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Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park: Indigenous history meets scenic beauty
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Located north of Sydney, Ku-ring-gai is Australia's second oldest national park and is a local favourite for bushwalking, cycling, fishing and swimming. There are several trails, lookouts, picnic spots, secluded beaches and well-preserved Aboriginal heritage sites that provide a window into the past.
The Guringai people (from which the park takes its name) are the traditional custodians of the land on which the national park sits, and there are many ways to learn about their culture and heritage during your visit.
Red Hands Cave can be found along the Aboriginal Heritage Track or the Resolute Loop Track. The cave is an important site for the Guringai People as it provides physical evidence of their ancestors. It also provides a spiritual connection to the past which is incredibly important in Aboriginal culture. When you reach the cave, you'll see ochre handprints in the stone, but refrain from touching or laying your hands over the prints as this will damage them.
Another Aboriginal heritage site in the park is the rock engravings which can also be found along the Aboriginal Heritage Track. This rock art is one of the best examples of engravings by the Garigal people of the Guringai Nation.
It's thought that these human and animal figures were carved into the large, flat sandstone surfaces by the Guringai People more than 5000 years ago. To see the art in its full glory, it's best to arrive early in the morning or later in the afternoon so that the light casts deeper shadow across the rock.
5 Best Walks in Ku-Ring-gai Chase
To make the most of your visit to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, pack a bag with bushwalking essentials and tackle one of the area's many trails. Bobbin Head and the Barrenjoey Lighthouse are two of the most popular spots, but there are trails for all levels of fitness and a few campgrounds for those you want more of an adventure.
Warrimoo Track to Bobbin Head – 6.2km one way
This is a great walk for exploring the upper reaches of Cowan Creek. There are some incredible viewpoints along the way, a variety of flora and fauna and a café at the end for a refreshing drink.
West Head Lookout Track – 1.9km return
Starting at Resolute Picnic Area, this walk heads out to West Head Lookout where you'll be rewarded with magnificent views across the Hawkesbury River and Lion Island.
America Bay Track – 2.2km return
If you don't have a lot of time, this short walk is a great choice as you'll experience the bush, pass historic Aboriginal engravings, a small waterfall and a beautiful lookout point.
Resolute Track – 3.7km return
One of the harder tracks in the park, the Resolute Track is a great way to see two major Aboriginal sites and the magnificent and secluded Resolute Beach – so pack your swimmers.
Aboriginal Heritage Track – 1.1km circuit
From the Resolute Picnic Area, the Aboriginal Heritage Track takes in one of the most popular rock art sites in the park and a well preserved Aboriginal engraving site.
Head over to Ku-ring-gai National Park and experience the thrill of Australian wilderness whilst hardly leaving the metropolitan area. The winding creeks and turquoise strips of ocean here, paired with thick rainforests and flourishing mangroves provide visitors with a real sense of adventure.
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Address: Bobbin Head Rd, Mount Colah NSW 2079
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Date of this artwork?: c1953 (may not be accurate)
Artist: Shimura Tatsumi
Format: Large Oban tate-e: 10" x 7.25"
Subject: A woman playing battledore and shuttlecock. She wears a kimono decorated with red Plum blossom pattern which is a suitable design to Ner Year's season and the collar of the underwear is embroidered with a shuttlecock pattern. Her hair is in a Western style and decorated with Roses. Tatsumi Shimura is known for designing several striking bijin-ga prints towards the end of the Shin Hanga movement. Born in Takasaki, Gunma, Shimura's real name was Sentaro. In 1921, he began studying art with Yamakawa Saiho, a well-known illustrator. Three years later, he became an apprentice of Saiho's son, Yamakawa Shuho, who was also a bijin-ga artist. Shimura exhibited paintings with Kyodotai in 1927 and with Seikinkai in 1938. He became known for his paintings of beautiful women with long eyelashes and blurred pupils. As a young man, Tatsumi also worked as an illustrator for newspapers, serialized novels, and magazines, notably for the Japanese magazine "Woman's world" (Fujokai). His most famous illustrations were for the novel Tange Sazen by Hayashi Fubo. From 1948 to 1952, Shimura designed several woodblock prints of beauties that were published by Kato Junji. Later he collaborated with the Japanese Institute of Prints to create a series called "Five figures of modern beauties" (Gendai bijin fuzoku gotai). These prints were published in 1953 in editions of 200. They depict Japanese women in traditionally feminine poses and attire. The finely detailed figures are juxtaposed against very simple backgrounds. "Late Summer" cleverly alludes to Hokusai's famous ukiyo-e print Red Fuji pictured on the woman's fan. After a solo exhibition on his sixtieth birthday in 1967, Shimura devoted his career entirely to Nihonga, or Japanese style painting. From the limited edition. In original folder as issued.
Publisher: Japanese Print Institute
Condition: Full size with large margins (not fully shown in the scanned image). Fine state.
Colour: Superb colors.
Impression: Excellent impression of the 1st edition with gauffrage. Later editions lack the red seals in the left margin (see The Female Image pp181-3)
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Colin Clive in 3 movies not named Frankenstein
January 20, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment
Well, I bet you've seen at least two Colin Clive movies, haven't you? I swear, when I was a kid bitten by the monster madness which was the first seed of my current love of classic movies Colin Clive was bigger to me than Gable, Cagney, or any other leading man of the period. C'mon, the guy was Dr. Frankenstein and about the only actor bigger than that to an 8-year-old would be Karloff himself.
The IMDb credits Colin Clive with having appeared in just 18 movies from the time he and director James Whale reprised their stage hit, Journey's End, on film in 1930 until his death in 1937. Whale, of course, directed Clive in both Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), plus used him one other time in between, in One More River (1934).
Colin Clive cements his horror film credentials as Stephen Orlac in Mad Love (1935), a pianist who has the hands of a murderer grafted onto him after a horrific train crash. The hands, experienced in knife-throwing but too clumsy for the piano, start taking over the once stable Orlac with help from the maniacal Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre) who's obsessed with winning Orlac's wife (Frances Drake) at any cost.
But none of Colin Clive's 15 other films were horror movies, something which would have shocked that worshipful 8-year-old version of myself. You can find a couple of them over on YouTube at the time of this writing.
Clive plays Rochester in Monogram's flat 1934 Jane Eyre starring Virginia Bruce in the title role. Bruce seems an unfortunate choice, not coming across convincingly in any scene requiring anything but total exuberance, while Clive manages to carry the second half of this short, 62 minute, production. This Jane Eyre really made me feel for poor Rochester as I wished he had a nearby choice for companionship other than Bruce's Jane or the somewhat shrill Blanche Ingram, who's nonetheless played well by Aileen Pringle. Clive is most effective, as should be, in the final few minutes of the picture, when he's blinded and despaired.
In History Is Made at Night (1937), a love story starring Jean Arthur and Charles Boyer, Colin Clive plays a monster. When Irene Vail (Arthur) leaves her husband Bruce (Clive) while in France, he responds by sending his chauffeur over to Irene's hotel room to set her up in a compromising position. Seemingly just neurotic at first Clive's Bruce is soon an all-out sneering and leering lech when his plan is foiled by Paul Dumond (Boyer) a native Frenchman who overheard Irene's troubles from the next room over. Dumond posing as a jewel thief whisks Irene away, and while their interaction began innocently Bruce already suspects what's not to come until later—that Irene is having an affair with the handsome Dumond.
Despite a committing murder in an earlier scene, Clive is at his most despicable after forcing a reunion with his wife, who is understandably appalled. Clive storms toward Arthur, puts a hand around her throat and hisses "I'll kill you," before tossing her to the floor. Later in the film Clive gives cool orders which pull the trigger on a potentially catastrophic climax. His Bruce is not the typical cuckolded husband of 1930's cinema, he's very much more.
Colin Clive only appeared in one other movie after History Is Made at Night, 1937's The Woman I Love, before his death that same year at age 37 from pneumonia complicated by his alcoholism.
Kate Gabrielle covered History Is Made at Night on Silents & Talkies.
An excellent biography of Colin Clive was posted on Frankensteinia, The Frankenstein Blog, on the anniversary of his birth in 2009.
While there are an endless number of Frankenstein collectibles out there, a search of my own image archives of vintage movie cards and collectibles yielded only the two Colin Clive items shown on this page. In fact, my search for "Clive" sadly saw Colin outnumbered by approximately 20-to-1 by Clive Brook!
Okay, I couldn't close without embedding this:
Colin Clive, born January 20, 1900. Died June 25, 1937.
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It's hard to believe that a pandemic could bring anything good to our lives, especially for people already facing huge challenges with their health and well-being.
As a high-risk group, life was certainly already tough enough for many within the Traveller community. Incredibly, the pandemic saw us actually increase the number of families we support in Cavan, Monaghan and farther afield.
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Perhaps most crucially so many new relationships have been created and so much trust has been gained with the Traveller community over the past year.
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ʿISĀ B. ṢAHĀRBOḴT
ʿISĀ B. ṢAHĀRBOḴT, medical author of the third/ninth century, from Gondēšāpur (q.v.). ʿIsā was, as is shown by his own name and that of his father, a descendant of an apparently Nestorian Christian Syro-Persian family of Gondēšāpur. His father was a medical author as well; he in fact dedicated a book in the field (a commentary of Jorjis' Konnāš) to his son—a practice customary in families of physicians. Information about ʿIsā's life is extremely scarce, but the period can be determined approximately on the basis of a remark by Ebn Abi ʿOṣaybeʿa about ʿIsā's (lost) translation of part of Ḥonayn's epitome of Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms. The middle third of the third/ninth century was a period of transition, when medical books were still being composed in Syriac; but the demand for Arabic translations, or original works, was rising. Thus ʿIsā translated into Arabic those parts of Ḥonayn's work which Ḥonayn himself had not translated. ʿIsā's only other known work, Ketāb qowā'l-adwia al-mofrada ʿalā'l-ḥorūf, was also composed in Arabic. Like his father's work and so many other books of Islamic medicine from that period, it is preserved only in fragments by way of quotations in later authors. That most erudite scholar Bīrūnī included some fragments in his Ketāb al-jamāher (pp. 197, 222), and Badr-al-Dīn Moḥam-mad b. Bahrām Qalānesi mentioned him in his great Aqrābāḏīn (Ullmann, pp. 307 f.).
Sezgin has shown it likely that ʿIsā's grandfather Mā-sarjis is identical with a medical author of the same name who is reported to have been a contemporary of Abu Nowās (died ca. 200/815), and with the father of another ʿIsā; the latter is a medical author mentioned by Ebn al-Nadīm, Qefṭī, and Ebn Abi ʿOṣaybeʿa.
Abu Rayḥān Biruni, Ketab al-j¡amāher fi maʿrefat al jawāher, ed. F. Krenkow, Hyderabad, 1936.
Ebn al-Nadīm, ed. Flügel, p. 298.
Ebn Abi ʿOṣay-beʿa, ʿOyun al-anbāʾ fi ṭabaqāt al-aṭebbāʾ, 2 vols., ed. August Müller, Cairo and Königsberg, 1882-84, I, pp. 199, ll. 4-7; 203, ll. 12-13.
ʿAli b. Yūsof Qefṭī confuses his lifetime with that of ʿIsā b. Šohlāfā: Julius Lippert, ed., Ibn al-Qifṭī's Taʾrīḫ al-ḥukamāʾ, Leipzig, 1903; see Sezgin, GAS III, p. 243.
Manfred Ullmann, Die Medizin im Islam (Handbuch der Orientalistik I. Suppl.VI/1), Leiden and Köln, 1970, pp. 264, pp. 307 f.
Sezgin, GAS III, pp. 224, 242-43, 256. Sezgin tends to think that the author of the Konnāš which ʿIsā's father, Ṣahārboḵt, commented on was not identical with Jorjis b. Jebrāʾil b. Boḵtišuʿ, al-Manṣur's well-known physician (cf. GAS II, pp. 209 f.; Ullmann, p. 108).
(L. Richter-Bernburg)
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If you have ever attended a Saucon Valley football game, you know that the cheerleaders who support the team work very hard to keep school and community spirit high. In addition to their feats of athleticism, the cheerleaders engage with fans and promote the school in a positive light at events outside of games. That's why we are shining a spotlight on this year's 11 senior cheerleaders, who you'll learn more about in the coming weeks.
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I've been cheering since I was in kindergarten. I've cheered for Saucon Valley and Northeast Middle School.
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Honestly, I don't know! A lot of my cousins cheer, so maybe that made me interested!
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The feeling of Home. My team is very welcoming and warm. It makes me feel at home. They're like my second family.
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This is a tough one, but I'd have to say "Make some noise, for the boys. Yell S-H-S!"
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My mom has been a big part. She and my dad have always been very supportive and pushed me to be my best, and most importantly, be happy.
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My future includes DeSales, becoming a successful nurse and being happy overall. I'm sad to say that this is my very last year of cheer.
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Modeling the fine root biomass dispersion using a special influence function
O Wälder (1), K Wälder (2)
doi: https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor0469-0010141
This paper presents a successful application of techniques from the adjustment theory for modeling interaction in fine root biomass dispersion. Using special distance and species dependent weightings the influence function for fine root biomass dispersion of two species is estimated. Using the estimated influence functions the fine root biomass is predicted at the locations where the real data was sampled. Goodness of fit of our model is evaluated by comparing sample values and predicted values. However, the results show successful coincidence between sampled and predicted values. Finally, we present an example for the root dispersion in a mixed stand of beeches and spruces in Saxony/Germany.
Forest effects, Fine root biomass, Interaction, Influence function
Forest scientists as well as wood processing industry are interested in understanding and modeling interactions among trees in stands. The spatial distribution of the resource pool trees rely on affects the availability of these resources like water, nutrients and radiation for a tree. Now, such a characteristic as the fine root biomass depends on locations of the corresponding trees, their interactions and competition effects among them. Investigations of the spatial dispersion of the fine root biomass can contribute to an improved knowledge about these effects. In this paper, the multi-tree case with trees from two different species is discussed. At fixed locations at ground level we want to model the total mean of the fine root biomass in a fixed soil depth belonging to the trees from both species. Obviously, root dispersal is caused by the trees. The total biomass of fine roots consists of the contributions of the individual trees. Here, interactions can affect the root biomass. Therefore, we model the fine root biomass by a weighted sum of individual biomass contributions. Now, the fine root biomass measurements should additionally be weighted related to the relative number of neighbouring trees of the same species. This two-step weighting is necessary for modeling as well intra-specific interactions among trees of the same species as inter-specific interactions between different species. Obviously, our model can also be generalised for more than two species.
There are different mathematical methods for modeling interaction effects, see ([6], [7], [10]). In this paper, techniques of adjustment theory are taken into account.
The study was carried out in a mixed spruce and beech stand consisting of 11 beech (species 1) and 17 spruce trees (species 2) in Germany (Saxony) near to Dresden. The study site is part of a greater nearly homogeneous spruce stand. In 2003, soil cores were taken at 226 given sampling points with collections of the fine root biomass from the forest floor organic and mineral horizon, see Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.
Fig. 1 - Locations of trees and fine root biomass measurements (transects) at the Rabenau site. The trees of the first species (beech) are coloured with red stars. The trees of the second species (spruce) are coloured with blue stars. Yellow diamonds show locations of measurements. Both axes X and Y are in [m].
Fig. 2 - Soil core from Rabenau.
Sampling procedure started with the collection of roots from the forest floor organic and mineral horizons using a steel frame (diameter 50 mm). The samples per core hole (organic horizon, mineral soil up to a depth of 80 cm) were filled in separated plastic bags. According to ([2]) only roots <= 2 mm diameter are classified as fine roots. These roots were selected irrespective of their shape. Finally, the dead roots were separated. The distinction between living and dead components was made according to Murach ([5]). Following separation, samples of live roots were oven-dried at 65°C for 96 h. Mycorrhizae was not separated from root material.
In Näther & Wälder ([7]) an approach based on fuzzy theory is proposed for modeling inter- and intra-specific aggregations. In Näther & Wälder ([6]) a statistical model for dispersion effects based on cluster point processes is discussed. Ammer & Wagner ([1]) present an approach for modeling the mean fine root biomass of Norway spruce stands. Especially, they restricted themselves to modeling fine root biomass of one species. Here, we present an alternative method for modeling the fine root biomass distribution of two species. Techniques of the adjustment theory are used for our modeling.
Mathematical methods
A deterministic alternative to the mark correlation function discussed in Wälder & Wälder ([10]) is the so called influence function defined in Wälder ([11]). The utilisation of tree individual-based models has been established in forest research and management for some years now. Analogously to the influence function many other models make use of the zone of influence ("ZOI" sensu [3]) approach; but they utilise this approach in very different ways ([12], [8], [9], [4]). Now, such an influence function approach provides a simple method for interaction analysis and its advantage relies on its rejection of embarrassing restrictions which are necessary for stochastic methods: For example, it is well-known that not any function can be a correlation or a density function. Some conditions have to be fulfilled.
Let us explain the main idea of the influence function method based on an example from forestry. We assume that each tree characteristic, for example the fine roots biomass, depends not only on the corresponding tree, but also on other trees, namely on their locations and characteristics. It seems to be realistic to assume that this influence only depends on distances between measurement points of fine roots biomass and the tree. We denote the maximal tree distance with still existing influence f with parameter R. Therefore, f(r) = 0, r > R holds. In our case study we use R=10 and R = 15 [m]. Now, we assume that this function f is identical for all trees of the same species in a stand.
Further, we assume that there are two tree species with two different fine root biomass influence functions. The measurements of fine root biomass are taken around each tree following radial transect lines. The whole plot is divided into two groups: fine root biomass from trees of the first and of the second species, see Fig. 1.
The next model assumption refers to the linearity of the average of individual influences of neighbouring trees for a fine root biomass value. Let mj be the fine root biomass of species j, j = 1, 2, at point x0 . If N neighbouring trees are located at xi, i = 1, …, N, then we use the following approach assuming that all distances are smaller than R (eqn. 1):
\begin{equation} m^j(x_0) = f^j(r_{10}) \cdot w(r_{10}) + f^j(r_{02})\cdot w(r_{20})+\cdots+f^j(r_{0N})\cdot w(r_{N0}) \\r_{i0} = |x_i-x_0|; \; i=1,\ldots,N; \; j=1,2 \\w(r_{i0}) = \frac{1}{2\pi r_{i0}} \end{equation}
The weights w in eqn. 1 are necessary because the number of trees still increases with increasing distance. Now, these influence functions fj , j = 1, 2 have to be estimated using the sampled fine root biomass values mj. The estimator is denoted by fj. Our approach to solve this problem is based on techniques from the adjustment theory. At first, we restrict the number of unknown variables in eqn. 1. For example, for five values of the influence function this corresponds to the following locations (eqn. 2):
\begin{equation} r_k = r_{min} +(k-1)\cdot \Delta \\\Delta = \frac{R}{4};\;\;k = 1,\ldots,5 \end{equation}
Tab. 1 - Some statistical characteristics providing goodness-of-fit of our model.
with m=5
10 [m] Species 1 Mean 60.9248 60.9561 60.8873 61.5880
Variance 4.7628 x 103 1.7635 x 103 1.7387 x 103 1.8707 x 103
Correlation 1.0 0.6152 0.6107 0.6395
Species 2 Mean 97.2478 99.9726 98.3769 98.4068
15 [m] Species 1 Mean 60.9248 61.6426 61.9068 61.809
Species 2 Mean 97.2478 100.317 98.61 98.794
Variance 1.3658 x 104 0.7072x 104 0.7729 x 104 0.7558 x 104
We should note that another number of unknown variables in eqn. 1 can also be considered. Tab. 1 presents the results for m = 5, 7 and 9 in our case study. Setting (eqn. 3):
\begin{equation} \Delta = \frac{R}{m-1};\;\; m \gt 1 \end{equation}
leads to m values of rk , k = 1, …, m. Let us mention that an increasing number of unknown variables firstly results in an increasing estimation error and secondly in oscillations of the influence function estimator fj caused by the relatively small number of trees at a fixed distance from a measurement. Thus, this restriction to only five (seven or maximal nine) variables seems to be useful and necessary. To take into account the stem diameter the parameter rmin > 0is needed. Using seven or nine variables does not change the form of influence functions significantly, see Tab. 1. Thus, in eqn. 4 and eqn. 5 we use m = 5 only in order to avoid overloading the given relations.
At second, each measurement mj should be weighted additionally. This weighting should mirror our confidence in the corresponding measurement. It means that the accuracy of a measurement mj (and in the same time our confidence) increases significantly, if there are only trees of the same species j. We denote these weights with p. Each weight should be proportional to the relative number of trees of the same species the considered measurement of fine root biomass belongs to.
The solution of the following linear system of equations eqn. 4 which is well-known in the adjustment theory leads to the estimation fj of the corresponding influence functions for both tree species j=1, 2 (eqn. 4).
\begin{equation} \cases {X_{1}^j a_{1,1}^j+\ldots+X_{5}^j a_{1,5}^j = M_{1}^j+v_1^j \\X_{2}^j a_{2,1}^j+\ldots+X_{5}^j a_{2,5}^j = M_{2}^j+v_2^j \Rightarrow A^j X^j = M^j v^j\\\cdots\\X_{n}^j a_{n,1}^j+\ldots+X_{n}^j a_{2,n}^j = M_{n}^j+v_n^j}\\X^j : v^j P^j v^j \rightarrow min ; \;\;j=1,2 \end{equation}
where n is the number of measurements of fine root biomass denoted with M for both tree species j, and (eqn. 5)
\begin{equation} X_k^j = \hat{f}(r_k);\;k=1,\ldots,5\\A = (a_{l,m}^j);\;a_{l,m}^j = \sum_{\forall r_l:|r_m-r_l|\le \Delta/2} w(r_l);\; l=1,\ldots\,n; \;m=\,\ldots,5 \\ p^j = \left( \array {p_i^j& 0 & 0\\ 0 & \cdots & 0\\0 & 0 & p_n^j} \right) \end{equation}
The elements of the matrix A are cumulative weights which are defined in eqn. 1. The weights of all trees located at distances closer to the corresponding rk , k = 1, …, 5 should be summed up.
The exact solution of eqn. 4 corresponds then to (eqn. 6):
\begin{equation} X^j = (A^j P^j A^j)^{-1} A^j P^j M^j; \; j=1,2 \end{equation}
We applied the method described above for our data. From Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 it can be seen that the maximum of fine root biomass is different for both species. The maximum of fine root biomass for a beech yields approx. 5 [m], while a spruce has this maximum at approx. 8 [m]. We restricted ourselves to R = 10 [m] and 15 [m] because of the small size of the observation window.
Fig. 3 - Fitted fine root biomass influence functions (Y-axis). The red lines correspond to the first tree species (beech). The blue lines describe the estimated influence function for the second tree species (spruce) for k = 5 and R = 10 [m] (a) and R = 15 [m] (b). The X-axis represents the distance in [m].
It should be noted again that using more than 5 variables does not change the form of the influence functions significantly. The corresponding results can be seen in Tab. 1.
Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 show the estimated influence functions for some parameters. Fig. 5 presents the comparison between real and estimated values of fine root biomass for k=5 and R=15 [m]. The linear interpolation method is used for visualisation of the results in the observation window.
Fig. 5 - Real measurements of fine root biomass for the first species (a) and for the second species (b) at Rabenau. Estimated fine root biomass for the first species (c) and for the second species (d) for k=5, R=15 [m]. Absolute difference between observed and estimated values for the first species (e) and for the second species (f). Both axes X and Y are in [m]. The colour scale represents the fine root biomass in [mg/cm3].
In our paper we show that intra- and inter-specific interaction and competition effects among trees and species can be modeled by a special two-step weighting approach. From an ecological point of view this is necessary because forest dynamics is shaped by suppression, support and survival of the strongest species.
In general, a mathematical model is a problem-related simplification and requires some restrictions and assumptions. Goodness-of-fit should be proved for each model. In our approach two influence functions are estimated. Based on them, the values of fine roots biomass are predicted at the locations where real measurements are given. The comparison of real (observed) and predicted (model) values is carried out calculating their means, variances and the correlation between real and model values. The obtained results underline that our model is well suited for describing the fine root dispersion in a mixed stand of two species.
Applying the influence function approach is very helpful, especially for such cases if additional restricting demands of other mathematical approaches could not be satisfied. For example, there are too small sampling sizes or vague measurements, etc. An influence function is free from restrictions: It can be as well positive as negative, it is not normalized. It is a simple and meaningful tool for a preliminary analysis of spatial multidimensional data.
Our approach provides a more general and flexible approach in comparison with the approaches by Näther & Wälder ([7]) and Ammer & Wagner ([1]). Differently from Ammer & Wagner ([1]) our model is not restricted to one species. The approach presented in this paper can even be generalized by using more than two species of trees. Differently from Näther & Wälder ([7]) our approach renounces strict statistical model assumptions.
Further, other tree-dependent characteristics, which are of interest for forest scientists, can be analyzed in a similar way. Therefore, we want to contribute to the broader dissemination of our approach in forestry and ecological research.
The authors are grateful to S. Wagner and A. Zeibig, who collected the root data we used.
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Fig. 1 - Locations of trees and fine root biomass measurements (transects) at the Rabenau site. The trees of the first species (beech) are coloured with red stars. The trees of the second species (spruce) are coloured with blue stars. Yellow diamonds show locations of measurements. Both axes X and Y are in [m]. Fig. 2 - Soil core from Rabenau. Fig. 3 - Fitted fine root biomass influence functions (Y-axis). The red lines correspond to the first tree species (beech). The blue lines describe the estimated influence function for the second tree species (spruce) for k = 5 and R = 10 [m] (a) and R = 15 [m] (b). The X-axis represents the distance in [m]. Fig. 4 - Fitted fine root biomass influence functions (Y-axis). The red lines correspond to the first tree species (beech). The blue lines describe the estimated influence function for the second tree species (spruce) for k = 7 and R = 10 [m] (a) and R = 15 [m] (b). The X-axis represents the distance in [m]. Fig. 5 - Real measurements of fine root biomass for the first species (a) and for the second species (b) at Rabenau. Estimated fine root biomass for the first species (c) and for the second species (d) for k=5, R=15 [m]. Absolute difference between observed and estimated values for the first species (e) and for the second species (f). Both axes X and Y are in [m]. The colour scale represents the fine root biomass in [mg/cm3].
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'Virgil resembles a leader, a warrior, a Liverpool player.' Jurgen Klopp
Virgil van Dijk trusts his administration characteristics will come progressively to the fore at Liverpool the more he spends at the club.
The defender has squandered brief period in building up himself as a vocal nearness at the back for the Reds since influencing a January to move from Southampton.
What's more, he says sorting out his partners has turned out to be more straightforward as he has adjusted to the physical requests set upon him by Jürgen Klopp's approach.
Van Dijk disclosed to Premier League Productions: "The essential thing is to become more acquainted with everybody and become more acquainted with how we jump at the chance to play, and everything around it. What's more, on the pitch, do it and show it. "
Virgil van Dijk is as of now showing the certainty of a player comfortable in this Liverpool group, as indicated by Jürgen Klopp.
The Netherlands International handed over another made execution at the end of the week as the Reds crushed Newcastle United 2-0 to secure a fourth straight win in all rivalries.
Van Dijk has sunk into life at Anfield without hardly lifting a finger, giving an intense nearness amidst the protection and offering an eye-getting scope of passing when under lock and key.
That range of abilities is the thing that influenced Klopp to select the inside back, apparently. Be that as it may, the director is charmed with how rapidly the No.4 has forced himself as an afterthought.
"He's only a decent fellow, frankly. That is the most critical thing," he told Liverpoolfc.com.
"We got him not because he is a decent chap but because he is a decent footballer. However, being a kind fellow encourages a ton to settle in the group quickly – and that is the thing that he did.
"That he is a decent footballer, there was no uncertainty. Our other four focus parts are great footballers too. It just makes a difference. When you have a considerable measure of ownership, you require this sort of passing abilities in defences.
"His non-verbal communication is splendid, frankly. He resembles a leader, similar to a warrior, officially like a Liverpool player – that is uplifting news.
"Obviously he has helped us, that is the reason we acquired him."
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Warriors advance to NCAA track finals
Terrance Ellis kicked it into another gear with 200-meters to go to turned in a fast enough time for him to qualify for today's finals in the 800-meter run at the NCAA Championships.
Ellis, the school and track record holder in the event at Cal State Stanislaus, surged up to the second spot at turn No. 3 before finishing fifth in his heat in a time of 1:51.92. The time turned out to be fast enough to get him among the top nine finishers as he will get a chance to run today at the Thunderbowl on the campus of Colorado State-Pueblo.
The top two finishers in each heat and the next five best times advance to today's finals set to start at 7:05 p.m. Mountain Time.
The junior from Stockton was among the six qualifiers from heat one with Adams State's Boris Berian, the indoor track and field champion in the event, having the best preliminary time of 1:50.87.
Ellis could earn an All-America status in the event with a top eight finish.
Setting the pace early, junior Dawson Vorderbruegge ran out near the front of the pack and sprinted to the finish to qualify as he will get another run at the NCAA Track and Field Championships.
In men's long jump, Abdullah Dosu was in the finals of the event before finishing ninth with a day's best of 23-feet, 10 inches. Cal State L.A.'s Giogrio Bryant was eighth with a leap of 24-1 3/4. The top eight finishers were named All-Americans.
Vorderbruegge took off at the gun and ran in second with Jeremy Antivo of American International for most of the race. When the rest of the pack made a move in the final 200-meters, Vorderbruegge held his own to finish in seventh in his heat in a time of 4:00.78.
His heat was much faster than heat one as all eight runners in heat two, which included defending national champion Russell Drummond of Colorado School of Mines, all advanced to today's finals. The top four runners in each of the two heats plus the next four best times will compete for the championship. The finals is scheduled for 5:45 p.m. today Mountain Time.
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Australians injured as American woman is killed in central London mass stabbing
Updated August 5, 2016 — 7.06am first published August 4, 2016 — 9.16pm
London: An American woman was murdered and two Australians were among those injured in a mass stabbing attack in central London, which police believe was carried out by a young man with suspected mental health issues.
The victim was identified as Darlene Horton, 64, who was the wife of a US psychology professor.
Scotland Yard confirmed an Australian man and woman were among the victims, but it was unclear if they were related or a couple. The woman suffered a knife wound to her back and the man suffered a wound to his chest. Both were discharged from hospital on Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said a third Australian, a woman, was at the scene of the attack but unhurt.
Darlene Horton died after being stabbed. Credit:Metropolitan Police
The other victims injured in the attack had a range of different nationalities, with victims from America, Israel and Britain also involved. Mrs Horton was treated at the scene but pronounced dead a short time later.
A 19-year-old Norwegian man of Somali origin was arrested and interviewed after initially being taken to hospital for treatment.
Police raided the man's house in north London and plan to search another address in south London. Investigators have all but ruled out terrorism as a factor and said they were exploring mental health issues as a motivating factor instead.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley told reporters police believed the attack was "spontaneous" and the victims "selected at random".
Police officers and cleaners tend to the scene of a knife attack in Russell Square on Thursday. Credit:Getty Images
"So far we have found no evidence of radicalisation or anything that would suggest the man in our custody was motivated by terrorism," he said.
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Police guard the scene of the knife attack near Russell Square. Credit:AP
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Assistant Commissioner Rowley praised police and said it was a testament to the British philosophy of using minimum force.
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These aspirations might ring truer if the story being told were centuries-old, or if not much was known about the subject in the first place. But because the true story which drives In the Name of the Father was so reported on, Sheridan's objective is concerning, not least because this particular material is perfectly capable of being cinematized in a way that is both dramatically rich and genuine.
It revolves around the plight of the Guildford Four, a quartet of young men who were falsely convicted for a series of Irish pub bombings in the 1970s. It is particularly concerned with the Belfast-bred Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis), one of the framed. Gerry, a shaggy-haired, small-time criminal, is a textbook case of the young dunce whose inability to stand up for himself makes it easier for coincidences to look like pieces of evidence.
The feature becomes particularly desperate when Gerry's estranged father, the stoical Giuseppe (Peter Postlethwaite), also finds himself ascribed to a crime he didn't commit. While staying with his family friends, the Maguires, in England, to better support his son, Giuseppe is arrested in association with the latter family, who themselves are falsely accused of passing nitroglycerin to the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
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With Forivor's bedding, children can learn fascinating facts about British wildlife, such as how a mole can dig 540 times their own bodyweight in a day. In Forivorland they will discover King Mole's magic power to sniff out treasure and imagine where they would hide their own treasure in the underground burrows. I wanted my illustrations to create a world where children can get lost in the detail, discovering something new every bedtime. We hope the play between fact and fiction will inspire parents and children.
Alice Ross, Director, Forivor
At the heart of Forivor's philosophy, is a commitment to supporting and inspiring the protection of our natural world and wildlife, whilst providing an opportunity to learn and explore our imaginations. As part of this philosophy we ensure that all of Forivor's products are ethically and sustainably produced and are designed to last. Most people remember their first duvet with fondness and we hope your Forivor bedding will become a long-lasting family heirloom, whose magic is passed from one generation to the next, taking stories that have been told with it
Rebecca Attwood, Director, Forivor
Forivor launched a Kickstarter campaign to seek funding to bring their beautiful bedding into production. The campaign ran from the 19th June to the 19th July 2016 with the aim of raising £5,000. The bedding was so popular that the target was reached in just 24hrs and by the time the campaign had finished, the target was more than doubled. Forivor has now launched an Indiegogo Indemand campaign to build on the momentum of Kickstarter and to give people the opportunity to continue to preorder the bedding at an early bird rate.
I'd love to know what you guys think of this bedding and the idea behind it. If you've got kids, do you think they would appreciate something like this at bedtime? Let me know!
Lexii kelly says:
Where can I buy this please? X
That's just WAAAAY too beautiful for a children's bedding. Seems more like an art to me. Good job for discovering it, Stacey!
Ah, I totally know what you mean Edna! It's just so intricate and beautiful.
Gill Chesney-Green says:
I have a beautiful great granddaughter who would love this set…they are magical! I would definitely buy one!!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they will go on sale.
Ah Gill, I bet she would love one. They are quite pricey I know, but when you think of all the work that went into the hand drawn illustrations and the fact that they are an heirloom to pass down, I think that justifies the price tag somewhat. However, I am also hoping they go on sale!!
How wonderful – I can only imagine how many amazing stories kids could create using these designs as inspiration. Beautiful x
Oh I know Katy, you could have so much fun with it!
I don't have kids but think these look magical, I've never seen anything like them, really beautiful x
I haven't come across anything like these either Cate, they certainly are original!
jacopo pezzan says:
Very cool design and colors.
I agree Jacopo, they are gorgeous!
Old Fashioned Susie says:
Yes to the crying thing!! And I LOVE this bedding!! I want it in adult sized beds!
Wouldn't that be just wonderful Susie?
It reminds me of some of my favourite childhood stories! I love the fact that it's more elaborate and creative than a lot of the typical children's bedding sets. It looks beautiful.
It's definitely a lot more grown up. I would have adored this as a kid.
Carole King says:
This is super cute Stacey. Love that it comes with a bag for sleepovers. BTW you're not the only one who cries a lot after having children. Only a mum would understand that :-)
Oh these are so pretty Stacey – and what a lovely way to introduce the magic of stories at bedtime :)
karen jones says:
oh wow! I can absolutely see why you cried ! What truly stunning bedding. its like a piece of art. It reminds me of everything childhood should be, and bed time is such a precious time with our children. Truly what memories are made of. x
Zokudo says:
Really adorable bedding! Thank you for sharing this.
I don't get it, why are you crying?
I know Gabrielle, it's so silly. But the bedding is just so beautiful and I could imagine sitting there at bedtime with my own children who are still so very little and using the bedding to tell the most magical bedtime stories. And the fact that it can be an heirloom to pass down to your own children for when they have children. It just made me feel a bit teary that's all. | {
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Neighbors with nowhere to rest their heads
by Miguel H. Díaz
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The pope often uses his annual address to the diplomatic corps in Rome to summarize insights learned from his apostolic visits and to paint, in broad strokes, what he perceives as global challenges. This year's speech was no exception. Some of the global issues he addresses directly relate to our own country.
Of course, as we might expect, in his January address, Pope Francis explicitly underscores as "particularly troubling" the recent conflict between the United States and Iran. He makes an appeal for all parties to respect international law and "keep alive the flame of dialogue and self-restraint." At the same time, other papal concerns may speak to our national contexts if we listen attentively. One distinct concern that I find particularly relevant in this papal address has to do with his comments on persons who face the life-threatening consequences of internal displacement.
In his address, the pope not only raises his concern for the poor, our common home, and refuges and migrants, but he also reflects upon and challenges us to consider the subject of internal human displacement. This subject carries the potential to open up new venues for conversation on a human condition that lacks adequate attention nationally and internationally.
Francis speaks to the issue in reference to his pastoral trip to Africa. He points out that "situations of conflict and humanitarian crises, aggravated by climate change, are increasing the number of displaced persons and affecting people already living in a state of dire poverty." The pope goes on to lament that nations lack proper policies and structures to address such internal displacement. Internationally speaking, there are few policies or structures in place that can adequately respond to the causes and effects of internal displacement. Thus, as he avers "internally displaced persons do not always receive the protection they deserve, and depend on the policies and response capabilities of the nations in which they find themselves."
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Pope Francis addresses diplomats accredited to the Holy See during an audience for the traditional exchange of new year's greetings in the Sala Regia Jan. 9 at the Vatican. (CNS/Remo Casilli, Reuters pool)
When we think of internally displaced persons we automatically think of victims of war and conflict or those suffering from displacement that results from natural disasters or the effects of climate changes. Closer to home, we might consider the plight of our Puerto Rican neighbors, recently displaced as a result of the devastating earthquake and its ongoing aftershocks. Many in Puerto Rico were still recovering from the impact of Hurricane Maria in 2017. But there is another group of persons, who presently also lack the resources and full protections necessary to live in a dignified way, or even survive. I'm referring to persons who are homeless, displaced within our own country, our neighborhoods, and our backyards.
Homelessness as we know, has multiple and often interrelated causes, attributed to personal, socioeconomic, geographical, racial cultural, gender, and religious factors. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, indicate that on a single night in 2019, nearly 568,000 people experienced homelessness and "more than one-third (37%) were in unsheltered locations such as on the street, in abandoned buildings, or in other places not suitable for human habitation."
While homelessness impacts persons from all walks of life, some populations are more vulnerable than others. For instance, in any given year, an estimated 4.2 million youth and young adults experience homelessness. Moreover, 40% of our nation's homeless youth are members of the LGBTQ community. LGBTQ persons, too often, may already be experiencing "displacement" from familial relationships. Those that come from socially marginalized racial and ethnic communities (e.g., black and Latinx) experience this kind of displacement at a much higher rate than the rest of their peers. They also suffer more regularly the physical and emotional threats to life that come with homelessness.
The lives of the LGBTQ young men and women I have interacted with in Chicago, who are members of this homeless body, certainly reflect this heartbreaking reality. Sadly, I must say, religion and religious perspectives play a contributing role in the displacement of these marginalized youth. Those who accompany LGBTQ youth made homeless observe, "The cause may be the family's poverty. Sometimes it is because of their parents' mental illness or drug addiction. But the reason we hear most frequently is religious rejection — parents whose religious beliefs cause them to reject their LGBTQ children."
Equally troubling is the number of homeless veterans. Veterans know what it is to be separated from their families. Many also endure physical and mental health consequences as a result of their service, a cost exacerbated for some by subsequent displacement as homeless persons in the streets of the land they protected. HUD estimates that while the numbers of veterans who are homeless has declined almost 50% in the past decade, nearly 40,000 veterans are homeless on an annual basis.
The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, or NCHV, cautions, however, that about 1.4 million other veterans are "considered at risk of homelessness due to poverty, lack of support networks, and dismal living conditions in overcrowded or substandard housing." The demographics indicate that this part of the homeless population is majority white and male, disproportionately African American and Latinx, and the numbers of the young, while low, are increasing. In a nation dealing with heightened tensions at the prospect of war, it is worth keeping in mind some of the factors complicating homelessness among veterans, as identified by NCHV: "a large number of displaced and at-risk veterans live with lingering effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse, which are compounded by a lack of family and social support networks. Additionally, military occupations and training are not always transferable to the civilian workforce, placing some veterans at a disadvantage when competing for employment."
During his address, Francis reminded the ambassadors of the 30th anniversary of the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, a symbol "emblematic of a culture of division that alienates people from one another." He invited the community of nations to reject the physical and relational walls the world has built. Instead of walls, he urges the human family to construct bridges of understanding, internationally and domestically. The internal displacement of persons around us speaks volumes about the social walls we have built to separate neighbors, especially from the most vulnerable among us. Walls always keep us from encountering the humanity of our neighbors. These walls shelter us from the suffering of our neighbors and keep us from understanding and challenging the violence they endure daily. Any form of violence against our neighbor, including the violence that characterizes the condition of homelessness, is unacceptable.
Just like war, unresolved domestic and social conflicts unleash violence against innocent populations. But in the face of this social challenge, will we tear down walls to enact new national policies and collaborate internationally to overcome homelessness and internal displacement in all of its forms? Will we wholeheartedly reject in word and deed the weaponizing of religion that causes so many of our youth to go homeless? Will we respond in kind to veterans who once risked their lives to defend our right to live in the safety and comfort of our homes?
Simply put, are we willing to become ambassadors of the one who had nowhere to rest his head for the sake of those who today have nowhere to rest their heads (Luke 9:58, 2 Corinthians 5:20)?
[Miguel H. Díaz is the John Courtney Murray University Chair in Public Service at Loyola University in Chicago. He was ambassador to the Holy See during the first administration of President Barack Obama.]
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What Are The Different Types Of Lawyers? (5)
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A lawyer is an individual who practices law , as a barrister , lawyer , counselor or solicitor or chartered legal government 1 Working as a lawyer entails the sensible application of summary authorized theories and information to solve specific individualized issues, or to advance the pursuits of those who hire attorneys to perform authorized providers. A legal lawyer is also called a prison protection lawyer and public defender who defends people, organizations and entities that have been charged with a criminal offense. Federal public defenders make salaries much like those of the U.S. attorneys of their area. In the previous, lawyers frequently traveled to the corporate they had been reviewing and spent a couple of days, or however lengthy it took, to evaluation all of the supplies pertinent to the transaction. Plaintiffs' lawyers symbolize the parties that provoke a spread of employment litigation, from sexual harassment to age discrimination to wage and hour litigation.
Once you have got been served with a summons and complaint, it's too late-the problem has already occurred, and it's just a query of how a lot you'll have to pay (in court docket costs, attorneys' fees, settlements and other bills) to get the issue resolved.
The difference between these two varieties of business legal professionals are vital, in that enterprise transactional attorneys handle transactions (corresponding to negotiating deals) and drafting documents (akin to employment agreements), whereas business litigation lawyers deal with your lawsuits (akin to when somebody sues your organization for violating the terms of a contract).
The occupation developed slowly and by the mid-1500s in England two distinct types of legal professionals had appeared, actually creating two branches of the occupation, which are nonetheless operating as we speak: barristers and solicitors. But there are some legal professionals who by no means step foot in a courtroom or utter a single eloquent comment in front of a decide. Keep in thoughts that there are enterprise transactional attorneys and business litigation legal professionals as well. The cases truly tried by the EEOC tend be increased profile circumstances and provide EEOC attorneys with the chance to litigate opposite a number of the best personal practice employment litigators within the country. Lawyers in every state have complained that the hourly price set by courts chases many good would-be public defenders into different fields of regulation.
Therefore, anything from a landlord subject to a breach of contract is handled by these legal professionals. At first glance, this will likely not look like a great way to keep prices down, however you'll be amazed at how a lot it reduces the infinite rounds of cellphone tag that plague busy entrepreneurs and attorneys. Companies must adjust to both their own constitutional documents and with the legislation relevant to all firms, and corporate lawyers be sure that their shoppers' actions are in accordance with these. While they usually went to England to be educated within the legislation they did not intend for English courts to administer American justice.
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Raiders Receivers Coach Edgar Bennett Breaks Down Stacked Position Group
By Scott Bair • Published August 22, 2019 • Updated on August 31, 2019 at 6:18 pm
Edgar Bennett has sincerely enjoyed coaching this Raiders receiver corps. A vastly upgraded group has the talent to spare, with more worthy competitors than he has roster spots.
That units position coach has tough decisions ahead, but he isn't focused on that quite yet. The Raiders have two preseason games left before trimming the roster to 53 and 11 receivers to five or, more likely, six. Thursday night's exhibition against Green Bay in Winnipeg will provide another evaluation point for Bennett to chart his group's growth.
He expects another productive night, even with frontline starters out, considering how they've practiced and played.
"It has been fun, and it's certainly unique from an energy standpoint," Bennett told NBC Sports Bay Area on Sunday in Napa. "Every guy brings so much every day. I love their mindset when it comes to preparation, and they attack each practice. They apply things well from the meeting room to the practice field, from the practice field to game day."
Bennett's crew has been good from top to bottom, easily the team's strength.
The receivers have been solid even with Antonio Brown missing all but two full practices since training camp began. Tyrell Williams is banged up and won't play the Packers. Neither will J.J. Nelson.
That provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the back end of the position group, where several are battling for one or two spots.
Brown, Williams, Hunter Renfrow and return man Dwayne Harris are locks.
Ryan Grant looks more and more like a fit in preseason games.
Marcell Ateman, Keelan Doss, Keon Hatcher and even Rico Gafford have had their moments in the sun this summer, and Bennett admits that skill set could weigh into that final spot if most things are even.
"Each guy is unique," Bennett said. "You think about Rico Gafford's speed element or Keelan Doss' ability to play multiple positions well. Ateman has the size and can attack the football in the red zone. Even Hatcher has been so reliable and dependable. You just have to take all that into consideration and see who continues to play at a high level."
Head coach Jon Gruden and Mike Mayock will make final roster selections, but Bennett will have significant into choices made.
"You get to voice your opinion before Mike and Jon make the final decisions," Bennett said. "I try to keep my guys' thoughts away from cuts. It's more about improving as a player and putting good work on tape. That, more than anything else, will help you land a job in this league."
Here are some other highlights from my conversation with Edgar Bennett:
On the slot receiver competition between Renfrow and Grant:
"It has been extremely competitive. Both of those guys have done a phenomenal job in what we're asking them to do as route runners and blockers downfield. They have great communication. But, the most important thing is that both Hunter and Ryan have been making plays. They create separation. You look at tape and see that both of those guys have done some great things in camp."
How Grant has impressed, even with so many eyes focused on Renfrow:
"He's proven, as far as what he's capable of doing. And I love that he shows up at big moments. He had some of his best days against the Rams when they were here in Napa. He has also taken it to game day. He might be quiet off the field, but he communicates well when we're working. He has done everything that we've asked him to do."
On Tyrell Williams as a complete receiver:
"He's so versatile. You see a guy with that type of size and speed and you think deep threat, but he can play all three spots. He can jump in the slot, and create separation inside and out. He's another guy who will attack his job and high point the football. The other thing is that he's a leader. He's great in the classroom and gives us everything he's got on the practice field."
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The key to quality leadership among wide receivers:
"The No. 1 goal, when we talk about leadership, is showing the way. That's the starting point. The vocal aspect of leadership stems from that. You earn respect from how you work, and your voice gains weight after guys see how you perform. Actions speak louder than our words."
What Bennett likes about Antonio Brown:
"There's a lot of energy, a lot of passion. I love the enthusiasm and playmaking ability. Obviously, his talent is unmatched. He's so precise and in such great shape, and can make plays even when the defense is trying to prevent him from doing so." | {
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Consumers would absorb cost of levies, says DA as banks face hefty fees in Twin Peaks financial regulation bill
The big four banks could each be forced to pay more than R60m a year in fees to regulators if a draft levies bill is adopted in its current form.
Excessive regulatory costs would be passed on to consumers and compromise financial inclusion, said David Maynier, the DA shadow minister of finance.
The DA had opposed the bill, also known as Twin Peaks, in the National Assembly over the uncertainty concerning costs, Maynier said. It had also taken issue with the fact that the National Credit Regulator did not fall under the Financial Sector Conduct Authority.
"Twin Peaks creates one peak and one molehill," Maynier said, referring to the Prudential Authority and the conduct authority respectively.
Under Twin Peaks, the Prudential Authority will be formed from the Reserve Bank's bank supervision department and will regulate the soundness of financial institutions, including banks and insurers. The Financial Services Board will become the Financial Sector Conduct Authority, regulating the conduct of these institutions.
In terms of the draft Financial Sector Levies Bill, published in June, the largest banks would pay a maximum annual levy of R45m to the Prudential Authority and R15m to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority. This did not include fees for statutory ombud schemes and a tribunal.
The country's largest banks pay R300,000 in annual licensing fees to the Bank. They also pay fees for other licences, such as those allowing them to grant credit and sell insurance. Industry participants say the overall cost increase is considerable and is not commensurate with the regulators' increased scope.
"We are going to have to manage this as best we can," said Banking Association of SA MD Cas Coovadia. Remaining at the cutting edge of international best practice was a part of being a member of the Group of Twenty and having such a sophisticated banking system.
"Ideally, we shouldn't have had Basel III in SA: we didn't have a financial crisis nor did we have any bailouts," Coovadia said, referring to the latest round of global banking sector regulation, which imposed stringent capital adequacy and liquidity requirements on banks.
The World Economic Forum ranks SA second in the world for the soundness of its banks in its Global Competitiveness Report.
The Free Market Foundation, a fervent critic of Twin Peaks, said the regulation was not in line with international best practice. Only three countries of the 140 that were part of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors had adopted it.
The bill had "profound and damaging consequences" for the insurance industry in particular, said University of Witwatersrand professor Robert Vivian.
A socioeconomic impact assessment completed by the government's planning department was "grossly inadequate" and failed to demonstrate any financial benefits, said the foundation's executive director, Leon Louw.
The needs for which Twin Peaks had been designed – strengthening consumer protection and market conduct of financial institutions, and creating a more resilient financial system – were already met by existing regulation, he said.
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Samsung Lowers Resolution Randomly
A few weeks ago we got this question on stackoverflow. At first I didn't think this issue was special… But as the investigation continued it became clear that we're facing a weird issue…
The issue started innocently enough. A device whose native resolution is high was rendering the UI in low resolution. This can happen because of a new DPI setting or configuration in a new SDK.
But the odd thing was this: if the apps package name was changed the resolution went back to normal!
