. Now, the center ear, additionally referred to as the tympanic cavity, is the relay station between the outer and inside ear. Its primary job is to amplify these sound waves in order that they’re stronger after they enter the inside ear. And it’s gotta amplify them, as a result of the inside ear strikes sound by a particular fluid, not by air — and for those who’ve ever gone swimming you understand that shifting by a liquid is usually a lot more durable than shifting by air. The tympanic cavity focuses the stress of sound waves in order that they’re sturdy sufficient to maneuver the fluid within the inside ear. And it does this utilizing the auditory ossicles — a trio of the smallest, and most awesomely named bones within the human physique: the malleus, incus, and stapes, generally often called the hammer, anvil, and stirrup. One finish of the malleus connects to the inside eardrum and strikes forwards and backwards when the drum vibrates. The opposite finish is connected to the incus, which can be related to the stapes. Collectively they type a sort of chain that conducts eardrum vibrations over to a different membrane — the superior oval window — the place they set that fluid within the inside ear into movement. The inside ear is the place issues get a bit of sophisticated, however fascinating and in addition sort of mysterious. With a number of the most complex anatomy in your complete physique, it’s no surprise it’s often called the labyrinth. This tiny, complicated maze of constructions is safely buried deep inside your head, as a result of it’s obtained two actually essential jobs to do: One, flip these bodily vibrations into electrical impulses the mind can determine as sounds. And two: assist preserve your equilibrium so you’re frequently conscious of which approach is up and down, which looks as if a easy factor, however it is vitally essential. To do that, the labyrinth truly wants two layers — the bony labyrinth, which is the large fluid-filled system of wavy wormholes — and the membranous labyrinth, a steady sequence of sacs and ducts contained in the bony labyrinth that mainly follows its form. Now, the listening to operate of the labyrinth is housed within the easy-to-spot construction that’s formed like a snail’s shell, the cochlea. Should you may unspool this little snail shell, and lower it in a cross-section, you’d see that the cochlea consists of three primary chambers that run during it, separated by delicate membranes. A very powerful one — not less than for our functions — is the basilar membrane, a stiff band of tissue that runs alongside that center, fluid-filled chamber. It’s able to studying each single sound throughout the vary of human listening to — and speaking it instantly to the nervous system, as a result of proper smack on high of it’s one other lengthy fixture that’s riddled with particular sensory cells and nerve cells, referred to as the organ of corti. So when your cute little ossicle bones begin sending stress waves up the inside fluid, they trigger sure sections of basilar membrane to vibrate forwards and backwards. This membrane is roofed in additional than 20,000 fibers, and so they get longer the farther down the membrane you go. Form of like a harp with many, many strings, the fibers close to the bottom of the cochlea are brief and stiff, whereas these on the finish are longer and looser. And, similar to harp strings, the fibers resonate at totally different frequencies. Extra particularly, totally different components of the membrane vibrate, relying on the pitch of the sound coming by. So the a part of the membrane with the brief fibers vibrates in response to high-frequency stress. And the areas with the longer fibers resonate with lower-frequency waves. Which means that, the entire sounds that you just hear — and the way you acknowledge them — comes down to exactly what little part of this membrane is vibrating at any given time. If it’s vibrating close to the bottom, then you definately’re listening to a high-frequency sound. If it’s shakin’ on the finish, it’s a low noise. However after all nothing’s getting heard till one thing tells the mind what’s occurring. And the transduction of sound begins when a part of the membrane strikes, and the fibers there tickle the neighboring organ of corti. This organ is riddled with so-called hair cells, every of which has a tiny hair-like construction protruding of it. And when one is triggered, it opens up mechanically gated sodium channels. That inflow of sodium then generates graded potentials, which could lead to motion potentials, and now your nervous system is aware of what’s occurring. These electrical impulses journey from the organ of corti alongside the cochlear nerve and up the auditory pathway to the cerebral cortex. However the data that the mind will get is extra than simply, like, “hey pay attention up.” The mind can detect the pitch of a sound based mostly solely on the situation of the hair cells which are being triggered. And louder sounds transfer the hair cells extra, which generates greater graded potentials, which in flip generate extra frequent motion potentials. So the cerebral cortex interprets all these alerts, and in addition plugs them into saved reminiscences and experiences, so it might probably lastly say oh, that’s a chickadee, or a knock on the door, or the sluggish burn of an 80s saxophone solo, or no matter. In order that’s the way you hear. However we’re not achieved with you but — we gotta speak about equilibrium. The way in which we preserve our steadiness works in an identical strategy to the way in which we hear, however as a substitute of utilizing the cochlea, it makes use of one other squiggly construction within the labyrinth that appears prefer it’s straight out of an Alien film — a sequence of sacs and canals referred to as the vestibular equipment. This set-up additionally makes use of a mix of fluid and sensory hair cells. However this time, the fluid is managed not by sound waves however by the motion of your head. Essentially the most ingenious components of this construction are three semicircular canals, which all sit within the sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes. Based mostly on the motion of fluid inside