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The Dolphins have suspended linebacker Lawrence Timmons indefinitely for going AWOL in Los Angeles one day before Sunday’s win over the Chargers.
Miami filed a missing persons report for the 31-year-old after he failed to show up for the matchup with the Chargers. He was reportedly found at the airport waiting to board a plane to Philadelphia early Sunday morning.
Timmons left the Steelers after 10 seasons to sign a two-year, $10 million deal to play for the Dolphins. He had played in 101 consecutive games before missing Sunday’s game.
And yet, I’m not sure it really matters. Pittsburgh’s loss didn’t hurt at all given what happened around the AFC North. The Browns blew their best chance at a road win by losing to the Colts, dropping Cleveland to 0-3. The Bengals couldn’t hold onto a 21-7 lead in Green Bay and lost to the Packers in overtime, leaving them in the cellar alongside the Browns at 0-3. Baltimore, without arguably its best player on offense (guard Marshal Yanda, who’s on IR) or defense (defensive lineman Brandon Williams), were stomped by the Jaguars in London by 37 points.
Pittsburgh came into the week with a 56.9 percent chance of winning its division and, despite the loss, left with a 73.3 percent chance of claiming its division. The Steelers have time to figure things out.
Burns are exciting too, right? Von Miller’s now-infamous “too slow” move seemed like a bizarre act to flag given that he never actually touched Tyrod Taylor after the play, but the call was enough to push a back-and-forth game Buffalo’s way. The Bills were set to punt the ball from the Denver 46-yard line with 7:43 to go in the fourth quarter up seven, but the fresh set of downs revitalized Taylor’s offense. Buffalo picked up two more first downs and forced Denver to burn all of its timeouts before kicking a field goal with 3:18 left to make it a 10-point game and basically end the contest.
Siemian did a great job getting the ball into the hands of his playmakers.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing. Siemian fumbled, but that was probably more on Menelik Watson for his poor blocking. He had a bad interception. That was completely on him. It looked like a busted play that should have been a run. It almost seemed like he thought he called a pass play, but everyone else played it as a run. When he let the ball go, Demaryius Thomas had no idea the ball was coming. The whole play felt off.
Even with a few miscues, and an injury to Bolles, the offense was on fire. Nobody thought the Broncos would have the ball enough to score 35 offensive points. And most people still don’t see the Broncos offense as a real threat. That should change in the coming weeks.
Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders both had 6 catches. Thomas went for 71 yards, while Sanders went for 62 and 2 touchdowns. Virgil Green and C.J. Anderson had the other touchdowns.
He left his feet and fully extended his 6-foot-2 frame in an attempt to haul in Taylor’s last-ditch pass, but the ball glanced off his hands and fell harmlessly to the ground.
The Bills were denied a 2-0 start and sole possession of first place in the AFC East. A dejected Jones, who fought back tears following the loss, blamed himself for the lack of execution on the throw.
Let’s dive into some of those completions.
This first play is something that should fire up Rams fans. Goff is under center, turns his back to fake a handoff to Gurley, squares around, and without hesitation, throws a dart for a completion.
This is important because it shows that Goff read the defense correctly, and knew the timing of the route. There was zero doubt when he turned around, he was slinging the rock into that open window. This is much improved from last season.
Straight up, I’ll take the Chiefs to win this one. That was a really impressive performance in last week’s win over the Patriots. And I love watching this bastardized high school offense.
However, the Chiefs lost Eric Berry last week. They already had a weak spot in the secondary on Terrance Mitchell’s side of the field. Take Berry out of the secondary, and it’s a real vulnerability.
The Browns are 1-10-1 against the spread when they play their AFC North peers. But now the Browns are approaching true peer status with the rest of the division. Hell, they’re better than the Bengals. The Ravens are not an impressive team. Covering an 8-point spread against an improving Browns team is too much of a lift.
Hmmm. I was pretty hyped about the Titans this year. I was pretty hyped about the Jaguars last year, and look how that turned out. You can find spreads as high as three points, but in a straight pick ‘em, I’ll take the Jags’ defense.
A little closer spread and I’d probably take the Vikings. I don’t expect Le’Veon Bell to be as much of a non-factor this week as he was last week, and the Steelers are just a safer bet at home than they are on the road. Plus, Sam Bradford’s now dealing with a knee injury.
Our panel found a consensus last week: The Jets and the Colts are not well regarded. OK, so you probably didn’t need eight football experts and a computer to tell you that.
The pro game isn’t the only place you’ll see these tents. The University of Alabama was a pioneer in creating private examination spaces, using its own tent throughout the 2015 season and even bringing it to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Other schools, including Clemson, Ohio State, and Florida State, soon followed.
“It’s an opportunity for us to have a better examination because it will ensure privacy for a short period of time, so doctors can go ahead and make the appropriate diagnosis,” commissioner Roger Goodell said in May.
While these tents won’t solve the league’s concussion crisis, they will aid doctors and staffers while providing players with the dignity of an evaluation away from prying eyes. Early diagnosis is a major factor in preventing the future injuries that can derail careers and lives. An environment that provides fewer distractions and more latitude for on-the-spot evaluations is a step in the right direction — albeit a small one.
1. He would hold the Lombardi Trophy in his hands during a halftime ceremony honoring the 10-year anniversary of his New York Giants’ epic victory over the 18-0 New England Patriots.
2. He would watch live as the former assistant who replaced him, Ben McAdoo, coached like a hopeless rookie at the start of his sophomore year.
Moss said his anger about this topic stems in part from his respect for Shanahan, who moved him to slot receiver to help extend his career.
Elliott will remain eligible to play at least until the lawsuit is settled.
Carr is still the one who drives the Oakland offense, but Lynch’s job is to pull victories into the garage. Along the way, he’s there to create options both downfield and in the red zone for Carr. With that line and the unrelenting Lynch, it’s hard to commit an extra defender to stopping the power run, with the threat of Amari Cooper, Michael Crabtree and new difference-making tight end Jared Cook occupying secondary attention.
Without seeing stacked boxes, Lynch is the perfect complement. During his best days in Seattle, the offense fed off him getting carry after carry to break the will of the defense. As a 31-year-old, the thought of him as a complementary cog is terrifying. The Raiders got it right with his touches in the 15-to-20 range. That’s plenty for him to be effective and consistently give Carr a favorable matchup in the passing game.
The Cleveland police department, meanwhile, made it clear in a statement to the Huffington Post that the union is acting on its own by deciding not to participate.
Two years ago, a district court vacated Tom Brady’s Deflategate suspension, but a higher court reinstated it on appeal. Still, the time it took meant that Brady was able to be on the field for the entire 2015 season.
Unless the appeals court overturns the lower court’s ruling, Elliott will remain eligible to play at least until the lawsuit is settled. If the injunction is overturned, Elliott’s six-game suspension will begin immediately.
The Broncos survived the Chargers’ late surge 24-21 — thanks to a block of a field-goal attempt to avoid overtime. It was a great reboot of the teams’ rivalry, and a reminder that the AFC West is the NFL’s toughest division in 2017.
You don’t think about punters very much. That’s OK. We’re here to think about punters for you and spread the gospel of the NFL’s most awesome ones. This week we’re discussing Rams punter Johnny Hekker, who was pulling off some punting trickery this week against the hapless Colts.
Hekker punted five times in the Rams’ 46-9 win over the Colts. All five of his punts were downed inside the 20, one of them at the 10-yard line and two more inside of that.
Hekker’s been a secret weapon of sorts for the Rams since joining the team as an undrafted free agent in 2012. And the way those teams, under head coach Jeff Fisher, played, he got a lot of work punting.
Rees Odhiambo, a third-round pick by Seattle in 2016, won the left tackle job after George Fant went down with a torn ACL in preseason play. Justin Britt is at center, Mark Glowinski is at right guard, and Germain Ifedi has shifted from guard to right tackle this season. But this unit doesn’t look much better than last year’s.
Wilson’s protectors are literally chasing behind the Packers defenders they were totally incapable of blocking.
It can be tough to be a little brother and even tougher when your older brother sets the bar ridiculously high. T.J. Watt’s play spoke for itself at Wisconsin and helped get the linebacker drafted in the first round this year. But his big debut with the Pittsburgh Steelers spoke even louder.
In his first NFL game, Watt posted two sacks and an interception in Pittsburgh’s 21-18 win over the Cleveland Browns. He also led the team with five solo tackles.
He has a long way to go before he steps out of the shadow of his brother, J.J. Watt, a three-time Defensive Player of the Year and one of the most popular players in the NFL. But never in J.J.’s career has he had two sacks and an interception in a game.
“This young man gives us hope,” Jackson said, via Ohio.com. “He gives you an opportunity to make plays. When I looked up, the game was 21-10, and here we are in the fourth quarter with a chance to win the game late in the game, and that’s because of some plays he made. So that’s what you expect out of your quarterback, and we’re talking about a young rookie quarterback who’s one of the youngest players in the league at that position.
Browns fans will be pleased with the fact that second-year wide receiver Corey Coleman hauled in Kizer’s touchdown. Coleman was known as a touchdown demon at Baylor, but injuries and inconsistent quarterback pay led to a disappointing rookie campaign.
The continued development of Kizer should help Coleman reach his full potential, while also opening up running lanes for Isaiah Crowell.
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In 2017, Elk County, KS had a population of 2.58k people with a median age of 50.8 and a median household income of $39,405. Between 2016 and 2017 the population of Elk County, KS declined from 2,635 to 2,581, a -2.05% decrease and its median household income grew from $37,393 to $39,405, a 5.38% increase.
The population of Elk County, KS is 91% White Alone, 4.11% Hispanic or Latino, and 2.29% Two or More Races. 3.27% of the people in Elk County, KS speak a non-English language, and 99.7% are U.S. citizens.
The median property value in Elk County, KS is $48,300, and the homeownership rate is 81.5%. Most people in Elk County, KS commute by Drove Alone, and the average commute time is 25.2 minutes. The average car ownership in Elk County, KS is 2 cars per household.
Elk County, KS borders Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, and Chautauqua County, KS.
The economy of Elk County, KS employs 1.02k people. The largest industries in Elk County, KS are Educational Services (160 people), Health Care & Social Assistance (129 people), and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting (96 people), and the highest paying industries are Wholesale Trade ($43,529), Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction ($40,000), and Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services ($36,250).
Median household income in Elk County, KS is $39,405. Males in Elk County, KS have an average income that is 1.4 times higher than the average income of females, which is $43,397. The income inequality in Elk County, KS (measured using the Gini index) is 0.46, which is lower than than the national average.
Households in Elk County, KS have a median annual income of $39,405, which is less than the median annual income of $60,336 across the entire United States. This is in comparison to a median income of $37,393 in 2016, which represents a 5.38% annual growth.
Look at the chart to see how the median household income in Elk County, KS compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
In 2017, full-time male employees in Elk County, KS made 1.4 times more than female employees.
This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in Elk County, KS by number of full-time employees.
In 2017 the highest paid race/ethnicity of Elk County, KS workers was Asian. These workers were paid 1.06 times more than White workers, who made the second highest salary of any race/ethnicity.
This chart shows the race- and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in Elk County, KS by number of full-time employees.
The closest comparable wage GINI for Elk County, KS is from Kansas.
In 2017, the tract with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Elk County, KS was Census Tract 9651 with a value of $36,458, followed by N/A and N/A, with respective values of N/A and N/A.
The following map shows all of the tracts in Elk County, KS colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
13.5% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Elk County, KS (343 out of 2.54k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 13.4%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females < 5, followed by Females 25 - 34 and then Males 45 - 54.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Elk County, KS is White, followed by Native American and Two Or More.
From 2016 to 2017, employment in Elk County, KS declined at a rate of -1.35%, from 1.04k employees to 1.02k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Elk County, KS, are Management Occupations (140 people), Food Preparation & Serving Related Occupations (105 people), and Education, Training, & Library Occupations (104 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Elk County, KS.
The most common jobs held by residents of Elk County, KS, by number of employees, are Management Occupations (140 people), Food Preparation & Serving Related Occupations (105 people), and Education, Training, & Library Occupations (104 people).
Compared to other counties, Elk County, KS has an unusually high number of residents working as Transportation Occupations (2.01 times higher than expected), Installation, Maintenance, & Repair Occupations (1.87 times), and Food Preparation & Serving Related Occupations (1.76 times).
The highest paid jobs held by residents of Elk County, KS, by median earnings, are Health Diagnosing & Treating Practitioners & Other Technical Occupations ($68,472), Computer, Engineering, & Science Occupations ($59,167), and Business & Financial Operations Occupations ($48,393).
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Elk County, KS, are Educational Services (160 people), Health Care & Social Assistance (129 people), and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting (96 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Elk County, KS, though some of these residents may live in Elk County, KS and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The most common industries in Elk County, KS, by number of employees, are Educational Services (160 people), Health Care & Social Assistance (129 people), and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting (96 people).
Compared to other counties, Elk County, KS has an unusually high number of Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting (7.94 times higher than expected), Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction (3.62 times), and Educational Services (1.69 times) industries.
The highest paying industries in Elk County, KS, by median earnings, are Wholesale Trade ($43,529), Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction ($40,000), and Professional, Scientific, & Technical Services ($36,250).
88.8% of the population of Elk County, KS has health coverage, with 38% on employee plans, 12.3% on Medicaid, 22.5% on Medicare, 13.8% on non-group plans, and 2.2% on military or VA plans.
Per capita personal health care spending in the county of Elk County, KS was $7,651 in 2014. This is a 2.99% increase from the previous year ($7,429).
Primary care physicians in Elk County, KS see 2605 patients per year on average, which represents a 3.3% decrease from the previous year (2694 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 0 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 0 patients per year.
Primary care physicians in Elk County, KS see an average of 2605 patients per year. This represents a 3.3% decrease from the previous year (2694 patients).
The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in Elk County, KS in comparison to neighboring states.
Between 2016 and 2017, the percent of uninsured citizens in Elk County, KS declined by 3.98% from 11.6% to 11.2%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Elk County, KS changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
Elk County, KS is home to a population of 2.58k people, from which 99.7% are citizens. As of 2017, 1.74% of Elk County, KS residents were born outside of the country.
The ethnic composition of the population of Elk County, KS is composed of 2.35k White Alone residents (91%), 106 Hispanic or Latino residents (4.11%), 59 Two or More Races residents (2.29%), 49 American Indian & Alaska Native Alone residents (1.9%), 13 Asian Alone residents (0.504%), 4 Black or African American Alone residents (0.155%), 0 Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Alone residents (0%), and 0 Some Other Race Alone residents (0%).
The most common foreign languages spoken in Elk County, KS are German (45 speakers), Spanish or Spanish Creole (14 speakers), and French (Incl. Patois, Cajun) (12 speakers).
In 2017, the median age of all people in Elk County, KS was 50.8. Native-born citizens, with a median age of 51, were generally older than than foreign-born citizens, with a median age of 49. But people in Elk County, KS are getting staying the same age. In 2016, the average age of all Elk County, KS residents was 51.
As of 2017, 1.74% of Elk County, KS residents were born outside of the United States, which is lower than the national average of 13.7%. In 2016, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Elk County, KS was 1.63%, meaning that the rate has been increasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Elk County, KS compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
In 2017, the most common birthplace for the foreign-born residents of Elk County, KS was Mexico, the natal country of 85,360 Elk County, KS residents, followed by India with 11,676 and Vietnam with 10,096.
As of 2017, 99.7% of Elk County, KS residents were US citizens, which is higher than the national average of 93.1%. In 2016, the percentage of US citizens in Elk County, KS was 99.7%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been increasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Elk County, KS compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
In 2017, there were 22.2 times more White Alone residents (2.35k people) in Elk County, KS than any other race or ethnicity. There were 106 Hispanic or Latino and 59 Two or More Races residents, the second and third most common racial or ethnic groups.
The following bar chart shows the 8 races and ethnicities represented in Elk County, KS as a share of the total population.
3.27% of Elk County, KS citizens are speakers of a non-English language, which is lower than the national average of 21.5%. In 2015, the most common non-English language spoken in Elk County, KS was German. 1.75% of the overall population of Elk County, KS are native German speakers. 0.545% speak Spanish or Spanish Creole and 0.467% speak German, the next two most common languages.
Elk County, KS has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 4.77 times greater than any other conflict.
The median property value in Elk County, KS was $48,300 in 2017, which is 0.222 times smaller than the national average of $217,600. Between 2016 and 2017 the median property value increased from $48,800 to $48,300, a 1.02% decrease. The homeownership rate in Elk County, KS is 81.5%, which is higher than the national average of 63.9%. People in Elk County, KS have an average commute time of 25.2 minutes, and they commute by Drove Alone. Car ownership in Elk County, KS is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
In 2017, the median household income of the 1.16k households in Elk County, KS grew to $39,405 from the previous year's value of $37,393.
The following chart displays the households in Elk County, KS distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $50k - $60k range.
In 2017, the median property value in Elk County, KS declined from to $48,300 from the previous year's value of $48,800.
The following charts display, first, the property values in Elk County, KS compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies and, second, owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property value buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Elk County, KS the largest share of households have a property value in the $60k - $70k range.
This chart shows the households in Elk County, KS distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Elk County, KS the largest share of households pay taxes in the < $800 range.
In 2017, 81.5% of the housing units in Elk County, KS were occupied by their owner. This percentage declined from the previous year's rate of 81.6%.
This percentage of owner-occupation is higher than the national average of 63.9%. This chart shows the ownership percentage in Elk County, KS compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Elk County, KS distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Elk County, KS have 2 cars, followed by 3 cars.
Using averages, employees in Elk County, KS have a longer commute time (25.2 minutes) than the normal US worker (25.1 minutes). Additionally, 6.9% of the workforce in Elk County, KS have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Elk County, KS compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
In 2017, the most common method of travel for workers in Elk County, KS was Drove Alone, followed by those who Carpooled and those who Worked At Home.
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Fame is a biggie in advertising. One smart agency even built a company around it. After all, what brand doesn’t want to be famous? Fame suggests glamour in a way that makes recall and recognition feel like a science lesson. However, while blockbuster fame through the power of mega-media is a familiar concept, it can take on strange shapes when projected into the shadows of the web and networked media. Many big brands are shocked to discover that their fame is almost irrelevant online. The exchange rate for the fame shekel drops off a cliff when moved from broadcast country to the networked environs. And there’s the rub. Fame is a massive asset online. But only if used in the right way. Brands that arrive, entourage in tow, to share their wonderful insights, experiences and views on world peace look like a wide-eyed reject from the Big Brother house. People may show up but only to point and snigger. However, if you take your hard-earned offline recognition and offer it to the world as a ladder up the board, a place for people to show their own star-quality, fame can take on a whole new value. It’s the equivalent of your favourite actor, sports star or musician, lending you their halo for the day. Will you look after it? Oh yes. Hell, you’ll give it a shine before you hand it back. But there will be bumps along the way. In fact, a brand might be shredded - but only if it's lucky. If a brand puts its fame online, it’s highly likely that someone will rip it apart, if only to prove they can put it back together in better shape. That will be a disturbing moment for a brand manager, not to mention his or her legal team. However, this is where the smartest online operators ride powerful peer-to-peer waves straight up the beach and into the bar. That’s because most remixes of your brand will go unnoticed but the fan you handed over control to will appreciate that you let them have a go. But the odd one or two will add a special or surprising tweak of their own and enjoy sharing it with friends and family. And at that point the web has done its magic. The brand's foreign offline fame wonga will have exchanged into local currency that is instantly recognised, trusted and circulated. Yes fame is a valuable asset for brands online. But only if they’re prepared to share the limelight.
"The strategy of moving the same old stuff into a community is a failing strategy. Have you ever been to a community filled with documentation and marketing materials and loved it? No. We can get that same stuff in a million other places, we don’t need another one. Companies need to spend a lot more time thinking through why they’re doing the community to begin with. The problem is, it’s much easier to justify hanging your laundry out for other people to clean than it is to get people to think differently." From the splendid Go Big Always.
Hulu, the online web TV channel launched by NBC and Fox, is small but growing quickly. The Economist reports on one technique it's using to guide the service - P2P file sharing as an ad pricing tool. "Knowing what is popular among file-sharers could help broadcasters and film studios when negotiating with advertisers, for example. Hulu, a website operated by News Corporation that offers free, advertising-supported video-streaming, already uses file-sharing statistics to design its programming and to set advertising rates. Many music executives were reluctant to take advantage of file-sharing statistics because of the trouble the technology has caused in the industry. TV stations and film studios, by contrast, are “sprinting through the stages of grief”—and coming to terms with the reality that details of the illegal use of their material can, in fact, be very useful indeed."
Paul Graham, Mr Y Combinator, has posted 30 big areas that he thinks need improvement and has challenged the world's engineers and entrepreneurs to come up with the answers. One is simply entitled 'Fix Advertising'. Graham is super-smart and a serious innovator so his take on the issue is well worth a read: "Advertising could be made much better if it tried to please its audience, instead of treating them like victims who deserve x amount of abuse in return for whatever free site they're getting. It doesn't work anyway; audiences learn to tune out boring ads, no matter how loud they shout. What we have now is basically print and TV advertising translated to the web. The right answer will probably look very different. It might not even seem like advertising, by current standards. So the way to approach this problem is probably to start over from scratch: to think what the goal of advertising is, and ask how to do that using the new ingredients technology gives us. Probably the new answers exist already, in some early form that will only later be recognized as the replacement for traditional advertising. Bonus points if you can invent new forms of advertising whose effects are measurable, above all in sales." Any ideas...? This might be a starting point.
"In truth, I'm not sure marketers question the value of research any more than compulsive hand-washers ask hard questions about the value of wash-basins. It's just something you need. Frequently and everywhere." From Rory Sutherland, Ogilvy's Grand Fromage.
Smart comment from the super-smart Mick James on the post below: "So "70% of DVR users skip past TV commercials". Well of course. That's what it's for. Linger over dinner and put it on "chase-play", reclaim those precious minutes of your life. But invert that stat: 30% don't. Nearly a third of people who went out and bought an expensive DVR sit patiently through the ads even though the fast forward button is only inches from their finger. Three non-exclusive explanations. One: there is no limit to human laziness. I find this more and more when I'm online. Drag the mouse all the way up there and click it to get that free content? You must be joking. Thing weighs a ton. Two: people are buying into the argument that skipping ads is immoral, stealing even. Soon they'll feel a moral obligation to actually go out and buy the stuff. Three: This is what television-watching is for a lot of people, with ad breaks part of the natural rhythm of the show. They may well have been the only people who were watching the ads with any attention anyway - just because you can suddenly measure something doesn't mean it's only just happened. Is this a dying habit? Only time will tell." Thanks Mick!
TV Revenues - Going And Not Coming Back?
It's a sign of the times that Thinkbox are able to maintain their story, whilst other Grand Fromage wonder out loud if old-school, blockbuster media revenues are not only going, but not coming back. In response to a report from Lehman Bros, NewTeeVee's Liz Gannes doesn't mince her words: "I wouldn’t be as quick to discount advertising, but it’s important to recognize that a lot of advertising numbers have historically been crap, with pricing based on promises of “reach” and other fuzzy math extrapolated from circulation numbers and Nielsen ratings. Advertising will find its place in new media, but it may be a necessarily smaller chunk of its former self because accountability will only continue to improve online." Maybe Garfield was right?
Earlier this year, I went to speak to the (very nice) people at Thinkbox, the group charged with making the case for the value of TV advertising in the UK, and backed by the UK commercial broadcasters. I had a very stimulating conversation but left confused. Their message appears to be that, despite public opinion, we are not only watching more TV programming but we are also watching more TV advertising. And they've got the science to prove it. In fact, they've got video of people enjoying advertising at home. Hell, they've got video of people watching ads and, "openly expressing wonder at the creative execution!" The Thinkbox boss, Tess Alps has presented the argument over on the Guardian's Technology blog and isn't getting much support. In fact she is being shot down in flames. "I basically stopped watching TV about 7 or 8 years ago when we had children because of the damage on family life and their mental development," notes one commenter. Aside from the wisdom of launching a pro-TV rant to the Torrenters and Netheads who populate the Guardian's Tech community, Thinkbox are fighting a losing battle. Even if they are right - they aren't winning many people over. Not least the markets which are suggesting that ITV is now ripe for a break-up, such is the lost cause of TV advertising. However, Thinkbox do have a much more interesting argument that, for some reason, they keep tucked away. It's that TV and web advertising can work better together than they do seperately. Now that's one I think we can all buy. In fact, a client was telling me only last week what a powerful combination the TV-to-web model can be. I've been saying it a lot recently - it's all digital now.
If your sink is blocked for a few weeks and you remove the plug to dig out the obstruction, the offending mangled mess of soap, fish bones, human hair and other horrible gunk in which bacteria has set up home, is exactly like the World Wide Web. That may sound odd but it's how Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Web-inventor and all round good guy, described it in a talk I went to last night at NESTA (which is btw a client). So that's good enough for me. He was emphasising the complexity of his creation which he says will see radical changes in the coming months and years - not least the growth of open data. To understand better the web's gooey tangled mess he has set up the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), a joint effort between Southampton University and MIT. TBL said Google's success in creating radically better search was the first serious attempt at web science and the WSRI will be applying similar methodologies. (Made me wonder if he thinks the Messrs Brin and Page needs some competition). Other highlights of the evening were his response to a comment that the semantic web was a 'top-down project'. "Who told you that!?", he asked in disbelief, in a moment of clarification that will surely live with the questioner for some time. In response to extending third-world web access, Sir Tim made the point that the current web is mainly text and therefore of little use to an illiterate farmer in Africa who needs to find out how to cure his sick cow. The answer is video which could, TBL noted, mean a major retooling of the cloud. The great man clearly isn't a fan of the latest release of top-level domain names which he likened to the creation of new real estate for 'boring' commercial reasons. In fact, he said, he'd like to be able to buy URIs for hundreds of years and give over their management to a massive, slow, international bureaucracy, thereby safeguarding their existence through inertia! And finally I thought his answer to the notion that too much is expected of the web resonated with everyone. "The web is merely a reflection of humanity. I think the danger is not that we expect too much of humanity, but that we expect too little."
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2019-04-25T21:56:03Z
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The section that has been quoted is part of Jesus’ concluding words of the Sermon on the Mount, which includes the “asking, seeking, and knocking” of the prior paragraph and ends with building on the rock or the sand.
Jesus is exhorting his audience to be careful to start things out in the right way; to get started at the right place. His audience must be careful that they go through the gate that leads to life and not to destruction. In terms of the larger audience, and the disciples He is saying: Be sure that your starting point is the correct starting point.
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved.
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
…that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
… as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
The way to life is constrained, narrow. There is but one gate, Jesus Christ, and there is only one way to enter it, by faith alone in Christ alone.
The wide gate with the broad path represents every other “way” to salvation that is not through Christ, through faith in His Name. This would inlude every false religion in the world from animism to humanism; Islam to Buddhism; Hinduism to Judaism, and all others in between.
But let us not stop here. The “way that leads to destruction” is also paved with “Christian” doctrines and false “gospels”. It is tiled with sincerity, good intentions; it is cemented with counterfeit prophets and bible teachers. This road attracts a lot of attention with high profile sects, denominations, and doctrinal positions; with radio bible teachers and seminary presidents; with global organizations and social activists. Those that beckon the world to this path proclaim far and wide the doctrines of Rome; the mysticism of Mormonism; the angelology of the JWs; the self-salvation of Arminianism; the costly conversion of Lordship Salvation; and the exclusivism of Traditionalism.
One of the problems that people have in finding the correct gate is that there are people who tell them the wrong gate! There are people who profess prophetic ability or profess to be sent by God and they lead them astray. Jesus immediately follows the exhortation to enter into the correct gate by a warning against the false prophets. The way that the false prophets are known is by their fruits. He is not talking generally about professing Christians! He is not talking about being saved or unsaved. He is telling how we can recognize a false prophet.
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.
The Traditional interpretation of this passage is that men must gain assurance of their salvation by their works. This passage is so obviously not talking about this! How one can extract that meaning from this passage is a testament to the ingenuity and imagination of the eisegetical, presuppositional, and deductionistic advocates of Traditionalism!
The false prophets come to the people “in sheep’s clothing”. What is the implication here? -- There is no way to tell the false prophet by their outer appearances! They look, smell, act, and behave like sheep. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing! Every outward appearance is that of a Christian. So “fruit” cannot mean their conduct! Fruit is the doctrine that they preach; the fruit is the message that they bring. If they preach anything but eternal salvation by grace through simple faith in Jesus Christ, they are false prophets. If they bring a message that is contrary to what Jesus taught then they are false prophets.
"If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods' -- which you have not known -- 'and let us serve them,' you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams”.
We are not to look at the works of a prophet to determine if he is a true prophet or not. The Lord God poses the idea that false prophets can do signs and wonders that indeed come to pass. This shouldn’t be an indicator of whether or not we should follow their teaching! Truth matters! Obviously we will not want to follow a liscentious man. But there are many prophets out there who do good things, they have great appearances, and are moral. But since truth matters for our eternal destiny, that a prophet has a blameless exterior is of no great consequence. It is his message that we must be extremely wary about.
The reason why people are not finding the right gate is because false prophets are leading them to the wrong one with their message, their teachings, and their “gospels”. We must test for the false prophet by his “fruit” which is his words.
"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned”.
The gospel writer Matthew, within the sphere of the very epistle we meet “you will know them by their fruits,” equates “fruit” here with “speak[ing]” and “words”. Everyone, no matter if they are saved or unsaved, will give an account for every idle word they give in their “day of judgment”. In a very real sense, by their words they will either be justified or condemned. We will see the condemnation that comes to the adherents of false prophets by their words later in this post.
It doesn’t matter if they have large Christian radio audiences. It is of no consequence that they preside over mammoth bible colleges and seminaries. It is not even really significant that they turn out people who love the Lord and are zealous for Him, for if it is not in truth, then it is of no value.
A false prophet, whether sincere or malicious, points people to the broad road that leads to destruction, and the only way that they can be identified is by their fruit, which is the message that they bring.
Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.
Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit… Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Within the context of the evangelistic model here, the false prophet cannot bring the good message of salvation, he will bear bad fruit. Only the true prophet can bring the truth of the gospel. True prophets point to the correct gate; false prophets can only point to the broad road that leads to destruction.
The Traditionalist interprets these verses in the context of recognizing professing vs. genuine Christians, and as test of assurance of one's own salvation. They get into a lot of trouble here, though. They understand it as believers are good trees and therefore can only bring forth good fruit, but as the language shows, this would lead one, if followed through, to believe in sinless perfection; the text does not speak relatively. They would also understand unbelievers as bad trees and therefore can only bring forth bad fruit, but as the language shows, the image of God would not only marred, but totally extinct in the unsaved. The only way the Traditionalist can salvage this interpretation is to add the element of relativity, which is not present in the language, to their interpretal stew. This is the quicksand into which the false interpretation of this passage slides. We must keep in mind that Jesus is talking about false prophets over against true prophets, and not the tests of a believer or professor.
By the message of the “prophet” a person will be able to recognize whether the prophet is a true prophet or a false prophet.
“The true test for discovering a false prophet or teacher is to compare his or her message with God's. This, after all, has always been the test for discovering who speaks for God and who does not.
Not much thought has to be given to see that it makes sense that it should be this way. God cannot possibly contradict Himself (Num 23:19). Furthermore, His Word stands forever (Isa 40:8). If indeed we have something that solid--and we do--we should use it as a touchstone to test everything that is said by anyone claiming to be a messenger of God. For in doing this, we are not only living in obedience to God's Word, but we also will be able to know those who are His spokesmen and those who are not.” (D. Scott Henderson, Looking a Wolf in the Mouth Newsletter of the Grace Evangelical Society).
God is going to judge the false prophet. We don’t have to have a knee-jerk reaction to “fire” and talk always about hell. In a general way the fire of God’s judgment is waiting for these people. But obviously if a man who claims to be a prophet of God who is not a prophet of God is unsaved, he will ultimately wind up in the fire of hell, which the following verses will have something to say.
What is the lot for those who heed the untrue gospel messages of the false prophets? They will have their “day in court” and by their words they will be condemned!
Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Many on the day of their judgment will lay the hope of their eternal well-being upon their allegiance to Christ as Lord and their efforts and works for Him. This is the gospel that they have been given by the false prophets. They are told to “Make Jesus your Lord”, “Jesus must be Lord of your life or you can’t be saved!”. The false prophets tell their listeners that they “must follow Jesus in costly discipleship or you can’t be saved.” They confuse discipleship with the call to receive a free gift, therefore lead people down the wide gate and broad road that ends in destruction.
Many, “in that day”, will sincerely address Jesus as Lord. Jesus will not quarrel with them on this point. That a person considered Jesus their Lord is not means for entrance into the kingdom.
In the gospel of John, the only explicitely written book in the Bible for the purpose of evangelism (John 20:31), we find Jesus explain how one “enters the kingdom”.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
One must be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God. To be born into God’s family, born from above, we must receive Jesus Christ by believing in His name. Whoever believes in Jesus will be born from above, becoming a child of God, and immediately possessing eternal life.
Only those who do the will of the Father in heaven will enter the kingdom of God. What is the will of the Father in heaven? The Father’s will is to believe on His Son for eternal life.
For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe [disobeys = apeitho] the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."
The Son speaks the words of the Father. The one who believes in Jesus immediately possesses eternal life, for he is heeding “the will of the Father”. The one who disobeys the Son (who does not obey the command to believe in Him for eternal life, which is the message from the Father) is disobeying the will of the Father.
In the sphere of the reception of eternal life and entrance into the kingdom of God, the will of the Father is obvious! The will of the Father for the reception of eternal life, to enter the kingdom is to believe in His Son.
And this is the will of Him who sent Me [the will of the Father], that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
It is clear that God’s will is to give everlasting life, entrance into the kingdom, and resurrection to those is to resurrect and give eternal life to all who merely believe (and only believe) in His Son!
Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?
“Jesus in His mercy tells us what many will say to Him in that Day: First, they will acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ, addressing Him as 'Lord.' Not only will they say it once, they will repeat it: 'Lord, Lord.' Recognizing the gravity of the situation, they will plead for their lives. This repetition of 'Lord' may also suggest that they think they are on familiar terms with Jesus.
Those who have heeded the message of the false prophets will plead their case with Jesus. They will be all too sincere. They will not be conscious charlatans trying to pull the wool over Jesus’s eyes. They will be all too serious as they point to both to their allegiance to Christ and to their works in His name!
These aren’t Buddhists, Hindus, etc. They are “Christians” who are offering their works “in Your [Jesus’] name” (three times!). These are the ones who obeyed the words of the false prophets who led them down the road to perdition. They did not do the will of the Father which was to trust solely in Jesus Christ for their entrance into the kingdom. They will be condemned for their words which betray their trust in their works!
And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!
“Jesus will describe these people as ‘you who practice lawlessness.’ Now if we had seen these people on earth—and perhaps we have seen some of them—we may not have reached that conclusion. After all, we would have seen these church leaders prophesying, casting out demons, and performing supernatural wonders, all in the name of Jesus. The Roman Catholic Church-State would have declared them saints. The ersatz Evangelicals would have made them best-selling authors and celebrities. But Jesus calls them ‘you who practice lawlessness.’ Why?
He has already told us why. All of these extraordinary and wonderful works done in the name of Jesus are lawlessness, because they are done for the purpose of obtaining salvation. These works are lawlessness because they involve an illegal use of the law. The law, Paul tells us, is given for the knowledge of sin. It is not given that we sinners might use it to gain entrance into heaven. Conviction of sin, not salvation, is the purpose of the law. Legalism, because it is an illegal use of the law, is lawlessness. ‘But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully,’ Paul told Timothy. But using the law in an effort to obtain heaven is not lawful; it is an illegal use of the law; it is lawlessness.
The end of those who obey a false gospel is the lake of fire. We must be wary of those who present a message that differs from Christ’s message of the free gift of eternal life and resurrection received by simple faith alone in Him. We must start out on the right foot by entering the correct gate. Most of Christendom and much of Evangelicalism need to be evangelized! They have listened to false prophets who are wolves in sheep’s clothing!
We must not back down from the simple message of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
* Lets get some perspective. In the newest edition of “Operation World” (A prayer guide for missions) we find that the world’s population is around 6 billion. Out of those 6 billion, roughly 2.5 billion are considered “Christian”.
Christians account for roughly 1/3rd of the world’s population. This does not qualify for a “few”.
Christ contrasts the terms “many” and “few”. Only a “few” find the correct gate and enter thereby. I am speculating here, but what percentage out of 100 could we bracket off such a modifier as “few”? When I was a kid, we would say to someone who had candy “give me a couple” and he would give us “two” because a couple is “two”. We learned from that. We would then say give me a “few”, which would mean somewhere between 3-5 in a package of 40 M&Ms. Such an understanding I do not believe is far off from Christ’s use of the term “few”. If I had to make an educated guess on what percentage of 100 is a “few” in Christ’s discourse here, I would say 8-15%. I hope I am not offending anyone with my candy illustration. I am trying to get at how the word “few” is used. In the Bible, “few” is used relatively as to what is being compared; few always means a relatively small number from that which could be termed “many”. I could not see the word “few” being used of a relative percentage of 25% or more in any given illustration. Could you? Argue with me if you like. Few means a relatively small number in comparison to the many.
If my crude analysis of “few” meaning 8-15% of the population is correct, than we have a problem. 33% of the world’s population is “Christian”; much too high of a figure to denote a relative “few”. What can we glean of this? That much of “Christianity” is not saved, but needs to be evanglized. Why? The gospel has been corrupted by thousands of false teachers who preach a distorted gospel.
This is sad and sobering. Yet this is deadly serious. What are we waiting for? Let us go out and evangelize, and make disciples of grace!
The following link is to my first article on the group blog : "Unashamed of Grace".
It talks about the "outer darkness" as found in the parable of the wedding feast. Most people have a knee-jerk reaction when they read this phrase and automatically import into it the idea of hell.
My normal postings will resume! Keep in Touch!
First I want to thank all you who visit here on a regular basis. As the Lord provides for me wisdom, I am glad to pass it along. To Him be the glory!
Free Grace Theology (this blog) has been quite a blessing for me. It has given me the opportunity to disseminate this biblical theology. I am pleased of this forum, and I believe that it is reaching people. I get about 115 visits a day average. I have had visitors from Japan, Australia, South America, Canada, the U.K., and most recently, someone in Ireland sent me an email saying that he found this site and was excited to read this perspective on theology.
I am dedicated to this blog. And I will remain so as long as the Lord doesn't knock and say its time for quits.
I have so many responsibilities: I work all morning (getting up at 3 am), get home and take care of the house; my wife works in the evening, so I have all the bedtime and bath chores for my 3 children; I study the bible, teach at a Bible College, and I run this blog.
All of this to say that I will be participating in another blog; a group blog. The name is "Unashamed of Grace". The Participant's are Rose, H.K. Flynn, Dyspraxic Fundamentalist, Nate, and myself.
The first official post has already been posted, by our friend Matthew, and gives an overview of our purpose. He did a great job in expressing our vision. I am not such a prolific writer so ya'll should go to our new blog now and check it out.
Free Grace Theology stands accused of teaching “easy believism”. We are told by the Traditionalists that it is merely fire-insurance. The straw men fly with their insistence that we do not preach or teach holiness. We are labeled as “cheap gracers”. Accusations of antinomian are common. This may surprise some of you who haven’t been around the block; the Calvinist Traditionalist has thrown a hefty share of pejoratives my way. They have employed every theological cuss-word in the book.
These are the weak and spurious claims of ignorance.
The Free Gracer is despised, belittled, demeaned, dismissed; but let me tell you one thing: he has yet to be reckoned with.
Traditionalists claim that free will is compatible with election, in that the regenerate elect now has the ability to truly choose. If this is the case, could the elect choose not to persevere in holiness and sanctifiation?
The God of the Traditionalist must force people to accept Him and love Him. He is not able to win or woo, He must coerce, He must impose. He is not able to command our affections apart from a sovereign decree.
I must ask, where on earth are there any relationships that parallel such a case as this? Let me tell you. It lies in dictatorships and tyrannies; with any government that imposes their will against the desires of the people. It is the basis of Islam, fear, terrorism, communism.
The Traditionalist states that God cannot woo or win; He must impose. And after this imposition the regenerate man cannot help but be acted upon by the Most High so that he will indeed progress in experiential sanctification and ultimately persevere until the end in faith, deeds, and faithfulness.
How is the God of Calvinism/Traditionalism any better than the harshest dictator who imposes his will by decree and force; by obligation, constraint, and necessity?
By contrast, have we not seen those leaders in government, society, education, and family who bring out our fidelity by encouragement, love, leading, discipline, and affection?
What a little view of God the Traditionalist must have. His God must first impose allegiance, and next force fidelity.
When someone fails in his or her Christian life, such a one is damned, for God’s imposition of holiness is guaranteed by regeneration, therefore such a person could not possibly have ever been saved.
Yet for the Traditionalist, success is peculiarly subjective. God chooses not to will and to work in them perfectly, for they still succumb to sin. God’s work of regeneration and justification are perfect, but His labor in sanctification is partial. Why aren’t they sinless? Given the view of sovereignty that the Traditionalist has, the only answer is that the sin in the regenerate one is God “willing and working in them His good pleasure”.
If regenerate man does not have the ability to spurn the will of God which may result in dying in a state of unfaithfulness then the only other option, seeing the sin of man, is to hold that God’s necessary work in the regenerate, by decree, is partial: resulting in progressive sanctification that is peculiarly attended by daily sin.
Imagine that: our Holy God who is light, and there is no darkness in Him at all, has fore-ordained that regenerate man will be a conglomeration of both light and darkness.
The better solution is to see that God does not act irresistably on regenerate man (nor on unregenerate man, but that is for another time). If God acted irresistably on regenerate man, we must therefore conclude that God wills our sin, for our sin is ever present (just see the hypocrisy of Traditionalism’s personal attacks against me).
They say that the regenerate one will necessarily persevere in faith, faithfulness, and good deeds. Yet at the same time, as per Dort and Westminster, they acknowledge that regenerate man may backslide, with the ability to commit “heinous” sins for an undisclosed period of time.
What keeps the regenerate backslider from dying in a state of unfaithfulness, says the Traditionalist? The virtue of their regeneration and the will of God. Yet neither of them stopped the offending regenerate one from falling into “grievous” and “heinous” sins, and from backsliding! What could be the only comeback to this common sense observation of the Christian life? That the reason that the regenerate Christian can totally sin in grievous and heinous ways, backslidding for an unspecified period of time, yet in the end, must repent before death, is the sovereign imposition of their force-His-will God. Yes, even the sin itself was fore-ordained by the all-encompassing decree of their Sovereign Lord.
The regenerate one is nothing but a yo-yo in the hands of God. In their unregenerate state, they hate him (by his fore-ordination), so He must impose His acceptance and love on them (by His fore-ordination). After imposing regeneration apart from their will God kills their old nature and gives them a new heart, yet, nonetheless, they still sin. Why? God has foreordained that they would sin in their new creation as well. In some cases, the regenerate one can backslide very far, committing sins like the most depraved reprobate, yet he will come to repentance at sometime before his death, and will go to heaven.
Yet in their same theology a professing Christian could live a full-life, doing good works and loving the brethren, yet if he does not persevere until the end, he will end up in hell.
Their God will allow them to sin like the unsaved, but in the end, He will make sure of it that they will repent.
Excuse me if this sounds fantastic!
Why not view the Christian life in the same sense as we do good nuclear families? The father of the household (positively) encourages, teaches, leads, loves, guides, rewards and (negatively) disciplines, chastens, punishes, admonishes, all for the benefit of the loved one.
Why must we see the relationship of regenerate man to God as one of necessity? Why can’t we see the Biblical teaching that regenerate man has two opposing natures? Why can’t we see that regenerate man is genuinely responsible to appropriate the grace of God and live according to His commands? Why can’t we therefore see the potential for failure in true Christians?
This has been quite an extended introduction to my post.
Regenerate man has a free will that is regulated by two opposing capacities within his ontological being. The old man is powered by his pride, selfishness, and wordly passions. The new man MUST BE empowered by the Holy Spirit through active yieldedness. What does this say? That unless regenerate man, by an act of his will, mortifies the old man, and actively yields himself to the indwelling Holy Spirit, he will not have victory nor necessitated progressive and experiential sanctification.
God has positive and negative means by which to affect His children apart from coercion, force, necessity, and imposition. The object of this post is not to get into the positive aspects of God’s relationship to the regenerate one. I may in the future outline the glorious nature of God’s encouragement, leading, guiding, teaching, prompting, and acts of love and kindness.
The assessment of the Traditionalist against the Free Gracer is folly.
The Free Gracer has a sober view of God’s holiness and loathe of sin. God demands holiness. God hates sin. He will not tolerate or wink at the evil machinations of His children. God requires that His servants be holy and abide by His commandments.
At His discretion, God will employ His discipline and judgement against the sinful acts of His children. These may take the form of temporal consequences or eternal ones. In either respect, they are serious and sobering.
Following is a list of God’s punitive disciplinary actions against believers, whether they be temporal or eternal.
1. Cast out (Mt 5:13).
I realize that the readers, even those who ally themselves in proximity to my position, may not agree with some of these disciplinary actions.
It must be noted that many, if not most of these disciplinary actions are within the context of parabolic structures, and as such, are not to be taken literally, but the accounts within the metaphorical contructs correspond to spiritual truths.
For sake of clarity and argumentation: Any one who would oppose my use of these references of negative consequences in specific relation to the regenerate one, I have a request. If you take issue with any of these references, please give me your observational, exegetical, and contextual exposition of the verse that would cause you to arrive at your interpretation. Just to merely assert and froth is of no benefit.
Prove by your exegetical and expositional skills that these references are not with the regenerate one in mind.
God does not trifle with sin, not even the sin of His children.
"The LORD will judge His people." It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
The points in my last two post are for those who believe that salvation is free. They were constructed in a way to give my perspective on things. They were given to show the logical implications of the understanding that eternal life is absolutely free. If a person preaches a gospel where it is costly to the unsaved, is this the same gospel of the freeness of God's grace and gift? And if this is not the same gospel, what does that imply for the person who believes this different gospel? I have not peered in to anyone's heart. I have not judged any particular man's salvation.
I just flatly state my great and heartfelt conviction that any man who believes the Lordship Salvation gospel IS NOT BELIEVING THE SAVING MESSAGE OF CHRIST. I should have just left it at that. Yet what is the implication if they have not believed the only message that saves? That they are unsaved.
Calvinists are confusing sometimes. I don't know what they believe in their heart concerning how they figure they will get into heaven or what they have believed in the past (remember, salvation is received the instant that one believes in Christ for eternal life). I can only go on what they preach as their doctrine now. Some LS people I have responded to lately flatly state that obedience is necessary for eternal life. This is not the gospel of grace, but the gospel of obligation.
My posts were intended really for those who believe in the gospel of the free grace of God yet do not see the implications that all other forms of the "gospel" are false, and if believed, the person has not believed the simple gospel message that saves.
I wanted to have people understand that the free grace/lordship salvation debate has a lot to do with people getting saved, not just with the way they live the Christian life.
In my posts I have directly stated the answer to your questions concerning being friends. I would be friends with anyone. I would be friendly and loving.
But life is so much more than the blogosphere and coffee and donut relationships. There is a real battle out there and Satan has deceived many within our churches.
I don't preach against people. I preach against doctrine. A false prophet is known by his fruit (which is his doctrine, what he says). If someone states that salvation takes faith + obedience+ forsaking sins + whatever, that shows he is a false prophet. That doesn't necessarily mean that he is unsaved. I know that J.I. Packer used to believe in the free grace gospel, for he says so, but then he says later, when he believed the LS gospel he was saved.
I do believe that people get saved in spite of the preachers abbherent theology, sometimes. If at anytime during a conversation, listening to the word of God, or reading it, someone is convinced that Jesus has given them eternal life through their faith in Him alone, they are saved.
But those who now preach LS, whether or not they are saved, are preaching a false gospel to those who are unsaved. The Lordship gospel is confusing, adds many caveats, includes obedience, and is quite subjective. How is one to know if he submitted enough, committed enough, followed enough, repented enough, obeyed enough? Do you see how the personal contingency that is laid on the unsaved by the LS gospel can effect the psychology? If they are worried that they may have not done enough, they have already been swayed to believe that salvation is somewhat contingent on themselves. That one believes that they must DO these things can be naturally shown that they understand the conditionality for eternal life based upon their repentance, their commitment, their following, their obedience, etc, and not on Christ alone.
I have not fingerpointed to any particular person. I am pointing to an abbherent theology. It matter what people believe. Truth matters. It matters so much that without the simple appropriation of the truth of the gospel, no man can enter the kingdom of God. This knowlege breaks me. So much confusion, ignorance, and false teaching is swirling around.
Bob Wilkin writes a journal article called The Subtle Danger of an Imprecise Gospel where evangelists are not using the biblical gospel message of believing in Jesus. People are wishy-washy, imprecise, using terms like "give your heart to Jesus", "you must sign up", "ask Jesus to be your Savior", "accept Jesus", etc. What do these things mean? A person could do all of these things and yet not believe that Jesus guarantees for them resurrection and eternal life.
The aforementioned was just people preaching confusing gospels, where there is great danger in people not undertanding the truth of the gospel, that it is only by grace through purposeful faith alone in Jesus Christ. Those of the LS are as great of a threat or worse, for they preach "costly gospel". Their gospel places contingency on the unbeliever, making the reception of eternal life "costly" to the recipient.
I have not stood in judgement of anyone's trust in Christ. Have I mentioned anyone's names and said they were unsaved? I have merely stated that some people preach a false gospel, and if any unsaved person believes that message, they remain unsaved. The Lordship Salvation crew has said as much about my beliefs, that FG is a false gospel.
The people on the Lordship Salvation side and me all conclude that we aren't preaching the same gospel. It is those who are on the fence who cannot see that they are different and not the same. Therefore at least one of them is under the curse of preaching a false gospel.
I am not trying to alienate people from me. If someone tells me that they have eternal life by faith alone in Christ alone, apart from obedience, works, etc., I will consider them my brother. Yet if these same people continue to preach that forsaking sins, obedience, repentance, whole-hearted commitment, surrender of everything, perseverance until the end, and all the other strings and caveats, are necessary for eternal life, I will call them on their dissonance, for how can someone say that they have been saved by grace through faith alone in Christ but yet heap all these other conditions upon the unsaved? There is a disconnect somewhere and on many different levels, this is dangerous ground.
If people do not see the gospel the same way as I do, how could they consider me their brother? Why would I expect them to, unless it was merely for the benefit of our cordial coffee and doughnut fellowship?
"Thanks for your respectful and gracious introduction to such wonderful things."
First and foremost Antonio I applaud and thank you for taking me to task on this... I am sorry that I made my post personal...You have my earnest, honest apology for making you the "target" of my post... in hindsight I honestly regret having been so calloused.
It is interesting Susan that you had such a gracious response to Daniel's obvious contempt for me in the personal nature of his post, yet, me, who hasn't made any personal accusations, you give me such grief. Please pardon me if I find this a bit of a double-standard, and competely partial. Daniel's post was anything but respectful and gracious. My post doesn't name names but merely talks about my convictions about theology and their ramifications.
My last few posts have been on theology and not attacks on people at all. They are targeted on doctrine and truth. If I have sinned against anyone, please bring my sin to my attention in order that I may repent of it. If I have sinned, please convict me of it.
I have not looked in anyone's heart nor deemed anyone particular person unsaved, yet so many people seem to have indicated that I have. None of my last 2 posts have been personal, but doctrinal. I have sought to make one point and one point only: the false gospel of Lordship Salvation does not save.
I will not comport, I will not back down.
Lordship Salvation is not a doctrine that most importantly affects the Christian Life, although it does and to a great extent.
The ramifications of Lordship Salvation is that it is a false gospel and people who believe false gospels do not believe the truth, do not believe the saving message of Christ.
I have offended many with my doctrines, and now I offend all with the implications of my doctrines.
Anyone who believes and has only believed the Lordship Salvation gospel of those Calvinists and Arminians who preach them are lost at this moment.
I will not stand idly by and allow the truth to be attacked, especially when men and women's precious eternal destinies are on the line.
People may comfort themselves with the thought that all is well in evangelical Christendom; that as long as Jesus is partially trusted one is saved, not matter what other conditions are heaped onto faith, or how faith is defined; no matter how much the conditions of "faith plus gospels" put contingency on self and works.
My opinion is that much of evangelical Christendom needs to be evangelized.
There was a poll I heard recently from someone like Josh MacDowell who comes to my church often. A huge sample of evanglical Christians were polled. The question had to do with works. The results had something like 80+ percent stating that works had a part in reaching heaven.
Just listen to the Calvinist. The honest ones will claim such. They make outrageous claims, that if a person does not work, he will to to hell.
"Do not throw away this paradox just because it is difficult. Salvation is both free and costly... That is what Jesus meant when He spoke of one's own cross to follow Him. And that is why He demanded that we count the cost carefully. He was calling for an exchange of all that we are for all that He is. He was demanding implicit obedience -- unconditional surrender to His Lordship"
"For you to have salvation, it will be both free and costly. You must count the cost. Jesus in His call and invitation to give you eternal life is demanding obedience, He is calling for us to exchange all that we have for all that He is. You must count the cost or you cannot be saved."
How is what I said any different than what MacArthur said? I just put it into words to an unbeliever.
This is a false gospel. If someone heeds the message of this gospel, how is it that he can be saved?
Is faith mixed with one's implicit obedience, his exchanging everything that he has for all that Jesus has, and all manner of other costly endeavors saving?
If one is told that he must count the cost, obey, give up all, etc., is this the same gospel that says "Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely?"
The point of this examination of the cost of following Christ is not to discourage anyone from following Him, however. It is rather to encourage you to follow Jesus to the end. To do that we must count the cost, by all means, but then we must pay it joyfully and willingly,knowing that this must be done if a person is to be saved.
According to Lordship Salvation there is a price to be paid in order to gain eternal life. While this is impossible to reconcile with the biblical teaching that Jesus paid it all and that He gives eternal life as a free gift, this paradox is central to Lordship Salvation.
"The gospel that Jesus proclaimed was a call to discipleship, a call to follow Him in submissive obedience"
As Zane Hodges succinctly states, "The Gospel [is] Under Siege".
If I stated "I will babysit for you if you ask only, apart from monetary compensation" but then import the value of "monetary compensation" into the word "ask", could I really be advocating "babysitting by asking only"?
Lordship Salvation does much to corrupt and nullify the gospel of grace.
They give lip service to "faith alone" but then use the kitchen sink method and import all kinds of works and obedience into that word. Just see Daniel of Doulogos's contentions about that word (faith = obedience). Just see John MacArthur's shameful re-definition of faith where another reformer says that such importation makes MacArthur's gospel one of works-salvation.
If one says that salvation is by faith only and then says that faith = obedience, following Jesus commands etc., are they really believing in faith only?
I have been to crusades, evangelistic events, many churches, heard many gospel messages, read hundreds of gospel tracts, spent hundreds of hours studying and researching people's gospel messages and beliefs.
Do they preach a clear gospel of "faith only"? Hardly even close.
Eternal life is received by believing the truth of the gospel.
If one is told to believe, repent, commit, surrender, obey, follow, turn from sins, confess, etc., in order to be saved, or any of the other "soteriological buzz conditions" what is they psychological result?
The one being told these things understands these as all conditions of heaven.
"I have to believe in Jesus, confess Jesus, confess my sins, forsake my sins, repent, commit my life, surrender my possesions, follow Jesus, obey Jesus or else I can't be saved."
Believed as a wholistic message, one necessarily is convinced that self and one's works is a huge contingency in the reception of eternal life! Can't we see this? If I believe that repentance and forsaking sins, and giving up all for Jesus are required for eternal life, I necessarily believe that eternal life is contingent on my acts in doing these things! Eternal life is to cost me everything!
If they believe that eternal life is truly contingent on these additions to faith, then they necessarily are not believing in Christ alone for eternal life, they are believing that Christ is not enough; that it takes these actions of self IN ADDITION to faith in Christ, therefore faith in Christ is not sufficient; faith alone is not sufficient.
If they are told faith alone and then told that faith is obedience, works, following, etc., then they are believing that faith = works and therefore works are necessary for eternal life.
I respect many of you who commented on my last thread. I want to thank Matthew, Kris, Jim, Bobby, Rose, Nate, and Jodie.
Many of you are new to the world of Lordship Salvation/Free Grace theology. I have studied these doctrines for quite possibly 10 years.
I understand the ins and outs, the gospel understandings, the gospel presentations, the requirements, the provisos, the caveats, the strings, the additions, the legalism, the doctrines, the authors, the interpretations, etc.
I am glad that I have been a presence in the blogosphere, for these issues are worthy of consideration.
I feel that my presence is making Traditionalists a little uncomfortable, and also causing them to re-evaluate their allegiance to "sola fide".