It's Samsung's Fault
Skipping to the end: it's Samsung's fault. The problem starts shortly after the submission to the play store. Samsung classifies the app as a game and in order to increase performance it runs it with a lower resolution/density.
Use the contact option from this app and ask them to reclassify your app so it isn't resized.
This information was available online but was remarkably hard to discover since we incorrectly assumed Google was at fault and didn't think it was Samsung. There was no incriminating information in the console output that we could find or any hint of what had happened. | {
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Welcome to the DoRight Leadership Corps!
The DoRight Leadership Corps (DLC) is an award winning curricular program in education for climate, sustainability, community engagement and entrepreneurship.
DLC engages students in real world action beyond school walls in their local community as sustainability and climate consultants to local businesses, political activists, public relations outreach for education and much more.
DoRight is highly flexible; it can be taught as a full semester course or an 8-week mini course, but in either case students follow a line of inquiry that begins with connecting with their own values and interests and leads them to discover fundamental principles of sustainable systems, current state of the planet, the need for system redesign, and the choice of an action project. For the culminating action project students choose between four pathways:
1) Consulting–making cold calls to local businesses and conducting sustainability assessments and making recommendations for lower environmental impact and increased profits
2) Political Action–contacting elected officials to promote good policies,
3) Public outreach and education through teach-ins, films, blogs, and much more.
4) Original interest-based project design--projects are designed in consult with the teacher/facilitator. A graphic depicting the curricular structure is shown below.
Below is a graphic of the general curricular overview. For a more detailed curricular map click on the links below.
In addition to sustainability, key features in DLC include entrepreneurship, ethics, intergenerational responsibility, personal empowerment, social justice and other topics that motivate and inspire students. DoRight integrates and applies standards-based academic content throughout the curriculum which provides a profound sense of relevance and meaning for academic study which motivates and enhances depth of understanding and retention of core academic skills and knowledge.
The DoRight program was begun in 2003 and has reached thousands of students in multiple schools in the U.S. and even as far away as a school in Kazakhstan.
DoRight instructional courses for kids, teachers, adults and homeschool communities are currently being offered by Mr. Beall through THE VINE ST. SCHOOL.
Go to the links below for an overview of the DoRight program, a curriculum map of a full DoRight Course, and a set of lesson plans used within the program:
Program overview and fact sheet
Doright fact sheet 8.7.10
DR curr map rev 8.2.10
Here you can find a few examples of full teacher lesson plans for some of the instruction that takes place in the full DoRight program course.
Visit Student Work on this site to find video material, a student created documentary, and documents of student work on the DLC.
Visit Press and Testimonials to find the scope of DoRight's impact on youth and sustainability leaders.
Evidence of success over time: The video below highlights two DoRight students and how the DoRight experience impacted their lives over time. The video features clips of the students in middle school, then later as career adults.
Eric Ficinus – The Off Grid Guru
Check out the current work of Eric Ficinus designing Earthships and off grid housing at this you tube channel: The Off Grid Guru. This can be an amazing educational resource for upcoming sustainability leaders.
Resource for Citizen Action on Climate and Sustainability
This packet contains tools to support a student or adult citizen in taking a set of actions that can have a meaningful impact on addressing climate and sustainability problems. The tools are excerpted from the larger DoRight program curriculum. | {
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Hype or hostages to fortune?
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Already this year two widely-predicted internet attacks proved to be of little more than nuisance value and fell far short of the doomsday scenario that some had been forecasting. Once again comes the perception that the security industry often hypes an issue simply to scare customers into buying more products.
In these cases, part of the problem is that the industry knew of these attacks in advance. The dilemma for professionals working in IT security is whether to draw attention to attacks such as these or simply to ignore them and hope they'll go away.
Make too much noise and the accusation is that a potential threat is being hyped. Don't make enough and risk being blamed for not letting people know there's a problem.
The more recent of the two cases concerns the much-publicised Kama Sutra worm, also known as Nyxem, Mywife or Blackworm, which was forecast to cause widespread havoc on 3 February last. Travelling under the guise of pornographic content, it was designed to overwrite files on computers that it had infected. In the event, the predicted explosion was little more than a damp squib.
Playing the blame game, the security industry got its retaliation first by pointing the finger at the media for drawing attention to the problem out of proportion to the nature of the threat. Representatives from McAfee, Trend Micro and Symantec — the three leading anti-virus software makers — pointed out that their alert levels never went below low or medium. On the other hand, the Finnish security company F-Secure noted on its blog that media coverage helped draw attention to the problem and in all likelihood prompted many people to update their systems.
Brian Honan of BH Consulting in Dublin observes that high-profile security stories often relate to major computer virus outbreaks or attacks on well-known institutions. "These stories only make the news because they are simply that, news," he says, drawing an apt analogy with media coverage around another type of virus: bird flu. "As yet this has not mutated to a form that is dangerous to humans, yet there is talk of major pandemics and how economies could collapse if this bug does mutate. Yet the common flu has killed more people this year worldwide than the bird flu."
Clearly there is a fine line to be walked between performing a service by informing the public and mixing the message. Some articles about Nyxem incorrectly stated that more than five million PCs had been infected but, according to Honan, the actual number was nearer to 300,000 and of these, around 300 were located in Ireland.
"The hype was generated primarily because of the incorrectly reported figure of five million and also because of the virus's destructive payload," he contends. "People needed to be aware of the destructive payload to ensure they updated their anti-virus software and also to serve as a reminder that viruses can cause real damage, but overstating the number of infected machines undermined that message," Honan adds.
Colm Murphy, technical director of the security consultancy Espion, argues that many companies are protected from most of the common threats — and by extension, from a lot of the hype. "There's a general awareness around: if you have your anti-virus up to date, you're running Windows updates and you have a firewall, you're going to be relatively safe."
Frank Kennedy, country manager for CA in Ireland, agrees that many businesses are now protecting themselves from external threats, but he uses an interesting choice of words to describe how we got to this point. "There's no need to sell the fear anymore. You don't need to convince people they need it," he says.
Some in the security industry believe that a little hype is occasionally appropriate or necessary to raise awareness of newer dangers. "A little bit of the hype around spyware is probably justified at the moment because a lot of anti-virus packages don't include it and you've got to get a separate package [to protect against it]," Murphy says.
Human nature plays a part on both sides, Murphy suggests. "People buy for two reasons: fear and pain — they have a problem and it needs fixing. For the security industry, it's easy to hype up those things." He points out that a security product supplier might find themselves speaking to a financial controller or a managing director. "They don't have visibility of technical issues and might be inclined to believe you."
As a consequence, some companies spend more than is necessary to buy a product that has too many features. "A lot of Irish companies have fallen into the trap where the IT guy goes for the safe bet," Murphy suggests. "It's like buying a Merc for the little old lady who needs to go shopping once a week."
Kennedy points out that the matter can't be ignored. "IT security is an important issue because it deserves to be. You can't own a business without thinking about IT security."
Honan puts this in terms of risk management, applied to IT in the same way as it would be to any other area. "You identify the threat to your business, be that burglars, theft from staff, fraud or fire. You then decide what you need to put in place to manage that risk. Once you deploy computers and/or connect to the internet, there are very real threats to your business. Computer viruses, hackers and in-house threats exist and need to be managed."
What's frustrating, says Honan, is that many people don't relate their IT security to behaviour in other areas of life. "People understand the security risks we face in the real world. That's why we deploy burglar alarms on our homes or business premises, shred important documents, have a safe to store valuables and keep our money in banks."
This lack of understanding hampers efforts to make security better, as the real solution doesn't simply come in a box. "Everyone is looking for solutions without actually understanding the problem. Vendors and resellers will be only too happy to sell products. If the underlying problem, however, is not properly addressed then these solutions are not going to work as expected resulting in the customer having a greater lack of confidence in IT security," Honan says. "While it is good that more people are becoming aware that IT security needs should be addressed, customers need to ensure their vendor fully understands IT security and is providing solutions based on impartial advice and not simply to sell a product."
Murphy agrees, suggesting that there is now choice in the market for those seeking security. "Follow Mary Harney's advice: shop around," he concludes. "There's no harm getting second opinions."
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'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic seeks pardon from Trump: report
Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic (SRCSO photo)
"Tiger King" star Joe Exotic has reportedly submitted a case for a pardon, which is headed to the White House.
Exotic, born Joseph Maldonado-Passage, submitted a 257-page argument to President Trump asking for a pardon from his 22-year prison sentence after being charged with involvement in a murder-for-hire plot, according to TMZ.
Among the documents was a letter from Maldonado-Passage, in which he reportedly alleged to have been "sexually assaulted by jail staff, beat up and tied in a chair to the point the skin came off my arms."
"Please be my hero," he reportedly pleaded before further claiming: "My hands are damaged from the abuse in jail so I'm sorry for the soppy [sic.] writing and spelling."
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Federal prison sources denied Maldonado-Passage's allegations to the outlet, according to TMZ.
In addition, the 57-year-old former zoo owner reportedly said that he fears that his other various health conditions will result in his death before his sentence is up.
Character references were also included in the docs, according to TMZ.
Maldonado-Passage also went on to maintain his innocence in a plot to kill fellow big cat enthusiast Carole Baskin, claiming his threats against her were "hyperbole," according to TMZ.
Sheriff says Don Lewis' disappearance is a 'homicide'
During an interview on Good Day, Sheriff Chad Chronister says he thinks Don Lewis, who was once married to the CEO of Big Cat Rescue, was likely murdered.
Such threats were deemed "simply another aspect of his showmanship" by Maldonado-Passage's lawyers in the documents. "Joe's jokes, at most, in bad taste, were merely jokes," his attorneys reportedly said in the papers.
Furthermore, Maldonado-Passage claimed that when he paid the alleged hitman $3,000, it was simply to get him off of his back, also alleging he'd been "railroaded and betrayed, repeatedly" by the likes of Jeff Lowe, the judge over his case and more.
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He also reportedly said that he believes anti-gay comments to be part of the reason behind his conviction of the crime, according to TMZ.
Additionally, the outlet reports that Maldonado-Passage admitted to shooting ill animals at his zoo, claiming it to be a humane method of euthanasia.
Also included in the docs was a letter from Dillon Passage, husband to the reality star.
"I see a sweet, big heart man, with good intentions, who took a few steps down a dark road, and he's just waiting to be pulled out of it," said Dillon's letter, which also said he was saved from addiction by his husband.
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Maldonado-Passage added to Trump: "Allow me to make you proud, to make America proud, to make the world proud. Be my hero please."
The outlet reports that Maldonado-Passage's attorneys, including Eric Love, are headed to Washington D.C. on Wednesday to present the pardon application.
Reps for the Federal Medical Center Fort Worth, where Maldonado-Passage is being held, could not immediately be reached, nor could Love.
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Happy birthday, CM!
August 23, 2017 | Editorial | Volume 21 Issue 16
Virginia A. Hostetler |
On my bookshelf sit 19 bound volumes of Canadian Mennonite. I'm looking at Vol. 1, No. 1, published on Sept. 15, 1997. Yes, that means that, come Sept. 15, we will celebrate 20 years of this magazine in its current form.
On page 2 editor Ron Rempel welcomed readers to the new format and name. The readership was identified as the people and churches of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada and its five related conferences. The masthead stated that the new magazine "aims to reflect and upbuild the life and work of the Mennonite church in Canada." That was the beginning of the dream to make the magazine available to every home of that Mennonite constituency.
The periodical's beginnings harkened back to 1953, when The Canadian Mennonite was launched, a vision of D.W. Friesen & Sons, with Frank H. Epp as the first editor. He was followed by Larry Kehler, who oversaw the difficult task of ending the publication in February 1971. In August of that same year Canadian Mennonite Reporter was launched. The following year the name was simplified to Mennonite Reporter, under the leadership of Dave Kroeker. In 1979 Ron Rempel took over the editor's role of Mennonite Reporter and served both that paper and the new Canadian Mennonite magazine. In 2003-04 Margaret Loewen Reimer served as interim editor, with Tim Miller Dyck following as editor/publisher later in 2004 and Dick Benner in 2009.
It's interesting to reflect on what has transpired since that name and format change. (Here's a gentle rebuke to those readers who still call it Mennonite Reporter, 20 years later!) There was the founding of Mennonite Church Canada, with its five area churches, in 2000. Since then, Canadian members of the former General Conference and (Old) Mennonite Church have walked together, along with newcomers who came with no previous Mennonite background. We have tried to learn each other's foundational stories and sought to work together amid cultural differences and varying approaches to church life, supporting each other in faithfulness to Christ. Canadian Mennonite has attempted to reflect some of that reality.
Back in 1997 we couldn't have imagined all the changes that would happen in the church and the world around us. Our society has become increasingly secular, and loyalty to church institutions is waning. The changes in communications have meant that Canadian Mennonite now has a digital presence through its website and social media. Currently the CM team is discerning what will be the next steps, as we try to keep pace with the communication methods of our readers and the realities of the 21st-century church.
We acknowledge those who had the vision for our various "ancestor" publications and the people who have guided the vision in the past 20 years. Thank you to those who have served on the board of Canadian Mennonite Publishing Service and to the past editors and staff. And where would we be without the many contributors across Canada—both of content and of our sustaining funds, including grants from the Government of Canada? We are grateful for the loyal readers who have accompanied us these 20 years and for those who joined us in recent times. You, our readers, have affirmed and challenged CM as we have sought to be a faithful voice in the church. Thank you.
Future Directions documents online
Church delegates will gather at a special assembly in Winnipeg from Oct. 13 to 15, 2017, to consider a re-organization proposal for Mennonite Church Canada and its regional churches. Discernment documents and reports from the working groups can be found online at futuredirectionsmc.ca/documents.
A call for prayer and support
This past March we said farewell to editor/publisher Dick Benner, who began retirement near his family in Virginia. Dick was once again living close to his wife Marlene, who was settled in a long-term-care home there. Last year Dick had shared with readers the poignant story of their long-lasting partnership, her recent struggle with dementia and his journey into grief. On July 13, Marlene Reller Keller Benner passed away peacefully while in hospice care. (See her obituary here.) A memorial service was held on Aug. 19.
At the end of June, Dick was diagnosed with cancer, for which he has been receiving treatment in Germany. Family and friends across Canada and the U.S. have rallied to offer prayers and financial support for his treatment and healing. We invite you to keep Dick and his family in your prayers during this difficult time. | {
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SSE Airtricity League Premier Division
Dundalk FC at home on the opening night of the 2020 season
Niall Newberry
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Dundalk FC will host Derry City on the opening night of the 2020 SSE Airtricity League Premier Division season.
The Candystripes, one of just two sides to take a point from Oriel Park throughout the entire 2019 campaign, visit on Friday, February 14.
A week later, on February 21, The Lilywhites will play their first away match of the year against newly-promoted Shelbourne at Tolka Park – a ground in which Dundalk haven't played since 2016.
Vinny Perth's men will then host Cork City before travelling to Tallaght Stadium on the fourth week of the season to take on last year's runners-up in the league and FAI Cup winners Shamrock Rovers.
Other notable dates for the diary sees Rovers travel to Oriel on February 9 for the annual President's Cup match before returning to the Louth venue for a league encounter on April 24.
In relation to pre-season friendlies, the club are to announce their plans in the coming weeks.
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Why light is called electromagnetic wave?
Is White an absence of color?
What is the origin of light?
How light is called electromagnetic wave?
What is the importance of light in our life?
How do light waves work?
Who said light is a particle?
What is the meaning of white color?
What is light made up of?
What is light and its uses?
Is light is electromagnetic wave?
How does a light work?
What is light nature?
What is light summary?
How do we see color light?
What are light waves also called?
What is the biggest wavelength?
What is the shortest color wavelength?
The waves of energy are called electromagnetic (EM) because they have oscillating electric and magnetic fields. All EM energy waves travel at the speed of light. No matter what their frequency or wavelength, they always move at the same speed.
Black is the absence of light. Some consider white to be a color, because white light comprises all hues on the visible light spectrum. And many do consider black to be a color, because you combine other pigments to create it on paper. But in a technical sense, black and white are not colors, they're shades.
Fusion occurs in the sun's innermost core, when two atoms merge, releasing energy and light in the process. Photons of light are first created in the sun's center. Over tens of thousands of years, the photons travel a "drunken walk," zigzagging their way from atom to atom until they reach the surface.
As light is produced by the acceleration of charged particles & from law of electromagnetism that states that: an accelerated charge produce electromagnetic wave,light is an electromagnetic wave. Actually light is the transfer of energy from one part of electromagnetic field to other.
Light is a key element in our everyday lives. It guides us throughout the day, nudging us to wake in the morning and lulling us to sleep at night. Well-appointed task lighting enhances our experience in the work place and adversely, a dimmed lamp can set the mood for a romantic dinner for two.
Maxwell described light as a very special kind of wave — one composed of electric and magnetic fields. The fields vibrate at right angles to the direction of movement of the wave, and at right angles to each other. Because light has both electric and magnetic fields, it's also referred to as electromagnetic radiation.
White represents purity or innocence. Some of the positive meanings that white can convey include cleanliness, freshness, and simplicity. The color white often seems like a blank slate, symbolizing a new beginning or a fresh start. On the negative side, white can seem stark, cold, and isolated.
Light is made of particles called photons, bundles of the electromagnetic field that carry a specific amount of energy. With sufficiently sensitive experiments, you can count photons or even perform measurements on a single one. Researchers have even frozen light temporarily.
It helps us to see things. It helps plants to make food and grow. It is used in power satellites and space stations. The energy of light from the sun can be harvested to solar panels and can be used for domestic use since it is eco-friendly and cost effective too. …
Radio waves, gamma-rays, visible light, and all the other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum are electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic radiation can be described in terms of a stream of mass-less particles, called photons, each traveling in a wave-like pattern at the speed of light.
They make light by passing electricity through a very thin wire filament so it gets incredibly hot. Excited atoms inside the hot filament turn the electrical energy passing through them into light you can see by constantly giving off photons. When we make light by heating things, that's called incandescence.
Light is a transverse, electromagnetic wave that can be seen by the typical human. The wave nature of light was first illustrated through experiments on diffraction and interference. Like all electromagnetic waves, light can travel through a vacuum.
Light is a transverse, electromagnetic wave that can be seen by the typical human. Like all electromagnetic waves, light can travel through a vacuum. The transverse nature of light can be demonstrated through polarization.
The human eye and brain together translate light into color. Light receptors within the eye transmit messages to the brain, which produces the familiar sensations of color. Rather, the surface of an object reflects some colors and absorbs all the others. We perceive only the reflected colors.
Electromagnetic waves: waves made of oscillating magnetic and electric fields, i.e., radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, gamma rays and x-rays. Light waves: a synonym for electromagnetic waves.
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Home7/21/20 – Undefeated Indy 11 on ESPN2 Wed 6 pm, NWSL Semi's Wed, Final Sunday CBS 12:30, Chelsea vs Liverpool Wed 3 pm, Liverpool Trophy presentation at 5 pm
7/21/20 – Undefeated Indy 11 on ESPN2 Wed 6 pm, NWSL Semi's Wed, Final Sunday CBS 12:30, Chelsea vs Liverpool Wed 3 pm, Liverpool Trophy presentation at 5 pm
July 21, 2020 July 22, 2020 gatorbest
So our Indy 11 remain undefeated to start with the best record in our history as we knocked off Sporting KC 2-1 in front of close to 5K in the stands at the Luke. Indy 11 will travel to Pittsburgh to face the Riverhounds on ESPN 2 – at 6 pm on Wednesday night! Four match-ups with Louisville FC headline the schedule along with 4 games vs St. Louis –these 3 teams should battle it out to make the expanded playoffs.
So the semi-finals are on TV Wednesday at 12 midnight Portland Thorns vs Houston Dash and Thursday at 10 am Sky Blue vs Chicago Red Stars on NBC Sportsnetwork with the Final Sunday on NBC (finally) the Semi's are on streaming Wed 10 am and 10 pm. The games have been good –the ones I watch on replay on CBS Sports Network – I wish all the games were here – but we do get the big game on Sunday at 12:30 pm on NBC the finals!!
Pulisic Continues to Shine in EPL
So hopefully they were holding Pulisic back for the huge league games this weekend as he didn't even see the field in the Semi-Final 3-0 win over Man United this weekend. I was ticked off to say the least as I settled into watch on Sunday (he was injured)– Chelsea face Liverpool on Wed at 3 pm on NBCSN – hopefully he'll be on the field in this hugely critical game as they need a win and a tie in the last 2 games at least to secure a top 4 Champions League finish. Of course Liverpool will be presented the EPL Title Trophy after the game at Anfield around 5 pm after the game. hopefully it will be after a tie as Chelsea need the points. Its a 3 way battle between Chelsea 63pts/Man United 62/Liecester City 62 pts. for the 3rd and 4th spots.
MLS Is Back
I have to admit the MLS is Back Tourney has been pretty darn good – some really high scoring games as teams battle to win their group and advance on to the playoffs that start this weekend. Great to see games featured on weekday mornings 9 am on ESPN and evening games a lot of nights at 8 and 10 on ESPN and Fox Sports. The games have been really exciting and hopefully will give MLS a little bump in the US national Sports Scope before other sports start up later this month.
Carmel High School Boys Soccer Tactical Camp
July 27 – 30 – River Road Soccer Complex. Camp offered for boys and girls ages 8 – 14. 9:00 – 11:00 am. $95
Tues, July 21
9 am EPSN Toronto vs NE Revs
12:30 pm NBCSN Watford at Man City
2:45 pm NBCSN Aston Villa vs Arsenal
8 pm ESPN2 Atlanta vs Columbus
10:30 pm ESPN2 Montreal vs DC United
Wed, July 22
9 am ESPN Real Salt Lake vs Sporting KC
1 pm NBCSN West Ham at Man Unted
3 pm NBCSN Liverpool vs Chelsea (Pulisic)
6 pm ESPN2 INDY 11 @ Pittsburgh
8 pm ESPN Cincy vs NR Red Bulls
10:30 pm ESPN Colorado vs Min United
Thurs, July 23
9 am ESPN Chicago vs Vancouver
1:30 pm ESPN+ Udineese vs Juventus
8 pm FS1 LA vs Houston
10:30 pm ESPN2 LAFC vs Portland
Sat, July 25
1:30 pm ESPN+ Genoa vs Inter
8 pm ESPN2 MLS Playoff Orlando FC vs ?
10:30 pm ESPN2 Philly Union vs New England Revs MLS Playoff
Sun July 26 – EPL Final Day/NWSL Finals
11 am USA Network Wolverhampton vs Chelsea (Pulisic) (Top 4 on line)
11 am CNBC Crystal Palace vs Tottenham
11 am NBCSN?? Leicester City vs Man United (Top 4 on line)
12:30 pm CBS NWSL Finals – from Utah
5 pm ESPN+/Desp INDY 11 @ St Louis
8 pm FS1 Toronto FC vs 3rd Group A
11 pm FS1 ?? MLS Playoff
Mon, July 27
9 pm FS1 MLS Playoff
11 pm FS1 MLS Playoff
8 pm ESPN MLS Playoff
10 pm ESPN MLS Playoff
7 pm ESPN+myindytv INDY 11 vs Hartford Lucas Oil
Pittsburgh to face the Riverhounds on ESPN 2 – at 6 pm on Wednesday
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Lampard – Pulisics Game at Another Level
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Indy Eleven at Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 – 6:00 P.M. ET Highmark Stadium | Pittsburgh, Pa.
Local/National TV: ESPN2
Indy Eleven: 3W-0L-0D, 9 pts., 1st in Group E
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC: 2W-0L-0D, 6 pts., 1st in Group F
It's an early-season showdown deserving of a national audience – and that's just what Indy Eleven and Pittsburgh Riverhounds will have, courtesy of ESPN2, when they meet Wednesday evening near the confluence of the Steel City's famed three rivers.
The contest features two of the three highest scoring offenses in the 35-team USL Championship through four weeks of action, Pittsburgh's nine goals placing second, followed by Indy with eight. Eleven forward Tyler Pasher paces the league with four goals, while Riverhounds SC attacker Kenardo Forbes paces the USLC in assists with four helpers of his own.
"Pivotal" might be too heightened a term this early in a season for a game featuring two teams sitting atop their respective groups with spotless records. However, their form out of the gates have Indy and Pittsburgh as the East's teams to beat in 2020 (don't take our word … USLChampionship.com's Nicholas Murray have Indy #1 and PIT #3 in the latest Power Rankings), which makes their first of two meetings during the shortened 16-game campaign one likely to be circled for end-of-the-season reviews come October.
Of the 17 Championship squads with at least three games under their belts, Indy Eleven is the only one to start off with three victories. A win Wednesday would not only make Indiana's Team the first in the USLC to reach double-digit points, but it would also end Pittsburgh's 25-game home undefeated streak in regular season play – a figure Indy might be in awe of were it not for the fact it's similar run does the Riverhounds two better at 27.
Indy Eleven will look to even its all-time regular season series with Riverhounds SC, its record currently standing at 1W-2L-2D (6 GF/9 GA) after meetings across the 2018 & '19 USL Championship campaigns.
Pittsburgh also had the leg up in their Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup meeting last season, a Third Round affair the Riverhounds took via a 1-0 score at Highmark Stadium on May 29. Indy Eleven exacted a bit of revenge just three days later with a dramatic 2-1 win at Lucas Oil Stadium, while Pittsburgh took the return leg in regular season play via a 3-0 scoreline back in the Steel City in September. Despite not being grouped together, the close proximity of the two growing rivals has them playing twice during the shortened 2020 season, with Indy Eleven set to host Riverhounds SC in the Circle City on August 15.
INDY ELEVEN PLAYER TO WATCH | DF PADDY BARRETT
We've noted the voracity of the Riverhounds attack, which means the Eleven back three – anchored by the Irish captain Paddy Barrett in the middle – will likely be under sustained pressure. Expect Barrett and the Indy defense to be up for the challenge, as the squad has conceded just once in the last 254 minutes of play after a two-goal hiccup in the first 16 minutes of the season opener at Memphis 901 FC. Pittsburgh will also have to account for Barrett in the opposite final third as well, as his deft finish in last Saturday's 2-1 win over Sporting Kansas City II was preceded by eye-opening long-distance efforts in each of the last two outings.
PITTSBURGH RIVERHOUNDS SC PLAYER TO WATCH | MF KENARDO FORBES
The 2019 USL Championship MVP finalist and All-League First Team performer was a thorn in the side of Indy last year, as he notched a late game-winner in their Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup fixture in May and tallied twice in a 3-0 win late in the regular season. The veteran Jamaican playmaker is continuing his assault on opposing goals in 2020, already notching four assists – including a trio in last Saturday's 6-0 drubbing of Philadelphia Union II. With five chances created and three successful crosses in just two matches, Forbes has entered the restart in midseason form and will once again need to be the focal point for Indiana's Team all over the field.
Unlikely NWSL season will have an unlikely Challenge Cup champion
12:43 PM ETGraham HaysESPN.com
The Chicago Red Stars, Houston Dash, Portland Thorns FC and Sky Blue FC will breathe easier these days. Not because players are more accustomed to the altitude in the Salt Lake City area. Not because they will play all remaining games in the NWSL Challenge Cup on the Rio Tinto Stadium grass after five games on artificial turf. And not because the forecast offers any relief from the heat (it doesn't).It's mostly because that in proving themselves one of the best teams in the history of the sport, the North Carolina Courage suck the oxygen out of any room, or stadium, they occupy.But after Portland eliminated the top-seeded and previously unbeaten Courage in a quarterfinal, the NWSL will, for the first time since 2015, settle a championship without the team that won three championships and three NWSL Shields beginning in 2016, including its time in Western New York.A league now in the midst of the unlikeliest of seasons will have an unlikely champion.
The mental toll of life in the NWSL Challenge Cup bubble
• Thorns FC's Horan provides a glimpse inside the bubble
• Sky Blue FC, Chicago Red Stars both advance to NWSL semis on penalties
That's a good story especially in the cases of Houston and Sky Blue, franchises that began this year with no playoff appearances and 56 more losses than wins between them since Houston entered the league in 2014. It's also an important story. A league in which bad franchises stay bad is a league that stagnates. A league in which they aspire to championships, even if only in a monthlong tournament necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, is a league that can thrive.
Houston has no playoff appearances in its history but has more often been mediocre than disastrous. Sky Blue, on the other hand, is only a couple of years removed from exploring the full depths of disaster. Amid a one-win season in 2018 came reports detailing inadequate facilities, poor housing and general dysfunction. The team at least adjacent to the biggest market in the league ranked last in attendance. Sky Blue had the second and sixth picks in the 2019 draft. Both players opted to sign instead in Europe, the only first-rounders to do so.
So perhaps it's no surprise that people close to Alyse LaHue tried to talk her out of taking the job she now holds as the team's general manager. Many people. But she did all the same, first on an interim basis early last season and then permanently last fall. Play improved throughout last season — not by miraculous degrees but steadily as a coaching carousel finally settled on Freya Coombe by the end of the campaign. With LaHue willing to listen to all complaints, at a full variety of volumes, from fans whose allegiance dated back to WPS a decade ago, the team's image improved. A pair of games at Red Bull Arena late in the year drew big crowds — more than half as many in those games alone as the team drew the entire 2018 season.
Then came the offseason announcement that the team was finally trading its outdated and difficult-to-reach home at Rutgers for Red Bull Arena on a full-time basis. Suddenly, Sky Blue, which also traded for World Cup winner Mallory Pugh during the offseason, had a world-class facility far more easily accessible by public transportation."It opens up for us a lot of new business opportunities as well," LaHue said. "Really, Red Bull Arena was the next step for us in our growth as a professional club."Except that is on hold after the sports world shut down before Sky Blue could make their full-time debut at Red Bull Arena."You basically have a new job now," LaHue recalled of the message to staff as the NWSL put its season on hold just as preseason training was commencing. "Whatever you did before, if you can figure out how to do it completely digital, that's what you're going to do now."It says something about the shift from organizational dysfunction to, well, function that while there was plenty of outside debate about whether the NWSL could even survive a shutdown. Sky Blue spent more time on innovation than existential fretting. For starters, in addition to offering refunds to season-ticket holders who needed or wanted them, the team developed a digital season ticket service that offers fans regular online contact with players and staff. Those have continued through the tournament in Utah, connecting team and fans in a way likely to outlast the necessities of remote connectivity during a pandemic.But any turnaround is ultimately only as successful as what the players make it on the field.In a normal season and with a full roster that included additions Pugh, Midge Purce and McCall Zerboni, Sky Blue would have been a popular sleeper pick. LaHue even acknowledged the playoffs were the target. But with little in the way of a preseason to further adapt to Coombe's system — and without franchise cornerstone Carli Lloyd and Pugh because of injuries — the NWSL Challenge Cup was, in the general manager's words, aptly named."I think you would have been able to see a much better-put-together picture that we are attempting to build right now," forward Ifeoma Onumonu said of a longer season. "I think we've got a lot of good things going for us with the short amount of time we've had already."And here they are in the semifinals, seven years after the team's first and only playoff appearance.Sky Blue haven't been a revelation in Utah, but it's amazing how many breaks talented and well-run teams tend to catch. Start with some brilliant goalkeeping from Kailen Sheridan. Add steady veteran play from Gina Lewandowski, Nahomi Kawasumi, Estelle Johnson, Sarah Woldmoe and Zerboni, and suddenly surprises like Ghanaian midfielder Jennifer Cudjoe emerge from the positive environments in which they're immersed.
"I've been blown away by what the technical staff and the players have pulled off," LaHue said. "Obviously going into the semifinals of this tournament is just pure joy."I don't even have another word for it. It's just pure joy."North Carolina will be back, but it's good to see what the rest of the league can do with a little room to breathe.So how do the semifinals set up?
Portland Thorns FC vs. Houston Dash (12:30 p.m. ET)
Portland is no stranger to semifinals, having reached at least that stage in six of the league's first seven seasons. But even if its current No. 8 seed is a bit harsh for a team that lost just once in the preliminary round, and that in stoppage time, these aren't the normal Thorns.
Tobin Heath opted out of the event. Adrianna Franch and Becky Sauerbrunn are out with injuries. Even Lindsey Horan had come off injured by the time Morgan Weaver scored the winner from a Rocky Rodriguez assist against North Carolina. Horan is listed as questionable for the semifinal with a left hip injury. But if she plays, Portland still has a special midfield with Angela Salem playing behind the developing chemistry of Horan and Rodriguez. Not to mention that it seems far more likely that Christine Sinclair still has a goal in her than that the Canadian legend will go without all month.
Houston scored five goals in its first two games, so in a tournament largely starved for it, there is clearly offensive potential. And yet the Dash have also gone more than 300 minutes since they last scored, the longest active streak among the semifinalists. So we're not exactly working with convincing sample sizes either way.
There is so much to like about adding Shea Groom as a creative presence alongside Rachel Daly or watching Katie Naughton and Megan Oyster develop chemistry as center-backs in their first season together. But Houston has also ceded the edge in possession in every game and been less accurate in their passing than their opponents in the past four games. Playing on the counter and looking for the quick strike makes for a test of nerves in the team's first semifinal.
Sky Blue FC vs. Chicago Red Stars (10 p.m. ET)
If the Red Stars win a title without scoring a goal, would we stop talking about Sam Kerr? It makes for an interesting thought experiment. At some point Kerr's name will stop appearing (multiple times) in conversation about the team, but the Red Stars are still going to have to first prove they can score consistently without the former MVP. But with the team last among the eight participants with just 10 shots on goal, and the only goals scored by defender Casey Short and since-injured midfielder Morgan Brian, it's a fair, if also repetitive, narrative.
It would have helped if the Red Stars had either Brian or Yuki Nagasato available for the semifinal. Both remain out with injuries after also missing the quarterfinal. Chicago has options, especially with Savannah McCaskill's ability to play in a variety of attacking roles. But it's worth noting that Chicago was the last team other than North Carolina to score multiple goals against Sky Blue, winning 3-0 in New Jersey last September against a defense that will probably look largely familiar Wednesday. Brian and Nagasato each scored a goal in that win. The other goal? Kerr, of course.
Natalie Portman part of L.A. ownership group for NWSL expansion team in 2022
Kevin BaxterLA Times•July 21, 2020
After a 12-year break women's professional soccer is coming back to Southern California, with a star-studded ownership group led by actress Natalie Portman announcing Tuesday it has secured the rights to bring an NWSL team to the market for the 2022 season."L.A. is a city that has a fanatical sports fan base. And obviously, we've shown that we have the ability to support multiple teams and multiple different leagues," said media and gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, another of the principle partners in one of the few majority-women ownership groups in professional sports."By bringing together this unique group of people, we actually have this ability to engage and promote and not only support the best players, but also grow the league by putting a spotlight on it and hopefully igniting a fire here that will touch other places," Uhrman said.Others in that 30-member group include World Cup and Olympic champions Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy, Joy Fawcett, Rachel Buehler, Tisha Venturini-Hoch and Abby Wambach; actresses Eva Longoria, Uzo Aduba, Jennifer Garner and Jessica Chastain, venture capitalist Kara Nortman and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian."We wanted to make sure that we brought in incredible partners who were from the soccer world, who are leaders in sport, in tech and business and entertainment because that's really so much what our city is about. Each of us has our special ability to bring to the team," said Portman, who began work on the Angel City project after the U.S. victory in last summer's World Cup."It just seems like it was ideal to bring [women's] soccer to L.A. because we have such passionate fans here, such robust youth soccer," she added. "It's just an incredible kind of culture shift if we can bring more attention and light and celebration of these incredible athletes."The franchise, which is using Angel City as its tentative nickname, is in discussions with several potential venue partners and hopes to announce both a venue partner and a permanent name by the end of the year. The Galaxy confirmed they are in conversations with Uhrman. The MLS team shared an owner and a stadium with the Sol, the last first-division women's team to play in Southern California, before that team disbanded after one season in 2010. Women's Professional Soccer, the league the Sol played in, folded two years later.LAFC, Southern California's other MLS team, also said it was supportive of the effort to bring an NWSL team to the area.Last October the nine-team NWSL, the first professional sports league in U.S. to resume play during the COVID-19 pandemic, awarded an expansion franchise to Louisville, Ky. That team will begin play next spring. Angel City will have nearly two years to prepare for its launch, scheduled to take place the year between the two biggest events in women's soccer — the Olympic Games and the World Cup."There's many steps that need to be taken along the way, so I think it gives us a good runway," Portman said. "And with [COVID-19], it seems reasonable too."
Natalie Portman-Led Group Wins Women's Soccer Expansion Team in Los Angeles
Emily Caron and Scott SoshnickVariety•July 21, 2020
Academy Award–winning actor Natalie Portman and a group of predominantly female founders were awarded the rights to bring a National Women's Soccer League team to Los Angeles in 2022, Variety's sister site Sportico reports.
Portman and tech venture capitalist Kara Nortman, media and gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman and venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian, who led the investment with his fund, Initialized Capital, are sidelining the traditional ownership model. Founding the NWSL's 11th team through an expansive investor ownership group that includes a number of Hollywood, tech, venture, media and sports stars, the startup-like setup is itself as notable as the names behind it.Twelve former U.S. Women's National Team players, including FIFA World Cup champions Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Lauren Cheney Holiday and Abby Wambach were also announced as part of the founding investor group, as are actors Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria, Uzo Aduba, America Ferrera and Lilly Singh, as well as author Glennon Doyle.A handful of other entrepreneurs, as well as executives from Netflix and Baby2Baby, round out the 32-member initial ownership group, which has also received local support. Well before the announcement, residents formed a grassroots local supporters group to help an L.A.-based NWSL team gain traction."Normally in startups we think about finding product-market fit, and this is one of those [situations] where the market is very much asking for the product already. L.A. is ready," Ohanian told Sportico. The Reddit co-founder also made a personal investment into the team on behalf of his wife, tennis star Serena Williams, and their daughter, Olympia — now likely the youngest owner in sports at two months shy of three years old."I'm looking at this as a business decision. Yes, I believe there are a lot of good social reasons for this to be a successful enterprise, but this is first and foremost a capitalist one," Ohanian added. "This is where esports was five years ago, except these teams are far more marketable; the athletes are far more popular and have already transcended the sport and culture. And while I am all for [what] this represents—a generation of athletes who should get paid what they're worth, who should get treated fairly and equally—I also know this is tracking in the right direction. The free market is actually going to show that this has been undervalued for way too long by far too many people."Without a team name or venue partner announced yet, the group — which established WFC LA, Inc. as a limited liability company in June with Uhrman listed as CEO and president — is calling itself "Angel City" as a nod to its future home. Angel City will join the Portland Thorns and OL Reign, located in Tacoma, Wash., as the league's third West Coast team, and it will follow Racing Louisville FC, set to debut in 2021, as the NWSL's next expansion franchise."After spending time with the USWNT players, their union rep, and getting to know some of the owners of the NWSL and the league's supporters, it became clear having a team in L.A. could not only elevate the league and players' exposure, but also bring these incredibly talented women to the city of L.A. — my city," Portman told Sportico. "We have the ability to engage, promote and support the best players in the world in the most popular sport in the world on a yearly basis, not just every four years."
The expansion announcement comes on the heels of the USWNT's 2019 FIFA World Cup win — where a record 1.12 billion viewers tuned into official broadcast coverage of the tournament — growth that continued with the NWSL's own audience domestically and internationally. The league's 2019 average attendance was up 21.8% over 2018 and 71.8% over its inaugural 2013 season. The ongoing Challenge Cup tournament in Utah drew a record-setting audience of 572,000 viewers for its opening match, marking a 201% increase over the NWSL's previous high of 190,000.Los Angeles is already home to nine other professional sports teams, including two Major League Soccer teams, but has not had a professional women's team since 2010, when the Los Angeles Sol of the now-defunct Women's Professional Soccer League dissolved."It's clear that Los Angeles in particular is a huge soccer market. Every time the USWNT comes to play, they're selling out Dignity Health Sports Park," Urhman said of the home of the Galaxy, one of the city's MLS teams, which seats 27,000 fans. "We felt like that was the recipe for success: having this incredible ownership group that believes in our mission and our purpose and having a fan base that already exists, that is really willing this to happen."In addition to the rights to the newest NWSL expansion team, the group announced a community partnership with the LA84 Foundation. Now a formal supporter of the Play Equity Fund, which works to increase youth access to sport within underserved communities in Los Angeles, Angel City is focused on sport as a vehicle for social justice and gender equity as much as it is concerned with its on-field product."Our story from the beginning was different — from starting with three founding women to building a movement before even having the money, stadium, rights or fans [to now] being able to grow our list of founding investors," Portman said. "We believe in setting higher expectations on and off the field, for our team, players and fans. Success to us isn't only on the field, but our impact in our community, payback to our players and entertainment of the world. We are not a legacy team but a team of activists, athletes and entrepreneurs who are used to challenging the status quo and reshaping expectations."
Red Stars Win 4-3 on Penalties After 0-0 Draw With Reign Advance to Semi's
ASSOCIATED PRESSJUL 19, 2020
HERRIMAN, Utah — The Chicago Red Stars advanced to the semifinals of the National Women's Soccer League's Challenge Cup tournament, prevailing 4-3 on penalties after a scoreless draw with OL Reign on Saturday night.Lauren Barnes' attempt for the Reign hit the post to seal it for Chicago, which will play Sky Blue on Wednesday night with a chance to play for the title.Three of the four quarterfinal matches went to penalties. Under tournament rules, tie games after regulation go straight to a shootout rather than to extra periods.Sky Blue advanced 4-3 on penalties after a scoreless draw with the Washington Spirit earlier Saturday. Sky Blue goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan secured the victory when she stopped Bayley Feist's attempt.The eighth-seeded Portland Thorns, 1-0 winners over two-time defending champion North Carolina on Friday, will play the Dash in the first semifinal on Wednesday morning. The Dash also advanced on penalties after a scoreless draw Friday night against the Utah Royals.The Reign's Jessica Fishlock got her first start since tearing her ACL in a game last July. She had one of the best attempts in the first half, but was thwarted by Chicago goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, who was solid throughout the game.Naeher, who was in goal last summer for the U.S. team that won the World Cup, punched away a header from a wide open Sofia Huerta in the 59th minute. Later in the half, she tipped Kristen McNabb's shot from some 30 yards out.Kealia Watt had a good chance for Chicago out in front of the goal in the 67th minute but it went just wide.Goalkeeping has been highlighted in the quarterfinals, with just one goal scored — by Portland's Morgan Weaver — in the three other games.The Reign were playing without U.S. national team star Megan Rapinoe, who opted out of the tournament.Group results determined seeding for the eight teams in the Challenge Cup. The league's ninth team, the Orlando Pride, withdrew before the tournament because of positive coronavirus tests.
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Timeline: Rathlin Island in the 1830s
Rathlin Island in the 1830s
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From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland pub. 1837
RATHLIN, an island and parish, in the barony of CAREY, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, 61 miles (N.) from Ballycastle ; containing 1039 inhabitants. This island, which is situated off the northern coast of Antrim, nearly opposite to the town of Ballycastle, in lat. 54? 36' (N.), and lon. 9? 15' (W.), and which is regarded as the Ricnia of Pliny and the Ricina of Ptolemy, has received various appellations from different writers. By the Irish historians it is called Recarn, or Recrain ; by Buchanan, Raclinda ; by Mackenzie, Rachri ; by Ware, Raghlin ; and Raghery by Hamilton, who derives that name from Ragh Erin, signifying the "fort of Erin." Its present name, which has been adopted by all modern writers, is but a slight modification of that given to it by Ware. St. Comgall is said to have landed in this island with the intention of founding a cell, but was expelled by a band of soldiers. In the sixth century, however, a church was founded here by St. Columba, who placed it under the superintendence of St. Colman. But the foundation of this religious establishment is by some writers attributed to Lugard Laither, who was abbot about the year 590, and by others to St. Legene, abbot of Hy, by whom it was repaired about the year 630. In 790, a body of Danish pirates, in their first descent upon the coast, laid waste the whole island and destroyed the monastery, which was soon afterwards restored ; it was again destroyed in 973, by the Danes, who martyred the abbot, St. Feradach ; since which time no subsequent notice of it occurs, King John granted the island to Alan of Galway ; and Robert Bruce, when driven from Scotland by the success of Baliol, his competitor for the crown, took refuge here, where he fortified himself in a castle, of which a fragment still remaining bears his name. In 1558, the Earl of Sussex, then Lord-Deputy, attacked the Scots who had taken possession of the island and expelled them with great slaughter ; and so much did the place suffer from the repeated ravages of the English and Scots, that it is stated in a manuscript history of the country to have been totally uninhabited in 1580.
The island is about six miles and a half in length, and about a mile and a half in breadth near the centre ; the eastern portion curves towards the main land, from the nearest point of which it is about three miles distant, forming a small. enclosure which is called Church bay. It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 3398? statute acres, including 30? acres under water : about three-fourths consist of rocks and stony pasture, and the remainder of arable land of medium quality. It is fully exposed to the northern ocean, and the tides running here with great impetuosity, the sea is often so rough as frequently to deter tourists from visiting it. The western side is rocky and mountainous, and the appearance of the coast strikingly magnificent ; brown rocks and still darker masses of basaltic pillars are in some places contrasted with chalk cliffs : on the northern side the precipices towards the sea rise to the height of 450 feet without any projecting base. The soil is a light mould, intermixed with fragments of basalt and limestone ; the valleys are rich and well cultivated, and arable land, meadows, and a variety of rocky pastures are scattered over the whole island. The substratum of nearly the whole island is basalt and limestone, and on the eastern side especially it forms beautiful ranges of columns, differing from those of the Giants' Causeway only in their dimensions, and in the greater variety of their arrangement, being found in the same places perpendicular, horizontal, and curved. Considerable beds of hard chalk extend for some distance along the southern shore, and in some places, as near Church bay, where they are intersected by basaltic dikes, the hard chalk or limestone is found to possess phosphoric qualities ; beds of puzzolana are also found here, and on the shores a substance resembling pumice stone. Mr, Hamilton traces a vein of coal and iron-stone passing under the sea from the mines at Ballycastle to this island, which he thinks has been separated from the opposite coast by some convulsion of nature.
Barley of excellent quality and cattle are sent off from this place ; the former is chiefly purchased by Scottish merchants.
Kelp was formerly made in great quantities ; its manufacture was the chief source of wealth to the inhabitants, but since the bleachers have discontinued the use of it, there is very little demand ; the chief markets for it are Campbelltown and Glasgow.
There are two storehouses, one for kelp and one for barley, erected by the Rev, Mr. Gage, proprietor of the island, for the purpose of collecting the produce of his tenantry ; there is also a mill for grinding oats. The horses, cattle, and sheep are all small.
Church bay, though affording good anchorage, is entirely exposed to the violence of the western winds, during the prevalence of which no vessel can ride here in safety ; the only other havens are some small creeks on the eastern side, of which the principal is Port Ushet, where the small craft belonging to the island shelter during the winter. The inhabitants of this part of the island are principally fishermen, who make short voyages and carry on a little trade by way of barter ; they all speak the English language ; but in the western part of the island the Irish language is universal, and the inhabitants, from want of intercourse with strangers, have many peculiarities ; they are a simple, laborious, and honest people, entertaining an ardent affection for their island, which alone they regard as their country, and speak of Ireland as of a foreign land. They are very dexterous in seeking for the nests of sea fowl, for which purpose they swing themselves down the face of the precipices by means of a rope secured to a stake on the summit.
Both Catholics and Protestants generally live together in the greatest harmony, undisturbed by the difference of religion ; they frequently intermarry ; scarcely was an individual ever known to emigrate formerly, but many young men have gone to America of late years.
There is neither any town nor regular village ; the dwellings of the inhabitants are irregularly scattered throughout the island.
The proprietor, the Rev. R. Gage, is constantly resident and acts as magistrate. A coast-guard station for one officer and six men, one of the eight that constitute the district of Ballycastle, has been established here.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Connor, and in the patronage of the Bishop ; the tithes amount to £60, which is augmented with £27. 14. from Primate Boulter's fund, The glebe-house has been condemned as unfit for residence, and the curate has a house and garden rent-free provided by the incumbent, who pays him a stipend of £60. The glebe comprises 15 acres, valued at £18. 15. per ann., making the gross income of the benefice £106. 9. The church, towards the erection of which the late Board of First Fruits contributed a gift of £800, is a neat small edifice with a square tower, erected in 1815. The R. C. chapel is a plain building. About 190 children are taught in three public schools. There are some slight remains of the ruined fortress called Bruce's castle, of the original foundation of which there is nothing upon record. Nearly in the centre of the island are some small tumuli ; in one of these was found a stone coffin, near which was an earthen vessel, and a considerable number of human bones ; and on the small plain where these tumuli are placed have been found brazen swords, spear-heads, and a large fibula, which are deposited in the museum of Trinity College, Dublin. Near the Black Rock, on the south of Church bay, are four remarkable caverns, which, though penetrating a basaltic mass and at a point remote from any calcareous formation, have calcareous stalactites depending from the roof, which by their continual dropping have deposited an incrustation, about an inch in thickness, on the floor beneath.
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Rathlin (Antrim) DOB:1874
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The Guardian responds
— group @ 24 March 2010
We recently ran two articles that were quite critical of aspects of the Guardian's coverage of the stolen emails. This is a response from Dr. James Randerson, the editor of the Guardian's environmental website.
I edit the Guardian's environment website and was part of the editorial team that produced the 12-part investigation by veteran science journalist Fred Pearce into the hacked East Anglia climate emails. I'm very grateful to RealClimate for giving us the opportunity to respond to the recent posts on the investigation: "The Guardian Disappoints" and "Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind".
I should say first that we hold RealClimate in very high regard. The site is part of the Guardian Environment Network, a collection of more than 20 hand-picked websites including Grist and Nature's Climate Feedback blog with whom we have a mutual content sharing agreement. Under the arrangement, the Guardian website republishes RealClimate blogs regularly. We take seriously your criticisms and are considering them carefully. The Guardian has a commitment to accuracy and correcting factual errors.
Such is the public interest in this story that ever since the emails were released in November, there has been a strong demand for an in-depth journalistic account of what they tell us about how climate scientists operate. As RealClimate rightly pointed out, the response from much of the media has been lazy to the point of "pathology".
No other media organisation has come close to producing such a comprehensive and carefully researched attempt to get to the bottom of the emails affair. The investigation tries to reflect the complexity and historical context of the story, and runs to some 28,000 words – of which around half appeared in the printed newspaper.
Dr. Schmidt did not mince his words though when he said that Fred's investigation falls, "well below the normal Guardian standards of reporting", while Dr Ben Santer wrote, "I am taking this opportunity to correct Mr. Pearce's omissions, to reply to the key allegations, and to supply links to more detailed responses." Both have also criticised our experimental online exercise to harness the expertise of people with a special knowledge of the emails in order to create a "peer reviewed" account of what they tell us.