them, every canal can detect a distinct kind of head rotation, like side-to-side, and up-and-down, and tilting, respectively. And each one of many canals widens at its base into sac-like constructions, referred to as the utricle and saccule, that are stuffed with hair cells that sense the movement of the fluid. So by studying the fluid’s motion in every of the canals, these cells may give the mind details about the acceleration of the pinnacle. So if I transfer my head like this, as a result of I’m, like, tremendous into my jam, that fluid strikes and stimulates hair cells that learn up and down head motion, which then ship motion potentials alongside the acoustic nerve to my mind, the place it processes the truth that I’m bobbing my head. And, simply as your mind interprets the pitch and quantity of a sound by each the place specific hair cells are firing within the cochlea and the way frequent these motion potentials are coming in, so too does it use the situation of hair cells within the vestibular equipment to detect which route my head is shifting by house, and the frequency of these motion potentials to detect how shortly my head is accelerating. However issues can get messy. Doing stuff like spinning on a chair, or sitting on a rocky boat, could make you sick as a result of it creates a sensory battle. Within the case of me spinning round on my chair, the hair cells in my vestibular equipment are firing due to all that inner-ear fluid sloshing round — however the sensory receptors in my backbone and joints inform my mind that I’m sitting nonetheless. On a rocking boat, my vestibular senses say I’m shifting up and down, but when I’m trying on the deck, my eyes are telling my mind that I’m sitting nonetheless. The disconnect between these two kinds of motion, by the way in which, is why we get movement illness. It doesn’t take lengthy for my mind to get confused, after which mad sufficient at me to make me barf. Aaand I’m sorry that we’re ending with barf. However, we’re. Right this moment your ears heard me inform you how your cochlea, basilar membrane, and hair cells register and transduct sound into motion potentials. You additionally realized how totally different components of your vestibular equipment reply to particular motions, and the way that helps us hold our equilibrium. Particular because of our Headmaster of Studying Thomas Frank for his help for Crash Course and totally free schooling. Thanks to all of our Patreon patrons who make Crash Course potential by their month-to-month contributions. 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Harbour Air plans first flight of certifiable electric Beaver by end-2023
By Dominic Perry2022-04-27T10:47:00+01:00
Canadian regional operator Harbour Air will not begin flight testing a certifiable version of its modified electric-powered seaplane until late 2023, blaming supply chain issues and a revised development process for the delay.
Harbour Air is converting a 1955-built De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver to run on battery power, replacing the existing Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior powerplant with a Magnix electric propulsion unit (EPU).
Source: Harbour Air
Flight tests of initial prototype are continuing
A proof-of-concept aircraft (C-FJOS) first flew in December 2019 and the carrier began converting a second example (C-FIFQ) to serve as a certification platform for the electrification in December last year at its facilities near Vancouver, British Columbia.
Although Harbour Air had previously expressed an ambition to begin passenger flights using the electric aircraft this summer, that timeline has now shifted.
In an update posted on its website, the airline says that as part of the critical design review process held in March along with its project partners, the decision has been taken to build the certification prototype in two phases.
Harbour Air hopes to complete the first step of its conversion process by year-end, allowing ground runs and system tests to take place. Once this activity is finalised, certain components will be replaced with certifiable versions, enabling flight testing to commence in late 2023.
Supply chain challenges are also weighing on the project: Harbour Air says shortages of electronic components are a particular issue, with lead times of up to 25 weeks in some cases.
In the meantime, refurbishment of the aircraft’s fuselage continues in order to ready it for the modification work; Harbour Air’s distinctive yellow “ePlane” livery should be applied by the end of May.
Design tweaks to the EPU and energy storage system are also being implemented to ensure an optimum fit. Harbour Air is holding weekly meetings with Magnix to move towards design freeze on the EPU.
Maiden sortie took place in December 2019
Flight testing using the proof-of-concept aircraft is continuing, says the operator; glide performance testing and low-power climbs are envisaged for the coming weeks.
Harbour Air intends to validate the modification through a supplemental type certificate. Last December the carrier said it had held “preliminary” meetings with Transport Canada which provided “the basis of certification necessary to approve this conversion”.
USA-based Magnix will certificate its 640kW (850shp) Magni650 EPU via the Federal Aviation Administration, which classifies the system as an aircraft engine. Battery provider H55 – a spin-off from the Solar Impulse project – will meanwhile seek approval from the European regulator.
Harbour Air is additionally analysing “the unique charging stations that our infrastructure will require” over the next 10 years, in conjunction with consultancy LA Energy.
“LA Energy will liaise with us, [electricity provider] BC Hydro, the Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre and any other stakeholders to manage the charging infrastructure changes necessary,” it says.
While serving the cities of Vancouver and Victoria, Harbour Air’s route network also encompasses many more remote locations across British Columbia, potentially requiring different charging solutions.
Harbour Air says the converted aircraft will be capable of carrying four passengers and a pilot on flights of around 30min with a 30min reserve.