I value all your guys opinions and sentiments. Though on this subject, I sadly reject them.
I stand here convinced that anyone who has believed a Lordship Salvation "gospel" and has never received eternal life by simple faith in Jesus Christ who guarantees for them resurrection and eternal life, is lost.
People who get saved and then fall under the false teachings of Lordship Salvation are now preaching false gospels, different than what they believed to get saved. Anyone who will believe the Lordship Salvation "gospel" that they are now preaching and teaching, never having believed simply in Christ alone for eternal life, is lost.
A message of faith plus believed is not faith in Christ alone or salvific.
These are my convictions. I am not alone on them either. Many other grace-oriented defenders of the gospel believe as I do as well.
How do you preach and understand the gospel?
People's eternal destinies are on line. You better have it right for your sake and those you teach.
One thing confuses me anyway. Why do Calvinists stress and worry about the gospel, whether or not it is true or false?
All truly elect people will be saved no matter what. All who have been reprobated by God's will have no chance, but will most certainly grace the fires of hell.
Some grace people who have Calvinistic leanings probably don't have such an emphasis on the urgency of the truth of the gospel as I do, for even though the believe in Free Grace theology, their doctrine of election states that only those who God, in the secret councils of His will, are going to be ultimately saved, all others will be damned.
I do not share this doctrine of election.
Those of us "grace" people who do not believe in unconditional election have every reason to be concerned with the proper understanding and preaching of gospel truth. God has not chosen, therefore preaching the gospel is urgent. And it being the correct gospel is of grave importance.
Sincerity and ignorance are the enemies of truth. Many well-intentioned people have believed the false gospels of John MacArthur, John Piper, James Boice, Kenneth Gentry, John Gerstner, and the like.
I would rather be alone preaching and teaching the truth to those in error than be popular, a sociable evangelical, having the truth, but compromising it with those who are in error.
What makes the Lordship Salvation gospel false is not its implications on the Christian life primarily, but the ramifications it has to the unsaved who believe it.
I value all your guy's friendship. I hope that even though we may disagree on this that we can continue to be friends. But I understand as some have written that I have "drawn a line deep in the sand".
Some also have stated that I have shown rage and venting anger in my last few posts.
I would ask not to confuse rage with passion.
I am frustrated for their are many who assent to my doctrines as they relate to the Christian life but reject their implications on the unsaved.
This is frustrating to me, for the unsaved are my heart and concern.
Many are willing to state that Lordship Salvatoin and Traditionalism is a false gospel as relating to the Chritian life, but will not see the clear implications and ramifications it necessarily has to the unsaved.
I have rambled on too long. I hope I still have readers and friends after this.
For a bishop must... hold fast the faithful word as has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict. For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers... whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not... Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
"The message of faith only and the message of faith plus commitment of life cannot both be the gospel; therefore, one of them is a false gospel and comes under the curse of perverting the gospel or preaching another gospel (Gal 1:6-9)" (Charles Ryrie, So Great Salvation).
There is a war being fought here. Satan, who has the world under his sway (1 John 5:19), seeks to corrupt truth (John 8:44-45). Truth is being compromised left and right in the pursuit of "unity". Salvific truth! I am not going to stand around idly while false doctrines not only rob Christians of assurance, but worse, they prevent sinners from understanding the simple saving message of Christ, therefore disqualifying them for entrance into the kingdom.
Some doctrines are just not to be compromised in the quest for "unity". I am not commanded to consider someone my brother whom I do not believe is in my family.
The gospel is the message of reconciliation, eternal life, and adoption into God's family. If someone is preaching a gospel other than by faith only, I am not adjured to consider such a one my brother in Christ, but one (willfully or ignorantly) who has been snared by Satan to do his will in propogating false doctrines that will keep precious men and women out of the kingdom.
You all may think, why can't we just get along? I have no qualms with being friends with anyone who doesn't see the gospel as I biblically do. Many of them are charming, intelligent, and sincere. Yet I will not stand idly by while precious truth is being contradicted; while false gospels are being propogated. I will not sacrifice the gospel on the altar of unity.
I believe Lordship Salvation, in what ever form it comes in (Calvinism or Arminianism) is a false gospel, that if believed, will preclude such a one from the kingdom of God.
Truth matters, folks. The gospel is ultimate truth. Semantics within gospel expressions are the words of propositional assertions that undergird one's understanding of salvific truth.
If I were to give you directions to my house and decided to add two or three more left and right turns, you would fail to reach my house.
Lordship salvation adds content to the gospel which adds deadly poison to the "Living Water".
People can turn their heads, pretending that nothing is wrong, and consider their coffee and donut version of "fellowship" to be much more important than truth and doctrinal unity.
Yet, my prerogative is to earnestly contend for the faith. My convictions will not let me stand by and watch people believe a false gospel to their destruction. Is this mindset un-Christian?
I think that for those who are disposed to believe so that they should read their bibles, this time with their eyes open.
There is a war out there, this is Satan's battleground. The minds of men are being taken captive by the seducing doctrines of demons.
By God's Spirit, I will combat these errors with the truth.
How can this be a gracious offer that disingenuously bids me to come?
Can you notice here that they "by nature" do the things in the law? This is due to the moral image and likeness of God in which they were created in.
Man has the constitutional ability to believe. Do you not believe things? Is every belief a conviction imposed by God? Man has the communicable attributes of God! We are fearfully and wonderfully created and endowed by our Maker! The false doctrine of total inability to believe Christ's message is a teaching straight from the pit.
Christ died for sinners. He took the barrier of sin out of the way. Why is there such elaborate testimony to how one receives eternal life, by faith in Christ, if this is impossible? There can be no good answers.
The majority of humanity will be waiting in vain. God is pleased to desroy them; the have been created to be damned.
Yes, the reprobate will be waiting in vain.
The Bible conclusively shows that unregenerate man seeks God. I see that noone is willing to pose any arguments against the plain and normal reading of Cornelius and the Bereans.
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, 2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, "Cornelius! ...Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God."
Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed.
This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.
Witnesses do one thing: seek to persuade others of their testimony. Jesus is the true light which gives light to everyone coming into the world. If man is in darkness Christ is the Light.
"Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world shall be cast out. "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself."
Jesus has been lifted up. He is the light. Men can resist the light. Men can resist the drawing.
Jesus went to heaven and sent the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is now here and is convicting the WORLD of sin, righteousness, and judgement. The Holy Spirit has a convicting ministry, Jesus is drawing all men to Himself, Jesus is the Light the True Light shining to every man in the world.
Oh. What about preaching the gospel and persuasion?
Some seem to deny that there is any soul winning or persuading men as to the gospel. Why do it when they are unable to hear and respond apart from sovereign regeneration and Irresistable Grace imposed? If one must be regenerated and then made to believe, then persuading someone as to the truth of the gospel really doesn't have a purpose in evangelism; preaching it seems pointless (men can't understand, are unable to hear and respond). There is no persuading or convincing the unregenerate sinner and it really would be a waste of time to do so.
I guess those who believe such doctrine could merely be content to give a short gospel message and see if God is going to do his trick and "effectually call" his elect.
Why answer the questions of an unbeliever or seek to persuade them? They can't understand apart from imposed religion! Imagine, a Calvinist trying to persuade an unbeliever. Why would he act contrarily to his most sacred doctrines? What would provoke them to answer the questions of a dead man? Why would they seek to persuade one who does not have ears to hear? If God uses the gospel to effect regeneration in His elect, why do Calvinists waste their time in many extra words trying to convince others of the gospel in their presentations? These synergistic pleas are superfluous and their time could be better spent trying to find God imposing regeneration on His elect, rather than wasting time on the helpless and doomed reprobate!
If after a very brief gospel message the person does not respond, well either 1) he is elect and God is not ready to effectually call him with His irresisitable grace imposition at this time or 2) he is unelect, reprobate, bound to glorify God by frying for eternity. Either way, persuasion is meaningless for it is falling on deaf, totally inable ears. Why don't they just go on to the next one to see if they are elect and if God is ready to effectually call them by irresistible grace imposed? Why do they wax eloquent, as if their synergistic pleas could be regarded? It is disingenuous!
God... has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Imagine imploring and beseeching a deaf and blind person with your heartfelt speech. What use is it? This goes against all God given reason.
The deductionistic doctrines of Traditionalism are not biblical. Their arguments with their many prooftexts are a hodge-podge of special pleading and illegitamate totality and identity transfers. Not one clear scripture bears them out. The Traditionalist first got his doctrine from his theological deduction, then looked to the scriptures for support. There is not a single, clear passage stating that the gospel message, that enjoins the whole world to believe on Christ for eternal life, cannot be believed by humanity apart from God's sovereign forceable imposition. Not ONE PASSAGE states such a thing!
But passage after passage shows that not only do we see men being given the legitamate responsibility to believe, we see them seeking after God and being persuaded!
How can God make someone responsible for that which he cannot do?
That is like throwing an infant in the fires of Molech for not being able to change his own diaper.
Paul expended himself for Christ doing exactly this: disputing and persuading in the attempt to win people to Christ. As soon as he was converted, Paul "confounded the Jews...at Damascus proving that this is very Christ..."(Acts 9:22). Everywhere he went Paul "disputed...in the synagogue...and in the market daily..." (Acts 17:17). The last chapter of Acts tells us that even under house arrest in Rome, Paul was still at it: "...there came many to him, ... to whom he expounded... persuading them concerning Jesus..." (Acts 28:23).
For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; 20 and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law(not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; 22 to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
The only way that a Traditionalist can emulate Paul here is to spurn the deadly flower of his theology.
Jodie Sawyer opened up a can of worms in a comment on VeritasRedux Scroll Down for Jodie’s comments. In her remarks she discussed the minimum content of the gospel, that when believed, receives eternal life.
She next wrote a good article on it Content of the Offer of Eternal Life.
Having merely read her post once, and not studied it, I would say that I agree with her position.
What I want to do here is post some bare bones affirmations of my soteriology. There may be some or many that you do not agree with. I have written extensively on this position, and I would be more than happy to field your questions, clarify, or (less-so) read your obejections, which I could then comment on as well.
"...and that believing ye might have life through his name"
1) Christ's "name" is everything who He actually is. This "name" represents everything who He TRULY is. Fill in ALL true Christology here: Everything that the Bible reveals Jesus to truly be and have done and everything that Jesus truly is that is not revealed in the Bible.
2) It is by virtue of His "name" (everything that He truly is and has done) that we can have eternal life. It is who He is and what He has done that has qualified Him as the Guarantor of eternal life to the believer in Him for it. It is His name that gives Him the authority and the ability to dispense eternal life.
3) Jesus is uniquely qualified to dispense eternal life by virtue of His name. On this authority He may dispense it to whomever He wishes. It is through His wisdom and council with God the Father that they have decided to dispense eternal life to those and only those who believe in Jesus for this gift.
And in His name Gentiles will trust.
4) To this one condition of appropriating the gift of eternal life (faith in Jesus for it) God has been pleased to add no other.
…knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified…. This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness… Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure.
5) Shorthand for faith in Jesus is to believe that Jesus is the Christ (in the Johannine sense) which as to content is that as the Christ Jesus is the Guarantor of eternal life to all who simply believe in Him for it.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?"
She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."
You remember it, don’t you? “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?’” (John 11:25-26). Her reply is a declaration that she believes Him to be the Christ. Martha said, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world” (11:27).
Notice here that to believe that Jesus is the Christ means to believe that He guarantees resurrection and eternal life to every believer. But now let us look at John 4. In that famous passage we have the Samaritans saying to the woman who had encountered Jesus, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world” (John 4:42).
Observe that the common denominator to both passages is the term “Christ.” On Martha’s lips He is “the Christ, the Son of God,” and on the lips of the Samaritans He is “the Christ, the Savior of the world.” This is not an accidental or insignificant difference.
In Jewish prophecy and theology the promised Christ was also the Son of God—that is, He was to be a divine person. Recall the words of Isaiah: “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given…and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (9:6-7). But in Samaritan theology, the Messiah was thought of as a prophet and the woman at the well is led to faith through our Lord’s prophetic ability to know her life. Her words, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet” (4:19) are a first step in the direction of recognizing Him as the Christ. There is no evidence that she or the other Samaritans understood the deity of our Lord.
But they did believe that he was the Christ. And John tells us in his first epistle that “whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God” (5:1)! A full theology of His person is not necessary to salvation. If we believe that Jesus is the One who guarantees our eternal destiny, we have believed all we absolutely have to believe in order to be saved.
6) Believing that Jesus is the Christ (in the Johannine sense) is the only soteriologically necessary condition for eternal life.
7) Most people will not find this bare proposition persuasive. They will require more information and quite possible need some of their questions answered. This would be a logical necessity in order to persuade them that the salvific proposition is true.
8) Most people do not need every question that they may have answered before they are persuaded as to the truth of the salvific proposition. Answers to other questions or other information given may be sufficient to persuade one that the salvific proposition is true.
9) The assent to orthodox theology in general or Christology in specific, as important as this is to the regenerate believer, is no litmus test for assurance of one's soteriological salvation. The only basis for both the reception of eternal life and assurance of eternal life is believing in Jesus, who through His name, has given the promise to Guarantee eternal life to all who believe in Him for it.
10) Misconceptions are a part of life. It is impossible to clear up every misconception concerning theology and should not be attempted. The most spiritual man on earth at the present time without a doubt has some misconceptions concerning the real nature of theology.
11) Children have many misconceptions as well but as the Bible makes clear, only those who receive the kingdom of God as little children will enter.
The theif on the cross said, “Lord, remember me”; and Jesus replied, “Today you shall be with Me in paradise.” After a life of crime, one of the three worst criminals in the nation – Barabbas had been released – this thief received assurance of Heaven.
12) Misconceptions about the Person and work of Jesus Christ is peripheral to the salvific proposition as a soteriological necessity. Ignorance about Christological doctrine can prevent one from being persuaded as to the salvific proposition, but it will never prevent one from the reception of eternal life if one is persuaded as to the salvific proposition.
13) Misconceptions about Jesus do not necessitate such a one who may hold to them to be referring to a "different" Jesus. If a test to one's particular reference to an identity be that he not hold any misconceptions about this identity then specific reference to anyone would be made impossible. For what guarantee does one have that his conceptions about the person, that through his reference he intends to identify, are correct?
14) One fact about a reference could be all that is necessary to limit identity, though one fact may not be enough. There seem to be multiple facts in the salvific proposition and not just one. "Believe that Jesus is the Guarantor of eternal life to the believer in Him for it." Limit #1: the name of the reference is Jesus. Limit #2: the referent is a guarantor of something. Limit #3: the referent dispenses eternal life. Limit #4: this eternal life is dispensed on the basis of faith in the referent for the purpose of appropriating said eternal life.
There is only one Person in the universe who dispenses and guarantees eternal life to the believer in Him for it; the name of this referent is Jesus. This information satisfactorily identifies and limits reference to the true Jesus Christ.
The facts contained in the salvific proposition are of sufficient nature as to specifically limit the identity of its reference to the 2cd Person of the Trinity, God the Son, Jesus Christ.
15) Belief in Jesus Christ for anything else but the intended gift of eternal life will not necessarily be appropriated. The gift that Jesus guarantees in the salvific proposition is "eternal life" and not temporal deliverance, assured positive answer to prayer, or physical blessings. The faith in Jesus is for the purpose of appropriating the intended gift of eternal life.
15) The evangelist's endeavor is to get the potential convert to the point where he will entrust his eternal well-being to Jesus. It is to be used of the Holy Spirit through the Word of God to persuade such a one that Jesus guarantees his eternity. He does this by preaching the gospel message and other facts relating to Jesus, answering questions, etc. Our job in evangelism is to get the potential convert to believe in Jesus, the Guarantor of resurrection and eternal life to the believer in Him. Anything we do or say must point to Jesus and His promise to dispense eternal life to the mere believer in Him for it.
Traditionalists are very funny to watch, often funny to read, yet, to use a phrase from Daniel of Doulogos, we must watch in "morbid fascination".
Take for instance Jonathan Moorhead's discussion over at his blog.
He wants to talk about "certainty" (something those of the Reformed persuasion necessarily can't have with relation to their knowledge of their own election or reprobation) and "boasting" as if someone receiving a free gift can now boast. He seems to not realize that there is a difference between legitamate boasting and absurd boasting. That we receive eternal life through the instrumentality of our faith precludes us from legitamate boasting; faith is not a work, as it is held in Reformed theology, but the intermediate agency, the instrument by which we receive the absolutely free gift of eternal life.
In his discussion of certainty, he implies that the word "certain" meant something different to Calvin than it does in "post-enlightenment" thought.
The anti-intellectual musings here are repugnant! He asks what certainty is.
My dictionaries all say that it is "freedom from doubt" which has resulted from being convinced/persuaded upon consideration of communication and/or evidence. (By the way, being convinced that something is true passively brings faith which IS certainty--freedom from doubts).
Of course he is just rehashing the same position of the Traditionalistic religion: that one can have "infallible assurance" yet at the same time cannot be 'certain' (in the post-enlightenment sense, lol) that one has eternal life. If this is not absurd, please tell me what is.
In the comment thread I quoted John Calvin, who is at variance with modern Traditional doctrine and thought in these senses: Calvin's definition of faith and his declaration on where assurance comes from is lightyears away from the modern anti-intellectual thoughts on the same.
What was Jonathan's response? Certainty ≠ freedom from doubt but = something less than being certain. Click on the link above and view the absurdities.
Next we have the newest post by Jon Moorhead concerning boasting (which will quickly turn into a discussion on the nature of what 'faith' is; actually it is already turning out that way) where he says that to believe in the gospel is tantamount to "works-salvation".
Along the lines of our beloved Rose~, who has instituted a blogger award for not being pig-headed, I must seriously consider instituting an award for blatant absurdity. The Bible says that we receive the Spirit by "the hearing of faith" (Gal 3:2, 5); that we are in the present state of already having been saved (the Greek perfect-periphrastic participle in Eph 2:8) through faith; that faith is in contradistinction from works (Eph 2:9); that boasting is precluded by "the law of faith" (Rom 3:27).
No. But believing the gospel for eternal life is works-salvation where we can legitamately boast that we saved ourselves, so goes Jon's logic.
Lastly, we have a chat room, message board thread that I want you to view. I often check where people are linking to my blog from and I found this thread. It is at Derek Webb's message board.
Anyone Here a Zane Hodges fan?
Many Traditionalists rightly distance themselves with this statement, finding it utterly repulsive and anti-biblical.
In this thread the contributers are arguing that salvation is conditioned on works, but these works are non-meritorious. Where does that unbiblical and absurd notion come from?
Gerstner, in his book attacking dispensationalists, writes that virtually all dispensationalists do not see the elementary difference between non-meritorious "requirements," "conditions," "necessary obligations," "indispensable duties," and "musts," as the natural outworking of true faith, in distinction from faith in the Savior plus meritorious works as the very basis of salvation (Wrongly Dividing... 226).
Guilty as charged! I confess, I do not see this distinction in Scripture. In fact it isn’t there. It exists in Classical Calvinist/Lordship Salvation theology, but not in the Bible. Works are works; they either are or are not necessary for salvation. With the apostle Paul, I say they are not; we are saved "by grace…through faith…not of works" (Eph 2:8-9). If salvation is in any sense conditioned on works then "grace is no longer grace" (Rom 11:6).
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In the 1980s, Japan was America’s chief rival in most technology industries. Not only could Japanese firms compete in advanced sectors against U.S. firms, they had an innovation advantage. In fact, research and design (R&D) investments in Japan were 40 percent more productive in producing IT patents than were R&D investments in the United States, implying that Japanese firms were better able to make advancements into developing better good, products, and processes.
However, in the 1990s this trend reversed. U.S. firms, while less innovative in hardware manufacturing, developed an innovation advantage in software, with R&D spending yielding 60 percent more patents per dollar spent in the United States than in Japan. A recent paper by Ashish Arora, Lee G. Branstette, and Matej Drev explains why.
Software represented a new frontier for an industry that had previously focused on producing hardware such as semiconductor, televisions, computers, and other advanced machinery. High-tech firms adjusted rapidly to the new challenge, and innovations quickly built on previous innovations, and an IT patent filed in 2002 was 10 times more likely to cite a software patent than one filed in 1992.
Proponents of effective intellectual property (IP) rights have long argued that weak IP protections will lead to less intellectual property creation. The logic appears clear: if content creators and other innovators know that a significant share of their work will be pirated or otherwise stolen they will have both less incentive and less revenue to create new ideas, creative goods, and innovations.
But how strong is this effect? To find out, we compared IP protection data from the World Economic Forum’s 2014-2015 Global Competitiveness Report, which incorporates the strength of IP laws and the stringency and effectiveness of anti-counterfeiting laws, and creative outputs scores from the 2014 Global Innovation Index, a report from Cornell, Insead and WIPO.
Put simply, countries that score higher on IP protection also score higher on creative outputs relative to the size of their economy. Over a sample of 136 countries there is a strong positive correlation of 0.72 between the strength of IP protections and score on creative outputs.
Many recent studies have shown that America is no longer winning the global innovation race, as demonstrated by manufacturing-sector decline, lacking public policy measures, poor advanced-sector job growth, faltering support of R&D, and overall low international rankings. The latest indication of America’s slipping innovation potential is triadic patents. Since 1999, the U.S. has experienced a sharp decline, with 13 percent fewer triadic patents, a product of America’s lethargic approach to fueling innovation.
Triadic patents are patents filed jointly with the United States Patent and Trade Office, the European Patent Office, and the Japanese Patent Office to guarantee intellectual property (IP) protection worldwide. Because they represent inventions with global impact, triadic patent numbers are in many cases a better indicator of invention and innovation than regular patents.
A recent NBER working paper offers up some interesting new survey data on innovation in U.S. manufacturing industries. Authors Ashish Arora, Wesley M. Cohen, and John P. Walsh surveyed more than 5000 U.S. manufacturing firms in 2010, asking whether or not they brought new products to market in the previous three years.
Most notably, the data shows that the number of truly innovative manufacturing firms is relatively small. In the aggregate, it finds that 43 percent of firms introduced new products in the past three years, but only 18 percent of firms introduced new products that were wholly new to their market. In other words, one quarter of firms, and more than half of firms introducing new products, introduced “imitation” products following the lead of other companies. The percent of firms introducing totally new products ranged significantly between industries, from just 10 percent of firms in the “Wood” and the “Metals” industries, to 44 percent in the “Instruments” industry.
Productivity is one of the most fundamental determinants of our income and overall wellbeing, so the question of where productivity growth comes from is extremely important. There are many different ways to increase productivity, but increases that have a continued impact over time are the most important because accumulated productivity increases end up having a much larger impact than one-off changes.
Economists have understood for years that R&D is an important source of productivity growth. However, it hasn’t been entirely clear whether R&D affects productivity growth in short, one-time boosts, or whether it raises growth rates for longer periods.
A new paper by Italian economists Antonio Minniti and Francesco Venturini looks at data from the U.S. manufacturing sector and concludes that R&D policies have indeed created “persistent, if not permanent” changes in the rate of productivity growth. It also drills down into the type of R&D spending, finding that only R&D tax credits have a long-term impact on the growth rate while R&D subsidies provide just a temporary boost.
For much of the postwar era the United States led the world in technology, which brought significant economic benefits to the nation. That leadership was due in large part to generous federal government funding for R&D, much of it channeled through military spending. That this occurred during the Cold War was no coincidence: as William Janeway argues in Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, nations have historically been unable to muster the political will for significant spending on innovation without it being part of a “national mission,” since such spending means giving up current consumption for uncertain future benefits. In the last half of the 1800s, nation building provided the mission for America—just as that does now for China. But after the late 1940s the animating mission that helped drive technology innovation was winning the Cold War, which we did.
Economist, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking Dr. William Janeway stopped by ITIF this week for a discussion about his new book, Doing Capitalism in an Innovation Economy. Dr. Janeway presented a compelling view of the economy and touched on a number of important issues along the way.
Janeway explained that the government plays a critical role in innovation by providing research funding through institutions such as DARPA and the NIH, by leveraging the buying power of the federal coffers, and by creating policies that encourage business investment in R&D. Economists have long understood that private markets fail to allocate adequate resources to innovation and research: the benefits are too hard for individual corporations to capture. For this reason, policies like the R&D tax credit and public investment in basic research have long been uncontroversial.
R&D is fundamentally important to economies because it is a primary source for innovation and new technologies. But markets rarely provide enough incentives for innovation on their own—innovations are expensive to create but easy to copy.
For those reasons many countries provide R&D tax incentives to companies that spend money on basic or applied research. The best way to think of this policy is as actually as a fix—R&D has positive benefits for the economy as a whole, but because individual companies have trouble capturing all the benefits of R&D they are unlikely to invest the socially optimal amount.
Tax breaks for businesses are fraught with controversy because they “distort” the market and according to conventional neoclassical economics thinking distortions are by definition bad, even if they are pro-growth. To be sure certain tax incentives outlive their usefulness, as they have in the fossil fuel industry, and some tax incentives are only on the books because they serve special interests, not the public interest.
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March 28, 2017 The news has been full of people awakening to an unexpected reality, all the way from the water warriors to the President of the United States. In this issue, we explore a few of the new ways North Americans have suddenly found themselves awake and on unfamiliar ground. But first the news.
On Friday, March 25th, the Atlantic Sierra Chapter and Cornell Law School’s Environmental Law Society held a conference on matters regarding water and water law, for the benefit of activists and the general public. The proceedings were videographed and are peresented here.
Join us to find out how solar can work for residents of Schuyler County while enjoying beer from Heavily Brewing Company or wine from Damiani Wine Cellars.
At both events you will have the opportunity to meet installers, ask questions and learn whether solar is right for you. Our volunteers will be on hand to discuss their experience going solar for anyone interested in hearing how their neighbors have gone solar.
At the event you will be able to sign up and get your home assessed FREE of chargethere’s nothing to lose by signing up and there is no commitment once you do.
If you want to come to the event and just meet installers before making any decisions that’s okay- this event is free and open to the public. We’ll bring the education, Damiani Heavily have the drinks and atmosphere, we’re just missing you!
To Change Everything, We Need Everyone. This was the rallying call of the 2014 People’s Climate March in New York City, and it continues to inspire the climate movement across the United States. In New York State, Governor Cuomo was influenced by tens of thousands of NY residents who spoke out against “fracking” for natural gas, such that he and the Department of Environmental Conservation made it illegal in our state in Dec. 2014. “We need everyone” to speak out for renewable energy and the jobs that it will create, and against the public health hazards and climate crisis created by fossil fuel use, processing and transport.
Mark Dunlea is chair of the Green Education and Legal Fund and helps coordinate the statewide campaign to transition to 100% renewables in NYS by 2030. He will provide an update on state efforts around renewable energy, including a new study just announced by the Governor. He will also discuss state legislation for a carbon tax; the Attorney General’s effort to investigate the fossil fuel industry role in promoting climate denial; divesting the state pension funds from fossil fuels; and Governor Cuomo’s $7.6 billion bailout of the nuclear industry.
Elizabeth (Betta) Broad is the Outreach Director for the New Yorkers for Clean Power campaign, working to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy in New York State. She will provide information on some of NYCP’s current priorities including on-the-ground organizing and expansion of electric vehicles, community solar, renewable heating and cooling and energy efficiency. She will also give an update on her work with Citizens for Local Power to create a Community Choice Aggregation program in the Mid-Hudson. A resident of Kingston, she serves on the Kingston Conservation Advisory Council, the Kingston Climate Smart Commission and the Ulster Climate Smart Committee.
Following the main speakers and Q&A on their presentations, local organizations will provide concrete opportunities for everyone to take action to make a difference at local, state and federal levels.
Rochester People’s Climate Coalition (RPCC) is composed of over 100 local business, non-profit, labor, faith, and grassroots and organizations. RPCC unites these local organizations to address the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, transition to a clean energy economy, and prepare for the impacts of global warming. Through coordinated, collaborative efforts, we will create a more environmentally just and sustainable community.
[The Daily Public Editors Note – After a decades old war by certain sectors of the “pay to play” private development community on the State Environmental Quality Review Act SEQRA, it looks like new rules are going to bring this critical environmental and social protection tool to its knees. It is after all, the Age of the anti-regulatory Trump-o-mania, and it is revealing and sad that his home state, New York, which once was a national leader in environmental protection, is now leading the way to the abolishment of environmental safeguards. The proposed new SEQRA rules makes NY way ahead in the game of de-regulating environmental concerns in favor of more unfettered development and profit taking. We know where our leaders stand. These new rules will effect how buildings, infrastructure, and energy pipelines are built. Abolishing protections and environmental and community character are, well, almost vanished.
When a government agency talks about “streamlining” environmental regulations, and increasing “speed and efficiency” and “regulatory certainty for applicants and municipalities,” you can be certain that the effect (if not the conscious intent) will be decreased environmental protections and a reduction in the public’s ability to meaningfully participate in the decision-making process. That is precisely what will occur if the current version of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s proposed amendments to the State Environmental Quality Review Act’s regulations are adopted without significant changes.
The last thing New York should be doing is weakening its environmental review process when – on the national level – the Trump Administration is intent on repealing environmental regulations, weakening environmental enforcement, and allowing more fossil fuel production. [For example, see this and this.] If you agree that NYS should be strengthening, not undermining, its environmental laws, I urge you to analyze the proposed amendments to the SEQR regulations, submit written comments by May 19, 2017 to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Environmental Permits, Attn: James J. Eldred, Environmental Analyst, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233-1750 or by e-mail to: [email protected], and, if possible, participate at the public hearing to be held on March 31, 2017 at 1:00 pm at 625 Broadway, Albany, New York, Public Assembly Room 129.
1. THE primary motivation behind the proposed amendments appears to be a desire to add categories of projects and activities not subject to review under SEQRA. The DEC’s SEQR rulemaking continues the same trajectory it has been on for decades: substantially increasing the types of actions and projects that do not have to undergo any SEQRA review (“Type II actions”), while identifying no new categories of activities presumed to have a significant adverse environmental impact and require an environmental impact statement (“Type I actions”).
Borger Station: What’s Up With That??
Katie Quinn-Jacobs and Elisa Evett drove carefully up and down the roads in the upscale Ellis Hollow community counting the houses. They couldn’t quite believe it when they realized that 330 homes were within a 2 km radius of the Borger Station, a major gas compressor facility. Ellis Hollow, a bedroom community for Cornell University, has been living with a sleeping giant in its midst for decades. The 23,000+ horsepower Borger Station gas compressor, a facility consisting of two older Dresser Clark 5800 hp turbines and one newer Solar Taurus Model 12,126 hp turbine, has been running below capacity for years moving an un-specified volume of gas through the Dominion Pipeline from November to March to meet the demands of National Grid gas customers during the winter months. In fact, this is unassuming looking compressor facility is actually permitted to emit more than 250 tons/year of nitrogen oxides, thus putting it well over the 100 tons/year threshold and categorizing it as a Title V or major facility.
But changes are coming to Ellis Hollow due to the recent approval of the Dominion New Market expansion which will allow 100,000,000 cubic feet of additional gas to be pushed through this 50+ year old pipeline each and every day. Some time in the next few months, the slumbering giant will awake belching forth not only many tons of nitrogen oxides, but also greenhouse gases, along with fine particulates, and toxic compounds such as formaldehyde and benzene in levels that have been shown to be a threat to health – especially children’s. A community center that is home to a day care center, swimming pool, and several summer camps, is just down the road from Borger. Ironically, the residents of Ellis Hollow who will be breathing this toxic cocktail, don’t even have access to gas for their own home heating!
Because the changes at Borger didn’t require a new permit from the Town of Dryden or from the NY DEC, most residents were unaware of the expansion until a feisty group of mothers and grandmothers got involved. In recent months, Katie and Elisa coordinated a team of women organizing under the banner of the non-profit organization Mothers Out Front. The community organizing team worked to get the word out to local residents and to enlist the cooperation of local authorities to oppose the gas expansion and to help conduct health studies and air quality monitoring in order to establish a pre-expansion baseline. Although they haven’t been able to stop the project, they have made headway in enlisting the help of the Dryden Town Board and local residents in advocating for questions to be answered and data to be collected so the community can be informed.
There are two new proposed solar farms in Dryden. They are a small part of a big change—a turn away from fossil fuel burning toward energy from the sun.
If you are a Dryden resident and can attend the Board Meeting at the Town Hall on March 30th, 7:00 pm, we would most welcome your presence.
Time is short and they need to know that lots of people stand behind this important decision. Without this we have no hope of achieving carbon emission reduction goals set by the town, Tompkins County, or NYS. The decision will be made by the Board on March 30th. Please sign now whether or not you are a Dryden resident If you are a Dryden resident and can attend the Board Meeting at the Town Hall on March 30th, 7:00 pm, we would most welcome your presence. Whether or not you are a resident of Dryden, please go to “Solar Energy Petition ” and add your name to our message to the Dryden Town Board to go forward now . Time is short and they need to know that lots of people stand behind this important decision. Without this we have no hope of achieving carbon emission reduction goals set by the town, Tompkins County, or NYS. The decision will be made by the Board on March 30th.
We, the undersigned, ask the Dryden Town Board to continue their support of large scale solar development. With global warming delivering climate change to our doorstep, the need to stop fossil fuel build-out is critical.
Because the siting of solar development is contingent on nearby connection to the electric grid, we need to make the available sites work.
Homeowners and others are concerned not only about the visual impact of large acreage solar, but also the impact on wildlife and recreation. Therefore we also ask that, while continuing to support this project, the Town Board members consider the concerns of residents and require the developers to mitigate the visual impacts with performance specifications for good screening of the panels along property lines adjacent to houses, roads, and the cemetery. If allowable within the constraints of fencing requirements, access by wildlife would be beneficial.
How will Cornell get to a Carbon Neutral goal by 2035?
Come and find out. It’s an ambitious plan worth learning about.
ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell’s Senior Leaders Climate Action Group (SLCAG) will host a public forum Tuesday, March 28, to discuss its report, “Options for Achieving a Carbon Neutral Campus by 2035,” from 4:30 to 6PM at the Hotel Ithaca, 222 S. Cayuga St. The event is free and open to the public.
Released in the fall, the report builds off Cornell University’s existing Climate Action Plan, further outlining solutions to reduce energy demands and increase clean energy supply. Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session for community members.
Sarah Zemanick, director of the Campus Sustainability Office.
As I have moved about the Southern Tier since Jan. 20, 2017, I have heard several people refer to some kind of listening process as a key in organizing. Then they usually say if it weren’t so atrociously time consuming, they’d be all over it. I would like to address this concern.
It is true that the foundation of all organizing is the art of listening. Not just because it shows respect for the people whose interest you require. Not because it flatters them. Listening is not a tactic or a means of manipulating people. It is a means of organizing them. Helping them develop their power.
You say you’re worried about ______.
What could be changed that would make you feel better about that?
Who would make that decision?
What would it take to get them to see it your way?
Yes, for most people, it’s a stirring experience. They will think thoughts they’ve never thought before, see connections they hadn’t seen before, and surprise themselves by saying things they didn’t know they knew. They will be intellectually excited.
“Outside Agitator” is the name of a scapegoat people in power love to accuse whenever constituents challenge their control. They’re not far off, but it’s actually the inside agitator, the person’s own self-organizing, that’s causing all the trouble. There’s not much any politician can do about that—at least, not in a free society.
In our culture, the individual citizen’s power lies dormant, like the pale sprout inside an acorn. What makes it start to itch and twitch and push its way to the surface is the realization that citizenship comes with a constitutional right to organize for change. It is the role of the organizer to pose the questions that awaken this power—tell me what you’re up against; why is that; who else feels this way; and what could be done to change it? This probing is the nascent, revolutionary act of organizing: of you challenging another person to organize her/himself. In working over these seemingly simple questions, a person crosses a threshold that cannot be uncrossed; for, once someone sees and feels his or her rightful place in a democracy, things are just different. For good.
Wacky Winter Weather: Record Warmth in Buffalo and U.S. – Linked to Global Warming?
Save The Date: DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: “Climate Change Denial in the Age of Trump,” Dr. Michael Mann, Climate Scientist and Author of “The Madhouse Effect,” illustrated by cartoonist Tom Toles.
Come Earth Day, April 22, the extraordinary story of Standing Rock will hit the big screen at the Tribeca Film Festival. “AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock” is a documentary that captures the indigenous-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Josh Fox, who shed light on the impacts of fracking in his documentary Gasland and its sequel, Gasland 2, is directing this film alongside James Spione (“Silenced”) and Myron Dewey, who owns Digital Smoke Signals, a social media film company that tells stories through indigenous eyes. Actress Shailene Woodley (“Big Little Lies”) is the film’s executive producer.
The documentary’s trailer was released Friday (March 24). “What’s going on here at Standing Rock isn’t just about Standing Rock,” one man says in the trailer. “It’s not just about stopping a pipeline. This is about the survival of humanity.” The trailer revolves primarily around the events of November 2 where militarized police pepper sprayed, deployed tear gas and shot non-lethal ammunition against water protectors along Cantapeta Creek during a water ceremony.
CALGARY – President Donald Trump’s administration approved TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, cheering the oil industry and angering environmentalists even as further hurdles for the controversial project loom.
“Transcanada will finally be allowed to complete this long-overdue project with efficiency and with speed,” Trump said in the Oval Office before turning to ask TransCanada CEO Russell Girling when construction would start.
OSLO, March 27 (Reuters) – Standing Rock Sioux tribe representatives [met] the ethics watchdog for Norway’s $915 billion sovereign wealth fund on Monday over a U.S. oil pipeline, a watchdog official said on Monday.
On Sunday, Norway’s largest bank DNB sold its share of loans funding the Dakota Access oil pipeline, ending its involvement in a project that has faced strong opposition from Native Americans and environmental groups.
The pipeline will move crude oil from the U.S. Northern Plains to the Midwest and then on to the Gulf of Mexico. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund holds $248 million in bonds of Energy Transfer Partners LP, which is leading the pipeline project.
The fund has an ethical profile and is not allowed to invest in companies that breach certain guidelines regarding the environment, human rights and corruption, among other criteria.
“We will be meeting them today. They have asked for a meeting and said they would like to meet us,” Eli Ane Lund, head of the secretariat of the fund’s Council on Ethics, told Reuters, declining to give further details.
A meeting with the watchdog does not mean the fund is considering excluding a company. Representatives from non-governmental organisations often meet with Council on Ethics officials.
The fund invests in close to 9,000 companies worldwide.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A December oil pipeline spill in western North Dakota might have been three times larger than first estimated and among the biggest in state history, a state environmental expert said Friday.
About 530,000 gallons of oil is now believed to have spilled from the Belle Fourche Pipeline that was likely ruptured by a slumping hillside about 16 miles northwest of Belfield in Billings County, Health Department environmental scientist Bill Seuss said. The earlier estimate was about 176,000 gallons.
No decision has been made on any fines against Wyoming-based True Cos., which operates the pipeline. The company says it is committed to cleaning up the spill and that the job is about 80 percent done.
“There’s no timeline for completion, spokeswoman Wendy Owen said. “We will be there until it is” done.
A company’s efforts to clean up after an oil spill are a large factor in how much of a fine is levied, according to Seuss.
Mattis has long espoused the position that the armed forces, for a host of reasons, need to cut dependence on fossil fuels and explore renewable energy where it makes sense. He had also, as commander of the U.S. Joint Forces Command in 2010, signed off on the Joint Operating Environment , which lists climate change as one of the security threats the military expected to confront over the next 25 years.
THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters By Tom Nichols 252 pages. Oxford University Press. $24.95.
Donald J. Trump’s taste for advisers with little or no government experience; his selection of cabinet members like Scott Pruitt and Rick Perry, who have expressed outright hostility to the agencies they now oversee; and the slow pace of making senior-level appointments in high-profile departments like State, Treasury and Homeland Security — all speak to the new president’s disregard for policy expertise and knowledge, just as his own election victory underscores many voters’ scorn for experience.
This is part of a larger wave of anti-rationalism that has been accelerating for years — manifested in the growing ascendance of emotion over reason in public debates, the blurring of lines among fact and opinion and lies, and denialism in the face of scientific findings about climate change and vaccination.
“The Death of Expertise” turns out to be an unexceptional book about an important subject. The volume is useful in its way, providing an overview of just how we arrived at this distressing state of affairs. But it’s more of a flat-footed compendium than an original work, pulling together examples from recent news stories while iterating arguments explored in more depth in books like Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason,” Susan Jacoby’s “The Age of American Unreason,” Robert Hughes’s “Culture of Complaint” and, of course, Richard Hofstadter’s 1963 classic, “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.” Nichols’s source notes are one of the highlights of the volume, pointing the reader to more illuminating books and articles.
Further reading: ” …Though not originally written for Americans, “Democracy in America” must always remain a work of engrossing and constantly increasing interest to citizens of the United States as the first philosophic and comprehensive view of our society, institutions, and destiny. No one can rise even from the most cursory perusal without clearer insight and more patriotic appreciation of the blessings of liberty protected by law, nor without encouragement for the stability and perpetuity of the Republic. The causes which appeared to M. de Tocqueville to menace both, have gone. The despotism of public opinion, the tyranny of majorities, the absence of intellectual freedom which seemed to him to degrade administration and bring statesmanship, learning, and literature to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judgment of the wise is not subordinated to the prejudices of the ignorant.
A senior member of the Trump administration’s beachhead team at the EPA unexpectedly resigned over concerns of the “integrity” of political appointees and career employees.
David Schnare was expected to take a top post at EPA, but he abruptly resigned March 15th. It wasn’t for personal reasons, but over what he called a “question of integrity.” Schnare resigned with the title of assistant deputy administrator.
“This wasn’t about me being angry or upset,” Schnare told The Daily Caller News Foundation, saying his resignation had a “much deeper story” than he was willing to disclose at the time.
Schnare didn’t go into detail, but said he would soon write about the events that led to his resignation. His comments, however, suggested infighting at EPA between transition officials, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s inner circle and career employees.
Schnare said the White House is looking into the circumstances surrounding his resignation. The EPA did not respond to The DCNF’s request for comment.
Reports already suggested tension between President Donald Trump’s political appointees and EPA career staff.
Last month, FracTracker Alliance featured a blog entry and map exploring the controversy around National Fuel’s proposed Northern Access Pipeline (NAPL) project, shown in the map below. The proposed project, which has already received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), is still awaiting another decision by April 7, 2017 — Section 401 Water Quality Certification. By that date, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) must give either final approval, or else deny the project.
The NAPL project includes the construction of 97-mile-long pipeline to bring fracked Marcellus gas through New York State, and into Canada. The project also involves construction of a variety of related major infrastructure projects, including a gas dehydration facility, and a ten-fold expansion of the capacity of the Porterville Compressor Station located at the northern terminus of the proposed pipeline, in Erie County, NY.
On three consecutive days in early February, 2017, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) held hearings in Western New York to gather input about the NAPL project. On February 7th, the day of the first meeting at Saint Bonaventure University in Allegany County, NY, an alarming — and yet to be fully reported — incident widely considered to be a gas leak, occurred at, or near, the Porterville Compressor Station. The incident is thought to be connected to the planned upgrades to the facility, but was not even mentioned as a concern during the public meetings relating to the Northern Access Pipeline in the subsequent hours and days.
What follows is a story of poor communication between the utility company, first responders, and local residents, resulting in confusion and even panic, and has yet to be conclusively explained to the general public.
We know that a little past 10 AM on February 7th, people in the villages of Elma and East Aurora, within about a mile of the Porterville Compressor Station, reported strong odors of gas. They filed complaints with the local gas utility (National Fuel), and the local 911 center, which referred the calls to the local Elma Fire Department. The fire department went to the Porterville Compressor station to investigate, remembering a similar incident from a few years earlier. At the compressor station, representatives from National Fuel, the operator of the compressor station, assured the fire company that they were conducting a routine flushing of an odorant line, and the situation was under control, so the fire company departed.
Residents in the area became more alarmed when they noticed that the odor was stronger outside their buildings than inside them. National Fuel then ordered many residents to evacuate their homes. The East Aurora police facilitated the evacuation and instructed residents to gather in the East Aurora Library not far from those homes. Nearby businesses, such as Fisher Price, headquartered in East Aurora, chose to send their employees home for the day, due to the offensive odor and perceived risks.
Around 11:30 in the morning, up to 200 clients at Suburban Adult Services, Inc. (SASi), were evacuated to the Jamison Road Fire Station, where they remained until around 3 PM that afternoon. Over 200 reports were received, some from as far away as Orchard Park, eight miles down-wind of the compressor station.
After East Aurora elementary and middle schools placed complaints, National Fuel told them to evacuate students and staff from their buildings. Realizing that the smell was stronger outside than inside the building, school leaders revised their plans, and started to get buses ready to transport student to the high school, where there had not been reports of the odor. Before the buses could load, however, the police department notified the school that the gas leak had been repaired, and that there was no need to evacuate. School officials then activated the school’s air circulation system to rid the building of the fumes.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland lawmakers voted Monday to ban hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas, a process better known as fracking.
The Senate voted 35-10 for a measure that already has been approved by the House. That sends the bill to Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who supports the ban.
Fracking isn’t being done in Maryland now, but a moratorium on issuing permits ends in October.
Fracking opponents cited health and environmental concerns for not allowing the drilling process to ever happen in the state. The drilling technique forces pressurized water and chemicals underground to break up the rock and release the gas. Critics say the process and disposal of tainted wastewater pose risks of water and air pollution, earthquakes and property devaluation.
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its thirty-seventh flight (PSLV-C35), launches the 371 kg SCATSAT-1 for weather related studies and seven co-passenger satellites into polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). Co-passenger satellites are ALSAT-1B, ALSAT-2B, ALSAT-1N from Algeria, NLS-19 from Canada and Pathfinder-1 from USA as well as two satellites PRATHAM from IIT Bombay and PISAT from PES University, Bengaluru.
For the first time, under the impetus of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency (CNES), space agencies of more than 60 countries agreed to engage their satellites, to coordinate their methods and their data to monitor human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.
The COP21 climate conference held in Paris last December acted as a wake-up call in this context. Without satellites, the reality of global warming would not have been recognised and the subsequent historic agreement at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 22, 2016 would not have been signed. Out of the 50 essential climate variables being monitored today, 26 – including rising sea level, sea ice extent and greenhouse gas concentrations in all layers of the atmosphere – can be measured only from space.
The key to effectively implementing the Paris Agreement lies in the ability to verify that nations are fulfilling their commitments to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Only satellites can do that. Invited to New Delhi by ISRO and CNES on April 3, 2016, the world’s space agencies decided to establish “an independent, international system” to centralise data from their Earth-observing satellites through the ‘New Delhi Declaration’ that officially came into effect on May 16, 2016.
The goal now will be to inter calibrate these satellite data so that they can be combined and compared over time. In other words, it is to make the transition to closely coordinated and easily accessible ‘big space data’.
There are over 7,000 gas-filled bubbles in remote parts of Siberia that are set to explode, scientists have discovered. Following extensive field expeditions and satellite surveys, researchers in Russia have identified thousands of bulging bumps in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas – far more than they had expected.
Alexey Titovsky, director of Yamal department for science and innovation, told the Siberian Times that understanding the bubbles is of paramount important to assessing the risk they pose.
In July last year, scientists released footage of the ground on Bely Island wobbling underfoot. When they punctured them, methane and carbon dioxide was released. It is thought an abnormally warm summer had caused the permafrost to thaw, leading to the release of methane that had been locked up in the ground. At present, it is thought this process is behind the emergence of the numerous craters that have appeared over recent years – including the ‘gateway to the underworld’ crater near Batagaiin.
Titovsky said the 7,000 bulging bumps identified could also collapse into craters: “At first such a bump is a bubble, or ‘bulgunyakh’ in the local Yakut language. With time the bubble explodes, releasing gas. This is how gigantic funnels form.
Thawing permafrost as a result of global warming is expected to lead to more methane release in the future, a spokesman from the Ural branch of Russian Academy of Science said. “An abnormally warm summer in 2016 on the Yamal peninsula must have added to the process,” they added.
On Bely Island, scientists found methane was 1,000 times above normal, while CO2 was around 25 times higher. “As we took off a layer of grass and soil, a fountain of gas erupted,” one of the scientists working at the site explained.
The release of methane from the thawing permafrost is of huge concern to climate scientists. Max Holmes, the deputy director and senior scientist at the Woods Hole Research Centre, told IBTimes UK it could lead to the collapse of human infrastructures, like roads and towns, as well as creating a feedback cycle that results in even more warming.
While the White House is not expected to explicitly say the United States is withdrawing from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, and people familiar with the White House deliberations say Mr. Trump has not decided whether to do so, the policy reversals would make it virtually impossible to meet the emissions reduction goals set by the Obama administration under the international agreement.
In an announcement that could come as soon as Thursday or as late as next month, according to people familiar with the White House’s planning, Mr. Trump will order Mr. Pruitt to withdraw and rewrite a set of Obama-era regulations known as the Clean Power Plan, according to a draft document obtained by The New York Times. The Obama rule was devised to shut down hundreds of heavily polluting coal-fired power plants and freeze construction of new coal plants, while replacing them with vast wind and solar farms.
The draft also lays out options for legally blocking or weakening about a half-dozen additional Obama-era executive orders and policies on climate change.
Experts in environmental law say it will not be possible for Mr. Trump to quickly or simply roll back the most substantive elements of Mr. Obama’s climate change regulations, noting that the process presents a steep legal challenge that could take many years and is likely to end up before the Supreme Court. Economists are skeptical that a rollback of the rules would restore lost coal jobs because the demand for coal has been steadily shrinking for years.
Scientists and climate policy advocates around the world say they are watching the administration’s global warming actions and statements with deep worry. Many reacted with deep concern to Mr. Pruitt’s remarks this month that he did not believe carbon dioxide was a primary driver of climate change, a statement at odds with the global scientific consensus. They also noted the remarks last week by Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, in justifying Mr. Trump’s proposed cuts to climate change research programs.
It’s a safe assumption that most Americans have not heard of the US Chemical Safety Board. Donald Trump is certainly banking on that, since he proposed scrapping it in his recent budget proposal. But if the small agency is indeed de-funded, the results could be catastrophic—and we might be left wondering, as the bodies are counted after some large chemical disaster, why nobody was angry when the CSB went away.
If Trump succeeds in de-funding the CSB, that’s work that will largely be left undone—in a nation with a creaking chemical-production infrastructure. It’s expensive to shutter old chemical plants because of remediation costs, and many are being extended past their planned lifetimes. The federal government doesn’t track chemical accidents—a small scandal in itself—but best estimates seem to indicate an uptick. The Deepwater Horizon blowout and the large explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, are the most memorable accidents of the past decade; in West, 15 people were killed and hundreds of homes were destroyed in 2013. Forty-six people have died in US chemical plants since then.
This is why worker and safety advocates are panicked by the CSB’s potential de-funding.
Since 1997, the IEA has produced an annual compilation of its most used statistics in a booklet easily accessible to all – the aptly named Key World Energy Statistics (KWES) – and the hugely successful booklet has become a constant companion of energy analysts and policy makers.
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Tia Keyes is Full Professor of physical chemistry at the School of Chemical Sciences, where she has been a member of academic staff since 2002. Her research interests lie in the fields of molecular spectroscopy & photophysics and in supramolecular & interfacial chemistry. She is particularly interested in applications of these fields to biological problems, including cell imaging/environmental mapping, cell capture, sensing and membrane mimetics. Tia’s research team are based between the School of Chemical Sciences and the National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform Ireland (NBIPI) www.nbipireland.ie/ which is housed within The National Centre for Sensor Research www.ncsr.ie Tia is an academic member of The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (www.bdi.ie) and currently co-node leader (Britain and Ireland) on the Biophotonics4life consortium (http://www.biophotonicsworld.org. Tia is also currently coordinator of the National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform at DCU. Collaborators: Prof. Robert Forster, DCU, Prof. Alan M. Bond, Monash University, Australia, Dr Grace Morgan, UCD, Dr. James Rice, UCD. Dr. Tim McCormack, DKIT, Prof. Tony Wedd, University of Melbourne, Australia, Prof Niamh Moran RCSI, Dr Marc Devocelle, RCSI, Prof L Cronin, Univ Glasgow, UK, Prof. Mario Reuben, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Prof Conor Long, DCU, Prof Barry Lentz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Prof Emmanuel Iwuoha, Univ. of Western Cape, Prof Vickie McKee, Univ of Loughborough, Prof Jane Nelson.
Silvia Giordani is full Professor, Chair of Nanomaterials within the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University and is a member of the strategically important National Centre for Sensor research. She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Miami, USA and carried out postdoctoral research at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland and at the University of Trieste, Italy. In 2007 she received the prestigious President of Ireland Young Researcher Award and was a Research Assistant Professor at TCD from 2007 to 2013. Since September 2013 she has been leading the new “Nano Carbon Materials” research lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and in December 2016 she was appointed Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin, Italy. She has served as the thesis/dissertation advisor or mentor to 43 undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral fellows.
Prof. Giordani research interests are on the design, synthesis, and characterization of a wide range of nanomaterials that are intended for applications in smart and responsive bio-related nanotechnologies. She has authored approx. 100 peer-reviewed publications, reviews and book chapters, including Chemistry Society Reviews, Nature Nanotechnology, PNAS, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Small and J. Am. Chem. Soc. that collectively have received over 5,500 citations. Her results have been highlighted in journals such as Science, Nature, and New Scientist. She has presented her work at numerous conferences around the world e.g. in United States, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, India, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and across most of Europe.
She was awarded the 2012 L’Oréal UK & Ireland Fellowship For Women in Science and in 2014 she has been invited to give a “Women in Science” Masterclass at the Royal Irish Academy. In 2018 she was awarded the William Evans Visiting Fellowship from the University of Otago (New Zealand) and is Visiting Scientist to the Bio-Nano Institute at Toyo University (Japan).
Since April 2016 she is the Working Group Leader and Management Committee Member for the COST Action CA15107 “Multi‐Functional Nano‐Carbon Composite Materials Network” (MultiComp).
Mary Pryce is an Associate Professor of inorganic chemistry at the School of Chemical Sciences. Her areas of research interest span: organometallic photochemistry, molecular spectroscopy, CO releasing molecules, singlet-oxygen generation, photo- and electro-catalytic routes to hydrogen generation and the reduction of carbon dioxide.
The focus of the Pryce group is the photo- and electro-activation of organometallic complexes. We are currently working on novel materials which can deliver CO as site specific therapeutic agents or generate singlet oxygen. Also of interest are systems that can reduce water to hydrogen and carbon dioxide to useful chemical feedstocks. Of primary importance to all of these studies is an understanding of the photophysics of excited states. Time-resolved spectroscopy such as time-resolved infrared (TRIR) spectroscopy has been used to probe the early excited state dynamics. Such studies and the insights obtained are essential in the design of novel and more efficient systems for specific applications. Transient absorption spectroscopy provides essential information on the reactivity of the resulting photoproducts and matrix isolation techniques can help with the structural characterisation of these products.
Andrew Kellett is principle investigator and Associate Professor of medicinal inorganic chemistry in the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University, Ireland. His group are based at the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology (NICB) and Nano-Bioanalytical Research Facility (NRF) and focus on discovery of metallodrug-nucleic acid interactions for biochemical and therapeutic application. He is coordinator of the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) Click Gene, the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Career Development Award Polynuclear Platinum (II) Biomaterials (PPtBio) for Antisense Therapeutic Application and Detection of Human Genetic Disease, and his lab is also supported by the Irish Research Council and the Science Foundation Ireland funded Synthesis and Solid-State Pharmaceutical Centre. He completed his B.Sc. (1st Class) in chemistry from NUI Maynooth, received his Ph.D. in 2007 under the guidance of Prof. M. Devereux at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and Dr. Maureen Walsh at the Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin (ITTD). He was then appointed as A.F. Graves Postdoctoral Fellow at the Focas Research Institute until 2011 and thereafter joined the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University.
Dr. Kerrigan obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from University College Dublin (1992-1996). He then completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at University College Dublin (1996-2000) under the direction of Professor Declan G. Gilheany. He spent a year in industry working as a process development chemist for Merck in Ballydine before carrying out postdoctoral research at the University of Glasgow (2002-2004) with Professor David J. Procter. He carried out further postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh (2004-2006) with Prof. Scott G. Nelson. In 2006 Dr. Kerrigan began his independent research career at Oakland University in Michigan. In August 2017, Dr. Kerrigan returned to Ireland to take up a position as Lecturer in the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University. The Kerrigan group carries out research in the area of synthetic organic chemistry. Most of the group’s work is of the basic/fundamental chemistry research kind and is focused on the development of new efficient methods for the construction of biologically interesting and pharmaceutically important organic molecules.
Anthony Reilly's research is in the area of modelling and understanding the structure and properties of molecular materials. Of particular interest is understanding polymorphism and solid-form landscapes of active pharmaceutical ingredients, which are both key to understanding risks and opportunities during drug product development. The elastic and mechanical response of molecular crystals is another area of active research. Techniques being applied and developed include first-principles calculations, including many-body vdW models, empirical-potential simulations and structural informatics based on the Cambridge Structural Database.