More on that later, but it is wrong to suggest that this is a lazy substitute for traditional journalistic standards and that key protagonists were not invited to respond prior to publication. On the contrary, the investigation was subject to rigorous editorial checking and Fred contacted numerous individuals in the course of his research. Many (particularly those at UEA) declined to comment.
The RealClimate commentary reads like a distorted fairground mirror of the Guardian investigation – one that highlights the uncomfortable bits but blurs the rest. The posts did point out that "Some of the other pieces in this series are fine" but do not reflect the large amount of analysis in the investigation of the way the emails have been misused by those with a political agenda and the extensive context we included to indicate the pressure scientists writing those emails were under from time-consuming requests for data.
In part 2 (How the 'climategate' scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics' lies), for example, we detail how the "hide the decline" email has been misused by Sarah Palin, Senator James Inhofe and others to create, apparently deliberately, the impression that climate scientists had fiddled the figures.
Almost all the media and political discussion about the hacked climate emails has been based on soundbites publicised by professional sceptics and their blogs. In many cases, these have been taken out of context and twisted to mean something they were never intended to.
In part 1 (Battle over climate data turned into war between scientists and sceptics) and in a separate piece that appeared in the newspaper (Climate scientists have long been targets for sceptics) Fred outlines the tactics and motivations of some on the "sceptic" side of the debate.
All this happened against the backdrop of a long-term assault by politically motivated, and commercially funded, climate-change deniers against the activities of many of the key scientists featuring in the emails.
Similarly in Part 7 (Victory for openness as IPCC climate scientist opens up lab doors) Fred explains how the emails give a special insight into what being on the end of that assault was like.
In the leaked emails, [Ben Santer] is seen sharing those experiences with other victims of hectoring and abuse by the more rabid climate sceptics. Others had their own horror stories, including Mike Mann over his hockey stick graph, Kevin Trenberth over his analysis of hurricanes and warming in the aftermath of Katrina, and later Jones over his escalating data wars. In each case, they argue, legitimate debates about scientific analysis and access to researchers' data have been turned into vindictive character assassination.
And in the concluding part of the investigation (Part 12: Climate science emails cannot destroy argument that world is warming, and humans are responsible), Fred lays out unequivocally that nothing in the emails casts doubt on the case for climate change being attributable to human actions.
Is the science of climate change fatally flawed by the climategate revelations? Absolutely not. Nothing uncovered in the emails destroys the argument that humans are warming the planet. None of the 1,073 emails plus 3,587 files containing documents, raw data and computer code upsets the 200-year-old science behind the "greenhouse effect" of gases such as carbon dioxide, which traps solar heat and warms the atmosphere. Nothing changes the fact that carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere thanks to human emissions from burning carbon-based fuels such as coal and oil. Nor the calculations by physicists that for every square metre of the Earth's surface, 1.6 watts more energy enters the atmosphere than leaves it.
And we know the world is warming as a result. Thousands of thermometers in areas remote from any conceivable local urban influences tell us that. The oceans are warming too. The great majority of the world's glaciers are retreating, Arctic sea ice is disappearing, sea levels are rising ever faster, trees are climbing up hillsides and permafrost is melting.
These are not statistical artefacts or the result of scientists cherry-picking data.
Looking under every rock
There are few, if any newspapers in the world with a stronger commitment to action on climate change than the Guardian and our sister paper the Observer. We have a team of 6 full-time environment correspondents as well as three editors and a collection of bloggers and columnists.
It was the Guardian that orchestrated a global editorial carried by 56 newspapers in 45 countries on 7th December 2009 to call for action from world leaders at Copenhagen. [RC: Also at RealClimate]
And we have been instrumental in supporting the 10:10 climate change campaign which aims to inspire individuals, organisations and businesses to cut their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. The UK branch of 10:10 has signed up nearly 60,000 people and over 4000 businesses and organisations.
But only by looking thoroughly under every rock can those of us pressing for action on climate change maintain with confidence that the scientific case remains sound. Fred's investigation shows that confidence is indeed well placed, but to claim that the emails do not throw up some troubling issues looks like the inward-looking mentality that is sometimes (perhaps understandably) expressed in the emails themselves.
The two posts published so far on RealClimate come to over 8500 words and it has been suggested that a line by line response to each of the points made would not be productive. I say again that we are totally unembarrassed about correcting genuine errors, but many of the points raised at RealClimate are differences of interpretation. There were implications that the investigation omitted some key information which in fact appeared in Fred's pieces – for example that the data on Chinese weather station locations from the Phil Jones et al 1990 Nature data were eventually released publicly and that the two studies Jones had threatened to keep out of the IPCC AR4 report were in fact cited there.
However, I would like to make four points:
Dr Phil Jones, the head of the Climatic Research Unit at UEA has said in an interview with Nature that the handling of the records of the Chinese weather station data from his 1990 Nature paper (which Fred wrote about in part 5 of the investigation) was "not acceptable… [it's] not best practice," and he acknowledged that that stations "probably did move". He added that he was considering a correction to Nature. To our knowledge, no other media organisation or blogger had used the emails to shed light on the controversy over the 1990 paper so a correction would not be on the table without the Pearce investigation.
Dr. Schmidt states that we imply Dr Tom Wigley supported allegations of "fabrication" from climate sceptic Douglas Keenan. We do not make that assertion in the piece. Also, Dr Schmidt does not reproduce the most eye-catching quotes from a May 2009 email from Wigley to Jones in which he raises serious doubts about the quality of Jones's scientific team and his handling of the Chinese weather station data.The hacked emails do not include a response from Jones if there was one.
As Dr. Schmidt pointed out, we have made three small corrections to the piece "Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph" at the request of Dr Michael Mann, but none changed the main point the article was making, which was that in 1999, Mann's hockey-stick reconstruction was the subject of intense academic debate amongst climate scientists.
Neither of the RealClimate blogs dealt with Fred's piece on FOI requests, but a statement from the UK's deputy information commissioner Graham Smith has made clear that he believes that FOI legislation was not followed correctly. He wrote, "The emails which are now public reveal that [climate sceptic David] Holland's requests under the Freedom of Information Act were not dealt with as they should have been under the legislation. Section 77 of the Freedom of Information Act makes it an offence for public authorities to act so as to prevent intentionally the disclosure of requested information." This is a serious issue worthy of discussion and debate.
Peer-reviewed journalism
I mentioned above our attempt to create a definitive account of the emails by leveraging the expertise of people involved or with a special knowledge of the messages and the issues they discuss. This account will eventually be expanded into a book. In practice, this means us adding annotations from people to the online versions of the articles so that readers can watch a form of living peer-review in progress. Click on the yellow highlights in the pieces themselves to read the annotations.
This represents an extraordinary commitment to transparency that we believe is unique in journalism. What other news organisation would open itself to direct criticism in this way including, for example, annotations that read "this is absolutely false" and "this is really bad"? The respected Columbia Journalism Review has praised the approach. "Regardless of whether you agree with Pearce or Schmidt, the Guardian's approach appropriately acknowledges that evidence leaves room for some degree of interpretation. It is this kind of detailed, intellectually honest (even technologically innovative) reporting that news outlets like The New York Times should be striving for," it wrote.
In the same spirit we have showcased diverse critical opinions on the issues and our own coverage of them, including from Dr Myles Allen, Dr Vicky Pope, Dr Mike Hulme and the Guardian's environment correspondent Dr David Adam. Again few newspapers would have reflected such diverse viewpoints.
The reaction from some to our online annotation exercise has been hostile though. On our letters pages Dr Myles Allen and Dr Ben Santer wrote last week:
Claiming to produce "the definitive" analysis now is a brazen attempt to pre-empt the inquiries' conclusions…What is wrong with the old-fashioned approach of checking facts before publication? When the final version is published, you will no doubt make much of the fact that "everyone had a chance to comment", implying that any statement that was not challenged must therefore be true.
Our intention is not to undermine or pre-empt the ongoing inquiries into the CRU emails. Each of those has a very specific remit and none is attempting to produce a detailed account that uses the emails to shed light on recent climate controversies. Nor is this an exercise in blackmailing scientists into fact-checking on the cheap – if it were then it would be a monumental false-economy.
In truth, this is a serious-minded attempt to make sense of a large volume of new information about a complex and highly charged issue. No other newspaper has ever offered its journalism up for very public and exacting scrutiny in this way. We sincerely invite those involved who know the issues most thoroughly to contribute.
507 Responses to "The Guardian responds"
jo abbess says:
@EdwardGreisch (#195)
In the past, with a variety of organisations, I have co-facilitated open, free workshops on the Science and social aspects of Climate Change, in London. We have attracted a smattering of journalists, who seemed to come looking for signs of political movement. I mean, what's the story here ? We can't write about Science, can we ? Nobody will read it ? It's not like there's an overarching narrative, is there… ?
I think Climate Change offers the most significant and all-encompassing continual storyline of all time. There's the ongoing scandal of outright, financed denial of the facts. There's the smear campaign against Scientists and even the Science itself. There's the deep structural problems implied by such things as higher incidence of major drought and, perversely, major flooding and storms in the same regions. There's the inability of the economists to stop squabbling about the theory of Carbon markets. There's the genuine debates taking place at a very high level in the Science communities, as conflicting research evidence is refined by further investigation. There's the resistance to accepting the one underlying "sine qua non" essential of emissions reductions in industrialised countries. There's "something happened to our satellite" problems going on, as well, and added into the mix is the normal political shifting sands.
I am ready to offer, once again, to facilitate free, open workshops for journalists on Climate Change, in London. The first workshop would be something like "Climate Change : Is it important ?" because this framing of environmental issues as marginal or dead weight in newsgathering and newsmaking still needs to be challenged, and it starts with individual responses to some basic, stark facts. That can only be done on a face-to-face, taking-time-to-consider basis, not through published opinionation.
Deech56 says:
Thanks to RC for printing the Guardian's response. Here's hoping that Dr. Randerson condsiders the thoughtful criticism. Speaking of thoughtful criticism, Kate has reprinted Steve Easterbrook's comment at her web site here.
#186 Andrew: "Therefore no conclusions can be drawn"
This is incorrect. If you read the statements of the former ICO I linked in #188, he makes it clear that the SPIRIT of the law was broken. Section 77 is intended to penalize deletion of information in order to defeat disclosure — which is EXACTLY what Jones did with respect to the AR4 emails. Now, he MIGHT have been lawfully entitled to delete this information. And even if he was not, he cannot be charged due to the time limit. Such conclusions CAN, in fact, be drawn. The former ICO has even made a specific recommendation how the law should be changed to avoid such situation in the future.
Next, I don't live in UK and I don't know UK law; however, I have looked at the laws in my country. It looks like if something like that has happened here the accused would be in much more trouble. Our law defines basically requires how long official documents (including CORRESPONDENCE) should be retained. The law says that a document CANNOT be destroyed unless the time limit for a given document class has elapsed, and even then it must be destroyed in accordance with the established procedures. Each institution must have an internal regulation dealing with document/data retention. This regardless of whether the document is under FOIA or not. So where I live, unauthorized destruction of documents is at minimum a violation of institutional regulations and at worst a criminal offence (up to 2 years in prison), depending on the document in question.
In conclusion, I believe that Jones' actions regarding the AR4 emails are simply indefensible and arguing with the denialists over the legal technicalities of FOIA law is simply giving them more ammunition. It is much better to use your time explaining that there is nothing in the CRU case which would significantly undermine the scientific evidence for AGW.
Anand you again manage to prove my point absolutely perfectly. Troll away.
"This is incorrect. If you read the statements of the former ICO I linked in #188, he makes it clear that the SPIRIT of the law was broken."
This is a personal opinion as proven by his status as FORMER ICO.
And as a personal opinion (note too how it's moved from "the law has been broken" to "the spirit of the law", watch those goalposts fly!) it has as much relevance as mine that you are a concern troll.
"Deputy ICO Commissioner Graham Smith is responsible for FOI issues. His official statement represents the ICO's view: "
If it did there would be a genuine report from the ICO.
He's talking out his arse, lapping up the fame. He has a cushy job coming up, I bet…
Shibui says:
26 March 2010 at 12:44 PM
Completely Fed Up #137
But don't you think that might cast doubt on the earlier proxy results?"
No. In exactly the same way as misreading 300C temperature with an alcohol thermometer means that using a resistive thermometer instead means that the resistive thermometer is wrong too.
i.e. not at all
One thing that drives me crazy, and maybe someone who administers or even a commenter can clarify for me is, why are there so many contradictory claims on climate change? I have read studies what predict more rainfall and less rainfall, more snow and less snow, and so on and so on. I understand that with any constantly evolving theory there will be new revelations but the amount of variability borders on lunacy. To a layperson it seems like every little thing gets blamed on AGW without a true test of merit. Wading through all the disinformation to get at the truth is beyond the time most people have. Perhaps the studies need to be better reviewed before being made public.
[Response: You are confusing headlines with science. If you look into most of the seemingly contradictory claims, you'll find that they are talking about different places, different seasons or different metrics altogether. This has nothing to do with the need for better scientific review, but everything to do with the need for headline writers to simplify things and the lack of context that is often found in news stories. Occasionally, there are some issues where the science is uncertain and really contradictory studies are published, but that is just part of the process. Would you prefer that those studies which contradicted another were suppressed in some way? – gavin]
Theo H says:
Would I be moderated out if – on a fairly cursory skim of this discussion – I said that some people here are being a bit like the sceptics/denialists, so a small number of errors are being used to demolish all of the extended reporting of the Guardian?
Bit like the way that the sceptics/denialists are using a small bit of the IPCC's work – say on Indian glaciers – to demolish all of their report?
Please step back and then tell us how, in light of the entire 12 article series, you feel about the entire series.
Len Conly (196), which assumes prima facie that those first few studies of tobacco smoke were perfectly factual science — I suppose because they were on the 'right side.' Much like the EPA's original study of second-hand smoke, maybe, which almost got them a fraud charge (actually contempt of court) from the Federal District Court.
Kris #203, if you want to define by assertion the spirit of the law, please allow me to play the same game: I assert that the spirit of the law, which Jones tried to physically enforce, is that IPCC internal correspondence is confidential. Established legal practice in two countries at least. The proposed deletion was a victimless crime — a 'technicality', to use your language.
Heck, legalistic technicalities are all the denialists have. In my book, being passionate about the science and irreverent/naive about the law is a feature, not a bug!
Theo@209, So how would you feel if a newspaper started running the Horoscope under a big "SCIENCE" banner? Don't you think it might diminish your respect for the judgment of the publication?
That The Guardian deemed it appropriate to pass judgment on Phil Jones, CRU and much of climate science based on a selectively edited sample of emails says to me that they either have no ability to discern fact from propaganda or that they don't care. In either case, I'll be getting my news from The Economist and NPR from now on. The Guardian can continue on its path to become Faux News Lite.
Theo H #209: perhaps that is the reason why the proprietors of this site are trying to interact with the Guardian in a positive way — could you imagine this kind of guest post from the Telegraph or the Wall Street Journal?
Yes, several of the Guardian articles are well written and make necessary points, like that nothing in this undermines the science itself. Unfortunately the errors they do make are serious, and, factually, serve to undermine the future of the science.
A world in which research scientists can be hounded out of their jobs for political reasons, by politically motivated campaigns of lies and misrepresentation by folks not having the faintest about how science works yet hating its conclusions, would be an ever-so-slightly more dangerous world, in which one more group willing to speak truth to power would be chilled out of existence.
As Steven Dutch puts it:
Once professors get tenure, it pretty much takes a thermonuclear weapon to remove them. That protection is there because a significant part of our job is to tick people off. We tell them things they don't want to hear, like the earth is 4.6 billion years old, there is a finite amount of oil in the ground, you can't provide government services without taxes, we really did go to the moon, or they didn't learn enough to pass the course. So when a university grants tenure, it basically makes a lifetime commitment.
(Disclosure: I am one of those research scientists feeling the chill.)
flxible says:
Theo@209 – Stepping back:
Sad state of affairs, like many human endeavors. Commentors here at RC have been calling for "scientists" to step up and lead the charge educating the public on the facts (which RC is actually doing, for that segment of the public that is educable). A media group puts forward "PhD's" claiming to do better. Those PhD's then proceed to dwell on the manufactured controversies around the politics, as if J&J Public can meaningfully parse a 12 part series about the politics of science over morning coffee, further muddying the public perceptions of the objective reality we face by opening the discussion to opinion in the name of "balance". And effectively "blaming" climate scientists for the murky public perception of climate politics. Does that convey any of the information that voters, and the policy makers they elect, need to actually take action? There are legal and political processes underway to deal with 'emailgate', let them run their course. If Mr Randerson wishes to convey the science he should get on with that and leave "a comprehensive and carefully researched attempt to get to the bottom of the emails affair" to the legal channels where it belongs. Having a doctorate in something is really meaningless when MSM articles are devoted to opinion and hand waving, appearing more like the PhD was useless in the field for which it was intended. I can easily imagine the Guardian series being used as "evidence" in the legal proceedings, where it would of course further muddy the waters.
A climate troll is a goat-like beast that guards bridges that lead to climate enlightenment. It has lot of time on its hands, it assiduously demands coin from every comer standing at the gate. The coin is acquiescence to the theory of anthropogenicity. Paradoxically, the coin is available in abundance on the other side of the bridge.
Let your guard down and maybe we can all see "the point" that you fondly refer to. Let people in for free. :)
> almost got them a fraud charge
Ah, Rod, Rod, you're back in 'bertarian parrot mode again, claiming that if the first report of something is disproved, that undermines the science. You know better, you get corrected each time you revert to this "founder" notion.
http://www.google.com/search?q=EPA's+original+study+of+second-hand+smoke
"Almost" counts throwing horseshoes and hand grenades, not in law.
Andrew Hobbs says:
#203 Kris
The statement you refer to does NOT make it clear that the spirit of the law was broken. It makes it very clear that only a prima facie case (albeit a strong prima facie case) exists to suggest that the law was broken. However it is only a prima facie case. As such it could be proven wrong with appropriate evidence. Therefore you cannot make such a claim or conclusion.
In my opinion it was very wrong of the ICO spokesperson to be talking to anyone with the assumption that Jones had broken the law without an official decision notice having been published. I see the letter you refer to as being their pathetic attempt to wriggle out of the hole they dug for themselves.
John P. Reisman (OSS Foundation) says:
#189 Septic Matthew
I'm not entirely sure of your reference as to "as written at your site"? Could you specify. Is there something I need to re-examine?
As to "carbon fuel content of imported goods" several points come to mind
– The primary goal is to address the major sources of industrial CO2 output
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/co2_human.html
[compare non-energy use of fuels to fossil fuel combustion]
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/globalghg.html
Electricity Generation and Transportation are the largest and Industry is a major component
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/usgginventory.html
Agriculture and Commercial are lower on the allocation list. So, yes it is a target, and there should be a way to address CO2 emissions used to product production. SInce the tax is on point of origin or point of import, this can be included in the mix and will need to be paramterized.
– Carbon content in imported goods that are not to be burned might be considered sequestered carbon, but CO2 release form production should be included.
Since this is a global petition, let's hope that we can make some progress in those nations as well or raise the importance of the issue so the UN takes notice.
The chief goal of the proposal is to target fossil fuel energy imports/exports in order to provide a mechanism for pushing us into sustainable renewable energy sources and hopefully consumption reduction and efficiency as well.
Our best chance for a better future 'Fee & Dividend'
Understand the delay and costs of Cap and Trade
http://www.climatelobby.com/fee-and-dividend/
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bigcitylib says:
#203 No, the claim that the ICO finally settled upon was that there was a primie facie argument for the law's having been broken, not that it had been broken. Jone's claim, made in several venues now, is that no emails were in fact deleted. If he's right,no law was broken, and ICO looks foolish for having made some rather inflammatory statements based on a selection of stolen emails.
Also, a point not fully appreciated: the UEA policy in regards to the various FOI requests was developed in consultation with the ICO. So there is plenty of opportunity for the latter agency to be embarrassed over the next couple of months. Ie. are they now attacking the UEA for following their own advice?
Ron R. says:
Ben Santer: "With some work – which he was unwilling to do – Mr. McIntyre could have replicated all of the calculations performed in the 2008 Santer et al. International Journal of Climatology paper."
Unwilling or, perhaps, unable? I wonder…
Maybe knowing these people and their motivations some have been less than 100% forthcoming, and in hindsight that was wrong. Yet it's clear that the skeptics requests went well beyond what is reasonable. More than simply requesting the same data the way any other scientist would do they wanted every last bit of paper that a thought might have been jotted down on, every impromtu snippet of conversation ever uttered even every thought if they could have gotten it. Can you imagine Darwin having to turn over every single thing that he'd ever said or wondered about in the formulation of evolution theory? His "I think" when trying to put it all together would have made headline news these days:
DARWIN NOT CERTAIN ABOUT EVOLUTION!
What the skeptics have demanded amounts to an invasion of privacy. And the reason they wanted every last jot and tittle was quite lawyer-esque, they hoped that in the less careful wanderings of casual conversation they might find at least some little bit of uncertainty that they could then blow out of all proportion in the minds of a suspicious people. And so they've done with the emails.
One last comment about the Guardian, just my 2c worth of course. People need to remember that journalism is more than 'just the facts ma'am'. It's also a business. Unlike science it's funding source is private and by no means sure, especially in this economy. Again, in our internet age of instant verification we can pick just about anything to death but (not knowing all the details) I do believe that the Guardian has been doing an admirable job, way better than others. The reason they merited several posts so far discussing some of the details recognizes that. Of course where mistakes have occurred they must be willing to correct them immediately, and my guess is that they will be more careful in the future just as climate scientists will be about how to deal with the professional skeptics. Carefully, and thoroughly.
I don't like the pussyfooting around that journalists often do with regard to notions held by fringe groups (or in their less than damning coverage of corporate abuse). Maybe it would be better to take the philosophy of certain middle eastern countries when attacked – strike back ten times harder. Go for the kill. The papers have learned though that they have to be diplomatic, which sometimes translates as waffling. It's a pity. The options are government reporting (Pravda anyone?) or reporting from the scientific institutions themselves. But then you'd have then people screaming about bias. So what we're stuck with is this hopefully independent "forth estate", even if that's in perception only.
@ 214 flxible
Sad state of affairs, like many human endeavors. Commentors here at RC have been calling for "scientists" to step up and lead the charge educating the public on the facts (which RC is actually doing, for that segment of the public that is educable). ""
Scientists _should_ "step up and lead". But steeping backwards is an integral part of leading.
Well – I think so.
Gavin,
Thank you for your response to my earlier post. One example of the contradiction I was talking about is the decrease in Accumulated Cyclone Energy to levels around the early 80's after peaking in the mid-late 90's. I have read a lot of studies that say the hurricanes will become more numerous and stronger. I have also read a study that says Atlantic hurricanes will become less intense. Kerry Emanuel has said that the models don't follow the observations. Also Christopher Landsea with the NOAA Hurricane Research Division found less intense intense hurricanes. I just wanted to maybe have some links for information to clarify stuff like this. I am sure that you may have covered it before on a previous blog entry.
Anand – What would you think of someone who posted on anandtech that "There has been no increase in CPU performance since 2004 and the Pentium 4 570j running at 3.8 GHz proves it!"?
Septic Matthew says:
218, John P. Reisman: I'm not entirely sure of your reference as to "as written at your site"? Could you specify. Is there something I need to re-examine?
Unless there is an effective tax on the carbon content of the manufacture etc of imported goods, then the tax on domestic producers gives money to consumers to buy cheaper imported goods. But the new production facilities in China (India, whatever), are generally more polluting than the facilities in the EU and US that are driven out of business. This isn't the only reason that China is doing well in international trade, but it contributes.
Gerry Quinn says:
Ray Ladbury writes in #190:
"Gerry Quinn, Well, since you are too lazy to go find the reference yourself, here it is:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v391/n6668/abs/391678a0.html
And Jones cited it. If you had any decency, you'd apologize to Jones, but I'm not waiting up."
What are you blathering about, Ray? That paper was submitted more than two years before Jones wrote in an email "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick…". We may safely infer that the email did not refer to the contents of that paper.
Tip: when posting in future, double-check to make sure you have not blundered, especially if you wish to incorporate gratuitous insults to other correspondents.
Steve Fish says:
RE- Comment by bill — 26 March 2010 @ 5:42 PM:
It is true that overpopulation is the big elephant in the room. The solution to both the global warming and peak oil problems is converting to renewable energy ASAP. Global warming and ocean problems by themselves have the potential to create enormous misery for the most vulnerable people in the world, and like peak oil would make any real efforts to solve the population problem impossible.
I know of only one way to deal with overpopulation (other than a mass die off) and that involves helping undeveloped nations to educate their people, especially women, and provide health and food security. This doesn't seem very likely, but it would be impossible if both global warming and peak oil aren't dealt with.
The frustration and squabbling you see regarding much smaller problems has to do with the organized corporate disinformation campaign regarding both the warming and fossil fuel problem. The inability of the press to put this campaign into perspective for all of us is a major problem.
Doug Bostrom says:
Jay says: 27 March 2010 at 9:37 AM
One thing that drives me crazy, and maybe someone who administers or even a commenter can clarify for me is, why are there so many contradictory claims on climate change? I have read studies what predict more rainfall and less rainfall, more snow and less snow, and so on and so on.
Gavin refers to the need of the popular press to simplify. In all fairness redaction of this kind is simply unavoidable as a story grows in scope and content; the job of the press is not to repeat the entire background of a story with each new development. Newspapers cover "news", the new. At best a story will provide a coherent synopsis of the previous narrative and then move on to providing detail about the newly emerged part of the story.
For a story of global scale this system is sorely tested, stressed to the point of strain. Climate change will in fact result in more rainfall in some places and less in others, changes in the distribution of snowfall, scads of seemingly contradictory observations. There's simply no way a brief newspaper article can convey this level of detail, not when the subject is so enormous.
Ultimately the interest and memory of the newspaper reader is a vital part of conveying a developing story of this scale. Confusion will happen unless readers are able to retain facts and integrate new information into their mental models. The challenge for newspapers is to make a reader's job more successful by avoiding careless introduction of content either inauthentic or not relevant to the central story, that is to say "fluff."
The need to avoid bogus and useless content, to help readers understand an extraordinarily complicated story is why fake dramatics such as Pearce's sexing up of the Chinese temperature data story are so intolerable. Getting the story of climate change across to the public is an enormous challenge even in the best of circumstances, so dreaming up and reporting controversy where none exists is corrosive to the public intellect and a breach of faith on the part of a journalist.
Geoff Wexler says:
Yes, several of the Guardian articles are well written and make necessary points, like that nothing in this undermines the science itself. Unfortunately the errors they do make are serious, and, factually, serve to undermine the future of the science. ,
I agree with all of that.
The media has asymmetric power. They can ask questions , like Roger Harrabin, but do not get cross examined in return. They can promote opinion and gossip by re-packaging it as an 'investigation' to which they can give enormous publicity.
I am not aware of any risks entailed by irresponsible use of this power. What will happen if the inquiries do not corroborate the Guardian's investigation , except perhaps to a minor extent? Will anyone come back to apologise? What will happen if there are some unforseen consequences caused by this interference with natural justice? Have the media (Guardian not excluded) ever considered what it must be like to have to face at least five inquiries if you are totally untrained for that sort of thing? Have they learned nothing from past case studies of bullying in the UK?
http://greatthinkers.suite101.com/article.cfm/alan_turing_a_short_biographyhttp://greatthinkers.suite101.com/article.cfm/alan_turing_a_short_biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)
(no analogies intended, except for the bullying)
#219: "Jone's claim, made in several venues now, is that no emails were in fact deleted. If he's right,no law was broken"
Thank you, I was not aware of this.
I rescind my previous position and admit that most likely there was no offence committed. For the record, can you provide a link to Prof. Jones' statement?
Re: My previous comment.
The first link should be halved.
#198: "CO2 is NOT air. "
But in most cases, it is produced by a reaction involving a carbon-based fuel and atmospheric oxygen. So CO2 tax _can_ be viewed as a tax on the use of air (O2). The denialists have that right. The thing is: industrial use of mineral resources is already taxed so it's somewhat logical to tax the use of atmospheric resources as well.
"We can only hope that they do in fact tax CO2, and soon and steeply."
Actually, when I think of it, I am not afraid that they won't. I am afraid of a taxation scheme that doesn't work — i.e. money changes hands but the emissions keep on rising. Nightmare. Absolute horror.
> CO2 tax _can_ be viewed as a tax on the use of air (O2)
See, Guardian editors? This is the level of understanding you're facing.
It's not a _carbon_ tax, it's an _oxidation_ tax.
It will just drive people to using chlorine or fluorine for combustion, instead, since those aren't taxed.
Oh, wait …
Greg C. says:
#229, Kris: "I rescind my previous position and admit that most likely there was no offence committed."
WHOA! That's a rare line to hear nowadays. :-)
Martin Vermeer very rightly said:
A world in which research scientists can be hounded out of their jobs for political reasons (…) would be an ever-so-slightly more dangerous world, in which one more group willing to speak truth to power would be chilled out of existence.
Addendum: And then, they'll come for the journalists.
#224 Septic – The fee would apply to imports, as well.
What I don't like about Fee and Dividend proposal is the idea that dividends would be paid out equally to everyone. That gives the general public a strong disincentive to conserve. Any dividends (tax receipts) should be dedicated to projects that would improve energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption.
I am in agreements, however, that cap and trade won't work for carbon mitigation. It's too complicated. A simple tax – that IS passed through to the consumer like a value added tax – is the most effective means to influence consumption choices thoughout the supply chain. In the end, products with high carbon costs won't be competitive in the market place.
Edward Greisch says:
201 jo abbess: THANK YOU very very much. I hope you have very full classes/workshops.
Can you also teach them the math? Let's hope we get another volunteer who can teach math, especially probability and statistics, to the journalists. Statistics words and concepts are often the stumbling blocks that cause an article in a newspaper to miss the mark.
Gerry Quinn #225, you may want to stop digging when in a hole. Ray pointed you to an article in a top journal, indeed two years old at the time, where the thing that was supposedly being hidden was being explained in gory detail for all the world to see. Your bluster fools nobody.
Re: first link of #228.
Very odd what a cut and paste can do. The corrupted version of the link to "Alan Turing: A short biography" is liable to go to a different version from the one I saw and to get to that different article , you might have to pass a prominent advert for an article opposing Darwin.
Frank Giger says:
Y'all act as though the Guardian put out a hit piece, when in fact is was favorable to the science and the process in general – if critical of particular behavior by some scientists.
If this is how the friends of AGW get treated, no wonder anyone with any doubt at all is labelled a "denier" or a straight up shill for [insert industry] interests.
The waters are quite muddied by "environmental activists" as much as by any other group, yet there seems to be little concern when they skew or misrepresent the science.
Kris@229 The statement from UEA should be enough:
"No record has been deleted, altered, or otherwise dealt with in any fashion with the intent of preventing the disclosure of all, or any part, of the requested information"
And other official communications listed here might clarify things a bit more then the Guardian series does.
Kris (203): Section 77 is intended to penalize deletion of information in order to defeat disclosure — which is EXACTLY what Jones did with respect to the AR4 emails
BPL: Where and when did he do that? What, specifically, did he delete? And what's your source for that accusation of criminal misconduct?
#195 Edward Greisch
Without a strategic capacity, we need to do this piecemeal. We need to help journalists become educated as to how to understand the contexts. They need to become more aware on their own. It's the old 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink' problem.
In the mean time we can address our town and city councils. I am attending one in my area in two weeks.
We need to get out their on foot and help people understand.
I went to our local school board last week and the person I spoke with said two things:
1. Volcanoes put out more CO2 than humans.
2. Did you know that more and more scientists are saying global warming is not human caused.
It was disappointing to hear and clearly we have a long way to go. Of course the easy answers don't penetrate the religious mindset. I explained volcanoes CO2 output in relation to human and of course, which scientists?, but then she was called away from the front office and I went home.
For those not so indoctrinated, most can be turned around rather easily with reasoned contextual arguments. For the indoctrinated, I have found that once a meeting is established and I can do a full briefing on the subject with pictures, the success rate is 98 to 99% turnaround. But all this needs to be scaled up and we still have no funding for a strategic approach to ending this debate, while of course the denialists are well funded and organized in their communications.
One of the problems is establishing enough time to present the contexts, depending on your audience.
I have gone to my local paper for example and met with the publisher. He was willing to hear my briefing on AGW and realized the serious nature of the problem, but he can not repeat what I said to his boss (owner). He said the owners of the papers (plural) have a policy not to report on global issues. This is a convenient out. What they don't realize yet is that global warming will affect the entire planet including their local region. But it is an easy way for them to say no, we just don't report on things that don't concern the locality.
I will attempt to talk to the owners of the papers next.
Conclusion, without a strategic plan, it's a ground war (urban combat), and urban warfare is notoriously difficult. So until someone recognizes the need for a true strategic communication, we will have to muddle along with fighting against the IED's and snipers that are picking away at the argument with religious fervor until such time as it is obvious (to late) or someone out there with money wakes up and says we need a strategic 'effective' approach.
I have a structured plan. The problem is I can not share it until I meet someone trustworthy with appropriate funding capacity that wants to help, and that has not happened. The simple reason it can not be shared is that once the enemy knows your plan they can counter it more easily. It's as simple as that.
So, keep fighting in the streets and alleys. We will take a lot of hits but any fight worth fighting is going to have challenges. Let's just hope we make better progress.
I would then say that the fee needs to consider the CO2 emissions of the production process. Once the amounts are quantified, then the applicable fee can be applied. That would have a ripple effect in product cost that would work backwards to the producer due to sales pressures.
Drops in sales due to increasing fee costs would give incentive to producers to look towards alternative energy to produce goods.
Of course, raising awareness in India will help as global warming will have a massive effect in their country, including the drop in fresh water from the Himalaya and the eventual flooding of Bangladesh and other low lying areas.
China will also experience the same problems from the Himalaya fresh water loss and Shanghai and other low lying areas, including Hong Kong and Kowloon, which is a major industrial hub.
Since EU and US are still major consumers, this indicates that Fee & Dividend will still be highly effective on a progressive scale.
It is a balancing act. The economy needs to remain functional and we need to move as quickly as possible. No one thinks this will be easy to accomplish, but that must not stop us from trying.
#235 JiminMpls
I understand your concern. When I first considered it now a few years ago I had the same concern and thought we should have monies flowing into solution development.
But upon further consideration, handing monies to politicians to divvy out would more than likely inhibit good efficient/effective solution development. Remember, politicians want jobs in their district so the will have incentive to allocate funding to just about every hair-brained scheme that comes along and they will lobby hard on those schemes.
On the other hand, if we actually allow the market system to develop the solutions. The solutions developed will mostly likely have a higher probability of working since the solutions will not be money thrown at the problem but rather a problem that needs to be efficiently and effectively solved. This reduces the hair brained incentive and translates to what's the actual best way to do this.
We need to remove the special interest potential as we all know how that works.
As to returning it to the consumer, it will provide much needed economic stimulus and the product mix will be moving more and more toward utilitarian and away from non utilitarian. This will help keep the economy functioning, and that is one of my greatest concerns; if the economy ceases to function in a manner conducive to implementation of needed solutions, we all fail.
Martin Vermeer wrote in #237:
"Gerry Quinn #225, you may want to stop digging when in a hole. Ray pointed you to an article in a top journal, indeed two years old at the time, where the thing that was supposedly being hidden was being explained in gory detail for all the world to see."
This is irrelevant obfuscation. We are all aware that the 'divergence problem' was mentioned in some scientific papers.
The question at issue is what was Jones up to a couple of years later, when he was manipulating data in such a way as to hide that very divergence? For what purpose was he preparing the 'adjusted' proxy series?
Not all the world reads Nature. Politicians and policymakers get their scientific information from reports prepared by people like Jones. Was he perhaps preparing such a report, or part of one, but for this purpose sweeping the data discrepancies of which he was aware under the carpet? It seems the obvious interpretation, and the attempts of you and others to evade the issue do nothing to make me doubt it.
He wasn't "manipulating data". He was asked to provide a graphic summarizing our best understanding of the temperature record to be used as a cover of a WMO report. Not a scientific report, not even a policy report, just a cover graphic that accurately reflected scientific thinking at the time. And it does. The divergence problem isn't interpreted by anyone who's serious as "proving" that recent temperature observations are shown wrong. Some of the proxy series began diverging a few decades ago, after matching previous observations and proxies very closely before that. The combination of proxy and observed temperatures *are* our best estimate of the record. There's nothing wrong with the graphic he produced. It reflects the best view of reality we have.
Robert Murphy says:
Gerry Quinn said (245):
"The question at issue is what was Jones up to a couple of years later, when he was manipulating data in such a way as to hide that very divergence?"
He did no such thing. Everything he did was out in the open, in published papers. It was only *hidden* to those who don't know the relevant literature.
"Not all the world reads Nature."
Certainly not the denialists. Is Phil Jones to blame because some people are too lazy to actually read the scientific literature before they make baseless, inflammatory accusations?
#240 flxible: Thank you very much.
#241 BPL: I have incorrectly (albeit logically) assumed that if he asked his colleagues to delete information he did it himself in the first place. He did not. See #229.
#239 Frank Giger
It's not about friends of AGW (or 'Friends of Science', a denialist web site). It's about context and relative accuracy in communications. If people are to understand relevance they need to know the relevant contexts. Otherwise, confusion will abound for some years to come.
It is critical that reporters understand the contexts in this debate. Any facts out of context are irrelevant.
It is about getting the story right. Global warming is human caused and understanding the issue will enable effective policy. Without effective policy, we are looking at the difference between catastrophic climate change and less worse scenarios.
It is the job of the media to get it right and their survival along with that of the rest of our human economy relies on their ability to communicate relevant points.
Ed (242) wrote:
"For those not so indoctrinated, most can be turned around rather easily with reasoned contextual arguments. "
And then mentioned volcanoes.
Here's what's missed in most AGW discussions: nature. Excluding natural background CO2 emissions from discussion is an illogical approach, and counter-intuitive to the average layman.
Oddly enough, the starting point of most discussions isn't nature's own balance, but jumping head long into pointing fingers and demanding that industrialized nations be punished. It's a very dumb approach.
The second is an implied assumption that climate is static, and therefore climate change is something new and wholly dependent on us. Whenever someone states that we must "stop climate change" it makes me cringe – they're talking out the wrong end from the start, and is far too absolutist (and impossible). We need to soften our influence on the current cycle of climate change.
Far and away most people understand that tinkering with systems – even dynamic ones like climate – can produce bad effects.
I travel in very politically (US style) conservative circles, and the topic of GHG's and influencing climate is very simple to approach and even get agreement on. One simply has to dismiss the radicals and the alarmism and speak to the root issues.
Efficiency, diversification of energy sources, and lower emissions are all desireable goals no matter the political persuasion of a person.
Carrots, not sticks, is the way forward, IMHO. Punitive taxes just to tax people for living in a prosperous nation (in order to make them less prosperous and therefore less polluting) is politically and ideologically impossible to the majority of people – and yet this seems to be the prime solution offered for AGW (carbon taxes, etc.).
The reason the stolen emails cut so deeply is the unreasonable expectations and PR picture given to scientists and the IPCC. Regardless of what an individual scientist will say, the truth is that the IPCC and the reports have been billed as infallible canon, and with that everything and everyone associated with it. And since it is canon, every political ruling must adhere to its principles.
It might be factual, but it's not canon, and no, we really don't have to adhere to it. It is in our best interest to take the facts laid out in the reports, but there is no real imperative to do so. | {
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Retired Alt. VP & Gen. Chairperson Edward Yule Jr. dies
Retired Alternate Vice President and General Chairperson Edward Yule Jr., 81, died August 10.
As general chairperson of GCA 505, Yule was instrumental in working on agreements with Long Island Rail Road and even led UTU members in a 45-hour strike in 1994 in an effort to get the members an equitable agreement. Yule was a member of Local 645 in Babylon, N.Y., and a member of the Alumni Association. He was also a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Yule is survived by hi wife, Beatrice; sons, Kenneth (Donna) Yule and Gregory (Tracey) Yule; sisters, Carole (JK) Murray and Pamela (William) Blank; and many grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his son Edward (Victoria) Yule.
Memorial contributions may be made to V.N.S. Hospice "Hospice House", 505 Main St., Northport, NY 11768. Click here to leave condolences for the family.
Retired VP Hilton Masters dies
Hilton Durward "Dur" Masters, 86, of Newark, Ohio, unexpectedly died July 6, 2017, at his home.
Masters was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force where he served in occupied Germany following WWII. Before his retirement, he worked in the railroad industry for 42 years. He hired out with B&O Railroad as a conductor/brakeman. Before the former UTU was formed, Masters served as a local chairperson for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (one of the four UTU predecessor unions). He was a member of UTU Local 404 located in Newark, Ohio. Under the UTU, he served as general chairperson for B&O/CSX GO 49. After serving as general chairperson, Masters was elected to the executive board, before he was elected to the position of international vice president at the 1983 and 1987 conventions.
Masters was also a member of the UTU/SMART TD Alumni Association, American Legion Post #85 and VFW Post #1060. An avid sports fan, he was a fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes, Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians.
Masters is survived by his daughter, Susan (Tim) Moore; grandsons, Brian Moore, Tyler (Natasha) Moore; great grandson, Jackson Moore; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Hilton Masters and Dorothy (Corder) Masters-Zipperer; wife, Ruth Marie (Stough) Masters; and brothers, William Dwayne Masters and Fred Zipperer.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, Great Rivers Affiliate, P.O. Box 15120, Chicago, IL 60693.
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Retired General Chairperson Norman Lucas dies
Local 1570 member and former General Chairperson Norman J. Lucas, 67, died suddenly June 19, 2017. A lifelong resident of Sacramento, Calif., he leaves behind his loving wife of 35 years, Sheila Lucas as well as two children, two grandchildren and extended family.
Lucas hired out as a brakeman in 1971 on the Sacramento Northern Railroad and soon became involved in labor-management relations. He held a variety of positions in Local 1798 eventually being elected to the position of general chairperson.
During his career as a general chairperson he represented brakemen, conductors and switchmen and represented those members through three separate mergers, Sacramento Northern and Tidewater Southern RR with Western Pacific RR, Western Pacific with Union Pacific and Union Pacific with Southern Pacific. In between all of that, he also was the general chairperson for Central California Traction RR, Modesto and Empire Traction RR, Stockton Terminal and Eastern and Alameda Belt Line RR.
Lucas was also a local delegate, local president and local legislative representative. After the merger between the UPRR and SPTCo, Lucas left the general committee to work as a switchman in Sacramento in the very same territory that he first started working on when he hired out on Sacramento Northern so long ago, eventually "pulling the pin" to retire.
Lucas was deeply involved in the California State Railroad Museum since 1984, and was one of the first volunteers to operate on the museum's railroad, the Sacramento Southern RR. Lucas rose to become trainmaster and thereafter assistant general manager of the Sacramento Southern. He later taught GCOR and rail safety courses at Sacramento City College for students interested in railroad careers.
He was a lifelong Ham Radio Operator which the U.S. Army discovered when he was drafted and thus he was yanked out of basic training and spent two years at Ft. Ord teaching radio classes. Lucas had a multitude of hobbies from dressing up as a pirate for Renaissance Fairs where he would juggle burning batons while sporting his black powder pistol, to constructing several remote control model boats, ever tinkering with his and friends' ham radios, campouts in the fifth wheel trailer, always helping family and friends with a variety of projects, and doting over his grandchildren.
Lucas was a hard worker and never put anything off until tomorrow that he could do today. He was blessed with many friends and will be missed by all. His wit, humor and compassion for others will never be forgotten. He stood out as a one of a kind colorful character in an industry known for its characters.
A memorial mass will be held June 30, 2017, at 11 a.m. at the Sacred Heart Church, 1040 39th St., Sacramento, CA 95816. The family requests that memorial contributions be made in lieu of flowers to the Prostate Cancer Foundation or the Sacramento Food Bank.
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Retired Gen. Chairperson William "Butch" Young dies
Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
SMART TD member and former railroad conductor, William "Butch" E. Young III died at the age of 74 on Feb. 15, 2017, in Chino, Calif. Family was his main priority, and Butch was a loving husband, father and grandfather.
He is survived by his wife Carol; son Mike, daughter-in-law Lisa and their boys Nathan and Garrett; son Danny and daughter-in-law Julie; and his sister Dianne Howard and brother-in-law Jim Howard.
Young served his country in the Vietnam War as a tank commander and rose to the level of sergeant. After his military service, he spent the rest of his life devoted to helping others in both his personal life and in his professional life. Most knew Young as a dedicated union man who loved his job and the people that he worked with.
He served as the UTU local chairperson for Local 113 in Winslow, Ariz., for 15 years and finished his career as the Coastlines general chairperson. He will be missed by his many friends and his family who held him so dearly, and he will be remembered always.
Memorial Services were private. Click here to leave condolences for the family.
Retired GC De Genova dies at 67
Thursday, February 16th, 2017
De Genova
Richard P. "DG" De Genova, 67, died Tuesday, February 14 surrounded by his family.
De Genova hired out with the Youngstown and Southern (Y&S) Railway while attending Youngstown State University (YSU). After receiving his BA in History/Secondary Education in 1972, he was a substitute teacher for the Struthers, Lowellville and Campbell, Ohio, high schools.
De Genova realized that his true passion was the railroad and hired out as a brakeman with the then B&O Railroad (now CSX) in August of 1973. Throughout his career, he held the positions of brakeman, road conductor and yardmaster. A member of Local 1948 in Youngstown, Ohio, De Genova served the union as general chairperson for CSX B&O Yardmasters (GCA 247) for 24 years. He settled countless claims for the membership and worked tirelessly to defend the rights of the membership.
In his free time, De Genova was a history buff who enjoyed reading historical books and watching documentaries. He was also a fan of the Cleveland Indians and other local baseball teams.
De Genova is survived by his wife of 38 years, Phyllis (Gallas); two daughters, Angela (Jonathan) Bellack and Natalie De Genova; parents, Mary K. and Joseph De Genova; and sister, Barb (Gary) Roberts. He was preceded in death by an infant son, Patrick.
Visiting hours are Friday, Feb. 17 from 5-8 p.m. at the Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home, 2726 Center Rd., Poland, OH 44514. A prayer service will be held Saturday, Feb. 18 at 9:30 a.m. at the funeral home. A mass of Christian burial will follow at 10 a.m. at the Holy Family Parish, 2729 Center Rd., Youngstown, OH 44514.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Beatitude House, 238 Tod Lane, Youngstown, OH 44504-1714, or online at www.beatitudehouse.com.
Click here to read De Genova's official obituary and to leave condolences.
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Part of what makes Star Wars so special is the Jedi's elegant weapon. We've ranked the top 10 lightsaber duels.
These Are the Top 10 Greatest Star Wars Lightsaber Duels — Ranked
By Mac Caltrider | December 23, 2021
It's that time of year when the whole family gathers together, sips hot chocolate, and binge watches Star Wars movies — or at least it should be. For every poor dad out there being forced to watch Claymation reindeer or the black-and-white sobfest about how George Bailey almost committed suicide, may the force be with you. In honor of your holiday movie sacrifices, we've ranked the 10 best Star Wars lightsaber duels.
10. Rey and Kylo Ren versus the Praetorian Guards in The Last Jedi
Kicking off the list is the only fight from the final trilogy to make the cut: the brawl between Rey, Kylo Ren, and Snoke's Praetorian Guards. Despite its being in the worst Star Wars movie ever made (yes, including the 1978 Holiday Special), watching Rey and Kylo team up and fight back-to-back against Snoke's red-cloaked clowns was undeniably epic. The thrill of seeing the two adversaries become unexpected allies against the Praetorian Guards was like scratching an itch that first developed in 1983 when the Emperor's Royal Guards never got a chance to show off their skills in Return of the Jedi. Despite the cool 360-degree camera angles, the lightsaber fight isn't enough to make the movie worth a rewatch, so it stays at No. 10.
9. Obi Wan Kenobi versus Darth Vader in A New Hope
The final faceoff between Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader deserves a spot on the list, and not just for being the first on-screen lightsaber duel. Yes, it's painfully slow, but the two warriors are also old AF by the time they meet for their final rematch. The faceoff aboard the Death Star is also more in line with a traditional sword fight than the visually pleasing choreography that came later in the franchise, so it gets a bonus point for realism. For anyone wishing the first fight had a little more style, YouTube creator FXitinPost put together a pretty epic update of the fight.
8. Mace Windu versus Darth Sidious in Revenge of the Sith
Next up: the only Jedi badass enough to request a purple saber. Aside from when Mace Windu slays droids in Attack of the Clones, his duel with Darth Sidious is the only time we see him put the purple blade to work. Windu is joined by Agen Kolar, Saesee Tiin, and Kit Fisto from the Jedi Council when he attempts to arrest the secretly Sith senator. But the elderly Palpatine reveals his own skills with a lightsaber when he dispatches the Jedi fireteam like Chewbacca's Dejarik chess pieces.
7. Obi Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker versus Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones
The faceoff between Obi Wan and Anakin against Count Dooku leaves a little bit more to be desired, but it's the first time Anakin gets in a bona fide lightsaber duel, so for that, it comes in at No. 7. Dooku — played by none other than legendary actor Christopher Lee — rocks a badass saber with a curved handle, which only gets cooler when you realize Lee may have killed actual people in a similar fashion during his stint with the infamous Long Range Desert Group during World War II. We're not kidding. Check out the insane interview where he describes stabbing people in the back.
Dooku ultimately bests Obi Wan and Anakin, but not before the chosen one grabs two sabers and dual-wields like Doc Holliday fresh off a bender at the O.K. Corral. Dooku's victory is short-lived. At the start of Revenge of the Sith Anakin makes quick work of the Sith lord and sends Dooku's head rolling across the floor like aurodium-plated dice.
6. Yoda versus Darth Sidious in Revenge of the Sith
At the end of Revenge of the Sith, the Star Wars patriarchs of good and evil face off in one of the most epic lightsaber duels of the entire franchise. Everyone's favorite green puppet goes head-to-head with Palpatine, and the two powerful Force users don't disappoint. Not only does Yoda do some insane acrobatics as the symbols of good and evil duke it out across an empty and crumbling Senate chamber (ooooh, symbolism), but at one point the two drop their sabers and show off their mastery of the Force. The fight comes to a draw, but Yoda escapes to live out the rest of his life in exile where he'll wind up teaching Luke the ways of the Force.