Project team includes Magnix and battery provider H55
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California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020: What the new privacy law means to you
Jessica Guynn
Every day, Americans are tracked across the internet by a trillion-dollar industry that mines and stockpiles thousands of their data points to target ads at them.
Nearly 8 in 10 people say they’re concerned about what companies do with all that data they quietly cull, according to the Pew Research Center. Yet this massive private surveillance dragnet is largely beyond Americans' control.
Until now. On Wednesday, a landmark law in California will grant consumers the right to see the personal information that companies collect about them and stop them from selling it. The law is the California Consumer Privacy Act or CCPA.
If companies extend these new rights to consumers outside the state, or if other states follow California's lead, the CCPA could effectively become a national law, privacy advocates say.
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But the law faces challenges. Business trade groups and lobbyists are seeking to revise it with amendments or preempt it with watered-down federal legislation, claiming the regulations are overly broad and could have unintended consequences that harm consumers and small businesses.
Bay Area real estate developer turned privacy activist Alastair Mactaggart, who put up more than $3 million to place privacy protections before California voters in 2018, says he isn't backing down from his fight to give consumers more control over how Silicon Valley tracks them to target advertising. The statewide ballot initiative he funded drew more than 600,000 signatures, leading California lawmakers, tech companies and privacy advocates to hammer out a legislative compromise: the CCPA.
“Whether or not we have everything in this particular law or the next one, it’s a massive beachhead,” Mactaggart says. “Being California, we just have a unique opportunity. As we go, so goes the nation.”
With calls for privacy regulation from Capitol Hill and the presidential campaign trail intensifying, Mactaggart is capitalizing on a growing unease with the tech industry's business tactics post-Cambridge Analytica. He says he’s prepared to spend millions more on a new initiative for the 2020 ballot in California to keep business interests from chipping away at the CCPA. The ballot initiative would also protect sensitive information, like your health and financial records, and your precise location. And it would create a California agency to enforce the regulations.
But Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, says the law may not help as many people as supporters hope.
"I’m skeptical that the average person will even know this law exists, let alone know how to take advantage of it. Mostly I imagine that privacy advocates will put it to the test and publicize the results," she says. "One of my concerns is that there is no budget allocated to public education on the issue, so most people are going to learn about it via word of mouth from advocates or friends. And, depending on how hard it is to exercise one’s rights from company to company, and what results you receive in turn, individual experiences may vary a lot."
Want to take more control over your online data? Here’s what you need to know.
What is the California Consumer Privacy Act?
California consumers have already begun to receive email notifications alerting them to changes under CCPA. The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, gives California residents the right to know what data companies collect about them and to opt out of having their data sold. Businesses are also restricted in selling the personal information of children under 16.
Under the law, Californians can sue businesses for certain types of data breaches. For other violations, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra will be able to bring enforcement actions starting in July. The regulations used to enforce the law are still being finalized.
CCPA may be the nation’s strongest privacy law, but privacy advocates warn it has limitations and the business community says it has drawbacks.
The law still puts the onus on consumers to take steps to protect their data. The problem: Americans trade away their privacy all the time. We click through privacy policies and terms of service without reading them. We buy phones that track us everywhere we go. We use smart speakers that record us in our homes. We take quizzes that give up intimate details about our lives.
Even if people want to assert their privacy rights, many don’t know what those are, and the law will have little impact unless people use it, advocates say. Some 63% of Americans say they understand very little or nothing at all about the laws and regulations that protect the privacy of their data, Pew Research found.
It's not yet clear exactly how the law will apply to major tech companies such as Facebook and Google, which argue they do not sell the information of consumers they track on the internet. "In our case there’s nothing to opt out from," Facebook said in a statement. Becerra is expected to offer more guidance on this issue in 2020.
If a business violates the law, it can be fined $2,500 per violation or $7,500 if the violation is determined to be intentional. But consumers have little recourse on their own except for data breaches. For the most part, they cannot sue companies that violate the law. Only Becerra can enforce the rules when companies don't respond to consumers' requests or delete their data.
“We have a law that effectively makes the California Attorney General the chief privacy officer without the budget to do that,” says Electronic Privacy Information Center associate director Mary Stone Ross, who helped draft the ballot initiative that led to the California law. “It makes me nervous that some businesses are just going to take their chances.”
What if I don't live in California?
In response to the upcoming law, some corporations like Microsoft are extending California's consumer protections to all Americans. Privacy advocates are betting other companies will follow suit. So they are urging consumers across the country to demand that companies delete their data and stop stockpiling it. Many companies are expected to comply with these requests.
“Whether you are in California or not, you should take advantage of this great law,” says Girard Kelly, counsel and director of the privacy program at Common Sense Media, the nonprofit advocacy group that helped draft the legislation. “Know what companies are collecting about you. Know how it’s being used, whether they are selling it, and, if they are selling it, know that you can opt out and say ‘No, I don’t want you to try to make money from my data.’”
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How do I exercise my privacy rights?
So, if you stream a lot of music on Spotify, you can send a form to the company directing the company not to sell your data. If your teen uses TikTok, you can send a form on your teen's behalf. A business must comply unless the information is necessary to complete a transaction or protect against fraud.