Kieran Nolan completed his PhD in 1996 at York University (Toronto, Canada) under the supervision of Professor Clifford Leznoff. After completing his PhD Kieran worked both as a research chemist in the pharmaceutical industry in Toronto (Novopharm Lmt.) and then as a formulation chemist in the development of new polymer laminates in Toronto/South Carolina. In 1998 Kieran came to Ireland and joined Professor Dermot Diamond’s research group in the NCSR. In 2001 Kieran was appointed Lecturer in the School of Chemical Sciences. In 2012 Kieran became a Senior Lecturer and was then appointed Head of School of Chemical Sciences in 2014.
3) Development of new photosensitisers and chemoreceptors for application in sensors/heavy metal extraction technologies and medicinal chemistry.
Present Commercial Collaborations: Astellas, ABP, Veolia, Dr Reddy's and TE Labs.
Apryll Stalcup is Full Professor of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University. She received a BS in Chemistry from California State University-Sacramento (1979) and her PhD from Georgetown University in Washington, DC (1988). She was a Co-op Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland (1985-1988). After a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Missouri-Rolla, she moved to the University of Hawaii-Manoa in 1990. In 1996, she moved to the University of Cincinnati and promoted to Full Professor in 2001. She moved to Dublin City University In 2012 Dr. Stalcup’s research interests are in separation science. Her group pioneered the use sulfated-β-cyclodextrin, heparin and quinine as chiral additives in capillary electrophoresis. They have been very active in the application of surface-confined ionic liquids (SCIL) and demonstrated their wide application range (e.g., reversed phase, normal phase, ion exchange and ion exclusion).
In 2011, she was awarded the Cincinnati Chemist of the Year by the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society. In 2015, she received the American Micro chemical Society A. A. Benedetti-Pichler Award. Dr. Stalcup is the author of over 100 publications, reviews, book chapters and one patent. She has served as the thesis/dissertation advisor or mentor to 32 postgraduate and Postdoctoral Fellows. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland, the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association of the Advancement of Science and Sigma Xi. She currently serves on the Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Division Council, is a Contributing Editor for Trends in Analytical Chemistry and serves on the Editorial Board for Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Techniques. She is the Co-Chair (with Prof. Jeremy Glennon, University College Cork) of the 31st International Symposium on Chromatography in 2016.
Dermot Diamond received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from Queen’s University Belfast and joined DCU in 1987. He was Vice-President for Research at Dublin City University (2002-2004) and was director (2007-2015) and founding member of the National Centre for Sensor Research (www.ncsr.ie) at DCU. In 2002, he was awarded the inaugural silver medal for Sensor Research by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London. He was awarded the DCU President’s Award for Research Excellence (2006) and the DCU President’s Award for Innovation (2015). In May 2014, in recognition of his academic contributions and achievements, he was admitted to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy. In April 2015 he was awarded the Boyle Higgins Gold Medal by the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland in recognition of his research achievements. In 2018, his contributions to music, arts and culture were recognized by the award of an honorary Doctorate by Ulster University (D.Litt). He is currently a principal investigator in the SFI INSIGHT Centre (http://www.insight-centre.org) and co-chair of the EU Future and Emerging Technologies programme advisory group (FETAG) dealing with topic selection for very large scale FET-Flagship initiatives, and strategy related to the FETopen and FETproactive programmes. His research is focused on the fundamental science of stimuli responsive polymers, the development of futuristic autonomous chemical sensing platforms, and the use of analytical devices and sensors as information providers for wireless networked systems i.e. building a continuum between the digital and molecular worlds.
Robert Forster holds the Chair of Physical Chemistry within the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University and is the Director of the strategically important National Centre for Sensor research. He is the author/co-author of more than 230 manuscripts and reviews, supervised more than 35 PhD and M.Sc. students to completion, mentored more than 40 Post-Doctoral Fellows and has been a Visiting Scientist to the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley. He has served as DCU Dean of Research and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science and Health with responsibility for research. He has received the President’s Research Award and was the first Irish based electrochemist to present an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry. He has contributed invited articles to more than eight Festschrift Issues celebrating the accomplishments of distinguished international scientists. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Electrochemical Communications (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electrochemistry-communications ). He has been deeply involved in major national research programmes including the establishment of the National Centre for Sensor Research, the Biomedical Diagnostics Centre and the NanoBioAnalytical Research Facility at DCU.
Dr. Morrin works in the field of electroanalytical device development for environmental and biomedical sensing applications and has published 50 research papers and has several book chapters in fields ranging from electrochemical biosensing to novel nanomaterials.
She is an academic member of the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR) and a funded investigator with INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics. Her expertise is in developing and studying functional (and stimuli-responsive) materials with improved performances using electrochemical techniques. Integration of these materials into microfluidic platforms for sensor and analytical device development is also an activity in her research group.
Dr Morrin currently holds a Career Development Award from SFI developing research in the area of epidermal sensing and wearable where she is interested in developing novel analytical approaches to monitoring the skin organ from a health perspective. Dr. Morrin has experience in managing projects as Principle Investigator in a number of national and international grants (over €2 million in total) and has good industrial links, for example through the IRC-employment-based postgraduate programme scheme with T.E. laboratories. She also has an ongoing contract research relationship with Abbott Diagnostics® (Ireland).
Brian Kelleher Lecturer, School of Chemical Sciences, DCU. Feb. 2004 to July 2005; Postdoc. With Dr Andre Simpson, Dept. of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto. Set-up and method development of advanced analytical hyphenated methods: Liquid Chromatography (LC) - Mass Spectroscopy (MS)-Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). July 2002- Feb. 2004; Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. William Kingery, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University. Catalytic activity of enzymes immobilised on organo-minerals. Characterisation of organic/inorganic component of deep-sea sediments associated with gas hydrates. Feb. 2001-July 2002; Project Manager for an EPA (Ireland) funded research project that resulted in a successful demonstration of the fluidised bed combustion of animal waste to produce heat and electricity. 1997-2001: PhD. Dr Tom O'Dwyer, development of sorbents for organic compounds, University of Limerick.
Dr. Whites research interests focus on the development of intelligent analysis tools and the application of analytical chemistry for the investigation of chemical and biochemical processes in the world around us.
A primary focus of her research is the elucidation of molecular mechanisms which initiate and propagate oxidative stress, particularly that which leads to DNA damage. This type of damage has been linked to mutagenesis, neurological disease and aging, and understanding the underlying mechanisms has the potential to enable us to develop tailored therapies to combat these diseases.
A further research focus is the development of analytical platforms. She coordinates the Interreg-funded project Monitool , which seeks to develop new tools for monitoring the chemical status in transitional and coastal waters under the Water Framework Directive.
Dr. White also researches unique bioactive and nutrition profiles in Irish food. She is currently exploring the bioactive profiles for Irish honeys from across the island, investigating both honeybee and bumblebee honey and is a founding member of the Irish Bee and Pesticide Network.
Dr. White hasve worked extensively with industry, with previous research projects in collaboration with Allergan Ltd., Pfizer Ltd. and Proctor and Gamble Ltd. My Her group has ongoing research projects with Alltech (Ireland) in the area of oxidative DNA damage.
Mercedes Vázquez is Assistant Professor in Analytical Chemistry at the School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University (DCU), since 2014. She is also a principal investigator at the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), DCU. She received her MSc in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 1998. In 1999, she joined the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) as an ERASMUS exchange student, where she continued till obtaining her PhD from Åbo Akademi in 2005. During this period, she worked on the development of potentiometric ion sensors based on conducting polymers for various applications such as chemical process control and clinical analysis. In 2006, she took up a postdoctoral position within the Centre for Bioanalytical Sciences (CBAS) at DCU, where she primarily focused on the development of analytical methods and technologies for the rapid screening of very complex media in biopharmaceutical processes. She then joined the Irish Separation Science Cluster (ISSC), DCU, in 2009, where she coordinated a research program focused on the development of novel microfluidic platforms for a wide range of (bio)analytical applications, including biotechnology and environmental analysis.
Organometallic research at Dublin City University is currently focused on the photochemical and kinetic properties of organometallic compounds. Our research is primarily based on a study of the reactivity of co-ordinatively unsaturated species and more recently on photinduced insertion processes. The reactive species formed photochemically are characterised from a mixture of kinetic and thermodynamic data utilising UV-vis. laser flash photolysis and matrix isolation techniques.
One particular area that we have become involved in recently, is the photochemistry of heteroaromatic metal carbonyl compounds of d 6 or d 7 metals. These systems tend to be extremely photolabile and exhibit a wavelength dependent photochemistry. For instance a photoinduced insertion into a C-Se bond has been observed recently.
More recently research within the group has extended to the development of theoretical models to describe organometallic compounds, at present we are using ab initio techniques (Gaussian 03). The ultimate aim of these calculations is to predict the photochemistry of the organometallic system and to understand the properties and behaviour of reactive fragments.
Emma Coyle is an Assistant Professor in organic and medicinal chemistry in the School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University (DCU), since 2014.
Dr. Coyle received her BSc in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and PhD in Organic Photochemistry from DCU. She then joined the School of Chemistry in the University of Nottingham as a research fellow in the groups of Prof. Rob Stockman and Dr Ross Denton, in collaboration with Prof. Sean Rigby in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. In 2011, she re-joined DCU as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr Chris O’Brien in the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR). Throughout these experiences she focused on research in organic synthesis, in particular development of novel methodologies or green routes to high-value molecules.
Current research interests include synthesis and structural systematics of benzamides, carbamates and imides as well as macrocyclic imide synthesis of trezimides and tennimides. Recent papers have included studies on halogen bonding and the importance of weak interactions in influencing crystal structure formation.
B. Sc.(Hons), Chemistry, University College Dublin 1979. M. Sc., Chemistry, University College Dublin 1980. Ph. D., Chemistry, University College Dublin 1984.
Jamie is a materials scientist with extensive expertise with materials for energy conversion. His research interests include small molecule photo- and electrocatalytic transformations for solar fuel synthesis (CO2 reduction and water splitting), 2D materials, polymers, polyoxometalates and in-situ analysis using spectroelectrochemistry.
After a BSc and PhD in DCU, Jamie undertook postdoctoral positions at the Queen's University, Belfast, and the University of Liverpool. In October 2016 Jamie returned to DCU to establish his independent research group when made PI of a highly prestigious SFI SIRG fellowship.
Jamie has published multiple articles in high quality peer reviewed journals, delivered presentations at national and international conferences, and has reviewed extensively for the RSC, ACS and NPG. He is a member of the RSC and the ISE.
Lecturer, School of Chemical Sciences, DCU. Feb. 2004 to July 2005; Postdoc. With Dr Andre Simpson, Dept. of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto. Set-up and method development of advanced analytical hyphenated methods: Liquid Chromatography (LC) - Mass Spectroscopy (MS)-Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). July 2002- Feb. 2004; Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. William Kingery, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University. Catalytic activity of enzymes immobilised on organo-minerals. Characterisation of organic/inorganic component of deep-sea sediments associated with gas hydrates. Feb. 2001-July 2002; Project Manager for an EPA (Ireland) funded research project that resulted in a successful demonstration of the fluidised bed combustion of animal waste to produce heat and electricity. 1997-2001: PhD. Dr Tom O'Dwyer, development of sorbents for organic compounds, University of Limerick.
Odilla Finlayson is an Associate Professor in Science Education in the School of Chemical Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU). She was a recipient of the Teaching Fellowship in 2001 and the DCU President‘s Award for Teaching and Learning in 2007. She has served on the Education Council of the professional bodies RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry) and ICI (Institute of Chemistry of Ireland) in several capacities and remains active on these bodies. She is involved in selection and training of the Irish teams for participation in the Olympiads IIJSO, EUSO and IChO and is the Country Co-ordinator for EUSO.
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§ C-14 City officers designated generally.
§ C-17 Boards and commissions.
§ C-18 Eligibility to hold City offices.
§ C-19 Succession to office during disaster.
§ C-20 Terms of office of appointive City officers.
§ C-21 Compensation of city officers and boards and commissions.
§ C-22 Commencement and expiration of terms of office.
§ C-23 Filling vacancy in office.
§ C-24 Official oaths required of all City officers.
§ C-25 Official bond of City officers and employees.
§ C-26 Liability for unauthorized expenditures and other misconduct.
§ C-27 Time of meeting of all boards and commissions.
§ C-28 Annual reports of boards and commissions.
Officers of the City. The officers of the City shall be elected or appointed. Elected officers include the Mayor, Common Council Members and City Judge. Appointed officers include the City Manager, the City Prosecutor, half-time City Judge, City Health Officer, Director of Finance, City Clerk, Assessor, City Engineer, City Attorney, and all Deputy Clerks and Deputy Directors of Finance.
Officers on Boards and Commissions. The appointed officers of the City shall also include the members of the following boards and commissions: Civil Service Commission, Planning Commission, Board of Public Service, Board of Assessment and Review, and Zoning and Housing Board of Appeals.
The Mayor is the City of Oneonta's Chief Elected Officer, and is the only officer elected by the entire City electorate. The Mayor serves as the head of City government for all official and ceremonial purposes and presides at all meetings of the Common Council, serving as its chair.
As the Common Council's chair, the Mayor is an integral part of setting legislative priorities, sets the agenda for Common Council meetings, leads the Common Council in strategic planning, and guides and advises the City Manager in fulfilling Common Council priorities and instructions.
The Mayor is also charged with a number of other leadership roles and functions and powers conferred by this charter or the general laws of the state, not inconsistent with this charter.
Serve as the head of City government for all official and ceremonial purposes, preside over the Common Council, and have and exercise all the powers conferred by this Charter or by the general laws of the state, not inconsistent with this Charter.
Serve as the Chief Elected Official who shall formulate the Common Council agenda and propose policy consistent with the general welfare of the city and its residents.
Sign, on behalf of the City, all contracts made by it, and cause the seal of the City to be affixed thereto.
Sign all deeds, local laws, resolutions, and ordinances to be executed as an act of the City, and sign appointments made to City offices by the Common Council.
Have the power, at any time, to examine the books, papers, and accounts of any board, commission, department, office, or agency of the City; administer oaths to witnesses; and issue subpoenas to compel the appearance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and other evidence.
Have the power to establish all committees of the Common Council and appoint their members and chairs.
Communicate a general statement of the affairs of the City in relation to its finances, government, and improvement, to the Common Council as soon after the start of the fiscal year and as often thereafter as s/he considers expedient with such recommendations as the Mayor deems proper.
Shall serve as primary liaison in matters concerning state and federal governmental entities.
During an emergency, the Mayor will serve as the point of contact with both federal and state officials, and the media and public. Emergency decisions regarding public safety, when necessary, shall be made by the City Manager in consultation with the Mayor who represents the needs of the people of the City and the directions of the Council.
City officers. The Mayor shall appoint, with confirmation by the Common Council, the City Attorney, and the City Health Officer. The mayor shall appoint the City Prosecutor, and one half-time City Court Judge consistent with New York State law.
Members of boards and commissions. Except as otherwise provided for in this Charter, or by general law, local law, or ordinance, the Mayor shall appoint, subject to approval by the Common Council, City residents as members of all boards and commissions. Membership of each board or commission shall, whenever possible, be drawn from more than one political party.
Appointment of Common Council Members to boards and commissions. The Mayor may appoint a Common Council Member to each board or commission, who shall be an ex-officio member, who shall have no vote, and who shall act as a liaison to the Common Council.
Removal of board and commission members. The Mayor may remove a mayoral appointee to any board or commission, and shall notify the Common Council of such removal.
Citizen advisory boards and other ad hoc groups. The Mayor may create and dissolve citizen advisory boards, commissions, and other ad hoc groups with Common Council approval. The Mayor may appoint residents of the City to such boards and, commissions, with the approval of the Common Council. The Mayor may appoint residents of the City or nonresidents to such ad hoc groups that may serve the interest of the City.
City of Oneonta Housing Authority. The Mayor shall appoint the members of the City of Oneonta Housing Authority.
Appointment, term, compensation, qualifications. The Common Council and the Mayor shall conduct the search and oversee the hiring and appointment of the City Manager, who shall be competent to execute the duties of the position. The City Manager shall serve at the pleasure of the Common Council and the Common Council shall fix the compensation annually. The City Manager shall be qualified by possessing a master's degree in public administration and at least three years' successful experience in a responsible executive position in government administration, or any equivalent training or combination of experience and training in municipal government. After an initial six-month probationary period, the City Manager's performance shall be evaluated by the Common Council and the Mayor and on an annual basis thereafter.
Residency. The City Manager need not be a resident of the City of Oneonta or the State of New York at the time of appointment. After appointment the City Manager may reside outside the City on a temporary basis pursuant to the terms of a resolution of the Common Council.
Shall be the Chief Administrative Officer of the City, and shall be responsible to the Common Council and the Mayor for the administration of all City affairs placed in the City Manager's charge by or under this charter, or by other applicable law.
Shall have the primary responsibility for the daily administration of the City, including the supervision of all employees, coordination and delivery of services, and oversight of fiscal management.
Shall appoint all department heads, officers, and employees of the City with the approval of the Common Council, except as provided otherwise in this Charter or by applicable law.
Shall assure the Mayor that the policies and directives adopted by the Common Council are properly executed.
Shall serve as the liaison between the heads of all departments and agencies of City government, and the Mayor and Common Council.
May suspend or remove any employee of the City as authorized by state law or pursuant to the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement.
May suspend or remove any officer that s/he appoints as authorized by state law or pursuant to the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement.
Shall attend all meetings of the Common Council and may participate in discussion of any matter before the Common Council, but may not vote.
Shall make reports as requested by the Common Council and/or the Mayor concerning the operations of the City departments, offices, and agencies.
Shall participate in the collective bargaining process as a member of the management team in City negotiations with collective bargaining units.
Shall lead the annual planning and budgeting process, including the preparation of a full draft budget that is presented to the Common Council.
Shall serve, in concert with the Mayor, as liaison for the City with local and county entities. Shall facilitate effective communication and the free exchange of ideas between the departments and other agencies of City government and the general public.
May prescribe and enforce rules and regulations for the efficient management of City government consistent with this Charter and other applicable law.
Shall administer the annual performance evaluation review process for all heads of City departments.
Shall perform such other duties as required by this Charter or other applicable law, or as directed by the Common Council and the Mayor.
The City Manager shall designate a department head to serve as Acting City Manager in event of the extended absence or disability of the City Manager. This appointment of the Acting City Manager shall occur within 30 days of the appointment of the City Manager. The appointment of the Acting City Manager shall be subject to the Common Council approval. The Acting City Manager shall have and exercise all the powers and discharge all the duties and be subject to all the provisions of law applicable to the office of City Manager.
In the event that no Acting City Manager is selected pursuant to the process outlined in the paragraph above, the Common Council shall appoint an appropriate individual to serve in such capacity.
Suspension and removal. The Common Council may suspend the City Manager by enactment of a resolution approved by the majority of the Common Council which shall set forth the reasons for suspension and proposed removal. A notice of such resolution shall be provided immediately to the City Manager. The City Manager shall continue to receive full salary until the effective date of a final resolution of removal.
Advisory role. All boards and commissions shall be advisory except as otherwise provided in this Charter, the City Code or state law.
Current boards and commissions. As of the effective date of this Charter, the following boards and commissions will exist in the City: Parks and Recreation Commission, Airport Commission, Board of Public Service, Environmental Board, Board of Examining Electricians, City of Oneonta Planning Commission, Zoning and Housing Board of Appeals, Examining Board of Plumbers, Commission on Community Relations and Human Rights, Americans with Disabilities Committee and Board of Assessment and Review.
Terms of office. The term of office of members of boards and commissions shall be three years except as otherwise provided by this Charter or other applicable law. No member of a board or commission shall serve more than three consecutive terms of office.
All persons elected or appointed as a City officer must be a resident of the City. A Common Council member must be a registered voter of the ward for which he or she is elected. The Common Council may appoint a nonresident of the City to an appointive City office pursuant to a resolution of exemption or a resolution that sets a time frame for the appointee to establish residency in the City. Whenever any officer of the City, other than one serving under a resolution of exemption, shall cease to be a resident of the City or of the ward for which such person was elected or appointed, that office shall thereupon become vacant. No person shall serve in more than one City officer position at any one time.
Mayor. If, as a result of a disaster, as defined by § 20 of the Executive Law of the State of New York, the office of Mayor becomes vacant, or the Mayor by reason of disability or absence from the City shall be prevented from attending to the duties of the office of Mayor, and the Acting Mayor as the designated Common Council Member, is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office of Mayor or shall be absent from the City, the Common Council, or if vacancies have reduced its membership to less than a majority, then a majority of the remaining members of the Common Council shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy until such time as the Mayor or Acting Mayor as designated Council Member is able to assume the duties of the office of Mayor.
Other elective office. If a vacancy shall occur in any other elective office of the City, in the event of such disaster, the Common Council, or if vacancies have reduced its membership to less than a majority, then a majority of the remaining members of the Common Council shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy until the incumbent is able to assume the duties of the office.
If, as a result of a disaster, as defined by § 20 of the Executive Law of the State of New York, the office of City Manager becomes vacant, or the City Manager by reason of disability or absence from the City shall be prevented from attending to the duties of the office of City Manager, and the Acting City Manager is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office of City Manager or shall be absent from the City, the Common Council, or if vacancies have reduced its membership to less than a majority, then a majority of the remaining members of the Common Council shall appoint a Department Head to fill such vacancy until such time as the City Manager or Acting City Manager is able to assume the duties of the office of City Manager.
In the event that no Department Head is selected pursuant to the process outlined in the paragraph above, the Common Council shall appoint an appropriate individual to serve in such capacity.
Other City Offices. If any City officer except the Mayor or Council Member shall, from sickness, absence, suspension from office by the Common Council, or from any other cause, be unable to discharge the duties of office, the City Manager shall appoint a suitable person to discharge such duties during such disability, unless otherwise prohibited by law. The person so appointed shall have and exercise all the powers and discharge all the duties and be subject to all the provisions of law applicable to such officer, and shall receive such salary as shall be fixed by the Common Council.
The term of office of each appointive officer shall be one year except as otherwise provided by this Charter or other applicable law. An appointive officer may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by the appointment of a successor pursuant to this Charter or as permitted by other applicable law.
The members of City boards and commissions shall receive no compensation for their services.
The Common Council shall have the power to fix and change annual salaries or other compensations of all officers of the City subject to statutory limitations.
The term of office of each officer appointed by the Mayor for a full term shall, other than as herein provided, commence on the 15th day of January of the year in which the appointment is required to be made.
If a vacancy shall occur in any elective office of the City, other than by expiration of term, the Mayor with the approval of the Common Council shall appoint, except as otherwise provided in this Charter, a person to fill such vacancy until the next general election. If a vacancy shall occur in any elective office of the City, by the expiration of term, as in the case of a tie vote, the Mayor, with the approval of the Common Council, shall appoint, except as otherwise provided in the Charter, a person to fill such vacancy until the next general election. If the vacancy shall occur in the office of Mayor, it shall be filled by Common Council appointment. A vacancy occurring in an appointive office of the City, other than by expiration of term, shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term in the same manner as an appointment for a full term.
Each officer of the City shall, before assuming the duties of office, take and file in the office of the City Clerk the official oath in accordance with Article 13 of the New York State Constitution and Section 10 of the Public Officers Law. Each Mayor, Clerk, Council Member, and City Judge shall file a certificate of election or appointment with the City Clerk, and take and subscribe the constitutional oath before assuming the duties of office.
Officers and employees as determined by the Common Council shall, prior to performing the duties of their respective positions, execute and file an official bond in accordance with the General Construction Law and the Public Officers Law and for omission to do so shall be subject to the penalties and liabilities prescribed by statute. Other than as provided in this Charter, the penal sum named in such bond, or the sum specified in any such undertaking as the maximum amount of liability thereon, shall be fixed by the Common Council. The City shall pay the premiums, if any, upon said bonds. Any department or agency of the City may procure, with the approval of the Common Council, a blanket undertaking from any duly authorized corporate surety covering officers, clerks, and employees pursuant to Section 11 of the Public Officers Law.
No officer of the City or other person shall have power or authority to make any purchase on behalf of, or on the credit of, the City or to contract any debts or liabilities against the City, unless authorized to do so by, or in pursuance of, the provisions of this Charter or general law, and no account, claim, or demand of any kind shall be allowed or paid unless so authorized.
Boards and commissions shall set their meeting schedules at the start of each calendar year and submit them to the City Clerk for publication and notification. All meetings of the various boards and commissions shall be held at such times as may be agreed upon by majority vote of its members, but in no case shall any such meeting commence sooner than 4:00 p.m., or after 8:00 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays, except for special meetings which may be called as provided in this Charter. The established meeting time can only be changed by a majority vote of the board or commission members.
The Chair of every board and commission shall file an annual report with the Common Council on or before the 31st day of December in each year.
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Discussion in 'Football Forum' started by jojojo, Jul 2, 2018.
What did Gareth Bale do there?
Did Bale just do that sign at the athletico crowd?
Imagine giving Bale that much space.
It is a computer that draws the line for offside. Did you not see them showing the graphics in the first half some 10 minutes after Griezmann goal?
No, I didn't. Could've done that again to settle it. I'm still sure that a human decides when the ball is passed which will have an impact in very tight calls.
I can already hear Simeone bitching about the referee in his press conference.
Very impressive by Madrid to come back from the dead to looking like a very good team, Vinicius starting completely changed the direction of their season.
Great timing for it to happen too just before the Champions League restarts. Still don't think they'll win it but now I don't see them having any problem to go past Ajax.
Solari's pragmatism paying off... only the 2nd time RM beat Atléti in the league since the latter broke their derbi curse back in 2013.
Are there any other 18 year old players who are starters at big clubs? Maybe there is some but it would be quite surprising.
Is he actually 18? Looks 30!
I still don't know why Lopetegui didn't give him more chances.
Feels like that late win at Betis with the Ceballos FK has changed Madrid's season. Picked up form for the CL as per usual although I don't expect them to win it.
Back comfortably in the top 4 which was looking dodgy a few weeks back. Atletico's title bid is pretty much over. Season that has never really got going for them.
Never believed this comeback under Solari.
The whole team looks very concetrated at the moment, ready for every game.
First place is still unrealistic for me, but hopefully the Copa at least.
I thought they'll show it again for Morata but didn't happen. I don't like VAR the way it is right now. Helps with offside calls but in game referee decisions can not be challenged by teams. Should be like tennis.
Think Real were a bit lucky today. The penalty was probably just outside the box and Morata's disallowed goal was difficult to call. Fair play to Solari for turning it around though.
Solari is probably the first coach that has applied meritocracy at Madrid since Mourinho, and before Mourinho since Capello.
I mean, using Reguilon over Marcelo, Vinicius and Lucas over Isco and Bale, Llorente when needed etc. He took very hard decisions and showed great personality in all of them.
Think it was a foul on Vini before Griezmann's goal too.
Griezmann must be loving his decision right now. Loving it.
Edit: Goal chalked off by VAR. Point would still be good from this.
I was just going to say it has been disallowed.
Class goal to be fair.
When Bales' on form he's got the second best left foot in football,after Messi ofcourse.
Rayo lose anyway in 95th minute.
Rubi survives for another week.
Huesca 2 up at Girona at half time....they couldn't could they?
Reminds me of I think Crotone in Seria A a few years back who were dead and buried for most of the season and then won 5 of their last 7 and stayed up.
I think Lopetegui had a very definite idea of how to play with a lot of passing, very much mirroring the strength of the Spanish national team he had managed. In that scheme, players like Isco and Asensio had a much bigger role. Vinicius was not only young and raw, but probably too direct for his liking.
Hopefully Bilbao get a result tonight. Would like them to stay up and have a good title race, not another Barca procession.
Few difficult choices for Valverde with Messi and Dembele maybe not 100% fit and a huge run of games at the end of the month for Barca, CL away game against Lyon on 19th, away league game at Seville on 23rd then back to back away Classicos, firstly in the cup on 27th then the league game on 02/03.
That is a seriously brutal run of fixtures that could decide their season. If they play Messi today and get's more seriously injured or bring Dembele back to fast could derail the season. Valverde got things right so far but big test for him coming up.
Already getting your excuses ready. Really convenient.
Getting excuses ready for what? For Messi failing? That is only in your imagination, I'm afraid.
I'm a Barça fan and my first priority is for the team to achieve success. I love Messi, he is my favorite player, but I would not prioritize his success or his status over that of the team. No true fan would.
It doesn't strike you as completely illogical that Barça fans would be creating excuses for Messi? I know it seems counterintuitive at first, but think about it. No one has a bigger interest in Barça's success than Barça fans, right? This is logical. So if Messi is the reason for our "failures," why would we exempt him from criticism? This doesn't make sense as we'd be doing the opposite - holding him accountable for Barça not having a couple more Champions League trophies in our cabinet.
What is also funny is the idea that other fans know more about Barça's strategy and importance of certain players than Barça fans who watch every match.
Valverde is also not average. The Barca fanbase is average, if anything. Actually below average: appaling is the fitting word.
Man goes unbeaten 37 league games, wins the double, is in pole position in every competition again, several blowouts in Clasicos (3-0 in Bernabeu, 5-1 at home, even without Messi) and they think they have an average manager because of 1 loss when the entire team mentally switched off for 90 minutes after a 4-1 first leg result.
They think Suarez, the guy who is already Barca's top 5 top scorers of all time and will end up 2nd highest by the time he retires, is average as well because he is clumsy at times.
Bunch of teenage kids who started watching around 2009 earliest and think Barca must forever play like prime Xavi, Iniesta, Alves days.
Worst fanbase in the world bar none. There is no support for anyone whatsoever. Even booed one of their own legends, Luis Enrique, who won them the treble and double because of 1 average season. Imagine calling Ole names after he wins treble and double but then wins only the Cup in his third season.
I wouldn't go so far as to say the worst fanbase out there. I know we're not winning any sympathies, but that seems exaggerated.
When I started visiting football forums, it was clear people hated Barça fans because of the Mes que un club thing, the emphasis on our style of play and all that. It was always odd to me that a large number of people would share animosity toward a fanbase because of that. Now Valverde plays poor football but grinds out results and you wonder why we're not happy. For the same reason we used to be happy with tiki taka - because we want to see great football, not boring close wins against mid-table teams. If not for Messi, we'd be playing like Juventus ffs.
We are successful in absolute terms, but not so much in relative terms. We haven't challenged for the Champions League since 2015, so if we have the best squad in the world, what gives? That seems contradictory to me, that the best team in the world with a great manager cannot challenge for the biggest trophy. Not only that, but Valverde managed to get knocked out against Roma and dropped the undefeated league record conceding five to Levante.
Do you actually watch Barça play?
Valverde is barely an above average manager. He plays some of the most boring football a Barca team has played in nearly 15 years. Just dire football and he was far too pragmatic. He is better off with an Atletico type team that likes to sit back and grind out 1-0 games.
I think this season he has done a much better job playing the youth and he is quite good at making impact subs. However, despite the record last year in La Liga, nobody will be talking about that 2018 Barca squad several years from now, they played some dire football.
Yep. Pep never finished undefeated, but his teams will be talked about for a long time. No one, not even Barça fans, will be talking about Valverde's teams once he's gone. I actually hope this is Valverde's last season with us, so enough said. I just don't feel we can compete with the best.
I'm making that point not to make a narrative but to counter the people who come here on every Barcelona match day trying to build the narrative that Messi is playing next to a bunch of average players and carrying their squad to trophies.
I've been saying it here for years now, Barcelona's last problem is their squad. They have the players to do it, they don't have the tactics for it.
The reason why I give Messi such a hard time for Barcelona's tactical problems is because he's the whole damn system. That team is completely built around him in a way no other top team is built around a single player. The moment that changes is the moment the best squad in the world will actually play like the best team in the world imo.
Messi is absolutely not playing next to average players. I don't think that's the argument people are making. What's clear, though, is that when Messi is on the pitch, everything gravitates towards him. This is due to both the manager and the players. Of course, "give the ball to Leo" is the easiest tactic in football and, as we can see, it can win you a domestic double, more than one actually. Problem is, that tactic is exposed in the big Champions League games. I can see the look on Rijkaard's face even now, back in 2006-07 when his game plan consisted of begging Messi to score.
Pep's four years were different as he is the only one who created a real team around Messi, while the others just used Messi as the entire system, as you say. But this is not Leo's fault. If anything, it's a compliment. I have not seen any other player influence a team so much and for such a long period, only Leo. As for the players, they are not average by any standards, but their mentality and way of playing doesn't help. They look for Messi too much, you can see it in their body language, the way they position themselves to receive and pass the ball, always wanting to find Leo. Messi is surrounded by world class players who do not play like they are world class, they all take a step back and wait for Messi to solve the game. This is why I don't think we can compete, because Leo can't beat everyone on his own.
Just look at Suarez's performance in the 5-1 win vs Madrid, and his performance in the 1-1 Copa game. Suarez is a great striker and he is capable of taking on responsibility and leading his team to a win, but he doesn't do that. Why? Because of the tactics that revolve around Messi and also because he suffers from the same thing as the rest of the team - they all defer to Messi. They know whetever they try, Messi can do it better and more effectively so they leave it to him, and in doing so the entire weight of the team is put on one player. The thing is, Messi is the only player capable of carrying this weight and he does it season after season. He is not one to shy away from taking on different roles and assuming responsibility, hence our domestic success. He essentially replaced Xavi and Iniesta by himself. The Champions League, on the other hand, is a lottery, it's much more difficult to win because one average game puts you out and we feel this every season. This season will be the same because I don't see anything on the pitch that tells me otherwise - they're all standing there watching Messi create our football again.
So, in conclusion, I would say it's both the tactics and the squad. And when I say squad, I don't mean the lack of quality in the players themselves, but rather their inability (or lack of will) to take on responsibility and step up when Messi is on the pitch. It's the same story every season.
Valverde is defensive for Barcelona standards. Generally speaking he's not particularly defense oriented. Barcelona have 60 goals in the league as of now, the second best attack has 37.
Valverde is a defensive coach who has Messi in his team.
"El Lega" has conquered your heart, or was the pepino?
The big trophy of the day has already been won, Leganes beat Rayo 2-0 and won the Pepino de Oro, here shown alongside the runners-up trophy the Pepino de Plato.
For anyone uncertain what that trophy is - a pepino is a Spanish cucumber, usually short and with a bumpy surface.
It's their president and fanbase etc! I just liked the story of how the club staggered it's way up the league and how hard they've fought to hang on.
In any case, Setien was quite catty about them after the match, so I feel obliged to be their defender. They do their best - which is basically what the Leganes manager said in reply.
Eh, I wanted a draw.
Anyway, I'm more concerned about the Bilbao vs Barça match. We are completely unpredictable this season.
Didn't play that strong a side, Jese actually started upfront for them who I forgot existed after his non-existant spells at Stoke and PSG. They were resting players for Valencia second leg whenever it is.
Leganes now about 6 points off top 6 which shows how crazy bottom half is.
2 defeats in 13 for Leganes, Pellegrino doing well there.
Sevilla slumping a bit now, that 4th place might open up with Valencia and Real Sociedad improving a lot last 6 weeks.
Eibar 2-0 now. They were near bottom 3 few weeks back, now 6th.
He's not a bad manager tbh, had a great season with Alaves. Just a bit defensive minded and that obviously wasnt a good fit at Southampton.
If this result holds six point difference between 6th and 15th.
Indeed 9 points between europa qualification and 18th and relegation.
Premier league difference is 26 points between 6th and 18th.
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Growing 2-3' tall, they are excellent for perennial borders, corners and for cut flowers. The foliage is dense and compact with deep green, lance-shaped leaves with prominent veins. Butterflies love them!
Phlox prosper in a cool sunny climate, well-watered, in rich sweet soil. In much of the country, they will thrive in full sun, although partial shade is fine, as long as the plants receive at least 6 hours of direct sun.
In the afternoon, the flowers are deliciously fragrant...simply surreal and a hummingbird delight.
Growing 2-4' tall, they are excellent for perennial borders, corners and for cut flowers. The foliage is dense and compact with deep green, lance-shaped leaves with prominent veins. Butterflies love them!
Grenadine Dream’ produces fragrant tubular reddish-purple flowers (each to 1/2” diameter) in densely packed large terminal clusters (each to 8-10’ long) over a long July to October bloom period. Each individual flower has a long corolla tube and five flat petal-like lobes. This is a compact, upright, conical perennial that typically grows in a clump to 15-20" tall and to 8-10" wide on stiff stems clad with narrow, opposite, pointed, elliptic, deep green leaves (to 4” long).
Phlox paniculata 'Laura' is one of the most impressive Tall Phlox on the market today. The long blooming flowers are lavender-purple with darker eyes and have a striking white star that comes out from the center. Butterflies and hummingbirds love it! The foliage is highly resistant to mildew.
In the afternoon, the flowers are deliciously fragrant...simply surreal and a hummingbird delight. For us, Phlox 'Peppermint Twist' gets only a small amount of powdery mildew in damp summers.
Individual flowers are densely arranged in large, terminal, pyramidal clusters (panicles to 6-9" long) atop stiff, upright stems which seldom need staking. Long mid to late summer bloom sometimes extends into early fall. Narrow, opposite, pointed, lance-shaped leaves (to 5" long). Good fresh cut flower.
This midsized selection produces large clusters of fragrant flowers, in an exotic blend of ivory, soft pink and creamy yellow. Remove faded flowers to encourage more buds to form.
. From spring into early summer, the leaves are deep green with prominent, sunny yellow margins. As the season progresses, the margins lighten to creamy yellow.
An easy to plant to succeed with. Long blooming period.
Dwarf size makes this an ideal plant for the front of the border or in containers. Long flowering from mid-to-late summer.
Lavender/pink flowers with a white eye above glossy bright green foliage that stays mildew-free all season.
Broad, dark green, thick foliage stays beautiful all season. Each member of the Fashionably Early series has exceptional mildew resistance, thick leathery leaves, and a stoloniferous habit (as opposed to the tightly clumping P. paniculata types).
Pale lavender flowers with a lavender pink eye appear from early summer well into midsummer with some rebloom in fall. Narrow, spiky, dark green foliage stays beautiful all season. Each member of the Fashionably Early series has exceptional mildew resistance, thick leathery leaves, and a stoloniferous habit (as opposed to the tightly clumping P. paniculata types).
EARLY PINK DARK EYE™ is the perfect choice for retailers looking for early color on neatly compact plants and gardeners wanting color in the garden earlier in the season.
This new Hybrid Phlox blooms earlier than the typical Tall Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata), starting about 2-3 weeks earlier than the typical Phlox. ‘Fashionably Early Princess’ is the very first of the series to bloom. This is a taller variety of Hybrid Phlox that will work best for the middle to back of the border.
The notched, upturned petals look like tiny pinwheels, especially with movement from the wind. This groundcover Phlox grows lower to the ground, spreads slowly, and is more restrained that varieties like ‘Purple Beauty’ or ‘Blue Emerald’. Perfect for rock gardens or the front of the border. From Jim Ault at Chicagoland Grows®.
oliage is nicely complemented by small pinkish-white, five-petaled flowers that bloom in dense, flat, rounded, spiraea-like clusters (corymbs) in late spring. Plants in this genus exhibit exfoliating bark on mature branches. The bark peels in strips to reveal several layers of reddish to light brown inner bark, hence the common name.
Amber Jubilee® is distinct from purple-foliaged ninebarks. Its foliage is an improvement over long-time cultivar Dart’s Gold. Amber Jubilee® will be effective as a medium shrub in the landscape, whether massed or planted in small groupings.
In spring, clusters of small pinkish white flowers offer a bright contrast against the dark foliage. Plants grow just 3-4ft tall and wide at maturity, which make them a good choice for tucking in mixed borders and foundation plantings.
An award winning variety of our native Obedient Plant, 'Crystal Peak White' blooms in mid-summer with numerous bright white flower spikes that attract lots of pollinators.
Plants typically grow to 24-30" tall on stiff, square stems clad with narrow, lance-shaped, sharp-toothed leaves (to 3-5” long). Rhizomes are very short and plants do not spread. Dense spikes (8-10" long) of pure white, tubular, two-lipped, snapdragon-like flowers bloom in summer. Flowers bloom on each spike from bottom to top.
The unusual coning habit tends to modify growth rate and shape and to produce a broad, spreading pyramid.
The densely arranged, slightly ascending branches of this dark green, flat-topped, dwarf nest spruce will add classy elegance to any garden. Plants break bud and develop bright green new growth earlier in spring than other nest types. Use the irregularly rounded, slow-growing, spreading plant as a low garden accent.
Longer, flatter needles and a slightly more open habit distinguish 'Gregoryana Parsonsii' from 'Gregoryana'.
A dwarf needled evergreen shrub which has a dense, flat, globose, bun or cushion-like habit. New growth needles are light green, turning to a glossy, dark green with age. Typically grows slowly (3" per year) to 12" tall and 18-24" wide, but may occasionally reach 2' tall and 2-3' wide. A sport of Picea abies 'Nidiformis' (bird's nest spruce).
It features size spreading, horizontal to slightly ascending branches which form a dense, broad-rounded, shrubby flattened globe. Thin dark gray needles become 3/4” long. In the spring the fresh young buds add interest to this plants.
The densely arranged of this dark green, rounded-topped, dwarf nest spruce will add classy elegance to any garden. Plants break bud and develop bright green new growth earlier in spring than other nest types. Use the irregularly rounded, slow-growing, spreading plant as a low garden accent.
Prefers full sun in well-drained soil. 1' tall x 2' wide in 10 years. Hardy to -50 degrees. USDA zone 2.
Its wide, conical shape resembles the well-known Alberta Spruce for which it is a superior alternative. Prefers full sun in well-drained soil. 1' tall x 1' wide in 10 years. Hardy to -50 degrees. USDA zone 2.
It is distinguished from the species by having (1) smaller size with slower growth rate, (2) denser habit, (3) brighter green to blue-green needles and (4) slightly shorter cones.
Scaly, dark brown bark. Glossy, dark green needles (to 1" long) have white stomatal bands underneath lending a silvery, bicolored effect. Egg-shaped cones (to 2" long) are dark purple when young, but mature to a reddish brown.
DWARF. A flat topped, round bush of very dense habit. The needles are an exceptional glaucous blue. In a planting, this conifer becomes the focal point!
If the central leader is removed, the plant will grow wider than tall, until a new leader if formed. It is extensively used as a specimen in the landscape and could be grown in a container.
'Mops' is a dwarf cultivar with a dense rounded form that typically matures over time to 3' tall with a similar spread, but is very slow-growing (2-4" per year) and is commonly seen as a 1-2' tall plant. Features medium to dark green needles (1-2" long) in bundles of two.
Another popular true dwarf selection (to 3' tall), this cultivar forms a dark green, dense mound and won't outgrow its planting space. Similar true compact clones include: 'Paul's Dwarf','Sherwood Compact', 'Valley Cushion' and 'White Bud'.
Valley Cushion’ is a dwarf cultivar with a globose form that typically matures to only 2-3’ tall and as wide over the first 10 years, but is very slow-growing (2-3” per year) and is commonly seen as a 1-2’ tall plant. Features unusually short, medium green needles (to 1” long) in bundles of two.
Bergman Japanese White Pine will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 6 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 5 feet from the ground. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live to a ripe old age of 120 years or more; think of this as a heritage tree for future generations!
Short, soft blue-green needles have considerable twisting; overall a very pleasing selection for a small landscape. Prefers full sun in well-drained soil. 2.5' tall x 3' wide in 10 years. Hardy to -40 degrees. USDA zone 3.
The signature ornamental feature of this huge tree is its brown bark which exfoliates in irregular pieces to reveal creamy white inner bark. Mature trees typically display mottled white bark that facilitates identification from great distances. The large 3-5 lobed medium to dark green leaves (4-10” wide) have coarse marginal teeth.
Balloon flower is a clump-forming perennial which is so named because its flower buds puff up like balloons before bursting open into outward to upward facing, bell-shaped flowers with five pointed lobes. Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade.
Burgundy red. Excellent fresh or for preserves, soft and sweet. Bears fruit the second season after planting.
A self fruitful variety that ripens in mid September. From the Cornell Research Station in New York.
This heavy-producing variety yields crops of medium to large plums with reddish bronze skin and juicy yellow flesh that's as sweet as candy.
High quality yellow plum. Fruit is small to medium. Sweet and juicy. Excellent for fresh eating and jams. Vigorous grower.
A very attractive red plum with a golden blush. Sweet, juicy, yellow flesh with excellent quality.
The fruit is reddish bronze and the tree is a moderately vigorous and a heavy bearer of fruit. . One of the best pollinators.
'Waneta', produces well the first season after planting, and is one of the best market plums. Its fruit is large, red, sweet, juicy and of good quality. Now you can enjoy large, red-skinned, yellow-fleshed plums earlier in summer than ever before.
Red - Excellent for jams, jellies, canning and sauces. Early bearing cross that yields fruit the second year after planting.
Red-purple. This dwarf cherry plum from Minnesota is hardy and resistant to disease and insects. Deep red flesh is thick, sweet and smooth textured.
Flowers are quite showy, but are usually hidden by the umbrella-like leaves. Each flower gives way to an edible, fleshy, maroon purple fruit (mayapple) which may be used to make preserves and jellies. Leaves and roots are poisonous, however.
Typically grows in a mound to 1-3' tall on unbranched stems. Small, bell-shaped, greenish yellow flowers (usually in pairs) on short pedicels dangle in spring from the leaf axils along and underneath the arching stems.
This is an evergreen fern that grows in creeping clumps to 10” tall with erect to arching, leathery, oblong-lanceolate to triangular, deeply-cut, pinnately lobed fronds.
Needs considerable moisture to succeed. Prefers moist, compost-rich soil.Will tolerate full sun if the soil is not too dry. Foliage is the same color as 'Guinevere' but with flowers like 'Garryade Crimson'.
P. beesiana is cultivated for its attractive flowers, which range from dark-red, through reddish-purple, to purple, and are produced from April to June. The scapes (flower stalks) are 20–35 cm long, elongating to 50 cm when in fruit and are sometimes covered with a white, meal-like powder on the nodes. Each scape bears 2–4 umbels, each consisting of 8–16 flowers.
Perfect for a moist rock garden or in light shade beside a stream or pond. Best in cool summer regions.
he most important difference between the two is the way the flowers are arranged on the top of the stem. Unlike the false oxlip in the true oxlip the umbel drops to one side (see the second image down on the right). Flowers from April to late May.
Blooms are well above the foliage and numerous for an excellent show. They are shaped a bit like a trumpet or perhaps a phlox in outline with five notched, deep rose-pink, petals to a bloom. As they age, each bloom will fade in color to a pale pastel pink that is very long lasting. There will be both fresh and faded flowers in a drift providing visual color variation.
The leaves are smooth, oval & mid-green in rosettes. Tolerates full sun, but prefers shade/semi-shade. Rich loam is best - top dress with compost occasionally.
Bright, salverform, late spring flowers bloom in tightly-clustered tiered whorls (3 to 6 per stem) on leafless stems typically rising to 18-24" tall from basal rosettes of ovate to lanceolate, medium green leaves. Flower colors are often in the salmon-apricot to terra cotta range, but are variable and include cream, rose, red, lavender and purple.
Prunus tenella is a deciduous Shrub growing to 0.8 m (2ft 7in) by 1.5 m (5ft). It is hardy to zone 2. It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen from Jul to August. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects.
Fruit is relished by many songbirds. Nesting cover for a few species of songbirds.
Prunnus x cistena is a hybrid cross between P.pumila and P.cerasifera Atropurpurea. It is a deciduous shrub growing from 7 to 10 feet in height, with a lesser spread. The foliage is an intense red-purple and keeps its color over the summer.
The blooms are followed by interesting, one-inchdiameter, flattened, tan "wafers" which will persist on the tree if not first consumed by wildlife. In the past, this bitter fruit was used as a substitute for hops in brewing beer.
Dark Vader Lungwort features delicate clusters of purple bell-shaped flowers at the ends of the stems from mid to late spring. It's attractive narrow leaves remain dark green in color with distinctive silver spots throughout the season.
Large pink flowers fade to blue over mildew resistant foliage. Nice mounding habit. The wavy, spear-shaped leaves are dark green, infused with melting silver.
The flowers of 'Silver Bouquet' will move to a dark purple in late spring and the shimmering silver foliage will last well into autumn. Partial shade is recommended for 'Silver Bouquet' to gain its full color potential.
This outstanding British variety forms a good-sized clump of large, bright green leaves that are heavily margined in creamy-white. Clusters of coral-pink flowers appear in early spring, among the earliest to bloom. Because of the large amount of white in the leaves, choose a site that is protected from hot afternoon sun.
A completely open flower is almost ten centimetres in diameter. The flower opens only for a short time during the late morning, as the spring sun spreads its warmth. Unlike other pasque flowers, spring pasque flower offers nectar as a reward to pollinators. The ripening achene grows a long, feathery flying hair and the seed can float on the wind for a long time.
Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prefers rich, humusy soils. Best in cool, moist climates.
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CRIMPABLE COAXIAL CONNECTOR Filed Jan. 5, 1965 s Sheets-Sheet [NVlLV/ORS Min-mm. Fnauug oKup Rania-r STANLEY STULL BY 4. 2; M i/M United States Patent 3,297,979 CRIMPABLE COAXIAL CONNECTOR Michael F. OKeefe and Robert S. Stull, Mechanicsburg, Pa., assignors to AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, Pa. Filed Jan. 5, 1965, Ser. No. 423,501 11 (Ilaims. (Cl. 339177) This invention relates to an improve-d coaxial connector which features a simultaneous connection of electrical paths in a single crimping operation and is a continuationin-part of our application S.N. 325,222 filed November 21, 1963, now abandoned.
The expanding use of coaxial cable to answer the needs of the communications industry has created a distinct problem with respect to 'both connector construction and installation. The basis of the problem is tied to the construction of the coaxial cable wherein a central conductor is surrounded by a relatively soft dielectrical insulating material in turn surrounded by an outer conductor of thin metallic tubing or woven wire braid usually covered over by a rubber sheath. The outer conductor being of a relatively large diameter does not lend itself to the prior art practice of soldering, since the soldering operation must be carried substantially around the periphery of the outer conductor to assure a contact path of sufficient area. On the other hand, standard crimping techniques have caused difficulties with respect to inward disposition of the outer conductor resulting in breakage and in a displacement relative to the inner conductor which makes for signal reflection and energy loss incident thereto.
The common approach offered to solve the foregoing problems has been to provide a relatively complicated assembly of supporting and positioning metallic members and a number of dielectric inserts, gaskets, seals and the like, to accomplish a satisfactory mechanical connection having good electrical characteristics. As one result, the connectors of the prior art have a very substantial number of individual pieces which must be manufactured to close tolerances and assembled with considerable care. Another result of prior art connector constructions has been to make the installation of a coaxial connector sufficiently tedious to preclude the use of nonskilled or even semiskilled labor.
It is one object of the present invention to provide a coaxial connector of few and simple components adaptable for low cost manufacture and rapid assembly.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a simple and inexpensive coaxial connecter construction including features permitting an assembly of parts without need for special tooling.
It is another object of the invention to provide an improved coaxial connector construction including features facilitating installation on coaxial cable.
It is yet another object of the invention to provide a coaxial connector including features permit-ting the installation of the connector to be accomplished by a series of simultaneously applied crimps.
It is still a further object of the invention to provide a coaxial connector having improved mechanical and electrical characteristics in conjunction with a novel push-on collar construction.
The connector of the invention accomplishes the foregoing objectives through the use of a one-piece metallic shell housing two dielectric inserts, which are locked therein by the interior configuration of the shell and which in turn support and lock a central hollow contact pin member or members in a proper coaxial relationship and against longitudinal float. The rear portion of the shell is arranged to receive a ferrule cri-mped thereagainst to provide a connection with the outer conductor of coaxial cable and a further crimp to provide mechanical ice support to the cable positioned from the end of the sleeve extension. The interior of the rear dielectric insert is such as to receive the stripped portions of a cable and guide such into the interior of the insert. The forward exterior portion of the shell is threaded to receive a collar adaptable to lock the connector to a complementary mating connector member not shown. The arrangement of the crimping sleeve ferrule and central pin member or members is such that total length is minimized to permit a simultaneous application of the three crimps involved. Additionally, a push-on accessory sleeve is taught as an alteration to the collar.
FIGURE 8 is a perspective partially sectioned, of the device of FIGURE 7 in use.
Referring now to FIGURE 1, there is shown the connector 2.0 of the invention, attached to a coaxial cable 10. The connector 20 is used with a complementary half, not shown, adapted to receive the central pin member and threading the connector collar in a standard fashion. The complementary connector half may represent a socket mounted on the chassis of electronic equpiment or may represent a connector half joined to a further coaxial cable similar to 10.
The coaxial cable 10 is typical of a number of cables utilized to carry communication signals between points such as between the antenna and first stage of UHF television equipment. In certain uses of coaxial cable, the outer conductor serves as a shielding means to protect signals carried on the inner conductor and in other uses the outer and inner conductor serve to channel signal energy transferred in higher frequency modes. The typical construction of coaxial cable such as 10, includes an outer and protective insulating sheath 12, and outer conductor 14- of metallic braid or thin metallic tubing, a dielectric or insulating spacer 16 and a central conductor 1-8. One frequently employed cable construction features a polyvinyl chloride protective sheath, a braided copper outer conductor, a polyvinyl chloride or Teflon dielectric spacer and a stranded copper center conductor. -In connecting cables such as 10, it is important that the connection achieves a mechanical integrity exceeding or at least approaching that of the: cable itself, and it is preferable for the connector to provide a transmission path having characteristics similar to that of the cable so as to preclude signal degradation.
The connector 20 of the invention includes features which assure that the above mentioned objectives are achieved with respect to installation on cable such as 10. Connector 20 is comprised of but six components, including a housing 22 housing a forward dielectric insert 38, a rear dielectric insert 46, a central conductive pin member 60, a ferrule 72 and a locking collar 80, shown in FIGURE 1 as slipped up on the housing.
This six component assembly compares quite favorably with prior art devices for the same function including ten or more components. In use, as will become more apparent hereinafter, the connector 28 is installed on a suitably prepared cable with a series of three crimps which may be performed simultaneously if desired, but in any event do not require steps of threading, soldering or special preparation of the cable to be connected, other than a simple stripping procedure.
The housing 22 is in essence, a metallic shell including a body portion 24, having a forward flange portion 26, externally threaded as indicated, and an internal forward bore 28 of a slight inward taper of angle A adapted to accommodate dielectric inserts 38 and 46. On the front face of 22, as best shown in FIGURE 3, are a pair of projections 23, adapted to fit in correspond ing projections disposed around the periphery of the connector half into which 26 is plugged. The projections 23 serve to key the connector against rotation relative thereto once the connector is plugged in and the collar thereof threaded down. This operates to prevent cable twist from causing the connector to be accidentally unthreaded. At the opposite end of 22 from the opening of bore 28, is a tapered internal portion 30, which serves as a transition between the bore 28 and the interior of a housing crimping sleeve 32, such interior being shown as bore 34.
The exterior of crimping sleeve 32 includes a series of annular slots or grooves 36 which serve to cooperate with the braid 14 as it is driven aginst 32 during the crimping operation. The point of juncture of the outside surfaces of 32 and of 22 forms a step shown as 31, against which the end of braid 14 is preferably placed during installation of 20 on cable 10 and also against which ferrule 72 is positioned.
Ferrule 72 has a precrimp configuration as indicated in FIGURE 2, and a postcrimp configuration as indicated in FIGURE 1. As can be seen, ferrule 72 includes a reduced diameter rearward portion 74 and a slightly larger forward portion 76, both of substantially the same metal thickness. The interior bore 79 of portion 74 has.a .precrimp configuration slightly larger than the normal configuration of cable 10, to permit the ferrule to be easily worked over the cable during the installation procedure to be hereinafter described. The interior bore 79 is sufiiciently close to the diameter of cable 10, such that the crimp applied to portion 74 will lightly press the ferrule interior surface against the cable sheath 12 to partially seal the connector against entry of contaminants and to support the cable such that pulling or twisting movements will not be transferred to the interior portions of the connector to cause separation or damage to the components therein. The forward portion 76 of ferrule 72 has an interior bore 78 facilitating the installation procedures wherein the ferrule is easily slipped up over the braid and over the core crimping sleeve 32. At the same time portim 76 is held to a configuration such that the ferrule material need not be excessively worked in order to tightlyclinch braid 14 against 32.
It is preferred that the crimps applied to ferrule 72 leave the ends turned up as shown in FIGURE 2, the rear forming a beveled entry for the cable to prevent abrasion thereto and the forward end tapering up to the transistion step 31 and the outer diameter of core body 22, to prevent the inner face of collar 80 from hanging up against 31 during use. The standard crimp is preferred for each of the portions 74 and 76, although a six-sided or hex crimp may be employed.