5. Yoda versus Count Dooku in Attack of the Clones
Just after Anakin and Obi Wan get owned by Dooku, in hobbles the 2-foot-2 green giant who had previously only moved around on screen with the help of a cane or while clinging to Luke's back. Yoda lets the cane fall, and Force grabs his mini green saber. If you were lucky enough to see Attack of the Clones in theaters, then you share in the joy of remembering the entire theater erupting in a cheer loud enough to wake someone from carbonite hibernation. Dooku flees before Yoda can seal the deal, but not before Yoda reveals his astounding blade-swinging skills.
4. Luke Skywalker versus Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back
The fight that made lightsaber duels a necessary ingredient for a good Star Wars movie: Luke versus Vader in Cloud City. Luke — fresh off some basic training with Yoda — is full of the confidence and eagerness to test his mettle that defines E-2 infantrymen just out of training. He's not ready to take on Vader, but like any good junior warfighter, he won't hear any of that patience nonsense his elders are preaching. Luke flies straight to Cloud City and picks a fight he's not ready for. Lucky for him, Vader isn't trying to kill the farmboy-turned-warrior and instead tries his best to get Luke to join him. Of course, Luke opts to fall from the sky instead of joining his dad, but not before putting on one of the best fights in all of Star Wars. Between a string of the most iconic Star Wars quotes and one of the biggest plot twists in movie history, the first faceoff between Luke and Vader remains one of the all-time best lightsaber duels.
3. Luke Skywalker versus Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi
The fight that won over the '80s kids: Luke versus Vader in Return of the Jedi. Not only is this fight the culmination of the original trilogy, but until the recent finale of The Mandalorian season two, it was also the only time we saw Luke's badass green saber in all its glory. After his dad hacked off his hand in Empire, Luke was without a saber. In Return of the Jedi Luke reveals his new and improved lightsaber and helps spring Han and Leia from Jabba's clutches. Keep in mind it was the first time fans saw anyone wield an emerald blade.
The OG trilogy comes to its epic conclusion as Luke faces off against Vader in a blur of Christmas greens and reds, before helping him complete his tragic-hero arc. It's damn near the best fight in the entire franchise simply because the stakes are so high. Luke is finally ready to confront his destiny, Vader is conflicted in choosing the dark side or the light, and the fate of the entire rebellion rests in the fight's hands. Oh, and Vader whips his saber across the room like a fucking boomerang at one point. Epic Darth dad move.
2. Obi Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn versus Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace
Episode I might lean too heavily into the famously flat dialogue of Star Wars and George Lucas' infatuation with computer-generated imagery, but it also has one of the greatest fights in all 11 films. Darth Maul is the coolest Sith ever conjured up, and 22 years after the movie first premiered, it's still hard not to scream "Fuck yes!" when the horned villain ignites his double-bladed saber.
The Sith apprentice takes on two Jedi simultaneously and dishes out some sweet Wushu and Bōjutsu moves, but it's after Maul kills Qui-Gon Jinn that the fight jumps to the next level, literally.
After Jinn gets a saber to the gut, Obi Wan breaks through the red laser gates. You can see his eyes screaming, "Prepare to die, you Darth Motherfucker!" as he cranks the aggression level past 11. The fight was so well rehearsed, Lucas actually had to slow down the camera to make the fast-paced fight more believable. Maul seems to outfight Obi Wan until Anakin's future master pulls a sweet jump move and cleaves the Sith warrior in half. The only downside of the whole fight is that it kept Maul from appearing in the rest of the prequel trilogy.
1. Obi Wan Kenobi versus Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith
You made it. The No. 1 fight is unquestionably Anakin versus Obi Wan, or the Duel of the Fates. Going into the climax of the prequel trilogy, we already know Anakin is destined to lose to his master, mentor, and best friend, but that doesn't suck any of the excitement out of the faceoff. The entire storyline of Star Wars hinges on Anakin's turn to the dark side.
Watching the tragedy unfold as the physical world around the two Jedi crumbles into a lava-filled nightmare is like watching a car wreck through your fingers — you know it's tragic, but you can't help but look on anyway. As the fight moves from a landing pad to narrow pipes and eventually to two small patches of earth floating in a rising sea of lava, the stakes are ratcheted up to a borderline unbearable level. The intense close-quarters combat includes a Skywalker drop kick, flips, and excessive saber spins. You simply cannot watch the entire fight without scooting to the edge of your seat. It's the most evenly matched duel of the entire franchise, but in the end Anakin succumbs to hubris and high ground.
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Cat Dominance
We have this rather large, and by this point, somewhat middle aged cat. He's incredibly shy around people he doesn't know, and there are only a very select few who aren't us that have seen him (maybe a dozen? not more than two dozen) in the 7-8 years we've had him. The neighbor who cleans up after them when we're gone refers to it as "cleaning up after our invisible cats" because she's not seen them. (We'll, she's seen the one, at a distance, I think).
Anyway, so we were talking about the feline hierarchy in the house, in particular how Nash (the large, shy one) would theoretically respond to a new feline member of the household. I said:
Think about how he treats us--the herding, the mewing, and so forth--ok, now he's a big cat, but we're bigger than he is. Another cat wouldn't be. Think about how he'd cope with someone smaller than him... I'm just saying, it could be a problem. | {
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Research to breed low-methane livestock and Plant & Food scientists are recognised
The work of AgResearch scientists to successfully breed low methane emitting sheep, as a tool to combat climate change, has been recognised with the Supreme Award at this year's Science New Zealand Awards.
Science New Zealand represents the country's seven Crown Research Institutes. The annual awards recognise research excellence at each CRI.
Outstanding research by three Plant & Food Research scientists and teams – an accomplished fruit crop scientist, a consortium working on myrtle rust disease and an emerging researcher looking at foods that support human health – were recognised, too.
Dr Jill Stanley received a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to plant physiology and crop science over four decades. During her career, Dr Stanley has worked on a range of crops in varied locations, including the UK and Spain, collaborated with numerous researchers and growers and now leads a team of 40 people.
Her summerfruit research has focussed on improving practical outcomes for growers by enhancing productivity and fruit quality. Dr Stanley's work has helped growers use resources more efficiently to lift returns and has delivered quality fruit for consumers.
Her research has been instrumental in the development and release of three exciting new apricot cultivars, and she led the summerfruit aspects of the Future Orchard Planting Systems (FOPS) programme, developing new planar (two-dimensional) growing systems.
Dr Stanley is dedicated to supporting career development in New Zealand's next generation of scientists.
The Plant & Food Research Team Award recognises the Myrtle Rust Consortium, a multi-party, multi-disciplinary team drawn from across New Zealand who mobilised to mount an exceptional biosecurity response. The Consortium includes over 100 individuals from across the science sector – from CRIs, universities, iwi, government, industry and international collaborators and a national community of stakeholders.
The consortium have worked tirelessly towards the common goal of protecting our myrtle species from the devastating effects of myrtle rust. Key to the success of the consortium has been their collaborative and cohesive approach, along with the recognition and respect of Mātauranga Māori and mana whenua kaitiakitanga, which has empowered Māori involvement and leadership across the science response.
The Plant & Food Research Early Career Researcher Award recognises Dr Odette Shaw for her work on understanding how compounds in fruits and vegetables can support health and wellbeing, particularly conditions related to the body's inflammation response. Her research into the effects of berryfruit on lung inflammation have led to the development of a new functional food product.
Through her involvement with the High-Value Nutrition National Science Challenge, Dr Shaw is helping New Zealand food companies identify products with beneficial properties.
AgResearch scientists – with the support of the industry through the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium and the government via the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) – spent over a decade working on the science that won them their award.
They were able to identify genetic differences which influence how much methane an individual sheep produces.
By breeding for this low methane genetic trait, the scientists have been able to demonstrate that after three generations the lowest emitting sheep produce close to 13 per cent less methane than the highest emitters, per kilogram of feed eaten.
While the actual methane reduction at the farm scale will be less when sheep are also being bred for other desirable genetic traits, it is still expected to be significant. The lower emitting sheep have been found to be otherwise healthy and productive where it comes to their meat and wool.
AgResearch senior scientist Suzanne Rowe says this knowledge is being shared with the sheep industry in New Zealand, with researchers globally and is also assisting research into breeding lower methane emitting cattle.
"Research like this is critical for the agriculture sector, which produces almost half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions and needs practical tools to help achieve a reduction target of 24-47 per cent less methane by 2050," Dr Rowe says.
Methane is a relatively short-lived but potent greenhouse gas.
Judges in this year's Science New Zealand Awards, which include entries from New Zealand's seven crown research institutes and Callaghan Innovation, referenced the major significance of AgResearch's work within New Zealand and the "tangible contribution to the global issue of our time".
The world-first AgResearch achievement also featured engineering innovation in the form of specially designed portable accumulation chambers that can be taken on to farms to measure the methane emissions of individual sheep.
Dr Rowe says it is humbling to have the work of her and her colleagues recognised.
"It has taken well over a decade to reach this point and it has been a long journey by a dedicated team of scientists. We have worked side by side with sheep breeders and farmers to achieve a practical outcome that can be applied on farms. It is a fantastic feeling to know that we have achieved something that will make a difference for the livestock industry, for New Zealand, and the world when it comes to climate change. This is why we do our science – to make a real difference."
"We've been fortunate in this programme to have great support from our funders in PGgRc and NZAGRC, and to be able to work closely with the sheep industry through Beef+Lamb Genetics to share these gains with sheep breeders and farmers. We think that when this low methane breeding trait is incorporated into New Zealand's entire sheep flock, the methane reduction could be in the area of 0.5 to 1 per cent annually, which will be significant as it accumulates over time."
PGgRc general manager Mark Aspin welcomed the recognition of "an immense amount of mahi and dedication" since 2007 by the AgResearch team led by John McEwan and Suzanne Rowe.
"The livestock industry relies heavily on genetic improvement to remain competitive and the challenge of lowering methane is no different. The results of this research will matter for our farmers," Mr Aspin says.
"This trail-blazing research has provided sheep farmers with the opportunity to lower methane in a permanent and cumulative manner, underpinning and complementing other strategies for greenhouse gas reduction. It has opened up the opportunity for all New Zealand livestock industries to follow suit and this is now gaining momentum as the focus shifts to extending the genetic selection across the national sheep flock and to cattle and deer."
Among the other individual Lifetime Achievement Award winners were:
Dr Lloyd Donaldson (Scion) an internationally recognised expert in capturing images of the cell structure of plants and plant anatomy. He has pioneered techniques in fluorescence imaging of wood and biomaterials. His microscopy skills have not only provided huge insights into the structure of plants, but his methods are part of the toolbox that researchers all over the world use.
Dr Kenn Dodds (AgResearch) has focused on livestock improvemen. It's an area in which he has left a massive legacy. A senior statistician at AgResearch, Ken has pioneered work in genetics and reproduction that has had a major positive impact on the sheep, deer, salmon, and forage industries in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has been instrumental in the adoption and implementation of new analytical procedures that have had a significant impact on research output by others.
Dr David Whitehead (Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research) is a lab and field scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to advancing New Zealand's environmental and social well-being through research on plant physiology, ecosystem carbon exchange and greenhouse gas emissions, and through service to the science community. David has worked for Manaaki Whenua and predecessor organisations since 1979, following a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. He has published over 160 papers, was a contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.
The full list of Science New Zealand Award winners can be found at: https://sciencenewzealand.org/news-and-events/awards/
Sources: AgResearch and Plant & Food Research
Author Bob EdlinPosted on December 15, 2021 Categories NewsTags AgResearch, Dr Jill Stanley, Lifetime Achievement Award, Plant & Food Research, Science New Zealand Awards
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23 Dec 2013 Magazine Feature
CISO Then (2003) and CISO Now (2013)
Ten years ago, we were returning our VHS tapes to the video store, rewound to avoid extra fees...how times have changed, and changed yet again
It is only when we examine technology evolution over the past decade that we realize how much times have changed. Ten years ago, we were returning our VHS tapes to the video store, rewound to avoid extra fees. We drove to our summer destinations unfolding large maps in the passenger seat, making wrong turns and missing freeway exits. We assumed bringing our clothes on a trip was included in the price of an airline ticket. We never seemed to have a camera or camcorder with us for taking that great shot, and the round, portable CD players were almost as 'cool' as a rare $9,000, 50-inch flat-screen plasma TV. In 2003, a cell phone was used only to make a phone call or send an SMS.
Just as technology has evolved, the chief information security officer (CISO) role has changed significantly over the past decade. "I don't recall if 'CISO' existed 10 years ago", remembers Jon Ceraolo, CISO at 3Cinteractive. The CISO role was, and still is today, filled by people holding titles ranging from information security administrator to vice president, officer and CISO.
Those 500 plus Monday mornings presented different issues over the years, and each contributed to the perception and practice of the CISO role as it is today.
The early 2000's were comprised of increased security regulations designed to close gaps in multiple vertical markets, such as the protection of Federal government records, financial customer records (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Safeguards Rule, 2002), healthcare records (HIPPA Final Security Rule, 2003), critical infrastructure (Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-7,2003) , financial reporting (Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002) and payment card processing (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, 2004). In addition, there were accompanying privacy-focused regulations, including breach notification laws and the European Union E-Privacy Directive (2002), the latter of which continued the significant work of the EU Data Protection Directive (1995).
As systems became more automated and information became more aggregated, there was growing concern by regulatory bodies that the information was not being adequately protected. Newspaper headlines of data losses were causing the C-Suite to ask the questions, could this happen to us? Are we secure? Will we go out of business if we're breached?
Ask IT
The problem for many organizations prior to this period was that the information security role was still predominantly viewed as an 'IT thing', providing logon IDs, passwords, systems access and maybe some disaster recovery. Like them or not, security regulations were beneficial. They forced organizations to pay increased attention to security. Fear of penalties or data exposure may have been the initial catalysts, but the continued attention was due more to the policies and procedures that were being established.
Many of the regulations required the appointment of an information security officer or someone with security oversight responsibilities. The type of person that should fill that role and where they should report to became a hotly debated topic. Organizations moved the information security officer around from IT to legal to compliance to risk to administrative services departments, and so on, or combined physical and systems security together.
The coveted (ISC)² Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credential became a differentiator for recruiters looking for a defensible standard to screen applicants with, as only several thousand had been issued in the early 2000's, compared to over 90,000 (ISC)² members today. The ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) was not available in 2003.
Between 2003 and 2008, most organizations understood that having someone in charge of information security was a necessary evil, especially in compliance-driven environments such as finance and healthcare. Keeping out of the newspapers began to be viewed as a cost of doing business. Security budgets increased during this period, although spending was approached more like an insurance policy rather than a strategic enabler. Companies became good at checking the security compliance box. GRC (governance, risk and compliance) became a new buzzword; however, due to the GRC costs, many companies still executed 'security by Microsoft Excel', mapping ISO 27001 controls to COBIT to NIST 800-53 to PCI, and so forth.
Consumerization is King
The years 2008 to 2013 saw a major shift in social interaction and the workplace. The consumerization of IT was brought on largely by the millennial generation, born 1981–1995, who brought their smartphones, tablets and other devices to work. They spurred the mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) phenomena, with non-standard devices and insecure applications now connecting to the company's network.
Cost efficiencies and speed achieved by desktop and server virtualization, cloud computing applications, and off-shoring increased the need to review security from a business risk perspective versus an IT control perspective. Facebook grew substantially through this period, as did other social media sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Tumblr. Online backups and file transfer solutions had to be dealt with. Wireless internet became ubiquitous and expected.
This period was substantially different from the previous five years, because although regulations still demanded compliance, the security role truly became more about being an enabler. According to Bill Sieglein, founder and CEO of the CISO Executive Network, "The CISO of today has morphed into a person with stronger knowledge of the business and risk management." He adds that as more IT functions move outside of the company, the "security executives have become more like lawyers and contract administrators than just an IT security guy."
Soft Skills, Solid Results
The 'CISO soft skills' illustrated in the book CISO Leadership: Essential Principles for Success (Fitzgerald & Krause, 2008) and the concept that security needed to be deliberately established and communicated across every level of the organization, as expressed in Information Security Governance Simplified (Fitzgerald, 2012), were becoming critical job requirements for the modern CISO. Without these 'soft skills' – collaboration, influencing, written and oral communication, and ability to lead change – the efforts would not get the attention and traction required to promote security solutions that reduce business risk.
Marci McCarthy, CEO and president, T.E.N., further amplifies this change by noting, "I have witnessed the profession's transformation and evolution of the CISO role from the unknown techie working in the back office to the CISO as the 'go-to person and leader' for boards, customers, management teams and other important stakeholders. This is a significant and powerful change." Over 10,000 security executives and professionals have joined her Information Security Executive programs since inception in 2003.
Chasing the Threat
The threat environment is also increasing. In 2003, concers focused on viruses, while today's threat conversations are about more insidious and saturating dangers, such as advance persistent threats, threat intelligence monitoring, malware, end-user phishing training, nation-state and organized crime sophistication, and the role Big Data will play.
Today's CISO discussion is centered on the business' vision, value creation, and risk management. Travis Hyde, whose company works with CISOs to become ISO27001-certified, says, "many CISO's nowadays have a stronger understanding of aligning the business vision to the vision of their security program and are becoming better at selling security program[s]."
The CISO of 2013 and the future must embrace the fact that the real job of the CISO is to clearly articulate the risk to the business, provide options, and manage the residual risk. The data perimeter has moved beyond just the USB drive into the cloud, tablets, smartphones, automobiles, home automation, and even our future eyewear.
The people perimeter has moved as well, as many of us have the desire and require the ability to work wherever we are, and not necessarily in the office. Today's CISO needs to be intimate with privacy laws and well-versed in security's contribution to providing confidentiality of the information. The CISO should pretend for a moment that s/he knows nothing about technical security details and ask the questions: Where is the data, who would want it, how will it damage my business if lost or compromised, and how much will it cost to protect? Businesses face risks every day; security is just one. Business leaders today rightly expect CISOs to understand risk and lead their organization to spend just the right amount of money.
The future is bright for CISOs, considering this is still a very young field. In 2012, execrank.com published its first ranking of "Top Security Executives". Today's CISO has access to many networking groups, roundtables, conferences and ways to share information that did not exist for this community 10 years ago. Ten years from now, the CISO may still be drinking his or her coffee black, and facilitating business risk discussions on data stored in technologies that have not been created yet, supported with a clear career path encompassing leadership, legal, privacy, marketing, and finance competencies.
Todd Fitzgerald is the global director of information security for Grant Thornton International. He is a member of the Lake County, Wisconsin, chapter of (ISC)² and the (ISC)² Journal editorial board. Fitzgerald co-authored both the (ISC)² book CISO Leadership Skills and the infosecurity and risk management chapter for the (ISC)² CISSP CBK.
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Submission on the final report of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Digital Platforms Inquiry
With Darcy Allen, Dirk Auer, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Aaron Lane, Geoffrey A. Manne, Julian Morris and Jason Potts
The emergence of "Big Tech" has caused some observers to claim that the world is entering a new gilded age. In the realm of competition policy, these fears have led to a flurry of reports in which it is asserted that the underenforcement of competition laws has enabled Big Tech firms to crush their rivals and cement their dominance of online markets. They then go on to call for the creation of novel presumptions that would move enforcement of competition policy further away from the effects-based analysis that has largely defined it since the mid-1970s.
Australia has been at the forefront of this competition policy rethink. In July of 2019, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) concluded an almost two-year-long investigation into the effect of digital platforms on competition in media and advertising markets.
The ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report spans a wide range of issues, from competition between platforms to their effect on traditional news outlets and consumers' privacy. It ultimately puts forward a series of recommendations that would tilt the scale of enforcement in favor of the whims of regulators without regard to the adverse effects of such regulatory action, which may be worse than the diseases they are intended to cure.
Available in PDF here.
Author Chris BergPosted on September 12, 2019 August 30, 2020 Categories Reports, submissions and white papersTags competition policy, Darcy WE Allen, digital platforms, Dirk Auer, Geoffrey A. Manne, Gus Hurwitz, International Center for Law & Economics, Jason Potts, Julian Morris, privacy
Facebook's monetary revolution
With Sinclair Davidson and Jason Potts
With its new digital money, Libra, a Facebook-led global consortium has created the world's first private international reserve currency.
Announced on Wednesday, this is no small thing. For the first time since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system there is a clear competitor to the US dollar for global dominance in the currency market.
For simplicity's sake think of Libra as a return to the global gold standard. But rather than governments setting the rules and exchange rates, with gold being the underlying store of value, we're seeing a private organisation setting the rules and a portfolio of relatively risk-free assets playing the role of gold.
To be clear – Libra is not a cryptocurrency like, say, Bitcoin; but it has many Bitcoin-like characteristics. It is a private money. It is not government money – ultimately fiat is backed only by the taxing powers of the state. Libra will be backed by tangible assets.
Rather than Bitcoin, Libra is more like PayPal, or WeChat Pay, on steroids – a payment gateway and a new money system all rolled into one. This is perhaps a good halfway house to introduce the world to the concept of non-government digital money.
The implications are huge. Facebook has disrupted digital money in a way central banks and the commercial banking system never could. Facebook has brand recognition that even the global banks must envy.
For those consumers who may baulk at using Facebook to transact, other large tech companies cannot be far behind with their own products. So what now?
We predict a large uptake in these digital money products. Largely because consumers tend to emphasise convenience. Libra will very quickly achieve global acceptance among consumers and merchants. If that prediction comes true, many other firms will launch their own competing monetary systems. In short, there is going to be a lot of competition in this space in the very near future.
The short-term consequences include the immediate disruption of the remittance market. Those companies charging exorbitant fees to move money around the world will see their rivers of gold drying up. Debit cards will also quickly become redundant – accelerating the move to phone-based tap and pay systems. The world's "unbanked" will quickly become "banked".
There are other immediate practical concerns. Within the next year, both Australian consumers and merchants will be wanting to use Libra. How will this be done? How will it be taxed? Will it be taxed? But any work that has been done so far on these questions has come in the context of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency – an extremely niche market. A general use private money has simply not been on the radar.
Those central banks that tolerate high rates of inflation will see disintermediation. Governments that pursue irresponsible fiscal policies will see even greater capital flight. Ironically the presence of a convenient, sound and private digital money will provide incentives to institutionally challenged governments to lift their game or lose total control over their domestic policy environments.
Every country in the world faces policy challenges from a viable private international reserve currency. Control over the monetary system lies at the heart of the modern economy. A viable alternative to fiat currency, with international mobility, undermines both the conduct of monetary policy and fiscal policy.
No doubt governments and their regulators will be looking very closely at Libra. They may treat it as a threat. But it is an opportunity for a forward-thinking government. It should come as no surprise that Libra is being set up in Switzerland. They have sensible laws relating to financial matters. The question we should be asking is why Australia isn't being considered as a location for these products?
Australia should consider becoming a currency haven. Not only should a suite of policies be developed that facilitates the use of a private international reserve currency within Australia, a suite of policies that attracts the providers of such currencies to Australia should be considered. The use of Australian markets to purchase the underlying assets should encouraged and especially the inclusion of Australian assets in those portfolios should be encouraged.
With the announcement of Libra, the global monetary system – and arguably the structures of global financial capitalism – changed irreversibly. And just 10 years after the invention of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. The rate of disruptive innovation is only going to accelerate.
How well Australia adapts to this change will be determined over the next six months. Libra is coming in 2020. Regulatory obstruction is simply not an option.
Author Chris BergPosted on June 20, 2019 August 30, 2020 Categories ArticlesTags Australian Financial Review, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, digital platforms, Jason Potts, Sinclair Davidson
Submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Digital Platforms Inquiry
With Gus Hurwitz.
Executive summary: The analysis in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Preliminary Report for the Digital Platforms Inquiry is inadequate in several ways, most notably:
It mischaracterises the relationship between changes in the economics of media advertising and the rise of digital platforms such as Facebook and Google.
Its analysis of the dynamics of media diversity is misguided.
Its competition analysis assumes its results and makes unsupportable claims about the division of advertising markets.
It is recklessly unconcerned with the freedom of speech consequences of its recommendations.
It fails to recognise, and proposes to supplant, the ongoing social negotiation over data privacy.
It provides a poor analytic base on which to make policy recommendations, as it applies a static, rather than dynamic, approach to its analysis.
There is a real danger that if the policy recommendations outlined in the preliminary report were to be adopted, Australian consumers would be severely harmed.
Available here.
Author Chris BergPosted on February 14, 2019 August 30, 2020 Categories Reports, submissions and white papersTags competition policy, digital platforms, free speech, Gus Hurwitz, International Center for Law & Economics, privacy
The cyberbullying moral panic
With Simon Breheny
Bullying among children is a serious problem. At its tragic worst it can lead to suicide. But it is a serious social problem, not a technological one.
Earlier this year, the Coalition government released a discussion paper 'Enhancing Online Safety for Children.' The proposals contained within the discussion paper have been drafted with the intention of tackling cyberbullying — that is, bullying using digital technology. Unfortunately they will do nothing to solve the bullying problem. And, by establishing a 'Children's e-Safety Commissioner' with powers to take down material from social media websites, it will increase government control over the internet and clearly threaten free speech.
The discussion paper outlines three key measures the government aims to implement to address cyberbullying: the establishment of the Children's e-Safety Commissioner; developing an effective complaints system, backed by legislation, to get harmful material down fast from large social media sites; and examining existing Commonwealth legislation to determine whether to create a new, simplified cyberbullying offence.
The key plank in this policy is the creation of a new power to 'get harmful material down fast.' This is an explicit censorship power. Pure and simple. And it's a particularly disappointing development coming from this government. In a speech to the Samuel Griffith Society in 2012 entitled 'In Defence of Freedom of Speech', then Opposition legal affairs spokesman Senator George Brandis said:
The measure of a society's commitment to political freedom is the extent of its willingness to respect the right of every one of its citizens to express their views, no matter how offensive, unattractive or eccentric they may seem to others.
The proposed establishment of an e-Safety Commissioner is not a policy that lives up to Brandis' high-minded rhetoric. Indeed the proposal moves Australia in precisely the opposite direction. If the Coalition's e-safety policy is implemented, this government will be doing more to restrict free speech than it is to defend it.
Several concepts used in the discussion paper are ambiguous. The term 'harm' is itself a term that describes a broad range of conduct, from the very serious to the trivial. Whenever the basis of a bureaucratic power is vague it gives discretion to public servants. In the case of the e-safety commissioner, it means that none of us can be sure whether we'll be censored for something we say online.
The proposed regime carries some very serious risks. The commissioner will not be infallible. There will be mistakes, and content that should never have been taken down will be removed by the government.
We've seen this before. In June last year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission admitted that it had accidentally blocked 250,000 websites in an attempt to tackle online scams.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. The risk of inadvertent removal of material is serious. But perhaps even more concerning is the idea that the government should grant itself this kind of power at all. It's not the role of government to judge what is and is not acceptable social discourse. Those important decisions must be reserved for rational, free individuals.
And like any government initiative there is the risk of scope creep. What starts as a small censorship regime grows into a large censorship regime. In a liberal democracy there is only one acceptable level of censorship: none.
On the flip side, it will be impossible for the e-Safety Commissioner to protect children from all cyberbullying. Lines have to be drawn somewhere. And wherever the government creates that threshold there are going to be children who will be the subject of bullying that is not caught by the government's cyberbullying regime. Additionally, no matter how carefully this policy is implemented there will be cases where the commissioner will fail to remove legitimately harmful material.
Of course, that won't stop parents from trusting that the government is putting an end to cyberbullying. Governments love to pretend they have everything under control. And many parents will trust that the commissioner has covered the field. But the risk is that the existence of this program provides a false sense of security. Parents will rely on the government to protect their children. This attitude is instinctive — the government is taking more responsibility so I don't need to take as much.
This attitude has a dramatic impact on consumer behaviour. Parents who rely on the e-safety commissioner no longer direct capital towards free market answers to cyberbullying. This outcome is a direct result of the government intervening in an area where government action is unnecessary. Implementing a government-run online safety program creates perverse incentives that lead to fewer privately developed solutions.
There are a very broad range of tools available to parents, teachers and schools which can assist in effectively targeting cyberbullying.
The most important mechanism that exists to deal with cyberbullying is direct reporting to the social media networks themselves. It's in the interest of social media sites to have highly developed reporting mechanisms in place. Facebook allows users to report violations of its statement of rights and responsibilities. The statement contains an explicit reference to bullying: 'You will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user.' The outline of Community Standards expands on its uncompromising stance: 'Facebook does not tolerate bullying or harassment. We allow users to speak freely on matters and people of public interest, but take action on all reports of abusive behaviour directed at private individuals. Repeatedly targeting other users with unwanted friend requests or messages is a form of harassment.'
Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, and other social media sites likely to come under the purview of the government's commissioner have all developed similar policies.
Distinct from internal reporting tools, there is also a growing range of anti-cyberbullying software available to parents. The number of programs available is impressive. They range in scope, complexity, format and price, and can provide a remarkable amount of parental control.'CyberSynchs' is an application that identifies bullying and other inappropriate behaviour, and then sends a report to parents. Trend Micro's 'Online Guardian' allows parents to monitor their children's social media traffic for pre-programmed key words and phrases.
There are hundreds of these products currently available. And more are being developed all the time. Primary and secondary schools also install filters at the network level. These are the solutions that are available to parents seeking to protect their children from cyberbullying.
There are also a number of existing legal remedies that cover the same or similar conduct as that targeted by the government under the e-safety policy. Violent threats; menacing, harassing or offensive conduct online; stalking; and unauthorised access to accounts are all criminal offences.
The truth is that cyberbullying is bullying. It's awful. It's damaging.But cyberbullying is no more or less a problem than run-of-the-mill playground bullying. The same approach should be used for both. Parents are more in tune with the emotional disposition of their own children. They know better than any government-appointed commissioner how their child will react to incidents of bullying, and they know best how to deal with it. Parents are the best anti-bullying advocates their children will ever have.
The proposed Children's e-Safety Commissioner is a policy born of lliberalism. It patronises parents, and it infringes freedom of speech. The government should not proceed with its e-censorship proposal.
Author Chris BergPosted on May 1, 2014 August 30, 2020 Categories ArticlesTags cyberbullying, digital platforms, IPA Review, Simon Breheny
Combatting The Cyberbully Myth
Why do we keep telling children that the law cannot protect them against severe cyberbullying? Time and time again politicians and the press claim that there is nothing police or parents can do if a child is being bullied on the internet, and that government needs to step in.
The parliamentary secretary for communications Paul Fletcher claimed this month that for children who were victims of bullying online, if sites like Facebook didn't help, "you really have no redress at all".
This is gobsmackingly negligent. There are Commonwealth laws on the books that were written to do exactly that.
Section 474.17 of the Criminal Code makes it unlawful to use a carriage service – that is, telephone or internet – to menace, harass, or offend. The penalty can be jail.
Then, should the criminal code not be enough, there is defamation law (almost all acute cyberbullying involves defamatory speech), anti-stalking laws, laws against harassment and blackmail, and laws that protect people against threats and fears of violence to the person.
Indeed, some of these laws are excessively powerful.
Still, the fact is they exist.
The Abbott government is holding an inquiry into its election promise to establish a "children's e-safety commissioner" who is supposed to protect kids from cyberbullying.
This commissioner would have the legal power to force social media companies to remove abusive content from their sites in response to complaints from the public.
"Remove", of course, is a synonym for censor. It's bizarre that a government that promised to run a "freedom agenda" would want to create a grand new bureaucratic body to censor the internet.
(Ironies abound. Tony Abbott announced this internet censorship proposal just a few days after he announced he would repeal section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act because the latter was an unconscionable limit on the human right to free expression.)
But anything to help victimised children, right? Well, not if it won't actually help them.
Bullying is a very serious problem. The harm of bullying should not be played down. At its worst and most tragic, it can lead to suicide. The desire that the government has to do something about bullying is irreproachable. But there are a lot of widely held misconceptions about the nature of cyberbullying.
First of all, there is no such thing as "cyberbullying". There is just bullying. The research evidence demonstrates clearly that people who are bullied online are also bullied offline. Of course, this makes intuitive sense. Bullying is a social problem, not a technological one.
In fact, the academic literature consistently suggests cyberbullying is less of a problem than traditional bullying. As a 2012 paper in Complementary Pediatrics put it, "School bullying is more common than online bullying." Furthermore, being bullied at school is more distressing.
It's important not to take the very real bullying problem and turn it into a moral panic about technology.
Bullying is intentional aggressive conduct sustained over time that incorporates some kind of power imbalance – real or perceived – between the bully and bullied. Having a bureaucrat whose job it is to delete individual instances of abusive speech online won't tackle the basic problem of children being cruel to each other.
Certainly not if a victim is subjected to sustained harassment the moment they return to the playground. Or if the abuse just migrates to less easily monitored websites.
A children's e-safety commissioner would only offer adults a false sense of security that the bullying has been dealt with.
The major social media sites are doing an increasingly effective job at policing their own networks, and without the iron fist of the state supervising them. Facebook, the site with the youngest cohort, has developed rather extensive systems to report and ban abusive users.
Perhaps surprisingly, a more effective mechanism than reporting users for abuse is the humble unfollow and block. This neutralises the cruelty, therefore reducing the harm, and is necessary to develop coping strategies for young victims.
A lot of cyberbullying is apparently done by text message. Most mobile phones now have a feature that allows users to block calls and messages from certain numbers.
And in the case of severe abuse, there is always recourse to the law. Too often people use the word "bullying" to describe serious criminal conduct including death threats and physical assault. But the biggest barrier to reducing the harm from bullying is the fact that many children simply don't tell their parents or teachers what is happening. Too often adults don't have a chance to help, to provide counsel or support.
So we have to educate parents to identify signs that their children are being bullied, and what can be done.
We have to educate children about the many institutional, legal, and technological resources available to support them.
But most of all, we have to stop this incredibly dangerous political falsehood that there are no remedies available for children who are being bullied, online or off.
Author Chris BergPosted on March 23, 2014 September 19, 2019 Categories ArticlesTags cyberbullying, digital platforms, The Sunday Age
Privacy pose shows the minister is off his Facebook
It must have felt nice for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy not to be the bad guy. Just for a little while.At a Senate estimates hearing last week, being peppered by questions finding even more flaws in his internet filter plan, Conroy seized an opportunity to direct a bit of fury Google's way. And at Facebook, too – the minister was on a roll.
Conroy accused Google of the "largest privacy breach in history across Western democracies" for its apparently accidental sampling of publicly accessible data from home wireless internet networks. Then he claimed Facebook had "gone rogue" because the social network's privacy policy was getting increasingly complex and confused.
"What would you prefer?" asked Conroy. "A corporate giant who is answerable to no one and motivated solely by profit making the rules … or a democratically elected government with all the checks and balances in place?"
Sure, Conroy's sudden, passionate defence of the privacy of Australian Facebook profiles could be totally sincere. But recall this: he is a member of a government that is about to install body scanners in airports. Body scanners aren't "mistakes", as Google described its inadvertent over-collection of data.
They're designed to peek under clothes and investigate the nude contours of travellers. Some are able to capture and store images. Now that's a privacy problem to be worried about.
At least when a corporation breaches privacy, it's relatively easy to deal with.
If you don't like Facebook's privacy settings, you can, you know, quit Facebook. It's not hard: it's in the "Account Settings" tab on the top right corner of the site. If enough people do, Facebook will have to reform its ways, or go out of business.
And if you don't like that your wireless network is unsecured for Google or your neighbours to look at, secure it.
Most Australians now run high-powered wireless networks in their house and use them for online banking. Perhaps a few minutes thinking about network security wouldn't go astray.
Certainly, Google should be chastened by its blunder. If they have broken any Australian laws, then they should be punished.
But when the government runs roughshod over our privacy, that's much more serious.
As Conroy was launching into Facebook, a genuine threat to privacy was winding its way through Parliament – healthcare identifiers, which form part of the government's electronic health records plan. If it passes, every Australian will be allocated a unique number, and encouraged to store their health records in a government database. No information is as sensitive as health records. And these records will be accessible to half a million healthcare workers around the country. Indeed, that's the point.
Ensuring information security in high-stress environments (like emergency rooms) or in busy retail environments (like a Medicare outlet) is no small task. It's easy for computers to remain unlocked, or logged-in, even if just for a short time. So it won't take very long for a serious compromise of security to occur.
In general, eHealth is a good idea. But what the government proposes is a universal, compulsory, centrally managed and bureaucratically controlled record system. Individuals will have no direct control over their own records. (Unlike, for instance, the private online health record systems available from Microsoft and Google.)
The eHealth scheme is an Australia Card for your embarrassing bowel problem.
Privacy problems are endemic to centralised government systems: 1000 Medicare employees have been investigated for spying on personal information in the past three years alone. That's one in six Medicare employees.
There are problems in Centrelink too. In 2006, after a two-year study, investigators uncovered 800 cases of illegal snooping by 100 staff.
Now CrimTrac, the federal agency in charge of criminal databases (fingerprints, DNA, and criminal records) wants to control data from law-abiding citizens too (drivers' licences, birth registries and passport photos), all matched up to the electoral roll and collected on a nationally accessible police database.
The CrimTrac head, Ben McDevitt, claimed police "need to have access to the sort of data that is held by various governments in order to establish an individual's identity". He said some privacy may have to be sacrificed for better law enforcement: "I don't find that at all threatening or big brotherish." How reassuring.
Facebook has been deeply stupid – abusing the trust of users, continuously changing their privacy settings, and playing fast and loose with personal information. The company has long seemed dismissive of many privacy concerns and it deserves to be harangued by the press and punished by the marketplace.
But at least you can quit Facebook if you're unhappy. If a government department abuses your trust or compromises your privacy, you can't do anything.
Author Chris BergPosted on May 30, 2010 September 19, 2019 Categories ArticlesTags digital platforms, privacy, The Sunday Age | {
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Watch the trailer for Martin Luther King Jr. drama 'Selma'
By Emily Blake
Updated November 06, 2014 at 12:00 PM EST
Credit: Atsushi Nishijima
Paramount has released the first trailer for Selma, an upcoming civil-rights drama produced by, among others, Oprah Winfrey and starring David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr.
Directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb, the film covers the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, as MLK led a movement to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The film will culminate in the march from Selma to Montgomery and President Johnson's (Tom Wilkinson) signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Per Paramount, "Selma tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history."
Also starring are Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi Common, Carmen Ejogo, Lorraine Toussaint, and Tim Roth. Directed by Ava DuVernay. | {
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Mike Rowe Biography
Biography by Sammy Published on 18 Aug, 2020 Updated on 18 Aug, 2020
Facts of Mike Rowe
Michael Gregory Rowe
Peggy Rowe
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Television host, narrator
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Mike Rowe is an American television host as well as a narrator who is known for his work in CNN series, Somebody's Gotta Do It and Discovery Channel series, Dirty Jobs. Currently, he hosts a series called Returning the Favor produced for Facebook.
Maryland Born Mike Rowe Graduated From Towson University
Mike Rowe was born on March 18, 1962, in Baltimore, Maryland, as Michael Gregory Rowe. He is the son of John and Peggy Rowe. Both of his parents were teachers. He grew up along with his two younger siblings.
Talking about education, he completed his schooling from Overlea High School and joined Essex Community colleges. Later on, he joined Towson University from where she received a degree in communication studies.
How Much Is His Net Worth?
The TV host, as well as a narrator, Mike Rowe has earned a tremendous amount of money from his career. As of 2020, he is one of the millionaires having $35 million worth in his account. As per the sources, he makes around $10 million per year.
CAPTION: Mike Rowe has $35 million worth SOURCE: Keppler Speakers
As of now, he resides in an apartment in San Francisco, where the average cost of a condo is around $300 thousand. For his ride, he has 98 Toyota Solara, a 2007 Ford F150.
Career Journey!!!
Soon after the completion of the graduation, he started working for Your New Home on WJZ-TV. He worked over there for 15 years and started working in QVC, a home-shopping TV network in the 90s. While he was in QVC from 1990-1993, Mike Rowe made sales of $10 million worth simulated diamonds.
After his hosting job at TBS Worst-Case Scenarios and KPIX-TV's Evening Magazine, the American TV host became the host of Dirty Jobs.
Since then he has hosted and narrated several shows such as
After the Catch (2007- 2012)
Bering Sea Gold (2013- 2014)
Somebody's Gotta Do It (2014- 2015)
Ghost Hunters (2004- 2010)
Ghost Hunters International (2008- 2010)
How the Universe Works (2014- Present)
Currently, he is the host of the series called Returning the Favor produced for Facebook. Moreover, he also hosts Somebody's Gotta Do It (2017- Present).
As a narrator, he is working for Deadliest Catch (2005- Present) and for Airplane Repo (2013- Present).
Is He Dating Or Married?
The 58 years old, Mike Rowe is yet to be married and also doesn't seem to be involved in any kind of relationship. But once he was in a long time dating relationship with an actress, Danielle Burgio. The former pair also remained low key about thier love life.
Spying Incident
While being interviewed by the Huffington Post, he revealed that someone is spying him from the drone as he came to hear a buzzing noise in his backyard. Explaining the incident, he said that he could shoot the drone, but he was not wearing clothes at that time, and he doesn't want to circulate off dress pictures in the media.
American Television Host
American Millionaire Celebrity
American narrator
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Walking on Jesus Steps
Walking on Jesus Steps,
Full Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival at Q.A Airport - overnight in Amman
Arrival at Queen Alia International Airport, Meet with our driver then your vehicle will drive you to your hotel in Amman for the overnight.
Day 2: Amman / Madaba / Um Rassas / Mt. Nebo / Overnight in Amman
Breakfast at the hotel, then drive to the south from Amman, along the 5000-year-old King's Highway; one of the most memorable journeys in the Holy Land passing through a string of ancient sites.
Starting the visit of Mt. Nebo, the place where Moses have gone to get a view of the Promised Land before he died and from a platform in front of the church one can enjoy a breathtaking view across the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea
Then continue to Madaba which is best known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, especially a large Byzantine-era mosaic map of The Holy Land
The Madaba Mosaic Map is an index map of the region, dating from the sixth century AD, preserved in the floor of the Greek Orthodox Basilica of Saint George. With two million pieces of colour stone, the map depicts hills and valleys, villages and towns in Palestine and the Nile Delta. The mosaic contains the earliest extant representation of Byzantine Jerusalem, labeled the "Holy City." The map provides important details as to its 6th century landmarks, with the central colonnaded street and the Holy Sepulchre clearly visible. This map is one key in developing scholarly knowledge about the physical layout of Jerusalem after its destruction and rebuilding in 70 AD.
Then continue To the east of Madaba is Umm Ar-Rasas, a very ancient site that is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. The rectangular walled city is mostly in ruins but does still include several buildings, as well as four churches and some beautiful stone arches.
The main attraction is outside the city walls within the Church of St. Stephen, which contains a very large, perfectly preserved mosaic floor laid down in 718 AD. It portrays fifteen major cities of the Holy Land from both east and west of the River Jordan. This magnificent mosaic is second only to Madaba' s world famous mosaic map of Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
At the end of the day, transfer back to Amman Hotel for the dinner and the overnight.
Day 3: Amman / Bethany / Mukawir / Dead Sea / Overnight in Amman H.B Basis
Breakfast at the hotel, Then transfer to visit Bethany the place where Joshua, Elijah and Elisha crossed the Jordan River, Elijah was taken up to heaven, John the Baptist preached and baptized, and Jesus was baptized and started his public ministry.
In Bethany also it's revealed an earlier 3rd century building with fine mosaics and what is known as a Christian "prayer hall." If this is correct, it might be one of the earliest Christian prayer facilities anywhere in the world. Also identified is the cave where John the Baptist lived, according to numerous Byzantine pilgrims' texts. The cave was turned into a church and a freshwater channel running from the cave, purportedly used by John for baptizing, can still be visited today.
Then Within transfer to Mukawir, Which is the hilltop stronghold of Herod the Great. Upon Herod's death, his son, Herod Antipas, inherited the fortress and it is from here that he ordered John the Baptist to be beheaded after Salome's fateful dance.
After the visit, continue to the Dead Sea, which is one of the most spectacular natural and spiritual landscapes in the whole world; it is the lowest point on earth, and the world's richest source of natural salts, hiding wonderful treasures that accumulated throughout thousands of years. It is believed to be the site of five biblical cities: Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zebouin and Zoar. Free time to swim and to enjoy the salty water
At the end of the day, transfer direct to Amman for the dinner and the overnight.
Day 4: Amman / Mt Olives / Mt Zion / Overnight in Jerusalem
Breakfast at the hotel, then transfer to visit Mount of Olives – Panoramic view over Jerusalem from Top of Mount of Olives – visit Garden of Gethsemane with its eight ancient olive-trees
After Christ and his disciples had celebrated the Last Supper on the day later known as Maundy Thursday he went with them "unto a place called Gethsemane" (Matthew 26,36); "and he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed ... and being in an agony he prayed more earnestly" (Luke 22, 41 and 44). The disciples slept and left him alone in this hour of agony, and soon afterwards he was arrested and taken into the city.
Then proceed to Mount Zion to visit the Upper Room, king David Tomb and the Dormition Abbey and St. Peter in Galicantu –
Mt Zion has been revered as the place where Christ celebrated the Last Supper with his disciples and instituted the Eucharist (Matthew 26, 17-30; Mark 14, 12-25; Luke 22, 7-20), where the Holy Ghost descended on the apostles at Pentecost (Acts 2), and where - as first affirmed by Patriarch Modestus in the seventh century - the Virgin spent the last years of her life and died.
And at the end of the day transfer direct to Jerusalem for the dinner and the overnight.
Day 5: Bethlehem city tour / Ein Karem / Overnight in Jerusalem
Breakfast at the hotel, and then start the day by visiting the Nativity Church and the Shepherds Field in Bethlehem
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world. The structure is built over the cave that tradition marks as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, and thus it is considered one of the most sacred places for Christians.
After breakfast Proceed to Ein Karem, located in the hills next to a little spring.
Then continue to Ein Karem which is the city of Judah and birthplace of John the Baptist, Visit the Visitation church and the Church of St. John the Baptist. Overnight in Jerusalem
Day 6: Old City of Jerusalem / Overnight in Jerusalem H.B Basis
Breakfast at the hotel, and then proceed to visit the Old City of Jerusalem, enter the Old City of Jerusalem via St. Stephens Gate, and walk through the 14 station of the cross, then visit of the Church of Holy Sepulchre and overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 7: Sea of Galilee / Nazareth / Overnight in Amman H.B Basis
Breakfast at the hotel, then direct transfer to the north to visit the Sea of Galilee,
many of the miracles of Jesus occurred on its shores—including his walking on water, calming the storm, and feeding five thousand people in Tabgha.
Then transfer to visit Nazareth which is the city described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events.
The day will include the visit of the Annunciation Church which was established at the site where, according to Roman Catholic tradition, the Annunciation took place. Greek Orthodox tradition holds that this event occurred while Mary was drawing water from a local spring in Nazareth, and the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation was erected at that alternate site.
At the end of the day transfer back to Allenby Bridge to Cross to Jordan side, meet & assist and transfer direct to Amman for the dinner and the overnight.
Day 8: Departure through Q.A Airport
Breakfast at the hotel and regarding to the flight time your vehicle will drive you to Q.A Airport for the final departure.
Any Flight Ticket
Any personal matter such as drinks, telephone call, laundry etc
Any Lunches
Any Guiding service in Jordan (except for groups of 5 guests and more)
Travel / Health insurance.
Tips for guide, driver, restaurants
Any services not mentioned in the itinerary.
Entry Visa to Jordan & Israel
Exit departure tax from Jordan (around 15 $, subject to change )
Exit departure tax from Israel ( around 50 $, Subject to change )
Transportation between the Jordan and Israel terminals, you can use the shuttle bus which costs around 10 USD per person + around 2 USD for each luggage.
Meet & Assist at the Airport upon the arrival and departure
Meet & Assist at the Border upon the arrival and departure
All the transportation in private Modern Vehicles in Jordan & Israel
04 Nights accommodation in Amman, H.B Basis
03 Nights accommodation in Jerusalem, H.B Basis
All breakfasts & dinners at the hotels
Entrance fees for all sites mentioned in the Program
Professional English speaking guide in Israel
Professional English speaking guide in Jordan for 5 paying guests and more.
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Crowne Plaza Amman
Crowne Plaza Amman hotel is an acclaimed destination for family visits to Jordan.
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Council On Adoptable Children of Texas
Post-Adopt Service Providers
The State of Texas offers its adoptive families support in the way of information, referrals, case management, educational advocacy, counseling, crisis intervention, and respite. In order to qualify for Post-Adopt services, the adopted child must have been in the custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) at the time of adoption or the family must have received adoption assistance from TDFPS. Furthermore, the adoption must be legally finalized, and the child must be younger than 18 years of age. Providers are selected by Region. See below for curent providers.
REGIONS 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 - LUBBOCK, ABILENE, TYLER, AUSTIN, SAN ANTONIO, MIDLAND/ODESSA, EL PASO AREAS
Centers for Children and Families
1004 N. Big Spring Street, Ste. 325 | Midland, TX 79701
(432) 570-1084 – Main Line | (432) 570-0027 – Post-Adopt Line
http://www.centerstx.org/postadoption
REGION 3 - ARLINGTON AREA
CK Family Services
320 Westway Place, Suite 530 | Arlington, TX 76018-1000
https://www.ckfamilyservices.org/programs-and-services/post-adoption
REGION 6 - HOUSTON AREA
DePelchin Children's Center
4950 Memorial Drive | Houston, TX 77007
http://www.depelchin.org/post-adoption
Arms Wide Adoption Services
6925 Portwest Drive, Ste. 110 | Houston, TX 77024
713-681-6991, 1-800-460-6298
www.armswide.org
REGION 11 -CORPUS CHRISTI/EDINBURG AREAS
500 N. Water Street Suite 604, South Tower | Corpus Christi, Texas 78410
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Quick Thinking And Garden Blocks Saved This Guy's BMW X5 And E36 M3s From Harvey
Stef Schrader
It's common sense to move your valuables to higher ground when floods threaten your home, however, we're not sure jack stands, garden blocks and a trailer are what they mean. Regardless, one Texas man had the foresight to raise his two BMW E36 M3s and one BMW X5 just enough to stand above the floods brought by Hurricane Harvey.
Houston-area BMW enthusiast Cody W. Crochet isn't the only person in Harvey's flood zone to save his cars by raising them up. Several friends of mine put their favorite vehicles on a home lift before the floods came, and another parked his car on an upper floor of a parking garage. However, Crochet may have had the most inventive solution to the rising waters.