For instance, Hulu informs Californians that it collects all sorts of information, such as age, gender, IP address and viewing habits and makes inferences about you to recommend more programming.
You can opt out of having your information shared with advertisers including geolocation data and the insights Hulu gleans here. But if you ask Hulu to delete all the information it collects about you, the streaming company warns it will have to cancel and delete your account.
In general there are two steps:
— Fill out forms — one form per person, per company — to request your information, to have your information deleted or to instruct a company not to sell your information. Each form should take five to 10 minutes to complete. You can find USA TODAY's forms here.
— Then file your forms electronically or by mail.
Common Sense Media has free resources for consumers including instructions on how to exercise your rights and the forms you need to request a company delete your personal information.
You can expect to get confirmation of your request to see your information and have your information deleted within 10 days. Businesses are supposed to send a response to that request within 45 days. You can request your personal information from businesses twice a year for free. The information they provide will go back 12 months.
Which businesses have to comply with the law?
It’s not just big tech. Broadly speaking, most companies, no matter where they are based, must comply with the CCPA when serving California customers.
The law exempts some small businesses. It applies only to companies with at least $25 million in revenue, personal information on at least 50,000 people or which generate at least half their money from selling consumers' personal information.
Why do businesses oppose the law?
Business interests complain the regulations are an overreaction to troubling revelations from the tech industry, such as Facebook’s handling of user data, and place unfair burdens on small businesses that are not exempt and could deprive consumers of loyalty and rewards programs.
For example, businesses complain that the new California law broadens the definition of personal information to any information, including a specific device or browser that could be linked directly or indirectly to a consumer or household.
These interests are pushing California lawmakers to water down the law and Congress to pass federal legislation that would preempt it.
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"There may yet be unintended consequences to small businesses and consumers that can affect access to data, apps, advertising, and software tools," says Shoeb Mohammed, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce.
How did California get a privacy law?
Mactaggart was chatting at a party with a Google engineer who confided that Americans would be horrified by how much Google knew about them.
In 2018, the real estate developer gathered signatures to put a privacy initiative on the California ballot. Tech companies put up $1 million to fight the measure before backing off. Mactaggart agreed to take the measure off the ballot if the California legislature passed a data privacy law, which it did. That is the law that takes effect Wednesday.
Throughout 2019, tech companies worked to weaken the law before it takes effect and privacy advocates worked to strengthen it. So far, there have not been any significant changes.
What's next for privacy in California?
Mactaggart is working on the new ballot initiative. In California, these initiatives bypass the state legislature and the governor to create new laws.
If approved by voters, Mactaggart’s measure would limit the sale of sensitive information such as sexual orientation and race; require that companies only collect as much information as is necessary for business purposes and inform consumers how long they intend to hold onto it; and would impose tougher penalties for violations involving children under age 16.
What are the privacy laws where I live?
Federal privacy legislation is stuck in Congress. No other states have adopted California's privacy regulations, though some states are exploring similar laws. Privacy advocates say if you want these protections in your state, call your representatives.
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Between and within-woman differences in the association between menstruation and migraine days
James S. McGinley, R. J. Wirth, Jelena M. Pavlovic, Stephen Donoghue, Amparo Casanova, Richard B. Lipton
Objective: To investigate between and within-woman differences in the association between menstruation and migraine days. Background: Prior diary studies have shown that at the population level, aggregating across individuals, the odds of migraine increase during the perimenstrual window (from day −2 to day +3, where +1 is the first day of bleeding). These studies have been neither long nor large enough to assess the association between migraine and menses from an individual perspective. Consequently, existing research on menstrual-related migraine has largely overlooked between and within-woman variation that is critical for progressing clinical understanding and practice. Methods: Intensive longitudinal data for the current study were collected in a digital platform (N1-Headache®) that tracks individual migraine-related factors daily. Participants for the current study were actively menstruating adult (18+ years old) women who used the platform. Two variables were of primary interest, migraine day (no/yes) and menstrual status (inside or outside the 5-day perimenstrual window). Results: The sample consisted of 203 women with a mean age of 35.6 (SD = 8.7) years. At baseline, the women reported an average of 30.6 (SD = 23.6) headache days over the last 3 months. Analyses were based on a total of 53,302 days (median of 150 per person), 18,520 of which were migraine days (median of 44 per person), and a total of 2,126 menstrual cycles (median of 7 per person). Results showed that the 5-day perimenstrual window was associated with a 34% increase in odds of a migraine day compared to other days (OR = 1.34, 95% CI: 1.23–1.45, p < 0.0001). Importantly, there was between and within-woman variability in the association between menses and migraine days (between-woman variability: p = 0.002; within-woman [between-cycles] variability: p < 0.0001). Exploration of these individual differences demonstrated that relationship between menses and migraine days varied more within-person across cycles than between women. Discussion: This study supports previous research and demonstrates that the odds of migraine days are elevated from day −2 to day +3 of the menstrual cycle. We also show that the effect of menses on migraine days varies more within-woman than between-women. This work provides an initial foundation for better understanding menstrual-related migraine from the perspective of the individual patient.