Collar 80 is internally threaded as at 82 to cooperate with the threading on flange 26 and includes a nonthreaded portion 84 of a length approximating the length of the threading on flange 26 to permit the collar to be fully drawn up on the mating connector half which includes complementary threading. An interior flange 86 is provided at the end of collar 80, rounded or radiused as at 87 to cooperate with a complementary rounded face 27 on flange 26 as the collar is threaded forward onto the mating connector half.
Fitted within bore 28 of body portion 24 is the forward dielectric insert 38, which is substantially cylindrical to include a relatively small bore 40 axially disposed therein. A rear insert 46 is provided having an outer diameter in its forward portion approximating a rear diameter of bore 28, and adjoining such portion, a tapered portion 47 adapted to fit against the tapered portion 30, as shown in FIGURE 2. Extending from the forward portion of 46 is a relatively thin cylindrical sleeve 52 having an exterior diameter forming a surface 53 hearing against the interior bore 34 of 32, and an interior surface 54 of a diameter very slightly larger than the diameter of the dielectric spacer 16 of cable 10. Opposite sleeve 52, or in the forward inner portion of 46, is a taper which ranges from the diameter of the interior surface 54 down to the diameter of the center conductor 18, as best shown in FIGURE 2. At the end of the taper 5% is a relieved portion 48 forming acavity adapted to receive a portion of the central pin member. Important functional advantages of 50, with respect to connector installation, will be pointed out hereinafter.
The two dielectric inserts fit together to captivate and position a central conductive pin member through a rear flange 62 thereof fitted within the relieved portion 48 of insert 46. Pin member 60 includes a cylindrical body having approximately half its length supported against, transverse movement by the bearing contact with bore 40 of insert 38. The pin is hollowed out by a bore therethrough shown as 68 to include, proximate the flange 62, an entry port for the center conductor 18 and at the opposite end an inspection port 70 to permit the center conductor to be viewed when properly inserted. In practice, a crimp of the type shown as 66 is applied near the end of the pin member 60. The particular crimp applied may be a standard 0 crimp. Alternatively, the crimp applied to pin 60, as well as the crimp supplied to ferrule 72, may be as described in US. Patent 3,217,519 entitled, Coaxial Crimping Tool, to Henry W. Demler, which application describes a tool for simultaneously applying at least three erimps of the type preferred for the connector of the invention.
One of the principal features of the connector of the invention relates to its ease of assembly. The assembly technique can be visualized from FIGURE 3, wherein as a first step the dielectric insert 46 is placed within housing 22 and forced down into a position with its tapered rearward face 47 seated against the interior tapered face 30, and with the rear sleeve portions 52 fitted within and against bore 34 of sleeve 32. The tapered face 30 greatly assists in guiding insert 46 into the proper position and further assists in permitting the insert to be properly seated. In a typical example the taper 30 is substantially 4-5 degrees as measured from the longitudinal center axis of the connector assembly.
The next step of assembly comprises inserting pin 60 within insert 38 and force-fitting insert 38 carrying the pin into bore 28 to trap the flange 62 of the pin against the face of the recessed portion 48. The taper of angle A of bore 28 serves to lock the insert and thereby pin 60 against withdrawal. In an actual embodiment the dielectric insert 38 and an outside diameter of 0.440 inch and the angle A was approximately .25 degree. With insert 38 being of polypropylene in the above example, a thirty-five to fifty pound pull-out force was required to withdraw the pin and insert from the connector housing 22, such force being far higher than normal operating forces arising during use of the connector. The only remaining step of assembly is to place collar on housing 22 fitting its threading 82 onto the threading of flange 26. In this form then, the connector of the invention is ready for use and comprises only two loose pieces including the ferrule 72.
Installation procedures require that the cable be stripped in the manner indicated in FIGURE 3. Thereafter, collar 80 and ferrule 72 are placed on the cable and backed off, and the dielectric spacer 16 and center conductor 18 are worked within the connector crimp sleeve 32, the conductor 18 being inserted within pin 60. The metallic braid 14 is worked up over the outside of crimping sleeve 32 and the ferrule brought forward to the position shown in FIGURE 2. During installation the internal taper 50 greatly assists in guiding the center conductor 18 into the pin 60. This overcomes one of the most frequent causes of assembly installation delay and, connector failure; namely, that one of the strands of the center conductor will be left out of the central pin member and, thus upon full insertion become jammed up at the entry point of the pin. This would cause in other connectors, a short and/or an electrical discontinuity. With the connector of the invention the strands are guided into the proper position. The rearward dielectric sleeve 52 of insert 46 also serves to prevent any single strand of braid 14 from being carried forward to short against center conductor 18.
Following the simple installation above outlined the connector may then be crimped, the three crimps shown in FIGURE 1 being applied simultaneously as indicated in the Demler application above identified.
Utilizing the teachings of the above invention, a wide variety of coaxial connector sizes can be made by holding the forward dimensions of the connector and reducing the dimensions of the sleeve 32 and the internal dimensions of dielectric insert 46 to accommodate the smaller wire.
Referring now to FIGURES 4, 5 and 6, there is shown a connector 120 attached to a shielded cable 1th] and adapted for use in terminating the cable with a complementary connector half, not shown. Cable 100 includes an outer sheath of protective insulating material 112, an outer conductor 114 usually of metallic braid or thin metallic tubing, an inner dielectric sheath 116 and a pair of spaced inner conductors 118 and 119.
The connector 120 is substantially identical in configuration to that of FIGURES 1-3 relative to the housing portion 122, ferrule 172 and collar 180. The crim-p of the ferrule to the rear portion of sleeve 122 is also substantially identical as that heretofore described. The interior bores of housing 122, shown as 128 for the forward bore and 153 for the rear bore are similar in configuration to those described with respect to the embodiments of FIGURE 1. There is included a transition between such bores shown as 130, which serves to aid assembly of the dielectric inserts and pin members within the housing and to lock such against movement relative to housing axially to the right of the drawing as shown in FIGURE 5. Angle B, which represents the inward taper of bore 128 is, like angle A of the previous embodiment, adapted to lock the inserts and pin members in position against displacement axially to the left of the drawing.
The insert and pin assembly is comprised of :a first insert 146 of dielectric material including a forward portion of a diameter adapted to be fitted within bore 128 and integral therewith a sleeve portion 152 of reduced diameter adapted to fit within bore 153. The interior bore of insert 146 is substantially constant and of la diameter approximately that of the insulating sheath 116 of the cable. A transition portion 147 on the outer surface of 146 is adapted to mate with the transition 130 of the housing and the forward face of insert 146 includes a pair of recesses shown as 148 and 149, which have a forward portion of constant diameter and limited depth to receive end portions of pin members and then a further and flaring portion extending to the rear of the insert. The recesses have an outer dimension corresponding with the 6 rear bore of the insert and an inner dimension defined by a tapered integral center portion of the insert shown as 150. The surfaces of the recesses operate to guide the conductors 118 and 119 into the connector in members.
Disposed forwardly of insert 146 is a further insert 133 having an outer surface adapted to be wedge-fitted within the bore 123 in the forward portion thereof and center bores and 1 11, adapted to accommodate and support pin members 1&1? and 1711 fitted therein. With 138 in position a pin flange portion, shown as 162 relative to pin 160, is entrapped between the rear face of insert 138 and the forward face of the first portion of the recesses 148 and 149. Thus positioned the pin members are adapted to receive the center conductors 118 and 119 of the cable. During installation of the cable to the connect-or the rear surfaces such as 151 operate to guide the center conductors into the pin members. The center conductors extend forwardly through a bore such as 161 in pin 161 and are terminated to the pin members by a crimp in the manner described with respect to the embodiment of FIGURE 2.
The embodiment of FIGURES 4-6 again greatly facilitates assembly to result in a product which is on the average of better quality than those heretofore available and is less expensive to manufacture.
FIGURES 7 and 8 show an alternative collar construction adapted to be pushed on and pulled off to mechanically and electrically join or part the connector of the invention relative to its receptacle. The cable 209 is terminated by a connector housing 12@ with components as above described except for collar 180, which may be replaced by a collar 202 adapted for axial engagement rather than threading. The collar 2fl2 includes an inner bore 2414 having at the rear several threads adapted to engage the threads of 122 and forwardly thereof a slight inwardly projecting flange 2116 of a diameter to limit axial engagement of 2112 on 1211. The forward end of 202 includes a number of resilient spring fingers 208 biased inwardly to a diameter to frictionally engage the outer threads 2114 of a receptacle 212 as shown in FIGURE 8.
The leading edge of fingers 2113 is beveled as at 210 to guide the fingers over the receptacle threading and the fingers are made of a length to contact at least three or more of the threads. The inner bore of 2112 is of a diameter slightly greater than the maximum diameter of 212 and is reduced in effective diameter progressively by the bias of the fingers to develop a contact pattern as shown by the dotted lines in FliGURE 8. This feature has been found to provide a pull-off force which is substantial and yet is maintained throughout a large number of engagements.
Since the collar in effect mechanically seizes on the threading and itself is threaded onto the housing 122, the connector may be pushed on and pulled off or pushed on and threaded olf, making the assembly more flexible in the uses. If desired the collar may be permanently attached to the housing 122 by staking as at 216 applied to points over the housing threading.
Changes in construction will occur to those skilled in the art and various apparently different modifications and embodiments may be made without departing from the scope of the invention. The matter set forth in the foregoing description and accompanying drawings is offered by way of illustration only. The actual scope of the invention is intended to be defined in the following claims when viewed in their proper perspective against the prior art.
1. A coaxial connector comprising a metallic sleeve having a forward portion carrying a first dielectric insert and a rearward portion carrying a second dielectric insert, the first dielectric insert carrying a hollow conductive pin member having a flange disposed against an inner transverse surface of said first insert, the second insert including a relieved portion adapted to receive the volume of said flange, the sleeve including an inner surface tapering inwardly in the sleeve forward portion to lock said first insert and thereby said second insert and said pin member against withdrawal forces.
2. The connector of claim 1, wherein said second insert includes an interior surface tapering inwardly from the sleeve rearward portion toward the forward portion with surface material overlapping said flange, the said surface serving to guide a coaxial cable inner conductor into said pin member during connector installation.
3. The connector of claim 2, wherein said sleeve includes a further interior surface tapering outwardly toward said forward portion and said second dielectric insert includes an exterior surface of a complementary taper such that the second dielectric insert nests within said further sleeve surface.
4. The connector of claim 3, wherein the first and second dielectric inserts extend to cover the entire interior surfaces of said sleeve.
5. A connector for shielded cable of the type having an inner conductor surrounded by dielectric material in turn surrounded by an outer conductor, the connector comprising in combination an outer metallic sleeve having a forward portion adapted to support a locking collar and a rearward portion adapted to be fitted over the cable dielectric and beneath the cable outer conductor, a ferrule member adapted to be fitted over the sleeve rearward portion and cable outer conductor and be crimped inwardly thereagainst to common said sleeve electrically with said outer conductor, the interior of the forward portion of said metallic sleeve including a bore tapering from a maximum diameter at an inner portion of the sleeve forward portion to a minimum diameter at the forward end of said sleeve, a dielectric insert carrying an inner conductive pin member adapted to receive the cable inner conductor and be crimped thereagainst, the said insert adapted to be fitted within said tapered bore and having a substantially cylindrical outer surface of a diameter slightly greater than the minimum diameter of said bore such that said insert is force-fitted within said sleeve and locked against withdrawal forces to thus hold said insert and said inner pin member in proper position for connector operation.
6. A connector for shielded cable of the type having an inner conductor surrounded by a dielectric material in turn surrounded by an outer conductor, the connector comprising in combination, an outer metallic sleeve having a forward portion adapted to support a locking collar and a rearward portion adapted to be fitted over the cable dielectric and beneath the cable outer conductor, a ferrule member adapted to be fitted over said sleeve rearward portion and said cable outer conductor and be crimped inwardly thereagainst to electrically common the outer conductor to the sleeve, the interior of said sleeve including a surface configuration tapering inwardly from the rearmost portion of the sleeve forward portion toward the forward end of the sleeve, dielectric material fitted within said sleeve including a forward portion carrying an inner pin member adapted to receive the cable inner conductor and be crimped thereagainst to electrically common the pin thereto, the dielectric forward portion having an outer diameter such as to be wedged against withdrawal forces by said sleeve taper, said dielectric material having an inner taper leading from the rearward portion thereof to the forward portion thereof adapted to guide the cable inner conductor into said pin member during installation of the connector.
7. A connector for mechanically and electrically joining shielded cable of the type having an inner conductor surrounded by dielectric material in turn surrounded by anouter conductor to a shielded receptacle comprising in combination, an outer metallic sleeve having a forward portion adapted to support a locking collar and a rearward portion adapted to be fitted over the cable dielectric material and beneath the cable outer conductor, a ferrule member including a forward portion having an inner diameter to slidingly fit over the cable outer conductor as fitted over the rearward portion of said sleeve, and a rearward portion of a diameter slightly larger than the cable outer diameter, the ferrule adapted to be crimped inwardly to electrically common the cable outer conductor to the sleeve and support said cable relative thereto, the said sleeve including a forward portion bore and a rearward portion bore with a tapered surface connecting said bores, a first dielectric insert in said sleeve including a thin wall portion extending the length of the sleeve rearward portion bore and of an inner diameter slightly larger than the cable dielectric material, and a forward portion of an outer diameter such as to fit within the sleeve forward portion bore, the first insert including an outer diameter tapered surface adapted to nest within the tapered surface of said sleeve, a second dielectric insert of an outer diameter adapted to tightly fit within the forward portion of the sleeve and including an internal bore adapted to receive a hollow pin member and support such substantially along its length with the pin extending outwardly to form a center contact path for the connector, the said pin member including a flange entrapped between said first and second inserts well within said sleeve.
8. The connector of claim 7, wherein the forward portion bore of the sleeve tapers inwardly to a diameter substantially less than the diameter of the said second dielectric insert such that the dielectric insert is forcefitted within said sleeve and entrapped against axial movement to lock said central pin member against withdrawal forces.
9. The connector of claim 8, wherein said first insert includes an interior tapered surface in its forward portion leading to said central pin member to guide the cable center conductor therein during connector installation.
10. In a connector for mechanically and electrically joining shielded cable of the type having an inner conductor surrounded by a dielectric material in turn surrounded by an outer conductor to a shielded receptacle comprising a combination a connector body having an outer metallic sleeve having a forward portion carrying a collar attached to the outside thereof and a rearward hollow portion adapted to receive the cable dielectric materal inserted therein with the cable outer conductor fitted thereover, means cooperating with said rearward portion to electrically and mechanically join the cable outer conductor to said rearward portion and to said sleeve, the said sleeve forward portion including a bore and a dielectric insert secured therein, a conductive contact member secured within said insert within said sleeve and held thereby against axial movement, said conductive contact member including a bore at the rear thereof adapted to receive the center conductor of the cable and be terminated thereto, the said receptacle including an outer metallic sleeve and carrying a center contact member adapted to receive and mate with the center contact member of the connector sleeve, the outer diameter of said receptacle sleeve being threaded, said collar including in a forward portion a plurality of axially extending spring fingers of arcuate shape biased inwardly from an inner diameter approximating the outer diameter of the said receptacle sleeve to an inner diameter at the ends thereof less than the outer diameter of the said receptacle whereby to engage the receptacle threading and hold said connector in engagement on said receptacle.
11. The connector of claim 10 wherein said connector sleeve includes threading on the outer surface thereof at the forward end thereof and said collar includes on the rearward portion thereof, internal threading adapted to mate with the threading on the sleeve of said con- 9 hector whereby said collar may be threaded onto said connector to permit said connector to be joined or separated on said receptacle by axial or by twisting motion.
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EDWARD C. ALLEN, Primary Examiner.
Murphy 33 9-97 10 PATRICK A. CLIFFORD, Examiner.
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An ∼135-bp sequence called the A1/A2 repeat was isolated from the transcribed region of the 26-18S rDNA intergenic spacer (IGS) of Nicotiana tomentosiformis. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and Southern blot analysis revealed its occurrence as an independent satellite (termed an A1/A2 satellite) outside of rDNA loci in species of Nicotiana section Tomentosae. The chromosomal location, patterns of genomic dispersion, and copy numbers of its tandemly arranged units varied between the species. In more distantly related Nicotiana species the A1/A2 repeats were found only at the nucleolar organizer regions (NOR). There was a trend toward the elimination of the A1/A2 satellite in N. tabacum (tobacco), an allotetraploid with parents closely related to the diploids N. sylvestris and N. tomentosiformis. This process may have already commenced in an S3 generation of synthetic tobacco. Cytosine residues in the IGS were significantly hypomethylated compared with the A1/A2 satellite. There was no clear separation between the IGS and satellite fractions in sequence analysis of individual clones and we found no evidence for CG suppression. Taken together the data indicate a dynamic nature of the A1/A2 repeats in Nicotiana genomes, with evidence for recurrent integration, copy number expansions, and contractions.
PLANT genomes often contain considerable amounts of repetitive sequences. Of these, a few are transcribed, including clusters of ribosomal RNA (rRNA), transfer RNA, and histone genes. The large ribosomal DNA (rDNA) unit cluster (35S rDNA in plants; Hemleben and Zentgraf 1994) encoding 18S, 5.8S, and 26S rRNA occurs in one or more chromosomal loci. Variable numbers of rRNA genes (from 1000 to >30,000), forming multigene families in tandem arrays, have been reported for a variety of plant species (for review see Hemleben and Zentgraf 1994). The highly conserved genic regions are separated by a more diverged intergenic spacer (IGS), which in turn contains several subrepeated regions. While there is enormous variability in IGS sequences between plant genomes there is usually high homogeneity within a genome. Homogeneity of units is maintained by gene conversion and nonhomologous recombination, forces collectively called concerted evolution (Dover 1982). Here we characterize a sequence found in the IGS of some Nicotiana species that is also scattered as a satellite across the genome.
Satellite sequences usually do not encode structural RNA or protein. Limited transcription has, however, been recently demonstrated and a role for satellite-specific small interfering RNA molecules (siRNA) has been proposed for the establishment of a heterochromatic state (Volpeet al. 2002). In higher plants, satellites may occupy large chromosomal domains, usually at centromeric and subtelomeric positions (Schmidt and Hes-lop-Harrison 1998). Even closely related plant species may differ substantially in type and abundance of satellite repeats. It is known that some satellites evolve rapidly while others remain unchanged throughout long evolutionary periods (Grebensteinet al. 1995; Kinget al. 1995; Vershininet al. 1996; Ugarkovic and Plohl 2002). Mechanisms leading to the evolution of a novel satellite are not well understood but include integration of exogenous viral DNA (Bejaranoet al. 1996), divergence of endogenous viral elements (Langdonet al. 2000), and nonhomologous recombination (Schwarzacheret al. 1984), processes accompanied by gene conversion, amplification, and translocation (Ugarkovic and Plohl 2002). In this article we explore possible mechanisms for the origin and evolution of a Nicotiana satellite derived from the IGS of rDNA.
In Nicotiana several families of repeated sequences have been isolated and characterized by molecular and cytogenetic methods (Koukalovaet al. 1989; Kentonet al. 1993; Gazdovaet al. 1995; Chenet al. 1997; Matyaseket al. 1997; Jakowitschet al. 1998; Limet al. 2000b). Some satellites, e.g., the HRS60 family, are structural features of Nicotiana chromosomes, and others, e.g., NTRS or GRD, occur in a subgroup of species and appeared more recently in evolution (Limet al. 2000b). Lim et al. (2000b) showed that the chromosomal distribution of repetitive sequences could be used to generate a phylogenetic scheme for Nicotiana section Tomentosae. Molecular cytogenetics provides a useful approach that is independent of those based on intragenic transcribed spacer sequences (Chaseet al. 2003) and matK (Aoki and Ito 2000; Chaseet al. 2003) sequencing. In section Tomentosae rDNA clusters occur on homeologous chromosome 3 and in most species also on chromosome 4, indicating a relatively stable chromosomal organization (Limet al. 2000b). However, molecular methods revealed fast evolution of the units at these loci. For example, the length of the IGS varies substantially among Nicotiana species (Borisjuket al. 1997) and there is evidence for rapid evolution of IGS sequences in natural (Kovariket al. 1996; Volkovet al. 1999; Skalickáet al. 2003) and synthetic (Skalickáet al. 2003) tobacco. IGS subrepeats probably represent the fastest “molecular clock” in rDNA (Hemleben and Zentgraf 1994; Falquetet al. 1997).
We have isolated a 135-bp subrepeated sequence from the IGS of the rDNA unit of Nicotiana tomentosiformis.We report the molecular characterization of IGS sequences both within and outside of rDNA loci. We also conduct phylogenetic analyses of these sequences from the two genomic domains and show their chromosomal location in several diploid and allotetraploid Nicotiana species.
Plant material: Natural diploid and tetraploid species are listed in Table 1. The Th37 synthetic tobacco line was derived from one plant generated from ♀N. sylvestris (2n = 24) × ♂N. tomentosiformis (2n = 24) and converted to a fertile allotetraploid by in vitro callus culture (S0, Burk 1973). Plants were grown in a greenhouse under standard cultivation conditions.
DNA isolation, restriction analysis, and Southern blot hybridization: Total genomic DNA was extracted from a young leaf, using a slightly modified cetylammonium bromide (CTAB) protocol (Saghai-Maroofet al. 1984). DNA was digested with an excess of restriction enzyme (twice for 3 hr) and subjected to electrophoresis on agarose gels. To each lane 1–3 μg of DNA was loaded to detect high- and medium-copy repeats. Following electrophoresis, the ethidium-bromide-stained gels were photographed, blotted onto membranes (Hybond N+, Amersham Pharmacia, Buckinghamshire, UK), and hybridized to [α-32P]dCTP-labeled DNA probes (>108 dpm·μg-1 DNA, Dekaprime kit; Fermentas, Vilnius, Lithuania). Oligonucleotide IGS_SR-V probe was labeled by [γ-32P]ATP in a polynucleotide kinase reaction. Southern hybridization was carried out in 0.25 m Na-phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, supplemented with 7% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) at 65° for 16 hr followed by washing with 2× SSC (1× SSC = 150 mm NaCl, 15 mm Na3-citrate, pH 7.0), 0.1% SDS (twice for 5 min), 0.2× SSC, and 0.1% SDS (twice for 15 min). Oligonucleotide probe was hybridized at 45° and the blot was washed with 2× SSC (twice for 15 min). The membranes were exposed to X-ray film (Medix, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic) for 4–48 hr. A PhosphorImager (Storm; Molecular Dynamics, Sunnyvale, CA) and ImageQuant (Molecular Dynamics) software were used to quantify the hybridization signal.
DNA probes for Southern hybridization: The 18S rDNA probe contained a 1.7-kb EcoRI fragment of the 18S rRNA gene subunit from Solanum lycopersicum (Kisset al. 1989; accession no. X51576). The 26S rDNA probe was a 220-bp fragment of the 3′ end of the tobacco 26S rRNA gene (accession no. X76056) and was obtained by PCR amplification of the region between nucleotide (nt) 2901 (5′-GAATTCACC CAAGTGT TGGGAT-3′) and nt 3121 (5′-AGAGGCGTTCAGTCATA ATC-3′) with respect to the transcription starting site of the 26S rRNA gene. The IGS_A1/A2 probe was a cloned ∼280-bp A1/A2 subrepeat from N. tomentosiformis IGS (Volkovet al. 1999; accession no. Y08427). The IGS_SR-V probe was a 5′-AGGTGTTGAAAGGCACCTCAAGG-3′ oligonucleotide between nt 4196 and 4218 (Volkovet al. 1999; accession no. Y08427).
PCR and cloning procedures: Templates for PCR were prepared as follows: large amounts (50 μg) of total genomic DNA from N. tomentosiformis cv. NIC479/84 were digested with an excess of EcoRV restriction enzyme and subjected to agarose gel electrophoresis. Material from 12.0- and 4.8-kb fractions was isolated from the agarose gel, using a gel extraction kit (Qiaex II; QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany). PCR amplification was performed with 30–130 ng of genomic DNA as templates (∼12.0- and ∼4.8-kb fractions, respectively), in a reaction volume of 80 μl containing Taq buffer, MgCl2 to a final concentration of 1.5 mm, each nucleotide at 0.2 mm, each primer at 0.5 μm, and 1.6 units of thermostable Taq DNA polymerase (DyNAzyme). The PCR was run on a MJ Research (Watertown, MA) PTC100 under the following conditions: 5 min initial denaturation at 94° (hot start); 25 cycles of 30 sec at 94°, 30 sec at 68° (-0.5° per cycle), 30 sec at 72°; 10 cycles of 30 sec at 94°, 30 sec at 55°, 30 sec at 72°; followed by 10 min at 72°. Primers were designed according to the published sequence of N. tomentosiformis IGS between 26S and 18S rDNA (accession no. Y08427). Primer sequences for the A2 subrepeat were SubrepA_for 5′-GGTTGTTGTGAGTTGTGTCTGGC-3′ and SubrepA_rev 5′-CAATCRAAACRTRTATATRCCCC-3′ (Figure 1). PCR generated a ladder of products (∼140 to ∼700 bp), which were cloned using the QIAGEN PCR cloning kit into the polylinker of pDrive cloning vector (blue/white and ampicillin resistance selection). Representative clones from each IGS and satellite fractions were submitted to the EMBL/GenBank database (AY397676 and AY397677).
DNA sequencing and analysis: Six randomly selected clones of the PCR products (three from 12.0- and three from 4.8-kb fractions, respectively) were purified in QIAGEN Plasmid mini kit columns and sequenced using SP6 and T7 internal oligonucleotide primers. DNA sequencing was performed by automated “cycle sequencing” at the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Brno, Czech Republic (ABI PRISM 310 genetic analyzer, Perkin-Elmer, Norwalk, CT). Sequence analyses were performed using the GCG package (version 10.3; Accelrys, San Diego).
Expected values of CpG dinucleotide distributions are calculated from the formula E(CpG) = (n - 1) × f(C) × f(G) where n is the number of bases in the region and f(N) is the frequency of a given nucleotide.
Computer analysis of DNA structure was carried out using CURVATURE software (Shpigelmanet al. 1993) that implements the nearest-neighbor wedge model of intrinsic DNA curvature.
Fluorescence in situ hybridization: Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was carried out as described in Lim et al. (2000b). Two cloned probes were used: (i) the IGS probe, an ∼280-bp A1/A2 subrepeat cloned from N. tomentosiformis IGS (Volkovet al. 1999), and (ii) pTa 71, a cloned 9-kb EcoRI fragment of the 35S rDNA unit from Triticum aestivum (Gerlach and Bedbrook 1979). These probes were used at a concentration of 4 μg·ml-1 and labeled with digoxigenin-11-dUTP (Roche Biochemicals, Sussex, UK) or biotin-16-dUTP (Sigma Aldrich). In all, the hybridization mix contained 50% (v/v) formamide, 10% (w/v) dextran sulfate, 0.1% (w/v) sodium dodecyl sulfate in 2× SSC (0.3 m sodium chloride, 0.03 m sodium citrate). After overnight hybridization at 37°, the slides were washed in 20% (v/v) formamide in 0.1× SSC at 42° at an estimated hybridization stringency of 80–85%. Sites of probe hybridization were detected using 20 μg · ml-1 fluorescein-conjugated anti-digoxigenin IgG (Roche Biochemicals) and 5 μg·ml-1 Cy3-conjugated avidin (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech). Chromosomes were counterstained with 2 μg · ml-1 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) in 4× SSC, mounted in Vectashield medium (Vector Laboratories, Peterborough, UK), and examined using a Leica DM RA2. Images were captured using Openlab (Improvision, Coventry, UK) and assembled to a plate using Adobe Photoshop (Adobe Systems, Edinburgh). Images were treated for color contrast and brightness uniformly.
Localization of IGS repeats on chromosomes: A 280-bp dimer referred to as A1/A2 subrepeat (Volkovet al. 1999) was cloned from N. tomentosiformis IGS (Figure 1). This was used as a probe in FISH and Southern hybridization experiments. For FISH we conducted simultaneous hybridization of the IGS probe (for A1/A2 units, green fluorescence) and pTa71 (for rDNA genic regions, red fluorescence) to root-tip metaphases. When these probes label a chromosome region independently, the fluorescence color reflects the fluorochrome attached to the probe, but when the probes colocalize, the fluorescence color reflects the ratio of probe label present, leading to yellow and orange fluorescence colors. The experiment revealed that the IGS probe had two distinct distributions: (i) within the rDNA loci in locations that were expected from previous karyotype analyses (Limet al. 2000b) and (ii) dispersed in local concentrations on some chromosomes of N. tomentosiformis (both NIC 479/84 and TW142 varieties), N. kawakamii, N. tomentosa, N. otophora, and N. setchellii (all section Tomentosae). The dispersed A1/A2 units were completely absent in N. glutinosa (not shown) and N. sylvestris (section Sylvestris, ex. Alatae sensu; Knappet al. 2004, Figure 3). Sequence analysis shows that N. glutinosa should not be in section Tomentosae and is more likely a member of section Undulatae (Chaseet al. 2003; Knappet al. 2004). There was considerable variability in signal distribution between the species: while in N. tomentosiformis the IGS probe hybridized to six or seven chromosomes (at non-rDNA chromosomal loci), in N. setchellii there was only a small amount of signal on the short arm of a small metacentric chromosome. In N. tomentosa, the subrepeat hybridized to small metacentrics while in N. tomentosiformis the signal was present predominantly on larger chromosomes. Thus there is little apparent phylogenetic signal in the distribution of dispersed A1/A2 subrepeats outside of rDNA loci (A1/A2 satellites) in section Tomentosae (Figure 2). In most cases the IGS probe showed a dispersed, speckled signal distribution that often occupied nearly a whole chromosome arm, e.g., in N. tomentosiformis chromosomes. Some chromosomes carried more condensed or denser IGS probe signal distribution, particularly in N. tomentosa and N. tomentosiformis var. NIC479/84. This may indicate both dispersed and clustered organizations of the A1/A2 satellite repeats. Interestingly, in N. kawakamii the A1/A2 satellite was frequently associated with dispersed rDNA genic units, the latter having been reported previously (Limet al. 2000b).
—Restriction enzyme map of the major N. tomentosiformis rDNA unit. The positions of probes (thick lines) and restriction fragment lengths are indicated. IGS structural regions (SR) are termed as SR-II (containing C subrepeats), SR-V (downstream from the transcription starting site), and SR-VI (containing A1/A2 subrepeats). Restriction enzymes are as follows: E, EcoRV. The A1/A2 subrepeat unit used as a probe is enlarged and contained the following restriction sites: BstNI, ClaI, ScrFI, SfaNI, RsaI, HaeIII, and DdeI. Positions of PCR primers used for amplification of A1/A2 sequences are indicated by solid arrowheads. Distances are approximately to scale.
—Karyotypes of Nicotiana species in section Tomentosae probed by FISH, using digoxigenin-labeled (FITC detected, green fluorescence) IGS probe against the A1/A2 repeats and biotin-labeled (Cy3 detected, red fluorescence) pTa71 for 35S rDNA, counterstained with DAPI for DNA (blue fluorescence). Chromosomes are arranged in decreasing order of size except for rDNA carrying chromosomes whose position is identified in Lim et al. (2000b). When the IGS repeat and the 35S rDNA probe colocalize, the signal is yellow or orange depending on the relative strength of the two signals. All species have localized concentrations of dispersed A1/A2 satellite sequences. N. kawakamii is distinct in that the 35S probe also labels at dispersed locations. Bar, 10 μm.
—FISH experiment labeled as in Figure 2. Metaphase chromosomes are shown. (A–C) N. sylvestris. There are three rDNA loci (six sites). The IGS probe colocalizes with the pTa71 at these loci and at no other site. (D) Synthetic N. tabacum (Th37.9); (E) labeled chromosomes isolated. The rDNA loci carrying 35S rDNA sequences are found at the terminal end of the short arm of chromosomes T3, S10, S11, and S12 (E, bottom row). The rDNA locus on S12 is amplified (Skalickaet al. 2003); it is also more orange than the other two S-genome loci, appearing more like the T3 locus. There is dispersed IGS signal on the long arm of chromosome T3 and at five other pairs of chromosomes (E, top row). The total IGS signal is less than that in the two cultivars of N. tomentosiformis examined. (F) Feral N. tabacum collected in Bolivia (accession Nee et al. 51789, S. Knapp); (G) labeled chromosomes isolated. There is less dispersed satellite signal than in the synthetic tobacco, its distribution is different (e.g., T3), and the locus on S12 is not amplified. (H) N. tabacum cv. 095-55. The abundance of dispersed A1/A2 satellite is lower than that in the feral tobacco and much lower than that in the synthetic tobacco. Bar, 10 μm.
It would be expected that N. tabacum would have an IGS signal distribution that reflected the sum of that found in the diploid progenitors N. sylvestris and N. tomentosiformis. However, there was reduced A1/A2 satellite signal in all three tobacco lines [synthetic tobacco Th37 (Figure 3, D and E), a feral tobacco (Figure 3, F and G) and cv. 095-55 (Figure 3H)]. The reduction in A1/A2 satellite sequence was least apparent in the synthetic tobacco (Figure 3, D and E) and the sequence distribution on a subset of chromosomes most closely reflected, albeit in reduced abundance, that found in N. tomentosiformis (compare labeled chromosomes in Figure 3E with those in Figure 2). But there are differences; e.g., there is a satellite locus on the long arm of the T3 chromosome of Th37 plants that did not occur on chromosome 3 of any N. tomentosiformis varieties studied. The novel locus could have arisen by an allopolyploidy-induced translocation or amplification event.
Distribution of A1/A2 satellite in Nicotiana genomes: We carried out Southern blot hybridization to study the distributions of A1/A2 satellite in the genomes of different Nicotiana species. Genomic DNAs were digested with EcoRV restriction enzyme, which has a conserved recognition site in the rDNA unit of Nicotiana (Figure 1 and Borisjuket al. 1997). Southern blots were hybridized sequentially with the 18S and 26S genic probes and the A1/A2 and SRV IGS probes (Figure 4A). The 18S and 26S probes hybridized to a single (N. otophora) or in most cases to multiple (e.g., N. tomentosa) fragments. Multiple bands in the <10-kb region indicated the presence of multiple rDNA families and incomplete rDNA homogenization. As expected both IGS probes hybridized to the same fragments as the 18S genic probe. However, an additional band of ∼12 kb of variable intensity was revealed in N. tomentosiformis (both cultivars), N. kawakamii, N. tomentosa, N. setchellii, and N. otophora after hybridization with the A1/A2 probe. The 12-kb signal was nearly (N. tabacum) or completely absent in lanes loaded with DNA from N. glutinosa, N. sylvestris, N. undulata, N. paniculata, N. rustica, N. alata, N. longiflora, N. glauca, N. solanifolia, and N. suaveolens (Figure 4 and not shown). Since the 12-kb fragment did not hybridize with the 18S, 26S, and SR-V probes it is likely that the band represents a non-rDNA satellite fraction of the IGS-related A1/A2 repeats. The majority of satellite repeats apparently lack a conserved EcoRV site although several minor fragments could be visualized after longer exposure of the blot. The complex pattern of hybridization bands in Figure 4B, lane 5, is consistent with extensive rearrangements of the parental IGS in this subline of synthetic tobacco (Skalickaet al. 2003). The distribution of A1/A2 repeats into rDNA and non-rDNA fractions was quantified by counting the radioactivity in the satellite and rDNA fractions after hybridization of the blot with the A1/A2 IGS probe (Figure 4, Table 2). It is evident that the relative abundance of satellite signal in the 12-kb EcoRV fraction correlates with FISH analysis (compare Figures 2 and 3 with Figure 4). It is evident that there is a negligible amount of A1/A2 satellite in both cultivated tobacco varieties examined.
Genomic organization of A1/A2 repeats: To study the genomic organization of A1/A2 repeats we isolated two genomic fractions containing IGS and satellite repeats. Genomic DNA from N. tomentosiformis var. NIC479/84 was digested with EcoRV, gel separated by electrophoresis, and DNAs of 12- and 4.8-kb size fractions were eluted and purified. The purified DNAs, termed as 4.8- and 12-kb EcoRV fractions, were subjected to Southern blot analysis using methylation-insensitive restriction enzymes that have recognition sites within the A1/A2 repeats (Figure 5A). Ladder patterns were obtained from both 12- and 4.8-kb fractions, suggesting that the repeats are tandemly organized in both satellite and IGS fractions. The ladders started at ∼140 bp and were slightly irregular in the 4.8-kb EcoRV fraction (Figure 5A). In contrast, highly regular long ladders were obtained after digestion of the 12-kb EcoRV fraction with RsaI, SfaNI, and DdeI, suggesting that the tandem repeats could form longer arrays of uninterrupted satellite sequences. Another distinction between the two fractions was a prominent ∼0.8-kb band present in the 4.8-kb fraction only. Perhaps the ∼0.8-kb fragment represents a relatively abundant rDNA family characterized by a 6-unit spacing of neighboring RsaI sites.
Relative hypomethylation of IGS sequences has already been described in several plant species (Flavellet al. 1988; Torres-Ruiz and Hemleben 1994), including tobacco (B. Koukalova, unpublished data). We were interested in determining the methylation status of IGS repeats within and outside of the rDNA locus. We digested DNA with methylation-sensitive and -insensitive enzymes followed by Southern blot hybridization (Figure 5B). BstNI cuts at CCWGG and is methylation insensitive; its nearby ScrFI isoschizomere cuts at CCNGG and is sensitive to CNG methylation; PvuII cuts at CAGCTG and is sensitive to CNG methylation; ClaI cuts at ATC GAT and is sensitive to CG methylation. Methylation-insensitive BstNI digested both 4.8- and 12-kb fractions into a series of bands. In contrast, ScrFI produced several bands only after digestion of the 4.8-kb fraction, and there was no significant digestion of the 12-kb satellite fraction. Similar results were obtained when ClaI and PvuII enzymes were used although in these cases no methylation-insensitive isoschizomeres were available to check the presence of recognition sites. Taken together, the data indicate that the A1/A2 repeats within the rDNA, compared with those outside rDNA loci, are relatively hypomethylated at cytosine residues.
Sequencing analysis of rDNA and satellite A1/A2 repeats: To study sequence homology between IGS and satellite repeats we isolated several clones from the purified genomic fractions of N. tomentosiformis described previously. We carried out PCR, using oligonucleotide primers (Figure 1) designed according to the published IGS sequence (Volkovet al. 1999); one primer contained a degenerative sequence to increase the chance of the primer annealing to mutated sites. The PCR products obtained were analyzed by gel electrophoresis. In both samples the products contained fragments of ∼140 bp and its multiples, confirming a tandem arrangement of repeats. Amplified DNAs were cloned into the pDrive (QIAGEN) vector. Gel analysis of recombinant clones showed that inserts contained all kinds of oligomers up to pentamers with dimers and trimers being most abundant. Several randomly selected clones from each fraction were sequenced and the data were analyzed with previously obtained sequence (Volkovet al. 1999). The sequence homology between the clones from each fraction was between 75 and 85%. A Harr-plot analysis revealed a sequence repetition in most inserts, suggesting that these clones harbor more than one complete repeating unit. The units had a conserved length of ∼135 bp, and two clones were shorter (∼125 bp). The units within and between individual clones were analyzed by the program DISTANCES implemented within the Wisconsin GCG package software. Alignment of repeating units is expressed by a dendrogram in Figure 6. The multiple alignment did not separate satellite and IGS clones into distinct groups, indicating the absence of a sequence unique for particular fractions. The two separate clusters correspond to A1 and A2 versions of the repeat (Volkovet al. 1999). Units from N. sylvestris IGS fell into the A1 population branch. Most of the clones obtained from PCR amplification (indicated by “p” after the name of a clone) fell into the A2 group as expected from the primer sites (Figure 1). There was no homology between sequenced clones and analogous repeats in potato IGS (Stuparet al. 2002).
—Southern blot hybridization showing the distribution of A1/A2 repeats (A) in Nicotiana diploids and (B) in N. tabacum and its progenitor species. Genomic DNA was digested with EcoRV and hybridized sequentially with the genic and intergenic probes. In A and B the 12-kb fragment visualized by the A1/A2_IGS probe (but not the genic and SR-V_IGS probes) indicated the presence of an rDNA-independent IGS-related satellite (labeled satellite). (B) The A1/A2 probe hybridized relatively weakly to the ∼10-kb EcoRV band in N. sylvestris rDNA (S-rDNA) due to decreased sequence homology between the probe of N. tomentosiformis origin and the N. sylvestris IGS. The minor bands in the blot (A) that hybridized with the SR-V_IGS probe result from incompletely stripped 26S probe. Lanes 1–4, N. tabacum vars. Vielblättriger, Samsun, SR-1, and feral tobacco. Lanes 5 and 6, Th37 synthetic tobacco plants differing in the type of rDNA families. T-rDNA, position of EcoRV restriction fragment containing 18S gene linked to the part of IGS of Tomentosae origin. S-rDNA, position of monomeric rDNA unit of N. sylvestris origin. Asterisks indicate fragments with rearranged IGS units in the synthetic tobacco line (B).
Since the A1/A2 repeats are heavily methylated in satellite and to a lesser extent in IGS we investigated whether cytosine methylation has resulted in CG suppression through C to T transitions over a long period of time (Gardiner-Gardenet al. 1992). Analysis of consensus sequences for IGS and satellite monomers shows nearly equal probabilities of CG occurrences. Observed vs. expected values were 0.84 for IGS and 1.03 for satellite fractions, suggesting little or no CG depletion. CG-rich IGS subrepeats have also been reported in Zea (Buckler and Holtsford 1996) and Cucurbita (Kinget al. 1993), but not in several other genomes (Unfriedet al. 1991).
Theoretical analysis modeling natural DNA curvature has revealed that satellite DNA is regularly curved (Fitzgeraldet al. 1994; Fannet al. 2001). The CURVATURE program (Shpigelmanet al. 1993) was used to analyze the curvature of A1/A2 monomeric units and other Nicotiana satellite repeats. In contrast to most other satellites, cloned A1/A2 repeats have relatively straight DNA paths (see supplementary material at http://www.genetics.org/supplemental/).
We report the isolation and characterization of a repetitive sequence composed of A1/A2 units that occurs (i) as part of the IGS of 26S-18S rDNA in Nicotiana and (ii) independently as a high-copy satellite repeat unassociated with rDNA in the genomes of Nicotiana section Tomentosae (sensu Knappet al. 2004) and tobacco. The A1/A2 subrepeats of the IGS have dispersed into the genome of section Tomentosae and were then carried into the tobacco genome upon allopolyploidy involving the diploid progenitors N. sylvestris and N. tomentosiformis. The absence of A1/A2 satellites outside section Tomentosae and tobacco might be caused by a differential capacity of IGS to transpose into other genomic loci and/or by differential genome tolerance toward genomic changes. We now know that the evolution of section Tomentosae is associated with the evolution of at least three repetitive sequences, the A1/A2 satellite reported here, NTRS, and GRS characterized previously (Gazdovaet al. 1995; Limet al. 2000b).
The occurrence of IGS-like sequences in plant genomes has been described in plants previously (Magginiet al. 1991; Unfriedet al. 1991; Falquetet al. 1997; Nouzovaet al. 2001; Stuparet al. 2002), e.g., high homology between the IGS subrepeat and a satellite in Vigna radiata (Unfriedet al. 1991) and limited homology in Phaseolus (Falquetet al. 1997). Perhaps multiple types of IGS-related satellites are scattered in some eukaryote genomes (Stuparet al. 2002). These data may indicate different evolutionary timescales of dispersion of the IGS to the genome from the rDNA locus. Indeed, in some cases the sequence divergence allowed discrimination of IGS-related subfamilies (Macaset al. 2003). In N. tomentosiformis there is high homology (75–85%) between A1/A2 repeats irrespective of their genomic origin, suggesting perhaps a recent origin (see also lack of CG suppression below).
—Analysis of genomic fractions carrying A1/A2 repeats. (A) Genomic organization studied with methylation--insensitive restriction enzymes; (B) analysis of DNA methylation using methylation-sensitive (ScrFI, ClaI, and PvuII) and -insensitive (BstNI) restriction enzymes. The rDNA and non-rDNA fractions containing A1/A2 repeats were isolated from the agarose gel after digestion of N. tomentosiformis DNA with EcoRV and separation of fragments by electrophoresis. The 12-kb EcoRV fraction corresponds to the non-rDNA satellite fraction, and the 4.8-kb band to the rDNA fraction. Isolated EcoRV fractions were subjected to secondary digestion with enzymes indicated. Note in A the prominent 0.8-kb RsaI band and that the enzymes generated ladders of bands. In B the methylation-sensitive enzymes fail to cut the A1/A2 satellite sequences.
Properties of A1/A2 units and clusters: The length of the basic A1/A2 units (138 ± 6 bp) is shorter than usual for a satellite repeat (∼180 bp; Vershinin and Heslop-Harrison 1998) and it lacks typical DNA curvature. Curved DNA and repeat length close to the nucleosomal periodicity have been proposed to facilitate chromatin condensation (Fitzgeraldet al. 1994; Ugarkovic and Plohl 2002). The IGS may have unusual structural features because IGS subrepeats are thought to be involved in the regulation of rDNA expression (Hemleben and Zentgraf 1994). But this alone cannot account for their genetic instability being restricted to Nicotiana section Tomentosae and tobacco.
On the basis of known copy number of rDNA units and number of A1/A2 subrepeats/unit it is estimated that there are ∼2 × 104 copies of A1/A2 satellite repeat units in the N. tomentosiformis genome with some variability between the two accessions (Table 2). Despite high homology between A1/A2 satellite units and A1/A2 units in the IGS, Southern analysis did reveal differences in genomic organization associated with epigenetic modification. First, the A1/A2 satellite contains a larger number of A1/A2 tandem repeats (>20-mers) than is typical of the IGS. Perhaps there is a limit to the number of subrepeats in the IGS (Hemleben and Zentgraf 1994). Second, there were slight irregularities in ladders of IGS fraction, suggesting a more complex arrangement of A1/A2 subrepeats in the IGS. Third, there was relative hypomethylation of cytosine residues in IGS subrepeats. A hypomethylated fraction of the 35S rDNA molecules is frequently correlated with expression (Flavellet al. 1988; Torres-Ruiz and Hemleben 1994; Chen and Pikaard 1997; Castilhoet al. 1999). On the other hand hypermethylation of A1/A2 satellite repeats is in accord with a trancriptionally silent satellite. Thus the nearly identical repeats may be differentially methylated depending on the locus and genetic environment (Kovariket al. 2000).
We postulated that since the A1/A2 are differentially methylated, the long-term evolutionary effect may be higher CG suppression in A1/A2 satellite sequences due to spontaneous or enzymatic deamination to TG dinucleotide (Gardiner-Gardenet al. 1992). However, analysis of CG contents in the A1/A2 repeats in satellite and IGS fractions revealed no evidence for CG suppression, and the content of TG/CA is near expectation, assuming a random nucleotide distribution. In contrast, a family of geminiviral sequences (GRD5) and a family of NTRS repeats, each of which integrated into a subset of species in section Tomentosae (Limet al. 2000b), do show substantial CG suppression (Matyaseket al. 1997; Muradet al. 2004).
—Neighbor-joining dendrogram of rDNA and satellite A1/A2 sequences of N. tomentosiformis and N. sylvestris. Assignment of clones is as follows: IGS-TOM-5.4p, clone 5, the fourth unit in the row, obtained from PCR cloning of a repeat from intergenic 26-18S rDNA spacer of N. tomentosiformis; SAT-TOM-4.4p, clone 4, the fourth unit in the row, obtained from PCR cloning of the satellite repeat from the 12-kb EcoRV fraction of N. tomentosiformis; IGS-TOM-A1.1, sequence of the subrepeat obtained from cloning of N. tomentosiformis IGS in a phage (the last “1” indicates a unit proximal to the transcription starting site); IGS-SYL.1, sequence of the subrepeat obtained from cloning of N. sylvestris IGS in a phage (“1” indicates a unit located proximal to the transcription starting site). The sequences of phage clones are taken from Volkov et al. (1999).
The origin of A1/A2 satellite sequences: The copy number, position, and genomic organization of the A1/A2 satellite is highly variable among closely related species; indeed, differences could be found between lines and accessions of N. tabacum and N. tomentosiformis, respectively. The variability in distribution of the A1/A2 satellite exceeds the variability of other tandem repeats previously mapped in Nicotiana (Limet al. 2000b). Thus the rate of divergence in the distribution of the A1/A2 satellite exceeds the rate of Nicotiana speciation and the overall rate of karyotype divergence. The absence of any sequence distinction between units of the IGS and satellite fraction (Figure 6), coupled with an absence of CG suppression in the satellite fraction despite high overall levels of cytosine methylation, point to a recent origin of the A1/A2 satellite. Yet this satellite fraction is found across all species of Nicotiana section Tomentosae, which is at odds with a “recent-origin” hypothesis. The most likely explanation for these data is that the A1/A2 satellite has a recent origin arising through repeated de novo integrations or sequence evolution via homogenization that influences the IGS and satellite sequences together. We favor the hypothesis that the A1/A2 satellite has arisen repeatedly through evolution of Tomentosae possibly by transposition from the IGS region. The dispersed character of FISH signals on many chromosomes may further support this hypothesis.
It is unknown how the A1/A2 units became dispersed across the genome of some Nicotiana species. Three possibilities are apparent.
Transposition of A1/A2 repeats may be mediated by reverse transcription of primary rRNA transcripts since the IGS A1/A2 subrepeats are located in the external transcribed spacer (ETS) and are removed during rRNA processing (Hemleben and Zentgraf 1994; Volkovet al. 1999). If this occurred, then unit amplification must have occurred at the novel site since Southern blot data (Figure 5A) indicated that the A1/A2 satellite occurs in long simple tandem repeats that are unlikely to be generated by reverse transcription. A subpopulation of A1/A2 repeats displayed a speckle-like FISH pattern on some chromosomes (Figures 2 and 3). These dispersed sites are probably formed by relatively short tandem arrays (Figure 5A) and may represent recent individual integration events. Perhaps insufficient time has elapsed to allow amplification of units to form long arrays.
Longer arrays of IGS satellite repeats could be generated directly by an extrachromosomal excision-amplification-reintegration mechanism (Starket al. 1989) recently proposed for evolution of a potato IGS-related satellite (Stuparet al. 2002). Extrachromosomal amplification may be stimulated in tobacco by an aps element located upstream of the transcription starting site, which is known to stimulate amplification of linked transgenic DNA (Borisjuket al. 2000). But FISH (Figure 3) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (not shown) failed to reveal extrachromosomal IGS sequences.
We favor the hypothesis that IGS-related satellite repeats evolved from randomly integrated solitary rDNA units [termed orphones (De Lucchini et al. 1988)] by amplification of subrepeats in the intergenic region. Some evidence supports this hypothesis—the genic probe showed faint hybridization signal to several non-NOR loci on N. kawakamii chromosomes, suggesting that other sequences in the rDNA units can also show dispersion in this species.
The influence of allopolyploidy on A1/A2 repeats: Allopolyploidy is often associated with fast genetic change; for example, instability and frequent elimination of a subtelomeric satellite has been observed in most wheat varieties (Pestsovaet al. 1998). Also in newly synthesized Triticum and Aegilops allopolyploids, there is rapid, directed, and reproducible change in the occurrence of molecular markers (Ozkanet al. 2001). But data are contradictory since in similar experiments in newly synthesized allopolyploids of Gossypium there was no such change (Liuet al. 2001). Skalicka et al. (2003) showed in the fourth generation of synthetic tobacco that there was a rapid change in the A1/A2 repeat structure at rDNA loci of N. tomentosiformis origin. Here we observe a lower number of A1/A2 satellite repeats in both synthetic and natural tobacco lines compared to the paternal parent, N. tomentosiformis.
The A1/A2 satellite is of paternal origin. Song et al. (1995) demonstrated in synthetic allopolyploids of Brassica that molecular markers of paternal origin were preferentially lost and they suggested that there is some instability in the male-derived genome of an allopolyploid in the cytoplasmic background of the female parent [nuclear cytoplasmic interaction (NCI) hypothesis (Jiang and Gill 1994)]. The A1/A2 satellite might have been eliminated as a result of NCI in tobacco.
In tobacco gene conversion has altered parental rDNA unit structure (Volkovet al. 1999; Limet al. 2000a). The rearranged rDNA units could have lost the capacity to transpose from the IGS into non-rDNA chromosomal loci. Perhaps a “steady-state” level exists between recurrent recruitment and elimination of sequences. After homogenization of tobacco rDNA to the new unit type, the recruitment of the IGS units might have been compromised. It might not be coincidental that feral tobacco and synthetic Th37 hybrid lines that have retained most of the A1/A2 satellite also showed partial or no homogenization of rDNA units, respectively. Interestingly, rearrangement of the IGS in natural (Volkovet al. 1999) and synthetic tobacco (Skalickáet al. 2003) involved amplification rather than deletion of A1/A2 subrepeats.
There is a possibility that the expansion of IGS repeats in N. tomentosiformis occurred after the divergence of N. tabacum (∼10,000 years ago; M. W. Chase, personal communication), rather than after a loss in N. tabacum since its formation.
We thank S. Knapp from the Natural History Museum, London for seeds of feral tobacco. Technical assistance of D. Saikia is acknowledged. This work was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (grant nos. 521/04/0775, Z5004920, and S5004010 to A.K.) and by the Natural and Environmental Research Council, United Kingdom.
Sequence data from this article have been deposited with the EMBL/GenBank Data Libraries under accession nos. AY397676 and AY397677.
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We stayed for one night. Good size of room. It was booked under comfort inn and must have changed hands but unfortunately that was not clear and we, like many other people were not aware so spent some time walking up and down trying to find it. No complimentary tea and coffee in the room. There was some at reception. It empty. Good location.
What a shocking place, this was a huge disappointment. This is like a hostel not a hotel, the reception is about 4 foot wide and looks like it was built in the 70s. The room was a cement floor with a small square carpet, the floor was freezing when you got out of bed, only positive was the bed was fine. we paid 640 dollars for a building that looked like a something out of the stone age, we could have stayed at the Hilton next door for 50dollars more, please do not stay at this hotel.
2.5 Stars and that generous. Read the bad reviews, all 32 of them. Sure there's complaints about room sizes, renovations etc. but what everyone is saying is that your Customer Service is far below industry standards. You're not the only hotel in NYC with small rooms, "boutique" or otherwise, nor are you the only property to perform renovations, the difference is that better hotels manage customer expectation and when that fails there is what's know as service recover and in my experience with the team there, NO ONE has a grasp of that concept. My wife and daughter spent the past weekend there (12/15-18) and although astonished about how small the rooms were compared to the pictures on the site, they weren't too distraught because they weren't there to be in the room. They were leaving on Tuesday afternoon had some time between check out and having to go to the airport so decided on some last minute exploration. They checked 4 bags with Dre and received a claim check for 4 bags. When they returned for the bags Mr. Dre only gave them 3 back. This wasn't discovered until they were on their way to LaGuardia, Both my wife and I tried to reach out to the hotel to see what arrangements could be made to get the bag and my wife was told that Sandra, the GM was at lunch and she should try back in 20 minutes. I got through to Dre and asked to speak to Sandra was was forwarded to a voice mailbox in which I left a message. A few minutes later Dre called me back. This is where service recovery differentiates great or good hotels to yours. As a frequent traveler for over 30 years, I have occasionally left items behind, I have also had properties lose or mishandle items. I fully expected there was going to be some charge to retrieve the backpack that was held in storage, what I wasn't expecting was the belligerence and arrogance I encounter from Dre. His first statements were to blame my wife and daughter for leaving them behind even though they were in HIS care and custody. Then he began a litany of all the steps that WE had to follow to get it returned, (go to a shipper in TX, get a lable, send it to them etc.) I suggested, as I have experienced in the past that perhaps the property already had a UPS/FedEx account and could ship it and bill me. Providing customer service and saving me money. Instead Dre wanted to get into a shouting match about how it wasn't his fault he couldn't be accountable for returning the proper number of bags because he was just "too damn busy", I reminded him that HE was in the service industry, my wife and daughter were in the "panic about getting to the airport in time" industry. When I asked his name he said it was irrelevant, at which point I asked to speak to the manager and he hung up on me. My wife finally got through when Adeline was working the desk/phone and asked once again to speak to Sandra and was told she was gone for the day (3:00 PM EST) making Sandra's work day roughly 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM with a lunch. With help from Adeline and $60 I THINK the backpack is on it's way but the social media blitz about this abhorrent customer service is just beginning. In my opinion, you do not deserve the 2.5 star rating you have on this site. Read these reviews and study them, otherwise I fear Mr. Irrelevant may become exactly that.
$25.00 Deposit required at check-in for all guests.