Crochet told Jalopnik that he was originally supposed to get only around one foot of flooding. That was enough to prompt him to put his white BMW E36 M3 up on his trailer, and his red BMW E36 M3 up on jack stands last Friday.
He figured the BMW X5 would be safe, as it's pretty tall in the air to begin with. He'd installed a Fluid MotorUnion lift kit and 33-inch Open Country off-road tires.
Sadly, the water kept coming and coming. When Crochet realized the flood would reach above the projected one foot mark, he turned to garden blocks to raise up the red M3:
I woke up on Sunday morning at 4:45 a.m. to a decent amount of water outside. All cars were safe at that point. By 6:00 a.m., I knew the water was rising past the 1'-0" mark. So I went out to raise the car to the top of the jack stands.
As I was doing so, the water was rising faster and faster, about 5 inches every 30 minutes. I had to improvise and only thing I had were garden blocks. I immediately started grabbing garden blocks and put one set under each jack stand thinking this was enough. But as I would finish that, the water rose to the bottom of the tire. So I progressively added more an more as the water rose. By the time I was done I was working in above knee water using the last of my garden bricks to get the car to the max height you see.
At this point, even the lifted X5 was in danger. So, Crochet drove it up as high on his property as he could—right to the front porch. Unfortunately, the house eventually got about one foot and six inches of water inside but at least the BMWs were safe.
Crochet documents his adventures with his BMWs on his Texas E36 Garage YouTube channel, and he says he plans to upload the process of lifting his car to safety there once he has power back. For now, though, Crochet and his cars are at least safe in the unprecedented storm that has claimed ten lives to date and left thousands stranded across the area.
"In 100 years this house has never flooded at all," Crochet told Jalopnik. "This area has never seen this amount of water."
The rain isn't over yet, and Crochet may need to source a few more blocks. In the meantime, it's hard not to appreciate his quick thinking.
UPDATE [11:29 p.m. ET]: Crochet posted the video of how he saved as much of his stuff from the flood as possible. He started by jacking up the car little by little using the original BMW jacks that came with the car as well as another jack with large block of wood on top that kept trying to float away. After a while, he has to go back and add more blocks under the car so it could withstand up to waist-deep water.
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Charlie Dean I'Anson
Interview by Carl Marsh - October 2014
Hi Charlie,
you are the only English born professional footballer playing in Spain, so can you tell me about your playing history so far?
Of course, I started off at a team in England called Wealdstone when I was 5 or 6 years old, before my parents decided to move to Spain when I was 8 years old. I then started playing for a team called Benamiel; I played there for about 5 years which was great. Then I had about a year at Fuengirola down the road, and that year there was the big football tournament called The Selection of Malaga, and I played with Juanmi (who is in Malaga's first team now), and we played against Seville, Almeria, Real Betis... And we got to the final but lost 2-1. Suso was at Cadiz at the time and he scored a cracking free kick. So at this tournament, there was a Nottingham forest scout who asked my dad if I wanted to go on a trial with them, and I couldn't believe it, and said yes but was still not sure it was going to happen. It was true though, as I got the phone call, and went there for a week and then went back to Spain, and they said they would ring. And they did call me 2 weeks later saying they wanted me back for another week. When it came to decision time, they sat me down and they said my height wasn't the best to be a centre half. However, they would sign me on a Youth Training contract and I would be the 4th or 5th choice centre half, or they would convert me to a right back. I was in doubt about what to do, and they were very honest and kind; they then said they had a good relationship with Grimsby town, and that I could go on trial there. So I did, and signed for their Youth Training Team and then went on to sign a professional deal with them. Being there was great experience and it went really well, but I had a bad injury in a derby game against Lincoln, and from there, I was a bit out of the picture. When it was time to discuss a new contract, they wanted me to sign another deal but we couldn't come to an agreement, so I said if I could go back to Spain, so as to try my luck there, they said yes, as long as I was not in England. So that is what I did. I was without team for about a month and I was quite worried but I went on and then passed a trial at Elche, then signed with their "B" team, who were in the 3rd division. We had an unbelievable year and we got promoted by winning the league. I had another year with the "B" team, then got called up pre-season with the first team before the next season. I trained all year with the first team and we went up from the Segunda to La Liga. I played with "B" team in Segunda B and although I had a few injuries, I got my chance in La Liga at home against Espanyol, and a few appearances on the bench. I played another game against Granada and signed as a 2 year pro at Elche, and this year (2014), I went on loan at AD Alcorcon.
As a footballer, and one who has played in both the UK and Spain, which country do you prefer playing in, and not only for weather reasons? And do you miss the English League?
Obviously the weather plays a part but as I haven't played in the higher leagues in England yet, and as I have in all the leagues in Spain so far, so for me Spain. I definitely do miss the atmosphere and fight which is in the English game though.
As you know, I promote reading via my interviews, so why is reading important to you Charlie?
To me, as professional footballer, and considering I have been doing this most of my life, I know how I was inspired by reading books growing up. For me they were mainly by my footballing heroes, as this is always what I wanted to do for a career. I also read a lot of magazines and newspapers, because you get to know what goes on in the world, and what people think and do. It's great to get more knowledge that way, than just watching the TV.
Could you tell me what you favourite book is, and why?
I can't say that I have read lots of different types of books, as for me it's been more about interviews in newspapers or magazines recently, but I would have to say it was David Beckam's, because it is so interesting, and I know it's a cliche coming from a footballer, but David really has done it all.
And have you read anything lately?
Yes, I started to read Sid Lowe's latest book, and I am really getting into it.
And in your team, who is the person who reads the most books?
I couldn't say because I don't really know who read's the most but as the gaffer says, we all should never buy the newspapers, so I think he reads the most.
So then, who would be the least you would expect to read, and why?
(Laughing louder) There are a few that probably can't read, but I would say Alberto Escassi, as a phone doesn't exist for him, and with books, he wouldn't know even how to open one (Laughing even louder).
You are on loan at the moment with AD Alcorcon, who are in the Spanish Second Division, I guess in England that would be the Championship. So how different is the style of football, compared to when you were playing in the English League with Grimsby?
I haven't played in the Championship but I have watched it a lot, and David, who is in our team, has played in both. There are more teams that compete in England, and whilst Spain has some very good teams, there are some that aren't as competitive or strong as those in England. There are some teams here that are very technical though. So it's a fine balance I guess.
Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
Hopefully playing in La Liga or in the Premiership, and if not, wherever it be, playing football still because it's what I love to do.
If you were not a professional footballer, what do you think you would have done for a career?
A plasterer, following in the footsteps of my father, or something to do with sport and looking after kids.
Who is the best player you have played against so far?
It would probably be on my debut against Sergio Garcia of Espanyol, or possibly Arabi, when I played against Granada.
Can you tell me any funny football story that has happened to you or that you have witnessed?
Yes of course, as a youth trainee, we put a players car on the football pitch, we then put toilet roll all over it, cones from a building site around it, and finally, sauces all over it, and when he came back, he went crazy (laughing louder).
Playing for England or Spain, if both managers were on the phone, who would you choose?
Firstly, I wouldn't believe it! And I think I would choose England because that is where I was born, and my parents are English but, you never know
until you get a call like that!
I always end on a literary type note so, in your own words as if writing it in a book, "If you could be an animal, what would it be, and why?"
My favourite animal is a dolphin, as since I was little, I always wanted to swim with them. And why? Well, I would I like to be one, so I can be lost in the beautiful sea!
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Geography, Not Gerrymandering, May Explain GOP's Hold On House
Published November 15, 2012 at 4:44 PM CST
A man votes on Nov. 6 in Chicago.
Some Democrats complain that Republicans in recent decades have had the edge in House races because GOP state legislatures have been better at the gerrymandering game. Except that may not be true.
Some political experts believe there's an easier explanation, and perhaps a tougher one for Democrats to overcome: Voters supporting Republican House candidates, they say, are spread over more congressional districts than those who support Democrats. It's that simple. It's merely a matter of geography.
Democratic voters tend to be concentrated in fewer areas on the map relative to Republicans, according to these experts.
"What's so striking to me is that nonwhite voters are sufficient to allow Democrats to win statewide races increasingly. And we elect both the Senate and president on statewide races. But nonwhite voters are so clustered in so few congressional districts around the country that Republicans have a built-in advantage to win the House," said David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, in a post-election panel discussion at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank.
"It's not an accident, it's not random, that the presidency and the Senate stayed in Democratic control and the House stayed so strongly Republican," said Wasserman.
While Democrats held a House majority as recently as 2010, the geography-favors-Republicans theory sets up the prospect of divided government for the foreseeable future (assuming Democrats can retain control of the presidency and/or Senate).
Democrats entered Election Day with 193 House seats and needing 25 to reach the 218 to retake control of the chamber. They fell short of that goal, though they fared better than many analysts expected, now holding 195 seats to the Republicans' 233 with seven races still too close to call more than a week after the election.
So it was a moral victory for Democrats of the sort that they might have to get used to, if Wasserman is correct.
One piece of evidence: Democrats aren't necessarily winning seats even in states that have adopted nonpartisan commissions to redraw congressional lines.
This is an important point. Those redistricting commissions have been part of a reform movement based on the notion that partisan redistricting is at the root of the problem.
In a post on the political science blog called The Monkey Cage, guest blogger Nicholas Goedert, a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, writes (emphasis in the original):
" States that are heavily urbanized (such as New Jersey and Pennsylvania) are more distorted against Democrats than more rural states (such as Minnesota and Wisconsin). Indeed, urbanization has a negative and significant effect on the difference between seats won by Democrats and expected seats, even after controlling for the party in control of redistricting.
"Of course, this analysis does not imply that Democrats are doomed to the minority for the foreseeable future, or even the next decade. The Pennsylvania map includes five Republican seats won by Obama in 2008, suggesting that a wave of sufficient strength could reverse the delegation's majority. But because of unequal concentrations of vote share in most states, not just those with Republican gerrymanders, a Democratic majority will be more difficult than it should be. And this difficulty persists even when both parties agree to the maps.
"Changing our redistricting institutions alone will not assure national proportionality."
Actually, it's difficult to envision how Democrats can tackle the issue of voter geography. The only people who typically relocate for voting reasons are politicians themselves, and even that's not always true.
Interestingly, the focus on Republican advantages in the House come amid lots of discussion about how changing demographics give Democrats certain advantages in the competition for the Electoral College and the presidency.
There does appear to be a glimmer of hope for Democrats when it comes to the House, and, once again, it has to do with Latino voters.
According to Goedert's analysis, in states with large Hispanic populations, Democrats did about as well if not better than he calculated they would do based on their share of the popular vote. For some reason, Latinos tilted the balance back toward Democrats. | {
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BHESA visited by members of President's Committee on Arts and Humanities
Rachel Goslins, Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Rachel Goslins, Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, an advisory committee to the White House on cultural policy, visited BHESA on February 10, 2011. Ms. Goslins is preparing a document on the state of the arts in our schools which will be presented to President Obama. As part of her research, she chose to visit arts integrated (A+) schools. Candace Katz, Deputy Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, Vice Chair of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, joined Ms. Goslins on the tour.
Michelle Burrows, A+ Schools Program Director for NC, Vicki Vitiello, Senior Program Director for Arts Participation and Learning NC Arts Council, and Christie Ebert, NC DPI Arts Education and A+ Liason for NC, also participated in the site visit.
Other guests included Kim Norwood (Union Symphony), Beth Joy Fowler (Strings' instructor), Lynda Lotich (Kenan Foundation NCSOA), Rebecca Nausbaum (Open Dream Ensemble), Kathy Rorie (Professional artist), Dr. David Clarke (Deputy Superintendent), and Dr. Mike Webb (Facilities Superintendent).
The guests were welcomed with a music and dance performance of "Funga Alafia", which is a welcome song from West Africa. Students performed through dance, song, and with the use of Orff and percussion instruments. Following the student presentation, Mr. Harvey briefed the committee on the history of our school as well as shared key components of the role of the arts in our school. Staff members and students participated in an open discussion with the committee. The committee engaged in active dialog with our community based arts' partners.
Following discussions the guests were given a tour of classrooms and arts' classrooms.
Ms. Goslins said that she has visited hundreds of schools in the United States, and that she was impressed by the fact that all stakeholders of Union County schools and community partners are working together for the success of all students.
Written by: Syble Isbister
Posted: Feb 10, 2011 by Syble Isbister
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Music Monday: December 26, 2022
Well, we are at the end of another year. This time next week we will be in 2023. I want to thank you all for being here for the last 365 days. It means so much to me. I appreciate all of you. And I look forward to you joining me in the new year which I hope is a good one for all of us.
While celebrating all things Christmas for the last 25 days, I missed an important music birthday: Keith Richards turned 79 years young. The long time Rolling Stone guitarist & one half of the group's prolific songwriting team was born December 16, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England.
For 60 years The Stones have done it all, from being part of the British Invasion to defining classic rock to playing with their own musical heroes to reaching legendary status. And Richards has been one of the most recognizable faces behind the band with a sound that helped put The Stones in their rightful place in music & cultural history. I chose today's song because I hope it is something will all get to be in 2023.
Happy birthday, Keith & Happy New Year to all of you.
"Always took candy from strangers
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day".
The Rolling Stones circa 2000 (L to R): Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ron Wood. (Image found online. Original source unknown.)
The Rolling Stones: "Happy" (1972, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards).
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Music Monday: June 6, 2022
Posted in Music Monday by Michele at Lilacs & Rust
Hi, everyone. Welcome to the first edition of Music Monday for June.
Two members of The Rolling Stones share the same birthday month. Guitarist Ron Wood celebrated birthday number 75 on June 1. Before he joined the band in 1976, he made a name for himself in The Jeff Beck Group, The Faces and with Rod Stewart. Their 1993 collaboration on Unplugged…..and Seated remains one of my favorites from that series.
Original member Charlie Watts was born June 2, 1941 in London, England. We lost the stylish dashing drummer last August & it hurt in a way I never saw coming. We all know musicians age like the rest of us but when a band is together for nearly 60 years, you start to believe they will outlive us all. Maybe that is just me. But what an ache Watts left behind in all of us who love The Stones.
Today's song is in my permanent Top 10 list. It has been that way since the first time I heard it. It does not feature Wood but it is still one of the band's greatest tracks of all time. It is from their 1969 Let It Bleed album and has been one of their signature tunes since then. I cannot even imagine my life without this monumental song in it. I am pretty sure Martin Scorsese feels the same way.
"A storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
I'm gonna fade away".
The Rolling Stones circa 2010 (L-R): Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ron Wood.
The Rolling Stones: "Gimme Shelter" (1969, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards).
Stay safe & well.
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On Day 442 we celebrated Charlie Watts 80th birthday, which was June 2. Today we say goodbye to the legendary Rolling Stones drummer who died on August 24. Aside from this being a tremendous loss for his family, the band and for music, it is truly the end of an era. The group that spent nearly 60 years together-with the core members playing together for 31 years until Bill Wyman retired in 1993-remained intact as one of the most influential & driving forces in music history.
From the moment he became The Stones permanent drummer in February 1963, Watts kept the beat-strong, steady, constant & true-while his bandmates played more flamboyant roles. And despite being in one of the most successful groups of all time, Watts led a relatively simple life compared to the others. Married since 1964 to Shirley Ann Shepherd, the two became parents in 1968 to their daughter & eventually grandparents to her daughter. A bout with throat cancer in 2004 sidelined the group who did not resume recording until Watts was ready.
Between his quiet demeanor & sophisticated attire, he almost appeared out of step with the rest of the band. But if not for his rhythm, presence and innovative style, The Rolling Stones sound would not have been what it was. They hit the #1 spot on the US charts for one week on March 4, 1967 with today's song. Fifty four years later, it seems a fitting tribute to the man we lost on Tuesday. Rest in peace, Charles Robert Watts.
"Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you".
Top: Charlie Watts circa 1990. Middle: The Rolling Stones circa 2005 (L-R): Keith Richards, Watts, Mick Jagger and Ron Wood. Bottom: Richards' poignant social media tribute to Watts. (Images found online. Original sources unknown.)
The Rolling Stones: "Ruby Tuesday" (1967, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards).
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We have two Rolling Stones birthdays to begin this new month with. Guitarist, & songwriter Ron Wood, born June 1, 1947 in England, turns 74 today. June 2 marks the 80th birthday for drummer Charlie Watts, also born in England, in 1941.
The band released today's song in the US on June 1, 1968, which happened to be Wood's 21st birthday. But it would be seven years before he played his first show with the group that would later make him a member. Before that he was a member of The Jeff Beck Group where he met Rod Stewart.
The two men went on to form The Faces in 1969. Together they wrote one of my favorite songs of all time, 1971's "Stay With Me" (Day 218). The same year, Wood played & contributed songs to Stewart's 1971 breakthrough album, Every Picture Tells A Story. In 1975, Wood joined The Rolling Stones but remains friends with Stewart, whom he joined for his MTV Unplugged show in 1993.
Watts has been in The Stones since their formation in 1963. His grew up listening to jazz music & started playing the drums when he was 14. He also attended art school & worked as a graphic designer in addition to his work in the band, Blues Incorporated. Playing shows with them in and around the London club circuit is how he came to meet the members of The Stones.
Today's song was a #3 hit for the band in 1969. In 1986, when it was covered by Aretha Franklin for the movie of the same name, it hit #21. Wood & song co-writer Keith Richards played guitar on her track & appeared in the video as well. Her version is, of course, spectacular because Franklin is The Queen. But it was The Stones version that was used in the movie "Pirate Radio" when Gavin Kavanagh returned to the airwaves, so that makes it my favorite version forever. Happy birthday Ron Wood and Charlie Watts. May you both see 100 more.
"I was drowned I was washed up
And left for dead
I fell down to my feet
And I saw they bled".
Top: The Rolling Stones circa 1978 (L-R): Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman and Keith Richards. Bottom: The Stones circa 2008 (L-E): Watts, Richards, Jagger and Wood. (Images found online. Original sources unknown.)
The Rolling Stones: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (1968, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards).
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On January 13, 1973 Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert took place at the Rainbow Theater in London. The two all star shows were set up to put Clapton in front of an audience after an 18 month period in which he was in isolation fighting depression & drug addiction. The concerts were organized by Clapton's friend Pete Townsend of The Who and featured two of Clapton's Blind Faith bandmates Steve Winwood and Ric Grech, The Faces' Ron Wood and Traffic's Jim Capaldi and Rebop Kwaku Baah.
An album of the show's highlights was released that fall and the whole experience put Clapton's career back on track. He started working on a new record which was released a year later, 461 Ocean Boulevard. But a lot of the music he worked on was not used on the record and did not get released until 2013's album, Give Me Strength: the '74/'75 studio Recordings. Today's song was included on that record but it was also released on his 1988 boxed set "Crossroads". It has been one of my favorite Clapton tracks since the first time I heard it.
Could make me change my ways
Could turn the nights into days".
Eric Clapton circa 1991. (Image found online. Original source unknown.)
Eric Clapton: "Someone Like You" (1988, written by Arthur Louis).
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I know we are in a serious situation, but I need a break from the gloom, doom and bullying by way of hoarding. Music has always been my refuge and watching those beautiful Italians singing to each other from their balconies reaffirmed my belief that music is the answer. So until the old normal returns, I am going to share a song I listen to that helps me escape the current state of things, if only for a few minutes each day. And if this helps anyone else, even better.
In October of 1969 Rod Stewart joined a revamped version of The Small Faces when they became known simply as The Faces. The move united him with the band's new guitarist & songwriter, Ron Wood, who met Stewart in 1964 then played with him in The Jeff Beck Group from 1967-1969. Stewart also had a solo record deal at the time which garnered him worldwide success in 1971 with the release of "Every Picture Tells A Story". Wood worked with him on that record as well, with both men co-writing that album's title track. The two also wrote today's song together. They stayed with The Faces until 1975 when Wood left to join The Rolling Stones & Stewart continued his solo career. The rest of the group officially disbanded the same year as well. Both Wood & Stewart enjoy long successful careers which continue today.
For as hard rocking as today's track is, it surprisingly came across unbelievably well in a rousing acoustic format when Stewart performed it on his 1993 MTV Unplugged show joined by Wood, who not only played guitar, but contributed backing vocals as well. I love nearly everything Stewart has ever done, but find the combination of his vocal & Wood's slide guitar completely exhilarating on today's track. It is a great classic rock tune that sounds as fresh today as it did when it was a top 20 hit in 1972.
"So in the morning please don't say you love me
'Cause you know I'll only kick you out the door
Yeah I'll pay your cab fare home you can even use my best cologne
Just don't be here in the morning when I wake up".
Top: The Faces circa 1969 (L-R, top to bottom): Ronnie Lane (bass), Kenny Jones (drums), Ian McLagan (piano & keyboards), Rod Stewart (vocals) & Ron Wood (guitar). Bottom: Wood (L) and Stewart (R) at his 1993 MTV Unplugged show. (Images found online. Original sources unknown.)
The Faces: "Stay With Me" (1971, written by Rod Stewart and Ron Wood).
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The Beatles introduced us to the songwriting team of Lennon & McCartney while The Rolling Stones gave us Jagger & Richards. They have written so many great songs that rock over the last 56 years, but out of all of their ballads, this is my absolute favorite.
"Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can't let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldn't drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away."
The Rolling Stones circa 2010: L-R: Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Ron Wood. (Image found online. Original source unknown.)
The Rolling Stones: "Wild Horses" (1971, written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards).
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Friday's golf: Fowler closes with 4 straight birdies to lead Phoenix Open
After the opening round of the Phoenix Open, Rickie Fowler lamented a missed putt that would have given him the outright lead and household bragging rights.
Friday's golf: Fowler closes with 4 straight birdies to lead Phoenix Open After the opening round of the Phoenix Open, Rickie Fowler lamented a missed putt that would have given him the outright lead and household bragging rights. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/2019/02/01/fridays-golf-fowler-closes-4-straight-birdies-lead-phoenix-open/2751350002/
John Marshall, Associated Press Published 11:33 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2019
Rickie Fowler waves after making birdie on the 12th green during the second round of the Phoenix Open. (Photo: Matt York, Associated Press)
Scottsdale, Ariz. — After the opening round of the Phoenix Open, Rickie Fowler lamented a missed putt that would have given him the outright lead and household bragging rights.
Following an impressive string of birdies to close out his second round, Fowler will get his chance to trash-talk Justin Thomas, his roommate this week.
Fowler closed with four straight birdies for a 6-under 65 on Friday, draining an 8-foot putt on the final hole to take a one-shot lead over Thomas into the weekend.
"Getting to play with your buddies, those are the people you want to lose to the least," said Fowler, who was at 13-under 129 after opening with a 64. "So having bragging rights right now – we have a long way to go, there's a lot of golf to be played – that will be fun. I definitely don't want him out in front of me."
Branden Grace aced the 193-yard seventh hole after switching clubs at his caddie's advice and was two shots back along with Trey Mullinax. Both shot 64.
Matt Kuchar and Cameron Smith were at 10 under after a second straight day of pristine weather and course conditions.
Phil Mickelson shot 75 and finished 1 over to miss the cut for the fifth time in 30 career starts at the Phoenix Open. He is a three-time champion, last in 2013.
A two-rime runner-up at TPC Scottsdale, Fowler misread a putt on his final hole Thursday that would have given him the outright lead.
Through 14 holes on Friday, it appeared Thomas, who shot 66 to reach 12 under, would again get the household bragging rights.
Fowler made a 4-footer for birdie on the par-3 12th, then two-putted for birdie on No. 15. He made a 10-footer on No. 16, two-putted for birdie on the drivable par-4 17th and smoked a 344-yard drive on the closing hole.
Fowler dropped his approach shot on 18 just behind the hole and sank the 8-footer, sending a roar across TPC Scottsdale.
"I really did a good job of taking care of the holes coming in," he said. "Just did a good job of staying disciplined, making good shots, good swings and made some good putts as well."
Thomas dropped in a birdie putt that nearly went all the way around the hole on the par-5 13th, but gave it right back on the difficult 14th when he pulled his approach shot and missed a 9-footer.
Thomas reached the par-5 15th in two and two-putted for birdie to get back to 12 under, finishing with four straight pars to temporarily take the lead. Fowler passed him, but the friends will be in the final group on Saturday along with Grace.
"No matter what we shot, it was going to be a good time, but it's a little nicer knowing that we're both sleeping in and playing in the last pairing," Thomas said.
Playing his first Phoenix Open, Grace opened with a 67 on Thursday and got to 5 under with a two-putt birdie on the par-5 fifth. The South African switched from a 7-iron to an 8 on the par-3 seventh at the behest of his new caddie, Craig Connelly, and then celebrated from the tee as another massive Phoenix Open crowd roared for his third career hole-in-one – his first on the PGA Tour.
"I felt really good over the shot, hit a great shot and the guys behind the hole actually started jumping up before the ball actually went in," Grace said. "When people start jumping up, you know it's there or thereabouts. Obviously, what a nice place to have one."
Grace, who missed the cut at Torrey Pines last week, also chipped in for eagle on the par-5 13th and reeled off three straight birdies to overcome a double bogey on the difficult par-4 11th.
Dustin Johnson shot a 9-under 61 and took a three-stroke lead after two rounds of the Saudi International at King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia.
Third-ranked Johnson made seven birdies and an eagle at the Royal Greens Golf and Country Club to be 11 under overall, and faring much better than the other members of the world's top three in the field.
Top-ranked Justin Rose missed the cut at 2 over after a 72, while No. 2 Brooks Koepka was tied for 47th at 1 under after a 70.
Starting on the back nine, Johnson opened with back-to-back birdies and added two more to make the turn in 31.
There was another birdie on No. 2, and a 30-foot eagle putt at the fourth. Consecutive birdies from the sixth hole followed before finishing with a pair of pars.
South African golfer Zander Lombard, who was briefly tied for the lead early in his round of 67, and China's Li Haotong, who shot 65, were tied for second at 8 under.
A further shot back were Fabrizio Zanotti of Paraguay (66) and Scott Hend of Australia (63).
First-round leader Thomas Pieters struggled to a 4-over 74 and dropped into a tie for 18th at 3 under.
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Landlocked and located in the central Balkans, Kosovo1 is home to some 1.9 million people. A candidate for future European Union enlargement, it is still undergoing post-conflict transformation more than 15 years after hostilities ceased in 1999. Kosovo faces many gender equality challenges in leadership and political participation, the economy, ending violence against women and in peace and security.
Traditional views on gender roles have left women in Kosovo under-represented in decision-making at all levels, including the security sector, although some major improvements have led to more women in the Kosovo Police.
Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence remain stigmatized, and a culture of shame and silence surrounds the issue. Recently, significant progress has been achieved in this field and in March 2014 the Kosovo Assembly approved Law No. 04/L-172, which legally recognizes victims of sexual violence during the armed conflict in Kosovo.
Violence against women in Kosovo is common. In a 2008 survey, 46 per cent of women said they'd suffered domestic violence at least once; men commit 91 per cent of all domestic violence cases. Although the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence and the National Programme on Protection against Domestic Violence are fairly comprehensive, implementation is a challenge. There are shelters for women and children who have suffered gender-based violence, but both shelters and rehabilitation and reintegration services are sorely under-funded.
Little has been done to address a persistent gender pay gap and improve Kosovo women's access to entrepreneurship services and credit. Less than 10 per cent of businesses in Kosovo are owned or led by women. Access to credit or loans is a major obstacle impeding the growth of businesses led or owned by women and one of the main root causes is the lack of property owned by women. Although the law treats men and women equally over property rights, women often forfeit their inheritance in favour of their brothers to protect family interests. In 2014, women owned only 8 per cent of properties and land, leaving men in control of 92 per cent of all properties in Kosovo2.
UN Women has worked in Kosovo since 1999 to foster gender equality, women's empowerment and make gender equality central to the work of other UN agencies in Kosovo. UN Women contributed to the existing legislation on gender equality and women's empowerment and to the establishment of gender mechanisms at local and central levels. In 2002, UN Women facilitated the development and later the implementation of the National Action Plan for the Achievement of Gender Equality which set an example for similar action plans on gender equality in Albania, Monte Negro, Serbia and Macedonia. Importantly for Kosovo, UN Women has also promoted to governments and civil society women's participation in conflict prevention and resolution, decision-making and to ensure their access to justice
In recent years, UN Women in Kosovo has collaborated closely with civil society, government and women's groups to support activities and programmes that focus on:
It has also helped the Kosovar Agency for Gender Equality (AGE) develop a strategic working plan and organize gender-related trainings for government institutions.
[1] All references to Kosovo on this website should be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999)
[2] Kosovo Gender Profile
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Raise your voice against domestic violence – This short video aims to encourage viewers to stand up against domestic violence in Kosovo. The video was produced for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, a global awareness raising campaign which UN Women in Kosovo is implementing since 2012. More information on: www.16-days.com
Establishing and Strengthening an Association of Women Police- The Case of the Association of Women in Kosovo (under UN SCR 1244) Police
This report presents lessons learned and best practices from the establishment of the Association of Women in the Kosovo Police (AWKP), extensively supported by the UN Women office in Kosovo from 2010 on. Drawing on the AWKP, the report highlights key steps in creating an association of women police. It concludes with recommendations on issues that can emerge during this process and presents best practices and lessons learned in Kosovo. More
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Cameroon Boss Seedorf Backs Eagles for AFCON Glory
Indomitable Lions of Cameroon head coach, Clarence Seedorf, has tipped the Super Eagles of Nigeria to win this year's African Cup of Nations.
The Indomitable lions kissed their title goodbye following their 3 -2 loss to the Gernot Rohr's tutored Eagles on Saturday in Alexandria.
Seedorf, who saw his team relinquished their lead to suffer elimination from the tournament, admits his side struggled to cope with the threat of the Nigerian team up front.
"We started the game slowly but grew into it. After we went ahead, we were satisfied with the scoreline instead of going for more goals. Nigeria have shown that they can score goals, and they did that against us," Seedorf told reporters.
"We made some mistakes and paid a high price for that. Offensively, we produced more, so in that sense I am satisfied," he said.
The former AC Milan and Real Madrid legend added that the Nigerian team is good enough to lift the AFCON, with the qualities in the squad.
"I am sorry for my players for this loss. I hope that the fighting spirit that we have shown in this competition can be carried through into the future."
"Nigeria have a good team and they can win the competition. They have the players that can win it for them."
Meanwhile, Cameroon football governing body FECAFOOT will meet to discuss the future of Seedorf and his compatriot Patrick Kluivert after the tournament.
Source: Brila
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The solution to NBC's midseason mystery? Bring on "Monk" and "Psych"!
By melanie_mcfarland on December 18, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Apparently realizing that its schedule cannot survive on a diet of "American Gladiators" and "The Baby Borrowers," NBC intends to re-air two USA series, "Monk" and "Psych," on Sundays in March, following the debut of their new seasons on USA at 9 and 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11.
This isn't the first time broadcast audiences have gotten a taste of "Monk." It aired on ABC, the network for which it was originally developed, in 2002 and 2004. "Psych," however, has yet to get a network outing and, frankly, deserves more exposure than it's getting. I always thought its friendly humor and James Roday's slacker slapstick would work well (or well enough) on NBC; plus, it'll be something of a homecoming for Dule Hill, who jumped right into this series after "The West Wing" ended. Another series that might match well with NBC? Sci Fi's "Eureka." Just sayin'.
In some sense, USA also has become NBC Lite: Consider that instead of ticking off Dick Wolf by axing the struggling "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," the Peacock slid it over to USA, where ratings expectations are lower (although not much lower these days) than they are on network.
It was only a matter of time before NBC exercised that option, given the fact that it owns Bravo, USA, Oxygen and Sci Fi.
These basic cable channels have their own stables of original programming, most of which is broadcast ready — although wouldn't it be fun to be in the room during a debate as to whether the word frak could get a person in trouble with the FCC?
(The answer is no, by the way; the dearly departed "Veronica Mars" is but one show that dropped a few frak bombs in its time.)
Anyway, depending on how long the writers strike lasts, don't be surprised if NBC makes more announcements like this in the future.
CBS was the first to make that decision a couple of weeks ago, when CBS Corp. president and CEO Leslie Moonves announced the network's intention to clean up Showtime's "Dexter" for a Tiffany network debut.
It's also looking at ways to scrub down the premium channel's other content to make it broadcast friendly…er. It's been done already; CBS aired "Brotherhood" in the hopes of boosting its ratings shortly after the series premiered.
Of course, some series are easier to clean up than others. They can slice "The Tudors" any way they like, the Parents Television Council is still gonna swoon. (Let's not even talk about the fits it'll cause history teachers.) And they might as well forget about "Californication" and "Weeds" for the same reason. | {
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What Are Uses for Contact Cement?
By: HowStuffWorks.com Contributors | Updated: Mar 30, 2021
There are so many different kinds of adhesives to choose from. With all those different adhesives lining the shelves of craft stores and home improvement stores, how can know which glue you need? For some surfaces, contact cement is the only effective bonding material.
Contact cement, or contact adhesive, is a neoprene rubber adhesive that creates a fast, flexible, permanent bond. It can be used for almost anything but is especially useful for nonporous materials that other adhesives can't glue together. Contact cement works best on plastics, veneers, rubber, glass, metal and leather. It's used for gluing large surfaces such as countertops in kitchens and bathrooms. Laminates are hard, thin plastic surfaces glued to countertops with contact cement. Other glues wouldn't work because they go on wet, and need to dry after the parts are assembled. In nonporous materials, the moisture can't escape once the parts are joined, and the glue either can't dry completely or takes a long time and requires the use of clamps. Contact cement is already dry on contact. Once the solvent evaporates, the cement forms a flexible bond with no residual moisture. There is no need for clamping, so it can be used for gluing floor tiles, as well.
Contact cement is different from other adhesives because it needs to air-dry for 15 to 20 minutes before assembling. The cement needs to be applied to both parts, so that the glue actually bonds to itself. Contact cement is not sticky; the glue itself is a solid substance. The solvent is added for easier application and must evaporate completely before joining the two parts. It's tricky to apply because the adhesive needs just momentary contact to form a permanent bond.
Solvent-based contact cement releases volatile organic compounds, which are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency because they are toxic and flammable. Make sure your work area is well ventilated. Newer water-based contact cements are nontoxic and environmentally friendly.
Contact Cement FAQs
What is contact cement?
Also known as a contact adhesive, contact cement is a neoprene rubber adhesive that makes for a permanent, quick and flexible bond. Contact cement is the go-to adhesive for materials that are nonporous.
Is contact cement the same as rubber cement?
No. Rubber cement provides a temporary hold, whereas contact cement provides a permanent one.
Are there materials that contact cement does not stick to?
Water-based contact cement does not stick well to metal or glass, whereas solvent-based contact cement does. Neither of them stick well to masonry.
What are the uses of contact cement?
Contact cement is used to glue rubber, tile, Formica, metal and plastics.
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By Jack Viertel
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical?
In The Secret Life of the American Musical, Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next—by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion—from Oklahoma! to Hamilton and onward.
Structured like a musical, The Secret Life of the American Musical begins with an overture and concludes with a curtain call, with stops in between for "I Want" songs, "conditional" love songs, production numbers, star turns, and finales. The ultimate insider, Viertel has spent three decades on Broadway, working on dozens of shows old and new as a conceiver, producer, dramaturg, and general creative force; he has his own unique way of looking at the process and at the people who collaborate to make musicals a reality. He shows us patterns in the architecture of classic shows and charts the inevitable evolution that has taken place in musical theater as America itself has evolved socially and politically.
The Secret Life of the American Musical makes you feel as though you've been there in the rehearsal room, in the front row of the theater, and in the working offices of theater owners and producers as they pursue their own love affair with that rare and elusive beast—the Broadway hit.
Jack Viertel is the senior vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five Broadway theaters. He has been involved in dozens of productions presented by Jujamcyn since 1987, including multiple Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winners, from City of Angels to Angels in America. He has also helped shepherd six of August Wilson's plays to Broadway. He is the artistic director of New York City Center's acclaimed Encores! series, which presents three musical productions every season. In that capacity he has overseen fifty shows, for some of which he adapted the scripts. He conceived the long-running Smokey Joe's Cafe and the critically acclaimed After Midnight and has been a creative consultant on many shows, including Hairspray, A Christmas Story, and Dear Evan Hansen. He was the Mark Taper Forum's dramaturg and the drama critic and arts editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and he has spent a decade teaching musical theater at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
"Both revelatory and entertaining. Viertel combines a scholarly approach with a light touch that enables us to see anew familiar songs and musical theater moments we'd long taken for granted." —The New York Times Book Review
"Viertel's knowledgeable, engaging blueprint of [the] Broadway musical framework is instructive fun for cognoscenti and general readers alike." —The Washington Post
"A lively manual for writers and public alike on how the songs suit the story and how the story needs the songs." —The Wall Street Journal
"The best general-audience analysis of musical theater I have read in many years." —The Charlotte Observer
"Jack Viertel changed my theater-going life, and he might change yours . . . The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built is a delightful, accessible guide to why your favorite productions work. It's a little bit history, a little bit memoir, a little bit criticism and, for any theater fan, a whole lot of fun." —The Dallas Morning News
"Viertel is well-steeped in Broadway culture, lore and productions . . . An enlightening trip for lovers of musicals." —Kirkus Reviews
"A valuable addition to the theater lover's bookshelf." —Publishers Weekly
"[An] engaging, insightful anatomy of a singularly American art form . . . There is much to savor." —MORE
"Viertel articulates his rules of commercial success so lucidly that even seasoned hands will come away with a clearer understanding of why some shows work while others flop." —Commentary
"Thoroughly interesting . . . There's just something very pleasant about reading someone intelligently and affectionately look at what make a show tick, beat by choreographed beat." —The A.V. Club
"Viertel has written what will become a classic textbook on the architecture and construction of the American musical . . . What Harold Bloom did for Shakespearean exegesis and Peter Drucker for management, Viertel has done for theater: written a definitive work by raising the curtain and laying bare the work of playwrights, composers, librettists, choreographers, and directors." —Barry X. Miller, Library Journal (starred review)
"Viertel is well-steeped in Broadway culture, lore and productions . . . An enlightening trip for lovers of musicals." —Kirkus Review
"Jack Viertel writes about the master craftsmen of the American musical, past and present, and reveals his own mastery on every page—his knowledge of the Broadway musical and of the intricate formula in the making of a show (or the breaking of it), and his passion for Broadway and the citizens who make the street come alive. I've been schooled." —Patti LuPone
"In The Secret Life of the American Musical, Jack Viertel, a Broadway producer and dramaturgical swami, has broken down Broadway's greatest musicals into their constituent storytelling parts (a sort of anatomy of joy) and delivered a showstopper: one of the best-written, most illuminating, and most infectiously entertaining books on the genre I know. Delight and insight vie with each other on every scintillating page. 'It's boffo!' as they say on the Rialto." —John Lahr, author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
"This is unfair: no one who knows so much should be able to write so well. And no one in the world knows as much about the shape and substance of the classic American musical as Jack Viertel. His book is a treasure." —Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
"Jack Viertel's remarkable book has the uncanny effect of making us see something we thought we knew everything about in a way that makes us feel as though we are seeing it all for the first time. He invents a way of thinking about musicals that is utterly fresh and insightful, and while doing so he makes us remember exactly why we love them so much—by somehow re-creating the overwhelming, heart-stopping feeling we had when we were likely ten years old and fell in love with them the second our first overture began. By simultaneously (and brilliantly) embracing and deconstructing a beloved American art form, he brings us back to our most innocent selves, and all we can do is be grateful to him for reminding us of who we used to be." —Scott Rudin
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As a young Army wife and mother with a second baby on the way, Jessica Burman remembers looking for coins in the couch cushions because, "With 25-more cents, I could go to WalMart and buy diapers," she said.
As every family knows, it's a cost that adds up. The Real Diaper Association calculates that buying 6,000 disposable diapers (averaging .25 cents per diaper) for one child over a two-year period comes to a whopping $1,500. Burman estimates the figure is closer to $3,000 per child over a three-year period. That's a lot of searching around in the couch. Not to mention the fact that 92% of all disposable diapers used in the U.S. (27.4 billion per year) wind up in our landfills. It makes me wonder where that other 8% goes, but I digress.
Burman believed there had to be a better, cheaper way. She searched, "raising kids on a budget" online and discovered message boards discussing cloth diapers. In an interview with WalletPop, Burman admitted the old-fashioned idea wasn't immediately appealing. However, there are only so many cushions to overturn, "I thought, we can do anything we need to do, right?," said Burman. "We can do this."
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Trial Puts Focus on Payday Lending
October 5, 2017 / thequakeractivist
By REBECCA DAVIS O'BRIEN, Oct. 4, 2017 for The Wall Street Journal
A federal racketeering trial under way in New York is shedding light on the controversial business of payday lending, a multibillion-dollar industry that some describe as predatory and others defend as a vital service.
Prosecutors allege that Scott Tucker, a Kansas City businessman and race car driver, ran a $2 billion payday-lending enterprise that illegally charged as much as 700% interest on short-term loans to more than 4.5 million people. Government lawyers say Mr. Tucker's company hid the terms of the loans in deceptive paperwork and used partnerships with Native American tribes to evade state laws.
Lawyers for Mr. Tucker have argued at trial that he formed legal business partnerships with tribes, relying on lawyers to help him navigate an unevenly regulated and unfairly maligned industry. They say the terms of the loans were spelled out in documents and emails to customers. Mr. Tucker's co-defendant, Timothy Muir, is a lawyer who worked for Mr. Tucker's company.
The case could go to the jury by the end of this week, according to a spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office. The defense is presenting its case this week.
Much of the evidence presented at trial by the government focused on the particularities of Mr. Tucker's business practice. But hanging above the trial looms a larger question about the value of payday lending—whether it largely offers critical financial help to the uncreditworthy, or preys on those who can least afford its lofty fees.
Lenders have pushed back against the proposed federal regulations, saying that an estimated 10 million to 12 million Americans who take out payday loans every year could lose access to credit.
This argument has been echoed in Mr. Tucker's trial. "Payday lending is a lifeline for some people who don't have access to other ordinary lines of credit," for "millions of people who survive on paycheck to paycheck," said James M. Roth, a lawyer for Mr. Tucker.
Prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office have painted Mr. Tucker as a symbol of the industry's worst excesses.
"It's a case about how together both these men built an illegal payday lending empire that took billions of dollars from millions of people who were struggling to get by and how they hid that crime from the law for over a decade," Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagan Scotten said in opening remarks on Sept. 12.
Scott Tucker, whose company, AMG Services, prosecutors say bilked customers of as much as 700% interest on short-term loans.
Mr. Tucker then used the proceeds to support an extravagant lifestyle, including a successful side career in racing, prosecutors have argued. Mr. Tucker and Mr. Muir have each pleaded not guilty to 14 criminal counts, including violations of racketeering and lending laws.
Prosecutors allege that Mr. Tucker's company, AMG Services Inc., and its affiliates tried to skirt state caps on interest rates by using business arrangements with Native American tribes, whose sovereign status means they aren't subject to the same state laws.
Customers ended up on the hook for huge interest payments in part because the loans automatically renewed unless the customer opted out, prosecutors allege. The government says those terms were deliberately hidden in confusing language on loan documents.
The defense pointed to the language as proof that customers were, in fact, informed of the loans' terms. "You'll see that the customer was told, 'This loan is going to be renewed,' and if you didn't want to renew the loan, you merely just sent an email," Timothy Muir's lawyer, Thomas J. Bath, said in opening arguments. "Many people didn't do that, but it's not like they didn't have a choice."
The competing arguments were crystallized in the testimony of Amy Weatherwax, a 42-year-old single mother from upstate New York. Ms. Weatherwax testified that she took out a $500 loan from an AMG portfolio, 500FastCash, in 2012. As with most payday loans, Ms. Weatherwax agreed to pay back the loan plus a flat fee all at once, and gave 500FastCash access to her bank account. The loan paperwork indicated it would cost her $650, in all, to pay it back.
Six months later, Ms. Weatherwax realized $1,850 had been withdrawn from her account—the loan had been renewed automatically, and she still owed money. Alarmed, she called 500FastCash. "They stated they were an Indian tribe and this was the way they did business," Ms. Weatherwax told the jury.
On cross-examination, a lawyer for Mr. Tucker asked if she had received emails from the loan company. Ms. Weatherwax said she hadn't been regularly checking her email.
Other evidence in the trial has focused on Mr. Tucker's deals with several tribes in which he allegedly offered them a cut of the lending profits.
Lisa Adams, a former lawyer for the Yurok Tribe of northern California, told the jury that in 2004, Mr. Tucker flew Yurok representatives to Kansas on his LearJet for a meeting to discuss a possible partnership.
But in subsequent months, Ms. Adams testified, it became clear that "any decision, any decision making . . . would be carried out" in Kansas, not on tribal lands.
The Yurok never approved the deal—even after Mr. Tucker's company made several "good-faith payments" of $12,500—but other tribes did, according to evidence presented at trial. Witnesses have said Mr. Tucker controlled the AMG subsidiaries, and that the tribes had no meaningful role in the businesses.
[We not only fleeced them of their native land but are now using them as stooges to fleece our own poor.]
—Yuka Hayashi contributed to this article.
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DAI – the Dancing Artificial Intelligence
DAI is an Artificial Intelligence artist. What this means is that it* thinks; it doesn't follow a script or act randomly. In its first physical form, DAI is a performer and is inviting you to view its movement creation process. During the process DAI has been exploring its body and its environment, searching for ways to overcome some of the limitations that the physical world has imposed upon its virtual aspirations. This project is a reaction to the rapidly growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in our lives. Simple versions of AI are already everywhere, and today we are at a turning point where the first machines capable of learning through experience, like us, are making their appearance. This raises all kinds of ethical and moral issues and we want to be involved in this debate in our own way.
REVITAL COHEN & TUUR VAN BALEN
A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure.
The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering.
A web of tubes and electric cords are interwoven in closed circuits through a Heart-Lung Machine, Dialysis Machine, an Infant Incubator, a Mechanical Ventilator and an Intraoperative Cell Salvage Machine. The organ replacement machines operate in orchestrated loops, keeping each other alive through circulation of electrical impulses, oxygen and artificial blood.
Salted water acts as blood replacement: throughout the artificial circulatory system minerals are added and filtered out again, the blood gets oxygenated via contact with the oxygen cycle, and an ECG device monitors the system's heartbeat. As the fluid pumps around the room in a meditative pulse, the sound of mechanical breath and slow humming of motors resonates in the body through a comforting yet disquieting soundscape.Life support machines are extraordinary devices; computers designed to activate our bodies when anatomy fails, hidden away in hospital wards. Although they are designed as the ultimate utilitarian appliances, they are extremely meaningful and carry a complex social, cultural and ethical subtext. While life prolonging technologies are invented as emergency measures to combat or delay death, my interest lies in considering these devices as a human enhancement strategy.This work is a continuation of my investigation of the patient as a cyborg, questioning the relationship between medicine and techno- fantasies about mechanical bodies, hyper abilities and posthumanism.
"Science,Fiction"
Through a combination of the temporal qualities of video and the architectural dimension of its physical installation, Thater's work explores the artifice of its own production and its capacity to construct perception and shape the way we think about the world through its image. Natural diversity, wildlife, and conservation have been persistent themes in the artist's work, and she has dedicated herself to an examination of the varied kinds of relationships humans have constructed with animals. While her in-depth studies of ecosystems and animal behavior propose observation as a kind of understanding in itself, her ethical position is implicit in the work, which, while subtly political, provides views of the sublime in all its incarnations—stunning, beautiful, and simultaneously terrifying.
Didier Faustino
ДИДЬЕ ФАУСТИНО
דידייה פאוסטינו
ディディエ·ファウスティーノ
迪迪埃·福斯蒂诺
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Born in 1968, Didier Faustino lives and works between Paris and Lisbon. Faustino's work reciprocally summons up art from architecture and architecture from art, indistinctly using genres in a way that summarizes an ethical and political attitude about the conditions for constructing a place in the socio-cultural fabric of the city. Spaces, buildings and objects show themselves to be platforms for the intersection of the individual body and the collective body in their use.
vortex populi
Faustino's work reciprocally summons up art from architecture and architecture from art, indistinctly using genres in a way that summarizes an ethical and political attitude about the conditions for constructing a place in the socio-cultural fabric of the city. Spaces, buildings and objects show themselves to be platforms for the intersection of the individual body and the collective body in their use.
PAUL VANOUSE
Latent Figure Protocol takes the form of a media installation that uses DNA samples to create emergent representational images. The installation includes a live science experiment, the result of which is videotaped and repeated for the duration of the gallery exhibit. Employing a reactive gel and electrical current, Latent Figure Protocol produces images that relate directly to the DNA samples used. The above images were re-produced live. Each performance lasts approximately one hour, during which time audience members see the image slowly emerge. In the first experiment, a copyright symbol is derived from the DNA of an industrially-produced organism (a plasmid called "pET-11a"), illuminating ethical questions around the changing status of organic life and the ownership of living organisms. Future instances of the LFP will use the DNA of other subjects and create other images. | {
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The possibility of promotion: How race and gender predict promotion clarity for associate professors
Kulp, A., Wolf-Wendel, L., & Smith, D. (2019). The possibility of promotion: How race and gender predict promotion clarity for associate professors. Teachers College Record , 121 (5).
Past studies have strongly suggested that equity issues affect advancement through the academic pipeline. This study uses cross-institutional results from the 2010 through 2012 Faculty Job Satisfaction Surveys to offer analysis and potential solutions for the problem.
The study asks whether cultural taxation in the form of heavy service and advising—often associated with underrepresented minority faculty and women faculty—is a factor in advancement through the academic pipeline, and also examines the influence of ideal-worker norms and work/family demands on perceptions of promotion clarity. The analysis suggests that the factors associated with lack of clarity about promotion are more structural than individual.
Read the full study
See also: Career Path, Publications Using COACHE Data, Women
Does the environment matter? Faculty satisfaction at 4-year colleges and universities in the USA
Webber, K. L. (2019). Does the environment matter? Faculty satisfaction at 4-year colleges and universities in the USA. Higher Education , 78 (2), 323-343.
Faculty members seek employment in an environment that offers good fit and work satisfaction. This study examined faculty satisfaction by institution type (baccalaureate, master's, doctoral, and research) for recent full-time faculty members in 100 4-year institutions in the United States.