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McGinley, J. S., Wirth, R. J., Pavlovic, J. M., Donoghue, S., Casanova, A., & Lipton, R. B. (2021). Between and within-woman differences in the association between menstruation and migraine days. Headache, 61(3), 430-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14058
Between and within-woman differences in the association between menstruation and migraine days. / McGinley, James S.; Wirth, R. J.; Pavlovic, Jelena M. et al.
In: Headache, Vol. 61, No. 3, 03.2021, p. 430-437.
McGinley, JS, Wirth, RJ, Pavlovic, JM, Donoghue, S, Casanova, A & Lipton, RB 2021, 'Between and within-woman differences in the association between menstruation and migraine days', Headache, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 430-437. https://doi.org/10.1111/head.14058
McGinley JS, Wirth RJ, Pavlovic JM, Donoghue S, Casanova A, Lipton RB. Between and within-woman differences in the association between menstruation and migraine days. Headache. 2021 Mar;61(3):430-437. doi: 10.1111/head.14058
McGinley, James S. ; Wirth, R. J. ; Pavlovic, Jelena M. et al. / Between and within-woman differences in the association between menstruation and migraine days. In: Headache. 2021 ; Vol. 61, No. 3. pp. 430-437.
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Sentence Variety
Definition of a Sentence
Before elaborating too much on the nature of sentences or trying to define a sentence's parts, it might be wise to define a sentence itself. A sentence is a group of words containing a subject and predicate. Sometimes, the subject is "understood," as in a command: "[You] go next door and get a cup of sugar." That probably means that the shortest possible complete sentence is something like "Go!" A sentence ought to express a thought that can stand by itself, but it would be helpful to review the section on Sentence Fragments for additional information on thoughts that cannot stand by themselves and sentences known as "stylistic fragments." The various Types of Sentences, structurally, are defined, with examples, under the section on sentence variety. Sentences are also defined according to function: declarative (most of the sentences we use), interrogative (which ask a question — "What's your name?"), exclamatory ("There's a fire in the kitchen!"), and imperative ("Don't drink that!")
In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 (IIiv), we see that great "stuffed cloak-bag of guts," Falstaff, in debate with his good friend Prince Hal, the future King of England. After a night of debauchery together, he is imploring his young friend not to forget him when Hal becomes King. The banter goes on, but the best part of it is Falstaff's last few sentences on the matter (talking about himself here — his favorite subject):
But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
were to say more than I know. That he is old, the
more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but
that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,
that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,
God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a
sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if
to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine
are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,
banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack
Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,
valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,
being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him
thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's
company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
The speech is quite a ramble, filled with Falstaff's lively good spirits. How can the Prince follow this? He does, with two little sentences:
I do. I will.
And there you have it. The prince knows he must someday, soon, renounce his life with Falstaff and turn to the responsibilities of ruling England. All the kinetic energy of Falstaff, manifested in the turns of phrase and rhythm in this speech, has been dammed up, thwarted and turned back by those two little sentences, four little words.
That's what variety of sentence length can do. Great expansiveness followed up by the bullwhip crack of a one-liner. It's not that one kind of sentence is better than the other (although the taste of the twentieth-century reader generally favors the terse, the economical). It's just that there are two different kinds of energies here, both potent. Use them both, and your prose will be energized.
The trouble is that many writers, unsure of themselves, are leery of long sentences because they fear the run-on, that troll under the bridge, forgetting that it is often better to risk imperfection than boredom.
What we need, then, is practice in handling long sentences. It is relatively easy to feel confident in writing shorter sentences, but if our prose is made up entirely of shorter structures, it begins to feel like "See Dick run. See Jane jump. See Jane jump on Puff." Primer style (pronounced "primmer" in the U.S.A.), it's called, and it would drive a reader crazy after a while.
Run-ons and Length
First, review the section of the Guide that defines Run-on Sentences. Remember that a really long sentence and a run-on sentence are not the same thing. Joseph Williams's fine book Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Univ. of Chicago: 1990), enlists this monster of a sentence from Thomas Hooker, father of American democracy and founder of Hartford, Connecticut:
Now if nature should intermit her course and leave altogether, though it were but for awhile, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qalities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were through a languishing faintness, begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief — what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve?
—from Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
The modern reader might rebel at the complexity of those clauses piled one upon the other, and it does seem rather ponderous at first. In fact, if you were to write such a sentence in academic prose, your instructor would probably call you in for a conference. But if, as reader, you let yourself go a bit, there's a well earned delight in finding yourself at the end of such a sentence, having successfully navigated its shoals. And, as writer (avoiding such extremes), there's much to be learned by devising such monsters and then cutting them back to reasonable size.
Here are some hints about using long sentences to your advantage. The ideas here are based loosely on those in Williams' book, which we highly recommend, but with our own examples.