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2019-04-22T20:36:55Z
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https://www.redroof.com/property/ny/New-York/RRI1145
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China has 2.5 million millionaires − 80 per cent more than last year − and more than any other country except America. On the 2013 Forbes China Rich List, Liu Yiqian currently appears at number 200 (with $900 million), slipping from number 171 in 2012 when he actually had a hundred million fewer dollars. Described on one Chinese website as ‘the king of corporate shares’, he made his fortune in real estate and pharmaceuticals but has put his wealth to use as a renowned art collector. In April 2014, he broke the world auction record for Chinese porcelain, paying $36 million for a Ming Dynasty porcelain ‘chicken cup’ in Hong Kong. Quoted in arts magazine, Jing Daily, Liu’s wife Wang Wei says: ‘in terms of the optimal selection, stocks and art works are almost the same’.
The first Long (‘Dragon’) Museum opened on Luoshan Road in Pudong, Shanghai two years ago. At that time, it was China’s largest private museum showing an extensive collection of Revolutionary Period ‘Red Art’ and classic calligraphy. That museum, designed by Chinese artist and minimalist architect Zhong Song, is a plain box, entirely granite faced, that has been described in the Chinese press as Brutalist because it is a heavy, lumpen structure, devoid of windows. Ironically, its uncomplicated form actually seems to help to celebrate the content.
Just two years after that museum opened, Liu and Wang have just completed a second one, also in Shanghai. This one, known as the Long Museum West Bund, has been designed by Liu Yichun of Atelier Deshaus and will continue to house the client’s own acquisitions as well as displaying art from around the world. The government’s five-year plan for Shanghai pledges that by 2017 the city will emerge as China’s cultural capital, comparable to major Western cities like Berlin or London. Furthermore, as Shanghai’s Free Trade Zone is just starting to allow art auctions to be held in Shanghai − as a rival venue to Hong Kong − so the increasingly important Chinese gallery collections will be encouraged to loan and bring in touring exhibitions.
One of the sites earmarked for this cultural (and economic) makeover is the south-west bank of the Huangpu River; a 19-hectare ex-industrial site that was recently tested out with the Shanghai Bund biennale (AR February 2014). Immediately afterwards, the site was rebranded as the ‘West Bank Media Port’ which is busy transforming itself into a cultural landmark development, featuring film studios, TV production and digital entertainment companies, from established players like Dreamworks to new media start-ups.
In this ex-industrial area, much has changed. Heavy industry has been moved out and now wedding couples canoodle along the newly laid promenade, expats amble, skateboards trundle, and the nouveau riche walk their dogs … while a group of migrant labourers struggle to control a concrete power float that seems to be dragging them into the long grass. The contradictory scene of old and new world is exemplified by the rapid churn of contemporary architectural developments on the quayside while hundreds of huge barges, heavily laden with carbon-intensive industrial products, chug up and down the riverside. Similarly, the new Long Museum currently sits alongside the nine-month-old relic that is Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s Bund Biennial cloud pavilion. One year is a lifetime in this rapidly evolving area.
The new Long Museum has been designed to play with this concept of change and the modern-versus-post-industrial condition. Situating a new 17,000sqm art building on the site of the old coal-loading yard is an attempt by the local government to renew the area while capturing some of its urban memory. Here the tramlines have been retained and the huge concrete silos, constructed in the 1950s, remain as one of the key features of the site. However, while the museum itself is impressive, there is something unconvincing about this play with the historic urban grain.
For example, the coal trolley tramlines have been encased in cobblestoned paths but veer off at tangents to the building. Given that the tramlines were here first, such curious angles imply that the building doesn’t really respond to these historical routes in any coherent way. (This is compounded by the fact that a sculpture has been plonked directly on top of this rail route to undermine any sense of its importance as a meaningful heritage motif.) Secondly, the coal silos seem to have been treated as a monolithic objet d’art, with no genuine connection between this crumbling piece of Maoist industrial history and the resulting building. Admittedly, visitors can walk on the top of these silos where they have been overlaid with timber decking, but this misses the point. Impressive though this structure is, it appears to be merely an obstacle on the site. In fact, it is such an obstacle that it has caused the museum to be cut in half. Two parts of the new building are isolated from each other, divided by the coal hoppers, so that the main gallery to the north and a smaller gallery to the south are each entered separately.
The reception area in the north gallery is accessed from the break in the silos, and from there, the remarkable geometry becomes apparent. The building form is generated from what the architect calls the concrete ‘vault umbrella’ columns. These strong structural forms (that are also expressed in the external elevations) fan out at the head to provide a cantilever structural frame for the roof, while other shear walls tie into the original structure of the converted pre-existing basement. The architects insist that the form of the umbrellas is a ‘visual echo’ of the coal hoppers, but this is not entirely convincing. In fact, for this reviewer, there is a faux-industrial symbolism, a false impression that the building has been created from infilled, extant industrial arches rather than being a new-build.
That said, the geometric rigour of this construction, using vaulting radii to generate the spaces, has resulted in some impressively cavernous rooms: four-storey-height volumes with curved soffits in exposed concrete. This allows for the equal treatment of huge Big Character banner art (that dominates the space) and small pieces of work on expansive, non-distracting walls (that demand that the visitor steps closer). The opening exhibition of contemporary works was accompanied by an intense set of curatorial notes pasted on the concrete surfaces that added greatly to the appreciation of the displayed art works. For example: ‘Artists born in the 1960s have innate antipathy towards “grand narration” and do not have any lofty ideas or sense of mission.’ Or ‘Globalization has brought about economic growth and scientific progress, both of which have shed light on the artists’ thought … after the Cultural Revolution.’ Or, a guidance note on how to appreciate ancient calligraphy reads: ‘converse with delight; interpret the subtlety; observe in silence … only by doing so can one complete the spiritual journey’.
The more physical journey around the building is full of three-dimensional surprises, with low-level galleries opening up into full-height spaces; walls cut away into mezzanine-style balconies, or dramatic curved walls that lure the visitor into quiet spaces and out again. The staircase to the basement area is tiered into 1.5 metre landings that act as individual gallery areas. The architecture allows visitors to lose themselves while reassuring them that they are still connected.
Each adjoining volume − some at right angles, others in parallel − creates very interesting connections, infilled by rooflights and shutters, which the architect says has been the most awkward part of the building to get right. These junctions are infused with light, which is then cast onto the concrete curvature and dissipated without glare. As in a cathedral (that overused analogy for galleries), the light here is a crucial means to contemplation. As in a temple to art (that seldom used analogy for galleries), this building seeks to display the works to their best advantage.
Light is allowed in through large, gable end windows, but restricted by internal manifestation on the glass and by the external perforated metal sheets, which lends the appearance of a woven fabric. It is a clever detail, allowing a subdued even light to infiltrate the spaces even on a bright summer’s day. It blocks views in and restricts views of the surroundings so that there is no distraction from the gallery display.
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2019-04-25T10:51:09Z
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https://www.architectural-review.com/today/cleft-bank-long-art-museum-shanghai-by-atelier-deshaus/8670022.article?blocktitle=Museum:-Buildings-28&contentID=15058
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Do you know that the situation or fitness of your hair or your pores and skin is a mirrored image of your ordinary fitness? A friend stated to me that what we do or do no longer do to our fitness, how we stay each day and what choices we make each day – may be meditated inside the fitness of our hair and pores and skin. What is your mind?
For example, maintaining our ‘insides’ clean (top digestive system, pollutants flushed out and liver functioning properly) and functioning at most efficient health is lots greater critical than just doing our everyday ‘external’ cleaning workouts. Here, weight loss program and lifestyle play vital roles.
I would really like to percentage with you thirteen realistic tips of how to ‘usually’ deal with your self internally and externally to have healthful and accurate skin. In fact, for the ones having problem skin like acne or zits inclined pores and skin, have to make these pointers an each day addiction or ordinary.
Maybe a number of you have heard of water remedy? I do this each morning. They say it is right to drink 2-three glasses of the simple water first issue inside the morning earlier than breakfast. I do assume this works because once I do that, I go to the bathroom approximately 30 minutes later to ‘get pollutants flushed out’ of my body. An hour later, I eat breakfast. I drink water at some point of the day too.
Do drink sufficient water every day or even extra so if you have zits pores and skin. It is common that dehydration aggravates your pores and skin and causes pimples to flare up. To keep your pores and skin cells healthy, hold your self well-hydrated.
Besides, water therapy works splendidly to offer us most suitable fitness.
Keep your arms smooth in any respect time, mainly before washing your face. Imagine what you could have touched – your canine, the dustbin cowl knob, the doorknob, the toilet seat, the water tap (can be oily), the broom, your shoes, your socks, your cash and notes and so much more.
Therefore, you do now not want to ‘switch’ all that microorganism and dust to your face and it clearly might be useless to clean your face while your hands are dirty.
Before washing your face, take only a minute to thoroughly easy your hands. Use anti-bacterial cleaning soap. Then ensure your towels are smooth.
How often do you do your laundry? It could be a great idea to position your pillowcase in on every occasion you do your laundry. Otherwise, changing your pillowcase each other day would be the first rate. I suggest you are rubbing your face (pores and skin) for your pillowcase every night.
Hence, it makes exact sense to ensure your pillowcase is easy as opposed to being full of oil, bacteria or dust.
Be aware of your hands – avoid touching your face except essential. You do no longer need to spread the dust, bacteria and what not on your face. Even rubbing your eyes or resting your face or chin in your palms or hands can get the bacteria on your pores and skin. Your pores can get inflamed. Your pimples can be irritated and get worse.
Therefore, keep your fingers easy always or truly avoid touching your face along with your fingers.
5) How Do You Clean Your Face?
No, please do now not scrub your skin. Your pores and skin do now not want to be ‘squeaky smooth’ due to the fact this dries your skin too much. Instead, wash your face lightly – rub down lightly together with your fingers in circles around your face, thoroughly. Use a very good pleasant cleanser. The commonplace exercise is to wash your face twice each day.
But honestly, in case you experience your face needs over again, like within the center of the day, maybe just giving it a ‘water rinse’ will do. Try not to apply an excessive amount of cleaner on your skin. Still, if you experience you want to apply cleaner and your pores and skin get too dry, ensure you apply some appropriate and oil-loose moisturizer on it.
What you placed into your frame affects not just your average fitness but the health of your skin and hair. That being said, food regimen does not reason zits. However, food plan can irritate skin problems and pimples. So devour healthily. Avoid stuff you’ll be allergic to, stuff that could make your pores and skin itch or dairy food that is said to purpose ‘hormonal imbalance’. Wacky hormones are one of the not unusual causes of zits to flare up and escape.
It is quality to devour sparkling food, devour more veggies, eat extra culmination and drink sufficient water.
As kids grow and expand of their sleep, pores and skin heal when we sleep. Our bodies are also recharged. Even hair grows first-class when we sleep. Good rest and sleep facilitate acne heal better whilst easing tension and strain.
Sleep offers our whole body relaxation and eases anxiety and strain. But what approximately while we’re wakeful? Stress is so commonplace. Extreme stress can cause deep despair, severe health troubles and might even mess up your life.
Though stress does no longer cause zits or skin troubles, pressure in particular severe stress aggravates skin problems like pimples and makes the hassle worse.
Other than sound asleep, take time to sit back out each day. Make this an addiction despite the fact that not at some point of work hours! Do something you like after work or maybe at some point of lunch breaks. A scalp and frame massage earlier than bedtime feel superb too after a long day – important oils make these rubdown classes even better.
When it involves getting the proper pores and skin or acne remedy, you need to restore a preliminary evaluation, evaluation, and session with a doctor or pores and skin specialist. Then you need to do your research on all the zits and skin facts available in our online world. And how about doing some ‘offline’ studies?
There is no one ‘zits repair’ for all pimples or pores and skin issues. Other than getting your skin specialist advice, you need to understand what is on the market and what may match satisfactorily for your skin circumstance.
Information and evaluate websites are there to guide you. At the cease of the day, you recognize your pores and skin satisfactory, you know what ingredients may work and what might not paintings for your pores and skin circumstance.
When it comes to healthful pores and skin or pores and skin recovery manner, I sense the exceptional remedy is an entire, Internal-out and herbal primarily based remedy. This too works super on your typical health.
I actually have gone through some instances of cleansing for my health is preferred. I took natural dietary supplements and at instances herbal tea. I recollect every time felt brilliant. I felt ‘new’, greater lively, extra refreshed and only a great usual feeling.
However, at some stage in the first few weeks, there can be a few small pimples and purple spots coming out on my commonly clean pores and skin. Then steadily, all in order to disappear. Then my skin tone or complexion might look an awful lot higher.
So if you requested me, I would let you know I virtually sense this ‘getting sorted inner-out’ works awesome. If this works to maintain most appropriate health, it ought to paintings for retaining pores and skin and hair wholesome too, especially during and after the restoration technique to keep suitable health and pores and skin.
Therefore, it does make the maximum feel that combating zits at its root (internally and externally) is the fine way to clean pimples.
Although now not taking nutrients and dietary supplements do now not cause pimples, the skin specialist did say taking nutrients and supplements or giving our bodies the important vitamins it desires will help with the restoration technique and to maintain us healthy.
Nutrients play an element in recuperation, in constructing and in retaining pores and skin cells wholesome to present us a glowing and healthy complexion. Vitamins and supplements make up for the nutrients that we’re the loss of or if we aren’t taking like, a good ‘dosage’ of culmination and veggies.
But additionally recollect, taking an excessive amount off of a terrific issue can do greater damage than good. So take simply sufficient dosage of vital vitamins and supplements. And hold to a healthy weight loss plan and way of life.
Some ordinary exercise is ideal like perhaps three times a week – to get your blood and oxygen circulating at some point of your body. This is right no longer only for your usual health however additionally wonderful to your skin.
But like they say, too much of a great aspect may be horrific. So exerting yourself too much may additionally aggravate your skin trouble or pimples situation. Monitor your condition. Do what is exceptional for you.
I am a sturdy believer that all of us has that something outstanding in them. Being fantastic like a sunflower makes our whole-self experience incredible and this surely does assist in recuperation. Let your wonderful personality shine. Even behind a zits face, there may be an excellent personality. So let ‘You’ shine.
Stay fine. Smile and snigger. Besides, laughter is the exceptional remedy, as many human beings say. And if I recall this correctly – it’s far a truth that we use plenty extra facial muscle mass when we frown than while we smile.
I wish the above easy and practical tips can assist accelerate your pimples healing process. And even if your pimples has cleared, you have to preserve to those suggestions. I suggest they may be usually precise lifestyles and health behavior.
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2019-04-26T02:27:20Z
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https://healtheals.com/how-to-have-a-clear-face-with-13-practical-tips/
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IT HAS taken the Japanese government more than 18 months to pay tribute to a group of brave men, once known as the “Fukushima 50”, who risked their lives to prevent meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant from spiralling out of control.
The media attention is always focused on those in power, who typically do nothing to merit the recognition. The multitudes on the frontline, who put their heads down and do all the hard work are treated as faceless, nameless and ultimately forgotten.
with the writer calling it "one of the tragic flaws of modern Japan".
I seem to be already hearing an "It is the same everywhere in the world, not just Japan" chorus, but as the writer points out in the article, it may be only in Japan where these workers themselves and their families are bullied by people around them for having tried their best to contain the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. For the case of TEPCO workers at the plant, see my post from February this year. The article in that post was written by a reporter from Germany's Spiegel.
I think hardly anyone in Japan paid any attention to the Spiegel article. It will be the same with The Economist's article. It doesn't occur to many that the workers have been treated poorly, not only by TEPCO and by the government but also by ordinary people like them. See no evil, hear no evil.
IT HAS taken the Japanese government more than 18 months to pay tribute to a group of brave men, once known as the “Fukushima 50”, who risked their lives to prevent meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant from spiralling out of control. But when the prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, belatedly offered official thanks to them on October 7th something strange was afoot: six of the eight men he addressed had their backs to the television cameras, refused to be photographed and did not introduce themselves by name, not even to Mr Noda (see the image below).
There are numerous ways that this incident reflects badly on both Tepco’s and the government’s handling of the situation. Firstly, there is the contrast between the frontline worker’s behaviour and the brazen hypocrisy of Tepco’s management after the accident. I remember Tepco’s then-chairman, Tsunehisa Katsumata (now thankfully retired), nonchalantly blaming everyone but himself when giving testimony to a Diet commission earlier this year.
Meanwhile, the men who worked loyally for him, risking their lives on behalf of his company, still hide their heads in shame.
The government, for its part, has done these men a huge disservice by not acting more quickly to differentiate their heroism from the craven self-interest of the company’s bosses. In the eyes of the public there ought to be no confusion between the two. In Chile, it was easy to see how the country made heroes of the 33 trapped mine workers in 2010, while making villains of their bosses. Nothing like that has happened in Japan. As one government official noted, if this were America, the “Fukushima 50” would have been invited to the Rose Garden for presidential recognition.
Yet even after Mr Noda’s visit, the men do not get the recognition they deserve. Kyodo, a news agency, relegates any mention of them to the bottom of a boring story about decontamination.
An English-language paper, the Japan Times, today at least tells part of their harrowing story, though it doesn’t mention the refusal of all but two of them to be identified. They did not depict themselves as heroes, as they recounted their experiences to Mr Noda. They mostly sounded plain scared. One said he thought “it was all over” after the tsunami of March 11th, 2011 knocked out all the power. Another told of how he sent his staff out into the dark, where they faced the danger of electrocution, to restore the power to a nuclear reactor on the verge of melting down. He was asked by his men whether he thought they would come back alive. They went on regardless.
But the headlines, ultimately, refer back to Mr Noda, not to the Fukushima 50. He gets more of the credit than they do, despite his wooden acknowledgement to the men, that “Thanks to your dedication, we have managed to preserve Japan.” This is one of the tragic flaws of modern Japan. The media attention is always focused on those in power, who typically do nothing to merit the recognition. The multitudes on the frontline, who put their heads down and do all the hard work are treated as faceless, nameless and ultimately forgotten.
The Economist writer is highly critical of the TEPCO top management, rightly so. But even there, having watched TEPCO's press conference in March last year almost every night and having watched some of the teleconference video TEPCO finally released, I cannot make a sweeping criticism.
The Norwegian committee should have asked citizens in Greece and Spain at least.
The same committee awarded the current US president the same prize for his presidential campaign in 2008. Past recipients for Nobel Peace Prize include Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Dalai Lama, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
To be on the candidate list for a Nobel Prize, someone has to nominate the person or entity to the committee. I wonder who nominated the EU.
As the Reuter article below notes, Norway is not part of the EU, and is doing very well. The article also duly notes an infuriated Greek citizen.
(Reuters) - The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting peace, democracy and human rights over six decades in an award seen as a morale boost as the bloc struggles to resolve its economic crisis.
The award served as a reminder that the EU had largely brought peace to a continent which tore itself apart in two world wars in which tens of millions died.
The EU has transformed most of Europe "from a continent of wars to a continent of peace," Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said in announcing the award in Oslo.
"The EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest," Jagland said. "The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to focus on what it sees as the EU's most important result: the successful struggle for peace and reconciliation and for democracy and human rights."
Jagland praised the EU for rebuilding Europe from the devastation of World War Two and for its role in spreading stability after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
While welcomed by European leaders, the award will have little practical effect on the debt crisis afflicting the single currency zone, which has brought economic instability and social unrest to several states with rioting in Athens and Madrid.
On the streets of the Greek capital, where demonstrators have burned Nazi flags to protest against German demands for austerity, the award was greeted with disbelief.
"Is this a joke?" asked Chrisoula Panagiotidi, 36, a beautician who lost her job three days ago. "It's the last thing I would expect. It mocks us and what we are going through right now. All it will do is infuriate people here."
The prize, worth $1.2 million, will be presented in Oslo on December 10. It was not immediately clear who from the EU would be there to collect the cheque and what it would be spent on.
Conceived in secret at a chateau near Brussels, what is now the European Union was created by the 1957 Treaty of Rome, signed with great fanfare in the Italian capital's 15th century Palazzo dei Conservatori.
The six-state 'common market' it founded grew into the 27-nation European Union ranging from Ireland's Atlantic shores to the borders of Russia.
At the time the Cold War was in full swing after Soviet tanks put down an anti-communist rebellion in Budapest. Western countries led by the United States had formed NATO and the Kremlin responded with the Warsaw Pact.
But the EU is now mired in crisis with enormous strains between capitals over the euro, the common currency shared by 17 nations and created to further economic and monetary union.
Politicians in Germany, one of the main forces behind the foundation of the EU, were delighted with the award.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe's most powerful leader, said it was a "wonderful decision". French President Francois Hollande, whose country has with Germany formed the EU's main axis of power, said it was an "immense honor".
Helmut Kohl, the chancellor who reunified Germany and pushed the country into the euro, said: "The Nobel Peace Prize for the EU is above all a confirmation of the European peace project,"
After centuries of war on the continent the EU has been at peace within its borders, but its effort to stop war in former Yugoslavia -- an initiative hailed by one minister as "the hour of Europe" -- was a failure.
The British government, less committed to the European ideal than other EU members, made no comment on the prize. Ed Balls, a senior member of the opposition Labour Party, remarked sarcastically: "They'll be cheering in Athens tonight, won't they?"
Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's fiercely eurosceptic UKIP party, added: "This goes to show that the Norwegians really do have a sense of humor."
In Madrid, Francisco Gonzalez expressed bafflement. "I don't see the logic in the EU getting this prize right now. They can't even agree among themselves," the 62-year-old businessman said.
In Berlin, public relations worker Astrid Meinicke, 46, was also skeptical. "I find it curious. I think the EU could have engaged itself a bit better, especially in Syria," she said, near the city's historic Brandenburg Gate.
In the home of the peace prize, many Norwegians are bitterly opposed to the EU, seeing it as a threat to the sovereignty of nation states. "I find this absurd," the leader of Norway's anti-EU membership organization Heming Olaussen told state broadcaster NRK.
Norway has twice voted "no" to joining the EU, in 1972 and 1994. The country has prospered outside the bloc, partly thanks to huge oil and gas resources.
Among those tipped to win was Russia's small Ekho Moskvy radio, a frequent critic of the Kremlin. Editor in chief Alexei Venediktov conceded the prize to a worthy winner.
"We are only 115. They are 500 million. It is an honor (to lose to the EU)," he told Reuters.
The award money of $1.2 million is probably enough to hire one or two technocrats at Brussels for a year or so.
It took 51 workers (from TEPCO and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, most likely) 3 hours on October 11, 2012 to probe again the Containment Vessel of Reactor 1 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
TEPCO's handout for the press (Japanese, 10/11/2012) says the maximum radiation exposure for the workers was 1.83 millisievert. TEPCO does not say how many groups of workers went in, and how long each group spent inside the reactor building.
Tomorrow (October 12), TEPCO will send in the workers again (no information if they are the same ones who have been going there every day since October 9) to collect water samples. On October 13, the workers will go there again, and install a thermocouple and a water gauge inside the Containment Vessel, again using the same penetration.
It is simply infuriating to think all this work may not have been needed if enough people at TEPCO had dared to break the rules and social niceties on March 11, 12, 13. Even more infuriating that most Japanese still don't get it.
The company released the data on dose rates inside the CV and two videos (one is an abbreviated 3-minute video, the other is the full-length, over 2 hours) on October 10, 2012.
The highest level of radiation inside the CV was recorded right outside the X100B penetration tip, at 11.1 Sieverts/Hour.
According to TEPCO, the maximum radiation exposure for the workers was 2.13 millisieverts. That was much lower than the planned exposure of 10 millisieverts. The workers went in in several groups, so their exposure was nowhere near the 2-plus hours it took for the operation.
TEPCO will measure the radiation levels in the water under the grating, on October 11, and will collect the water sample on October 12.
So, when Prime Minister Noda went to the plant and gave a talk to the plant management on how progress had been made, the workers (TEPCO and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy) were preparing for this work which might expose them to 10 millisieverts in short time.
Frozen strawberries served in school lunches in kindergartens and schools in Berlin and other cities in eastern Germany have been identified as the culprit.
Norovirus has been identified from the strawberries. The food distributor says frozen strawberries were imported from China, according to NHK News.
44 metric tonnes of them, according to Germany's Spiegel.
Experts now believe that frozen strawberries from China are behind a massive outbreak of the norovirus that recently affected thousands of schoolchildren in eastern Germany. The episode merely illustrates the deplorable state of school lunches, a problem no one seems willing to fix.
The first school lunch that Martha Payne photographed in May consisted of a croquette, a small pizza, a bit of corn and a muffin. The nine-year-old from Scotland gave the meal six out of 10 points for taste on her "food-o-meter" and four out of 10 for healthiness.
Her plan had only been to take a shot in order to show her father that the meal wasn't enough to fill her up, she wrote on her blog. After only a week, Payne had 25,000 hits on her blog, and now hundreds of thousands are reading it.
Whoever looks at the photos will not be surprised by the debate that has been raging in Germany for two weeks about what is actually served to children in school cafeterias. Much more amazing is the fact that it took so long to reach a crisis like the one that has happened in eastern Germany, where more than 11,000 schoolchildren were recently affected by gastrointestinal sickness -- most likely because of what they ate at school.
"We already calculated long ago that an episode like this would happen because the entire system is messed up from beginning to end," says Michael Polster, head of DNSV, an association that advocates healthier school meals in Germany. "Rapidly growing demand is running up against massive cost pressure (and) absurd bureaucracy in an altogether lawless area," he says.
A move by the German government in recent years to push forward an expansion in the number of all-day schools, has prompted explosive growth in the school catering business. Germany has 11 million children attending 45,000 schools, and the number of them being fed at these schools is rising. As a result, the school catering business is becoming highly competitive and growing at an annual rate of 5 percent. Already today, the five largest school catering companies generate combined revenues of some €160 million ($208 million) in the country.
By far the largest of these is the French company Sodexo. Last week, the company and its products quickly fell under suspicion of being at least partially responsible for the mass outbreak of illness in eastern Germany because many of the affected establishments were supplied by its industrial kitchens.
The self-described specialist in "quality of life services" offers an extremely broad range of services, from nursing care to cleaning to catering. The company's global sales are estimated at €18 billion, and its 391,000 employees make it one of the 25 largest employers in the world. The family of company founder Pierre Bellon is believed to be the richest family in France.
After German reunification in 1990, Sodexo made significant investments in its Germany-based operations. The company took over a number of company cafeterias in the states that belonged to the former East Germany, including one in the city of Halle located right next to a former state-owned paint, varnish and flooring plant. To this day, plasticizers are stored in huge tanks in the courtyard near the kitchen, which is surrounded by rat traps. Signs warn about dangers to reproductive health.
The French quickly became sector leaders with rock-bottom prices of €1.55 ($2) per meal and many employees working at dumping wages, according to the NGG union. Today, 65 Sodexo kitchens supply 200,000 daily meals all across Germany.
Questioning of patients and analyses of the supply chain provided indications tracing the cause of the recent epidemic of diarrhea and vomiting to a supplier who provided Sodexo and at least two other catering companies with frozen strawberries from China. The batch involves 44 metric tons of the fruit that were imported into Germany via the port of Hamburg.
According to the findings of a working group composed of state and local officials, "at least 10" of the Sodexo kitchens in eastern Germany had processed and failed to sufficiently heat the frozen strawberries from this delivery. Sodexo describes the episode as a "regrettable isolated case" and says that use of the goods in question was "blocked" after it was announced that the strawberries might be to blame.
Late Friday evening, Sodexo's German operations issued a press release saying that it was "shocked" by the outbreak. The company added that it apologized to all affected children and families and that it hopes that the children have gotten better. In addition to pledging to improve quality control and to take other preventative measures, the company said it would "compensate those affected for the unpleasantness that occurred."
On Tuesday, Germany's center for disease control, the Robert Koch Institute, declared that the contaminated strawberries had been identified and removed, but it also confirmed that one batch of the frozen strawberries had tested positive for the highly contagious norovirus.
School lunches seem to be dumping grounds for cheap and/or unwanted food items, also in countries other than Japan. I'm a bit surprised that this happened in Germany.
Sodexo, Inc.'s website says it is the world leader in "Quality of Daily Life Solutions". There is Sodexo South Korea, but none in Japan. So far.
Speaking of frozen fruits, some cities in Kanagawa Prefecture continue to serve frozen mandarin oranges even if they have been already tested and confirmed to have radioactive cesium. Why? Because the contract with the vendor is more sacred.
It seems Japan will be a great fit for the French company.
Japanese Net Citizens' (Anecdotal) Response to TEPCO with No Money to Buy Batteries and No Permit to Transport Batteries: "TEPCO Should Have Used Credit, and We Need New Emergency Laws and Regulations"
One month after it was first reported by Asahi Shinbun, some Japanese net citizens on Twitter seem to be slowly realizing what happened on March 13, 2011 when Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant workers didn't have enough money to buy car batteries which would have given them a good fighting chance.
Sadly, their response to this revelation indicates to me the same thing would happen again and again.
The tweets that I've seen on the subject are limited in numbers, I don't have that many followers (4,700, give or take) and I don't follow that many. So the following is nothing but anecdotal.
They should have asked nicely.
They should have bought on credit.
Maybe the stores didn't trust TEPCO to sell on credit.
I'm embarrassed for Japan, what would the world think of us Japanese?
There is no indication that any of them even thought about "other" solutions (see my previous post for some).
That's understandable, because we don't have laws and regulations for emergency situations like that. I think there are some who predicted it [that Toshiba or TEPCO waited for the permit while core melt was occurring]. But it is us [the citizens of Japan] who have allowed it [the lack of emergency laws and regulations] to continue. So we have to change many things, but that's hard to do. If an earthquake and tsunami of the same magnitude happened right now, it is likely that we would repeat the same [mistakes].
To him, and to many others in Japan, it is a matter of creating new laws and regulations so that people can follow follow, and NOT of individual initiative and how to start thinking independently. And thinking fast.
It's not the matter of whether you have the laws and regulations in place. If a government bureaucrat told Toshiba or TEPCO they couldn't transport the batteries on the highway without the permit, even as they knew (though they dared not tell the public) the reactor core was melting, Toshiba or TEPCO could simply say, "Oh OK, yes we understand, sir", and start driving to Fuku-I anyway. People are not trained to be bold and cunning, able to make judgment on their own on the fly in a situation like that. So what they might be fined or even arrested afterwards for transporting dangerous stuff on the highway? That would have been much better than having nuclear reactors blowing up one after another.
I'm afraid he doesn't know what I'm talking about. But we're in agreement as to repeating the same mistake in the future.
PM Noda Visits J-Village, #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: "As a Citizen of Japan, I Thank You."
So far, the news is out on his morning visit to J-Village in Naraha-machi, Fukushima, where met with workers who had remained at the plant during the early days of the nuclear accident, and thanked them for their effort.
Why does he bother? Jiji says it's to show people that the Fukushima nuclear accident is still the number one priority for the administration. For what? At this point, I haven't a clue.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is in Fukushima Prefecture on October 7 to visit Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It will be the second time [for Mr. Noda] to visit the scene of the nuclear accident since September last year, when he became the prime minister. He has been re-elected as the leader of Democratic Party of Japan, and has reshuffled his cabinet to strengthen his position. With the visit, he intends to show that the Fukushima nuclear accident continues to be the first priority for the administration.
Prime Minister visited the J-Village in Naraha-machi, which has been the staging area for the accident response work. He met with the workers who had remained at the plant despite danger right after the start of the nuclear accident in March last year, and thanked them by saying, "You must have suffered such hardships that you can't even begin to tell us. I would like to thank you, as a citizen of Japan, for your strenuous effort in the middle of fear and harsh environment."
I don't know if the quote by Jiji Tsushin is verbatim or abbreviation. I would have liked him to say that and more, as the prime minister of the national government whose official, national policy has been to pursue nuclear energy, instead of as one citizen.
"As the prime minister, and as a citizen of Japan, I offer my profound respect and appreciation. Thank you very much."
From the words, Mr. Noda seems to appreciate policemen more than the Fuku-I workers.
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1. Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.
Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay .
Why is my neighbor's wife so gay ?
In gems and wanton dress!
Syn. -- Merry; gleeful; blithe; airy; lively; sprightly, sportive; light-hearted; frolicsome; jolly; jovial; joyous; joyful; glad; showy; splendid; vivacious.
Gayal noun [ Native name.] (Zoology) A Southern Asiatic species of wild cattle ( Bibos frontalis ).
Gaydiang noun (Nautical) A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.
1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.
2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.
Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth; animation; vivacity; glee; blithesomeness; sprightliness; jollity. See Liveliness .
Gayley process (Medicine) The process of removing moisture from the blast of an iron blast furnace by reducing its temperature so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.
Gaylussite noun [ Named after Gay-Lussac , the French chemist.] (Min.) A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.
1. With mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.
2. Finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming. Pope.
Gaysome adjective Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.
Gaytre noun [ See Gaitre .] The dogwood tree. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
Gaze (gāz) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gazed (gāzd); present participle & verbal noun Gazing .] [ Middle English gasen , akin to dial. Swedish gasa , confer Goth. us- gaisjan to terrify, us- geisnan to be terrified. Confer Aghast , Ghastly , Ghost , Hesitate .] To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.
Syn. -- To gape; stare; look. -- To Gaze , Gape , Stare . To gaze is to look with fixed and prolonged attention, awakened by excited interest or elevated emotion; to gape is to look fixedly, with open mouth and feelings of ignorant wonder; to stare is to look with the fixedness of insolence or of idiocy. The lover of nature gazes with delight on the beauties of the landscape; the rustic gapes with wonder at the strange sights of a large city; the idiot stares on those around with a vacant look.
And gazed a while the ample sky.
1. A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
2. The object gazed on.
Made of my enemies the scorn and gaze .
(a) (Her.) With the face turned directly to the front; -- said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon. (b) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of some hidden danger; hence, standing agape; idly or stupidly gazing.
Gazeful adjective Gazing. [ R.] Spenser.
Gazehound noun A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent. Sir W. Scott.
Gazel noun (Zoology) See Gazelle .
» The common species of Northern Africa ( Gazella dorcas ); the Arabian gazelle, or ariel ( G. Arabica ); the mohr of West Africa ( G. mohr ); the Indian ( G. Bennetti ); the ahu or Persian ( G. subgutturosa ); and the springbok or tsebe ( G. euchore ) of South Africa, are the best known.
Gazement noun View. [ Obsolete] Spenser.
Gazer noun One who gazes.
Gazette noun [ French gazette , Italian gazzetta , perhaps from gazetta a Venetian coin (see Gazet ), said to have been the price of the first newspaper published at Venice; or perhaps dim. of gazza magpie, a name perhaps applied to the first newspaper; confer Old High German agalstra magpie, German elster .] A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.
Gazette transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gazetted ; present participle & verbal noun Gazetting .] To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.
1. A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson.
2. A newspaper; a gazette. [ Obsolete] Burke.
3. A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.
4. An alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
Gazingstock noun A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall.
Gazogene noun [ French gazogène ; gaz gas + -gène , English - gen .] A portable apparatus for making soda water or aërated liquids on a small scale. Knight.
Gazon noun [ French gazon turf, from Old High German waso , German wasen .] (Fort.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
Ge- An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y- .
Gean noun [ French guigne the fruit of the gean; confer Old High German wīhsila , German weichsel .] (Botany) A species of cherry tree common in Europe ( Prunus avium ); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.
Geanticlinal noun [ Greek ... the earth + English anticlinal .] (Geol.) An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria ; -- opposed to geosynclinal .
Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear .
2. Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer.
Clad in a vesture of unknown gear .
5. Warlike accouterments. [ Scot.] Jamieson.
6. Manner; custom; behavior. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.
Thus go they both together to their gear .
8. (Mech.) (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear , or a bevel gear ; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear ; out of gear .
9. plural (Nautical) See 1st Jeer (b) .
10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.] Wright.
(Machinery) , to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.
1. To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
2. (Machinery) To provide with gearing.
, driven through twofold compound gearing, to increase the force or speed; -- said of a machine.
Gear intransitive verb (Machinery) To be in, or come into, gear.
2. (Machinery) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing ; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
, gearing in which the teeth or cogs are ranged round either the concave or the convex surface (properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.
Geason adjective [ Middle English gesen , geson , rare, scanty, Anglo-Saxon g...sne barren, wanting. Confer Geest .] Rare; wonderful. [ Obsolete] Spenser.
Gecarcinian (jē`kär*sĭn"ĭ* a n) noun [ Greek gh^ earth + karki`nos crab.] (Zoology) A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus , or of allied genera.
2. To cheat; trick, or gull. [ Obsolete] Johnson.
Geck intransitive verb To jeer; to show contempt. Sir W. Scott.
Gecko (gĕk"o) noun ; plural Geckoes (-ōz). [ Confer F. & German gecko ; -- so called from the sound which the animal utters.] (Zoology) Any lizard of the family Geckonidæ . The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko , Fanfoot .
Geckotian noun (Zoology) A gecko.
Ged, Gedd noun The European pike.
1. To agree; to harmonize. [ Colloq. or Prov. Eng.] Forby.
» In England, the teamster walks on the right-hand side of the cattle; in the United States, on the left-hand side. In all cases, however, gee means to turn from the driver, and haw to turn toward him.
. Same as Gee .
Geer, Geering [ Obsolete] See Gear , Gearing .
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It's been a busy week for our draft coverage!
We dropped our updated BA 300 draft rankings on Wednesday followed by a full first-round mock draft today. So naturally, it's time to delve even deeper.
Carlos Collazo: Hey guys! Thanks for stopping by to chat about the Draft. We rolled out our updated and expanded top 300 draft rankings yesterday and a first-round mock draft today. So check those out if you haven't already and if you have, let's get right to it. Still time to throw me any questions if you have them!
Hi Carlos, got two questions for you this time. First question, could Nick Lodolo be a top ten candidate? I saw he's 12th to the Mets on your mock today, and I do see him going to the Braves or Giants, but I want to hear your opinion. Also, will you be attending the NHSI event?
Carlos Collazo: Hey Tyler, thanks for chatting! First, I could certainly see Lodolo going in the back half of the top 10. I would be a little surprised if the Braves went for a college pitcher this year at nine but have could see him somewhere in the back of the top 10 if he keeps pitching the way he has so far this season. As for the NHSI, yes. That event gets started in two weeks and is always a must-see for us here at Baseball America. The USA Baseball complex is just a few minutes down the street from the BA office, so missing that would be a real crime on our parts. Last year Jordyn Adams made himself a first round pick at this event. Maybe we’ll get another big-time riser this year. Either way, the talent will be great.
Carlos Collazo: Yep, I’m still hoping to get some more clarity on Brown as more teams get eyes on him this week and throughout the next few months as the Junior National team plays against pro clubs in Florida. But he’s got an exciting raw toolset as you mentioned with impressive athleticism and speed. I think there are only three players younger than him on our Top 300 list. If he looks good with the bat over the next few weeks he could definitely move up higher.
Carlos Collazo: Yep, mostly because of some of the guys who have risen around him, but I put Jung in that slot because most teams still think of him as a top 10 player and love his hitting ability. Take your pick at any of the players who are ranked around that spot at this point… Agreed on your point about the regime change as well.
Why is Jaxx Groshans still so low in your rankings?
Carlos Collazo: Groshans has hit very well this season, but he’s a guy that I asked about specifically and got feedback that he shouldn’t be super high at this point because of some of the defensive questions that teams have with him. If he keeps hitting like this during conference play he’ll rise I would imagine.
How much does defense play into player rankings? I see some players that are ranked quite high because of a hot bat but no mention of their issues with defense and high number of errors. Honestly, just curious. No dog in the fight. Just like following college baseball and the draft.
Carlos Collazo: Everything matters about the player. We take hitting, power, defense, throwing, running, makeup, track record, mechanics, etc. into account, as do all the scouts we talk to. For some players, like Andrew Vaughn, the bat is so good that it more than makes up for any defensive concerns. It’s all about how a player could profile at the next level, given their offensive impact at a position they are likely to play. Or something along those lines. I’m certainly not all-knowing, but that’s how I would try to describe it. It would be easier if you had a few specific names in mind than talking about this in general. Hope that helped clear it up some.
Will there be a good hitter available for the Tigers at 5? They have pitching coming but need hitters.
Carlos Collazo: Yes. They should have several to choose from there if that’s the route they want to go at No. 5. We mocked a pretty good hitter to them today.
How does this year's class stack up to 2018 so far?
Carlos Collazo: I’d say the talent throughout the top 15 or so matches 2018. The depth of the class falls off a lot quicker than last year’s group did, though.
Other than Daniel Espino, what prep pitcher has the best fastball in the class?
Carlos Collazo: This is a good one! I like how you framed it as well because Espino 100% has the top heater for me and most others. We actually polled scouting directors before the season for our All-America teams and in that they also voted for best tools. According to them, it goes 1. Daniel Espino 2. Brennan Malone 3. Matthew Allan. I have no reason to argue with any of that.
Can Greg Jones still get into the first round? What does he have to show?
Carlos Collazo: He *could* because we’ve still got a lot of season left, but the early signs have not been encouraging for him. Most importantly, he’s been dealing with a shoulder issue and hasn’t played shortstop consistently, instead DHing for a large part of the season, though he is back there now. He’s walking more and striking out less, but he’s still hitting just .284 and doesn’t have much track record of hitting at a high level in college—if at all. There’s plenty of speed to get excited about but there are also plenty of legitimate question marks as well.
George Kirby had a rough outing last week. If he struggles in conference, could he tumble out of the top 50?
Carlos Collazo: Yeah… definitely not great giving up nine hits and six runs in four frames. Fortunately he has some pretty good history built up already and seems like one of the safer pitchers in the class, if not the most high-upside. I think he would have to really struggle to fall that far and I don’t see it happening, (especially given the pitching in this year’s class) but he will be expected to put up numbers in the CAA.
Hello Carlos! Hunter Barco looks better at the start of this year compared to 2018. Plenty of strikes and I see some Sean Manaea traits. Can he push towards the top of the HS pitchinf class if he keeps this up?
Carlos Collazo: Can’t speak to the Sean Manaea comp, but he has done really well for himself early this spring. He’s added some good strength, the fastball is holding velo better than last summer, the arm slot is up higher. All great signs, and he has established himself as the top prep lefty in the class if not the top prep pitcher. But that also has to do with some struggles of the other highly-ranked HS lefties out of the gate. Either way, encouraging start for him.
It seems like catchers are obscenely deep this season. Or am I wrong?
Carlos Collazo: I would not classify this class as deep at the catching position. There are a few really good catchers at the top in Adley Rutschman and Shea Langeliers, but outside of them it falls off steeply. Ethan Hearn and Jonathan French are the best of the rest for us at this point, but we only have four catchers in the top 100. That doesn’t seem deep to me, and I don’t think we’re going to get three prep backstops drafted on day one this year like 2018. There are some interesting college catchers who are mashing early this year, but many of those guys have real questions about their defensive ability.
I know Abrams and Witt are better prospects overall, but what does Bryson Stott do better than them? Is there anything concerning about his increased number of strikeouts this year or is that just due to him hitting for more power and being more selective?
Carlos Collazo: The biggest separator would be his track record of hitting, and increasingly, his track record of hitting with impact. I have not gotten anyone who’s concerned with his strikeouts at this point. Most teams would probably be perfectly happy with that trade off for the increased power he’s shown.
Obviously we are a couple of years away from these guys but what do you think about some of the younger High schoolers like Blaze Jordan and Braylon Bishop?
Carlos Collazo: Hard to speak about these guys too much, just because I haven’t seen them a ton, but Bill Mitchell had a glowing report about Bishop from January. Blaze Jordan obviously has some crazy power. I’d also throw in Brady House’s name to this list of 2021 guys to get excited about. He’s got some ridiculous tools.
Carlos Collazo: Yep that’s exactly it. After having conversations the past few weeks many upper level decision makers think that Rutschman and Vaughn are kind of in a tier of their own at this point. If that’s the case, it makes sense to give the Royals Vaughn at No. 2. And if they are committed to a quick rebuild, it makes sense to take the player who might move quickest to the majors and is the best hitter in the class. We’ll see what happens when we get closer though. The mocks at this point are written in pencil, not pen.
What round do you think Josh Wolf will go in?
Carlos Collazo: I'll say second. That's in line with where he's ranked for us at the moment.
I noticed you don't have JJ Bleday in today's mock. I was under the impression he had some helium this year. What deficiencies/questions are keeping him out of the 1st round?
Carlos Collazo: This is a great call. When putting together the mock I had penciled in Bleday to the Braves at 21, but then saw I still had Malone on the board and pivoted to a HS pitcher for them because I couldn’t resist and had already given them a college outfielder. After that, Bleday should have gone off the board quickly but I never did make that happen. So, there are no questions with him, and I do expect him to be a first rounder. Good catch, and my apologies!
I was out at Cal this weekend to see Andrew Vaughn and the Golden Bears and all I kept hearing was buzz on Cal commit Kyren Paris. Apparently, there is a lot of noise about him flying up boards. Any chance the A's could grab the local stud with their 1st round pick at #29 or will he be gone by then?
Carlos Collazo: We’ve also heard good things about Paris early, and he did move up our rankings. Sounds like he’s gotten a bit stronger and is hitting balls hard. He’s the youngest player on the 300 and has shown a lot of impressive skills, with good defensive ability, impressive hand-eye coordination and a lot to project on. 29 seems a little steep to me at this point though.
The knock on Hunter Bishop in the past (besides converting his raw power to game power, which he has done this year) is the hit tool. Where did you grade that coming into the season? And how much has that grade improved by his spring thus far?
After years of being a toolshed who lacked in-game feel, Hunter Bishop is playing like his hair is on fire. Is this surge really real? Has he finally turned the proverbial corner?
Hunter Bishop sure has some helium doesn't he? 2 more HR's last night. One an absolute bomb. How does he compare tools-wise to Kameron Misner? Any chance he would be considered by the White Sox at number 3?
Carlos Collazo: Lots of Hunter Bishop questions, unsurprisingly. He’s been very good. The hit tool now is basically completely different from what it was a year ago, as he’s simplified his setup at the plate and quieted some of his movements.You can see that in the numbers and you’ll see that if you look at old video as well. It’s a real adjustment, no scout I’ve talked to thinks it’s some sort of early-season, small sample fluke. He compares pretty well tools-wise to Misner, though No. 3 might be a bit high.
Carlos Collazo: Alright everyone, thanks going to do it for today. Thanks for all of your questions as always, and if there's something I didn't get to that you're still itching for me to respond to, you can find me on Twitter. Hopefully I mocked a player to your favorite team that excites you, and if not it's fine because I'm probably wrong anyways! There's also a ton of non-draft stuff on the site that you should check out if you haven't, including Teddy Cahill's first projected Field of 64, spring training reports from both J.J. Cooper (on Patrick Murphy) and Josh Norris (on Brady Singer), and Ben Badler's International Reviews continue to be rolled out as well.
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Articler, City of Montreal, 1970; law clerk, Supreme Court of Canada, 1971-72; research officer, Law Reform Commission, 1972; lecturer, York University, 1974; assistant professor, York University, 1975; associate professor, York University, 1977-87; associate professor and associate dean, Osgoode Hall School of Law, York University, 1987; high court justice, Supreme Court of Ontario, 1987-90; member, Court of Appeal for Ontario, 1990-96; chief prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunals, 1996-99; judge, Supreme Court of Canada, 1999-2004; high commissioner for human rights, United Nations, 2004—.
International Association of Prosecutors, 1999; Médaille du mérite, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, 1999; Prix de la Fondation Louise Weiss, Paris, 1999; Second Annual Service to Humanity Award, Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, 2000; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal, Roosevelt Study Centre, the Netherlands, 2000; Women of Distinction Award, Toronto Hadassah-Wizo, 2000; Peace Award, World Federalists of Canada, 2000; Lord Reading Law Society's Human Rights Award, 2000; Wolfgang Freidman Memorial Award, Columbia Law School, 2001; EIDUL-ADHA Award, Association of Progressive Muslims of Ontario, 2001; Médaille du Barreau, Quebec, 2001; National Achievement Award, Jewish Women International of Canada, 2001; Stefan A. Riesenfeld Symposium Award, Berkeley Journal of International Law, 2002; Person of the Year, McGill Center for Research and Teaching on Women, 2002; Justice in the World International Prize, International Association of Judges, 2002; Médaille de la Faculté de droit, University of Montreal, 2003; Hall of Fame, International Women's Forum, 2003.
Louise Arbour had made it to the pinnacle of any lawyer's dream career: she had a seat on the Su preme Court of Canada. Less than five years into her tenure serving as one of the highest-ranking justices in the country, Arbour stepped down. Instead, she became the fourth person named to the position of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. It was not the first time that Arbour stood in the international spotlight. In 1996, she was chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal, responsible for bringing to justice major players in the human rights tragedies of both Rwanda and Kosovo. A distinguished career as a lawyer and professor combined with her renowned tenacity and charm have garnered her a reputation as someone who can get the job done while also maintaining civil relationships with her opponents.
Arbour was born on February 10, 1947, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her parents divorced when she was young and her mother, Ruth Laberge, raised Arbour and her brother, Patrick, on her own. While Arbour attended College Regina Assumpta, a strict all-girls Roman Catholic school, her mother ran a store in downtown Montreal. Arbour explained to Allan Thompson of the Toronto Star the impact that the school had on her development, "In a sense I was probably manipulated to achieve exactly what it is designed to achieve, which is to get you to be a rebel to a point." She attended the school for ten years and received her bachelor's degree from there in 1967.
After graduation she went directly to the University of Montreal where she studied law at the Faculty of Law. She earned her degree, an LL.L, in 1970. During that same year, she later recounted, occurred one of the most influential events in her life and one which directed her in her future career. That year, the Canadian government passed the War Measures Act, which immediately suspended many civil liberties guaranteed by the state in response to kidnappings carried out by French separatists. She told the Toronto Star 's Thompson, "In many, many respects this had a very dramatic influence on my outlook on public issues, on the issue of power, abuse of power, the need for information and an element of skepticism towards authority."
After graduating from law school, Arbour held a few minor legal positions before taking a position as a lecturer on criminal procedure for the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. She had passed the Quebec Bar in 1971 and in 1974 began her long and distinguished career with York University. In 1977, she passed the Ontario Bar. She quickly moved to the position of Assistant Professor, then Associate Professor. In 1987, she was named Associate Dean but only held the position for six months.
In December of 1987, Arbour was appointed as a High Court Justice for the Supreme Court of Ontario. Three years later she was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal. In 1995, while still serving on the Court of Appeal, Arbour was named as the sole commissioner to make inquiries into the allegations of abuse at the Prison for Women in Kingston. Her reports, which found institutionalized abuse rampant in the prison, served to help the Canadian government make significant changes in their correctional system, particularly with regard to female inmates.
Perhaps as a result of her effective investigations into prison abuse in Canada, she was asked to join the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. The appointment, which she accepted, was made by a resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations. Arbour was named to the four-year position of chief prosecutor for what would become known as the War Crimes Tribunal. Her tireless work brought about indictments against former Yugoslavian dictator Slobodan Milosevic and others as well as convictions against 60 people charged with participating in the 1994 massacre in Rwanda.
Unfortunately for the tribunal, Arbour left before her four-year term was finished. In 1999, citing exhaustion, a desire to return to Canada, as well as a desire to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada, Arbour left the position of chief prosecutor. James Stewart, who worked with Arbour in The Hague described her energy to the Toronto Star 's Thompson, "It is as if there is a kind of dynamo there, firing off energy. She wasn't going to take anything from anybody. And yet she was not in any way abrasive. She could disarm through charm."
On September 15, 1999, Arbour took her seat on the highest court in Canada. She served the court for five years, and was part of the deciding vote, which reestablished the right of federal prisoners to vote. Eventually, she was offered another appointment that she found she could not refuse. In 2002, she had been offered the position of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She turned the job down. The position was eventually filled by Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was subsequently killed in a 2003 bombing while on a mission in Baghdad, Iraq. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, approached Arbour again with the appointment. This time she did not refuse.
For any lawyer, having a seat on the Supreme Court would mark the highest point of one's career. Arbour was not so satisfied and found the possibility of becoming the world's representative for the protection of human rights irresistible. With years of experience working to bring to justice those who would transgress basic human rights, Arbour stepped into this new position boldly on July 1, 2004. She was the fourth person to hold the position, which was established in 1993.
Throughout her career, Arbour has distinguished herself as hardworking. She holds more than 25 honorary degrees from universities around the world. She is fluent in both English and French. Besides court appointments she also wrote extensively on subjects such as criminal procedure, human rights, civil liberties, and gender issues. She was editor for Criminal Reports, Canadian Human Rights Reporter, and Osgoode Hall Law Journal. Until her first appointment in 1987, she had served as the vice-president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Arbour has three children with Larry Taman, her partner of 27 years.
Toronto Star, June 13, 2004, p. A7; July 5, 2004, p. A1.
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"Louise Arbour seeking global justice," Press Republican, http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2004/07_2004/07092004pb.htm (August 12, 2004).
"Louise Arbour starts work as new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights," United Nations, http://www.un.org (August 12, 2004).
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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We're going to take a look now at a picture we've got from the Rose Garden at the White House. We're waiting. And as we see there, President Bush is coming out. We expect he's going to make a couple of announcements. The key one is going to be the announcement of his new drug policy czar. And he is John Walters. That is who is accompanying the president to the podium.
Walters is a somewhat controversial choice to some, because he is known as being a hard-liner when it comes to fighting the war on drugs.
Apparently, we are having some problems with the microphone there.
I don't hear anything. Do you hear anything?
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: I don't.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Thank you for being here.
I'm pleased that members of my Cabinet have joined us -- the attorney general of the United States, John Ashcroft, the secretary of health and human services, Tommy Thompson. Thank you all for being here.
Mr. Surgeon General, thank you for being here as well, sir. We're honored to have you here.
(APPLAUSE) Also with us is John J. DiIulio, who is the director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. John is on the leading edge of encouraging faith-based programs to become energized to help people who need help. And John, thank you so much for being here as well.
WILLIAM J. BENNETT, FORMER DRUG POLICY DIRECTOR: Thank you, sir. Just a couple of words.
BUSH: Always a pleasure. He was our nation's first drug czar, former secretary of education -- a fearless, fearless fighter against drug abuse -- as well as Joe Califano, from the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University; former secretary of health, education and welfare under President Jimmy Carter. As well, like Mr. Bennett, a fearless advocate for those of us who are dedicated to reducing drug abuse. Thank you both for being here.
And we have three members from the community, anti-drug communities who have joined us.
Arthur R. Dean is the chairman and CEO of the Community Anti-drug Coalitions of America. Thank you so much for coming. Appreciate you being here.
Jessica Halsey (ph) is a member of the Drug-Free Communities Advisory Commission. Thank you, Jessica.
And Henry Lozano, Californians For Drug-Free Youth, member of the DFCAC, a graduate from Teen Challenge.
I'm pleased to announce that, as of today, the federal government is waging an all-out effort to reduce illegal drug use in America.
And I'm proud to nominate John P. Walters as my director of national drug control policy, where he will serve as a valuable member of my Cabinet.
Mr. Walters has had a distinguished career in government. He served as the chief of staff to Bill Bennett and later served as deputy director and acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
John will bring tremendous skill, knowledge and good judgment to this job. He's an articulate advocate, an able administrator and a man of deep and reasoned convictions.
He as repeatedly been called upon to provide guidance to the United States Congress. John cares passionately about this issue and he is the right person to lead America's anti-drug efforts. Our effort rests on the firm belief that by focusing more of our nation's attention, energy and resources, real progress will be made.
From the early 1980s until the early 1990s, drug use amongst high school seniors was reduced every year. We had made tremendous strides in cutting drug use. This cannot be said today. We must do and we will do a better job.
Fortunately, today we know about what works in prevention and education, treatment and law enforcement. We will put this knowledge to use, but above all, our efforts rest on an unwavering commitment to stop drug use.
Acceptance of drug use is simply not an option for this administration. Illegal drugs impose a staggering cost of more than $100 billion every year, principally from lost productivity. Yet, this dollar figure does not capture the human tragedy of drug use -- lost lives, educational and job opportunities unmet, families torn apart, health care costs, school drop-out rates and more.
Drug use harms people of every economic class, but drug use is doing the most damage to the poor. John Jacob, former president of the National Urban League, has said that drugs are destroying more children and more families than poverty ever did. John Walters and I believe the only humane and compassionate response to drug use is a moral refusal to accept it. We emphatically disagree with those who favor drug legalization.
Drug legalization would be a social catastrophe. Drug use and addiction would soar; hospitals would be filled with many more drug emergency cases; child abuse would increase; the cost of treatment and social welfare would rise; there would be more drug-related accidents at work and on the road; and legalizing drugs would completely undermine the message that drug use is wrong.
A successful anti-drug effort depends on a thoughtful and integrated approach. Mr. Walters understands this as well as anybody in America. During his career, he's work to improve the effectiveness of drug education and prevention programs. He played a key role in sharing a record commitment of resources to drug treatment and research in previous administrations. He help assure that the federal government did its part in the source countries on our borders and on our streets.