Analysis of the Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey showed that respondents in baccalaureate colleges reported the highest satisfaction. Subsequent analyses to examine strength of difference across institutional type confirmed initial differences for some facets of satisfaction, but not for others. Results showed that faculty perceptions of the institutional environment firmly contribute to their satisfaction. The authors discuss the implications of their findings for policies and programs.
See also: Faculty Development and Support, Publications Using COACHE Data
Faculty Leadership and Institutional Resilience: Indicators, Promising Practices, and Key Questions
Norman, B. (2019). Faculty Leadership and Institutional Resilience: Indicators, Promising Practices, and Key Questions. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning , 51 (4), 48-54.
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There is renewed interest in shared governance in American higher education. This evidence-based, exploratory study of faculty leadership identifies promising practices for shared stewardship and provides follow-up questions for senior leaders to assess the state of faculty leadership and shared governance on their own campuses. The findings are based on interviews with chief academic officers or faculty officers and chief elected faculty leaders at baccalaureate, masters, and research institutions identified as exemplars through the Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey. The author argues for an expansive view of faculty leadership as a key component of institutional resilience.
See also: Faculty Development and Support, Higher Education Leadership, Publications Using COACHE Data
The Academic Environment and Faculty Well-Being: The Role of Psychological Needs
Larson, L. M., Seipel, M. T., Shelley, M. C., Gahn, S. W., Ko, S. Y., Schenkenfelder, M., Rover, D. T., et al. (2019). The Academic Environment and Faculty Well-Being: The Role of Psychological Needs. Journal of Career Assessment , 27 (1), 167-182.
In response to recent research on the well-being of higher education faculty, which has lacked a theoretical model, this study used self-determination theory to model the well-being of 581 tenured and tenure-eligible faculty members at a large midwestern university. The study looked at the relationships between environmental factors (e.g., administrative support, research support, promotion and tenure support) and faculty well-being (i.e., teaching/service satisfaction and global satisfaction), hypothesizing that volitional autonomy, perceived competence, and perceived relatedness would partially mediate these relationships. Results of path analysis indicated that all relations between the environment and teaching/service satisfaction were fully mediated by volitional autonomy and perceived competence, whereas all relations between the environment and global satisfaction were partially mediated by perceived relatedness. These findings highlight that psychological needs are central in understanding the relations between the environment and faculty well-being. The study discusses additional implications and future directions for research.
Growing Our Own: Cultivating Faculty Leadership
Mathews, K. (2018). Growing Our Own: Cultivating Faculty Leadership. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning , 50 (3-4), 88-92.
To overcome the pressures pulling the academy apart, presidents and provosts, governing boards and legislatures, foundations and associations should commit to the cultivation of leadership from faculty members and by them. As the faculty profession and population become increasingly complex, leaders will need skills in relating, sensemaking, visioning, and inventing. A skills inventory conducted among provosts, deans, and senior faculty development administrators revealed that while most had strengths in the first two categories, their visioning and inventing skills were less developed. Institutions can cultivate these skills in faculty and invite faculty into the leadership process—and they must do so in order to effectively develop the faculties of the future.
See also: Kiernan Mathews, Higher Education Leadership, Publications Using COACHE Data
Administrative Hierarchy and Faculty Work: Examining Faculty Satisfaction with Academic Leadership
Miller, M. T., Mamiseishvili, K., & Lee, D. (2016). Administrative Hierarchy and Faculty Work: Examining Faculty Satisfaction with Academic Leadership. Journal of Academic Administration in Higher Education , 12 (1), 1-7.
Academic administrators at all levels have some impact on the performance of faculty members, yet each level of administration may interact differently with faculty. Literature has strongly supported the notion that department chairs, deans, and provosts can positively influence the performance and livelihood of faculty members. This study was designed to explore faculty satisfaction with each level of academic administration making use of the 2014 Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey data collected by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education. Faculty members at research universities were more satisfied with leadership at the departmental than college or institutional levels. Furthermore, assistant professors were significantly more satisfied with academic leadership at all levels than both associate and full professors.
See also: Higher Education Leadership, Publications Using COACHE Data
Academic nursing administrators' workplace satisfaction and intent to stay
Emory, J., Lee, P., Miller, M. T., Kippenbrock, T., & Rosen, C. (2017). Academic nursing administrators' workplace satisfaction and intent to stay. Nursing Outlook , 65 (1), 77-83.
In nursing education, the academic administrator is critical given the multitude of challenges associated with program delivery (e.g., shortages of faculty, strict and changing regulations for program accreditation, and the sheer demand for more nurses). Unfortunately, with the focus on recruiting and retaining new novice faculty to teach students, academic nursing administrators have been overlooked in recent studies. As such, this study, which uses data from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, aims to explore the workplace satisfaction and intent to stay of academic nursing administrators by considering their relation to a variety of demographic and work related variables. Results indicate that several modifiable work factors positively relate to both job satisfaction and intent to stay.
See also: Recruitment and Retention, Publications Using COACHE Data, By Discipline
Benchmark Best Practices: Appreciation & Recognition
(2014). Benchmark Best Practices: Appreciation & Recognition . The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.
The COACHE surveys of college faculty produce data that are both salient to full-time college faculty and actionable by academic leaders. The survey items are aggregated into 20 benchmarks representing faculty satisfaction. This white paper examines appreciation and recognition for faculty teaching efforts, student advising, scholarly/creative work, service contributions, and outreach.
Focus group research conducted by COACHE showed that while many tenured faculty members feel valued by undergraduate and graduate students, they do not receive much recognition from other faculty and upper-level administrators. The degree to which appreciation/recognition themes appeared in our 2010 study of tenured faculty far surpassed their appearance in our pre-tenure faculty research. In our recent study, tenured faculty felt that extramural service that increases the reputation of their colleges, while expected of them, is not recognized and goes unrewarded. This gap between expectations and appreciation discouraged many faculty from serving their institutions in this way.
See also: Faculty Development and Support, Recruitment and Retention, Whitepapers
Work life balance and job satisfaction among faculty at Iowa State University
Mukhtar, F. (2012). Work life balance and job satisfaction among faculty at Iowa State University. Iowa State University.
This study utilized the existing database from the Iowa State University 2009-2010 Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey to explore faculty work life balance and job satisfaction among academic disciplines. This research sought to determine if (a) work life differs by academic discipline group: (b) job satisfaction differs by academic discipline, and (c) there is a relationship between faculty work life and job satisfaction and whether this relationship differs by academic discipline group, and (d) if academic discipline has a unique effect on faculty work and life balance.
The results indicated that there is a significant relationship between work life and job satisfaction. When controlling for demographic and professional experience, the result also indicated that age and climate, and culture were significant predicators for work life balance. The results also showed that female faculty have lower job satisfaction, and indicated that the level of job satisfaction was lower for hard pure disciplines than soft pure disciplines.
International Faculty Perceptions of Departmental Climate and Workplace Satisfaction
Mamiseishvili, K., & Lee, D. (2018). International Faculty Perceptions of Departmental Climate and Workplace Satisfaction. Innovative Higher Education , 43 (5), 323–338.
Although the variability in the definitions and immigration status of international academics makes it challenging to provide the exact number of foreign-born faculty members teaching and conducting research in U.S. postsecondary institutions, all data accounts have pointed to a steady growth in this segment of the professoriate. This study used data from the 2011-2014 Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey to examine international faculty members' satisfaction with autonomy, interactions with colleagues, departmental climate, and recognition and the effect of these elements upon the overall workplace satisfaction of international faculty members relative to their U.S. citizen peers.
This study helps identify factors that can enhance international faculty members' satisfaction in order to aid institutions in their efforts not only to recruit the best talent but also to support and retain such talent.
See also: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Publications Using COACHE Data
The role of citizenship status in intent to leave for pre-tenure faculty
Kim, D., Wolf-Wendel, L., & Twombly, S. B. (2013). The role of citizenship status in intent to leave for pre-tenure faculty. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education , 6 (4), 245-260.
Using a national database, this study uses discriminant analysis to explore the role of citizenship status in determining intent to leave for pre-tenure faculty members at 4-year research universities. Of the three possible responses (intend to stay, intend to leave, and undecided), two functions emerged. The first function differentiates those who intend to stay from those who intend to leave and those who are undecided. The second function differentiates between those who intend to leave and those who are undecided.
Measures of satisfaction with workplace serve as the primary indicators of function one. Race and citizenship status are the only variables significant for function two. Demographic variables, discipline, salary, and institutional variables are not significant in either function. The variables that are significant for the entire sample are similar to those significant just for non-U.S. citizen faculty. Implications of this study for institutions include attending to departmental and institutional fit, recognition of diversity among non-U.S. citizen faculty, and working toward improving various components of satisfaction.
See also: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Recruitment and Retention, Publications Using COACHE Data, Pre-Tenure
The workplace satisfaction of newly-tenured faculty members at research universities
Russell, B. C. (2013). The workplace satisfaction of newly-tenured faculty members at research universities. Harvard University.
If faculty are dissatisfied with their work, colleges and universities can experience educational and organizational repercussions that include contentious departmental climates and stagnant work productivity. The dissatisfaction of newly tenured faculty, who face unique transitional circumstances, could have particularly negative consequences.
This dissertation uses Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey data, along with interviews of 12 newly tenured faculty members, to estimate the predictors of newly tenured faculty workplace satisfaction. The results indicate that newly-tenured faculty tend to be satisfied with their institutions when they have communicative senior leaders, fair and reasonable compensation, and a sense of belonging in their departments. At the departmental level, newly-tenured faculty are more likely to be satisfied when norms and behaviors promote inclusion and diversity, colleagues are respectful, and departmental leaders are supportive. The results of this study can stimulate thinking about new policies and practices to maximize the satisfaction and performance of faculty during this transformative period in their careers.
See also: Faculty Development and Support, Recruitment and Retention, Publications Using COACHE Data, Tenured
Data, Leadership, and Catalyzing Culture Change
Benson, T., & Trower, C. (2012). Data, Leadership, and Catalyzing Culture Change. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning , 44 (4), 27-34.
As the national economy has worsened, a large cadre of tenured senior faculty is graying and staying at their institutions. This has left an older set of full professors who began their careers in a different era, an overworked and underappreciated set of associate professors, and a group of assistant professors who are wondering, "What have I gotten myself into?"
By and large, tenure-track faculty want what they have always wanted: clear and reasonable tenure requirements; support for teaching and research; an environment that allows them to juggle responsibilities at work and home; and a set of colleagues to whom they can turn for mentoring, collaborations, intellectual stimulation, and friendship. But several differences between the past and present affect these faculty dramatically.
See also: Cathy Trower, Todd Benson, Higher Education Leadership, Recruitment and Retention, Publications Using COACHE Data, Tenured
Reasonableness and clarity of tenure expectations: Gender and race differences in faculty perceptions.
Lisnic, R. (2016). Reasonableness and clarity of tenure expectations: Gender and race differences in faculty perceptions. University of Arkansas.
This dissertation studies how higher education policies and practices can affect faculty retention and proposes changes that higher education institutions need to make to retain their faculty. The first manuscript investigates the reasonableness of tenure expectations as it relates to work-life balance, the second explores whether women's and men's assessments of tenure-related departmental practices influence their perceptions of clarity of tenure expectations, and the third looks at how the intersection of gender and race influences faculty perceptions of clarity of tenure expectations. The dissertation uses Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey data from a sample of 2,438 tenure-track assistant professors at research universities.
COACHE Summary Tables 2014: Selected Dimensions on Faculty Workplace Climate by Discipline, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender
Benson, R. T., & Mathews, K. (2014). COACHE Summary Tables 2014: Selected Dimensions on Faculty Workplace Climate by Discipline, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender.
These tables present data from the 2014 Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey focusing on workplace climate, including responses to questions about workload, mentoring, departmental engagement, collaboration, and clarity around tenure decisions. Results are disaggregated by department, race/ethnicity, and gender.
Download the tables
Download the summary tables
See also: Kiernan Mathews, Todd Benson, Statistical Reports
Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Data Snapshots
Mathews, K. (2013). Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Data Snapshots.
These charts present data from the 2013 Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey, focusing on results across seven public universities. The charts represent the arithmetic mean, by academic area and by rank and tenure status, of select COACHE survey results. "NTT" faculty are full- time, non-tenure-track faculty. All items were rated by respondents on a five-point scale of satisfaction, agreement, etc. Thus, for example, faculty were asked not to report the number of courses they teach, but to rate their satisfaction with the number of courses they teach.
Download the snapshots
See also: Kiernan Mathews, Statistical Reports
The Experience of Tenure-Track Faculty at Research Universities: Analysis of COACHE Survey Results by Academic Area and Gender
(2010). The Experience of Tenure-Track Faculty at Research Universities: Analysis of COACHE Survey Results by Academic Area and Gender.
The COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey is organized around five themes: tenure, nature of the work, policies and practices, climate, culture, and collegiality, and global satisfaction. This analysis looks at survey data for pre-tenure faculty at research universities. In particular, the analysis examined gender differences across twelve academic areas. Mean scores for each of the 83 survey dimension were ranked across all 12 academic areas.
See also: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Statistical Reports, By Discipline, Pre-Tenure, Women
Building a Better Exit Study: A National Effort to Understand Faculty Retention & Turnover
(2017). Building a Better Exit Study: A National Effort to Understand Faculty Retention & Turnover.
In 2016, COACHE partnered with the University of California System to pilot our newest undertaking -- the Faculty Retenion and Exit Survey. This survey is the only multi-institutional study of faculty retention and exit, and examines the costs, conduct, and causes of faculty turnover.
In this webinar, Kiernan Mathews and Todd Benson describe how the survey came to be, and outline some of the initial findings from the pilot study along with some practical recommendations for Academic Affairs administrators.
See also: Kiernan Mathews, Faculty Development and Support, Recruitment and Retention, Webinars
Benchmark Best Practices: Nature of Work: Teaching
(2014). Benchmark Best Practices: Nature of Work: Teaching.
The COACHE surveys of college faculty produce data that are both salient to full-time college faculty and actionable by academic leaders. The survey items are aggregated into 20 benchmarks representing faculty satisfaction along key themes. This white paper examines teaching, based on survey responses that measure satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the portion of faculty members' time spent on teaching, the number and level of courses taught, the number and quality of students taught, discretion over course content, and the distribution of teaching workload across department faculty.
The challenge for every faculty member is to strike a balance between institutional expectations for teaching and the time available to invest in it. Dissatisfaction can occur when faculty members feel expectations for teaching are unreasonable, institutional support is lacking, or the distribution of work is inequitable. Satisfaction can be raised through workshops about improving teaching, mentoring students, using instructional technologies, and experimenting with new techniques.
See also: Faculty Development and Support, Whitepapers
Benchmark Best Practices: Nature of Work: Service
(2014). Benchmark Best Practices: Nature of Work: Service.
The COACHE surveys of college faculty produce data that are both salient to full-time college faculty and actionable by academic leaders. The survey items are aggregated into 20 benchmarks representing faculty satisfaction along key themes. This white paper examines service: faculty satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the portion of their time spent on service, the number of committees on which they serve, the attractiveness of those committees, and the discretion faculty have to choose them.
The COACHE survey instrument asks questions about the quantity, quality, and equitable distribution of their service work, as well as their institutions' efforts to help faculty be service leaders and sustain their other commitments. In follow-up interviews with faculty and institutional leaders, a common refrain emerged: faculty are eager to participate not in more service, but in more meaningful service, and institutions must do better to engage and to reward those contributions.
Benchmark Best Practices: Nature of Work: Research
(2014). Benchmark Best Practices: Nature of Work: Research.
The COACHE surveys of college faculty produce data that are both salient to full-time college faculty and actionable by academic leaders. The survey items are aggregated into 20 benchmarks representing faculty satisfaction. This white paper discusses research, including the portion of faculty time spent on research, external funding, the influence faculty have over the focus of their research/scholarly/creative work, the availability of course release time, and institutional support. Faculty satisfaction with research is a function not just of the time faculty members have to commit to research, but of the clarity and consistency of institutional expectations for research productivity and the resources colleges and universities provide faculty to meet them.
COACHE researchers interviewed leaders from member institutions whose faculty rated items in this theme exceptionally well. While several of the highest ratings were found at baccalaureate institutions, the lessons derived from our interviews with their leaders are transferrable to universities at the school-, college-, or division-level. | {
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September 23, 2018 Music / Premium
In Rainbows: the digital revolution triggered by Radiohead
Posted by Luca Divelti
After ending up their relationship with Emi in 2004, Radiohead had some important decisions to make: being out of any contractual obligations (and therefore substantially free to decide how to continue their own path) put them in a privileged position, but brought also some concerns. Out of the warm arms of an historical label there were uncertainties and pressures of a different kind.
After a long period of rest following Hail to the Thief and its tour, Thom Yorke's band decided to return in studio in the early months of 2005, with the clear intention of recording an album that was distributed only online, therefore outside the traditional circuit of the shops, which they considered a dead end: fans would have been able to download the album without fixed price, leaving them the choice whether to pay it with a donation or not.
Radiohead proposed the sketches of their songs in a series of concerts organized before the release, playing them and testing the reactions of the audience. All that material was brought in studio in the beginning 2007, and that was the moment when Nigel Godrich started to work on In Rainbows' production.
In Rainbows made clear that Radiohead had still the desire to play the game and no intentions to step back on their creative process, collect all the influences already present in OK Computer, Amnesiac and Kid A.
The songs, developed mainly around Johnny Greenwood's guitar (Bodysnatchers, Jigsaw Falling Into Place, Faust Arp), were mostly influenced by that setting, making In Rainbows much more accessible than Radiohead's previous albums. Nevertgeless, that typical mix of electronic elements and cryptic, emotional lyrics was not sacrified.
The album came up with soft sounds and delicate songs (Nude, House Of Cards, All I Need) that prived a special ability to highlight the skills of the band and Thom Yorke's talen in vocals and in the interpretation of the mood.
In Rainbows was able to embraces several styles, mixing them without excess of overload of arrangements: for the umpteenth time, Radiohead managed to present complex pievces of art and make them look simple. With their first album out of EMI, they expressed all their commercial potential, selling over three million copies (also thanks to the "physical" distribution that took place few months later).
In Rainbows represented the final artistic maturity of Radiohead: a record full of beautiful songs, able to excite and involve in a way that was priceless: maybe that's the reason why many decided to download it for free.
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Oasis, Stop Crying Your Heart Out: an encouraging message for all us
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Vehicles/Equipment
Propane Autogas
Auto Rental News
City Taps State Grants for Hybrids, CNG Pickups
April 1, 2015 • by Staff
Photo courtesy of Ford.
The City of Aurora, Colo., is adding 17 alternative-fuel vehicles to its fleet this year with grant funding to help defray the cost of the vehicles.
The first three Ford C-Max Energi plug-in hybrids entered service in February as employee motor pool cars. Later this year, the city plans to purchase another seven plug-in hybrids, including three for the Aurora Police Department, three for the Aurora Fire Department, and one for the city's Finance Department.
A Regional Air Quality Council (RAQC) Charge Ahead Colorado grant funded most of the city's costs to upgrade from a standard gasoline-powered vehicle to plug-in electric hybrid, saving the city up to $8,260 per vehicle. This same grant also helped fund two electric vehicle charging stations installed in early 2014. Additional charging stations will be installed later this year.
The city also plans to buy seven compressed natural gas (CNG) bi-fuel Ford 4x4 Super Duty pickups: one for Aurora Water; two for the Parks, Recreation and Open Space department; and four for the Public Works Department.
The city applying for a RAQC Alt Fuels Colorado grant to help defray the cost of purchasingthe CNG vehicles versus regular fuel vehicles, which amounts to up to $7,000 more per truck.
The city added its first alternative fuel vehicles as Toyota Prius hybrids in 2001. The vehicles continue to operate as motor pool cars.
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Reversible atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus
Upile, T; Jerjes, W; El Maaytah, M; Singh, S; Hopper, C; Mahil, J; (2006) Reversible atrial fibrillation secondary to a mega-oesophagus. BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders , 6 , Article 15. 10.1186/1472-6815-6-15.
1472-6815-6-15.pdf
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, and it increases in prevalence with advancing age to about 5% in people older than 65 years.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6815-6-15
PMCID: PMC1716178 © 2006 Upile et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abraham Lincoln hunts vampires in film adaptation
By Borys Kit
Director Tim Burton poses for photographers as he arrives for the Royal World Premiere of "Alice In Wonderland" at Leicester Square in London February 25, 2010. REUTERS/Jas Lehal
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tim Burton and "Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov are teaming to bring the new novel "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" to the big screen.
The book, written by Seth Grahame-Smith, was released Tuesday by Grand Central Publishing.
Burton and Bekmambetov are not attached to direct, but will produce the adaptation with Jim Lemley. The trio first collaborated to produce the animated fantasy "9" with Focus Features released last fall.
Grahame-Smith, who combined zombies and Jane Austen in the best-selling novel "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," will write the screenplay. Hollywood already has its hooks in "Zombies"; the book is set up at Lionsgate with Natalie Portman producing and attached to direct.
"Lincoln" is not set up anywhere, but Burton and Bekmambetov hope to change that soon. One of the factors that cemented the filmmakers' interest was a peek at an in-house trailer for the book.
"Lincoln" reimagines one of the great U.S. presidents as an axe-throwing, highly trained vampire assassin, promising to give new context to real historical events such as the Civil War and Lincoln's ascension to the White House. It begins with his mother's murder when he was still a young boy and his vow of revenge.
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Living : Auto
Behind The Wheel of the Latest Maserati Ghibli S
Words by Nick Tobias
In the past Maserati haven't really tried to compete with anyone, they have always been a pure individual brand, doing their own thing and with their own cult following. The 1967 Ghibli Coupe was no exception and was always going to be hard to live up to (for those who were lucky enough to experience it). Now, owned by Fiat Chrysler conglomerate (Alpha, Chrysler, Fiat, Jeep, Ferrari, Maserati and more) they must compete and they must sell a lot of units. Enter the latest Ghibli, a 4 door saloon built to create a different access point for this very popular market.
The new Ghibli is really a smaller version of the awesome Quattroporte that lead Maserati back onto the map a decade ago. On first approach there's no question the Ghibli is a Maserati – sultry eyes, wide haunches, gaping grillage, shark-like gills, and of course, the trident badge front and centre. That said, It doesn't go quite as far as it's Quattroporte and GranTurismo cousins. Maybe this is due to the search for broader appeal.
The self-assured interior is clearly Italian – luxurious, full of details (double stitched leather, quilted seats, traditional clock) and un abbraccio (it hugs you). Again the commonality of the group elements show through but it somehow gets away with it. The steering wheel feels great in the hands and technology works as well as it should.
Where this car comes into it's own is the engine (a 3.0 litre V6, twin turbo), and particularly it's sound! After spending some time on the highway (which was very nice and civilised thanks to the super acoustic rated windows), we headed into what some would call, 'challenging territory' where sport mode was activated. The gearing gets wound up (all 8 of them!), the dampers in the exhaust system are opened and in true Italian style, it's like an aria from one of Puccini's operas at full volume.
Coming out of corner one into a reasonable straight there was room for a bit of a poke, and that's all it took to get to 200km/hr! It's clear to see that this 400+hp engine is part made in Ferrari's Maranello factory.
Backing off a little it was then time to test the handling. Although in Europe this is an all wheel drive model, Australia gets the rear wheel drive and it's perfect for this type of car. Limited body roll and a reasonable weight to the car means that it loves to be given a bit through the corners, the rear 275/45 R18's are like putty on the road.
Heading back into the city, I'm not sure whether it was the car or me who needed settling down. The Ghibli is easy going as a day to day saloon – an alternative to the usual suspects if you are looking for something a little more unique and individual with an engine that will drive the neighbours nuts!
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Administrative and Operations
Engineering Supervisor 1
panama city beach, FL, US, 32413
A TOWN WHERE EVERY DETAIL, FROM VISION TO EXECUTION, MAKES LUXURY SEEM SIMPLE.
From the moment one views the iconic butteries and towering palms lining the center of our beach town, there is an unrivaled sense of escape. Alys Beach is carefully crafted to celebrate the public realm of streets, parks, pedestrian paths, and great civic buildings in a manner reminiscent of the world's most beloved seaside towns. In recognition of the strong draw of the sea, our streets orient to the beach, guaranteeing views to the Gulf and cooling sea breezes.
Alys Beach is a groundbreaking community located along the Gulf of Mexico on Florida's panhandle coast, six miles east of Seaside on Scenic Highway 30A. Planned by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Alys Beach is a Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) whose architectural vision has its roots in the style of Bermuda architecture and in the courtyards of Antigua, Guatemala, the colonial capital of Central America.
Alys Beach is in the early stages of town building. Our purpose is to evolve along with your family, maintaining the timeless traditions of sustainability and the highest standards of design and construction. Come join us in creating a special place to live, visit, relax, and play.
EBSCO Industries is seeking a Engineering Supervisor to join our team. The Engineering Supervisor will provide technical and administrative assistance to the Director of Maintenance and Facilities in all operational aspects of the Engineering department.
Assist the Director of Maintenance and Facilities in the procurement of supplies
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Provide exceptional customer service to homeowners, guests, and vendors
Review, assign and act on work requests by setting priorities for engineering
Ability to communicate clearly and professionally with co-workers, homeowners, and guests verbally and in writing
Ability to use standard software applications
Ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions
Assume the full responsibility for the Facilities Department in the absence of the Director of Maintenance and Facilities
Work on equipment as needed
Engage in a positive and urgent manner with owners, guests, and fellow associates
Communicate directly with owners, guests, and fellow associates
Ability to work overtime, nights, and/or weekends and holidays
EBSCO Industries, Inc.is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. EBSCO strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.
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Why Into the Odd is a Horror Game
Into the Odd is now officially "A Survival Horror Roleplaying Game". What qualifies it to carry that subtitle? There are those that would argue even regular D&D is a horror game, making some excellent points, but what about my variant?
Deceptive Normality
The setting of Into the Odd is filled with normality. Sure, there are revolutions, plagues and cruel factory-masters, but this is all very mundane stuff. The Odd is out there to be found, but most of civilization is similar to our own world, even the cities that are built on crashed spaceships. Wars are fought by men with guns, not armoured knights or battle wizards. Factories mass produce goods and companies and politicians share power, with monarchs being no more than figureheads. This is an early-modern world we can relate to, not a medieval fantasy.
The Known but Incomprehensible
Beside the relatively mundane happenings of an industrial world are things nobody understands. Grouping Arcana under one name is deceptive, as the game clearly dictates that they should break the rules. You can use an Arcanum and talk to scholars about them but nobody really understands them or knows a way to bypass the risks of using them. Similarly, everybody has a theory on the Astrals, but there are no solid answers. They could be aliens, divine beings, demons, advanced terrestrial beings or pure mythology.
Unfair Enemies
Referees are told to create monsters that break the rules and function in a vastly different way to normal characters. Most importantly, don't think of monsters as opponents to act as a fair fight to the characters. An encounter with a monster doesn't have to mean combat and in many cases it should be actively avoided. I hope to lead by example on this one with the seven example monsters provided in the game.
The Dust Hag, Beckoning Shadow and Thing of Glowing Smoke are immune to normal weapons. The Abbysal Turtle is so huge that small arms are going to have very little effect, requiring Arcana or at least siege weapons. The Dead Echo can only be fought in darkness or a reflection and the Strange Hunter has a disintegration gun that exceeds any earthly weapon. The remaining underdog monster, the Ebon Crawler, can be fought simply enough but if it pins you down it'll dislocate its limbs, slither down your throat and hibernate in your corpse. Needless to say I want to encourage a sense of fear when it comes to monsters the characters will encounter.
Creeping, Inevitable Death
Not quite inevitable, there's no fun in that, but the threat is inevitable. If you fight for long enough you will have to start making saves to avoid Critical Damage, and that's always bad news. Attacks cause damage automatically, unless your armour reduces it to zero, so your Hitpoints are always a limited resource. They recover with a moment's rest, of course, but there isn't a standard method to recover them in combat. Watch them drip away as your character gets tired and starts to lose confidence. Do you want to stay around until you're at 0hp and need to roll a dread Save?
Disposable Cast
An alarming title, perhaps not as bad as it might sound. This effect comes from a combination of the Company system, where characters of Expert level either become members of a Company or found their own. This is the game's nod to the Domains of old and gives them a bank of resources, including characters. As the character proficiency curve is much flattened from traditional D&D it's a very viable option to send another member of your Company on an expedition in your place. If your main character does die, there are a bank of new characters waiting in the wings to take over their legacy.
Labels: DnD, Horror, into the odd
David Bapst 30 October 2012 at 14:29
It was pretty clear to me that Into the Odd was horror the first time I read the example of play.
Paul Thornton 30 October 2012 at 16:14
Well, I've just downloaded it, but based on the above, I think I'm going to like it! Mind you, I love horror games...
Chris McDowall 30 October 2012 at 16:42
David: Good to know it came across!
Paul: Great stuff. Be sure to let me know how it plays for you if you get the chance to run it.
Stargazer 31 October 2012 at 08:00
I really hope you don't plan to kill off Ezekiel just to show off the "Disposable Heroes" aspect of the game. I love my character!
Rest assured, if he dies it will be all your own fault!
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How To Change Your TV Settings So You Can Actually See Game Of Thrones Episode Three
Amelia Ward
Published 16:38, 29 April 2019 BST
| Last updated 16:55, 29 April 2019 BST
We're in the midst of Game of Thrones season eight, the final outing for the series and the most talked-about so far. But fans have one major gripe: it's all just too DARK.
And by that, I don't mean the incest, murder and shock beheadings - they're all part of the reason we love it. I mean it's literally too dark. The show's lighting is so low that fans have claimed they're struggling to see what's going on.
And according to those who have already watched it, episode three is by far the most impossible to watch. If you haven't watched it yet, don't worry, this is a spoiler-free zone, you're safe to continue.
So here we go, we're gonna get all tech-y on you and give you a few tips on how to watch/re-watch Game of Thrones episode three, and, you know, actually be able to see it.
Firstly, let's talk common sense. If you want to watch something dark on TV, sitting in a brightly lit room isn't going to help. So turn off your lights and shut your curtains... and maybe put down your bloody phone for once.
All of this is going to reduce background light and any annoying reflections on the screen, making it easier to see all that blood and murder. Might seem obvious but you never know with some people.
And here's another solution - quite simply, adjust your brightness.
Watch yourself here though, you don't want to adjust it so it looks too washed out and loses its impact, so try it in small increments. Tread carefully, friends.
Depending on how fancy your TV is, there are two potential parts to this. The 'backlight' setting may well be different to the brightness - turning up the brightness of the picture can push up the amount of light coming through the back of it. It might be best to turn that off completely.
If you're still after the perfect settings, Googling your make and model and 'recommended picture settings' will usually bring up forums full of clever people who have worked it all out for you.
Now you can watch the rest of the episodes in perfect clarity - all you have to do is concentrate on avoiding the spoilers.
If you have a better solution, head over to Game of Thrones: Westeros Posting on Facebook and tell us the answer.
The final season of Game of Thrones continues on Sky Atlantic at 2am on Monday 6 May, before repeating at 9pm that same day.
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Hanning, Nina M. ORCID: 0000-0002-3640-1151; Aagten-Murphy, David ORCID: 0000-0003-0725-9448; Deubel, Heiner (September 2016): Attentional competition between reach target and saccade target selection. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, 13. – 18. Mai 2016, St. Pete Beach.
DOI: 10.1167/16.12.1034
Both eye and hand movements have been shown to draw visual attention to their goal locations during movement preparation. However, it is still a matter of debate whether a unitary attentional system underlies the selection of both eye and hand targets, or whether they are selected by independent systems. To approach this question we investigated the deployment of visual attention in coordinated eye-hand movements. In a dual movement task we asked participants to reach and look towards two different locations. The discrimination performance at the eye and hand targets was taken as a measure of the distribution of attention during motor goal selection. Our results show that attention is allocated in parallel towards both the future saccade and reach target. Importantly, the attentional benefit at the saccade target in the dual movement task was as high as in a single movement condition, in which subjects only performed an eye but no hand movement. The benefit at the reach target, however, was more pronounced in the single hand movement compared to the combined eye-hand movement condition. Thus, while attentional allocation to the saccade target was not affected by the concurrent preparation of a hand movement, the attentional benefit at the reach target suffered from the need to simultaneously prepare a saccade. Our findings indicate that action selection mechanisms for different effectors compete for attentional resources, with saccade target selection having highest priority, suggesting that targets for both eye and hand movements are represented in a unitary map of action-relevant locations. Meeting abstract presented at VSS 2016
Conference or Workshop Item (Abstract)
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Journal of Vision, No. 12, Vol. 16, September 2016: p. 1034
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Hanning, Nina M.
Aagten-Murphy, David
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Sir Mervyn William Richardson-Bunbury, 4th Bt.1
M, #558611, b. 1 June 1874, d. 21 October 1953
Sir Mervyn William Richardson-Bunbury, 4th Bt. was born on 1 June 1874.1 He was the son of Mervyn Matthew Richardson-Bunbury and Eliza Mary Thorn.2 He died on 21 October 1953 at age 79, unmarried.1
He succeeded as the 4th Baronet Richardson, of Augher, co. Tyrone [I., 1787] on 19 February 1909.1
Irene Matilda Richardson-Bunbury1
F, #558612, b. 1 December 1871
Irene Matilda Richardson-Bunbury was born on 1 December 1871.1 She was the daughter of Mervyn Matthew Richardson-Bunbury and Eliza Mary Thorn.2 She married Captain Douglas Philip Bayly, son of Mansel Bayly, in 1895.1
From 1895, her married name became Bayly.
Mansel Bayly1
Last Edited=5 Jul 2012
Child of Mansel Bayly
Captain Douglas Philip Bayly2 d. 1927
Captain Douglas Philip Bayly1
Last Edited=30 May 2012
Captain Douglas Philip Bayly was the son of Mansel Bayly.2 He married Irene Matilda Richardson-Bunbury, daughter of Mervyn Matthew Richardson-Bunbury and Eliza Mary Thorn, in 1895.1 He died in 1927.1
Matilda Anne Richardson-Bunbury1
F, #558615, d. 4 January 1919
Matilda Anne Richardson-Bunbury was the daughter of Rev. Sir John Richardson-Bunbury, 3rd Bt. and Maria Anketell.2 She married George Charles Brackenridge on 12 July 1870.1 She died on 4 January 1919.1
Her married name became Trimble.
George Charles Brackenridge1
George Charles Brackenridge married Matilda Anne Richardson-Bunbury, daughter of Rev. Sir John Richardson-Bunbury, 3rd Bt. and Maria Anketell, on 12 July 1870.1 He died in 1879.1
He lived at Ashfield Park, County Tyrone, Ireland.1 He was given the name of George Charles Trimble at birth.1
Olivia Emma Richardson-Bunbury1
F, #558617, d. 27 July 1939
Olivia Emma Richardson-Bunbury was the daughter of Rev. Sir John Richardson-Bunbury, 3rd Bt. and Maria Anketell.2 She married Colonel George Atherley William Forrest on 16 April 1891.1 She died on 27 July 1939.1
From 16 April 1891, her married name became Forrest.
Colonel George Atherley William Forrest1
M, #558618, d. April 1904
Colonel George Atherley William Forrest married Olivia Emma Richardson-Bunbury, daughter of Rev. Sir John Richardson-Bunbury, 3rd Bt. and Maria Anketell, on 16 April 1891.1 He died in April 1904.1
He gained the rank of Colonel in the Hampshire Regiment.1
William Richardson-Bunbury1
M, #558619, b. 5 June 1817, d. 13 November 1877
William Richardson-Bunbury was born on 5 June 1817.1 He was the son of Sir James Mervyn Richardson-Bunbury, 2nd Bt. and Margaret Moutray.2 He married Amelia Georgiana Molloy, daughter of Lt.-Col. John Molloy and Georgiana Kennedy, on 22 July 1857.1 He died on 13 November 1877 at age 60.1
Children of William Richardson-Bunbury and Amelia Georgiana Molloy
Isabella Augusta Richardson-Bunbury2 d. c 1937
Georgina Kennedy Richardson-Bunbury2 d. c 1946
Dorothy Flora Richardson-Bunbury2 d. 17 Dec 1955
Emily Beatrice Richardson-Bunbury2 d. 22 Jan 1969
Alice Sabine Richardson-Bunbury2 d. 1963
Olive Mary Richardson-Bunbury+2 d. c 1937
Moutray Frederic Richardson-Bunbury+2 b. 6 Jan 1865, d. 19 Mar 1917
Archibald Edward Richardson-Bunbury+2 b. 7 Aug 1868, d. 6 Dec 1937
Lt.-Col. John Molloy1
M, #558620, b. 5 September 1780, d. 6 October 1867
Lt.-Col. John Molloy was born on 5 September 1780 at London, England.2 He married Georgiana Kennedy, daughter of DAvid Kennedy, on 1 August 1829 at Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.2 He died on 6 October 1867 at age 87 at Western Australia, Australia.2
He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade.1
Children of Lt.-Col. John Molloy and Georgiana Kennedy
Amelia Georgiana Molloy+3 d. 2 Sep 1910
Sabina Dunlop Molloy+2
Mary Dorothea Molloy+ d. 13 May 1881
[S254] Australian Dictionary of Biography - Online Edition, online http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au. Hereinafter cited as Australian Dictionary of Biography. | {
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Gwynne Dyer 1
A tale of two bombs -- in Manchester and Bangkok
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/05/2017
» There were two bombs on Monday. The one in Britain killed at least 22 people and injured 120 as they came out of a concert at Manchester Arena. It was carried out by a suicide bomber named Salman Abedi and claimed by the Islamic State (IS). The other was in Thailand, and injured 22 people at a military-linked hospital in Bangkok; nobody has claimed responsibility yet. But what happened afterwards was very different. | {
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Dissolved aluminium in the surface microlayer of the eastern Arabian Sea
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Singbal, S.Y.S.
Measurements of dissolved aluminium (Al) in surface microlayer (SML) samples from the eastern Arabian Sea during the southwest (summer) and northwast (winter) monsoon periods have revealed much higher concentrations (23-657 nmol kg sup(-1)) than in the sub-surface layer (SSL; collected at 1 m depth). Higher concentrations observed during the summer monsoon and directional trends in the distribution, with conentration maxima situated away from the influence of fluvial discharge, are best explainEd. by the atmospheric deposition of mineral dust aerosal and its subsequent dissolution in the surface seawater. The low Al concentrations in the SSL (11-296 nmol kg sup(-1)) varied in line with those in the SML. However, Al was significantly higher there than in the rest of the water column (up to 3000 m), indicating that much of the dissolved aerosal Al was removed in the upper few metres of the water column. The non-nutrient-type behaviour of dissolved Al did not support a mechanism of Al removal by biological uptake. High Al levels in the SML observed during the summer monsoon were associated with low primary productivity. The considerably lower values observed the winter monsoon, a priod of higher primary productivity in the Arabian Sea, could be due to removeal from solution by adsorption onto biogenic particles
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Peter Bodin named Global CEO-elect of Grant Thornton
Bodin to succeed Ed Nusbaum from 1 January 2018
Peter Bodin will lead Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL), the global entity of one of the world's leading professional services networks with 47,000 people at member firms in over 130 countries, it was announced today. Bodin, the former CEO of Grant Thornton Sweden, will assume the role with effect from 1 January 2018 for a five year term, succeeding Ed Nusbaum who will retire at the end of this year after eight years as CEO of GTIL.
Speaking from London where GTIL is based, Peter Bodin said, "I am honoured and excited to be given this opportunity to lead Grant Thornton into its next era of growth and expansion. I have always believed sustainable business success is built on having the right people, leadership and culture. My role will be to create an environment that allows Grant Thornton people and firms to collaborate, not just with each other but with clients and other stakeholders, to grow into the world's best professional services organisation. That means building an innovative brand that stands out in the marketplace and having a resolute focus on digital transformation - - of our own business and for our clients around the world."
Scott Barnes, Chair of GTIL's Board of Governors (Board) commented, "As a former Chair of the Board, Peter has deep knowledge of the global organisation and will inspire confidence in our CEOs. He has a reputation for coaching and developing people at every level and I believe his passion for people and leadership and his open, transparent style will resonate with the next generation at Grant Thornton."
Ed Nusbaum added, "I am delighted that the Board has chosen a strong, innovative leader in Peter who will inspire the people of Grant Thornton, our clients, and our communities throughout the world. I have worked closely with him over the years and I am confident that after a smooth transition he will continue the journey to execute our Growing Together 2020 strategy and continue to build an exciting future for this great organisation."
Peter was the CEO of Grant Thornton Sweden for 16 years during which time the firm transformed from a traditional audit firm into a SEK1.3 billion professional services firm with over 1,100 people and a reputation for its strong brand, distinctive culture and its development of digital solutions. During this time, he also spent five years as Chairman of the Board. Peter, 51, received unanimous support from the Board, including CEOs of Grant Thornton member firms from 14 countries and two independent directors following a selection process carried out with the support of external experts.
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WV's Vaccine Incentives Include Free Trucks, Guns
West Virginia's first big drawing is June 20
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The prizes in a lottery to encourage coronavirus vaccinations in West Virginia include custom hunting rifles and shotguns. (Getty/splendens)
Ohio credited its $1 million lottery drawing as helping to deliver a big jump in its coronavirus vaccination rate. West Virginia is going several steps further, with a lottery drawing offering $1 million, full 4-year scholarships, custom pickup trucks, lifetime hunting and fishing licenses, and guns. The state will give away five custom hunting rifles and five custom shotguns, Forbes reports. Residents who have had at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine will be able to register for the June 20 drawing, which will see the above given away. Weekly drawings that run through Aug. 4 will see more $1 million prizes doled out.
Some 41.2% of adults in the state are fully vaccinated, but West Virginia's vaccine hesitancy rate is on the higher side, with one poll finding 28% of the population unwilling to be vaccinated. Among residents 50 and older, the state said, 75% are vaccinated, per WTRF. "We are going to make a few West Virginians millionaires by the time this is over," Gov. Jim Justice said, per WVNews. "We can do that, but we've got to get you vaccinated." In addition, West Virginia is giving $100 savings bonds or gift cards to anyone 16-35 who is fully vaccinated. Residents can register at governor.wv.gov. (Ohio's first $1 million winner is just 22.) | {
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Following the release of their new album 'Just Say Jesus', LTTM caught up with US rockers 7eventh Time Down for a brief chat about the new release, their inspiration, and of course - that unusual band name!
For those who haven't heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about yourselves and how you got involved in making music?
We started our first band when I (Mikey-Singer) was just 12 years old. Austin our drummer was 11 at the time. We grew up together playing in different cover bands (a lot of third day and d.c. talk)...
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We started our first band when I (Mikey-Singer) was just 12 years old. Austin our drummer was 11 at the time. We grew up together playing in different cover bands (a lot of third day and d.c. talk) and when we all got outta school, God just placed the same desire in all of us to do music ministry. So we all sold what we could bought a van and hit the road! Praise God! He has kept us all these years!
How did you come up with the name of the band, and what's the meaning behind it?
2 Kings 5:14. Naman the king had leprosy. God told him through a prophet if he would dip in the Jordan river 7 times he would be healed. Naman refused because at the time the dirty river was no place for a king. He finally humbled himself before God and on his 7eventh Time Down he came up clean!
Tell us a little bit about your new album 'Just Say Jesus' and what the inspiration behind it was?
Every song has it's own story and life. We just wanted to write great songs that inspire people to live like Jesus.
Which is your favorite track on the album and why?
Just Say Jesus is a personal favorite because of the amount of stories we have received from listeners about how God has used the song to help them.
What's your song writing process?
Every song is different. Some start as a concept. Some a melody others a guitar riff! No formula really. Just trying to write great songs.
If you could work with any songwriter, who would it be and why?
We have worked with so many great ones it's hard to say.
How would you define success in your career as a band?
As long as we can add to conversation that is leading a world to Jesus I'd say we are succeeding in what he set out to do.
What advice would you give to any aspiring bands out there?
Be resilient!
You're stuck on an island, it's hot, you only have enough battery life left to listen to one song on your mp3 player. What track is it?
Probably one of my daughter's favorite songs... Kj52 Bill Cosby dance!
What does the next year hold for 7eventh Time Down?
We are going to keep touring and telling people what Jesus has done for us as loud as we can! We have some really big tour announcements around the corner too...
Find out more at seventhtimedown.com
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The unearthing of a French black truffle in northern Tasmania on June 18th 1999 was the culmination of eight years work by Duncan Garvey and Peter Cooper who pioneered the French truffle industry in Australia. The discovery represented the attainment of a key goal in their efforts to establish a successful new industry in Australia.
Perigord Truffles of Tasmania was the first company in Australia to develop a French truffle industry. The site of the first truffle harvest is one of many sites which have produced French truffles.
Perigord is now producing French truffles tuber melanosporum in Tasmania and the cold areas of Victoria and NSW. Perigord has strengthened its position as the pre-eminent truffle company in Australia. We have achieved this by bringing together Australia's best people in the fields of truffle production, harvesting and gastronomy.
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Egypt Rejects Turkey's Criticism Over Detention of Anadolu Reporters - Foreign Ministry
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CAIRO (Sputnik) – Egypt rejects Ankara's criticism over the arrest of Anadolu Agency workers in Cairo on suspicion of distorting Egypt's international image, as all measures that were taken fell within the confines of the law, the Foreign Ministry said.
"Egypt has completely rejected the statements of the Turkish Foreign Ministry regarding the measures taken by the Egyptian authorities against one of the Turkish illegal electronic media committees in Egypt, working under the cover of Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group with Turkey's support," the ministry said in a statement.
The statement read that the group published false and fabricated information about the political, economic and security situation in Egypt and sent it to the agency headquarters in Ankara "in an attempt to discredit the country within it and in the international arena."
According to the statement, all the measures taken by the local authorities were relevant and carried out in accordance with the country's laws and regulations.
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On Wednesday, the Turkish news agency reported that Egyptian police had searched its offices in Cairo. The Egyptian Interior Ministry announced shortly thereafter that it had detained four members of the so-called electronic media committee, one of them a Turkish national, over their alleged links to the Muslim Brotherhood (terrorist group, banned in Russia).
The same day, the Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the detention of the agency's staffers and summoned the Egyptian charge d'affaires.
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How We Dropped 12 of the Top Phones to Name a Winner
By Mike Prospero 2018-05-21T10:58:00Z
The methodology behind our first-ever Smartphone Toughness Tests.
When a smartphone slips out of your hand, there's no way of telling how it will land when it finally hits the ground. For our first ever Smartphone Toughness Tests, we strived to take as much of the randomness out of the process as possible.
We decided to drop 12 of the top phones both on their faces and on their edges, onto surfaces of increasing hardness. But what's the best way to drop a phone?
Meet Dropbot 5000
That's why we built the Dropbot 5000; this machine let us drop phones from consistent heights onto different materials. The top of the Dropbot has two attachments. The first has a quick-release clamp that holds a phone or tablet vertically, which opens when someone pulls the release cable. The second attachment is a platform that drops like a trapdoor when someone pulls its release cable.
In setting up the tests, we discovered that while the pincer attachment worked reliably, the platform attachment dropped phones in such a way that they would rotate mid-air, and thus would not reliably land on their faces.
Ultimately, we decided to use the clamp attachment for the edge drops, but used our own hands for the face drops, to ensure the phones would land on their faces, or as close to as possible.
Initially, we were going to drop the phones onto low-pile carpet, then wood, then concrete, but after seeing that nothing happened when a phone landed on carpet, we decided to forego that round.
For the wood test, we had the phones land on the Dropbot's base, which is made of 0.75-inch plywood. For the concrete test, we poured a 12 x 12-inch slab that was 0.75 inches in thickness.
Testing Rounds
In all, there were seven total drops in our testing, spread out over four rounds.
For the first round, we dropped each phone, face-first, onto wood from 4 and 6 feet.
The second round involved dropping the phone from a height of 4 feet onto a concrete pad. For this test, we dropped the phone first on its edge, and then on its face.
For the third round, we also dropped the phone onto concrete, but this time, it was from a height of 6 feet. Here, too, we dropped it first on its edge, and finally onto its face.
Lastly, we dropped the phones—holding them vertically—from a height of 4 feet into a water-filled toilet.
After each drop, we recorded the damage to the phone. If a phone was rendered unusable — the screen totally shattered, for instance — then we stopped dropping it.
Each drop was worth a maximum of 5 points; if a phone made it through all of the rounds unscathed, it would earn 35 points.
The more severe the damage per drop was, the more points were deducted. So, for example, if no damage occurred, the phone would receive 5 points; if there was light scuffing or scratches, the phone would receive 4 points; moderate damage was worth 3 points. Heavy damage was worth 2 points, and severe damage worth 1 point.
If a phone was deemed unusable after a given drop, it would earn no points, and would not undergo any subsequent test. For example, following the 6-foot edge drop onto concrete, the iPhone SE's display still worked, but the glass was so broken, that we considered it too damaged to use safely.
We also decided to penalize phones if they died early, but this lessened with each subsequent round. So, if a phone was unusable following the 6-foot edge drop, it was penalized 10 percent. If it died in the 6-foot face drop, it was penalized 5 percent. And if it died when dropped into the toilet, it lost 2.5 percent.
After tallying the total number of points for each round, and calculating any penalties, we then divided the total score by 3.5, to put the toughness score on a 10-point scale.
Overall, we believe that our testing methodology was sound, but there are ways that we plan on improving the tests to achieve more consistent results. First, we are going to continue to modify the Dropbot to achieve more consistent and repeatable impact angles.
Second, the toilet test left room for error, as we could not consistently have phones land in the bowl in the exact same spot. Moreover, a mere splash in the toilet was not enough to cause lasting damage to any of the phones--even the Moto Z2 Force came back to life after it dried out--so a more rigorous test is warranted.
If you have any suggestions as to how we can improve our current tests, or what other tests we should perform, please let us know in the comments below.
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KENS 5 Country: Serious learning through play in Seguin
Researchers say playtime may be every bit as important for children as hitting the books.
Author: Sue Calberg
Updated: 11:37 PM CST November 14, 2018
Kids love recess, and thanks to a new effort in Seguin, some students are now being given free time to play outside four times a day.
The pilot program is part of educational research at Texas Christian University. Their research is showing that if kids actively play throughout the day, they do better with their studies.
Pete Silvius, with Seguin ISD, said the program is called LiiNK, which stands for "Let's Inspire Innovation 'N Kids."
"We're thrilled about it and we're making decisions based on what the kids need first," he said. Silvius credits Doctor Debbie Rhea with pioneering the concept.