Allow the complexity of a longer sentence to develop after the verb, not before it. Click HERE to read a 239-word sentence (not a run-on, though) that succeeds grammatically but fails stylistically because it does way too much work before the subject-verb connection is made. Make the connection between subject and verb quick and vigorous and then allow the sentence to do some extra work, to cut a fancy figure or two. In the completer (predicate), however, be careful to develop the complex structures in parallel form.
Click HERE to visit our section on parallel form, most of which is taken from William Strunk's Elements of Style. Be sure to go through our "slide show" on the Gettysburg Address and closely examine the uses of parallelism in that classic speech.
Repeated Terms
One of the scariest techniques for handling long sentences is the repetition of a key term. It feels risky because it goes against the grain of what you've been taught about repetition. When properly handled, though, repetition of key words and phrases within a sentence and then within a paragraph not only holds things together but creates a rhythm that provides energy and drives the meaning home.
The Swiss watchmakers' failure to capitalize on the invention of the digital timepiece was both astonishing and alarming — astonishing in that the Swiss had, since the beginnings of the industrial revolution in Europe, been among the first to capitalize on technical innovations, alarming in that a tremendous industrial potential had been lost to their chief competitors, the watchmakers of Japan.
In the following sentences, from a speech by John F. Kennedy (dedicating the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College), observe how the repeated, parallel phrases pile up meaning in rhythmical waves:<
In America, our heroes have customarily run to men of large accomplishments. But today this college and country honors a man whose contribution was not to our size but to our spirit, not to our political beliefs but to our insight, not to our self-esteem, but to our self-comprehension. . . .
I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past, and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
The same principle can apply to repeated whole sentences in a paragraph. Watch how President Kennedy drives home his point in the famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech:
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.
Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz
West Berlin: June 26, 1963
Renaming and Amplifying the Subject
Consider the following sentence, the way information is appended and feels tacked on.
Hartford continues to lose its industrial base, which means that more and more of its income base depends on companies whose primary business is paper shuffling.
Instead of using that clumsy "which clause," let's rename the event and follow it with a dependent clause that amplifies the added noun.
Hartford continues to lose its industrial base, an economic catastrophe in the making [that is] characterized by an income base primarily dependent on companies engaged in paper shuffling.
A Chain of Modifying Phrases
Try ending a sentence with a set of prepositional phrases or phrases, each beginning with a present or past participle. This device works well if used infrequently; used too often, it can lead to what some writers call purple prose as one modifying phrase piles up against the one before it. Used sparingly, however, it can create a wonderful music.
I see it now — the wide sweep of the bay, the glittering sands, the wealth of green infinite and varied, the sea blue like the sea of a dream, the crowd of attentive faces, the blaze of vivid colour — the water reflecting it all, the curve of the shore, the jetty, the high-sterned outlandish craft floating still, and the three boats with the tired men from the West sleeping, unconscious of the land and the people and of the violence of sunshine.
And we all nodded at him: the man of finance, the man of accounts, the man of law, we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces, lined, wrinkled; our faces marked by toil, by deceptions, by success, by love; our weary eyes looking still, looking always, looking anxiously for something out of life, that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen, in a sigh, in a flash — together with the youth, with the strength, with the romance of illusions.
"Youth: A Narrative" (1902)
Resumptive and Summative Modifiers
By adding modifying phrases to the end of a sentence, a writer can take the reader in new, sometimes unexpected directions. A resumptive modifier picks up a word or phrase from a sentence that seems to be finished and then adds information and takes the reader into new territory of thought. Because resumptive modifiers are, by nature, repetitive, they tend also to add a sense of rhythm to a sentence. The following sentence (borrowed from above) employs this strategy twice:
A summative modifier quickly re-names or sums up what was going on in an earlier part of the sentence and then adds new information:
The defensive coaches taught risk-taking, ball-hawking, and perpetual movement — three strategies that bewildered the opposition and resulted in many bad passes, steals, and easy fastbreak baskets.
Variety in Modifier Placement
Using Initial Modifiers:
Dependent Clause: Although she wasn't tired, Maria went to sleep.
Infinitive Phrase: To please her mother, Maria went to sleep.
Adverb: Quickly and quietly, Maria went to sleep.
Participial Phrase: Hoping to feel better, Maria went to sleep.
Using Mid-Sentence Modifiers:
Appositive: Maria, an obedient child, went to sleep.
Participial Phrase: Maria, hoping to catch up on her rest, went to sleep.
Using Terminal Modifiers:
Present Participial Phrase: Maria went to sleep, hoping to please her mother.
Past Participial Phrase/Adjectival Phrase: Maria went to sleep, lulled by music.
Maria went to sleep, awakening to scary dreams, relieved when it was morning.
Combining Modifiers:
Quickly and quietly, Maria, a young girl, went to sleep hoping to please her mom.
(This section was prepared by Kristin Zook, a student in Professor Karyn Hollis's Tutor Training course at Villanova University.)
Variety in Subject Placement
Unlike medicine or the other sciences, writing has no new discoveries to spring on us. We're in no danger of reading in our morning newspaper that a breakthrough has been made in how to write a clear English sentence—that information has been around since the King James Bible.