My administration will continue to work with nations to eradicate drugs at their source and enforce our borders to stop the flow of drugs into America. This will make working in close cooperation with Mexico a priority. It'll make having strong relations in hemisphere a priority, a priority which I will keep.
However, the most effective way to reduce the supply of drugs in America is to reduce the demand for drugs in America.
Therefore, this administration will focus unprecedented attention on the demand side of this problem. We recognize that the most important work to reduce drug use is done in America's living rooms and classrooms, in churches and synagogues and mosques, in the workplace and in our neighborhoods.
Families, schools, communities and faith-based organizations shape the character of young people.
They teach children right from wrong, respect for law, respect for others and respect for themselves. They're indispensable, and my administration stands ready to assist them in every possible way.
Joe Califano is the president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse and a man whose research has helped shape my thinking. Joe has said that teens of parents who eat, talk, play and pray together are not likely to be lured into the world of drugs. The child who reaches age 21 without using illegal drugs is virtually certain never to do so, and children cite parents as their under one reason they don't use drugs.
And so we'll energize the parents movement by creating a parent drug corps which will provide needed support to educate and train parents in effective drug prevention.
We must increase funding for the drug-free communities program and for the drug-free workplace program.
And within 30 days, Professor John DiIulio will compile a complete inventory of existing federal anti-drug partnerships with local faith-based and community groups and work with John Walters to strengthen those efforts.
Despite every effort, however, some individuals will become addicted to drugs. There are around 5 million hard-core users of illegal drugs in America today, and while they represent one-third of the drug users, they consume two-thirds of all drugs. It is estimated that more than half of them are not receiving any treatment. I'm therefore asking Secretary Tommy Thompson to conduct a state-by-state inventory of treatment needs and capacity and report back within 120 days on how to most effectively close the treatment gap in this country.
In order to close that treatment gap, we'll provide $1.6 billion over the next five years. We want to advance our understanding of drug abuse and addiction, so we're planning to significantly increase funding for the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
We also recognize the benefits of coerced abstinence, and so we will support drug courts and drug testing for prisoners, probationers and parolees.
We know that inmates receiving drug treatment are 73 percent less likely to be re-arrested and 44 percent less likely to use drugs than those who receive no treatment at all. I'm therefore asking the attorney general, John Ashcroft, to come up with a comprehensive plan within 120 days to ensure our federal prisons are drug-free, to expand drug testing for probationers and parolees, and to strengthen our system of drug courts around the nation.
We must reduce drug use for one great moral reason, over time drugs rob men, women and children of their dignity and of their character. Illegal drugs are the enemies of innocence and ambition and hope. They undermine people's commitment to their family and to their fellow citizens. My administration will send a clear and consistent message that drug use is dangerous and drug use is wrong.
John Walters will lead that effort with firm resolve and a caring heart. He will do an exceptional job. I am proud to submit his name to the United States Senate and I look forward to working with members of the House and the Senate from both political parties to reduce drug use in America.
I'm honored to welcome so many people who devote their lives to the well-being of others to the Rose Garden here in the White House. I want to thank you for your work and ask God's blessings on your work in this great nation of ours. BUSH: And it's my honor to welcome John Walters.
JOHN P. WALTERS, NOMINEE FOR DRUG POLICY DIRECTOR: Thank you, Mr. President, for honoring me with this nomination.
I look forward to the confirmation process in the Senate and the opportunity to work with Congress again in reducing the problem of illegal drug use.
As the president has mentioned, our country has made great progress in the past in reducing drug use, and we will do it again. We will especially protect our children from drug use. We will help the addicted find effective treatment and remain in recovery. We will shield our communities from the terrible human toll taken by illegal drugs. And we'll stop illegal drug use and the drug trade from funding threats to democratic institutions throughout our hemisphere.
Most of all, Mr. President, as you have stated so clearly, and it's symbolized by those with us here today who represent millions of Americans working effectively every day to reduce drug use, addiction and crime, our efforts rest on the knowledge that when we push back, the drug problem gets smaller. This fact is beyond question today, even if it is not always beyond denial.
Mr. President, thank you for nominating me to be director of the office of national drug control policy at this important time. If the Senate permits, it would be my privilege to support the outstanding individuals represented here who work every day to combat the drug problem throughout our nation.
HARRIS: And there we have it: the official presentation of President Bush's nominee for drug policy director: John P. Walters -- and Mr. Walters saying that his mission is going to be to protect the children of the nation and to help those addicted, as well as protecting communities from the scourge of drugs. He also says that when we push back, the drug problem gets smaller.
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Three days down and less than one to go. The voice is hoarse and the legs are tired but it’s been great to catch up with so many customers, prospects, partners and friends. There’s a real change in the depth of detail of our conversations compared to previous years and it’s reassuring to hear people talk so highly of Yospace for server-side ad insertion, especially in a field where there is increasing competition.
The rise of OTT has seen many broadcasters urgently need to monetise online, and the challenge of retaining an audience has meant that a number of broadcasters have moved to reduce advertising with longer term benefits in mind. This is exactly what our customer Medialaan did on its live streams. The innovative European broadcaster allowed viewers on its Stievie service were able to rewind a live stream then receive shorter ad breaks to allow them to catch up with the live programming sooner.
The result was more engaged viewers, longer viewing sessions, and ultimately more ad breaks viewed. Read about this more in our Medialaan case study.
The challenge of scaling live sports and their unpredictability demands any advertising system employed by a broadcaster to be both robust and versatile. Typically up to 90% of viewers tune into a football game within five minutes of kick-off, and it’s in situations like this that our pre-fetch system is crucial (read more about this in our Day One blog).
In addition to this, our SSAI enabled the broadcaster to monetise streams within an enhanced player and deliver on its ambitions to put the viewer front and centre of the action. Read more here.
Australian broadcaster Seven live streamed all 16 courts of the Australian Open. Thanks to Yospace’s ability to feed back live telemetry data, Seven was able to prioritise the advertising based on the state of play of each court at any one time.
Find out more about this project in our Seven case study.
It’s pleasing now that most people we meet already know the answer to this question and are keen to get into the details of the technology. We’re finding that discussions around consistency of viewer experience, measurement and data security are becoming more and more popular.
Harnessing the power of SSAI for VoD is our focus for day two at NAB. Over the past year, we’ve seen a considerable increase in operators and MVPDs implementing SSAI for VoD to deliver viewing experience consistency throughout their device platforms.
Why is there a move towards Server-Side Ad Insertion for VoD?
In this article for TV Technology, Yospace’s Founder & CTO David Springall discusses why SSAI technology, which has been a staple of live monetisation for a number of years, is also proving to be a popular way of monetising VoD due to factors such as viewer experience, ease of maintenance and data security.
Data security is an especially important topic. As operators and MVPDs increasingly rely on their first-party data to maximize ad revenues, having an effective middleware layer (SSAI) between the client and the ad server is crucial in protecting user data and preventing them from being re-targeted.
Swedish innovator TV4 is an example of a broadcaster that’s making the most of a joined up live and VoD monetization strategy. The broadcaster has recently agreed an extension with us to provide server-side ad insertion (SSAI) across its TV Everywhere service, TV4Play.
As a leader in the broadcast space that’s continued to reinvent itself, TV4 was one of the first broadcasters that recognised the value in using SSAI to monetize VoD. Read this blog post to learn more about the company’s digital journey with SSAI.
Have a great day 2 of NAB. Click here to book a meeting or pop by SU3414 – it will be good to see you.
Welcome to Las Vegas. Despite being home to a hundred resorts and 150,000 hotel rooms, it feels like I know everyone here during NAB week – whether it’s bumping into a customer in the cab queue or taking a table next to a tech partner – the broadcast engineering industry seems to take over the city during the event.
This year we’ll be using each day of the show to discuss a different element of server-side ad insertion (SSAI), so be sure to check here after each show day. We’ll be sharing relevant content on Twitter and LinkedIn too, so keep an eye on our profiles.
Our focus for the first day of NAB is scaling programmatic for major live events. In order to maximise ad revenues, programmatic systems need adequate time to respond in a major live event set up, and this need is especially apparent in a low latency environment.
To maximise the revenue opportunity, it’s necessary to make ad decisioning calls in an orderly fashion way ahead of the actual break taking place. Our prefetch system allows ad calls to be made early, allowing the time needed to return a full pod of ads for each viewer, and this is a crucial element of our offering that we’ve been sharing with visitors to our booth at the show.
You can read more in this blog post.
For a more in-depth explanation read our white paper.
Once you have prefetch in place you can plan for advanced programmatic; the next opportunity to explore is prebidding. Prebidding replicates the benefits of web header bidding for video. By calling all supply-side platforms simultaneously, we can inform the ad server of the responses to help it make an informed decision on which ads to place and ensure the highest available CPM can be secured.
Have a great opening day of NAB. Click here to book a meeting on our booth (SU3414).
Swedish broadcaster TV4 has long been a leader in the broadcast space, from going digital in the noughties and its early adoption of server-side ad insertion (SSAI) technology, to forming key partnerships with broadcasters and operators to grow its audience and boost ad revenue.
TV4’s innovative approach is paying off, too. In the press release that announced the renewal of its contract with Yospace, the company’s COO Mathias Berg revealed that the company achieved its highest ever revenue in 2018. He credited the ability to provide a platform-agnostic experience for advertisers across all video as a key factor, an experience that is enabled by SSAI.
TV4’s record earnings, at SEK 1,382 million (€112,537,903), were up 35.2% on 2017, making it one of the most successful broadcasters on the continent.
How did the broadcaster achieve these heights? And how did it use SSAI to carve out its route to a profitable future – for TV4, for advertisers, and for its audience?
TV4’s forward-thinking approach was apparent when it became the first broadcaster in Sweden to implement SSAI, notably adopting the technology for both live and on demand content to deliver a consistent TV quality viewing experience, with one to one addressability and ad measurement.
SSAI has allowed TV4 to unlock new revenue opportunities by allowing for consistent monetisation of all its content across all connected devices, and for viewer data to be harnessed to inform and deliver addressable advertising. This is a sector which shows no signs of slowing, with addressable TV ad spend forecast to exceed $3 billion by the close of this year.
TV4’s CEO Casten Almqvist recognised back in 2012 that in order to outstrip the competition in Sweden’s TV market, the network must “continue to reinvent” itself, investing in its digital service TV4Play, while continuing to focus on “breadth, diversity and quality” and producing “engaging TV for the whole country”.
This prompted TV4 to turn to SSAI soon after, which in turn paved the way for another innovative move last year. A first in Sweden, TV4 collaborated with Telia, Discovery Networks and Modern Times Group (MTG) in March 2018 to launch a targeted advertising initiative on Telia’s Play service. This delivers tailored advertising based on an individual’s location, the channel they’re watching, the kind of screen and the type of device they’re using to stream content.
Later the same year, TV4’s adoption of SSAI allowed it to secure distribution deals with other major distributors including Com Hem.
And with the broadcaster continuing to innovate, then long may this continue.
The 2019 NAB Show is fast approaching and we at Yospace are looking forward to exhibiting at the event for a seventh time. Here’s a quick overview of what we’ll be talking about and our activity in and around the show.
We have a booth in the South Upper hall, number SU3414. If you don’t have a meeting yet then click the link to request a time. It will be good to see you.
The focus of our show will be on two main topics: best practice for implementing server-side ad insertion (SSAI), and realising the ad revenue opportunities once SSAI is in place.
There will be four demo pods on the booth, two of which will be dedicated to best practice in implementing SSAI for live and VoD.
The other two will showcase some of the possibilities of what you can achieve once you have the right SSAI foundation in place.
These will consist of a shared demo with programmatic specialist SpotX that looks at the concept of prebidding to achieve maximum ad value, and another, with Capella Systems, that will focus on how to scale up and monetise multiple channels during major live events.
I’ll be sharing insights on all of these topics throughout the show on our LinkedIn and Twitter feeds. And you can check back here for a daily update post at the end of each day.
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I'm proud to participate in my THIRD YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize--one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hunt in my team (the GOLD team)! But play fast: this contest only lasts 72 hours!
Go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are SEVEN teams, meaning seven contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the GOLD TEAM--but there six other teams and chances to win a whole different set of books! Succeed in this team, and you could win every book below, including my novel School of Deaths!
Directions: Below, you'll notice that I've hidden my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on the GOLD team, and then add them up (don't worry, you can use a calculator!).
This YASH I'm hosting debut author Melissa Eastlake, whose first novel, The Uncrossing, releases TODAY, October 2nd! That's exciting.
Melissa Eastlake’s debut novel, The Uncrossing, releases TODAY from Entangled Teen. She lives in Athens, Georgia with her partner and their dog. Visit her on Goodreads. In fact maybe you should visit her repeatedly, say perhaps 28 times? (wink, wink). But wait- there's more- she's offering a special sneak peak into her novel with an EXCLUSIVE PLAYLIST!!
And don't forget to continue the Scavenger Hunt! The next author on the Gold Team is Abigail Johnson!
What did you think of the hunt? Does this sound like an exciting new novel? Leave a comment below and share!
Today, I'm thrilled to feature an interview with debut novelist and friend Missy De Graff, whose new novel The Rogue's Fate is coming soon!
If your life hung in the balance, would you choose to make your own destiny or leave your life to fate?
CM: Tell us about your new release?
MDG: The Rogue’s Fate is my debut novel, scheduled to be released soon, possibly Fall 2017. It walks the line between an urban fantasy and paranormal romance, and it will appeal to the older YA and Adult crowd.
CM: What inspired this particular story?
MDG: I was going through a hard time when I first started writing this story. My mother had just passed away after a battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Writing was my way of coping. I’ve always loved fantasy and paranormal creatures, so it was only natural that’s what I would write about. And I needed a strong female lead to help me through the hard times, so I made one. I threw all sort of emotional obstacles at her and she survived-so I knew I would too.
CM: How long have you been working on this and what did it take to get published?
MDG: I first started working on this story in 2014. It was just for fun and as a coping mechanism. But then, it took on a life of its own and grew into so much more. I took a break from writing in 2015 but got back to finishing this piece in 2016 and then went through the revision, editing, and querying process. It has been a long journey to get here, but I’m thrilled to be at the end stage.
CM: How'd you pick your MC's name?
MDG: I try to pick my character names for specific reasons, such as the meaning of the name. Lucinda, the main character, her name means Light. And Caiden, the male lead, his name means Battle. In picking Lucinda’s name, I also wanted a name that had multiple nicknames. Lucinda has two nicknames in the book-Lux and Cinda-each one represents a different period of her life.
CM: Tell us about your main character.
I bend with the hurricane when the wind blows.
I stand as solid as a brick wall when the waves come crashing down.
CM: Is this your first work?
MDG: Yes, this is my debut novel. It isn’t the first story I’ve written, or idea had, but it is the first novel I’ve completed through the entire process of outlining, drafting, revising, editing, querying, and now publishing.
MDG: I’m currently in the first round of revisions for The Alpha’s Secret, which is the second book in The Raven Chronicles. And then I’ll dive straight into drafting the third book, The Witch’s Betrayal.
CM: If you had to pick a theme song for your book what would it be?
MDG: Oh wow, that’s a tough one! Just one song? Let’s see...Taking Chances by Celine Dion.
CM: Anything else you want to add?
MDG: Chris, thank you so much for having me here today, it’s been fun!
Sound interesting? Check out Missy's website, or add the book on Goodreads!
You can also visit Missy on Facebook or Twitter.
Today, as the country looks up to the sky to witness one of nature's wonders, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the very human issues of the past week. A number of people I know on social media have taken to posting things about Charlottesville and elsewhere with the message of "it's time to move on" or "just let it go."
I know this is a conversation that's difficult. I know many people like to pretend it's not about them, or it doesn't affect them. As I see it, there are two types of racism in this world. One is the active racism of people who honestly believe what they say. They think they're better than others because of the color of their skin, forgetting that the color of their blood- of all human blood- is the same red. This type of racism is not new and is not in the hearts of the majority of people, but it is suddenly louder in the US. It's been given a new voice, and a new sense of acceptance by the current Administration.
The second type of racism, however, is far more insidious. This is the racism found when people see or hear things and ignore it. It is a racism of complicity. Seeing statues erected to honor white superiority and asking to preserve them. Seeing voter laws changed to disenfranchise minorities and saying nothing to your leaders. Or seeing Nazi rallies and not condemning hate for what it is. Boston was a powerful example of what happens when people come out in support of tolerance and love. Hate is a powerful emotion, but so is love.
There are no easy solutions. I don't think showing up to shout down racists will work in the long run. I don't think protests and counter protests are the only answer, because it does continue the "us vs them" mentality adopted by the racist communities. I think back to my years teaching theatre. One of the things I love, especially about the arts, is the environment we fostered. Kids come to theatre often feeling outcast already. People of every race, socioeconomic background, and sexual preference. These kids worked together on shows, on plays, on building things together. They saw themselves as teammates, as friends. This is one possible long-term solution to combating racism. I wish we could go into communities where people are isolated and encourage them to work together with people of color. Send the racists into service through groups like the Peace Corps or USAID and have them help people in Africa, Asia, and other countries where perhaps these people start to realize they can fit in with others in a positive way. After all, racism is built on fear and ignorance, and both are combated through education and experience.
Every year, arts in education are being cut. When I left teaching, I'd already been asked to continue an afterschool theatre program with no pay for any of my extra time, despite it being more time and harder than my regular teaching job. The department was also told to go without funding entirely. Community service, while encouraged in some schools, is often a lip service term given to kids who'll find time to help a teacher decorate their classroom, instead of going somewhere and doing something that engages with a broader community. These are issues you can talk with your elected school board officials about. These are issues that have long-term consequences.
In the meantime, no, do not "let it go" and just try to forget what's going on around you. Speak up for what you believe in. Call out your leaders if they're not representing your values. And take the time to look at the world. This is a problem that's not going away anytime soon, and that needs to be talked about and addressed every day.
Give our children a better world than the one we live in.
I have been writing for a long time. Heck, I've wanted to be a writer since middle school. I've been writing ever since.
The very first book I wrote took ten years. It's a mess. You've never heard of it. It's shelved on a floppy disk (remember those?) among other places, but was never revisited.
Then, during my time in Oxford, I was inspired to write School of Deaths. It took me a year to write, and then I began trying for agents. In publishing, if you want your book published with the big publishers, distributed widely, and making money, you need an agent. The "Big Five" publishers (all subdivisions of just five companies) only take manuscripts from agents, and even then it's not always a guarantee of publication, much less success. Yet agents are the first gatekeepers in the business.
Getting an agent involves writing a query letter. This is a single page long- a blurb about your book, a paragraph about similar books in the marketplace, and a paragraph about you. It's an email you send out and know you'll probably never hear back from. Some agents ask for just this, some for your first five pages. Most agents receive hundreds of email queries a DAY. Of those they receive, they might request pages from 5%, and of those pages, maybe request a full manuscript from an even smaller number. And it's not just based on the quality of your writing. It's based on a lot of subjective factors, like the agent's preferences, if they think they can sell it, does it conflict with other clients they have, and so on. In short, getting an agent is very, very difficult. It feels a bit like falling through mid-air, and trying to catch (and hold onto) a single raindrop.
After a year of querying, and 130 rejections, I gave up trying to find an agent for School of Deaths. Instead I began querying small presses. 30 queries of publishers later, MuseItUp said yes.
Small press is a form of traditional publishing in between the big guys and self publishing. In a way, it's sort of like the minor league baseball league. Minor leaguers are pros, and paid to play ball, and some are amazing, but you've never heard of them. They're all hoping to make it into the majors, but to do so they need that scout. With writing, you need an agent.
After Scythe Wielder's Secret I wrote a sci fi thriller and re-entered the querying phase. Months passed. Nada. I've since decided to rework the project.
Then, I had an idea for a book. A series. The ideas kept coming and coming. It was without a doubt the best thing I'd written. I decided, yet again, to plunge back into querying. Querying is a SLOW process, I'll add. Some agents have an AVERAGE response time of 115 days. That's just to hear back, even if it's a no. And if they request pages or your full manuscript, you have to wait months upon months.
I began querying in January. I queried and queried. I became active in the Manuscript Academy, which gave me a lot of opportunities to work with pros. I had skype sessions with agents and not only pitched my book, but got help rewriting my query. I was in a workshop to help revamp my first page, and ended up a part of a writing community that's still wonderfully supportive today. And I worked with editors from St Martins and Tor (two imprints of the "Big 5" publishers) to rewrite the beginning completely. On the advice of an agent, I began "requerying" - contacting agents who said no months ago or who never responded. I was hopeful, but still not sure. I was ready to enter PitchWars when everything took off.
First I got an offer from an agent. I then had to let my outstanding (hadn't heard from them yet) requeries know. Within hours, I had six more full requests. I eventually got a second offer and it came down to an insane day of phone conversations, nerves, and difficult decisions. After talking to the two agents, however, I knew the original offer was the agent I wanted to stick with.
This is only one stage in a longer journey. However, this is a huge step for me and my career as an author.
I am a fantasy author. My YA Fantasy trilogy The Scythe Wielder's Secret was pubbed by a small press a few years ago, and is a story about overcoming sexism, set in a war between Deaths (Grim Reapers) and Dragons. Did I mention that I love dragons!
For starters, I'm now a full-time author, and a full-time stay-at-home dad for my son, who's now one. My son is the best kid ever- and guess what he's already addicted to (for real)... BOOKS!
My current manuscript is an Adult High Fantasy.
Please welcome fellow author Katie L. Carroll who has an exciting new Cover and a new novel!
For centuries, the whereabouts of Captain William Kiddâs lost pirate treasure has remained a mystery. When Billyâs best friend, Andy, proposes they look for it on nearby Pirate Island, Billy thinks itâs just another one of their crazy adventures. Itâs usually Billy who ends up in trouble as a result, but he goes along for the rideâ¦like always. The more he delves into the life and death of Kidd, the more he thinks the treasure is real and that it might be buried on the small island in Long Island Sound. Billyânope, call him Williamâbecomes obsessed with the captain of the same first name. He even believes heâs possessed by Kiddâs restless soul. Now he and the spirit of a long-dead pirate are leading the crazy adventure on Pirate Island. And what they find is far bigger than the treasure they imagined.
Katie L. Carroll always says she began writing at a very sad time her life after her sister Kylene unexpectedly passed away. The truth is Katie has been writing her whole life, and it was only after Kyleneâs death that she realized she wanted to pursue writing for kids and teens as a career. Since then writing has taken her to many wonderful places, real and imagined. She has had many jobs in her lifetime, including newspaper deliverer, hardware store cashier, physical therapy assistant, and puzzle magazine editor. She works from her home in Connecticut that is filled with the love and laughter of her sons and husband.
In addition to PIRATE ISLAND, Katie is the author of the YA fantasy ELIXIR BOUND. Find Katie on her website, Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads.
Today, I want to feature fellow author Debbie Manber Kupfer to talk about her newest release: Umbrae!
I’m privileged today to have been invited to visit the P.A.W.S. Institute of Vienna in Glocken Street to meet with Max Katz. While most of the residents of this branch of P.A.W.S. are werecats created by the scientist, Dr. Wechsler, Max is one of the two shapeshifters that currently reside at P.A.W.S.
Good afternoon Max and thank you for agreeing to speak to me.
Can you tell us a little bit about this place, Max?
This is the headquarters of the feline division of P.A.W.S. in Vienna. Our leader is Griddlebone. He was the first werecat and rescued many others from the Nazis.
P.A.W.S. is the Partnership of Animagi, Weres and Shapeshifters. Out in the Vienna woods there are P.A.W.S. factions comprising of many different creatures. Here in Vienna we are all cats. In peacetime P.A.W.S. acts as an institute of learning, but during war we work with the resistance.
That is a beautiful charm you wear. Where did you get it?
That’s pretty impressive. How does it feel to be a cat?
Like it was meant to be. I feel comfortable in my fur and spend most of my time that way especially when I’m hanging out with Esther.
My girlfriend, I think, (Max blushes) or at least a good friend. She’s a werecat.
I’ve heard there’s another shapeshifter at P.A.W.S.
Yes, that is Celia. She’s a bit younger me and I’m supposed to take care of her. Her mother and my father were childhood friends and I promised Papa I’d make sure Celia was safe. I hope I can keep the promise.
Why? Is there a problem?
Yes, there is a werewolf by the name of Alistair. He tried to bargain with my father originally. He would save my life in exchange for my father’s charm, this charm (Max points to the silver cat charm around his neck.) Papa didn’t trust him and sent him away, but he came back here last week looking for me and Celia. He still wants our charms. Griddlebone says we may have to leave. I don’t want to leave Esther, but I promised Papa I would keep Celia safe.
I’m sure you’ll keep your promise, Max. Thank you so much for speaking to me.
My pleasure. Won’t you stay for supper? We’re having pea soup. It’s not as good as the pea soup my papa used to make, but still will keep you warm on this cold night.
That’s OK. I need to be going. Thank you again for speaking to me Max.
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With Joanne Peh turning 36 on April 25, we celebrate the many ways she demonstrated admirable strength and wisdom.
Once named one of the Seven Princesses of Mediacorp in 2006, Joanne Peh, also known as Bai Wei Xiu, has come a long way since bursting into the scene in 2002. Her first role, incidentally, was the 2002 family drama Beautiful Connection, which also stars her current husband, Qi Yuwu. Since then, she has had several career highlights and snagged a few awards at the Star Awards, most notably the Best Actress Awards for The Little Nyonya and A Tale of 2 Cities. But looking at her social media account, you’ll see none of that glamorous, glitzy life of a celebrity. Instead, Joanne comes across as a down-to-earth star who places more emphasis on self-development, family time/relationships and being a kinder, better person. Read on to see how the soon-to-be 36-year-old is living her best life and demonstrating cool power woman vibes.
The famed actress can now call add the title “director” to her resume. Joanne’s short film, Under The Tree, which aired on April 5 at 9pm on Channel U and is part of an incubator project, is about two childhood friends, a boy and a girl, whose friendship blossomed under a tree but eventually lost touch as they grew up. One day, the girl decides to write a song but couldn’t, due to her poor grasp of the Chinese language. She enlists the help of a lyricist, who turns out to be someone from her past.
The 30-minute short starred model Fiona Fussi (who was apparently approached by Joanne on Instagram), real-life cameraman Pang CC and national basketball player Chase Tan. Joanne has been actively documenting her journey as a first-time director on another Instagram account (@jpdirects), showcasing her observations and challenges in a candid manner (such as working with child actors — a post that drew mixed reactions, unfortunately). Tough as the journey was, her satisfaction in her work is clear as day, and we too can’t help but feel proud of her enthusiasm and passion for her newfound role.
Children associate different expectations with different age groups — younger children assign to older children leadership, helpful and sympathizing roles, whereas older children assign to younger children the need for help and instruction (Katz, 1995). As we spent Day 3 exploring 3D shapes and how these could form characters with a little bit of imagination, we watched children developed social and problem solving skills through this process. They gladly took turns, helped one another peel double sided tape, hold up shapes so a friend could trace its shadow, share a colouring pencil that is everyone’s favourite, help a friend get a stick into a paper shape, negotiate their wants when we ran out of shapes to go around, improvise with the resources at hand to get a glitter star — the children had worked peacefully and collaboratively. At the end of the day, we place strong emphasis on these skills because we want our children to grow up as creative, confident and compassionate individuals. If you’d like to see more, check out our stories!
Most people would have been satisfied with just being a successful star in the entertainment industry, but not the tireless Joanne. In February 2018, she launched an enrichment programme for children called The Dimple Loft, which helps children tell stories in creative ways through different mediums such as painting, writing, acting, singing, dancing and more. Joanne, who has two children with actor husband Qi Yuwu, said in interviews that her aim is to provide children with a conducive environment to kickstart their interest in learning. She also wants to inspire their imagination through fun, self-directed and experiential learning. The Dimple Loft organises workshops and school holiday camps as well, the previous one inspired by the Pixar film Inside Out (2015). What an admirable initiative.
Joanne has always been upfront about her struggles with motherhood and has never been one to sugarcoat it. Take her recent family vacation to Japan in December last year, which took a turn for the worse when she came down with a severe case of the flu, followed by her two little ones getting hit by a stomach viral infection. In her Instagram post, Joanne detailed her experiences and kept it real, describing her ordeal of taking care of her kids who were taking turns throwing up and having diarrhoea. “So it’s non-stop going to the toilet, changing diapers, washing stained clothes, feeding medicine while trying to fit in time to look decent ourselves,” she said. All this, plus three trips to the hospital for the kids to see the doctor, has left her spent.
Her accompanying photo shows her looking a little worse for wear (but still bright-eyed and radiant), as she baby-wears her crying son while holding on to her older daughter — something every mum can totes relate. Thankfully the kids recovered enough for them to enjoy the rest of the trip. Goes to show, she might be a well-known celebrity, but she’s still a mum, and a super strong mum at that. Just look at her positivity in the face of things: “Even though it’s gruelling, I see it as a way for us to bond with the children and create experiences that we would otherwise not have if we hadn’t done this.” Kudos to her.
Happily married to Qi Yuwu since September 2014, Joanne is based in Singapore while Yuwu is based in Beijing as he’s working on projects there. This means the couple spends long periods of time apart, with both shuttling between the two places to try to spend time with each other whenever they can. Sometimes, big moments such as birthdays, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s/Father’s Day and anniversaries are missed. On top of that, Joanne has to manage everything on the home front, while juggling her various work projects. Not easy at all.
But Joanne, as you can probably sense by now, is not one to wallow. She has spoken about their distance in interviews, saying the pair are adaptable creatures and technology has made it much easier to communicate. “I always try to look at the positive side of things so that I have something positive to look forward to. (I tell myself things like) ‘Soon, we’ll be able to meet, two months later, I’ll go and find you’,” she said. Her posts are also upbeat, appreciative and positive, with her taking each moment as a blessing. In one, she said: “We weren’t sure if @qiyuwu was going to be back for his birthday this year because of a long project he’s been on, so we are all so happy that he’s back to spend time with us. To be able to celebrate special occasions together is always a bonus. So we try to make it count!” Something we can all learn from.
Scroll through her Instagram and you can sense that Joanne is often reflective, measured and observant. She meditates “to acquire greater awareness of what’s happening around me and gain clarity over what I want and don’t”, and makes it a point to be present and deliberate. She muses about her life experiences with certain consideration and a touch of whimsy. Case in point: A simple run inspired Joanne to pay attention to the pieces of leaves and flower petals she had been unintentionally crushing under her feet as she was pounding the pavement. While running in nature brought her a sense of calm, she realised there were many things all around that people often take for granted or go unnoticed.
It was enough to spur her to create something, so she gathered some of the pieces and arranged them into an artwork of two beautiful figures (a prince and an ostrich), giving the leaves and flowers new life before they wither away. “It forced me to really look at what was around me and the possibilities it offered,” she observed. How often do we, if ever, do something like that?
A strong advocate for outdoor play and experiential learning, Joanne often posts photos of her kids playing with sand and plants (and the odd snail) while enjoying the sun in the great outdoors — faces creatively hidden of course. While many a mum might feel a panic attack approaching with the thought of having to get rid of all that sand and dirt clinging to the kiddo’s clothes, Joanne, while acknowledging that fear, prefers to look at things with a different perspective.
Playing with real things help her kids learn how to handle and respect these tools, and sensory play boosts cognitive development, she adds. “These moments are so precious and since I don’t get many chances to do this because I work and they grow up so fast, I’d just slather on more sunblock and not worry about it, or dread the sand that is getting in their hair, in their clothes and in my car.” Wise words.
Taking care of two active kiddos, helming a children’s programme and filming/directing/editing duties can take a toll on anyone, but on top of this, Joanne has started packing her own lunch in a reusable lunch box to play a part in reducing waste and recycling more. Although this can be hard, especially when she’s out filming, she says she is committed to doing it and has found ways to work around it by creating meals that work despite her circumstances. “I believe that once we turn it into a habit, it becomes a part of our daily routine that we don’t even think about it much. We shouldn’t mistreat the environment because of a whim of convenience,” she said. By the way, she can bake, sew and crochet too. How admirable.
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2019-04-20T20:33:00Z
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https://www.shape.com.sg/lifestyle/joanne-peh-strong-inspiring/
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Welcome to our guide to the German Australian Shepherd.
The German Australian Shepherd is a mix of two different breeds, the German Shepherd and the Australian Shepherd.
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Are there any downsides to owning a German Australian Shepherd that prospective owners should be aware of?
Is the German Australian Shepherd breed of dog suitable for first-time dog owners?
Some breeds can be described as greedy and prone to weight issues, would this apply to the German Australian Shepherd?
Is the German Australian Shepherd breed suitable for a person or family that are out at work all day?
Some owners seek a breed suitable for barking and offering a guard dog role – how does the German Australian Shepherd match up to that role?
Are there myths about the German Australian Shepherd – in other words do new potential owners come to you with misconceptions about this breed?
What types of questions do you get once owners get their German Australian Shepherd home?
What is the typical temperament of a German Australian Shepherd, so people know what to expect from their new pet?
When fully grown how much on average does a German Australian Shepherd weigh?
When the German Australian Shepherd is full grown in size what is the maximum height and length expected to be?
Is the German Australian Shepherd ever crossed or mixed with other breeds of dog?
Does the German Australian Shepherd smell or drool a lot?
Do you have a German Australian Shepherd growth chart?
What breed group does the German Australian Shepherd come under?
Are there some types of people that you can suggest the German Australian Shepherd is not suitable for, perhaps families?
How is the German Australian Shepherd with children?
Do you think the German Australian Shepherd is suitable for families with young children?
How does the German Australian Shepherd get along with other (existing) pets and do you have any tips or advice for new German Australian Shepherd owners in terms of successful integration?
Is it better to buy one German Australian Shepherd or two?
Would the German Australian Shepherd be suitable as a guard dog?
Can I leave my German Australian Shepherd during the day while I go to work?
What is the expected average lifespan of the German Australian Shepherd?
In terms of life expectancy, how long on average would the German Australian Shepherd breed live to?
How to handle the German Australian Shepherd puppy to start off – how much food, what type, how often?
Do owners need to consider supplements for their German Australian Shepherd?
How much did your German Australian Shepherd cost to buy?
Can you offer advice to people looking to buy a German Australian Shepherd and how much should they spend?
What advice would you offer new German Australian Shepherd owners?
What types of people are buying the German Australian Shepherd and why?
Where can I buy German Australian Shepherd rescue dogs or find a German Australian Shepherd for adoption? Please note that buying or searching for a ‘cheap’ German Australian Shepherd can be false economy as they may have health issues that cost you far more in the long-term – always buy from a good and responsible breeder!
How would you describe the German Australian Shepherd puppy to potential new owners?
What types of owners are best suited to owning a German Australian Shepherd?
What inspired you to become a breeder and did you start with the German Australian Shepherd?
As a German Australian Shepherd breed expert, are there any ‘essential’ tips you would like to share with new owners?
How long does it take to housetrain/potty train a German Australian Shepherd?
We invite you to email us your German Australian Shepherd’s pictures, in particular we are looking for photos showing German Australian Shepherd puppies at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 weeks old as well as early pictures such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 months old to a year old.
Do they have any nicknames or does the German Australian Shepherd have popular names?
If my German Australian Shepherd is pregnant what might the litter size be?
Could the German Australian Shepherd be dangerous around young children?
How do you prevent a German Australian Shepherd biting?
How do you prevent a German Australian Shepherd chewing?
How do you stop a German Australian Shepherd jumping up?
Does the German Australian Shepherd have an issue with excessive digging?
Why does my German Australian Shepherd keep growling and barking?
Is there a reason my German Australian Shepherd dog is often scratching excessively?
In comparison perhaps to other breeds what can you say about the German Australian Shepherd and their exercise needs and do you have any tips or advice for new German Australian Shepherd owners?
As a breeder of the German Australian Shepherd , do you prefer a collar or harness?
As an expert of the German Australian Shepherd breed do you prefer a standard leash or retractable?
Can you offer any dog walking tips for German Australian Shepherd owners?
What games and toys can you recommend for the German Australian Shepherd?
How intelligent is the German Australian Shepherd compared to other dog breeds?
Do you have any special grooming routines or tips and advice for new German Australian Shepherd owners?
What accessories are required to be purchased for grooming a German Australian Shepherd?
How much do German Australian Shepherd shed and how do I maintain their hair and how often?
Is the German Australian Shepherd a hypoallergenic breed?
Any advice/tips you can give concerning cleaning and bathing your German Australian Shepherd?
Can you offer new German Australian Shepherd owners advice concerning fleas and maybe products you use in treatment and prevention?
What advice and tips could you offer to owners who might wish to follow your path in showing the German Australian Shepherd?
What started your interest in showing the German Australian Shepherd?
If a new owner perhaps wanted to meet other owners or find out more – perhaps they have an interest in joining a local club or maybe they wonder how they can start showing their German Australian Shepherd – where would they begin?
How would an owner know they have a show-quality German Australian Shepherd and how would they start off?
What official organisations are there for the new German Australian Shepherd owner and what benefits or services do they provide?
In buying a German Australian Shepherd, can you offer advice and tips to new owners?
How did you progress to becoming a breeder and why focus on breeding the German Australian Shepherd out of all the breeds you could have chosen?
What do you think makes the German Australian Shepherd special to you?
In comparison perhaps to other breeds what is it like to train a German Australian Shepherd and do you have any tips or advice for new German Australian Shepherd owners?
How should new owners approach bringing a new German Australian Shepherd home, any advice and tips you can give?
Should I allow my German Australian Shepherd to sleep in my bed or elsewhere in the house?
Should my German Australian Shepherd sleep in a kennel or crate?
Health is always a major concern when buying a dog, do you have any advice for new German Australian Shepherd owners to be aware of in particular?
What is the recommended schedule for vaccinations for your German Australian Shepherd?
What type of health issues can a German Australian Shepherd have and how do you deal with preventing these?
Why does my German Australian Shepherd have diarrhea?
Why is my German Australian Shepherd vomiting and do I go to the vets?
When should I take my German Australian Shepherd for vaccinations and which ones do they need and how often?
How often will my German Australian Shepherd be in heat?
Should I consider getting my German Australian Shepherd spayed or neutered and when and how much does this cost and what are the benefits?
My German Australian Shepherd is limping, what should I do and should I go to a veterinarian surgeon?
Why is my German Australian Shepherd not eating?
How much does it cost to insure my German Australian Shepherd?
What healthcare issues or diseases might be excluded from companies that provide German Australian Shepherd dog health insurance?
What age would you class as an ‘older or senior’ German Australian Shepherd?
What changes in food and diet would you suggest making for an older German Australian Shepherd?
Do you feed any supplements to an older German Australian Shepherd – or anything else which helps them as they age?
Are there any health issues particular to a senior German Australian Shepherd dog?
Do you have any advice for owners of an older/senior German Australian Shepherd or tips you can pass on?
Here is an interesting video on the German Australian Shepherd.
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Create, edit, convert, annotate, protect, merge, watermark, compress, and sign PDF files in a better way.
PDF element is an ideal tool for the creation and edition of pdf files, the creation of PDF documents is simple, and fast, you can create files based on any other document, from text files, images, among other types of documents, the editing of these files is very easy, it is a tool that any person of any age, with basic knowledge of informatics, can use at will.
The text sources are too limited, I think that an application like this should have other types of text sources, but use the same as many text processors, besides the text centering tools are not automatic, you must center everything to measure, and it is not always perfect, they should be predetermined, to have more perfect documents, in different types of sizes and types of sheets.
In our school we use hundreds of digital documents, which we have developed with PDF Element, now we have an immense digital library that grows daily, with the continued digitization of text and documents, thanks to this we have a complete library of all types of information available for our students and teachers.
"Great PDF Reader In Very Less Price"
The User Interface of this software is totally inspired by the MS Word, which i like very much also they have all the feature to edit a PDF or Create a PDF and Very usefull tool for me that in One click I Convert PDF to WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT etc which i use very much.The Most Best part of this software for all is that they take One Time Subscription FEES which is very low compare to other Software.They update their software very fast.They have also OCR feature.
what I dislike about this software is that You cannot able to add custom created tool in this Software.Like Extra Add-on or feature.
I Recommend all people to use this Software because it is very low price and you get all the features.
"Best alternative to adobe acrobat"
The user interface is really great, the tools it provides makes it easy to work with any PDFs and it has really amazing OCR capabilities ! I really love the drawing tools, it really helps me when reviewing documents and taking notes in class. Really simple to add quick pop up style notes, simply double click !
They are no shortcuts to go on about your way trough the different actions you can do. As a power user i always appreciate such things. You can't zoom in/out with your trackpad (pinch to zoom) gestures. Kinda strange as most application (on macOs) at least let's you do that.
If the price scares you, look at other professional PDF editors/viewers that offer this level of tools for free and the top of the line OCR capabilities for the price, you won't find anything that good. Most of the tools you can use are 80$+ or have subscription fees. Very good bang for you buck.
Annotate, add information and draw on top of the PDFs for correction demands, code reviews and creating/modifying contracts to be sent and signed by my clients.
I also use it for school when reviewing and taking notes in class for the lectures. Much faster and time saver for taking notes and drawing.
Like you, I also appreciate shortcut keys - it beats needing to use my mouse/tracking pad! We have a few shortcut keys available, but there is currently no guide on which key combinations trigger what. We are launching our new blog soon so I'll look into creating a blog post around that.
In response to your feedback on the zoom in/out function: Currently, the way to zoom in and out is using Command and -/+, but using the trackpad to pinch is a function that we should consider.
I like that the user interface is so much like Microsoft Office. It feels like you are in part of the office suite. I consider myself to be a power user and I have not run into an issue of not having a feature or tool that isn't available. I also like that PDFelement is nearly 20% of the cost of Adobe Acrobat Professional. The auto form feature, where the OCR creates the form fields automatically is a real time-saver. The OCR is superior to that of many PDF editors with OCR features. The OCR is more accurate.
The logo image in the custom signature block is not editable; you can disable but not change the logo. There does not seem to be a way for you to set the default size of a PDF when you first open PDF to view.
If you want the most used features with the likes of Adobe Acrobat Pro without the hefty price tag then PDFelement is a serious alternative.
I have saved a lot of time with file conversion from PDF to Word and making the PDF searchable and editable without having to import it into MS Word. The ability to protect and having legally acceptable documents through electronic and digital signatures allows me to sign and send documents without having to print, handwrite my signature and scan back to PDF and then email a document saving time and not wasting paper and ink.
We're glad to hear that PDFelement is helping you work efficiently and at an affordable cost!
I saw that you had posted the same concern in the Community Forum about the custom signature block - We have the option to select "imported graphic" under "configure graphic". You can upload your own logo, then deselect "logo" under "configure text" to have only YOUR logo and your digital signer present. Let me know if this is what you're looking for, or if you have suggestions on how to make this process more intuitive.
"Easiest software to get many things done on PDF"
I can't stress enough about the price. When I wanted a PDF editor, I tried many.
Each free tool was introducing some form of additional artifact and the commercial tools like Acrobat are too pricey for what they are worth. When I tried PDF Elements Pro, I was blown away.
There are no side effects to changing text. It is so simple to edit. OCR feature is a bonus.
I couldn't find where to have more text formatting features like underline etc.
Another issue is that when the text is being added it used to be wrapped in the bounding box and because of which it used to jump across lines. I prefer if the bounding box increases if there is whitespace.
I wish this product has ability to remove security once we know the open password. We have to rely on another software from same company.
Small problem is that some fonts have mis-sized characters. If I type few characters it shows a warning and if I replace it with different character the warning beside bounding box disappears.
Definitely go for it. The product is double the worth of its price easily. There won't be minor side effects and you don't have to rely on online convertors where you don't have control on your data.
Mostly editing PDF files, add my own bookmarks. I had to edit some old documents of mine earlier and with this software it has been breeze. Editing slides rendered as pdfs.
"Easy to use and highly functional PDF alternative, at a very affordable cost."
This software provides me with all the functionality that I need, and makes it really easy to use with its highly intuitive user interface. It is a very attractive and affordable alternative to other high end PDF products, AND without "cutting corners". It's one of those very rare cases where you actually get MORE than what you paid for, believe me!
Dislike? Well, so far, in terms of " disliking" , there is absolutely nothing that I dislike about this PDF product. Now, there is always room for improving, but's that is another story.
You should try this product! There is absolutely nothing to loose, because you are going to get your work done, and, in addition, more than possible, I believe that it is going to be highly probable that you are going to fall in love with it! Give it a try!
So far, I have been using it solely for sending and protecting documents through emails and simple form processing.
The OCR is excellent in converting scanned documents accurately and quickly. The software is intuitive and easy to manage. There are excellent help features included with the software. The price was very good for the complexity and usage of this product.
There are a few times when editing a PDF that it is difficult to highlight a specific area. However, that may be due to this being fairly new to me.
When you compare PDFelement to other similar software, you will find that it offers more features for a lower price. It is also not clunky is working with editing, but offers great features to make the work easy and efficient.
The software is offering the ability to take older documents, only available in paper form and change them to digital images that can be altered. This is especially helpful for those needing to update your business' policies and notes.
"You get what you want from it...Just say once.. PDF Element is there to help you every time."
User friendly. Easy to use. Excellent product and I was looking for quick way to edit and create PDF and re-edit documents. This has everything and its a package in itself without any ifs and buts. Just get the things rolling. Initially, I was using some Nitro pdf, but it was creating a problems for me while saving the documents, so I decided to buy this software and since then no looking back.
Sometimes, it opens files in two different windows, I don't know why. Some times when I use the arrow keys to move between the fields it jumps to different pages. Please resolve this issue. Not sure, it is because of this software of the problem with the fillable form.
Anyone can trust this software from efficiency and productivity point of view. Easy to use but with lot of unexplored features. Editing, converting, saving, etc... I use this program to do just about everything possible.
Thanks for sharing! I would like to clarify a few things with you, as we would like to look into these issues!
1) What you mean when you note that the software opens the file in two different windows? Does the software open twice simultaneously?
2) And does the arrow key issue happen no matter which form fields you toggle between?
3) Are you on Windows or Mac?
"An Easy to Handle Pdf Application"
The application is light-weight and hence launches pretty fast. The user-interface is simple, yet powerful and convenient. The OCR function seems as effective as that of any other software in the market (I have used Acrobat reader, nitro pdf and nuance power pdf).
It will be nice to have an MS Word extension. While creating pdf's from word docs, the bookmarks are not carried on automatically from the word file.
1. Acrobat is good but uses much system memory which affects the overall performance. Further, it is very costly.
2. Foxit Phantom is lightweight but the OCR recognition is not up to mark.
3. Nuance power pdf and nitro pdf have lots of additional features but the interface is cluttered. For example, identifying and using a highlighted text is very difficult in power pdf as they have put the panel right below the text.
4. The only con I have encountered with PDFelement so far is the absence of an extension for MS word.
PDFelement has been extremely helpful in converting pdf to other formats without the loss of quality. Moreover, the form templates have reduced the workload while organising multiple surveys under the same project.
Thank you for such a detailed review - it's clear that you're an experienced user of PDF solutions software and I really appreciate the time you took to share your insights.
If you ever have any recommendations or suggestions for PDFelement, feel free to drop us a note!
"Best PDF program that I have ever used!"
I love how easy it is to edit and convert documents into PDF. It makes it so easy for an office that is fast paced and I do not have to worry about having a slow program. I will and already highly recommend this program to all businesses that would need to have it. I have used several different ones in the past and this by far has been the best that I have seen and used.
I do not have anything to dislike about the program. I guess the only thing could be that there is nothing wrong with it yet. I did have one instance where I tried to edit in the PDF program and it completely moved my line all out of sorts. I tried to edit it again but did the same thing. I ended up going to the word document and changing it and then resaving as a PDF document. I haven't tried it again but I hope it does not do it again in the future.
I would highly recommend this program for a company that needs a program to edit and convert files into PDF with ease.
Editing, converting, saving, etc... I use this program to do just about everything possible. When I download applications, I upload them into PDF. When they are in PDF, I am still able to edit as I please with no issues at all.
"Simple tool that actually works"
How you can actually edit a document just like WORD, and then are able to generate a professional looking PDF, very clean and crisp. I love also how it doesn't take up so much space. I'm no expert in memory consumption but I've used other apps before and the spammy of the app has always made me weary of other apps. What I can share is this app is spam free from my usage. It just let me do the job and do it fast.
I don't have really anything to say I don't like about this product, its really a simple product to use which I love. Maybe a better on boarding video to use the product would help.
I need a quick way to edit and create PDF and re-edit documents. This tool allowed me to do that. It was quit amazing to see how user friendly this product was. I was expecting more difficulty since it was a paid product and one that was recommended to me by a friend who spoke very highly of this product. The time it takes me now to create a draft, print out a PDF and then having to go back and make edits to it has saved me so much time in my daily work. It has added a level of efficiency to my business as well.
Thank you for your feedback, I'm happy that our editing capabilities suits your needs! I like you point about an on boarding video - I feel that creating more resources that people can look to for self-help would make the learning curve a lot lower. We're currently in the process of creating additional YouTube tutorials and re-launching our blog, so if you have any other suggestions please let us know!
"Great Solution For a Mid Sized Business"
The software has a lot of power but is also incredible simple to use. Ease of use is a big concern for us because we have several people who could use the software if they understand how to. The interface does a really nice job of giving you control as well as functionality.
I haven't really found a lot of disadvantges. I had to use free versions of other software prior to having this one so it is like driving a cadillac.
When you don't want to have to pay a monthly fee to use the software on top of the cost to purchase it initially this would be the best option for you. It is a great option for a company that doesn't have a primary need for a full suite of pdf software but wants it to work when you need it. It has all of the features even a more advanced user would need in a format that is not intimidating to the average user.
Increased integration between our old and new systems. This gives us the ability to transform the majority of our old paper forms into a pdf that we can edit and use in our new system. A big positive is that the customer receive a consistent experience by seeing the same forms with the only difference being this one is on an ipad vs. the other one being made from dead tree's.
"A very professional package, at a very reasonable price."
Easy to use and powerful PDF software that covers all my day-to-day requirements. It has a well thought out metro-style start page so you can choose exactly what you want to do, an uncluttered user interface, strong content-editing tools, easy page manipulation, and built in OCR capabilities. It is a very professional package, at a very reasonable price.
I would really like page/document flattening capabilities.
Consider extending the licence to cover 3 devices.
If you are looking for an easy to use, professional PDF software at a reasonable price then try PDF Element - you won't be disappointed.
Update after using the software for more than a year - it really is good software. Suggestions are taked seriously and acted on, and the help team are super responsive.
I chose PDFelement after comparing many PDF editors. This one is well designed, get (almost) all the features I need and is a very good value for the money spent. User interface is friendly and well designed. The documents scanning feature is well thought. File conversion .xls, .doc, ..) is useful and well done. File optimization is easy and efficient.
No Outlook preview yet (this feature seems to be under development). Also, when adding comments to a document, I have to select add a comment for each new comment. I would prefer that the comment function stays selected.
So far the best PDF editing software that I have used.
Print to PDF, edit PDF, optimize PDF size (I use the web size a lot in order to get the smallest file size, and the file still looks great), and more, all in one software.
"A Beautiful Update to a Great Application"
I like a lot about this version of PDF Element 6. But, the most pleasing is the User Interface. In version 5, the tools were presented in a non-intuitive way, making it a bit confusing to edit documents and create forms. In version 6 the interface has been overhauled to my delight. At first glance, the tools are in the same place, but the difference is that they standout better for easy location. As a Mac user, I also appreciate the tabs used the separate the tool functions. It's as familiar as using Pages or Keynote. Kudos to the developers!
To be honest, during my evaluation, I did not find a single thing to dislike.
For the price and capabilities provided, I highly recommend PDFelement. It's a very capable PDF editor for an amazing price. I've been using it since version 5, and version 6 is even better!
When filling out expense reports, they are provided in PDF format, but are not fillable. With PDFelement, that's no problem. The editing capability allows me to add my relevant text in a font of my choice, and position it perfectly. It's a real time saver!
"When a product exceeds your expectations"
PDFelement is the best software i have ever used to edit a PDF file, it made my experience so pelasant, simple ways to edit a file and add whatever you like to, its very reliable & straight forward, i recommend everyone to give it a try and see for them selves, never again worry about your hand writing as this software is made to make you fill & print any PDF file with ease and make it look like a pro.
I first tried it as a trial and in no time i downloaded it again and i am looking for a pro version.
Dont hesitate its worth every penny.
It is the best aoftware you will ever find in the market, ease of use, clean and made to make you look like a pro when you fill a form.
No more hand writing and it can recognize any form i believe.
"PDF Element 6 Mac Software Review"
1. All the drop-down tools that are familiar with using Mac software is almost gone. The idea is to go to toolbars with descriptive text underneath each command.
2. Change text change is simpler in 6 than in 5. 6 allows the user the ability to change multiple items on one panel and not clicking another icon for the information.
3. The ability to convert the PDF file to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel is great! I can now if need to make more edits in the Office products. This is not in PDFelement 5.
I am reviewing the new version 6 on a Mac with the latest operating system (High Sierra) and am a mouse-centric and not keyboard commands person.
In summary, I would buy this software and the update for me means an update to PDFelement 6.
Filling in PDF documents on the computer instead of handwriting all the information. The benefits have been better documentation and readable text on a PDF form.
Thank you for the detailed review. I'm glad that there are some improvements that you like.
Specifically, what are some of the problems that you are encountering with check marks on PDFelement 6? If this issue has been persisting, we would like to look into it!
"Easy to use, but powerful PDF editor."
PDFelement 6 Pro is a very intuitive and powerful PDF editor that does everything I have needed it to do in order to edit and modify my PDF documents in a very efficient and effective manner. It has surpassed my expectations in terms of easy of use and power when editing PDF documents. I have used other PDF editor programs as well as PDFelement 6 Pro and, while all of them have powerful editing capabilities, PDFelement 6 Pro is easier and more intuitive to use without sacrificing valuable features. This is a great program which should satisfy the needs of virtually all users and is well worth the moderate cost.
Up to this point I have found nothing that I dislike about PDFelement 6 Pro. It has met and exceeded my expectations. There was a bit of a learning curve regarding the command buttons in the program when I first began using the program, but they were easily learned in a short period of time and any errors made in editing any PDF are very easily corrected with PDFelement 6 Pro if one is unhappy with the result.
Give the trial version a try and you will be very happy about the ease and depth of PDFelement.
I am using PDFelement 6 Pro to edit all types of PDF documents. The ease of adding, deleting, modifying text, and adding images to documents has greatly reduced the time and effort involved in these processes, resulting in very efficient, effective, and professional end result.
"A good alternative to Adobe Acrobat"
PDF Element 6 is easy to use, its intuitive and can quickly be learnt. It's faster than the previous version.
Compared to the previous version, the user interface has improved a lot - thanks.
- Fast OCR detection, also supports image-based PDFs.
- personal comments with notes or text box.
- Creating forms is now a simple process.
- very cheap price compared to Adobe Acrobat.
In summary: PDFelement 6.x is a very good software with extensive functions for professional work.
PDFelement has an unbeatable price-performance ratio. The software is for me a high quality alternative to expensive Adobe products.
I couldn't find anything I did not like about the program. Version 5 errors have been fixed in version 6.
This software is excellent, extensive and fast. My recommendation for PDF applications.
"PDFelement 6 Pro is a substantial improvement on the previous PDFelement 5"
I have been using the PDFelement 5 for several years. Version 6 Pro has a better interface. It is also more intutitive and compared to competitors like Adobe it is simler to navigate.
I like adding text with ease, the almost flawless oening of scanned documents, making text and picture amendments. Also converting the word and pdf files are easier. It keeps the tables and charts in proper place and makes it easier to edit tham according to text I edit.
In filling some forms it still has some difficulty in marking the boxes which could be improved. When opening documents from file is enlarges them and it is with extra effort to make them smaller to edit or see. This can be improved.
Switch and use. It is a very useful and practical pdf tool.
I often write articles which need to be shared in PDF version. Wityh 6 Pro I can productively do this. Furthermore I use the OCR in foreign languages quite often.
Thank you for your feedback, I'm glad to see that you enjoy PDFelement's new interface.
To clarify, do you find that opening the file in external programs enlarges the check boxes automatically?
"You need PDFelement 6. The PDF program for the cost I've worked with!"
Much cleaner than previous version and the speed is better than previous version. The interface is definitely more modern and functions as well as the previous version. The overall look and feel are very professional and allow the user to do just about anything they would want with a pdf file.
It does everything I expected only better than the previous version. I use the expensive Adobe version at work and this is as good if not better. I can't image working without it on my projects.
It does everything as advertised and the price is unbelievable. I use constantly and it the best product I've used for the price. As a CPA I can't give PDF Element enough kudos for how well it works!