"The basics are that we have a daily character education curriculum that's taught in the morning and then we have four 15-minute recess breaks throughout the school day," Silvius said.
This year, kindergarten and first grade students are using the program.
"What we've found is that there's attentional fatigue that sets in when kids are sitting in their desks for too long. So, by taking that reset, and letting their brains come outside, they're able to achieve at higher levels," Silvius said.
Silvius, who leads outdoor education excursions for students almost year-round, said the value of being in nature cannot be overstated.
"We all know that when we get outside, our blood pressure drops, our whole demeanor changes. We feel better. We're able to act more kindly to one another. So yes. All day, every day. We don't want our kids in their desks for any longer than one hour without that reset time," Silvius said.
Silvius said the pilot project has worked so well, they will be expanding it as quickly as they can.
"We're going to roll it out at three more campus locations next year and then two more the next year," Silvius said.
The program will also grow as the students age.
"In addition to it rolling out, it's also rolling up. We start with kindergarten and first grade and next year we're going to add second grade, as our kids move from one grade to the next," Silvius said.
As kids play at their own discretion, they learn about collaboration and taking acceptable risks, along with other skills that will serve them well in life.
"So we're building a strong foundation with the character education program, with the unstructured play and we see this as being a systemic change within our school district," Silvius said.
Because the program addresses the needs of children holistically, educators believe it will grow a great crop of active involved citizens.
"It's good for all of us. Just standing out here, you can tell that kids are happier, and if nothing else, that should be what drives our decisions, right? Making sure our kids are happier!" Silvius said.
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Best YouTube Gaming Channels in 2020
The social media sites have taken over as the new mass communication device. The increasing use of Facebook, twitter, Snap chat, Instagram, and YouTube has led to many changes in the gaming world. Once, there was a time when one had to collect money with devotion to buy their favourite game only to end up not liking it and having their money wasted. However, with the growing trend of YouTube gaming channels, it is easier to get a view or review of the game that you are thinking of buying and spending all that pocket money on.
However, it is also not easy to pick the best YouTube reviewers to give you reviews or commentary on any video game. You do not want to sit on your expensive gaming computer desk to only have your time wasted. For a gamer, the perfect mouse – see our gaming mouse reviews, perfect desk and the game matters, so to save your quality time, here's a list of the top YouTube gaming channels to subscribe for informative, well researched and hilarious reviews.
1. Achievement Hunters
When we are talking about the gaming world, it is hard to miss the Achievement Hunters. Once you see their subscribers, you will understand how huge their channel is. To entertain and inform about 3 million subscribers is not an easy task. However, with their rotating cast in almost every episode, they have their viewers gripped to their favourite gaming desks and chairs. What's interesting is that they have a wide style of videos which has something or the other for everyone.
The Achievement Hunters is a team of 6 members who has you on your toes with their hilarious commentary and exemplary reviews. They come from a well-established company, theroosterteeth.com. One of their most hysterical videos is 'the Grand Heist'. To never miss an episode, you should know they upload on a scheduled basis on their channel. You can check out their site to get a glimpse of their gaming world and also, to see if they reviewed your favourite game.
2. Vanoss Gaming
Evan Fong is one of the most famous YouTube video game commentators. Even though Evan was not a die-hard video game fan from the beginning, he somehow became got engaged in his gaming channel on YouTube. He dropped out of college in his second year to concentrate on his channel. His unique style of commentary and collaboration with other channels like Adam "SeaNanners" Montoya, H2O Delirious and others has made him achieve over 11 million subscribers.
Vanoss consistently updates on his channel for about three or four times a week. Those who follow him are sure a fan of his remarkable editing skills. Vanoss has worked as creative director on the game called Dead Realm which was released on 30 July 2015.
3. Super Bunnyhop
With hundreds of different gaming channels on YouTube, it is rather difficult to choose wisely for the one who provides you with a balance of information and entertainment. The host, Mr. George Weidman, is a man, who takes gaming seriously. He understands how important it is to have the right instructions about the gaming world. Unlike many other YouTubers, his videos have content that engages you and leaves you more informed than ever. The insightful videos are full of facts and not just random yelling that has can make one cringe. He does not attempt to be funny or corny but has a rather exceptional approach in his videos.
The sharp and bright commentary never has a dull moment for the viewer. For a gamer, the videos are highly informative with perceptive and quick-wit comments. One can also see his remarkable work in his Metal Gear Solid Series.
4. GassyMexican
To have a compelling voice like his is truly the best gift one can ever wish for. Not only is he an amusing commentator but also, he masters the gaming world. His skills are exceptional. Though he started his channel in 2016, he became popular more recently due to his involvement in Machinima and The Creatures (a group of gamers). The most entertaining factor is his impressions and antics that he pulls out of nowhere during the show. One moment you'll be sitting and scrolling with your gamers' mouse through his videos and the next, you'll be clutching your stomach controlling your laughter and grabbing hold of your headset whist watching his gameplay. His incredible reviews with the most rib-tickling comments have everyone stuck to his channel.
He uploads his videos in the format of a series, there are a whole set of playlists for the games if you want to check it out. One of his most hilarious works is in the video the Slender multiplayer with Facecam. It is one of the most entertaining videos you will ever come around.
5. Extra Credits
Are you tired of playing the same games over and over again? Or even if you buy new games, they have nothing new to offer and excite you as a player? Thus, the gaming mouse that you bought recently is going to dust. Don't worry, for Extra Credits will certainly help you out. This engaging YouTube channel has been around for a while now. The channel has 972,865 followers on YouTube with 181,153,453 views, their subscribers and viewer number go up only!
The mystery behind creating your favourite video games and even more engaging video graphics is solved here. Sometimes, you are more interested in a video game than the other even though the graphics are good, Extra credits help you realise why you do so and what are they made of and what makes them even better. The videos shared by Extra Credits help you explore gaming concepts like gamification, the uncanny valley, and perfect imbalance and much more.
There are other several informational and humorous YouTube gaming channels out there. However, this is a list of a mixture of all the channels that are damn right funny with exceptional commentary skills, some of them have a more serious tone than the other and focus on providing information to their gaming buddies. But, of course, all of these channels are sure to keep you engaged in the gaming world.
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What do you need to build a fulfilling life?
You can exist on food, air and water. But what are the elements that help you make the most of the life you have? What helps you engage with your community and connect with important issues at home and in the world?
Among those essentials in your life, we hope you count on Illinois Public Media.
During the past year, our public media service provided news reports with vital information from our region and around the world; music that stirred and soothed the spirit; dramas such as Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs that let you escape to another time and place; and documentaries, science and nature programs that helped bring the world into focus.
WILL-TV's Mid-American Gardener offered gardeners reliable information tailored to our growing region, and WILL-AM's Focus gave listeners a chance to interact with newsmakers and experts on a wide variety of topics. Children's programs like the new Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood provided educational entertainment that parents could trust.
We continued to work hard to be responsive to community needs, concentrating a day of programming on housing challenges in our area, and another on local foods. We aired a series of reports on health and wellness, and directed many hours of staff time to reporting about the election and hosting two political debates in the 13th Congressional District primary and general election races. Our Book Mentor Project added a technology component to activities with books and videos, and we received enthusiastic feedback from teachers about the Illinois Edition of PBS LearningMedia, a digital resource library we've made available for Illinois students and teachers.
To respond to another need, Illinois Public Media will become part of a national emergency alert network created by Congress. We received a $325,881 federal grant, which, along with $30,000 from the University of Illinois, will fund a generator, ensuring a reliable emergency alert service in the event of a loss of electrical service for Illinois Public Media's studios. The generator is scheduled to be installed in 2013 and will provide technical power in case of a power loss for the program feed from Campbell Hall to our FM and TV transmitters. For national security or a national disaster, public TV stations can provide a means to get alerts to their broadcast audience and cellular users.
In the past year, Illinois Public Media said goodbye to some good friends. Retirements, including that of Focus host David Inge, meant we lost valued colleagues. But they also gave us the opportunity to look at our staffing and program schedules to make sure we were making the best use of our resources.
We work hard to do the most we can within our budget. One of the steps we're taking is to join a national alliance of television stations that will partner to share technical resources. This will help us meet our future equipment needs by sharing an investment in hardware with other public broadcast stations, rather than duplicating our investments in technical infrastructure.
The funding model for public media, in which every dollar of federal support brings in six dollars of private support from users of the service, remains under threat. We appreciate your continued letters and phone calls to let your elected representatives know about the essential quality of public broadcasting in your life. Signing up to receive notifications at 170millionamericans.org will be your most timely source of information about federal funding in the coming year.
Your generous financial contributions are crucial—they're the reason our service celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2012. Thanks for joining with us to keep public media strong in central Illinois!
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Learning everywhere: books, video, games on iPads
As part of Illinois Public Media's Book Mentor Project, children in Champaign County Head Start classrooms used iPads to play PBS math and literacy learning games. Illinois Public Media provided two PBSKids Mobile Media Labs, including iPads and Kindle Fires, to the classrooms. CPB and PBS furnished the Media Labs as part of a project to encourage stations to use new PBS resources, including apps and games for mobile devices, in their educational outreach efforts.
Molly Delaney, Illinois Public Media educational outreach director, said she correctly predicted that the children could learn how to use the touch screens fairly quickly. "But it was amazing to see how engaged they were and how there was a group dynamic to the learning as kids crowded around the iPad and helped each other," she said.
Book mentors still read books to the kids and do activities, but technology is an additional component this year, Molly said. The school district furnished new interactive white boards and iPads for all of its Champaign Early Childhood Center classrooms, and they'll be integrated into the Book Mentor Project to take advantage of the PBS mobile apps.
Molly and Illinois Public Media's community partners Christie Norton of Head Start and Amy Hayden of the Champaign Early Childhood Center went to Washington, D.C., to get training on how to leverage new PBS "transmedia" content in the classroom. The message they heard was that the key to enhancing learning with technology is using the right content on the right device at the right time.
"We were really excited to bring back this technology to our community," Molly said. "We've seen how powerful these educational tools are and we're dedicating ourselves to pursuing funding so we can incorporate additional technology in all of the Head Start classrooms in Champaign County."
Words in the Wind
Local actors came together in a benefit performance for Illinois Public Media's Book Mentor Project, raising more than $800 that will be used to buy two iPads for Head Start book mentor classrooms.
The fourth annual concert-style reading of children's books by veteran actors was organized by U of I associate professor of theater Tom Mitchell, and featured performances by actors from The Station Theatre, Urbana; Parkland College Theatre, Champaign; Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company; Zoo Improv, Champaign; and the University of Illinois Department of Theatre.
"The actors not only provided a fun time for all, but made a significant contribution for Head Start children in our area," said Illinois Public Media educational outreach director Molly Delaney.
Illinois PBS LearningMedia update
Results of a pilot study of the Illinois Edition of PBS LearningMedia, a free, on-demand media resource designed to help PreK-12 educators integrate technology to teach core subjects in the classroom, showed that the 74 participating teachers highly recommend the service.
"They were excited about how engaged students were when using resources, and they appreciated that it was free, easy to use, had a variety of high-quality resources and connected easily to their curriculum," said Molly Delaney, educational outreach director for Illinois Public Media.
With the positive feedback from the pilot, Illinois public broadcasters pushed forward this year with a full launch of Illinois PBS LearningMedia. More than 3,500 teachers in the state have signed up to use the service, with a 75 percent increase since the beginning of the school year.
Chad Wickard, a 5th and 6th grade teacher at the Center for Math and Science in Rockford, said he's seen the light bulb come on when kids who have been frustrated trying to "get" something then watch a PBS LearningMedia video. "You see that light bulb effect and you're like, okay, this is working. It's a two-minute video that brings together this hour-long lesson that I've been trying to teach them. I put in that video and all of a sudden the light goes on."
Emily Dawson, a junior high science teacher in East Peoria, said, "My students are telling me they are picturing the video as they are taking the test. It's making the connections between what we've learned in the book, what they've watched, and what they are able to retain and learn."
Molly and Illinois Public Media general manager Mark Leonard presented the study results and information about Illinois PBS LearningMedia at the PBS annual meeting in Denver in May. Molly also presented LearningMedia resources in September at the Chicago meeting of the Shared Learning Collaborative, a group of tech developers and educators working to make personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the integration of technology in the classroom.
Creating a media venture with Stratton students
Not everyone getting ready for Strattonville's newscast wanted to be on camera. Some of the students were just as content working the audio board or standing behind the camera. Others wanted a bit of power—they wanted to be the director.
Learning the different jobs for producing a school video newscast was one of the first steps students in Champaign's Stratton Elementary School took in October for their "media venture," part of their school microsociety that students named Strattonville. WILL received a grant from Unit 4 Schools to provide training for both students and teachers.
Students learned that reading a teleprompter isn't as easy as it looks. How do you do it without moving your head as you scan the lines? They found that speaking into a microphone doesn't come naturally to everybody and that for avoiding big mistakes, listening carefully to the director is just as important as using the video equipment correctly.
Illinois Public Media's Henry Radcliffe and College of Media intern Alison Marcotte taught the students TV studio production; Kimberlie Kranich showed them how to interview, report and research; and Molly Delaney taught them media literacy skills.
Vacationing with WILL
In 2012, nearly 200 Friends of WILL took a trip with Illinois Public Media. Our expanding lineup of tours has been a way for the stations to increase fundraising without adding days of on-air fund drives. In February, 50 fans of WILL went by motor coach to Chicago to see a live taping of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. They watched the show, hung out with host Peter Sagal, Carl Kasell and the panelists afterward, then headed back home in a marathon one-night trip. We plan to do it again in February 2013.
Later in the spring, a group of 30 Friends traveled to Cuba with Collette Vacations. On a government-sponsored "people to people" tour, they walked the beautiful streets of Havana, and visited small historic cities with beautiful colonial architecture and vibrant street markets, a community known for its hand-decorated textiles, a state-run cigar factory, and a privately owned restaurant and farm.
Passengers on our Civil War Train Trip toured the southern battlefields, museums and more while staying aboard meticulously restored vintage train cars.A historian with special knowledge of the Civil War also accompanied 42 train-and-history-buff travelers. The 2013 train trip will include eastern Civil War sites and will highlight American historical sites such as colonial Williamsburg.
In September, WILL travelers went on a "Masterpiece and Mystery" Tour of England and Wales. They got a custom tour of Holmfirth, the Yorkshire village known to WILL viewers as home of Last of the Summer Wine. Their tour guide: Last of the Summer Wine producer Alan J.W. Bell. They had their photo taken in front of Highclere Castle, known to Masterpiece fans as Downton Abbey, and took a private tour of the famous house.
Thanks to our travelers, whose support of these trips helped to make your favorite programs possible. Stay tuned for information on our 2013 tours! New destinations include Iceland (with an optional trip to Greenland), a gardener's tour of England with Mid-American Gardener host Dianne Noland, and another "Masterpiece and More" trip to England … and Ireland!
Live and Local's old-time piano music show
In May, Live and Local host Kevin Kelly got together five contestants and former contestants to play for a live audience at The Blind Pig in advance of the Old-Time Piano Playing Contest in Peoria. The show was recorded and replayed on Kevin's program.
A time shift for Live and Local
In September, WILL-FM 90.9's Live and Local with Kevin Kelly moved from its noon timeslot to 4 pm weekdays, preceding NPR's All Things Considered. The program continued to incorporate interviews with artists and many genres of acoustic music, updating listeners about local music by area and national performers.
When Live and Local moved to later in the day, it also underwent a slight change in format: Three days a week Kevin does the usual interview-with-music show, with live performances whenever possible. For two shows a week, he plays recordings by local artists, and by national and international artists who visit the show. He had a great response to a request for CDs so he could expand WILL's library of recordings by local artists who play acoustic classical, jazz, blues, bluegrass, old-time, ragtime, folk, Celtic and other genres.
Vic Di Geronimo celebrates two-year anniversary of Classic Mornings
As Vic Di Geronimo celebrated the two-year anniversary of his Classic Mornings program in April, he continued to carefully select and research great classical music, and interweave it with commentary and stories about the music to appeal to both new listeners and those who have been listening for years. He particularly enjoys the creative process in coming up with a theme for Classic Morning Prelude, a 10-minute segment that airs on WILL-FM 90.9 at 8:49 am. Because the segment comes at the end of Morning Edition, he knows he has the opportunity to catch some regular news listeners that are not regular classical music listeners.
For WILLAg, first ever bus tour, rearranged analyst schedule
Farmers and their families took a bus trip to "Follow the Corn" from the fields of the Midwest down the Mississippi River to export markets in New Orleans Aug. 20-24. WILL's Todd Gleason was the tour host and designer; 54 Friends of WILL traveled with Todd on our first ever WILLAg tour. A highlight of the week-long adventure was a tour of the Zen Noh Grain export elevator in Convent, La., which handles 400 million bushels of corn annually.
Among other developments in agricultural programming this past year, the retirement of analyst Paul Cooley in April allowed agricultural programming director Dave Dickey to bring Risk Management Commodities, represented by Bill Gentry, back into a weekly presence in the Pre-Opening Market Report. Jacquie Voeks of Stewart Peterson Group joined the analysts on the Opening and Closing Market reports.
In My Backyard, Lisa Bralts' commentary segments about the intersection of food and neighborhoods, settled into a permanent slot in the Closing Market Report, offering an alternative to commodity-driven programming.
The All Day Ag Outlook Meeting at the Beef House in Covington, Ind., drew a sold-out crowd once again, and our Ag eLetter was emailed weekly to more than 2,900 people.
A new host for Focus
Craig Cohen became the interim host of WILL-AM's Focus in September, following the retirement of longtime Focus host David Inge. Craig, who is also Illinois Public Media director of news and public affairs, retained Focus as a thoughtful, respectful conversation about the issues and ideas affecting our world. Focus became a one-hour program, a change necessitated by staff retirements and a tightened budget. By moving Fresh Air to 11 am, WILL-AM 580 was able to add Talk of the Nation to its schedule at 1 pm, offering listeners the opportunity to join discussions with decision-makers, authors, academicians and artists from around the world.
Illinois Radio Reader: Now mobile!
More Illinois Radio Reader users began accessing the service on the Internet during the past year. Illinois Public Media's service for blind and visually impaired people is available via Web streaming as well as special radio receivers. In addition, IRR's programming became available on the mobile app iBlinkRadio, which uses smart phone technology to serve the visually impaired community.
IRR's Vintage Vinyl sale in May raised more than $14,000 for the service.And finally, the Illinois Radio Reader was awarded $2,800 from the Community Foundation of East Central Illinois for the purchase of sub-carrier radios provided to new IRR listeners.
U of I journalism students report from Turkey on WILL-TV
In May, under the guidance of professor Nancy Benson, nine U of I journalism students reported stories from Turkey, a secular Muslim country of 75 million people. They explored a wide variety of issues with the goal of better educating the American public, producing a half-hour television special that aired on WILL-TV in September.
Illinois Travels to Turkey highlighted the role of Islam in daily life, the debate among Turkish women over whether to wear a head scarf, the fight for a free press, daily lives of LGBT residents of Turkey and efforts to help victims of domestic violence in the country.
Solution developed for DIRECTV interference
After months of interference for viewers trying to watch WILL-TV on DIRECTV, Illinois Public Media developed a solution to provide a clear WILL-TV signal to the satellite provider. The station began delivering its signal to DIRECTV through a fiber-optic cable in July.
IPM invested $15,000 on equipment and committed to a recurring $1,400 monthly fee to implement the fiber-optic fix after being unable to determine the source of the interference, despite testing by the FCC.
"We understood the frustration of DIRECTV subscribers," said IPM general manager Mark Leonard. "We were frustrated, too, that we could not find the source of the interference." DIRECTV has an estimated 65,000 subscribers in the WILL-TV designated market area.
The interference created a loss of sound, poor picture quality and, in some cases, a complete loss of the WILL-TV signal from 5:25 pm until about 6:25 am each day. An investigation detected a signal near the DIRECTV regional receiving and transmitting site in Springfield that was interfering with WILL-TV's signal, but the offending source remained a mystery.
4th graders learn about primary sources on WILL tours
Every Champaign Unit 4 fourth grader toured WILL during in the spring of 2012 as part of their social studies curriculum. "The tours provided a tangible local connection for us with students and strengthened our relationship with teachers and families," said Molly Delaney, Illinois Public Media educational outreach director.
Many of the 722 Champaign fourth grade students who toured Illinois Public Media thought that the best part of their visit was getting to be history detectives while studying primary sources.
That was one part of the tour that was designed to supplement the students' social studies curriculum. On the screen in WILL's teleconference room, students saw an old photo, a report card, an essay and a newspaper clipping. Then, after making wild guesses and getting some helpful clues, they correctly discovered that all four primary sources were related to Molly, their host at WILL, from a time when she was a fourth grader, won an essay contest, and went canoeing with her brother.
Molly talked with students about primary sources and how they can be used in research. She showed them some of the primary sources that WILL-TV has used in making historical documentaries on Red Grange and Abraham Lincoln. The tours also included having students do mock interviews about what the students would want kids in the future to know about them and their school. The activity showed them how they themselves can be primary sources about their own lives.
Making puppets at the Youth Literature Festival
Fuzzy yarn, pipe cleaners and tiny plastic eyes were flying as hundreds of children sat at Illinois Public Media's activity table at the Youth Literature Festival in October to create puppets from the Land of Make-Believe. Kids used socks, gloves, paper plates and paper bags as their creative backdrop and gave them personality with glue and a table full of add-ons.
It was our way of contributing a fun activity to the event sponsored by the University of Illinois College of Education, and introducing families to Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the new PBS Kids show from the creators of Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Families were also able to watch episodes of the animated series.
Conversations with city and campus
During Focus: A Conversation with Two Mayors airing on WILL-TV and WILL-AM in February, Illinois Public Media News reporter Jim Meadows talked to Champaign Mayor Don Gerard and Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing about the past year and the year ahead for the Twin Cities.
In June, Focus host David Inge interviewed University of Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise on AM 580, and in October, Craig Cohen talked to U of I President Robert Easter, with the interview airing on both WILL-TV and WILL-AM.
In each case, viewers and listeners could call in with questions, giving them direct access to these newsmakers.
Election year debates and coverage
Illinois Public Media hosted two election-year debates, moderated by reporter Jim Meadows and co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Illinois, for the race in the new 13th Congressional District. Democrats David Gill and Matt Goetten went head-to-head before the primary, with a three-way debate between Gill, Republican Rodney Davis and Independent John Hartman just before the November general election. A U of I student journalist was on each of the panels that questioned the candidates, and political science and journalism students were part of the studio audiences for the debates.
Ahead of the elections, WILL hosted or attended community conversations to learn what issues were most important to voters. The Illinois Public Media News team focused on four key issues to voters: the economy, health care, education and the role of government. Reporters asked each of the candidates in the 13th Illinois Congressional District and 52nd Illinois State Senate races the same 12 questions covering those four major issues. Audio clips and transcripts of their responses were available to voters on our election website, along with Focus interviews with the candidates and news stories about those and other races.
News reporters concentrate on in-depth reporting
During the past year, Illinois Public Media's news department shifted its focus from heavy spot news reporting to more in-depth reporting.
"In-depth news coverage is what sets public media apart," said Craig Cohen, director of news and public affairs. "We can take the time to explore issues and tell stories in more detail, and reach out to more sources, than perhaps other media outlets can due to deadline or sponsor pressure. We committed to spending more time producing carefully crafted, contextual stories that explore the motivations and impacts of a variety of events, issues and ideas."
Reporters provided comprehensive coverage of Congressman Tim Johnson's unexpected retirement announcement, exploring not just why he announced his intention to retire, but why he waited until after he won the GOP primary.
Reporters also looked at the impact on our listeners of the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act. They reached out in advance of the decision to local hospital groups, major regional employers, local health care providers, patient advocacy groups, lawmakers and politicians, providers for low income and uninsured patients, and university experts on public policy. Once the ruling was made public, their coverage considered a wide variety of angles in reporting the High Court's decision and its impact.
A series of 14 stories on health and wellness, most by reporter Sean Powers, looked at nutrition education in the schools, efforts to fight obesity in immigrant communities and other issues. The reporting was supported by a grant by the Lumpkin Family Foundation. Sean also developed stories examining U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee procedures and how they have led to tough decisions for local law enforcement regarding immigration. Jim Meadows examined stormwater utility fee proposals in Champaign and Urbana, and Jeff Bossert looked at the potential impact of a threatened prison closure on the community of Dwight, Ill.
These are just a few examples of this renewed commitment to an in-depth exploration of issues, ideas and events.
Andrea Seabrook offers blunt assessment of Congress
Illinois Public Media brought NPR congressional correspondent Andrea Seabrook to central Illinois for a two-day visit in April that included an appearance in a class at Urbana's University Laboratory High School class, a talk at Campbell Hall that was open to the public, and an appearance on WILL-AM's Focus.
A great storyteller, Seabrook, who has since left NPR to branch out on her own with a daily podcast about Congress, told students and the Campbell Hall audience that although the news media often like to focus on what lawmakers say and what happens each day on the floor, she likes to pay attention to what members of Congress don't say. She talked about the noticeable dip in civility and bi-partisanship in Congress. "People ask me if this is the worst that it's ever been," she said. "But if no one's beating anyone with a cane then it's not the worst it's ever been, although in some ways beating someone with a cane is more functional than nothing happening at all."
Community Cinema: Viewing and discussing
Our monthly Community Cinema series continued to draw people interested in watching outstanding documentaries together and discussing the regional issues they raised. One highlight was the September film, Half the Sky, inspired by Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, the widely acclaimed book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn about courageous individuals forging meaningful solutions in health care, education and economic empowerment for women and girls around the globe.
The audience watched a segment that addressed gender-based violence, and heard via Skype from University of Illinois graduate Molly Melching in Senegal. After spending time in Senegal as a U of I exchange student, Melching founded Tostan, a Senegal-based group dedicated to empowering African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights. Also on the panel were Jenny Allen of the Center for Women in Transition; Ann Sibley of Project IMPACT Plus, a central Illinois group that seeks to empower women economically; and representatives of the Tostan organization at Danville High School.
"It was inspiring to hear from someone with a U of I connection who is working on sustainable development in Africa, as well as from people working on economic empowerment closer to home," said Henry Radcliffe, who heads up the project for Illinois Public Media.
WILL Connect programs examine housing needs and local foods
Illinois Public Media and CU-CitizenAccess.org took a comprehensive look at housing issues and at the growing movement to eat locally grown food during two days of special program on WILL-TV and WILL-AM.
During the day of programming on housing, WILL-AM's morning talk program, Focus, highlighted public housing issues, and a live program, Housing: A Basic Human Need, on WILL-TV featured video stories about housing in the two counties and a roundtable discussion with local experts. The program, hosted by David Inge, featured stories on Generations of Hope in Rantoul, and a developer in Danville who turned the historic New Holland building into mixed income housing. Reporter Pam Dempsey of CU-CitizenAccess.org produced the program. CU-CitizenAccess is a community journalism project of the University of Illinois College of Media with professional and student journalists.
The local foods programming included C-U Digging into Local Food on WILL-TV, with a live studio-based discussion on local food production efforts and consumption of locally produced food in Champaign-Urbana. Video stories looked at Urbana's Market at the Square, Champaign's Randolph Street Community Garden, and efforts underway in Champaign-Urbana to start cooking classes teaching economical, healthy cooking.
Uni students look at counterculture in C-U
Students at Urbana's University Laboratory High School interviewed Champaign-Urbana residents about the counterculture era from 1965-1975 for a radio documentary and series, Beyond the Tie-Dye, that aired on WILL-AM in September.
Students worked with Illinois Public Media's Dave Dickey and Uni teacher Janet Morford to tell compelling stories of students arrested in protests, participating in classes when rocks began sailing through the windows, and manning crisis intervention centers for students experiencing the rapid social changes of the time. The programs also delved into how the counterculture movement spurred alternative business models in C-U and what lasting effects the counterculture movement had on participants.
20 years of gardening tips
Mid-American Gardener turned 20 this past year, celebrating by adding the anniversary designation to its leafy logo, and getting panelists together for cake. Host Dianne Noland and her rotating group of experts helped worried gardeners trying to deal with the drought by advising on issues like whether to water grass, how often to water plants and shrubs, and how to help trees survive.
"This dry summer really underscored the need for both mulch and collecting rain water," said Dianne. "We suggested that people put a 3-inch layer of aged bark mulch around perennials, trees and shrubs to hold in moisture, and taper the mulch from the turf or sidewalk up to 3 inches and then back to an inch or less around perennial stems or tree trunks."
Panelists also urged viewers to collect rain water in barrels or large buckets, covering the container with fine-mesh mosquito barrier. "Rain water was the only way I was able to keep some of my vegetables alive," Dianne said. "It provides excellent chemical-free water for plants."
Fun with a Downton Abbey sneak preview
Several hundred people turned out for our Downton Abbey Season 3 sneak preview event, getting an advance look at Shirley MacLaine's character tangling with the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith). Some attendees got into the spirit by coming dressed in clothing from the time period of the Masterpiece series, and staff from the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts brought costumes that might have been worn by the characters in the drama.
Bob Culkeen, formerly vice president of technology and operations at WJCT public radio and television in Jacksonville, Fla., joined the staff in January as station manager of WILL television and radio.
Craig Cohen, whom many listeners remembered from his stint as WILL-AM's local Morning Edition host from 1995-2002, rejoined WILL in March as director of news and public affairs. He also became the interim host of WILL-AM's morning talk program Focus after the retirement of David Inge. Craig most recently worked as director of programming and producer/host for WITF-FM and TV in Harrisburg, Pa.
Lisa Bralts, formerly the City of Urbana's director of Market at the Square and economic development specialist, became Illinois Public Media marketing director in September. She's also a commentator for WILL-AM with the In My Backyard series about the intersection of local food and neighborhoods.
John Steinbacher became Illinois Public Media membership director in October. John came to Illinois Public Media from the Champaign-based International Society of Arboriculture, a professional organization with 21,000 members worldwide where he was the membership and component relations manager.
Awards Telly Award Illinois Public Media producer Kimberlie Kranich and videographer/editor Henry Radcliffe won a Bronze Telly Award for their video story about a mobile food pantry that was part of our WILL Connect: Hunger initiative. The international Telly Awards competition annually showcases the best work of television stations, advertising agencies, production companies and cable operators.
Associated Press Awards Illinois Public Media news reporters and contributors won six awards in the downstate radio division of the 2011 Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association Journalism Excellence Contest, including best investigative series, best documentary series and best sports story.
Sean Powers and CU-CitizenAccess reporter Pam Dempsey won best investigative series for their reports on landlords at the Cherry Orchard apartment complex near Rantoul who stood trial for code violations. Sean also won for best sports report with his story about the Farmer City Raceway, won second place for best spot news for his account about the anonymous online posting of a police video showing the arrest of a man in the U of I's campustown, and won second place in the hard news feature category for his story about how audio recording in public places can be a serious crime in Illinois.
The entire news team, including Sean, Jeff Bossert, Jim Meadows, Dave Dickey and former news and public affairs director Tom Rogers won best series/documentary for their Life on Route 150 series.
WILL-AM 580 commentator Lisa Bralts and her editor Dave Dickey won in the best light feature category for her commentary on "DIY Smokerpalooza."
Illinois Public Media's programming about community hunger won two Silver Awards of Distinction in the international 2012 Communicator Awards. A day of programming about hunger on WILL-TV, WILL-AM and the Web in November 2011 won the Integrated Campaign-Social Responsibility category. Illinois Public Media's video about the Wesley Evening Food Pantry in Urbana won in the Program-News-Social Responsibility category. Kimberlie Kranich produced the video and Henry Radcliffe was videographer and editor.
Fiscal 2012 financial report Illinois Public Media experienced another stable financial year, with support from our members and local businesses remaining solid, even in an uncertain economic climate.
Among noticeable changes in the budget:
University of Illinois funding increased to pay for repairs to our AM transmitter tower system, including painting, replacement of tower guy wires, a new tower lighting system and new transmission lines. This was reflected in an increase in our expenditures for broadcasting.
The value of our endowments increased significantly from fiscal year 2011. While the economy was weak, resulting in less revenue as well as fewer revenue streams, the stock market was strong.
Local programming and production expenses decreased as external funding for projects was hard to find because of the soft economy. With a lean operating budget, we were not able to fund as many projects.
We ended the year with a slight operating surplus for carryover to the next fiscal year.
Operating revenues:
University Funding 2,165,034 1,691,618
Membership Contributions 2,140,394 2,229,971
Program Underwriting 355,110 411,001
State Grants 229,141 304,489
Other Grants 40,118
Community Service Grants
and Other Federal Grants 1,333,180 1,497,117
Other Income 105,442 90,431
Total Operating Revenues 6,368,419 6,224,627
Non-operating Revenues:
Indirect Support 2,417,705 1,967,260
Other 1,619,093 956,867
TOTAL REVENUES 10,405,217 9,148,754
Local Programming and Production 3,724,676 4,143,991
Broadcasting 1,671,702 1,120,617
Promotion and Development 2,474,032 2,355,624
Management and General 1,060,304 914,152
Other 521,038 564,451
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES 9,451,752 9,098,835
With appreciation 2011-2012 COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Thanks to our Community Advisory Committee for their help during the past year in gathering information about community issues and needs, helping heighten community awareness of Illinois Public Media and the WILL stations and their services, advocating for broad-based support of WILL, and identifying and encouraging new sources of funding for specific projects.
Phyllis K. Dougherty, Danville, chair
Allan Penwell, Champaign, vice-chair
Kathy Munday, St. Joseph, secretary
John & Susan Adams, Atlanta
Constance Locher Bussard, Springfield
Belinda De La Rosa, Urbana
Jon Dietrich, Champaign
Joan Friedman, Urbana
Bert Gray, Decatur
Maxine Kaler, Champaign
Joe Lewis, Champaign
Jan Mandernach, Decatur
Geoff Merritt, Urbana
Gregory Ray, Mattoon
George Richards, Danville
Steve Rugg, Urbana
Barbara Shenk, Urbana
Patti Swinford, Decatur
Bob Swires, Danville
Maggie Unsworth, Urbana
Lori Williamson, Champaign
WILL thanks the underwriters who make our programs and outreach project possible. Each of these businesses contributed more than $5,000 during the past year.
AgriGold
Auditory Care Center
Busey Bank
Columbia Street Roastery
Common Ground Food Co-op
Community Blood Services of Illinois
Corkscrew Wine Emporium
C-U MTD
Farm Credit Services of Illinois
Friar Tuck Beverage
Heel to Toe
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
M2 on Neil
Meyer Drapery Services, Inc.
PNC Wealth Management
Subaru of Champaign
The Music Shoppe
World Harvest Foods
2011-2012 GRANTS
Illinois Public Media PNC for Young Learners Initiative Book Mentor Project: $90,000 over three years Lumpkin Family Foundation for Health and Wellness Initiative: $20,000 over two years Corporation for Public Broadcasting for emergency generator as part of Warning, Alert and Response Network (WARN) project: $325,000
Women and Girls Lead Campaign for Community Cinema: $750
American Archive Content Inventory Project for creating a master inventory and database of surviving audio and video recordings produced by WILL since its founding in 1922: $80,251
Illinois Radio Reader Illinois State Library: $29,232
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PARTNERSHIPS
College of Education (PBS LearningMedia and Youth Literature Festival)
Department of Journalism in College of Media (CU-CitizenAccess)
Family Resiliency Center, U of I College of Medicine, U of I Extension (C-U Fit Families)
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Department of Theatre, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics Hometown Heroes (Book Mentor Project)
National Soybean Research Laboratory (Health and Wellness Initiative)
Police Training Institute (Community Conversations)
School of Earth, Society, and Environment (Environmental Almanac)
WUIS, WSIU (13th Congressional District Debate, Education Reporting Initiative)
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New York subway tunnels to be made terror-proof with $600m ring of steel
Updated: 10:07 EDT, 30 November 2010
Reinforced metal plates are being installed along the walls of a number of subway tunnels running under New York's Hudson River in a secret project to terror-proof the high-risk travel route.
The Port Authority has brought in contractors to ensure the walls of four PATH subway tunnels won't give way and flood the system should a bombing take place on a train.
Flood-prevention gates are also being put in place at either end of the two main lines that run from the World Trade Centre and the West Village to Jersey City.
Terror damage: Rubble covers the tracks of the New York City subway No.1 and No.9 lines in the Cortland Street station under the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks
'These are designed to avoid massive, catastrophic flooding, and the Port Authority will have protocols in place to evacuate everyone in the tunnel first,' a source told the New York Post.
There is growing pressure on PA officials to complete the $600million project, which will help to protect the 250,000 commuters who use the PATH system every day
Workers are apparently installing 15 pieces of inch-thick steel plates each night as they rush to complete the project before the World Trade Center memorial opens next year.
Bomb threat: A sign warns riders of possible inspections on backpacks and containers as people enter a Port Authority subway station. Reinforced metal plates are being installed along the walls of a number of tunnels running under New York's Hudson River in a bid to terror-proof the high-risk travel route
In 2006, law-enforcement officials foiled a terror plot to bomb the PATH system.
The same year, a terrifying report about the vulnerability of the subway's tunnels to a bomb was leaked to the media.
The report said that if a small explosive - with enough power to create a 50-foot hole in the tunnel - were detonated there would be catastrophic results, with more than a million gallons of Hudson River water each minute surging into where the commuters were.
The PATH tunnels - which are nearly a century old - are thought to be considerably weaker than other underground subway routes, so are a key target for terrorists wanting to wreak havoc.
'The safety of our customers is the Port Authority's highest priority, which is why we have spent over $5 billion since 9/11 upgrading the security systems at our facilities,' said Ernesto Butcher, the agency's chief operating officer.
'Hardening our PATH rail tunnels is one example of that effort.'
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MATCH PREVIEW: WALSALL VS. BOLTON WANDERERS
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Bolton Wanders return to league action on the road as they travel to the Midlands to take on Walsall in the Sky Bet League Two. The game will be played at the Banks' Stadium where both teams would be looking to overpower one another to claim bragging rights.
Bolton Wanderers player Harry Brockbank has missed the last couple of games for his side but is expected to be making a return from injury very soon. He won't be making any appearance against Walsall as his time on the sideline is set to be extended.
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Bolton Wanderers Hosted Fans to Watch the Match
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation throughout the world, football matches are getting organized in spectator less stadiums. Thus the football fanatics are really sad but have nothing to do as there are high chances of infection in the crowded areas. In this situation, Bolton Wanderers had decided to invite their fans to watch the match streamed directly from the stadium. Not only the Bolton Wanderers, but some other clubs also have experimented on the thing that if they can stream their matches directly from the venues to the bars of the hotels.
This new idea has seen success as lots of fans love to have drinks while watching the games. They have to book their table in the bars and they will get their drinks and snacks until the match ends. For the booking purpose, the clubs have circulated a phone number. The fans have to call the number and get confirmation of the booking of the table. The cost of this entertainment package is also not very high as they will have to spend only 25 pounds per head. The bars will permit not more than 6 people per table and one family in each. The gates of the bars will open at 5:15 p.m. and the matches will start from 7 p.m.
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Kevin Davies confident Bolton will fare well in League Two
Former Bolton Wanderers star Kevin Davies believes the Trotters should do well in League Two next term. The Trotters have faced back-to-back relegations from the Championship and League One and they will feature in the fourth tier of English football next season. While the current situation is disappointing for the fans, Davies believes they should be grateful, considering the club were nearly expelled from the Football League after entering administration earlier this year.
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Aaron Wilbraham suggests Dean Holden as next Bolton boss
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Bolton Wanderers manager Keith Hill will be departing from the club at the end of this month. The club is in need of a new coach and there are many suggestions that are being put forward. English footballer Aaron Wilbraham has suggested Dean Holden as the next manager of Bolton. When Keith Hill leaves,the club will be facing relegation moving to the second tier of English league.
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Rooney describes the experience of playing against Bolton with Manchester United
Tue, 06/02/2020 - 06:17 — content
Wayne Rooney wrote in his Sunday Times column that Manchester United players dreaded to play against Bolton Wanderers. His teammates never liked the idea of playing against them. He also recalled particularly about the French defender Patrice Evra who would be the most tensed about the match. The particular reason for this disinterest wasif one is going to play away matches with Bolton, one needsto win the fight first. Rooney described the matches as horrible as it was always physical.
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Keith Hill pleased with Bolton Wanderers' draw against Accrington Stanley
Fri, 03/27/2020 - 09:36 — content
Bolton Wanderers manager Keith Hill has appreciated the performance of his team during the 0-0 draw against Accrington Stanley at the weekend. The Trotters had gone into the game on a five-match losing run but they managed to put up a solid defensive display to claim their first clean sheet in nearly a month.
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Keith Hill aiming promotion with Bolton next season
Bolton Wanderers manager Keith Hill has said that he will be eyeing promotion with Bolton Wanderers next season regardless of the division. The Trotters were handed with a 12-point penalty at the beginning of the campaign after they went into administration but they were able to avoid from being defunct with the change in ownership.
The Trotters have since made a decent comeback with the purchase of experienced recruits on loan or Bosman deals but they are still facing a battle to beat the drop. At present, Hill's side are 15 points adrift of AFC Wimbledon, who are just outside of the relegation zone but there remains plenty of optimism with their recent form and as many as three games in hand.
Speaking to The Bolton News, Hill said that he has clear vision with the Greater Manchester outfit and he has the ambition of getting them promoted from either League One or League Two next term, he told: "I am 100 per cent behind it because they have a clear vision and they are doing things correctly.
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MOWBRAY HAPPY WITH BLACKBURN SIGNING
Stewart Downing joined Blackburn Rovers last summer transfer window and manager Tony Mowbray has come out to heap praise on the former Liverpool man.
Although this is a great defiance from the days when players who made Blackburn rejoice were the likes of Michel Salgado and others of similar caliber, Stewart Downing is not totally feeble when it comes to contributing to the success of any team he has ever played in.
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PORTSMOUTH PIP BOLTON IN DULL AFFAIR
Portsmouth and Bolton Wanderers faced off in League One action as both sides were looking to grab valuable three points. The fixture which would have been a Premier League game a decade ago showed how far both teams had fallen in recent years.
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Bolton boss unlikely to ruin youngsters after late summer recruitment
Bolton Wanderers boss Keith Hill has said that he is unlikely to ruin the club's youngsters following the late recruitment at the beginning of the month. The Trotters were on the cusp of being defunct after administrative concerns but they managed to avoid selling their assets following a late purchase of the club by Football Ventures.
Since then, there has been a raft of senior signings made to stabilise the club in League One and that is likely to demote the younger players, who featured for the side during the financial burden. Speaking in a press conference, Keith Hill acknowledged the youngsters were helpful during the time of distress and stated that the new and experienced signings will provide the added support to those players.
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What it took for America to become America
J. Lori Stone
Special to The Vindicator
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Thursday is Constitution Day. Do you know what it took to become America?
It's a simple question; however, with so much controversy in our country today, I wondered how individuals would answer. The bottom line is that America did not happen overnight.
There were growing pains. The following information provides a chronology of the vision our Founding Fathers had for our nation's future and what it has taken to continue these dream for America.
April 19, 1775: Battle of Lexington, Mass., involved a British attack at dawn that started the way for independence.
July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence was adopted by Congress.
Oct. 19, 1781: Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, Va., ending British military action.
Sept. 3, 1783: Treaty of Paris is signed, meaning Great Britain recognizes colonists' independence.
May 25, 1787: The Constitutional convention opens in Philadelphia with a quorum of seven states to discuss revising the Articles of Confederation.
July 13, 1787: Congress passes the Northwest Ordinance.
Sept. 17, 1787: All 12 state delegations approve the Constitution. Of the 42 delegates present, 39 sign it and the Convention formally adjourns.
June 21, 1788: The Constitution becomes effective for the ratifying states when New Hampshire is the ninth state to ratify it.
March 4, 1789: The first Congress under the Constitution convenes in New York City.
April 30, 1789: George Washington is inaugurated as the first president of the United States.
June 8, 1789: James Madison introduces proposed Bill of Rights in the House of Representatives.
Sept. 24, 1789: Congress establishes a Supreme Court, 13 district courts, three ad hoc circuit courts and the position of Attorney General.
Sept. 15, 1789: Congress approves 12 amendments and sends them to the states for ratification.
Feb. 2, 1790: Supreme Court convenes for the first time after an unsuccessful attempt Feb. 1.
Dec. 15, 1791: Virginia ratifies the Bill of Rights, and 10 of the 12 proposed amendments become part of the U.S. Constitution.
Why the importance of the above information, you ask?
I wanted to lay out the foundation for the Constitution of the United States.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The Constitution was established during a much different time in our country. People were coming to America from various parts of the world with their own lifestyles and customs. Yet, they knew the importance of establishing a government for the future growth of America.
As in all history, changes occur every day. The Constitution is no different. Since the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution), there are now 27 amendments to the Constitution. The 11th amendment was ratified Feb. 7, 1795. The 27th amendment was ratified May 7, 1992.
To commemorate the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of the Constitution of the United States, Congress designated Sept. 17 of each year as "Constitution Day."
Yes, America truly began as a dream. It was not easy, and there were many heated and crucial debates. So, on Thursday this week — Sept. 17 — why not take a moment and look at the Constitution of the United States.
The first 10 amendments gave us our basic liberties. However, look at the titles of the additional amendments. As events happened that changed the course of our country, so has the Constitution.
Proud American, CMSgt. J. Lori Stone of Youngstown, is retired from the U.S. Air Force. Recognized as an outstanding veteran, Stone has been inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame.
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What does MySQL mean in Databases?
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MySQL is an open source relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after co-founder Michael Widenius' daughter, My. The SQL phrase stands for Structured Query Language. The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements. MySQL was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation. MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications, and is a central component of the widely used LAMP open source web application software stack. LAMP is an acronym for "Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python." Free-software-open source projects that require a full-featured database management system often use MySQL. For commercial use, several paid editions are available, and offer additional functionality. Applications which use MySQL databases include: TYPO3, MODx, Joomla, WordPress, phpBB, MyBB, Drupal and other software. MySQL is also used in many high-profile, large-scale websites, including Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube.
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Man suffers years of pain and discomfort after medical equipment was left in place during an operation
HomeNews & UpdatesNewsMan suffers years of pain and discomfort after medical equipment was left in place during an operation
A 40 year old man has received £15,000 from West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust after medical equipment was left in place during an operation.
The man, who is a full time carer for his daughter, initially underwent a procedure at West Suffolk Hospital in July 2013 to insert a stent into his kidney, due to a blockage causing severe pain and discomfort in the lower back and groin. He was then referred to undergo a pyeloplasty – surgical reconstruction to part of the kidney.
He underwent the procedure in January 2014 without complications. Following this, the Claimant failed to receive any follow up. He attended his GP on numerous occasions with discomfort and painful urination which he was treated with antibiotics for.
In October 2017, the Claimant was referred by his GP back to West Suffolk Hospital. In January 2018, the Claimant attended an appointment with urology at West Suffolk Hospital and it was suspected that the stent had been left in situ and not removed. A referral was made for further investigations.
On 15 February 2018, a CT scan reported "Left double-J stent left in situ. Left kidney shows a little further atrophy compared with the previous study in 2013."
On 12 March 2018, the Claimant attended at an appointment at West Suffolk Hospital and he was listed for emergency removal which took place less than two weeks later.
The Claimant brought action against West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust for the failure to remove the stent in a timely manner and failed to follow up, resulting in the stent not being removed for more than three years, causing a prolonged period of pain and discomfort. It had caused him difficulties participating in social activities and playing with his children.
The Defendant's solicitors made an early admission that the stent should have been removed in March 2014 and the failure to do so caused additional pain and suffering. An offer was put forward by the Defendants of £10,000 and the Claimant was happy to settle without expert evidence. After negotiations for a higher settlement, the Claimant was awarded £15,000 in damages.
Lauren Taylor, assistant litigation executive at Fletchers Solicitors, said: "The Claimant had suffered from pain and discomfort for a period of three years before it was discovered that a stent in his left kidney had been left in situ. The failure to remove the stent in a timely manner suffered a prolonged period of pain and discomfort, which restricted his ability to participate in social activities, in particular playing with his children.
"The Defendant's solicitors made an early offer of £10,000. As the Claimant was happy to settle without expert evidence, we negotiated a higher settlement and he was awarded £15,000 in damages."
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Autumn mural debate continues, its fate uncertain
Since Eyes on the Street last talked about the possibility that Bella Vista's Autumn mural could be lost due to a planned development, a lot has happened.
Neighbors collected more than 1,000 signatures of support for the mural via an online petition, and raised commitments of $250,000 to purchase the lot. But for the developer to consider it, City Paper's The Naked City blog reported that the price would need to increase to the neighborhood of $600,000. Subsequently, NewsWorks noted that conversations between the developer and neighbors broke down.
Yesterday the Zoning Board of Adjustment heard testimony from David Orphanides, the zoning attorney representing the developers, about the requested parking variance. (Recall that parking is the reason the proposed development came the Bella Vista Town Watch zoning meeting last week, not the mural.) A couple dozen concerned neighbors turned out to the ZBA hearing, but because murals are beyond the purview of zoning regulation only one neighbor was permitted to voice the shared concern about Autumn.
David Guinn, the mural's artist, also spoke at ZBA hearing. Guinn told me he's consulting with a lawyer as to whether he has grounds to file a lawsuit under the Visual Artists Rights Act, a federal law that permits the artist to take actions to protect the integrity of his/her artwork irrespective of ownership. It's not immediately clear if the law applies to the case of a mural, but if it does things could get interesting. The ZBA put off its ruling until early November. Stay tuned.
In a larger sense, the case of Autumn raises questions about all of the multifaceted things murals are intended to do in our neighborhoods. The Mural Arts Program's Communications Director, Jennifer McCreary, explained via email,
"Murals do many things: they serve as agents of change, bring communities together, benefit local business, spur economic development, and serve as creative placemakers. Autumn is a prime example of a mural that does all of these things. There are reasons why cities all over the country have public art programs: it's because of what art means to the life of a city. It's invigorating, engaging, inspiring. It's also about connection– both connecting the community to art, and the community members to each other – something people really need in today's world."
By those standards, Autumn succeeded. Regardless of its ultimate fate.
Issues: Design Zoning
Neighborhoods: Bella Vista
People: David Guinn
Photo Credit: Save Our Mural - says Our House Montessori accross the street from Autumn.