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Additional Hints on Variety
Try an occasional question, exclamation, or command. A question can be especially useful at the beginning of a paragraph where you want to summarize quickly what preceded and then launch into what will now follow. "And what were the results of this Proclamation of 1763?" This reminds your readers where you are in your discussion — Ah yes, that's what we're talking about — and prepares them for what comes next.
A command or directive provides direction and energy. Readers react to being grabbed by the collar and told what to do. It's hard to ignore, if not to resist. Tone is terribly important here. A bit of well-intentioned cajoling is usually more useful than in-your-face shouting. "Learning the principle of parallel structure can be the most important thing you learn in writing class. Learn it now!"
Try beginning an occasional sentence with something other than the normal subject-followed-by-verb order of things. Begin with a modifying clause or participial phrase instead. "After Pontiac's insurrection led to the Proclamation of 1763, a brief period of peace ensued. Having led his people in a successful resistance, Pontiac was astonished to discover how Indian tribal differences and individualism began, instantly, to erode their base of unified power."
Try beginning a sentence with a coordinating conjunction (and, but, nor, for, yet, or, so). Many writers have had it pounded into their skulls that if you begin a sentence with and or but that sentence should have been linked (instead) to the previous sentence in a compound structure. It goes against the grain to begin a sentence with and or but. But give it a try. A sentence beginning with a conjunction will almost always call attention to itself and it will always serve primarily as a connective device. If that's what you want, use it — but not so often that the effect gets out of control and becomes self-defeating.
Try using a variety of basic sentence structures. We can categorize sentences into four main types, depending on the number and type of clauses they contain:
Simple (one independent clause):
We drove from Connecticut to Tennessee in one day.
Compound (more than one independent clause):
We were exhausted, but we arrived in time for my father's birthday party.
Complex (one independent clause and at least one dependent clause):
Although he is now 79 years old, he still claims to be 65.
Compound-complex (more than one independent clause and at least one dependent clause):
After it was all over, my dad claimed he knew we were planning something, but we think he was really surprised.
Sentence Types
In terms of style, you will also find that sentences are classified as periodic or cumulative sentences. Periodic sentences begin with modifying phrases and clauses, sometimes piling them on, and then end with an independent clause, period.
If, instead of listening to the war-mongers of the military-industrial establishment, the politicians had only listened to what people had been writing in their letters and in the newspaper columns, if they had only listened to what the demonstrators had been shouting in the streets and on the campuses, if they had only listened to what was in their hearts, the war would have ended long ago.
Cumulative sentences, on the other hand, begin with the independent clause and then finish with a flurry of modifying constructions. See the sentences of President Kennedy above.
Again, it is not so much that one kind of sentence is to be preferred over another but that a good craftsperson uses the right tool for the right job and doesn't use the same tool all the time.
It does no good to be overly conscious of these sentence types in the first draft of your essay, but as you review your essay, keep in mind that too many sentences of any one kind — especially too many simple sentences — will be tedious for your reader. On the other hand, as we have seen, there is nothing like a brief sentence to drive home a point after a lengthy, rambling sentence. Try spicing up your prose by combining sentences into different structures.
See the Exercise on Avoiding Primer Style.
The most important thing you will derive from using a variety of sentence types is the shifts in tone that will result. Variety of sentence structure and type liberates your text from the monotone. Ezra Pound said that writing aspires to music, "which is the art of arts." Good academic prose is not poetry and it is not music, but there is surely no reason for it to remain on the dull plains of sameness.
Try using an occasional cleft sentence. The structure of a cleft sentence allows a writer to emphasize a part of a sentence in the same way that a speaker can emphasize part of a sentence using voice stress. We could say "Coach CALHOUN came up with the program of recruiting players from foreign countries." and by stressing the word "Calhoun" we let the listener know that we're distinguishing this coach from all others (in this particular context). To create the same kind of stress in writing, we can "cleave" (split) the sentence into two parts:
It was Coach Calhoun who came up with the program of recruiting players from foreign countries.
Or we could stress the idea of the PROGRAM in this way:
It was the program of recruiting players from foreign countries that Coach Calhoun came up with.
The cleft sentence usually uses it as the main subject with a to be verb; the real information in the sentence, oddly enough, follows in the predicate and then in a dependent clause beginning with a dependent word (usually who, which, or that).
Another form of the cleft sentence can be created with what (instead of it).
What you did in your youth is your own business.
The what form of the cleft sentence will frequently take the main verb (and business) of the sentence and put it into an initial noun clause:
A massive typhoon off the east coast delayed the invasion.
What delayed the invasion was a massive typhoon off the east coast.
Cleft sentences are useful for putting stress in a sentence exactly where you want it, but they should be used sparingly, reserved for special occasions — like birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and the annual return of the buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio.