As an accountant I use it quite a bit to fix reports and add items to pdf's that are not editable after download. It's as good as adobe at a fraction of the cost. Awesome product! The ability to take multiple pdf files and combine them into on complete package report is invaluable for someone like me. Before I have to scan the pages and create a pdf the was too large and bulky to be functional or usable to my end user. Your product allows me to do things I never thought possible for the price and my end user are happy too. I love a win-win!
"Upgraded to PDFelement 6 Pro, well worth it!"
It didn't take me long to be able to maneuver around within this program. Set it up as my primary pdf file viewer and away I went!
I was easily able to convert a pdf file and edit it as well. I Love the ease of adding text to scanned documents, and watermarks to personal business documents. Being able to combine multiple documents is easy to do as well.
I love the ease of just opening the program and then selecting documents from the history to open. Very helpful, and easier than finding the document in my files and then opening.
I dislike that whenever a pdf file is opened, it is zoomed in to around 150% or more....I am constantly decreasing the viewing size back to 100%. I will have to use this product even more to come up with anything else negative/constructive feedback wise.
Change to PDFelement....it is easy to use!
Just using it as my primary pdf viewer, and editor.
"Best PDF Tool I've used yet!"
PDF Element Pro 6 takes the limitations off of PDFs. It allows me to work with these documents in a much easier way as if they were word processing documents. I find it is much more user-friendly for completing fillable PDF forms which can sometimes be difficult as well. I often use PDF Element Pro 6 to convert PDFs i to word documents or Excel documents with ease and it saves me a lot of time trying to transcribe or otherwise work with the information on a PDF.
I haven't found anything I dislike about PDF Element Pro 6, except that my coworkers do not have the program so now they email me files to convert and send back to them!
It took me a little while to get to know how to use PDF Element Pro 6, so don't underestimate the learning curve. It is a powerful piece of software that can accomplish a lot for you!
The value of an effective and efficient tool to convert PDFs in to spreadsheet or word processing documents is invaluable. It saves everyone in my office a lot of time and we are able to use the valuable information stored in PDFs much easier.
"Very nice App to manage PDF documents"
It's very easy to use, and it has all the features I usually need for managing and editing PDF documents. Tools are very intuitive, you can start using the app as soon as you install it without having to read any instructions. I especially like the Edit function, because it's easy to manage each paragraph, add new text and/or images. You can easily move paragraphs up/down and insert new ones. Managing pages is also very easy; you can extract or insert pages very fast.
Nothing at this time. I have been able to do everything I have needed.
Use the trial version first, so you will know if it really meets all your expectations.
I usually have to edit PDF documents like contracts, manuals, instruction sheets. I also have to join or split documents, and PDF Element let me do all these tasks very easily and fast.
I've been using PDFelement for a few years and have just tried the upgrade to PDFelement6. What I love is that it works seamlessly with any file I throw at it and most importantly for me, does a great job of extraction both for Word and Excel files. Conversion to Powerpoint is also great although I don't personally use this feature as much.
The other thing I really like about PDFelement is how easy it is to use the page extraction and insertion features as well as editing text. I've found that at times other software can't dismantle a table or elements in a pdf while PDFelement can still extract everything I need from it, so while it was the last pdf editor I used to go to now it's the first one I go to.
Just use it. Try out the trial software and like I did you'll find yourself upgrading super quickly!
Extracting data from tables is my biggest use of PDFelement and at times, slides to powerpoint, although it's mainly data that I need to pull from tables for reports & visualisations, and it saves a lot of time & grief for me.
"Meets and Exceeds My Needs for Every Aspect of PDF Management "
User friendly interface. Clean and well laid out making for a good overall user experience. It's easy to navigate and quite intuitive making it easy to find the most important options. Fast and accurate. Definite improvement over previous version.
What is there to dislike, it does everything I need it to. It seem's to be robust and stable which is a great improvement from the last version.
It's a great program. The developers are working hard to meet all the requirements. It can only get better as they go forward. Version 5 definitely had issues but Version 6 is a vast improvement! I am confident that if they continue on this path they will become the industry leader in PDF management! Move over Adobe there's a new PDF champ in town. I have become quite impressed with Wondershare products over the last few years. I also use Filmora for video editing and am enjoying each new version as they are always improving!
I edit, fill in and sign PDF files regularly,. I use it to convert my Word Doc files to PDF format. It is a great benefit to be able to manage all my PDF files in the same place.
"PDF Element is a Great Editor and Viewer"
It's fast and offers a lot of editing features. Sometimes, software that does more than just view files takes too long to load for everyday use. PDF Element isn't like this, so it's really convenient for everyday use as a viewer or an editor.
I wish it offered dark modes. It's personal preference, but I don't like bright white windows on my screen. It's annoying to use at night. Also, I was really disappointed when considering an upgrade that I could not upgrade to the other platform (I own PDF Element 5 for Mac but wanted to switch over to the PC version going forward as I've switched platforms.) I was disappointed to learn that there was no upgrade path for this.
I own a copy of PDF Element 5 that I've been using for several years. The user interface for version 6 is much cleaner and it's priced very competitively vs. other similar software on the market.
It makes managing lease documents much easier because I combine content from multiple sources, and it's just easier to do as a PDF. PDF Element lets me do this and still make final tweaks and edits.
Thanks for the feedback, Trent.
I really like the idea for dark modes, as it's easier on the eyes. I'll forward both suggestions to the team! Let us know if you have any other feedback.
The easy use, and a variety of handy options.
Not much - but one thing in the previous version was the limit to 15 open files.
If you are looking for an application that is useful, versatile and offer you good functionality this might be it. I have stopped using other PDF readers and this is what I stick to now, and also for editing PDF files. There are likely additional functions, but the ones available here are the ones required for me in my role as a teacher and administrator in higher education - to be able to easy make changes in some previously uneditable files, etc. What takes plenty of time for some colleagues is an easy and quick fix, using this software. At times I ask myself what amounts of times the application has saved me - and the answer is many hours, every month.
It is helpful in different ways, for example when managing files for student groups.
"ROBERT KNAUER LIKES PDF Element6 software"
PDFElement6 is so far superior to Adobe for the price and its versatility. In pretty much enables me to do everything Full Adobe allowed me to do, but at a much lower price.
I love that it is menu driven enabling me to view the screen much like Windows 10 to easily find what I am looking for....There is literally nothing I don't like about it except giving me more functionality than Adobe. For what Element6 gives me I am happy.
Before spending lots of hard earned money on Adobe you should give PDFelement6 a try for the money you simply cannot beat it.
I love the fact that I can cut, copy, past and make changes along with attaching other documents to my project on the fly. For the fact it makes me fully productive and gives me the ability to easily save and send PDF conversions to others gives me the tool I need to help teach my negotiation classes.I love the versatility, ease of use and convenience this product provides me with to do my work.
The ease of editing pdf files is clearly the thing that drew me initially to PDFelement. It has saved me hundreds of hours by not having to recreate every pdf doc over the years.
Although intuitive, I'd still like to have some of the image tools enhanced so that removing and adding images from things like banners and footers was simpler.
It has become a true 'go-to' tool for our business. Allowing us to focus on our content, creation of results and selling those outcomes rather than spending 100's of hours trying to figure out creatives that means hiring designers constantly to tweak and test tons of options and testing.
I am able to use creative marketing pieces and customize them to our current offerings and timeframes. Knowing our market, offers and how to sell is at a very high level. Creating the creative and design aspects are great to be able to implement and enhance.
Thank you for your feedback regarding additional functionalities for image tools. Aside from removing and adding images on banner and footers, is there anything else you would like to see on PDFelement?
"Versatile Easy to Use PDF Editor"
PDF Element is so easy to use makes it the primary reason I chose to use it for business and home tasks. Removing or editing text is a breeze and one of the best features is the ability to remove or extract pages from a document. Everything on the screen is laid out in a very simple manner so it takes little if any time to get right into working with the program.
Very robust and up to date. I had the full Adobe but found it too costly to upgrade. This is much more streamlined and easy to use!
When I send a PDF Element file, all others can see it perfectly in their Adobe format. Being able to send something from PDF Element that others can see in their desired format is a great benefit. I always had Adobe reader crashing on my and hanging up my computer.
The interface in PDF Element 6 has been streamlined throughout and feels more responsive with use. It is very intuitive and easy to navigate.
The simple interface, and easy navigation do not mean a lack of features though. I find PDF Element to be capable of all my PDF needs. I can quickly combine multiple files into a single PDF allowing me to share projects containing a variety of file types easily with colleagues.
PDF ELement doesn't just stop with creation, or converting other file types though. The OCR integration makes it a very powerful tool to turn scanned documents into an easy to edit document.
The ability to edit any PDF file makes it an invaluable tool for me on a regular basis.
I made the switch from Acrobat over a year ago, and have not missed it since. PDF Element is an excellent replacement at a much more attractive price. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an alternative.
The cost savings realized with PDF ELement, without having to give up features have made this software an invaluable asset.
"Easy to use for pdf manipulation"
The appearance of PDFelement 6 is much cleaner then version 5. The speed in obtain the files is fast and the changes can be made very quickly. I use it to amend pdf's and with the OCR installed it is very easy. I also use it to convert pdf's to word documents and it does that easily as well. Finally, I use it to rearrange documents within a pdf and in my line of work that is priceless. PDFelement is the easiest system that I have used for that process. This is by far the easiest system that I have used.
I have run into situation where the layout of the document has been changed when converting to a word format. I do not know for sure that it is a pdfelement problem but I also do not know that it isn't.
"It was the easiest conversion program I have every used"
I haven't used it enough to find any things about it I don't like yet. As I to use it more I may or may not come up with any things I dislike and I promise I will let you know.
I have to created leases for my rentals and PDFelement makes that a breeze. I haven't used it enough yet, since I am switching from another program. Most of the documents I need in my real estate business come as PDF's as protection. They cannot be edited unless converted, and with PDFelement, they are easily converted. As I use it more I will be able to realize more benefits and perhaps some issues.
"Save Time and Money... Wow!"
What I like the best is how simple everything is now.
Like I said, I love the new layout and everything about it is so different, in a good way.
I would highly recommend... BIG TIME!
I solved many problems. I don't have to spend money and hire a professional, I'm the professional using the PDF Element 6. It's absolutely perfect for my business needs. The changes are AWESOME indeed... What I really love is how simple it is to do anything I want inside of the software. For example, when I get ready to place page numbers on all of my pages, it's simple and very easy. Also, when I get ready to put links into my headers and footers, it's a snap. I love it. I would love it if the save feature were a little bit bigger, so I'm not looking for it, however, my eye site is not what it used to be. I love the fact that there is a huge improvement over the last product. Everything seems to be more user-friendly and easy to use. There is no doubt in my mind that I will be using PDF Element 6 a lot more than the other version. Place images inside of your documents is also another great feature. You can also move it around anywhere inside of your document and it's the best that I've seen in the market, no doubt. I will use it almost daily when I'm working on my coaching programs and getting my products online. It saves so much money and time that I can continue to spend with my family and friends. Let's don't forget the amount of time I can spend in the air, you see, I'm a pilot and I enjoy as much time in the plane as possible. PDF Element 6 is the best as far as I'm concerned. I would highly recommend this to all of my friends and business associates. Huge improvement over the last version. I've use other pdf software and this truly is the best out there. I would even go as far as buying this for a business friend, no doubt, that I would. Like I said before. It saves so much money and time that it is worth the cost easily. I can hardly wait to see what in the world they will do with the next version. I can't imagine what improvements they could do to make it any better. The most AWESOME PDF software on the market today, no kidding. I've been in online marketing for over 20 years and software like this is a life saver for sure. You can start a project and then finish it up very quickly because it's so simple and easy to use. Everyone knows that time and money is a key factor in building your business. I create and market my own products. Years ago you would have to hire someone just to put links into your documents, however, with the use of the PDF Element, you can do it in a matters of minutes. I love it and will be very excited about all of the new features I can now use inside of the newest version. My name is Robert Phillips and I highly recommend this software. I will help you in anything to get ready to create.
PDF Element is an incredible tool. It's ability to edit directly in pdf documents has saved me many hours of painstaking labour. Similarly, being able to seemlessly convert pdf documents to Word and Excel has helped me provide an efficient and cost effective service to my clients.
Spending some time getting to know all the features and functionality in PDF Element is definitely worth the effort. I originally purchased the software as a quick fix to a problem I was having but over time I have learnt more and more about the product and every time I use it I become more impressed.
Editing pdf documents directly and converting pdf's to word and excel has saved me many many hours of boring and frustrating work.
"Easy, Fun and great links with MS Office"
I started with PDF Element 5 to use OCR (Czech and English texts) which worked perfectly. Than I started with the 6 version and started to admire it because of the interconnection and easy collaboration with the MS Office. The file transferability is great, even from pdf to word, or from excel to pdf, very cool graphics interface and work with various elements on the page - pictures, forms, windows, passwords, watermarks, direct scan to OCR, OCR outputs and previews.
"Excellent software for editing pdf files and converting them"
I mainly use the software for editing pdf files and exporting them to excel and word documents. It does an amazing job for me. I also occasionally use it to merge files or split them and it works quite well for me. It has saved me time all the time.
I am currently using version 5 which sometimes doesn't convert images properly. This happens to the images like logo etc in the document which gets converted to tiny images and some text in them. However this is not a big problem for me as after conversion, I am always able to add the images again to resemble the original one.
It's a great software. I was struggling with converting pdf files and since I found PDFElement, life is much easier. It's definitely a winner for me.
We send and receive a lot of PDF files and this helps us editing/modifying them if we need to. It's much easier to edit pdf files in PDFElement than any other software. I am liking it. It also helps in password protecting the PDF files, move text and images around etc. Overall it does many good things for us and we as business quite liking it.
"Absolutely user friendly and make working with PDF fun!"
Honestly I can't point out anything that I dislike. Looking forward to new updates making this experience even better.
Overall great product that serves your needs working with PDF.
The batch processing is an awesome advantage. I use it on a Mac and love the user interface. If you work with PDFs you need to have a powerful software to be able to edit PDFs and convert or extract data from it. PDFelement does all of that plus many more awesome capabilities.
Je suis très satisfaite de l'utilisation quotidienne du PDFelement Pro.
La nouvelle interface est simple et bien faite...et elle te donne une belle lisibilité.
Les options OCR sont bien surtout le traitement des PDF en français et Anglais.
Avec PDFelement la conversion de mes documents PDF en Formats PPT et DOC est devenue très facile et bien maitrisable.
mon utilisation de PDFelement pendant une durée de 9 mois ma montre que c'est un éditeur de PDF bien a adopté et de recommander aux utilisateurs. C'est pour quoi j'ai bien recommande ce logiciel à mes amies et mes collègues de travail.
The clean and tidy user interface offers a lot of design possibilities under the hood.
Convert encrypted PDF file to Word, Excel, PPT and other file types, allowing further editing, copying and printing.
Including OCR in the Pro version which is very interesting if searchable documents are needed.
PDF Word, Excel, PPT, images, text, text, EPUB ebooks, HTML and more.
Supported image formats are JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF.
OCR technology also supports image-based PDFs.
Convert up to 200 PDFs in one step and 3 minutes.
Comment with sticky notes or text box. Brighten up important text. Provide PDF with stamps. All of them are compatible with Acrobat and other popular programs.
Add secure passwords to prevent unauthorized opening, copying, editing, extracting and printing of your document.
Compress PDF files to a perfect size in good quality to email or upload them to the Internet. Now resize PDFs in seconds.
Great price when compared to Adobe.
I couldn't find anything. Surely there is always room for improvement, but I can't complain.
On Windows, PDFelement is absolutely great and intuitive. I like the design very much and despite the many functions it looks very tidy. If you are looking for a powerful pDF editor, this is the right place.
I rather privately very much solve the PDF processing for documents, invoices, scripts.
You can easily create, edit, print pdf files. Also adding images and text is easy. Easy to print, easy to prepare documents and forms. I recommend it for every type of user.
The menu bar can be smaller than the current version. The font implementation can be improved. Also, OCR can work more smoothly with the other languages than English such as Dutch or Turkish. It may also provide online translation documents from different languages.
Cost effective pdf solution for mid-sized companies. It has all the required features for business owners such as creating, editing pf files and also print features.
Thank you for your feedback! Which languages do you find difficult to work with in terms of our OCR?
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Es una interfaz rapida y facil de utilizar, aunque no tengas experiencia, para el trabajo de oficina o el trabajo de la escuela te permite lograr resultados rápidos al poder guardar y exportar en diferentes formatos.
PDFelement is fast, robust and beautiful PDF editor for Mac and Windows.
Through multiple pdf file processing mode (=Work with Batch Processing) and the commenting tools, highlights and text I was able to accelerate my work and highlight the important elements in my documents.
"Easy to use and a good step forward from PDF Element 5"
The new menus are easy to use and understand - I sometimes struggled to find the tool I needed when using the 5th edition of PDF Element but the new format and layout seems more logical and certainly easier to understand.
The conversion tools are the best in the market (I often use the PDF to Excel conversion tool and it provides results which can be relied upon - which cannot be said for any of the other products I've tried over the last few years).
The conversion to Word tool, whilst improved still struggles to provide a Word document which mirrors the PDF. The text seems to be slightly misaligned on each row which can render the whole conversion unusable.
This product is certainly worth a try if you want a reliable, affordable product for the editing of PDF files and conversion into Microsoft Office formats.
In our business we sometimes get sent PDFs of information which can run into multiple pages. Using the PDF to Excel converter, we can literally save ourselves hours of work (so the entire price of the product can be recovered in the first hour of use... and the multiple other hours it saves represent pure profit)!
Glad to see that you saw an improvement between PDFelement 5 and PDFelement 6. I appreciate the feedback on the PDF to Word confusion - let me know if there has been any improvement in the last few updates!
"Convert PDFs to do what you need them to do!"
I love being able to edit product catalogs and documents that come to me for my business!! I have been able to use this program to make individual catalogs for dealers and to not need to print out, write in, and then scan in pdf documents that need to be filled out.
Sometimes it can be difficult to figure out the layers and to get things in just the right spot. But I'm on a learning curve, and that's more me than the program. On one catalog I've had a horrendous time getting a black box to print around my business name. I could've asked for help with that, but I didn't.
This makes more sense to me than Adobe. The pricing is worth what you get. It's a great value, and it helps flow tremendously.
Getting the word out through customized catalogs for my dealers and for my business. Our basic product stays the same, but additions and price changes happen each year.
"Easy to use PDF managing software"
PDF Element is really easy to use, its logic is very intuitive and can quickly be learnt.
I haven't found anything that I really dislike about the software. Occasionally the formatting of documents converted to Word can be a little complex.Comparing it to others I have found it very straightforward.
If you want a very easy to use product for handling all aspects of PDF management, this is the product for you. Learning time is short and users who are not familiar with this type of software can quickly learn to use it.
Its ease off use makes it readily useable by many people in the office who may only need to use it occasionally. It makes all handling of PDF documents , from signatures, editing and collating very straightforward. I use it a lot for putting separate PDF documents together into a single document. Its ability to quickly converts PDFs to Word and Excel is an excellent feature.
"PDF Element 6 Review1- James Dooley"
"Robust PDF editing software - reasonably priced to boot"
I particularly like the wide variety of commenting options available. Makes it quick and easy to mark up shared business documents. These tools seem more responsive in version 6 than in previous versions. Also, when inserting pages, the program stays on the "Page" tab, making it faster to insert other pages. In earlier versions, you had to click the Page tab upon every separate insertion.
I can't find much to dislike. A minor glitch: when filling a PDF form field using Courier font, it will look OK on screen, but when printed out, words are broken in random places at the right margin. Other fonts don't exhibit this, but the first line of a paragraph "returns" far short of the right margin. Hopefully they'll get this fixed in a future update.
We do lots of combining of multiple PDFs pulled from separate documents. We also create fillable forms, and send documents around for markup or comments. PDF Element makes short work of these tasks.
"Best PDF tool ever, Easy to use and work with PDF documents"
Easy to use and you can edit PDF file with PDFelement like Microsoft Word. It helps you a lot to save your time. Moreover, it help you to create fillable PDF form. With Form Field Recognition feature. The software will auto recognize and create interactive form fill for you. You can edit them later with ease of use. And with the Data Extraction, you can extract data from form fields or marked PDF to csv file.
Moreover, you can add secure passwords to prevent unauthorized opening, copying, editing, extracting and printing of your document. You can export PDF document to Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel that help you save more time and very effective.
To be honest, currently I cannot find any negative issues of PDFelement that should be raised for change or correct.
I recommend PDFelement to others who considering to try.
For me, It is very easy to create fillable PDF forms. It's great.
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Can anyone explain what functions a 'realtor tenant rep' performs, and who would need one?
Just exactly what is a "Realtor Tenant Rep"...and would I need one if I were to purchase a shopping center, or a sizeable medical building? Can anyone explain what functions a realtor tenant rep performs, and who would need one?
Barbara.... A Commercial Real Estate Agent will never call himself a "Realtor", as this term is for those individuals that belong to the National Association of Realtors, and perform largely in the single-family, residential arena.
However, to answer your question as it has to do with the commercial real estate industry, a Tenant Representative can be one of the most valuable individuals employed by any person that is considering leasing commercial space. A good commercial tenant representative can literally save thousands upon thousands of money for a tenant. These are important in the leasing of new space, but should never be overlooked by tenants who are terming out on their lease and want to remain in their current space.
1. Early entry months of rent. This is a period prior to the lease that can be negotiated that will allow a tenant to get established in his new space. Or, conversely this will allow an existing tenant to have a few months of non-rental when rolling over his lease. The reasons why a landlord will consider early entry is all economic and a good commercial tenant representative can justify this request to the landlord's representative.
2. Tenant improvement concessions to be paid by the landlord.
3. A delay for the start of the cost of living increases that are to be applied during the term of the lease. Or, a formula to be used that limits the amount to be paid in the out-years of a lease.
4. Free rent during the term of the lease. Often months tied to the term of the lease. A month of free rent each year has an impact on the average annual cost of the rental space for the tenant.
5. Helping to get through the many "boiler-plate" clauses in a lease to make sure the tenant is not signing a totally unfair clause. A good tenant representative will never try to take the place of a good attorney or a good accountant, but will usually know when to recommend the usage of these professionals.
6. A competent commercial tenant representative can also work other landlord concessions into the lease that will equate to further tenant savings.
To provide an example of the tremendous savings, examine what $3 per square foot of tenant improvements paid for by the landlord, three months of early entry, a cost of living increase of 3% that does not start until the 24th month, and a month of free rent each year will do in savings for just 1,000 square feet of space on a five year lease that is leased at $1.50 per square foot, rather than the landlords, "bottom line" price of $1.60 per square foot.
One month of free rent in years 2, 3, 4 & 5. If the rent was $18,000 annually for the full 12 months and a month of abated rent is given this would be reduced to $16,500 annually, which if then divided by the 1,000 square feet effectively reduces the rent from $1.50 sf to $1.375 per square foot. (Or simply put without factoring COL increases would be a total savings for the four years of $6,000).
This will give you some idea about why with just 1,000 sf of the potential, laundry list of area of tightening up the costs of a lease that can be exercised by a good tenant representative. Barbara.... A Commercial Real Estate Agent will never call himself a "Realtor", as this term is for those individuals that belong to the National Association of Realtors, and perform largely in the single-family, residential arena.
Barbara... I apologize for my previous answer. There were a few misspelled words that I corrected. But in the middle of my preparing the corrected copy I got a telephone call and somehow pushed the button that sent the uncorrected copy forward. Please look at my answer for substance and not be distracted by the few words that were indeed misspelled. (This comes from my typing my thoughts very rapidly and simply hitting wrong keys).
A "Tenant Rep." is a Realtor or Commercial Agent who specializes in finding commercial space for his/her tenant client to lease. In other words he represents the Tenants interest in the transaction. Any Realtor can perform this function; however some prefer to make it the sole source of their business to limit any fiduciary liabilities as well as provided greater service to their clients. If you are looking to purchase a large retail of medical complex I would suggest finding a Broker who only works on the commercial side of real estate and has a really good grasp of the market where you are looking to purchase. Don’t have a residential agent help you buy a commercial building they are just not going to have the experience necessary to navigate this transaction. You may also want that Broker to specialize as a Buyers rep. however a lot of local agents will perform multiple different duties in a smaller niche market so that may not be as important as their overall knowledge of the market.
watch your use of "Realtor", it is a trademark of the National Association of Realtors. Only those that seek out to pay the fee, and pass the classes are a "Realtor". I am a Commercial Broker and I have NOT been a Realtor for several years, even though I have been a Commercial "Realtor" in the past. And by the way, there are "Commercial Realtors" you just have to be a member to be a Realtor. Most commercial agents do not find it needed, because of the concentration of residential agents that are mainly "realtors".
To answer your question, I would agree with most on this post and add that any representative that is on your side and looking out for your best interests, and negotiating on your behalf would be a great advocate for you in this venture. "Don't be a pilot if you can't fly the plane". A true commercial agent with any experience under his belt will be a skilled negotiator, it is what we do on a daily and hourly basis, therefore we know the market well enough to get you the best deal possible in that period of time.
Hope this helps, good luck! go to the link, it has some great general knowledge for office space needs.
A Tennant / Buyers Rep is a Commercial Agent or Broker that will assist you with all aspects of locating a property that will meet your investment or location needs. They will also help you in the negotiaion and all aspect of the lease or purchase. It is advisable to also consult with legal council when entering into any purchase contract or lease.
Actually many commercial brokers are also "REALTORS" and belong to the National Association of Realtors or NAR, they have a commercial division and are bound to a strict code of ethics.
From NAR website: "The NAR Commercial, the commercial real estate division of the National Association of REALTORS®, supports commercial advocacy efforts and provides services specifically for commercial members, including education, publications, and commercial market research. NAR Commerical also manages CommercialSource.com, NAR's commercial real estate website, where NAR members can post properties for sale/lease, read industry news, and network. "
YOu have used the term "Realtor Tenant Rep" - but then you indicate would you need one if you were to purchase a shoppiong center or medical building. 1st... a REALTOR IS a member of the NAR - National Association of REALTORS - and as such adheres to a code of ethics adopted in 1913 in Chicago that sets us apart from those who are not members. There are thousands of members of NAR that specialize in commercial real estate. The likes of which include such as those with the CCIM or CPM designation - they are REALTORS. It does not only mean residential real estate. I've been a REALTOR for decades and been in commercial real estate from the get go. 2nd... a Tenant Rep is a commercial AGENT (REALTOR) that specializes in finding lease spaces in a commercial property for a tenant who wants to lease. A Tenant Rep might not have the experience and knowledge needed to represent a buyer wanting to buy a shopping center or medical / office building. The commercial arena includes many areas of specialization. In a large market (Dallas area) - you will find agents who specialize being a tenant rep for retail properties ONLY - or medical buildings - or office buildings - or industrial buildings - and they will not work with someone outside their area of expertise. You need to find a commercial broker in your area that can represent you in your quest to purchase a building. You do not need to be looking for a tenant rep. But I would certainly recommend you look for one who also is a REALTOR and will adhere to a code of ethics in dealing fairly with you and all parties. There are many REALTORS who specialize in homes, land, etc. but many are experts in commercial properties. Inquire in your area as to who some are - talk to them and select one who you feel is competent, knowledgeable and properly experienced and credentialed.
I am NOT answering the posted question. I wanted to expound on the discussion about the term "Realtor". Since getting my real estate license, I have come across this issue where a person unknowledgeable about the term "realtor" will ask if I am one. My response is "I am in real estate". A few times I explained the what the designation of "realtor" means. In my experience, the average joe doesn't know or care about the designation. He uses the term "realtor" meaning real estate agent. It's the same when I get the "are you a broker" question. I don't think they even know why they are asking that question. These terminologies have be used incorrectly by unlicensed individuals when referring to licensed real estate agents.
P.S. I DO NOT refer to my self as a Realtor or Broker.
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California has reached a settlement in DJ v. State of California. Plaintiffs charged that the state Department of Education was failing to carry out its obligations to English Language Learners (ELLs) and the trial court agreed. Under federal law, the Equal Educational Opportunities Act requires states and schools to take affirmative action to help ELLs overcome language barriers and make appropriate educational progress. California's state constitution also establishes education as a fundamental right and requires the state "to intervene when the educational opportunity provided to some students falls below "prevailing statewide standards. . . The failure to provide appropriate services to EL students denies them equal educational opportunity." DJ v. State of California, BS 142775 (Sept. 14, 2015).
Applying those standards, last fall, the trial court found that the Department had failed "to take appropriate action in response to reports from districts that EL students have not received instructional services. Petitioners are also entitled to an injunction requiring Respondents to establish procedures that effectively ensure all EL students receive required EL instructional services."
The state has now agreed to put specific remedies in place to address these failures. The state promised to collect and monitor more accurate data on ELLs, make that data publicly available, establish standards that increase the likelihood of triggering onsite evaluations of ELL programs, seek additional funding for new staff to oversee the program, and conduct a compliance review in Compton Unified School District.
The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education (OCR) completed its compliance review of Princeton's admission practice last week. Princeton, like Harvard and the University of North Carolina, has been accused of discriminating against Asian Americans in admissions. OCR applied strict scrutiny to the University's admissions practices and policies and concluded that "there was insufficient evidence to substantiate that the University violated Title VI or its implementing regulation with regard to the issue investigated."
burdened students of any racial group; and whether the consideration of race was limited in time and subject to periodic review.
no evidence that the University tried to cap or otherwise limit the number of applicants who would be admitted from any race or national origin group. OCR also did not find that the University engaged in “patently unconstitutional” racial balancing, which the Supreme Court has defined as an effort “to assure within its student body some specified percentage of a particular group merely because of its race or ethnic origin.” Instead, to the contrary, OCR found mostly steady increases in the percentages of Asian students who have been admitted in the past several years, rising from 14.2% of the University’s Class of 2007 to 21.9% of the University’s Class of 2012 and 25.4% (more than one-fourth) of the University’s Class of 2014. Such fluctuations are inconsistent with the existence of a quota, as the Supreme Court noted in Grutter.
Here, OCR found that during the University’s admissions process, an applicant’s race and national origin – if he or she offered that information — may or may not be considered, depending upon whether that information provides further context about an individual applicant. For example, an admissions officer might consider how race may have figured in the context of where a person was born, where a person grew up, and where he or she had gone to school. Race and national origin may also be considered if an applicant brings up those subjects in his or her essay. However, OCR found no evidence of the University giving an automatic “plus” for identifying as a particular race or national origin; nor did OCR find evidence of applicants given an automatic “minus” for belonging to a particular race or national origin. OCR also found no evidence of the University using a fixed formula to weigh an applicant’s race or national origin.
Post-Fisher v. Texas, the potentially more difficult analysis for universities is the race neutral alternative analysis. If interpreted strictly, Fisher's statement that a university should demonstrate that its consideration of race is "necessary" could be fatal to many admissions plans. If interpreted consistent with Grutter, the term means something more flexible than absolute necessity.
OCR's letter did a nice job of averting the significance of this definition problem, which scholars have been wrangling over. OCR did so by referencing the Court's "necessary" quote in a footnote, but refusing to allow the meaning of the phrase to become the analysis itself. Instead, it rephrased the question as being one of "sufficiency." It asked "whether race-neutral alternatives were sufficient to achieve its diversity goals, of which race was a single though important element." It then alternatively phrased the question as whether race neutral alternatives were "not sufficient to achieve the educational benefits of diversity." Sufficiency captures the notion of flexibility far more clearly than necessity would, and that flexibility, of course, was clearly forwarded in Grutter. Drawing on Grutter's approach to race neutral alternatives, OCR concluded that "there were no race-neutral alternatives that would have worked about as well."
In reaching that conclusion, OCR interestingly focused on the race neutral alternatives that the University currently uses. Often, the focus elsewhere is on those hypothetical processes the university could or should use instead of race. Here, OCR makes a compelling argument that the University is already using these alternatives and race is just a tipping factor on top of those alternatives in certain circumstances, although without those tipping it would not achieve its goal. In other words, the fact that the University is using race-neutral alternatives substantiates the fact that it has considered alternatives and exhausted their efficacy. One would expect these ideas to show up in the government's briefs in Fisher II, where the analysis of the facially race neutral top ten percent plan will be key.
Get OCR's full letter here.
The Fifth Circuit recently reversed a district court's decision denying qualified immunity to officials of a Mississippi school district on a First Amendment claim. The case arose when a teacher in the Pearl Public Schools, who served as the school's cheer squad sponsor, coercively requested a student's Facebook log-in information, accessed her Facebook messages, and later punished the student by removing her from the cheer squad because of the messages' content. After the student was dismissed from the squad, her parents filed a § 1983 action alleging that school officials violated their daughter's First and Fourth Amendment rights by searching her messages. The Fifth Circuit held that the school officials were entitled to qualified immunity because the law was not “clearly established” when the incident occurred (September 2007) that searching a student's Internet messages would violate either the First or Fourth Amendments if the teacher was acting on a reasonable suspicion that that the student had posted threatening messages immediately after a school event. The finding of qualified immunity was compelled, the Fifth Circuit explained, by conflicting rulings in school search cases until the Supreme Court handed down Safford Unified Sch. Dist. No. 1 v. Redding in 2009. The circuit court likewise held that school officials had qualified immunity on the First Amendment claim, because they did not have "fair warning," given the available precedent, that removing the student from the cheer squad because the content of her Facebook messages would violate the First Amendment. Read the opinion in Jackson v. Ladner, No. 13-60631 (5th Cir. Sept. 15, 2015) here.
A Kansas appellate court held last week that University of Kansas had no authority to expel a student for posting sexually harassing tweets about another student even though the university had ordered him not to contact the other student. The harassing communications were done off-campus, and construing the University's student code, the court concluded that the "only environment the University can control is on campus or at University sponsored or supervised events." The case is Yeasin v. Univ. of Kansas, No. 113,098 (Kan. App. Sept. 25, 2015).
Last week, the Third Circuit handed down a major special education law decision, G.L. v. Ligonier Valley School District Authority, No. 14-1387, 2015 WL 5559976 (3d Cir. Sept. 22, 2015). In brief, it holds that two oddly worded provisions in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act establish a two year limitations period from the date the parent knew or should have known of an IDEA violation for the filing of a due process complaint, but the provisions do not limit the period that may be considered in fashioning a compensatory remedy for claims that are timely filed.
Thomas Jefferson School of law is pleased to announce the second Jameson Crane III Disability and the Law Writing Competition. Made possible by the generous gift of Thomas Jefferson School of Law alumnus Jameson Crane III, the Crane Writing Competition seeks to encourage outstanding student scholarship at the intersection of law and medicine, or law and the social sciences. The competition promotes an understanding of these topics, furthers the development of legal rights and protections, and improves the lives of those with disabilities.
California School Board Association Sues State For Lowering Education Budget By $150 Million Through Legislative "Manipulations"
An alliance of school boards has sued California officials this week alleging that the state legislature "manipulated" what is included in the state's minimum education spending guarantee and thus violated the California Constitution's Article XVI, sec. 8, called Proposition 98. In the complaint filed September 22 by the California School Boards Association (CSBA) and Education Legal Alliance, the plaintiffs explain that Proposition 98 requires a minimum percentage of the state budget to be spent on K-12 public schools and community college districts. In 2011, the legislature moved childcare spending out of the education budget and adjusted or "rebenched" the minimum education spending guarantee to reflect the missing amount. When some childcare costs were added back in the current 2015-16 budget, however, the legislature did not readjust or "rebench" the minimum educational spending requirement, thus decreasing the minimum guarantee of Proposition 98 by $150-$180 million, the plaintiffs allege. The CSBA says that it does not object to childcare expenditures being part of the education formula, but does object to the legislature's inconsistency in defining what is part of Proposition 98's minimum spending guarantee. Read the complaint in California School Boards Association v. Cohen here.
Philadelphia parents filed a class action lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia last month, alleging that the district violated special education law requirements by failing to translate documents and to provide sufficient interpretation services during Individualized Education Program meetings. The class alleges that the Philadelphia school district denied parents and students with limited English proficiency (LEP) an opportunity to participate IEPs on the same basis as their English-speaking counterparts. In 2013, the district reportedly received requests from 19,670 families of students who had requested documents in a language other than English; the district interpreted about 487 special education documents of any type that year. The plaintiffs received a due process hearing in May 2015 at which the Hearing Officer found violations of the parents' meaningful participation in the IEP process due to translation issues, required the district to translate IEPs and other documents for the plaintiffs in the future, and awarded compensatory education. However, the Hearing Officer declined to order that the district change its translation policies system-wide, concluding that the requested relief was outside of his powers. The plaintiffs are represented by the Education Law Center. T.R., by and through Barbara Galarza, v. The School District of Philadelphia, 2015 WL 5011332 (E.D.Pa. filed Aug. 21, 2015).
NCLB Waivers Survive at Trial, But Will the Fifth Circuit Ask Different Questions?
Last week, the federal district court in Jindal v. U.S. Department of Education denied Jindal's motion for a preliminary injunction. Jindal had sought to enjoin the Department's Race to the Top Program and its No Child Left Behind waivers. Jindal argued that the Department's support for the Common Core Curriculum through these programs violated the 1oth Amendment and a federal statute that prohibits the Department from dictating curriculum. The district court rejected both arguments.
Before going into my analysis, I must, in full disclosure, state that Jindal retained me as an expert in the case. It was just two months before the case went to trial and long after I had completed my article, Federalizing Education by Waiver?. In fact, I completed my article before Jindal filed his case, which I only learned about in the news. My testimony was little more than a recitation of my article. Regardless, I clearly have an opinion on this case. With that disclosure, I offer the following.
On Monday in Dwyer v. State, the Colorado Supreme Court held that its constitutional mandate that specifically requires annual increases in "statewide base per pupil funding" does not prohibit the state from reducing the total amount of funds per pupil it provides to school districts. That does not make sense, so let me explain.
Last fall, plaintiffs filed suit against Pennsylvania, arguing that education is a fundamental right under the state constitution and that the state has violated that right by repeatedly failing to ensure adequate education resources. That claim moved through the trial court quickly and is now before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Pennsylvania is one of the few states that has yet to fully entertain these issues, having dismissed school funding cases in the past as non-justiciable. Something tells me that this time might be different. As discussed several times on this blog over the past few years, the state has been so derelict in its obligations to its students that its action could be declared unconstitutional under any minimal and deferential standard one might imagine.
The briefs are in the appeal of Vergara v. State. Amici in support of the state are exposing a huge evidentiary flaw in the plaintiffs' case: the lack of causation. For those who are new to the case, last year a California trial court held that teacher tenure was unconstitutional, concluding that tenure prevented schools from removing grossly ineffective teachers. The court reached a similar conclusion in regard to the state's "last-in-first-out" statute, which requires reassignment and retention be based on seniority during reductions in force.
Plaintiffs . . . did not show, nor can they show, that the challenged statutes require the retention of clearly ineffective teachers or that those statutes resulted in assignment of teachers incapable of delivering curriculum and instruction to students in particular classrooms, schools, or districts. That is, plaintiffs did not show that the “Permanent Status Statutes,” and in particular, Education Code section 44929.21, subdivision (b), requires districts to reelect ineffective teachers at the expiration of their two-year probationary period. . . . Plaintiffs focused on the processes for dismissing teachers . . . . While plaintiffs critiqued these processes as a matter of public policy, they did not produce sufficient record evidence establishing that the statutes required districts to retain unqualified and ineffective teachers. . . .
At best, plaintiffs presented anecdotal evidence that in some instances, the challenged statutes could contribute to retention of ineffective teachers. However, the trial court’s analysis, given the record below, does not show or support a causal connection between these statutes as compared to the many other factors linked to teacher quality, and the deprivation of a constitutional education in specific California districts or schools.
In October of 2013, I published a series of posts on a high school student, Erin Cox, at North Andover High School in Massachusetts. The story told by her, her family, and primarily her attorney, Wendy Parker, was that the school had punished her under its zero tolerance policy on alcohol for being at a party where alcohol was served. The media story that unfolded over a couple of days was that she had not actually consumed any alcohol, that she had not actually been present at the party, that she had only come to the party to give a drunk friend a ride home, and that the police were already there when she arrived, but released her because it was clear she was not involved. Her attorney claimed she had a police report that even verified these last facts. The narrative was that the school was punishing for doing the right thing. She then brought suit in state court seeking to enjoin her punishment and her attorney said that the school's attorney lied about the undisputed facts at the initial hearing before the court.
The Huffington Post reports on an ED notice extending its information-gathering efforts about possible borrower's defenses for student loan debt from non-traditional or unaccredited post-secondary schools. With the recent troubles of some for-profit schools, including the massive Corinthian College network, the Obama administration has been looking for avenues of debt relief for students of those institutions. In its September 17 notice, the ED seeks continued collection of information from borrowers who believe they have cause to invoke the borrower defenses against repayment of a student loan as noted in regulation 34 CFR 685.206(c)(i) which states in part that “[i]n any proceeding to collect on a Direct Loan, the borrower may assert as a defense against repayment, an act or omission of the school attended by the student that would give rise to a cause of action against the school under applicable State law.” The ED notes that "[p]rior to 2015, the borrower defense identified above was rarely asserted by any borrowers and no specific methods of collecting information was defined or found necessary," prompting, Huffington Post writer Steve Rhode writes, "clever attorneys to show how the schools violated state unfair and deceptive practice laws and that could possibly lead to an elimination of the student loans in full." Read the story at the Huffington Post here and the ED's notice here.
The Third Circuit recently upheld a summary judgment finding in a teacher’s retaliation claim after she was discharged after her derogatory comments about students gained national attention. The Third Circuit held that while the teacher’s speech may have touched on a matter of national concern, it caused sufficient disruption for the students and the school district to warrant the teacher’s discharge, and thus speech was not protected under Pickering v. Board of Education. The case arose when a teacher for a Pennsylvania school district, Natalie Munroe, began a blog entitled "Where are we going, and why are we in this hand basket?" In the blog, Munroe discussed personal matters but also complained about her students, her co-workers, and the school where she worked. She did not expressly identify either where she worked or lived, the name of the school where she taught, or the names of her students, but described students as the “devil’s spawn,” and “rat-like.” Students and the school district discovered the blog, and after complaints about Munroe’s professionalism, the school district assigned a “shadow teacher” to teach Munroe’s subject at the same times that Munroe did and allowed students to opt-out of Munroe’s class. Munroe meanwhile became a minor celebrity in the national media because of the views expressed on the blog. Eventually, the school district discharged Munroe, and she brought a retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the district violated her First Amendment rights. She claimed that her termination based on her private blog and her media interviews. The Third Circuit found that Munroe’s national media interviews did not rise to the level of constitutionally protected expression, finding that “Munroe’s various expressions of hostility and disgust against her students would disrupt her duties as a high school teacher and the functioning of the School District.” The Third Circuit concluded that the district’s interest in eliminating Munroe’s disruptive speech and presence outweighed her “interest, as well as the interest of the public, in her speech.” Munroe v. Central Bucks School District, No. 14-3509 (3d Cir. Sept. 2015) is here.
Free speech and academic freedom have long exposed cultural and political tensions on college campuses. But in the past few years, those who would restrict free speech have seemingly gotten a foothold in the debate that they otherwise would have been laughed out of. In other words, they have managed to start a debate over long settled principles. They have been able to convince some universities and professors to include warnings or triggers on their syllabi. These triggers would warn students in advance about topics, books, and issues that they might find objectionable or offensive. Some students have even managed to get themselves exempted from certain readings and assigned alternatives. Some have complained to their legislators about being exposed to ideas they did not like and managed to get them to punish public universities by defunding certain programs. Some have gotten invited speakers uninvited because they were too controversial.
They now seem to have gotten the attention of presidential hopeful, Ben Carson, who appears to be taking up their cause. Speaking of his policy proposals for the Department of Education, he said: “I think the Department of Education should monitor institutions of higher education for political bias and withhold federal funding if it exists,” Carson told Las Vegas radio host Heidi Harris. Of course, political bias is not confined to one party, but the notion that a politician, rather than an academic, would be the arbiter of political bias is problematic to say the least, particularly if that politician comes from a party that has tended to resist things like the expansion of civil rights, the protection of free speech, and the calls for politically correct discourse.
School Choice As a Proxy for Segregation and Inequality?
Controlled choice has been central to the ability of progressive school districts to voluntarily desegregate. The title of this post is in no way meant to disparage school choice in general, but rather to highlight a recent study by Julia Burdick-Will. Her study revealed an interesting pattern: "as a neighborhood’s income decreases, its range of educational experiences greatly expands." In other words, the assumption that students in disadvantaged neighborhoods are trapped in their failing local school is not necessarily true. Rather, children in wealthier neighborhoods are the ones most likely to stay in their neighborhood schools. No one, of course, would claim these students are trapped. Rebecca Klien points out that going to a strong neighborhood school is the privilege, not choice. Wealthier students have this privilege. Low-income students do not.
Sixteen states received approval Thursday of their plans to improve access to high-quality teachers, as required under the No Child Left Behind law. The ED approved the first batch of states (all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico submitted plans) as part of its "Excellent Educators for All Initiative." The ED approved locally-developed plans to improve access to effective educators from Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Missouri, Minnesota, New York, Nevada, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. Recognizing that attracting and retaining effective teachers also requires effective leadership, the ED praised states' strategies to attract strong school leaders, stating its press release that "great teachers will follow great principals." The ED's release about the initiative is here.
Gavin Grimm has been fight with his school in Gloucester County, Virginia, for the past year to be able to use the boy's restroom. Gavin had previously been allowed to use the boys' bathroom, but when religious and other concerned groups discovered this, they came out in heavy opposition and the school board then banned his use of the boy's restroom.
In January, he filed an administrative complaint with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, arguing that his exclusion from the boy's bathroom violated Title IX. This summer he filed a complaint in federal district court. Just as school was to start this fall, the U.S. District Court denied his request for an injunction. Interestingly, it gave no rationale for the denial. It literally only said the court "hereby denies" and that "A memorandum opinion detailing the reasons for the denial will be forthcoming shortly."
Gavin is represented by ACLU attorneys, who say the will opinion the decision to the 4th Circuit. More here.
Lynn Walker Huntley passed away on August 30th from cervical cancer. Lynn's professional stature is well know in the civil rights and education community. Most recently, she was the president of the Southern Education Foundation. She served there for 15 years. Before that, she was a program officer at the Ford Foundation, where she spent more than a decade funding so much of the work that now forms the intellectual and empirical foundation of today's thinking on civil rights and social justice. Her early career was spent at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and then the Department of Justice, were she held important leadership roles.
As impressive and important as those accomplishments are, Lynn stands out most in my mind for the type of person she was. Lynn was one of the most genuinely warm people I have met. She felt like family from the first time I met her. Her cadence bubbled with joy. Her gazes conveyed understanding and compassion. Her embraces surrounded you with love. She was the type of person who made you want to move to Atlanta just so you could be around her more. Top that off with her brilliance and wit and you have one of the most remarkable people you could ever hope to have the honor of sitting down next to for just a few moments.
More on her career and links to her essays urging us all to do more to further justice can be found here, here, and here.
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Until his death in 1958, Harry Thrift was known around Dublin as the man in the bicycle race in Ulysses, where he was runner-up in the quarter-mile flat handicap in the Trinity Races of June 16, 1904. Joyce doesnt mention that the young man also placed second in the first heat of the 120-yard handicap, but out of the money in the final. Ulysses is a big book, but not big enough for all the newsworthy events of Bloomsday, 1904. Harrys transit in the track of the sun was brief. By 1917, when Joyce was composing the Wandering Rocks episode in Zurich, Thrift had been a Fellow of Trinity College for ten years, having won tenure in the 1907 Madden Prize examination. Harry devoted himself more to the advancement of rugby and cricket than to the sciences. Eventually he was bursar, then auditor of the college, serving fifty years on the faculty. One of the great collegiate sports boosters in Ireland this century, the teen-age cyclist of 1904 grew into the old boy of quad and green. He died on February 2, 1958, the thirty-sixth anniversary of the publication of Ulysses.
Production of all the old Thrift versions was halted in order to replace them with the Shrift version, which is claimed to be part of Ulysses as Joyce wrote it (1986, p. 649 and elsewhere). Did it occur to anyone to check whether Thrift was a real person before changing him to Shrift? Apparently not.
The disappearance of Harry Thrift is only one of literally thousands of unfortunate features of Ulysses: The Corrected Text (1986), prepared by Hans Walter Gabler, a professor at the University of Munich, with two graduate students, Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior. In 1986 the Random House hardcover and Vintage paperback editions of Ulysses, last corrected and reset in 1961, were replaced by a very different text claiming to correct 5,000 errors. Outside the US, the Bodley Head Ulysses and the Penguin paperback editions of 1960 and 1968 were also replaced with The Corrected Text. Thus a uniform text became the only trade version in print worldwide, although this version differs radically from what Joyce had himself brought forth in 1922 and approved again in 1926, 1932, 1935, and 1936.
The transparent scheme to replace Ulysses outright with another version was apparently partly motivated by the hopes of the Joyce estatewhich is represented in business matters by the Society of Authors in Londonfor a new copyright to run seventy-five years from 1984. This could be accomplished only by creating an entirely new work, which in an unintended sense has been done. The new editions supporters tried to persuade the public and professoriate that all previous editions were unusable. The assault on the old text centered on a handful of typos that were rehashed again and again, as if the slip beard for bread (found only in 1961) proved all editions since 1922 unworthy of attention. Because the first edition was printed in Dijon, some whined about battered Joycean coinages, inciting us to curse the French printer. But in fact the 1922 text was not defective in the way that was suggested. In Michael Grodens review in The James Joyce Quarterly, one paragraph lists ten Joycean coinages restored for the first time by Gabler in 1984. Yet for six of these, the majority, the 1922 and 1984 spellings are identical. Is no one awake at the wheel?
During Joyces life hundreds of typographical errors in the first edition were corrected, but a similar number of new variants slipped in unnoticed in later editions, meaning that the first and last lifetime texts were equally distant from what Joyce intended. Suddenly, in the 1980s we were told that there were thousands of errors all along, at least seven on every page. That claim is a sales pitch for the new edition, and has no basis in the texts themselves. Ulysses: The Corrected Text is not a purified text (new blunders like Shrift aside), but a different version from what Joyce conceived, authorized, and saw into print.
On the first page alone the following changes of wording were made in 1986: by to on, up:out, country:land, low:slow. On what basis was this done? The final typescript of the opening of Ulysses, which Joyce is known to have revised, is lost. The editors returned to the words of an earlier manuscript, overruling the form that Joyce elaborated on and ultimately passed several times in proof for the 1922 edition. With the loss of the revised, final typescript, we will never know if the four words rejected in 1986 were or were not Joyces own final revisions of the typescript. In an edition so different on the first page from what Joyce himself saw into print, we get not a corrected text but another version altogether. At best such a new text (were it accurate) could stand beside the version published during Joyces lifetime only as an alternativenot as a replacement. But commercial and not scholarly considerations are behind the disappearance of the version known to the author and his audience of sixty years.
The editors of this radically new Ulysses, working in Munich, first prepared Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition (1984) for Garland Publishing in three volumes totaling 1,920 pages. The 1984 edition has facing pages intended to show synoptically, i.e., by using a complex code of symbols on the left-hand pages, the growth of Ulysses from manuscripts through final proof revisions. On the facing right-hand pages are the same passages in an edited form or clear text without notes or symbols. This right-hand reading text without apparatus became in 1986 The Corrected Text.
Both the 1984 Synoptic Edition (84U) and the 1986 Corrected Text (86U) are based on facsimiles of Joyces manuscripts in American collections, all of which were transcribed in Munich. The Rosenbach Manuscript, named after the Philadelphia foundation where it is housed, is a collection of almost seven hundred pages spanning the eighteen episodes of Ulysses in Joyces own hand. For some chapters, however, the Rosenbach Manuscript is a copy that Joyce made for sale to a patron: it is not the final version, now lost, that Joyce gave his typist. The Munich group worked from a 1975 facsimile of the Rosenbach Manuscript, which was edited by Clive Driver with an introduction by Harry Levin.
Additional drafts, typescripts, and proofs of Ulysses are reproduced in sixteen volumes of The Joyce Archive (19781979) published by Garland. The Ulysses documents were microfilmed in ten American cities. The archive consists of high-contrast facsimiles, which allow faint markings to show up, although at the cost of distinctions between Joyces ink and the printers pencil. The frequent remark that facsimiles of the Rosenbach Manuscript and The Joyce Archive made possible a Corrected Text relies on the assumption that the editors compared all their work in Munich against the originals in America. They did not, with disastrous consequences.
Joyce is reputed to have said that were Dublin destroyed it could be re-created brick by brick from his novel. An exaggeration on three counts: some streets and shops arent mentioned; the author occasionally made mistakes; and in many instances Joyce maliciously contoured the cityscape to get even with enemies. Dubliners couldnt be published in Dublin because Joyce named names, putting publishers at risk. The same happened to A Portrait of the Artist. The historical facts of the first two books are fewer than in any single episode of Ulysses, itself an encyclopedia, street directory, dialect dictionary, census, pub guide, ordnance survey, and vade mecum bound up in blue and white wrappers.
Any scholarly edition worth its price would try to account for differences between historical Dublin and Joycean Dublin. No edited text can escape choices among authorial variants, and most editions do emend slips of the pen or momentary confusion. Where Joyce changes the spelling of a name three times, we must know. Where he slips up, we want to know. If he falsifies the date of the Phoenix Park murders to 1881 to avoid memorializing a massacre near his birth in 1882, the edition should take note.
Ulysses: The Corrected Text is unsupported by such research. Notes on historical errors and justification for dozens of editorial changes of names, places, and dates are never given. If there is an editorial policy, it is neither stated nor evident from the whimsical correction here and blunder there. The implications go far beyond the ignorant manufacture of Shrift from Thrift. The failure to distinguish Joyces slips from his revisions leads to bizarre assumptions about the lost drafts, the role of the typists, and Joyces last-minute changes.
The standard commentaries on Ulysses gloss Flowers of idleness as an allusion to Byrons Hours of Idleness. This appears to be the first literary allusion of the Lotus Eaters episode, and Hours (1807) was Byrons first published book: Joyce is priming his hidden machinery. Continuing his walk, Bloom will soon head for the Turkish baths, a blatant Homeric motif of Lotuses, Flowers (rhymes with Hours), and Idleness.
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We believe Boston’s current transportation system is noisy, slow, unreliable, and most importantly inefficient. Our purpose in making “Fly Boston” was to create a solution to the incompetent source of travelling, using cable cars. We redesigned the Green line, as well as added to it. What our system ensures, is a fast and smooth ride, that will take you to where you want to go, without making a substantial amount of noise, and causing traffic along the way. Our cable car system will replace the B C and part of the D line. It will additionally add a line from Kenmore Station to Central Station on the red line, and a line from Kenmore to the Museum of Fine Arts on the E line (we call those two lines “Kenmore Express”. The third part of our proposed cable car system is the tourist line. That connects all of the top tourist attractions. It starts at Kenmore then, goes to the Boston Common, then the Children’s museum, then the Aquarium, and finally the Science Museum.
Each of these lines travel at 17mph. The B, C and D line, as well as Kenmore express can hold 60 people. The tourist cable car can hold a maximum of 15 people. These lines in total can transport up to 100,000 people per day, with 62 stops along the route. Each line offers the option of round trip, so for each cable, the cars are going back and forth. There is at least one tower between stations, in most cases two, that propels the cable. When in a station, the car will detach from the cable and wait 2 minutes for people to load and unload. It then reattaches and matches the line speed. A car is scheduled to come every 1.5 minutes, to fit everyone’s flexible schedule. The retro futuristic stations have an elevator up to the top level which is where the cable car comes and leaves from.
Kenmore station is the hub of the entire system. Six cable lines are attached, where cars are both going in and coming out. A huge part of the Kenmore station though is the system that transitions the train into a cable car. With this proposed system, we would be redesigning the train, so it could have the ability to turn into a cable car. This transition takes 5 minutes total, both when a train turns into a cable and when the cable car turns back into the train. This process is only used for B, C, and D line, because the other three lines did not exist with the Green line in place, therefore there are no trains that would be used for those routes.
We designed this cable car system to have the capability to be put in place in boston. Throughout all of the work we did, we made sure what we were doing, was realistic, and could suffice in the city of Boston. Designing this sytem would cost 1.2 billion in total. Fly Boston has the potential to work as the city's primary source of transportation because of it's reliability, efficiency, and flexibility.
“Air Boston” was an urban design studio with the challenge of improving Boston’s Rapid Transit (MBTA) Green Line by augmenting it with a cable car system. Isabella, Matt, and Max worked as a team and began by assessing the key problems with the Green Line, which runs above ground for a significant portion of its four routes. A key cause of its congestion and inefficiency is because the MBTA (“T”) system, and in particular the Green Line, requires it's passengers to go all the way inbound to the center of Boston in order to transfer to other lines. Furthermore, the Green Line is often slow and unreliable because of above-ground traffic and frequent break-downs due to weather conditions and the aging rolling stock.