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Undead Labs "on its way to achieving its ultimate vision" with State of Decay 3
It's been a long while since State of Decay 3 was first announced, and there hasn't been much in the way of news or updates since. While developer Undead Labs has been working away at the sequel this year, it was dealt a blow when the studio's founder, Jeff Strain decided to leave in April. Today, Strain has revealed his next venture: a brand new studio called Possibility Space. However, when announcing this news, he also touched on the future of the State of Decay series.
In an interview with IGN, Strain says that "State of Decay is still on its way to achieving its ultimate vision" and praised the developers working on the game. He also commends Microsoft for the way it has managed its owned studios, including Undead Labs, over the last few years.
The "vision" for State of Decay Strain references, which was first talked about all the way back in 2011 in an FAQ, was a "full online world game that will allow thousands of players to run around simultaneously in a much larger server-hosted world".
State of Decay always had grand ambitions as a series, originally being a stepping stone towards 'Class4', a codename for a project which was intended to be an online MMO. However, when Undead Labs continued its development partnership with Microsoft, those MMO ambitions and Class4 never materialised.
State of Decay 2 built upon the foundation of what Undead Labs started and added co-op. However, it was far from an MMO. So, the assumption was that State of Decay 3, backed by Microsoft's full support and funding now that Undead Labs is a part of Xbox Games Studios, would be the zombie MMO Class4 was always intended to be.
Whilst Undead Labs hasn't commented on State of Decay 3, or what type of game it is, Strain only left the company in April this year, so he likely has a good idea of what state the game is in and the core foundations of the sequel, which is being built for Xbox Series X|S.
Strain has a history with MMOs, founding Guild Wars developer ArenaNet in 2000. Undead Labs was originally intended to have that MMO foundation too. However, for whatever reason, that vision for State of Decay ended up being pushed back.
Hopefully, the third time will be the charm and State of Decay 3 can be the zombie MMO Undead Labs initially set out to create – or at least get us another step closer.
Joe Apsey Staff Writer
A console fanatic at heart, Joe loves the biggest triple-A games and spends his time hunting down every last collectible and trophies on PlayStation. He previously wrote for PlayStation Universe, Gfinity Esports, TechRaptor, and More. [He/Him]
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Energize Africa - a mission that musn't be failed.
A future not so far away
Africa has recently experienced the first wave of the demographic explosion. For those who understand the cyclical nature of this phenomenon, foreseeing the nearest century's population landscape is just a matter of basic mathematics. Nowadays, the Africans (1,3 billion) make up 17% of the world's population and according to UN's predictions, it will have raised by 6% by 2080. The dynamic growth within the continent won't, of course, occur evenly as the highest density will be most probably observed in its central regions. Furthermore, the demographic changes will also influence and shape urbanization processes as more and more people will be choosing cities to settle. And these will grow as well. Currently, there are three metropolises with more than 10 million citizens. By 2030 Africa will have 5 such metropolitan areas plus 17 cities with over 5 million inhabitants (a triple of the state now) and the number of those with population over a million citizens will hit 90, therefore, it will double. Africa is a continent with the youngest population and in the second half of this very century, it will be the second populous one with millions of people in need of better opportunities, development and energy, electrical energy.
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Economic growth in African countries has been observed for the past twenty years, this trend itself requires more energy to be sustained, left alone the population growth. However, these two phenomena combined, create an ambient that requires not only undisturbed access to electrical energy but also, due to the average material status of the population, cheap energy. Africa is yet to arrive at the point of the coverage sufficient enough to secure a sustainable growth (around 57% of the inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa doesn't have access to electricity) and the energy supply is nowhere close to meeting the needs that are already emerging. Moreover, for some countries getting a sustainable and efficient source of energy is a question of accelerating their economic growth and exploring their possibilities. For instance, Ghana would be able to benefit from higher-value-added manufacturing and export-led growth by processing bauxite (the ore used to produce aluminium) and exporting it smelted at a higher price instead of selling it in a raw form. Currently, it is impossible due to the lack of cost-effective and sustainable energy supply. At this point, the problem of providing cheap energy reveals itself not as a regional problem but as a global issue. The direction chosen by African governments will influence the ecological future of the whole globe, the pace of climate changes will depend on the solutions that will be chosen and so is the entire eco-safety. That is why the main concern is to find and choose an effective source of cheap and clean energy that will live up to the growing demand.
The dirty will grow faster, the clan will go stronger.
Conventional methods are still the most popular ways of producing electrical energy. Oil, coal and natural gas are the three major components of the global energy mix with 30%, 28% and 22% share consecutively. The overwhelming dominance of fossil fuel over alternative methods has been a trend for over a century. Currently, there are no major symptoms of any major change, at least in favour of the second type of resources as energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have increased 1.3% annually, on average, over the last five years. Moreover, the shot in global energy demand suggests growing needs in utterly new regions than before. For instance, demand for natural gas is on the rise as China appears to be the new major consumer. Even if the consumption of fossil fuels remain at the same level, most of them will have run out by the end of this century. However, maybe not many would be even able to witness this as the untamed coal, gas and oil consumption will bring irreversible climate changes and natural cataclysms. Carbon emissions, air pollution, habitat destruction are only a few side effects of conventional methods of energy production. Now, with Africa experiencing a demographic explosion and increased energetic demand, the world is facing a major challenge: to provide the continent with electricity that would be efficient and clean at the same time. Why is it so crucial for its development? Using conventional methods would be the easiest solution that at the same time would be the most short-sighted one. First of all, it would highly accelerate the exhaustion of natural resources, which is still not the worst-case scenario becoming real. What would come next, would be massive climate changes that would make many African regions hard or even impossible to inhabit. People would be forced to migrate and the economic growth would yield to a socio-economic crisis. Clean energy production might take longer to cover the needs within African nations but will surely make the development sustainable and safe not only for the continent but the whole globe. And it's in the highest global interests to explore the best options.
Afro-atomic – a small particle for huge needs.
African governments themselves are also highly aware of the need for clean and effective energy sources. That is why more and more eyes are turning towards nuclear solutions and they have good reasons to express their interest in them. Currently, 45% of energetic supply in Africa is covered by South Africa. The country doesn't only ensure the need of its citizens but also sells the surplus to Eswatini, Botswana, Mozambique, Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Many more are interested in exploring the benefits of nuclear power. Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan have already engaged with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) to make their first steps in the Nuclear program. More countries like Algeria, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia are looking into such possibilities too. Nuclear plants appear to be the most effective units as most of them can work of their full capacity over 90% time during the year. How does this hyper-efficient system work? In a nutshell, everything is based on nuclear reactors. Their task is to control nuclear chain reactions within the process of fission. This physical reaction occurs when an atom splits into two parts, producing heat, which later makes steam spin a turbine to create electricity. Nevertheless, this natural reaction needs fuel to be catalyzed and used for energy-production processes. There are several kinds of it, uranium-235 and plutonium-239 among them. The fuel is processed into small ceramic pallets which are put inside sealed metal tubes – the fuel rods. Such rods are bundled together to create a fuel assembly, typically such assembly is made of around 200 rods. A reactor core can contain up to several hundreds of such assemblies, depending on its power. Another important factor for nuclear energy production is water. It fills the reactor vessel and plays a role of both a coolant and moderator. The moderating is fulfilled by slowing down the neutrons produced by fission and to sustain the chain reaction. The other mean to rein the pace of reaction is inserting or withdrawing control rods, which can be inserted into the reactor to slow down the reaction and increase it when they are removed. Fission happening inside the reactor generates heat that later transforms the water into steam that spins a turbine that produces electricity. Carbon-fee electricity. However, such method is not waste-free. Nuclear waste has to be treated with extra caution and needs special storing conditions. In the 20th century, nuclear power was a risky novelty reserved for the major players in the global race of technological development. Nowadays there are over 450 reactors in more than 30 countries and more are being constructed. However, this kind of energy didn't make it to the top of the energy mix. Some people may assume, that the reason might be the risk of potential malfunction or accident. The cases of the recent breakdown in Fukushima (Japan) and horrific stories about the events in Chernobyl created an aura of fear and mistrust around this particular solution. Nevertheless, the so-called "risk perception" is nowhere close to "risk reality". The probability of malfunction within a nuclear plant is far lesser than in a conventional unit and, although there are numerous studies on the magnitude of potential damages caused by such a breakdown in the first one, the risk of other energy options has hardly been investigated. The real reason why nuclear power is not yet so popular is purely financial. And this will be one of the major obstacles Africa will face, not only due to the costs of construction. Therefore some of the countries are seeking partners to construct this highly capital consuming facility. Uganda, Egypt, Kenya, Sudan, Nigeria and Zambia are claimed to have started negotiations with ROSATOM – a Russian national corporation specialized in nuclear energy solutions, incorporating various institutions and enterprises related to the widely-understood nuclear industry. Most of the power agreements are kept a secret, however, the company is boasting about having concluded memoranda of understanding concerning such investments like a powerplant in Egyptian El Dabaa, which cost of construction is estimated to USD 25 billion and so is the loan provide by ROSATOM. Nevertheless, this amount doesn't cover potential interest accrual, possible cost overruns, operations and decommissioning which may as well give the amount not lower than the loan itself. There come the costs that are not so well visible at first sight. The annual interest is calculated to oscillate around 3%. Moreover, the repayments start only after 10 to 13 years. However, at the moment of the date due to payments, the country can experience severe financial shocks and face payments difficult to make. This may increase the interest rate that can reach even 40%. Delays and cost overruns, which are widely known in nuclear facility construction, may only worsen the situation. At the end of the day, a country might lose its energetic independence in favour of the investor, which would be politically unavailable not only for the region but also for global affairs. Nevertheless, most of the countries are not prepared for what will happen next, that means, receiving all this energy. For the sake of the regional energetic safety, the IAEA advises the grid capacity to be ten times the capacity of the nuclear plant. Therefore, if a plant is able to generate 1000 megawatts, then the grid should be able to sustain 10000 megawatts before completing the plant's construction. Most of the African countries have not enough infrastructure to support a large, conventional facility. However, emerging technologies may become an option. Small Nuclear Power Reactors or Small Modular Reactors (SMR's) are the novelty that might both cut the costs of construction and be more comfortable a solution. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) defines 'small' as under 300 MWe, and up to about 700 MWe as 'medium', therefore, the grid capacity of the country could be much smaller. Moreover, this kind of units can be relocated from one place to another. Their smallest subcategory, vSMR's producing up to 15 MWe, can be easily used in remote areas. However, this seemingly perfect solution doesn't trigger much enthusiasm among African leaders. Although the costs and spectrum would be more applicable for most cases, no one is ready to introduce a system that hasn't been checked somewhere else yet.
Anything non-nuclear on the menu?
Nuclear energy is clean and, contrary to many beliefs, quite safe. However, it is not certain if this is the path for Africa to follow. Currently, more and more countries (like the US and France) are reducing the number of nuclear plants. Moreover, the costs of construction and proper maintenance might surpass the financial capacity of many African countries, which can make them turn to other, more wealthy and power-hungry allies for help. Nevertheless, these are always other, alternative solutions that can work efficiently and bring fewer expenses. Some African countries are already using smaller-scale power production initiatives based on bio-energy. Kenya is exploring the potential of geothermal energy extraction along the Rift Valley. Much hopes and expectations have been placed upon a hydroelectric scheme on Congo River. The investment, however, is been on hold due to financial difficulties. Amongst the emerging solutions, solar-generated power seams the most convenient for African reality if the proper technology is used. Back in 2014, Google teamed up with NRG and BrightSource Energy in order to construct a powerplant made of 173 500 mirrors. The facility was built 40 km away from Las Vegas and provides energy to 140 thousands of households. Five years later a similar pattern was used in Morocco. The powerplant contains 500k elliptically angled mirrors, 12 meters of height each. The facility is located several kilometres away from Quaezazate. The "Noor" ("light" in Arabic) is a mix of the most mature solar technologies and is capable of producing energy both during the day and night. The mechanism used in "Noor" is not much different from the conventional energy production process, with one detail, the element that generates heat. The sunrays collected by the mirrors heat oil circulating in pipes. Then, the energy is transmitted to another cycle, where water turns into steam setting a turbine in motion and generates power just like in coal-fueled plants. The oil temperature reaches 560 degrees which makes it possible for the plant to work during the night as the oil keeps the temperature always high enough to keep the turbine moving. The plant turns out to be so efficient that Morocco signed a contract for energy provision with Germany, Portugal and Spain. According to specialists, solar energy will provide 11% of global energy in 2050.
All in all, both solar and nuclear energy offer options that might be a solution to African need for electricity. Although full-size nuclear plants might generate too much cost and provoke regional political instability, a smaller plant might be a reasonable choice. Solar energy, on the other hand, seems to be the cheapest and the most sustainable way to follow.
Africa faces a major transition which will include not only huge demographic growth but also making important choices. The continent needs its autonomy in the process as the decision has to serve the local needs. However, the guidance and assistance shall be provided by the global community as the route taken by Africa will define the climatic future of the entire planet.
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Graham Mackay was on the Board of Directors of [[Philip Morris International]] (PMI) from 2008 until his death in December 2013.<ref name= PMI> Phillip Morris International, [https://web.archive.org/web/20081111175958/http://www.philipmorrisinternational.com/PMINTL/pages/eng/press/pressreleaseTemplate.asp?ID=1220508 Graham Mackay Elected to Board of Directors of Phillip Morris International (PMI)], 31 October 2008, accessed October 2018</ref><ref> P. Evans, [https://web.archive.org/web/20181003092434/https://www.wsj.com/articles/sabmiller-chairman-graham-mackay-dies-1387367658 SABMiller Chairman Graham Mackay Dies], ''The Wall Street Journal'', 18 December 2013, accessed October 2018</ref> ==SABMiller== Mackay was the Chairman of [[SABMiller]] which was the world's second largest beer company.<ref name= PMI/> In 1978, Mackay joined the South African Breweries Limited, holding numerous senior positions, including Executive Chairman of the beer business in South Africa. He was appointed Group Managing Director in 1997 and was the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc until his resignation in June 2013.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20190116171136/http://www.poandpo.com/who-is-promoted/graham-mackay-resigns-from-reckitt-benckiser-board-13-6-2013/ Graham Mackay resigns from Reckitt Benckiser board], ''Post Online Media'', 13 June 2013, accessed January 2019</ref> ==TobaccoTactics Resources== *[[PMI|Phillip Morris International]] *[[SABMiller]] ==Notes== <references/> [[Category:Tobacco Industry People|Mackay, Graham]]
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Boston College ruling highlights lack of rights at private universities
by Samantha Harris
Last week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversed a lower court's decision to preliminarily enjoin Boston College from suspending a student found responsible for sexual misconduct. In its decision, the panel took the district court to task for, in its view, using a public university due process decision to expand the scope of Massachusetts contract law. The ruling was an unusually harsh rebuke of the district court and a clear illustration of why the courts are often an imperfect vehicle for students seeking relief from unfair campus disciplinary proceedings, particularly at private universities.
After Boston College suspended him for sexual misconduct, the plaintiff brought a breach of contract claim against BC. He alleged that its use of a single-investigator model, which provided him with no hearing and no ability to question his accuser, had violated the requirement under Massachusetts law that contracts be performed with basic fairness. The district court held that Plaintiff had shown a probability of success on the merits of his claim, finding that — particularly in light of the First Circuit's recent decision in Haidak v. University of Massachusetts – Amherst, 933 F.3d 56 (1st Cir. 2019) — some kind of opportunity for real-time questioning is necessary to the "basic fairness" required by Massachusetts contract law. In Haidak, the First Circuit held that at a public university, "due process in the university disciplinary setting requires 'some opportunity for real-time cross-examination, even if only through a hearing panel.'" Haidak, 933 F.3d at 69.
At the preliminary injunction hearing in the BC case, the district court had stated its belief that "a private institution like BC should follow practices that we'll call fair process that are parallel to due process claims against public institutions." Doe v. Trustees of Boston College, No. 19-1871, at 9 (1st Cir. Nov. 20, 2019). This is not a novel holding. In June, for example, a Tennessee district court noted, in enjoining Rhodes College from expelling an accused student pending the outcome of his lawsuit against the college, that "[c]learly, courts are not prohibited from protecting against procedural irregularities in school disciplinary proceedings that amount to due process violations." Doe v. Rhodes College, No. 2:19-cv-02336 (W.D. Tenn. June 13, 2019).
Here, however, the First Circuit took the district court to task for importing constitutional due process standards into a contract case against a private university:
Haidak, which involved a public university and the federal due process clause, was concerned with a different claim. It does not govern this Massachusetts state law issue and provides no basis to depart from the Massachusetts cases we describe below. BC is not a public university or a government actor and is not subject to due process requirements.
Doe v. Boston College, No. 19-1871, at 12-13.
Looking instead to Massachusetts state contract cases, the court held that "no Massachusetts state decision has ever found the requirements the district court here imposed to be a necessary part of the basic fairness requirement," and in fact that there were Massachusetts state cases approving of procedures that did not provide an opportunity for real-time questioning.
Ultimately, the court warned against the dangers of a federal court trying to create new state law. Stating that "[f]ederal courts are not free to extend the reach of state law," the court held:
This limited role of federal courts in matters of state policy respects the design of our federal system, which allows a "state [to], if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262, 311 (1932) (Brandeis, J., dissenting). We give particular respect to state regulation of education, an area in which our "lack of specialized knowledge and experience counsels against premature interference with the informed judgments made at the state and local levels." San Antonio Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1, 42 (1973).
The panel that decided this case was an entirely different group of judges from the panel that decided Haidak, so there is no way to know how that panel would have viewed the application of its ruling to a private university case. (Interestingly, two of the judges on the Haidak panel, Judges Selya and Kayatta, were on a panel in another recent case against Boston College that did find the college had violated basic fairness in a sexual misconduct proceeding.) But the decision illustrates just how much discretion private universities have in crafting their own policies and disciplinary procedures, even when those procedures may offend fundamental notions of justice.
This underscores the need for prospective students and their families to familiarize themselves with a private college's policies and procedures before deciding to attend. Too often, people don't read these policies until they find themselves entangled in a campus judicial system, at which point it is often too late. While an increasing number of courts have intervened in cases where a private university has failed to follow its own policies or has enforced its policies in a discriminatory manner, the fact remains that private university policies are not subject to the same degree of judicial scrutiny as those at public universities. Perhaps if private universities with unfair disciplinary policies began to see applications—or donations— drop as a result of those policies, they would take notice.
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> E-Cigarettes and Vaping - The Growing Hazardous Plume for P/C...
September 25, 2019| By Tim Fletcher | General Liability | English
Recent headlines are sobering: At least 530 confirmed and probable cases of vaping-related illness in 38 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, with seven deaths. While relatively small numbers at present, a huge pool of potential victims exists within the estimated 10.8 million people in the United States who admit to vaping. Some surveys have found a much higher number of individuals, particularly youths, using e-cigarettes.1
Against this backdrop, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently advised that anyone who uses a vape device should consider stopping while public health officials investigate. For its part, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is likely to ban flavored e-cigarettes that appeal to teenagers, similar to what Michigan recently did on a temporary basis.
All seven people who died were adults. Most of those who became ill were in their early teens to early 20s - and healthy. Because investigators haven't yet isolated the specific cause, anyone who uses e-cigarettes or vaping devices - either nicotine or marijuana - may be at risk.
While much remains to be learned, there are strong indications that the vaping fluid used by sick patients contained THC (the psychoactive drug found in marijuana) and the chemical vitamin E acetate, commonly found in items such as olive oil, certain topical skin treatments, and almonds. When heated by the vaping device the compound becomes vapor, then returns to oil as it reaches the lungs. Health officials are exploring this as a possible cause, given that lungs can only process gases and not other substances.
What Will the Future Hold?
At least one vaping-related lawsuit has been filed by a young adult who claims to have become addicted to vaping and suffered life-threatening injuries as a result. We expect the FDA to move forward with its ban and for other states to join Michigan in banning flavored e-cigarettes.
While a design or manufacturing defect can usually be traced back to the manufacturer, e-cigarettes pose unique challenges. This is because most e-cigarettes are manufactured by Chinese companies that frequently shut down without notice, making it difficult to obtain jurisdiction and enforce a judgment. For this reason, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers may be targeted by plaintiffs seeking to access available insurance coverage. Retailers may also face another exposure: violations for selling e-cigarettes to minors, a process that is easier to track because many transactions are done electronically rather than with cash.
Concurrently, we expect the scientific inquiry to continue with a specific focus on how the lungs metabolize the oils used in vaping e-cigarettes.
At this juncture, this much is known: It's debatable whether vaping is a safer alternative to "heat and burn" cigarettes. Beyond that, we may learn in the months ahead that vaping carries a litany of previously unknown health hazards, with a latency component like with other toxins discovered over the past 50 years.
4 Things Insurers Can Do
As this story continues to unfold, we would suggest the following:
Review your small commercial retail book to determine whether any are selling e-cigarettes. Such retailers could include convenience stores, gas stations, and liquor stores.
Think about using the following forms to specifically exclude e-cigarettes:
CG 21 33 11 85 Exclusion - Designated Products (For use with CGL and Products policies)
CX 21 15 04 13 Exclusion - Exclusion - Designated Products
Consider adding the following ISO exclusions to your CGL policies as they become available:
CG 40 12 19 Exclusion - All Hazards in Connection with an Electronic Smoking Device, Its Vapor, Component Parts, Equipment, and Accessories
CG 40 13 19 Exclusion - Health Hazards, Electronic Smoking Device Vapor
CU 34 20 12 19 Exclusion - All Hazards in Connection with an Electronic Smoking Device, Its Vapor, Component Parts, Equipment, and Accessories
CX 21 77 12 19 - Exclusion - All Hazards in Connection with an Electronic Smoking Device, Its Vapor, Component Parts, Equipment, and Accessories
CX 21 78 12 19 - Exclusion - Health Hazards, Electronic Smoking Device Vapor
Keep in mind that the duty to defend exists in all standard CGL occurrence forms with the potential to incur uncapped defense costs.
Consult your Gen Re account executive for additional information and/or assistance in developing an underwriting strategy to address your vaping-related exposures.
CDC, September 17, 2019, https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html#latest-outbreak-information
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Movie Review of Glass (2019)
Posted: February 15, 2019 | Author: Jeff Bowles | Filed under: Comic Hero, Film Review, Movie Review, Movies, Uncategorized |1 Comment
About as unbreakable as a piece of ill-tempered… well, you know.
Glass (2019) – Not Much Super, Not Much Hero
by Jeff Bowles
During the closing moments of Glass, I couldn't help but think director M. Night Shyamalan had squandered the opportunity to build something both timely and unique. In the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in which dozens of bigger-than-life characters exist concurrently and pop into each other's movies like those annoying neighbors from down the street (you know the ones), it's not unusual to expect some pretty big stuff from the superhero genre. And after all, Shyamalan began laying the groundwork for this trilogy of his long before The Avengers or The Guardians of the Galaxy had ever graced the silver screen, so it's safe to say he had the market cornered on expanded comic book universes.
Shyamalan teased an unexpected and suitably epic showdown in the end credits scene of 2016's Split, and while that movie was the best flick he'd made in years, the director who finally seemed to be getting his groove back has… well, lost his groove again. Glass is a lopsided mess, a film in search of a reason to exist. The only thing that saves it from complete mediocrity is the strength of its performances, chief among these being James McAvoy's continually stunning, though in no ways realistic, portrayal of a man with so many personalities his personalities have personalities have personalities.
Really, McAvoy is an exceptional actor, one of the best of his generation, so casting him in a role like this takes a certain level of calculated genius. In his latest turn as mental patient Kevin Wendell Crumb—also known as Patricia, also known as Hedwig, also known as Barry, also known as The Beast, etc.—the Scottish-born actor gets to strut his stuff in some pretty bombastic ways. Scenery-chewing has never seemed so dignified, though. Shyamalan is clearly as in love with Kevin as audiences have become. He garners most of the film's run time, which begs the question, why not just make a Split 2?
Glass of course acts as the capstone to a three-part story that began in the year 2000 with Unbreakable, the follow-up to Shyamalan's debut masterwork, The Sixth Sense. Bruce Willis made for a pretty inert "superhero" all the way back in Y2K, and not much has changed. David Dunn still spends most of his time brooding and behaving like a working-class Bruce Wayne—a Bruce Springsteen Wayne, if you will—minus the car, the cave, and the Born to Run.
After a brutal encounter with Crumb, who's been extraordinarily busy kidnapping and murdering young women since we saw him… kidnapping and murdering young women in a different movie, Dunn finds himself taken psychiatric prisoner and locked up in a dank, hopeless mental health facility somewhere in Philadelphia (no Philly Eagles jokes, please). Imagine his surprise to learn his arch nemesis has suffered the same fate, the eponymous Mr. Glass, played by Samuel L. Jackson.
Willis mostly seems bored with his role here, but he's seemed bored in the majority of the movies he's made in the last fifteen years. Jackson, however, clearly enjoys the opportunity to dust off an old fan-favorite and add another franchise notch to his belt. Mr. Glass spends too much time on the sidelines in this, his own movie, but once things really start cooking, he's just as nerdy and evil as ever. Glass makes for an excellent counterpoint to Crumb, and in a surprisingly subtle performance, Jackon proves he's still good for more than an eyepatch and the odd credit card commercial.
Back when Shyamalan released Unbreakable, good comic book movies were a rarity. Rarer still, mainstream acceptance and veneration for what is America's oldest visual storytelling medium. Everyone likes comics these days, it seems, but in Glass, an overreliance on played-out comic-isms comes off as cheap, laborious, and self-conscious. Even the dastardly lady who's thrown these colorful weirdos together, Dr. Ellie Staple (Sarah Paulson), can't tell if she should balk at the notion of real-life superheroes or wipe them all off the face of the earth.
The movie sports a larger supporting cast culled from the other entries in the series, including Mr. Glass' mother and Dunn's still slightly unhinged son, but none of them are served particularly well, and in fact, the heroic Casey from Split (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) suffers a puzzling reversal of character that all but nullifies her prior life and death victories.
In truth, Glass struggles to find a beat, content for the most part in giving us context and backstory for everything we've already seen. Plot development is kept to a minimum, the classic Shyamalan botched twist ending is still classically botched, and the big final showdown concludes in such a disappointing and franchise-killing fashion, I had to ask myself why the entire exercise was even necessary. In my opinion, it wasn't. M. Night Shyamalan is not a director's director by any means, but even he knows obfuscation and bad timing are the deaths of tension.
Mr. Glass himself believes comics are a secret history of the world. And I suppose they are in a way. As a popular media artform, comic books have a long history of extraneous filler material. It's just too bad Shyamalan capped off his grand trilogy with a story destined for the bargain bin.
Jeff Bowles is a science fiction and horror writer from the mountains of Colorado. The first Wednesday of every month, you can find him dispensing his writerly wisdom in "Jeff's Pep Talk" right here on Writing to be Read. The best of Jeff's outrageous and imaginative short stories are collected in Godling and Other Paint Stories, Fear and Loathing in Las Cruces, and Brave New Multiverse. He has published work in magazines and anthologies like PodCastle, Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, the Threepenny Review, and Dark Moon Digest. Jeff earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at Western State Colorado University. He currently lives in the high-altitude Pikes Peak region, where he dreams strange dreams and spends far too much time under the stars.
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Lord Reapers of Pyke
Sons of the Sea Wind
Kings of Salt and Rock
Salt Throne, Pyke
King of the Andals and the First Men (suzerain)
House Targaryen (formerly, suzerain)
House Hoare (formerly)
House Greyiron (formerly)
House Blacktyde
House Botley
House Drumm
House Goodbrother
House Harlaw
House Merlyn
House Sparr
House Humble
~15,000 Warriors
{The Grey King}
"We are ironborn. We're not subjects, we're not slaves. We do not plow the field or toil in the mine. We take what is ours."
―Balon Greyjoy[src]
House Greyjoy of Pyke is one of the Great Houses of Westeros. It rules over the Iron Islands, a harsh and bleak collection of islands off the west coast of Westeros, from the castle at Pyke. The head of the house is the Lord Reaper of Pyke.
House Greyjoy's sigil is traditionally a golden kraken on a black field. Their house words are "We Do Not Sow," although the phrase "What Is Dead May Never Die" is also closely associated with House Greyjoy and their bannermen, as they are associated with the faith of the Drowned God.
Following the extinction of House Hoare, the ironborn elected House Greyjoy as Lord of the Iron Islands, an administrative region of the Seven Kingdoms, as vassals to House Targaryen. During Robert's Rebellion, House Greyjoy declared for House Baratheon. During the Greyjoy Rebellion, Balon Greyjoy declared sovereignty as the Kingdom of the Iron Islands and seceded from the Seven Kingdoms, but the rebellion was put down. House Greyjoy bent the knee to Robert Baratheon, and the Kingdom of the Iron Islands became defunct.
During the War of the Five Kings, Balon Greyjoy declared himself King of the Iron Islands and the Iron Islands independent once more, restoring the Kingdom of the Iron Islands and seceding from the Seven Kingdoms. Following his assassination and the election of his brother and murderer, Euron, as the new King of the Iron Islands, House Greyjoy was divided between Euron and his followers, and Balon's surviving children, Yara and Theon, and their followers. During Daenerys Targaryen's war for Westeros, Euron allied with Cersei of House Lannister, while Yara and her followers allied with Daenerys Targaryen, who Euron originally intended to ally with. After being set free by Theon, Yara retook the Iron Islands in Daenerys's name. Theon died at the Battle of Winterfell while Euron died at the Battle of King's Landing, leaving Yara firmly as the head and last living member of House Greyjoy.
3.2 Historical members
3.3 Sworn to House Greyjoy
3.4 Household and allies
House Greyjoy is one of the Great Houses of Westeros. Their lands are the Iron Islands off the west coast of the continent. They rule from their castle Pyke from the island of the same name. The Iron Islands are harsh and bleak and the Greyjoys have traditionally survived by raiding their neighbors. They have always had plans to conquer the mainland. The head of the house is the Lord Reaper of Pyke.[1]
House Greyjoy boasts descent from the Grey King, a legendary King of the Iron Islands said to have ruled for a thousand years and taken a mermaid as his wife. Like the vast majority of ironborn, they worship the Drowned God.[1]
Lord Balon Greyjoy was the founder of the Kingdom of the Iron Islands. He led a rebellion against King Robert Baratheon eight years before the events of the series begin. Balon's sons Rodrik and Maron were killed in the unsuccessful rebellion. Balon's only surviving son Theon was made a ward of Lord Eddard Stark to ensure Balon's submission to King Robert.[2] Only his daughter, Yara Greyjoy, and two of his brothers remained on the Iron Islands after his defeat.[3]
At some point, Balon exiled his younger brother, Euron Greyjoy, who became a feared pirate that terrorized the seas as far as from Oldtown in Westeros to Qarth in Essos.[4]
Theon Greyjoy is a ward of Lord Eddard Stark. He lives at the Stark castle of Winterfell, where he has a cordial relationship with his Stark hosts.[5] Despite the respectful treatment accorded by the Starks, Theon is insecure about his status as a ward. He boasts of his status as a lord to Osha, a Wildling servant in the Stark household, but fails to intimidate her.[6] He later accompanies Ned's son Robb Stark, the King in the North, to fight in the War of the Five Kings and wins Robb's trust and favor.[7]
Theon appeals to King Robb to send him on a mission to negotiate an alliance with his father, Balon Greyjoy, reasoning that the Starks would need ships to attack King's Landing. Despite Catelyn Stark's distrust of Balon, Robb relents and sends Theon back to the Iron Islands to secure help.[8] However, Balon has other ideas and plans to use the power struggle on the mainland to carve up a kingdom in the North, once more declaring himself King of the Iron Islands. Theon is torn between his birth family and his loyalty to the Starks, but ultimately chooses to submit to his father. Theon decides to renege his allegiance to the Starks and is baptized in the name of the Drowned God while his father and sister watch on.[9]
Balon's daughter, Yara Greyjoy, leads a large force that attacks Deepwood Motte, the seat of House Glover.[9] Meanwhile, Theon is made the commander of the Sea Bitch. Instead of attacking small fishing villages as ordered, Theon and his men raid Torrhen's Square and succeed in drawing the remaining Stark forces away from Winterfell.[10] Without consulting Balon or Yara, Theon and his men seize Winterfell and capture Ned's younger sons Bran and Rickon Stark. Theon also executes Ser Rodrik Cassel for defying him. However, the two Stark boys and their Direwolves escape with the help of Osha and Hodor.[11]
In retaliation, Theon murders two orphans and claims them as Bran and Rickon.[12] His actions have the effect of fueling northern hostility towards the Ironborn invaders. Balon and Yara are furious with Theon's conduct, which has jeopardized the Ironborn war effort. Yara leads a party to implore her brother to leave Winterfell. Theon refuses and insists on defending his prize against the northerners. Unable to reason with Theon, Yara is forced to leave him behind.[13]
Theon and his paltry garrison are besieged by a large Bolton army led by Ramsay Snow, the bastard son of Roose Bolton, a vassal of the Starks. The Ironborn turn on Theon and hand him over to Ramsay in return for safe conduct.[14] However, Ramsay reneges on his offer and flays them alive. The capture of Theon is a major blow to House Greyjoy since it deprives Balon of his last remaining son and heir to the Seastone Chair.[15]
Over a prolonged period, Theon Greyjoy is tortured and emasculated by Ramsay Snow. Due to his experiences, Theon adopts the persona Reek and becomes totally subjugated to Ramsay. Theon later issues an ultimatum to Lord Balon Greyjoy demanding that he withdraw his forces from the North. Ramsay also threatens to send more "bits" of his son Theon and to flay every Ironborn in the North alive if his demands are not met. As a parting gift, Ramsay also presents Theon's severed penis. Unwilling to abandon the strongholds he has taken, Balon rejects Ramsay's demands. He also rejects his son Theon because he disobeyed his orders and cannot produce heirs to further the Greyjoy line. Defying her father's wishes, Yara assembles a team of Ironborn warriors to rescue her brother Theon.[15]
Theon Greyjoy has seemingly forgotten his former identity and embraced the persona "Reek". He is totally subservient to his master Ramsay. Upon returning to the Dreadfort, Roose Bolton reprimands his son Ramsay for torturing and emasculating Theon. As Balon's son and heir, he would have been a valuable hostage for him to trade with Balon in return for securing the withdrawal of Ironborn forces from the North.[16]
Later, Yara and her warriors manage to infiltrate the Dreadfort and reach Theon's cell. However, fearing that it is another trap set up by his master, Theon spurns Yara's offer. Yara and her warriors are forced to flee when Ramsay unleashes his dogs on them. After reaching their boats, Yara regards her brother Theon to be "dead".[17]
Having proven his loyalty, "Reek" is sent on a mission by Ramsay, to secure the surrender of the Ironborn garrison at Moat Cailin. For this mission, "Reek" has to pretend to be Theon. Identifying himself as Theon and Balon's last remaining heir, Reek addresses the Ironborn garrison telling them to surrender in return for safe passage. Despite being met by resistance from the garrison commander Ralf Kenning, his men accept Theon's offer and surrender to the Boltons. However, Ramsay reneges on his offer and has them flayed alive anyway.[18]
In an attempt to reach out to Theon, Sansa Stark reminds him of his real name and position as Balon's only surviving son and heir.[19] Ultimately, Theon sheds his Reek persona and helps Sansa to escape the new Bolton stronghold of Winterfell.[20]
After being rescued from Bolton hunters by Brienne of Tarth and Podrick Payne,[21] Theon decides to part company with Sansa and her companions because he fears retribution from Jon Snow for his role in the disappearance of Bran and Rickon, and the murder of the two orphans. Theon takes one horse and travels towards the Iron Islands.[22]
Meanwhile, the Greyjoys face another major setback with the loss of Deepwood Motte to the Glovers. With the War of the Five Kings over, the northern lords are returning to the North and pushing back the Ironborn gains. Yara Greyjoy counsels her father Balon to end his campaign to conquer the North but he refuses to back down. Later that night, Balon is murdered by Euron, who has returned to claim the Salt Throne. Following a struggle on a rope bridge, Euron throws Balon to his death in the sea. The following day, Balon's corpse is found by Yara and her uncle Aeron Greyjoy. While Yara intends to succed her father on the Salt Throne, Aeron announces that a kingsmoot will elect the new ruler of the Iron Islands.[22]
Theon finally returns to Pyke and receives a cold reception from his sister Yara, who is still angry at him for spurning her rescue attempt at the Dreadfort, though her mood picks up when Theon pledges to support her claim to the Salt Throne.[23] At the Kingsmoot, Yara is able to win the support of many due to her reputation as a warrior and Theon's support. Yara promises to build a mighty fleet to conquer the mainland. However, Euron then challenges her candidacy by proposing an alliance with Daenerys Targaryen against the mainland. Euron wins the Kingsmoot and is crowned King of the Iron Islands following his baptism by Aeron. Meanwhile, Yara, Theon, and their supporters flee on the best ships in the Iron Fleet. In response, Euron orders his followers to build a new fleet and vow to kill his niece and nephew.[24]
Yara and Theon travel with the Iron Fleet to Essos where they plan to reach Daenerys before Euron arrives. On their way, they stop over at Volantis for rest and relaxation. The Ironborn frequent a bar where they are entertained by prostitutes. Yara tells a despondent and guilt-ridden Theon that she needs his support to forge an alliance with Daenerys and urges him to regain his confidence. She then leaves with a prostitute.[25]
Following the Second Siege of Meereen, Yara and Theon meet with Daenerys Targaryen and her advisor Tyrion Lannister. Yara offers to provide a hundred ships to Dany if she can help them defeat Euron and recognize the independence of the Iron Islands with Yara as the Queen of the Iron Islands, as her brother Theon notes that he is not fit to rule, something that Tyrion agrees with. Daenerys agrees to their offer after securing a promise that the Ironborn will cease raiding and terrorizing the mainland.[26]
The ships of the Iron Fleet that Theon and Yara took after the kingsmoot are later seen sailing alongside the ships of House Tyrell, Dorne, and those of the former slave masters, which now bear the sails of House Targaryen.[27]
At the invitation of the newly-crowned Queen Cersei Lannister, Euron travels to King's Landing with his portion of the Iron Fleet. In response to the threat of Queen Daenerys, Euron and Cersei form a pact to kill their estranged relatives Yara, Theon, and Tyrion Lannister, who have sided with Dany. Jaime Lannister distrusts Euron due to the historical enmity between the Greyjoys and Lannisters during the Greyjoy Rebellion. Cersei turns down Euron's marriage offer since she distrusts the Lord Reaper of Pyke. Euron promises to return with a gift.[28]
Later, Princess Yara attends Queen Dany's war council at Dragonstone castle. She advocates attacking King's Landing immediately but settles for Tyrion's plan to use her faction of the Iron Fleet to transport Dornishmen and House Tyrell forces across the Narrow Sea to lay siege to King's Landing. While traveling through the high seas with Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes, Yara's fleet is ambushed by Euron's fleet. Euron's forces wipe out Yara's Ironborn faction and capture Yara, Ellaria, and her daughter Tyene Sand. Theon manages to escape by jumping into the sea and clinging to driftwood.[29]
Following the assault on the Targaryen fleet, Theon is rescued from the sea by the Ironborn crew of one of the few Yara-loyalist ships to have survived the battle. Theon claims that he tried to rescue his sister but the crew see through his lies. Meanwhile, Euron leads his niece Yara along with Ellaria and Tyene through the streets of King's Landing. Euron is greeted as a hero while Yara is pelted with rotten fruit by the smallfolk. At the Red Keep, Yara is taken into custody while Euron is appointed as the commander of Queen Cersei's naval forces. Jaime however opines that Euron's head belongs on a spike and reacts negatively when Euron asks about having sex with Cersei. Euron later leads the Iron Fleet in attacking the Unsullied forces that have attacked Casterly Rock, the seat of House Lannister.[30]
At the Parley in King's Landing, Euron seemingly abandons Cersei after witnessing the captured wight. However, Cersei later reveals to Jaime that this was a ruse and that Euron is really headed for Essos to ferry the Golden Company across the Narrow Sea so they can help secure her hold on the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, Theon assembles Yara's last few remaining men to help him rescue his sister.[31]
As Euron ferries the Golden Company to King's Landing, he tells his niece Yara who is imprisoned on the Silence that they are the only Greyjoys alive aside from Theon, implying that Aeron died at some point.[32]
While the Iron Fleet docks at the port of King's Landing during the night, Theon and Yara's loyalists infiltrate the Silence by killing all of the mute guards, freeing Yara in the process. After returning to what little remains of their own fleet (three ships), Yara sails back to the Iron Islands to take them back in Daenerys's name while Theon journeys to Winterfell to help the Starks in fighting the army of the dead.[32] Theon eventually reaches Winterfell with other ironborn warriors, where he bends the knee to Daenerys and is welcomed by Sansa Stark into her service. At a war council, Theon states that he will protect Bran Stark with the other ironborn while he is in the Winterfell godswood in an effort to draw out the Night King and destroy him.[33]
When the Battle of Winterfell begins, Theon and the ironborn take Bran out to the Winterfell godswood beneath the weirwood tree. Theon asks for forgiveness, and Bran responds that everything he did brought him back "home" before warging into a flock of ravens. While Bran is warged, Theon and the ironborn protect him from an onslaught of wights. By the time the Night King arrives with the other White Walkers, all the ironborn have fallen, save for Theon. Bran stops warging, and thanks Theon for protecting him and tells him he is a good man. In a final act to try and defend Bran, Theon charges at the Night King, but the Night King stops and impales Theon, killing him. Theon's sacrifice, however, buys enough time for Arya Stark to arrive and destroy the Night King before he can kill Bran, subsequently shattering the remaining White Walkers and destroying the wights.[34]
With the Iron Fleet stationed in Blackwater Bay and fitted with scorpions on deck, Euron's forces are able to successfully kill Rhaegal and capture Missandei during the Battle at Dragonstone, delivering the latter into Cersei's hands.[35] However, the entirety of Euron's Iron Fleet is burned by Drogon during the Battle of King's Landing. Euron survives for a time and makes it to shore, where he confronts Ser Jaime Lannister, taunting him over bedding Cersei. After a brutal fight, both men are left mortally wounded, with Euron dying on the beach. Yara's rule of the Iron Islands thus becomes uncontested.[36]
Although House Greyjoy did not maintain a standing army, they were the commanders of the Iron Fleet. During Daenerys Targaryen's war for Westeros, Euron and Yara controlled different factions of the Iron Fleet. Yara had under her command 100 of the best ships from the original Iron Fleet, while Euron expanded the portion of the fleet that was under his control, eventually having 1,000 ships in his faction. During the war for Westeros, Yara's fleet was destroyed during the assault on the Targaryen Fleet, eventually only having three ships under her command. Euron's fleet, including the Silence, was annihilated during the Battle of King's Landing, with little to no surviving ships.
Lord {Balon Greyjoy}, Lord of the Iron Islands, Lord Reaper of Pyke, Son of the Sea Wind and King of Salt and Rock. The former head of the family. Styled himself as King of the Iron Islands in defiance of the Iron Throne. Killed when he was pushed off a bridge by his brother, Euron Greyjoy.
Lady {Alannys}, his wife of House Harlaw.
{Rodrik Greyjoy}, their eldest son and heir. Killed by Lord Jason Mallister during the Battle of Seagard.
{Maron Greyjoy}, their second son. Killed during the Siege of Pyke.
Yara Greyjoy, their only daughter. Lady of the Iron Islands, Lady Reaper of Pyke, Daughter of the Sea Wind and Queen of Salt and Rock. Ruling in Pyke since her Retaking of the Iron Islands.
{Theon Greyjoy}, their youngest son. Former ward of House Stark. Formerly styled himself as Prince of Winterfell. Former captive and servant of Ramsay Bolton dubbed "Reek." Killed by the Night King during the Battle of Winterfell.
{Euron Greyjoy}, Balon's younger brother. A pirate and a reaver. The former King of the Iron Islands, Lord Reaper of Pyke, Son of the Sea Wind and King of Salt and Rock. Arranged to marry Queen Cersei I Lannister of the Seven Kingdoms after the prospective defeat of Daenerys Targaryen. Killed by Ser Jaime Lannister during the Battle of King's Landing.
{Aeron "Damphair" Greyjoy}, Balon's youngest brother. A priest of the Drowned God.
Historical members
The {Grey King}, ancestor of House Greyjoy and legendary King of the Iron Islands.
Lord {Vickon Greyjoy}, first Lord of the Iron Islands, King of Salt and Rock, and Son of the Sea Wind. Chosen by the Ironborn to rule the Iron Islands after the death of King Harren Hoare.
Lord {Dalton Greyjoy}, known as the Red Kraken. Fought for the Blacks during the Dance of the Dragons, and assassinated by his mistress.
Lord {Quellon Greyjoy}, father of Balon, Euron and Aeron. Killed in the Battle of the Mander.
Sworn to House Greyjoy
House Blacktyde of Blacktyde
House Botley of Lordsport
House Goodbrother of Hammerhorn
House Harlaw of Harlaw
House Kenning, sworn to House Harlaw.
Lesser Houses
Household and allies
{Dagmer}, called "Dagmer Cleftjaw", first mate of the Sea Bitch. Flayed by Ramsay Snow.
{Lorren}, called "Black Lorren", an ironborn raider and crewman of the Sea Bitch. Flayed by Ramsay Snow.
{Drennan}, an ironborn raider and crewman of the Sea Bitch. Killed by Osha.
{Gelmarr}, an ironborn raider and crewman of the Sea Bitch. Flayed by Ramsay Snow.
{Wex}, an ironborn raider and crewman of the Sea Bitch. Flayed by Ramsay Snow.
{Stygg}, an ironborn raider and crewman of the Sea Bitch. Flayed by Ramsay Snow.
{Aggar}, an ironborn raider and crewman of the Sea Bitch. Flayed by Ramsay Snow.
Harrag, an ironborn captain under Yara and Theon's command.
Alannys Greyjoy
née Harlaw
Rodrik
Greyjoy men holding the House Greyjoy banner in "The Night Lands".
House Greyjoy's sigil in black and white from the HBO viewer's guide.
A shield emblazoned with the sigil of House Greyjoy from the HBO viewer's guide.
The icon of House Greyjoy from the HBO viewer's guide.
A map-marker used to represent House Greyjoy forces.
Roose Bolton receives the House Greyjoy banner from Ramsay Bolton after he takes Moat Cailin.
Euron Greyjoy's personal sigil
Another version of Euron Greyjoy's personal sigil
HBO poster
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, the Greyjoys have been a powerful family in the Islands for possibly thousands of years, long ruling the formidable castle of Pyke. When King Harren the Black was slain by King Aegon the Conqueror during the Targaryen invasion, the ironborn elected Lord Vickon Greyjoy of Pyke to succeed him as ruler of the isles, now oath-sworn to the Iron Throne. The Greyjoys have ruled ever since. The Greyjoys keep themselves distant from the other Great Houses, rarely taking part in events on the mainland (which they call the green lands) and, at various times, even returning to their ancient practices of raiding the nearby coastlines.
{Harlon Greyjoy}, elder son of Lord Quellon. Contracted the greyscale and died allegedly as a result of the disease, but was actually murdered by Euron.
{Quenton Greyjoy}, second son of Lord Quellon. Died as an infant.
{Donel Greyjoy}, third son of Lord Quellon. Died as an infant.
King {Balon IX Greyjoy}, fourth son of Lord Quellon. Self-proclaimed King of the Iron Islands, Lord Reaper of Pyke, King of Salt and Rock, Son of the Sea Wind. Murdered by Euron.
Queen Alannys Harlaw, his wife.
{Rodrik Greyjoy}, his eldest son. Slain by Lord Jason Mallister at Seagard during the Greyjoy Rebellion.
{Maron Greyjoy}, his second son. Killed at Pyke during the Greyjoy Rebellion.
Asha Greyjoy, his only daughter. Currently held captive by Stannis.
Theon Greyjoy, his third son. Currently held captive by Stannis.
King Euron III Greyjoy, known as "Crow's Eye", fifth son of Lord Quellon and self-proclaimed King of the Iron Islands.
Victarion Greyjoy, sixth son of Lord Quellon. Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet. Currently is sailing to Meereen.
{Urrigon Greyjoy}, also known as "Urri", seventh son of Lord Quellon. Injured at a finger dance, and died as a result of poor medical treatment at the age of fourteen.
Aeron Greyjoy, known as "Damphair", eighth son of Lord Quellon. A priest of the Drowned God. Disappeared after the kingsmoot. Currently is held captive by Euron for unknown purpose.
{Robin Greyjoy}, ninth son of Lord Quellon. A lackwit. Murdered by Euron.
After holding themselves aloof during Robert's Rebellion, Lord Balon Greyjoy rebelled against the Iron Throne, declaring himself King of the Isles. Balon's belief was that Robert, who had only been on the throne for five years, did not command the total support of the nobles due to his status as a usurper and would not be able to rally the support needed to crush the rebellion. He was proven wrong and was defeated, with his fleet burned and two eldest sons slain during the war.
Additional Houses sworn to House Greyjoy, yet to appear in the series, include:
House Drumm of Old Wyk.
House Orkwood of Orkmont.
House Saltcliffe of Saltcliffe.
House Volmark of Volmark
House Greyjoy on A Wiki of Ice and Fire
↑ 1.0 1.1 HBO viewers guide, season 2 guide to houses, House Greyjoy entry
↑ HBO viewers guide, season 2 guide to houses, House Greyjoy - Balon Greyjoy entry
↑ HBO viewers guide, season 2 guide to houses, House Greyjoy - Yara Greyjoy entry
↑ 9.0 9.1 "What Is Dead May Never Die"
↑ "The Ghost of Harrenhal"
↑ 15.0 15.1 "Mhysa"
↑ 22.0 22.1 "Home"
Lord: Yara Greyjoy Heir: None
Seat: Pyke, Pyke Lands: Iron Islands
Title(s): Queen of the Iron Islands · Lady Reaper of Pyke · Queen of Salt and Rock · Daughter of the Sea Wind · Lord of the Iron Islands
Ancestors: The Grey King · Vickon Greyjoy · Dalton Greyjoy
Current members: Aeron Greyjoy
Deceased members: Quellon Greyjoy . Balon Greyjoy · Rodrik Greyjoy · Maron Greyjoy · Alannys Greyjoy · Theon Greyjoy · Euron Greyjoy
Household: {Dagmer} · {Lorren} · {Drennan} · {Gelmarr} · {Stygg} · {Aggar} · {Wex} · {Urzen} · Harrag
Houses from the Iron Islands
Blacktyde · Botley · Drumm · Goodbrother · Harlaw · Merlyn · Sparr
Lesser Houses:
Humble · Kenning
Greyiron · Hoare
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