An emphatic sentence puts the stress on an auxiliary verb instead of some element after the verb, a complement or modifier. In normal intonation, we might say something like "The President was traveling to EGYPT yesterday," thus stressing how the President spent the day. If someone doubted the veracity of our statement, however, we might make our statement more emphatic by placing the stress of our intonation on the auxiliary: "The President WAS traveling to Egypt yesterday." In the absence of an auxiliary, the verb "do" is used to create emphasis: "The President DID spend the day in Egypt." The "to do" form has no effect on the meaning of the sentence except that it adds emphasis. Click HERE for more information of the uses and forms of the "emphatic do." Emphatic sentences are seldom used in academic, formal prose.
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Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth
In Search of the Roots of American…
In Search of the Roots of American Inequality Exceptionalism: An Analysis Based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data
Janet C. Gornick, Branko Milanovic & Nathaniel Johnson
Published Date October 2022
CONFERENCE HELD March 5-6, 2020
Book: Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth
Book editors: Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Janet C. Gornick, Barry Johnson & Arthur Kennickell
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: Studies in Income and Wealth
Earlier work has established that the US has exceptionally high inequality of disposable household income (i.e., income after accounting for taxes and transfers). There is a debate whether it is due to an unusually high inequality of market (pre-tax-pre-transfer) income or to weak redistribution. In this paper, we look more deeply at market income inequality, focusing on its main component—labor income—across a group of 24 OECD countries. We disaggregate the working-age population into household types, defined by the number and gender of the household’s earners and the partnership and parenting status of its members. We conclude that within-group inequality of labor incomes in the US is, in almost all groups, high by OECD standards. The roots of US inequality exceptionalism are not to be found in an unusual demographic composition, nor in unusually high or low mean incomes of some demographic groups, but in pervasive high inequality within each of these groups.
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Albums where every song is a radio staple?
Thread: Albums where every song is a radio staple?
12.08.22, 01:12 PM #1
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01.31.23 @ 08:42 PM
I think its a pretty big deal when every song on an album becomes a radio staple. Every now and then, there are albums that contain songs that are so popular, they become hits even if they weren't released as singles when the album came out. I think Van Halen's debut is one of these albums. I've heard every one of those songs on the radio...a lot. That is a rare feat, especially for an album that has an instrumental track on there. Of course, its not just any instrumental--its THE instrumental.
I was trying to think of other albums like this. 5150 is almost there, but not quite. I've heard many of its songs on the radio, but The Inside will never be played. Ha ha. 1984 is another possible one, but I don't think I've heard Top Jimmy or Girl Gone Bad on the radio. If they were, it was rare, and probably a special occasion. The Beatles probably have several--possibly Revolver and Rubber Soul. The one that comes to mind immediately is Back in Black by AC/DC. Maybe Highway to Hell too. I think Led Zeppelin's 4th album is also one of them. Led Zeppelin II is close, but I've never heard Moby Dick on the radio.
Are there any others? There aren't many. That Van Halen's debut is probably the best example of this. What a great album.
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Today @ 06:16 AM
Every song on Boston's debut album was a charting single and all of those songs are still played on the radio.
9 of the 11 songs on Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" are still played on the radio.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival had Cosmo’s Factory, Willy & The Poor Boys & Green River, although the closest is Cosmo’s Factory with 9 of the 11 tracks being classic rock radio staples
"Always hopeful, yet discontent,
He knows changes aren't permanent
But change is!"
The Cars debut 1978
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Journey - Escape 1981
Steely Dan - Aja 1977
Drivin n Cryin - Scarred but Smarter 1986
Eagles - Hotel California
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Originally Posted by Little Intruder
I looked at that one. Not sure... but it's close like any Aerosmith record before 1979.
Dire Straits first album falls in there.
Bowie - Scary Monsters to anyone that bought it the week it came out. 1980
12.08.22, 06:18 PM #10
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47, you're probably right about the Eagles but in the late 70s that album was all over AM/FM radio in sharp contrast to the disco revolution so popular at the time. How about this one?
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
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"Dance The Night Away"
Originally Posted by Al Van Bundy
there were three singles that i'm aware of (because I own them):
"More Than A Feeling"/"Smokin'"
"Long Time"/"Let Me Take You Home Tonight"
"Peace Of Mind"/"Foreplay"
I'm not sure I can say I've ever heard "Something About You" or "Let Me Take You Home Tonight" on the radio.
But then I'm not sure there really is a non-compilation album where all the tracks get air time. Most big albums I can think of a track or two that maybe didn't get airplay - at least not while I was listening!
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Originally Posted by billy007
The Boston debut was the first album that came to mind when I saw this thread. I have heard all 8 songs on the radio multiple times.
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Boston--epic album. It feels like a Greatest Hits album and it was their debut. Yeah, I don't think I've heard Let Me Take You Home tonight on the radio. Not saying it never did get airplay though. As for Appetite for Destruction, I always thought it was kind of hit and miss. The hits were absolutely massive, but the other songs on the album didn't get much play on the radio if at all. I always liked Mr. Brownstone from that one.
I think its really hard to get all of every song on the radio from one album. Its fun to think about.
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Maybe I was in the wrong place, but I've never heard On Fire or even Little Dreamer on the radio.
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