Our approach to this challenge is creating a cable car network that connects all the current lines in a ring formation, making it possible to transfer among the different lines outside of the center. This way it is significantly less expensive than replacing the entire Green Line. For the next several days, the team researched existing cable car systems. From their research, the team decided to use a gondola system rather than a tricable or reversible system, because gondolas are generally smaller, cheaper, and detachable, which would allow for more cars running at greater frequency, to keep a constant flow and alleviate congestion.
Once they had planned the general configuration of their new “Air T” system, each team member took on a specific job. Isabella took on logistics— how many cars, how many people per car, and costing. She gathered and organized data on capacity, costs and time savings, prototyped a logo design, and laid out an informational poster.
Matt was in charge of maps—where the stations would be located and the design of the final T map. Matt figured out which current T stops on each line would be most appropriate to locate the new Air T stops. He created a map using Illustrator, overlaying the new Air T ring onto the existing T map.
Max took on the design and 3-D modelling of the stations and support towers. He chose an hourglass shape for the station design and created a floor plan and 3-D model using Rhinoceros (“Rhino” is a 3-D modelling software). His inspiration for the towers was the Emirates Air Line (also known as the Thames Cable Car) in London, in which the support towers are an elegant twisted design combining trusses and curvilinear surfaces that are both light and strong. Max rendered the station and tower design in V-Ray (a rendering software) but encountered some problems which made the renders low quality.
There were three big pieces of our project, the maps, the design of the system and the important questions and answers. In terms of the maps we had a couple of challenges. In addition to replacing part of the green line we decided that we wanted to connect some of the t stops on other lines, so our first problem was deciding what stops needed connecting and how to properly connect them. We decided on several stops as Boston’s “Greatest Hits” which evolved into the “Tourist Line”, a way to connect some of the most popular spots in Boston. We also created the express line, hoping to shorten some people’s commutes by a lot. The next issue was the maps themselves. We were replacing many of the stops on the green line extension and we needed a way to show that they weren’t T stops but they were still on the green line. We decided that the best way to show this was by making the stops on the line black instead of the usual white. We made different maps so it was easy to see from many directions.
Lizzie worked on the PR data. She did all the calculations and figured out how the cable car would run. She started this process by researching previous cable cars, and gathering information about successful transportation systems. She also used the MBTA website as a huge resource of information about the Green Line. Lizzie used this data to compare it to the cable car system. This helped her improve the system as much as possible. However, the specific data we needed in order to make the cable car system be more realistic, was sometimes not found anywhere. During Lizzie's research, she went on the MBTA website to copy down all of the T stops. With those, she found out the distances between each one, by using the "train" tool on Google Maps. After this step, she had the majority of the information needed to start calculating the data. However, she referenced back to some of the sites she used for some more information throughout the project when she needed to.
After collecting all the information she could find, she created a spreadsheet to organize all the data. This then helped her see what was missing and needed to be calculated. When Lizzie was researching, she found out the speed the cable car realistically could travel at, to ensure a safe ride, yet still beat the Green Line. The speed is 17mph. With that statistic, and the distance, she was able to find out how much time it would take to get from stop to stop. In Lizzie's research, she came up with the time each car would be in the station for (how long people would have for loading and unloading). Using her research of other cable cars, she came up with a practical solution, which was 2 minutes. Adding the time between stops with the loading time, she got the time 1 ride 1 way would take. However this cable car system offers round trip, so Lizzie multiplied that number by two and discovered the time for the whole trip. The cable car can hold 60 people, given the sturdiness of the design, and the speed of the car. The cars are also running for 20 hours a day (the same as the green line). Using both of these pieces of information, she was able to find out how many people were on the cars at one time, how many rides people would take per day, and how many total people could ride on that specific line. She went through this process for the B line, then the C line, then the D line. Those were the only lines we replaced of the green line. An additional part of the spreadsheet she created which was extremely valuable in her work, was discovering the time between each stop that the train would take. This gave us a better picture of the functionality and efficiency of the Cable Car system.
In our project, there is also a tourist line that is for exploring Boston. It takes you to all the local attractions that make the city special. This line travels the same speed (17 mph) however can only hold 15 people. The rest of the information for the tourist line is the same as the B, D and C line (like loading time, hours of service etc.) so Lizzie went through the same process of calculations and discovered times between stops, round trip time, total cars, people at one time, rides per day and total people using this line per day. There are two extensions of the tourist line so she split this information in to two different parts.
Lizzie gathered loads of information, both that she researched and that she calculated, so she thought of ways of conveying the data, in an interesting way. This lead her to working with Illustrator and Photoshop. Lizzie created multiple diagrams and graphs showing what she found out. She made a graph comparing the time on the green line and the time on the cable car. She made a map of the routes the cable car takes you, and the times between the stops. She also did some of the rendering and photoshopped our Logo and cable cars into some pictures of boston. After this phase of visualizing the information, she decided she wanted make it as realistic as possible, so she created a brochure. This brochure included many of the maps and images of the cable car. It also included a description of each line and what this new source of transportation was potentially going to offer the people of Boston. This brochure was extremely helpful in the final presentation because the audience was more interested and had a better picture of this cable car system being put into place. Overall, Lizzie's process included research and gathering background information, doing many calculations to ultimately make this cable car be able to replace part of the green line, as well as add to it, and finally visualizing it which meant making maps, graphs and diagrams, as well as a brochure.
Isabella took on the challenge of finding all the essential information for AIR T. Isabella started by looking at past cable car projects as important case studies in order for her to assemble the information for AIR T. Her next step was to create a spreadsheet for AIR T that would contain all of the relevant information such as cost, number of cars in the system, speed of the cars, capacity, and frequency of cars at the stations. Isabella estimated the numbers by taking the information she had found in her research on existing cable car systems, and then plugging the numbers into equations that one of her coaches helped her create. Using this information, a graph was created that placed the timing of the AIR T cable car in comparison to the rush hour timings on a Tuesday and Saturday.
Isabella created many prototypes of the logo on Illustrator and conducted a survey to determine the best logo. This resulted in the name “AIR T” with colors of the boston strong theme.
After Isabella did this she started to assemble all the information from our group and created a board with all the essential information. When planning the board Isabella had to take into account that she needed to have the maps, three renders of the stations, towers, cable cars, the description of the project, and a graph with the time comparison data and the logo.
One of the first things that we decided to do was to pick the stops that we were going to connect. We wanted to eliminate the length of time it took for someone on the red line to connect to the green line so we added the express line that connects the red line to the green line. We also wanted some of the most popular spots in Boston to be connected via cable car. We hoped that this would alleviate some of the pressure on the T after Red Sox games or other such events. We also hoped to eliminate some of the confusion that tourists may experience in the T. We chose to include Kenmore, the Boston Common, the Childrens Museum, the Aquarium, and the Museum of Science. These were the most visited places in Boston so we decided to connect them.
In terms of Map design itself we wanted to make sure that the lines stood out against the already bright colors of the map. We wanted to make sure that the colors stood out against the map, but also made it clear that it was a cable car not a train. We decided to use pink and purple because they were the only colors that weren’t already represented on the T map. The stops themselves we made black because they very clearly show that it is not trains. We wanted to make it clear but also have it fit in with the overall look and theme of the already existing maps.
I volunteered to be the head designer of the maps we would propose for our cable system. Printing maps were my main priority at the beginning of the studio. The maps were then printed and sketches were then drawn onto the maps to potentially be the AirT maps in the future. I kept designing and prototyping and came to a conclusion on a very average and basic map. I soon realized that the maps would not work it would need to be changed. The map that I had in my head was very detailed geographical map of the T lines. Rowan helped me out then printed out one of these maps. On the map I marked out the rough sketch of what stops we would use and the paths they would take, which on the map is marked in orange.
We were then asked to come up with an idea of replacing the green line completely which was tough. Figuring out which stops should be kept in and out were an issue but the path was drawn out in green. Then in blue sharpie, I marked down the almost final draft of the map. An issue came up when this happened. A mile of cabling and machinery would cost several million dollars so the map had to be revised. It was challenging trying to determine exactly where it should go. Should it be a closed loop connecting all of the lines? Would it be better only if it connected the green line together? I then thought about it a little and consulted with my group and we came up with the joint idea of having a loop connect all of the lines together with small segments outside of the main city.
Once the design was chosen, the bare geographical map was loaded into Adobe Illustrator. The group kept consulting on different designs and colors for the map and decided that the final map would have eight stops connecting the green line to the red line and even the blue line. Furthermore, two more maps were thrown through this process. One of the maps was a up close and personal view of the streets of boston and the specific streets and areas the stations for the cable carts would go. The last map that was created showed a rough estimate of where the cable cart towers would go along these routes. Trying to get more into detail, a zoomed in view of where the stations would go was then made. This was done by finding the original T stops in boston using google maps, then finding areas with large enough space to hold one of the stations. Even on top of that, the stations had to be within walking distance of the original T stations so that transferring would not be an issue. Moving onto helping out the PR group, they needed some images of these cable cars in boston. This posed an issue due to the fact that we needed pictures around where the stations would go and needed these to be the same quality as other pictures going to be photoshopped together. After a bit of searching, two photos were found that could be morphed together. This picture involved having cable cars flying overhead of Boston. The process to making this picture began with the first picture being the background and cutting out everything that would be conflicting with the other picture. Once this was done, the other picture was simply added behind this picture making the effect that Boston actually had a cable car system!
The second picture easily took the victory of being the most challenging. This picture was an inside view of a cable car looking out into Boston. It was made similarly to the first picture but needed more precise editing due to it having people on the inside of it. When it was finished being edited, it came out personally as the best picture that was made. By the end of all these being formed it was end of the two week studio.
Calculations: Time between stations, time around, operation hours, people per car, trips per car per day,people per car per day, number of cars, people per day, rush hour on the (T) at eight am on tuesday and saturday tweleve pm.
Time between stations: Our first step was to convert eighteen mph to 18 mpm. We did this by putting 18 miles over 60 minutes, then taking one of each of the distances over 18miles and 60 minutes, then timing the distance and the 18 miles by 60.Leavining us to divide the distance divided by 18. We did this for each distance to find the time between each station.
Time around: The time around all the stations we found out to be 1 hour. We found this by first adding all the times between the stations, then we encounted for 3 minutes for people to get on plus having eight stations. So therefore we times 8 by 3 and then added that to the total minutes between each. And we got 51 minutes. We say an hour to encount for transfering and other problems.
Operation Hours: I looked at the timing of the t station and I also looked at the NYC capable car and saw what there operation hours were and made times based off of theres. Which ended up being sun-thurs (6am-3am) and friday- saturday (6am- 3:45am).
People per car: We have not finalized this number but we came up with the number 50 people. We made this educated decesion by looking at past gondolas. However we are still doing research.
Trips per car per day: We took the hours of operations which was 21 all together then times it by 1.So the trips per car per day would be 21.
People per car per day: We took the people per car (x) the trip per car per day and got the result of 1050.Which means that 1,050 people are on the capable car per day.
Number of cars: Since we want the cars to come continuously we thought 34 cars would be enough. However this number is not finallized either, because it might be a possibility that we could have more.
People per day: To find how many people would or could ride the car a day we took the people per car per day (x) number of cars. Which gave the result of 35700 people per day.
Rush hour 12pm: To find the amount of time it takes during rush hour on a saturday at 12 in the afternnoon. I did this by going to the MBTA website and typed in each station to find how many minutes it takes to get from each.
Rush hour 8am tuesday: I did the same process for the other mbta time.
--This showed the difference of the length of time on a capable car vs the T rail.
Daniel took over the designing part of the project. We all wanted the design to be retro-futuristic, sort-of like the 1960’s show “the Jetsons”. We chose to make everything green to clearly show the new green line. Since we made the lines we did, we had to make a Tourist Cable car, a Commuter, and a Connection car. We built two different towers, a large kenmore tower and a tower for the rest of stops.
The Cars were actually much different from eachother. The two busiest lines will use the commuter and connection car, while the Tourist car has much less expected users.They will have to be big, fast, and frequent enough to deal with the large amounts of people. The tourist car will be used mostly for tourists and pleasure, so it will not have to be as large. The Commuter Car is the largest size we designed. It is 30 feet long, and 10 feet wide. The Car has a capacity of 60-70 people(originally we said it could hold 100 people, but there was no way the car could hold that weight). We added a double cable to help support the heavy weight. There are two cable connectors, and one retracting power supply for when on tracks. This power supply goes up and down when told to. The car is able to lower from in the air to the pre-existent tracks. The car has 6 train wheels on each side, that will be used when on tracks. This car also has a bike rack to hold 3 bikes on the back. It folds up and locks bikes secure. The connection car has the same body as the Commuter, but does not have the wheels, train power connection piece, and obviously the wheels were removed. The Tourist car was much different from these commuting cars. It is the smallest cable car, being 15 feet long, and 10 feet wide. It can hold about 10-15 people at a time. We put windows all around, so the people can see the city below. There are 2 cable supports on the roof, and hold onto one cable.
The Kenmore tower is much larger than the typical tower. The Kenmore tower is almost 160 feet tall and 100 feet wide at the widest point. There are three main floors: a bottom/underground floor, the second floor, and the top floor. The bottom is where the commuter line transforms from cable to tracks. This floor is also where people will get on the elevator to other floors. People get underground by the exterior winding staircase. The second floor is where the purple line comes in, going both north and south. The third floor is for boarding the tourist line. This tower will be placed in the park across from the existing stop. This tower is the main reference point, and is where all lines connect in one tower. The normal cable car stations will be placed at every stop except Kenmore. It is about 100 feet tall, with a large oval shaped top that is 80 feet long. It has two elevators on each side, with a glass protected boarding area on top.
Max took on the challenge of designing and 3-D modeling the stations and support towers. He thought of many concepts for the stations and ended up deciding on an hourglass shape for the station design. First he sketched out and created a concept floor plan for the stations using Rhinoceros (“Rhino” is a 3-D modelling software). His next step was to take that floor plan give it realistic dimensions. He carefully thought out how large each aspect of the floor plan should be. Max’s next step was to 3-D model the station, he did this in mainly three steps: 1) He laid the plan for the second floor the right distance over the first floor. 2) He then proceeded to loft the two floors together and finished the shape of the building. 3) Lastly he extruded the individual parts of his plan.
His next task was to design the support towers for the cable car. Max was inspired by the design of the support towers for the Emirates Airline (also known as the Thames Cable Car) in London. In this design the support towers are an elegantly twisted combining trusses and curved surfaces that are both light and strong. Max sketched out ideas for the support towers and decided on an idea which looks slightly like a T in order to match the projects name. Max then 3-D modeled the tower.
Max’s final task was to render the station and towers and place them into an image of where they would go if built. He rendered them with Toucan, the built in rendering system for Rhino. Next he found a picture of the Waterfront in Boston which he photoshopped the rendering of the station over.
Today, I worked all day on the tower design. I built the floor plans on rhino, and began building the 3D model. The floor plans really helped me set up the 3D design. Some changes today, were the spiral staircase around the middle, the new oval shaped elevator, and the plan of making the structure thinner closer to the top(then larger for the top two floors). Tommarow I will hopefully finish the towers design.
The green line is the oldest subway line in the United States. There has been a plan to expand it further into new neighborhoods but budget constraints are complicating the process. How would you feel about replacing the green line with cable cars? Where would you place the stations? How would the whole system cost?
At the end of the studio, students will present a comprehensive proposal that outlines the location of stations, a design of a station, and a business plan.
This is awesome! I've never seen a cable car station before.
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2019-04-24T05:47:44Z
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https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/studios/air-boston
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Most of us in the West take water for granted. When I was growing up, I don’t recall ever hearing about droughts, hosepipe bans, or rationing. Neither do I remember seeing bottled water, except in spas or highly overpriced restaurants. Britain was the country of rain, and Manchester (where I was born) was the rainiest place in the UK. So I always thought it strange that we Jews kept on praying for rain. Even when my father gently explained that we were praying for rain in Israel, it didn’t really sink in (which pun reminds me that as much as 50% of water supplied through urban water systems gets lost through leaks and sinks into the earth).
Nowadays water has become big news, as the human population increases while at the same time the world is getting hotter and the major sources of water, the artic poles, are shrinking. According to United Nations statistics, 3.4 million human beings die each year from water related diseases. (I know, who trusts the UN? But that’s when it comes to politics or human rights, some of their agencies do a better job on statistics.) One billion do not have access to clean water. One child dies from a water-related illness every 21 seconds. Only 10% of wastewater gets treated. The rest runs off into lakes, rivers, and oceans. Rachel Carson warned us in the 50s and 60s about the evil we were doing to nature, but we only half listened. We still needed Erin Brockovich in the 90s to sue contaminating companies and confirm that industry still pours millions of tons of poison into the earth’s waters. And it doesn’t help that 2.5 billion humans do not have access to toilets, so guess where most of their waste ends up.
U.S. tap water is apparently some of the cleanest on Earth, generally safe from the microbes and chemicals that have plagued water supplies for millennia. While much of the planet relies on polluted drinking water, Americans can fill a glass without fear of cryptosporidium, chromium, or chlordane. The Safe Drinking Water Act supposedly controls the standards and criteria for clean water, but it’s far from perfect and bureaucracy and big money often get in the way.
All New York water is treated with chlorine, fluoride, orthophosphate, and in some cases sodium hydroxide. Fluoride is added to strengthen teeth. Chlorine disinfests, and others additives are to counteract corrosion in the pipes and other contaminants. In the UK, for many years, the national water supply has had fluoride and chlorine. Water remains safe to drink right up to your tap (assuming your pipes are not lead, of course).
At the same time, bottled water has become a trillion dollar industry. But why do so many people in the rich world pay inflated sums for bottled water every week when perfectly good water flows out of every tap (or faucet) in the house? It’s all the more amazing since 40% of all bottled water is actually taken from municipal water sources, and I’ve been happily drinking tap water all my life. Bottled water companies are literally bottling up the same water that comes out of the tap then inflating the cost and laughing all the way to the bank.
One of the biggest reasons people buy and drink bottled water is because they think it’s cleaner than tap water. But it isn’t. Also disturbing is the fact that far less testing is done on bottled water than on tap water. It turns out that unlike tap water, bottled water isn’t tested for E. coli. And it can be distributed even if it doesn’t meet the quality standards of tap water. Unlike tap water, bottled water isn’t required to produce quality reports or even provide its source. Some consumers think the taste is better, but controlled tests consistently show that most people cannot tell the difference. I concede that around the world not all tap water tastes the same—still, neither is it all undrinkable.
Not only, but parents are doing their children a disservice by giving them bottled water instead if tap water because the fluoride in tap water does indeed strengthen teeth and prevent cavities. Unless they are Americans, who seem to be in love with popping pills (which they call dietary supplements!) of every imaginable kind and so don’t mind throwing in a few fluoride ones too. Until municipal water companies in Britain began adding fluoride to water supplies in the 1960s, children usually had a mouthful of cavities by the time they reached adolescence. But that trend soon began to change, and dentists celebrated fluoride as one of the century’s great health achievements.
Sukot is the festival of water above all else. The Sukah itself, which was originally used to protect from the sun, now reminds us that the summer is over and the rainy season is about to begin. The Four Plants we take and shake are dependent on water in different ways and to different degrees. The Rejoicing over the Temple Well House, which was instituted by the prophets, revolves around the pouring out of water in the hope that Heaven will replenish the supply, and of course we begin the prayers for winter rains in Israel. And believe you me, Israel needs all our prayers for rain.
Just as during the Days of Awe we are encouraged to think about our human lives and assess ourselves to see if we are on the right track, so during Sukot we examine our relationship to nature. I suggest we need to challenge ourselves. Do we really need to waste all that money on bottled water that could better be spent on charity and helping those who have far, far less than we do? Perhaps it is time to stop fooling ourselves about our water consumption, as we need to stop fooling ourselves about how good we think we are. The considered life, my friends, also includes asking whether we shouldn’t stop contributing to the balance sheets of drink companies who fool us into thinking their water is healthier than “ours”.
Bottled water has bothered me for years. Not only is it an extraordinary rip-off, a suspension of reality in favour of advertorial fantasy, but it knows no bounds.
Some years ago a programme on British TV compared a number of different bottled waters on various counts. The winner was an unknown company whose manufacturing facility they visited, in Manchester if I recall correctly! The cameras showed what looked like a Victorian industrial washroom with endless troughs fed by rows of water taps which rows of people were using to fill the bottles to be sold as "mineral" water! Straight from the mains supply!
I once came across water from the southern shores of Lake Geneva being sold in tiny bottles fitted with a spray top (like eau de Cologne) for ladies to spray their face with. The price of this same mineral water was ten times higher than the bottled variety!
Nowadays, we have sports drinks, recently also shown up on TV. Simple formula here too: Plain water with a little of the two substances we are tediously and endlessly told to avoid (in between adverts urging consumption) – salt and sugar. The cost? Even more than "mineral" water!
There is a great film with Billy Connolly and Leonard Rossiter from way back, called Water, which sends up the idea of bottled water and shows the very funny epiphany of a Texan oil man when he realises that he can earn more from selling water than from selling oil!
Finally, when I listen to the cultural East vs West battles pitting western progress versus religious fundamentalism, I do sometimes see the point missed by both sides, namely that if you have within your culture a reliable means of dispersing and controlling information and aspirations far and wide, the chances are that it will be misused in the name of the profit.
I would have to write an entire essay of my own to explain why I think it is absurd to try to justify what is basically a prejudice against bottled water. If the campaign against drinking bottled water expects to have any integrity, then people must also stop buying bottled soft drinks, since they are also made primarily from municipal water supplies, and are also not subject to the purity standards of tap water.
Good for you! The fact is that in our free society there is always a counter argument, for the death penalty, for guns, against global warming you name it. There was/is a great documentary called "Tapped" about the negative aspect of bottled water, worth watching but conspiracy theories abound. Thats what freedom of expression allows for. And I agree there are lots of other dangers in our processed foods and drinks too. On the other hand latest information suggests that 'organnic' food isnt all its cracked up to be. Seems to me that Big Business, Big Bucks is whats really at work here. Fortunately many of us can make up our own minds.
Indeed I started my blog by pointing out that very thing about the shortage of potable water etc etc and picking on water doesnt mean there arent other targets too! Thanks for your suggestion!!!
certificate certifying the water free of forbidden insects?
As does New York air!!!!!!
Life without water is impossible. We are facing water crisis because of increase in population. But I think that drinking tap water directly may cause problems. So it is better if we boil that water and use it for drinking.
Thanks for your advice but during Sandy after some sewage seepage, people were advised that boiling water was not enough. What's your opinion?
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2019-04-18T10:36:28Z
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http://jeremyrosen.com/2012/09/water-2.html
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This is not your usual “pop-open” shave kit. The combination of leather and canvas produce a shaving dopp kit pleasing to the eye and durable enough to withstand the rigors of travel for years. Even when this one is road-tested and battle-scarred, it will still have a look of quality and character.
Made of our vintage brown polished leather with a No. 8 Khaki Cotton Canvas interior. Solid brass hardware. Convenient strap allows hanging of kit on back of door. Adjustable strap closure. Large zippered center compartment.
Three snap compartments. Brass oval front plate may be personalized with three initials. This Dopp Kit is generously sized at 19″ x 12 1/2″.
I’ve had my eye on this shave kit for about a year. I finally got it last week. It’s incredible. Obviously extremely high quality and worth every penny. I believe it will last me literally for the rest of my life.
This is one of a growing number of the Colonel’s creations that I own and get to enjoy often. Extremely well made. If you can be content to throw your toiletries in a plastic bag when you travel, this kit may not be for you. If you enjoy well made, classy items that make you smile each time you use them – buy the No.2 shave kit. You won’t regret it!
Have to admit, been checking out the Colonel’s stuff for some time, finally pulled the trigger and got me the No. 2 Shave kit. Was a little concerned that $300 is a lot and granted, it’s not cheap, but where I am, having it is the way to go. Right now, I’m writing this in Paris and knowing that my shaving and general kit is organized and well-managed is a good thing to know! I’ve come to appreciate having a kit that I can hang on the wall or door and take out what I need when I need it (and not take everything in and out constantly!)not to mention roll it up for the next stop – and have it protected and looking good! They may not be for everybody, but once you’ve tried the Colonel’s products, you’ll not go back and find yourself wondering why you didn’t get any sooner! Buy American and take home some of that good old fashioned quality heritage as you travel into the 21st century!
As all the Colonel’s pieces this one is perfect. I use it regularly and have found it is very compact but holds a ton and keeps it separate.
I have owned this amazing Dopp kit for about 13 years now. I use it not only when traveling, but every single day. It’s so ruggedly handsome and organized that it hangs from its own brass hook on my bathroom wall and keeps my toiletries neat and accessible. When I do travel, this thing gets a ton of attention. The high quality construction from bridle leather ensures that it will last for generations and lucky for my son, we share the same initials, so one day this kit will be his….but of course he is going to have to wait on me to kick the bucket first because I’m not giving this up any time soon.
I have been traveling for business for over thirty years and have used about every piece of luggage and gear imaginable but once I found the Colonel’s products there’s no turning back. It’s a little pricey but you get what you pay for and this is the best you will ever find. I own many Colonel products and love them all.
I just received this kit for Christmas, and absolutely love this product. It fits everything I need in a dopp kit, and just checks off every box in quality, style, and details. Like all of Colonel’s products and gear.
11/1/17: I recently purchased this product for my dear boss who loves to travel and is retiring the SECOND time; I could think of NO vendor more special with the quality of his products that the Colonel.
I have purchased over products with the SAME quality, can relax when you make a purchase, that it will last and your love for the product will last also.
Just purchased the #2 shave kit. Very well made. Nice leather. Looks great.
I am extremely happy with this product. Very well designed.
I purchased it thru Orvis. I had previously purchased products from you and thru the Orvis purchase, I have found you again.
It is just like all of your other products I have Purchased, Wonderful.
When a need arises I will be back.
My son bought me this shaving kit because of how much I love my no.1 grip bag. I can not fully express how impressed I am with your products. This kit has enough room to fit everything you need and even things you don’t. The canvass storage is easily cleanable and the leather wrap is so thick and durable you would be hard pressed to wear it out. The craftsmen at Colonel Littleton do go above and beyond both in design and construction and I feel quite privileged to own some of their pieces. Keep up the great work and know you have a customer for life!
Bought this a few years ago… it has held up very well and has aged just as well. It is DARN tough!! The only issue I have had with it is the little leather hanging strap fell off but was an easy home fix! LOVE IT!
I bought a branded version of this Dopp kit and I could not be happier with the purchase! The brand happened to be the initial of my last name and the various pockets and storage locations in the kit make it super easy to put everything inside. The zipper has a pull on both sides and seems adequate to me quality wise unless you are using it daily and it will get dirt and other miscellaneous stuff in it. The snaps are a little difficult to snap and unsnap brand new but they will loosen nicely with use so I am unconcerned.
This is, without doubt, the finest shave kit I’ve ever seen. The leather is very substantial, almost holster weight, with a rich satin russet finish accented with brass of good weight and heft.
The canvas interior has the look and feel of a century ago, and all that that implies.
Unless some misfortune occurs, this is the last shave kit I ever hope to own.
But here’s the kicker. I bought this on the secondary market; that is, I didn’t buy it direct from the Colonel but on an auction site. I called Col. Littleton and asked them to change out the personalized nameplate for one with my initials, and for a nominal fee, they did just that and shipped it back to me.
Upon receipt, I was very surprised to see that they polished the brass and detailed it very nicely, without my asking them to, and apparently: just because.
That impressed me a great deal; not too many other outfits I know of would take the time or incur the trouble for a secondary buyer.
Overdue review, but just wanted to say it is a perfect case. Fits enough for a week on the road for my business trips. I make it a point to always bring it in my carry on now so it never leaves my side!
I purchased this shave kit as I have wanted one for quite a while. I received this in Buffalo after talking to Charlene on the phone and via emails. I have owned many leather Dopp Kitts in the past as well as one from Bass Pro and this is the best Shave Kit on the planet!
I recommend the Colonel to all my friends that want exceptional quality and personal service. I also purchase items from the Colonel to give as gifts to my close friends each Christmas.
Thanks Colonel and your 5 Star staff!
I bought this because it reminded me of my dad. Not because he had a shaving kit like this, and as a matter of fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kit quite like this. One of a kind, if you ask me, right down to the last stitch. Same as my dad. He was always so hard to shop for because when he saw something he liked or needed, he got it, which left us pulling at straws come his birthday or Father’s Day. Something like this is worth every penny, maybe even a couple more. There was no need to wait. I’ll use it for many years, there’s no doubt in my mind. Col Littleton has found himself a new customer and another advocate. Next promotion, I’ve got my eye on that 1943 navigators bag, and I’m sure I’ll find the exact same quality, down to the last stitch. Thank you.
This piece is just beautiful. I couldn’t be more happy with the look and function of this shave kit. Truly first class in every way. The leather is just beautiful and it is so different than anything else you can find. I would definitely buy it again. So why only 4 stars??? I have to agree with No Nickname above. When you spend a lot of money for something like this, you are looking for a timeless look. Something that doesn’t date the piece. I have to admit, I really (really) don’t like the “.com” tag that is sewn on the inside. It is just a little bit of an eyesore as far as I’m concerned. Like No Nickname said above, we already know where to find the Colonel when we would like to place an order. It is perfect in every way in form and function. It is a small nitpick but something that needs to be considered when purchasing an item such as this.
Finest Dopp Kit on the Market.
I travel weekly and this kit provides me the opportunity to bring everything needed. The additional brass snap that Col. Littleton added to the product is perfect.
This is a beautiful product. However, I almost didn’t buy it do to the reviews mentioning the cheap zipper. I agree that the zipper should be brass or some kind of metal. The nylon type zipper isn’t the same quality as the rest of the bag. I’m afraid that if will not hold up so I sent two e-mails to the customer service department asking about the warranty. I got one response only mentioning the return policy (30 days). I read online and in the product literature about the guarantee, but it doesn’t mention a timeframe and it’s rather vague. But primarily due to the zipper, I held off on an excellent rating.
Just received my No. 2 Shave Kit – Leather today and I had to post a quick review. In just one word, PERFECT!
Love the quality of the leather, the brass snaps, the canvas pockets, the brass buckles and the straps.
The zippers should be brass retro military zippers, the kind with a brass handle and teeth. The zipper handles, while brass colored, look mid-quality to me and not the exceptional quality of the rest of the unit.
The top of the canvas flops in the middle when hung up – needs two extra brass snaps.
But an exceptional piece, just like the Colonel. 99% there, let’s make it perfect.
In general, a beautiful piece!
I’ve oiled mine and it darkened up beautifully. Some people may prefer to watch their leather age naturally, but I intend to hand mine down a generation or two and like to know that the leather is protected. Wonderful leather, by the way; it takes oil well and softens remarkably well.
I removed the hanging loop because I thought the stitching looked out of place when compared to the no-stitching kit–easy. I don’t like the nylon trim, as it won’t “age” like the rest of this kit. I also don’t like the inside tag with the website on it–I removed it, as I see so many “.coms” throughout the day that I don’t want to see more. I know how to find Col Littleton when I’m ready to place an order.
I don’t like the nylon zipper either, though it is smooth and obviously good quality. This, along with the “.com” tag and nylon edging, “date” this piece in a way that I try to avoid.
I would also suggest that there should be a “hidden” pocket that is accessed only by unsnapping the cover from the kit itself–it could “fit” within the size of the main, middle pouch, so you wouldn’t be able to see the stitching from the front. I like this idea because when I stay in a motel I am not worried about room service/maintenance folks steeling the shave kit, that would be too obvious, but I do concern myself with where to keep checkbooks and other important paperwork when out of my room…in the event no safe is provided. Putting a hidden pocket in this thing would CERTAINLY be hiding things in plain sight–nobody is going to look through a shave kit for useful personal information.
In general, however, this is a wonderful kit! I love mine, and will have it for many, many years to come. I use it at least once a month, very happily, and would buy another in a heartbeat if this one suffered an ill fate. Being handy with sewing, I’ve often entertained the idea of re-constructing the canvas portion to omit the things I don’t like (and add the hidden pocket); even if I don’t, this is still a great kit and, in my opinion, well worth the money.
Oh, last thing: maybe one more button-snap right above the engrave-able brass? Mine sometimes flops open when hung…no big deal.
Thanks Colonel and friends! I’m pleased to be a loyal customer!
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2019-04-22T09:38:33Z
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https://www.colonellittleton.com/shop/leather-shave-kit-no2/
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A machine control system includes an operation terminal which includes a communication unit and a touch panel unit and outputs machine operation information for operating a machine via the communication unit, a controller which controls the operation of the machine based on the received machine operation information, and a safety switch device which is mounted on the operation terminal and includes a switch unit which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine, and a packet generation unit which converts the output stop instruction signal into a packet and outputs the packet to the operation terminal, wherein the operation terminal transfers the packet received from the safety switch device to the controller, and the controller restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal and stops the machine based on the restored stop instruction signal.
1. A machine control system comprising: a portable operation terminal including a communication unit which communicates with a peripheral device and a touch panel unit used for display and input, the operation terminal outputting machine operation information for operating a machine via the communication unit based on an input operation to the touch panel unit; a controller which controls operation of the machine based on the machine operation information received from the operation terminal; and a safety switch device which is removably mounted on the operation terminal and includes a switch unit which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine by being operated, and a packet generation unit which converts the stop instruction signal output by operating the switch unit into a packet and outputs the packet to the communication unit of the operation terminal, wherein the operation terminal transfers the packet received from the safety switch device to the controller via the communication unit, and the controller restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal and stops the machine based on the restored stop instruction signal.
2. The machine control system according to claim 1, wherein the packet generation unit in the safety switch device converts the stop instruction signal into a multiplexed packet.
3. The machine control system according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit of the operation terminal transmits the packet to the controller via a communication channel common to the machine operation information.
4. The machine control system according to claim 3, wherein the communication unit of the operation terminal receives the packet from the safety switch device via a communication channel different from the communication channel used to transmit the machine operation information and the packet to the controller.
5. The machine control system according to claim 1, wherein the switch unit includes at least one of an emergency stop button which outputs the stop instruction signal by being pressed, and an enable switch which outputs the stop instruction signal by cancelling pressing.
6. A safety switch device for stopping a machine operating based on machine operation information received from a portable operation terminal including a communication unit which communicates with a peripheral device and a touch panel unit used for display and input, the device comprising: a mount unit configured to removably mount the safety switch device on the operation terminal; a switch unit which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine by being operated; and a packet generation unit which converts the stop instruction signal output by operating the switch unit into a packet and outputs the packet to the communication unit of the operation terminal, wherein the machine is stopped by a controller which controls operation of the machine, based on a stop instruction signal restored from the packet transferred to the controller via the communication unit of the operation terminal.
7. The safety switch device according to claim 6, wherein the packet generation unit converts the stop instruction signal into a multiplexed packet.
8. The safety switch device according to claim 6, wherein the packet is transmitted to the controller, together with the machine operation information, via a common communication channel by the communication unit of the operation terminal.
9. The safety switch device according to claim 8, wherein the packet generation unit transmits the packet to the operation terminal via a communication channel different from the communication channel used to transmit the machine operation information and the packet to the controller by the communication unit of the operation terminal.
10. The safety switch device according to claim 6, wherein the switch unit includes at least one of an emergency stop button which outputs the stop instruction signal by being pressed, and an enable switch which outputs the stop instruction signal by cancelling pressing.
11. A portable operation terminal which transmits based on an input operation, machine operation information for operating a machine to a controller which controls operation of the machine, the terminal comprising: a communication unit which communicates with a peripheral device including the controller; a touch panel unit used for display and input operations in an editing task for the machine operation information; and a housing on which a safety switch device including a switch unit which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine by being operated, and a packet generation unit which converts the stop instruction signal output by operating the switch unit into a packet and outputs the packet to the communication unit of the operation terminal is removably mounted, wherein the communication unit transfers the packet received from the packet generation unit in the safety switch device to the controller, and the machine is stopped based on a stop instruction signal restored from the packet by the controller.
12. The operation terminal according to claim 11, wherein the stop instruction signal is converted into a multiplexed packet by the packet generation unit.
13. The operation terminal according to claim 11, wherein the communication unit transmits the packet to the controller via a communication channel common to the machine operation information.
14. The operation terminal according to claim 13, wherein the communication unit receives the packet from the safety switch device via a communication channel different from the communication channel used to transmit the machine operation information and the packet to the controller.
15. The operation terminal according to claim 11, wherein the switch unit includes at least one of an emergency stop button which outputs the stop instruction signal by being pressed, and an enable switch which outputs the stop instruction signal by cancelling pressing.
This application is a new U.S. Patent Application that claims benefit of JP 2016-223515, filed Nov. 16, 2016, the disclosure of this application is being incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
The present invention relates to a safety switch device, an operation terminal, and a machine control system including the same for stopping a machine operating based on machine operation information received from the operation terminal.
A portable wireless teaching pendant connected to a controller for a machine via wireless communication is used to operate, e.g., a robot or a CNC machine tool (to be also simply referred to as a "machine" hereinafter). In such a machine system, an emergency stop button or an enable switch (deadman switch) is provided on a wireless teaching pendant to avoid any unexpected operation of a robot or a machine tool to ensure the safety of surrounding machines or operators.
FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a general machine control system including a wireless teaching pendant and a controller for a machine. In a general machine control system 1000, a portable wireless teaching pendant 1001 and a controller 1002 which controls a machine 1004 such as a robot or a CNC machine tool are connected to each other via wireless communication. The operator can perform, e.g., registration, editing, condition setting, or status display of an operation program associated with the machine 1004 or teaching of the machine 1004, using the wireless teaching pendant 1001. In such a machine control system 1000, to ensure the safety of the operator, the international standard stipulates that the wireless teaching pendant 1001 may have to include a mechanical safety switch unit such as an emergency stop button and an enable switch (deadman switch). When, for example, an emergency stop button (not illustrated) provided on the wireless teaching pendant 1001 is pressed by the operator, an emergency stop signal for bringing the machine 1004 to an emergency stop is transmitted from the wireless teaching pendant 1001 to the controller 1002 with a certain period, and, upon receiving the emergency stop signal, the controller 1002 can bring the machine 1004 to an emergency stop to ensure the safety of the machine 1004 or their surrounding machines and operators.
In recent years, for, e.g., cost reduction, versatility ensuring, and an improvement in operator convenience, a machine control system which operates a machine such as a robot or a CNC machine tool using a portable operation terminal (smart device) such as a tablet or a smartphone instead of a dedicated teaching pendant is employed. In such an operation terminal, while the arrangement of operation buttons displayed on a display can be advantageously changed to suit the operator's preferences, a mechanical safety switch unit such as an emergency stop button and an enable switch may be preferably provided, as in the case of a dedicated teaching pendant, to use the operation terminal as a teaching pendant.
In a robot operation device which operates a robot using a portable smart device such as a tablet or a smartphone including a touch panel unit used for display and input, a smart device equipped with a removable enable switch and emergency stop button is known, as disclosed in, e.g., Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2016-60018.
As described above, even in a machine control system which operates a machine such as a robot or a CNC machine tool using a portable operation terminal (smart device) such as a tablet or a smartphone, a mechanical safety switch unit such as an emergency stop button and an enable switch may be preferably provided on the operation terminal, as in the case of a dedicated teaching pendant.
Wired and wireless communication paths are available as communication paths for transmitting to a controller for a machine, a stop instruction signal for stopping the machine output from a mechanical safety switch unit provided on an operation terminal. Unfortunately, the use of a wired communication path to connect the safety switch unit and the controller for the machine to each other degrades the portability of the operation terminal equipped with the safety switch unit. However, the use of a wireless communication path to connect the safety switch unit and the controller for the machine to each other is inefficient because two types of wireless communication may be preferably handled: one for machine operation information for operating the machine and the other for a stop instruction signal, leading to a higher cost. In addition, mutual interference may occur between two types of wireless communication paths between the safety switch unit and the controller for the machine.
There is a demand for a safety switch device, an operation terminal, and a machine control system including the same which can reliably stop a machine operating based on machine operation information in an emergency and achieve high convenience and versatility and low cost.
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a machine control system includes a portable operation terminal including a communication unit which communicates with a peripheral device and a touch panel unit used for display and input, the operation terminal outputting machine operation information for operating a machine via the communication unit based on an input operation to the touch panel unit, a controller which controls operation of the machine based on the machine operation information received from the operation terminal, and a safety switch device which is removably mounted on the operation terminal and includes a switch unit which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine by being operated, and a packet generation unit which converts the stop instruction signal output by operating the switch unit into a packet and outputs the packet to the communication unit of the operation terminal, wherein the operation terminal transfers the packet received from the safety switch device to the controller via the communication unit, and the controller restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal and stops the machine based on the restored stop instruction signal.
Herein, the packet generation unit in the safety switch device may convert the stop instruction signal into a multiplexed packet.
Further, the communication unit of the operation terminal may transmit the packet to the controller via a communication channel common to the machine operation information.
Further, the communication unit of the operation terminal may receive the packet from the safety switch device via a communication channel different from the communication channel used to transmit the machine operation information and the packet to the controller.
Further, the switch unit may include at least one of an emergency stop button which outputs the stop instruction signal by being pressed, and an enable switch which outputs the stop instruction signal by cancelling pressing.
In another aspect of the present disclosure, a safety switch device for stopping a machine operating based on machine operation information received from a portable operation terminal including a communication unit which communicates with a peripheral device and a touch panel unit used for display and input includes a mount unit configured to removably mount the safety switch device on the operation terminal, a switch unit which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine by being operated, and a packet generation unit which converts the stop instruction signal output by operating the switch unit into a packet and outputs the packet to the communication unit of the operation terminal, wherein the machine is stopped by a controller which controls operation of the machine, based on a stop instruction signal restored from the packet transferred to the controller via the communication unit of the operation terminal.
Herein, the packet generation unit may convert the stop instruction signal into a multiplexed packet.
Further, the packet may be transmitted to the controller, together with the machine operation information, via a common communication channel by the communication unit of the operation terminal.
Further, the packet generation unit may transmit the packet to the operation terminal via a communication channel different from the communication channel used to transmit the machine operation information and the packet to the controller by the communication unit of the operation terminal.
In still another aspect of the present disclosure, a portable operation terminal which transmits based on an input operation, machine operation information for operating a machine to a controller which controls operation of the machine includes a communication unit which communicates with a peripheral device including the controller, a touch panel unit used for display and input operations in an editing task for the machine operation information, and a housing on which a safety switch device including a switch unit which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine by being operated, and a packet generation unit which converts the stop instruction signal output by operating the switch unit into a packet and outputs the packet to the communication unit of the operation terminal is removably mounted, wherein the communication unit transfers the packet received from the packet generation unit in the safety switch device to the controller, and the machine is stopped based on a stop instruction signal restored from the packet by the controller.
Herein, the stop instruction signal may be converted into a multiplexed packet by the packet generation unit.
Further, the communication unit may transmit the packet to the controller via a communication channel common to the machine operation information.
Further, the communication unit may receive the packet from the safety switch device via a communication channel different from the communication channel used to transmit the machine operation information and the packet to the controller.
FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a general machine control system including a wireless teaching pendant and a controller for a machine.
Next, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following drawings, similar members are provided with similar reference signs. To facilitate understanding, these figures have been suitably changed in scale. Further, embodiments as illustrated in the figures are one example so as to carry out one aspect of the present disclosure and such embodiments are not limitative.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a machine control system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The same reference numerals in different drawings denote components having the same functions hereinafter. In this embodiment, a machine 4 is operated on a portable operation terminal 1 and implemented as, e.g., a robot or a CNC machine tool.
A machine control system 100 according to this embodiment includes a portable operation terminal 1, a controller 2 which controls the operation of the machine 4, and a safety switch device 3 removably mounted on the operation terminal 1.
The operation terminal 1 is implemented as a smart device such as a tablet or a smartphone. The operation terminal 1 may even be implemented as a notebook computer. In this embodiment, the operation terminal 1 transmits based on an input operation, machine operation information for operating the machine 4 to the controller 2 that controls the operation of the machine 4. More specifically, the operation terminal 1 includes a communication unit 12 which communicates with a peripheral device including the controller 2, a touch panel unit 11 used for display and input operations in an editing task for the machine operation information, and a housing 13 on which the safety switch device 3 is removably mounted.
In the operation terminal 1, the communication unit 12, the touch panel unit 11, and a storage unit 14 are electrically connected to each other via a control unit 15 and buses, and the operation of the operation terminal 1 including the communication unit 12 and the touch panel unit 11 is controlled by the control unit 15. A teaching software program implemented as an application program for operating the machine 4 is installed on the storage unit 14, and the control unit 15 controls the operation of the operation terminal 1 in accordance with the teaching software program. Hence, the operation terminal 1 functions as a wireless teaching pendant which operates (teaches) the machine 4. The operator can perform editing and confirmation tasks such as registration or condition setting of operations associated with the machine 4, through the input and display functions of the touch panel unit 11 of the operation terminal 1.
The communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 is used for communication with a peripheral device. The peripheral device includes the controller 2 that controls the machine 4. The communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 and a communication unit 22 of the controller 2 that controls the machine 4 are connected to each other via wireless communication. Examples of such wireless communication include wireless LANs such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.RTM., and infrared communication. Instead of wireless communication, wired communication may be used, but in this case, the portability of the operation terminal 1 is relatively low although the stability of communication between the operation terminal 1 and the controller 2 is relatively high. The communication unit 12 transfers a packet received from a packet generation unit 32 in the safety switch device 3 to the controller 2 and transmits machine operation information for defining teaching details input on the operation terminal 1 to the controller 2, although details will be described later.
The safety switch device 3 is removably mounted on the housing 13 of the operation terminal 1.
The safety switch device 3 is used to stop the machine 4 in an emergency. The safety switch device 3 includes mount units 33 for removably mounting the safety switch device 3 on the operation terminal 1, a switch unit 31 which outputs a stop instruction signal for issuing an instruction to stop the machine 4 by being operated, and a packet generation unit 32 which converts the stop instruction signal output by operating the switch unit 31 into a packet and outputs the packet to the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1. The power involved in operating the safety switch device 3 may be supplied via a cable (a USB cable or a dedicated power supply cable) from the operation terminal 1 on which the safety switch device 3 is mounted, or supplied from a battery built into the safety switch device 3.
The safety switch device 3 further includes a communication unit 34 as a means for transmitting the packet generated by the packet generation unit 32 to the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1. The communication unit 34 of the safety switch device 3 and the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 may be connected to each other via either wireless or wired communication. Examples of such wireless communication include wireless LANs such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.RTM., and infrared communication. Examples of such wired communication include communication via a USB cable.
The switch unit 31 of the safety switch device 3 includes at least one of a mechanical emergency stop button 31-1 which outputs a stop instruction signal by being pressed, and a mechanical enable switch (deadman switch) 31-2 which outputs a stop instruction signal by cancelling pressing. In an exemplary example illustrated as FIG. 1, one emergency stop button 31-1 and one enable switch 31-2 are provided as the switch unit 31, but only one of an emergency stop button 31-1 and an enable switch 31-2 may be provided, or a plurality of emergency stop buttons 31-1 and/or a plurality of enable switches 31-2 may be provided. When the operator wants to bring the machine 4 to an emergency stop upon, e.g., the occurrence of an abnormality in the machine 4, he or she presses the emergency stop button 31-1 to output a stop instruction signal from the emergency stop button 31-1. In the normal operation of the machine 4, the operator uses the operation terminal 1 while gripping the enable switch 31-2 of the safety switch device 3 with his or her hand (i.e., while the enable switch 31-2 is kept pressed), but when he or she releases his or her grip on the enable switch 31-2 for some reason, the pressing of the enable switch 31-2 is cancelled and a stop instruction signal is output from the enable switch 31-2.
The mount units 33 of the safety switch device 3 are used to removably mount the safety switch device 3 on the housing 13 of the operation terminal 1. Although examples of fitting between the safety switch device 3 and the operation terminal 1 will be given below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3, the safety switch device 3 may be mounted on the operation terminal 1 using a method other than those illustrated as FIGS. 2 and 3. FIG. 2 is a front view illustrating a first example of fitting between a safety switch device and an operation terminal according to the embodiment of the present disclosure. As the structure of the mount units 33 of the safety switch device 3, the safety switch device 3 is mounted on the operation terminal 1 to partially cover the housing 13 of the operation terminal 1. FIG. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a second example of fitting between a safety switch device and an operation terminal according to the embodiment of the present disclosure. The mount units 33 are placed at the four corners of the safety switch device 3, which is mounted on the operation terminal 1 to be fitted together from the lower surface of the operation terminal 1 through the mount units 33. In the examples illustrated as FIGS. 2 and 3, one emergency stop button 31-1 and two enable switches 31-2 are provided as the switch unit 31.
The packet generation unit 32 of the safety switch device 3 converts the stop instruction signal output by operating the switch unit 31 into a packet and outputs the packet to the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1. More specifically, the packet generation unit 32 generates a packet by dividing the stop instruction signal from the switch unit 31 and adding sequence numbers to the divided signals. In this embodiment, to improve the communication safety and reliability, the packet generation unit 32 multiplexes processing for generating a packet from the stop instruction signal. In other words, to generate different types of packets from one stop instruction signal, the packet generation unit 32 includes a plurality of LSIs as processors which generate packets from the stop instruction signal. In an exemplary example illustrated as FIG. 1, packet generation processing is dualized, so that the packet generation unit 32 includes a first LSI 32-1 and a second LSI 32-2. The stop instruction signal output by pressing the emergency stop button 31-1 is input to each of the first LSI 32-1 and the second LSI 32-2. Similarly, the stop instruction signal output by canceling the pressing of the enable switch 31-2 is input to each of the first LSI 32-1 and the second LSI 32-2. In each of the first LSI 32-1 and the second LSI 32-2, a packet is generated by dividing the received stop instruction signal and adding sequence numbers to the divided signals. The respective packets generated by the first LSI 32-1 and the second LSI 32-2 are transmitted to the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 via the communication unit 34. As a modification to this embodiment, in either the first LSI 32-1 or the second LSI 32-2, a packet generated by this LSI may be concatenated with a packet generated by the other LSI and then the obtained packet may be transmitted to the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 via the communication unit 34.
The packet generation unit 32 may be configured to generate a packet appended with an error detection signal or an error correction signal to further improve the communication safety and reliability. Examples of the error detection signal and the error correction signal include a cyclic redundancy check (CRC).
The safety switch device 3 may include components other than the switch unit 31, the packet generation unit 32, the mount units 33, and the communication unit 34. The safety switch device 3 may include, e.g., a unit which generates an electrical signal other than a stop instruction signal, and in this case, the packet generation unit 32 may generate a packet containing the electrical signal.
The packet generated by the packet generation unit 32 in the above-mentioned manner is transmitted to the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 via the communication unit 34. The communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 further transfers the packet received from the packet generation unit 32 to the controller 2. Transfer processing for receiving a packet from the communication unit 34 of the safety switch device 3 and transferring the packet to the communication unit 22 of the controller 2 by the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 is performed as appropriate during intervals between processes based on the teaching software program of the operation terminal 1. A software program associated with a series of packet transfer processes (to be referred to as a "packet transfer software program" hereinafter) is also stored in the storage unit 14, and the control unit 15 performs packet transfer processing in accordance with the packet transfer software program. The communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 transmits machine operation information to the controller 2, and since a packet is transmitted from the operation terminal 1 to the controller 2 via a communication channel common to the machine operation information, the communication path for a packet associated with a stop instruction signal also serves as a black channel. As the communication channel for communication between the communication unit 34 of the safety switch device 3 and the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1, a communication channel different from that for communication between the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 and the communication unit 22 of the controller 2 is used so as to prevent mutual communication interference. In other words, the communication unit 12 of the operation terminal 1 receives a packet from the safety switch device 3 via a communication channel different from that used to transmit the machine operation information and the packet to the controller 2. A specific example of the packet transfer processing will be described later.
The controller 2 controls the operation of the machine 4 based on the machine operation information received from the operation terminal 1. The machine operation information is received via the communication unit 22. The controller 2 restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal 1 and stops the machine 4 based on the restored stop instruction signal. The controller 2 therefore includes a signal restoration unit 21 which restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal 1. As described above, since the packet is multiplexed by the packet generation unit 32 of the safety switch device 3, the signal restoration unit 21 in the controller 2 restores one stop instruction signal from the multiplexed packet. The signal restoration unit 21 in the controller 2 therefore includes a plurality of CPUs as processors which restore one stop instruction signal from the multiplexed packet. In an exemplary example illustrated as FIG. 1, since packet generation processing is dualized, the signal restoration unit 21 includes a first CPU 21-1 and a second CPU 21-2. The packet received via the communication unit 22 is input to each of the first CPU 21-1 and the second CPU 21-2 on the basis of the sequence numbers. A stop instruction signal is restored in each of the first CPU 21-1 and the second CPU 21-2, and the restoration results are compared by the first CPU 21-1 and the second CPU 21-2. The controller 2 uses the stop instruction signals in processing for stopping the machine 4 as valid data only when they match each other, and outputs an alarm when they are mismatched. When one or both of the packets have an error, the controller 2 may perform retry processing within the time limit permitted by the system. In this manner, according to this embodiment, since packet generation processing associated with a stop instruction signal is dualized, the possibility that the controller 2 will receive an erroneous stop instruction signal can be reduced even when a bug occurs in the packet transfer software program within the operation terminal 1 or communication failure occurs in each communication path. When the packet received via the communication unit 22 is generated by concatenating the respective packets generated by the first LSI 32-1 and the second LSI 32-2 in the packet generation unit 32, this packet is divided by either the first CPU 21-1 or the second CPU 21-2, and a stop instruction signal is then restored in each of the first CPU 21-1 and the second CPU 21-2.
When the packet generation unit 32 is configured to generate a packet appended with an error detection signal or an error correction signal to further improve the communication safety and reliability, the controller 2 includes an error detection and correction unit (not illustrated) which detects the presence or absence of a packet error on the basis of an error detection signal added to a packet received from the operation terminal 1 or corrects a packet error on the basis of an error correction signal added to a packet received from the operation terminal 1.
Packet transfer processing in the operation terminal 1 will be described below with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6. For the sake of easy explanation, the communication units 12, 22, and 34 used for respective types of communication between the operation terminal 1 and the controller 2 and between the operation terminal 1 and the safety switch device 3 will not be particularly referred to herein, but it is to be noted that any of the communication units 12, 22, and 34 is engaged in each such type of communication. Since the processing of the first LSI 32-1 and the second LSI 32-2 in the packet generation unit 32 and the processing of the first CPU 21-1 and the second CPU 21-2 in the controller 2 are the same as above, a description thereof will not be given hereinafter.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary communication diagram when a controller is equipped with a timer in the embodiment of the present disclosure. In this case, the controller 2 transmits a request signal to the operation terminal 1 with a predetermined timer period. The operation terminal 1 transfers the received request signal to the safety switch device 3. In response to the request signal, the safety switch device 3 performs processing for detecting whether the switch unit 31 has been operated. When the switch unit 31 has been operated, since a stop instruction signal is output from the switch unit 31, the packet generation unit 32 in the safety switch device 3 converts the stop instruction signal into a packet and outputs the packet to the operation terminal 1, which further transfers the packet received from the safety switch device 3 to the controller 2. The controller 2 restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal 1 and stops the machine 4 based on the restored stop instruction signal. It takes a certain time, after the controller 2 transmits a request signal to the operation terminal 1, until it receives a packet from the operation terminal 1, and when this time exceeds a preset time limit (set to a time shorter than the timer period) as well, the controller 2 stops the machine 4 for the sake of safety (alarm stop).
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary communication diagram when the safety switch device is equipped with a timer in the embodiment of the present disclosure. In this case, the safety switch device 3 performs processing for detecting whether the switch unit 31 has been operated with a predetermined timer period. When the switch unit 31 has been operated, since a stop instruction signal is output from the switch unit 31, the packet generation unit 32 in the safety switch device 3 converts the stop instruction signal into a packet and outputs the packet to the operation terminal 1, which further transfers the packet received from the safety switch device 3 to the controller 2. The controller 2 restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal 1 and stops the machine 4 based on the restored stop instruction signal. It takes a certain time, after the controller 2 receives a packet from the operation terminal 1, until it receives the next packet, and when this time exceeds a preset time limit (set to a time shorter than the timer period) as well, the controller 2 stops the machine 4 for the sake of safety (alarm stop). When the safety switch device 3 is equipped with a timer, since active packet transmission to the operation terminal 1 may be preferably performed, a communication scheme which allows such communication may be preferably employed. For example, while wireless LANs such as Wi-Fi capable of mutual communication between devices or the like may be employed, USB cable communication using a fixed master-slave relationship may not be employed.
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an exemplary communication diagram when the operation terminal is equipped with a timer in the embodiment of the present disclosure. In this case, the operation terminal 1 transmits a request signal to the safety switch device 3 with a predetermined timer period. In response to the request signal, the safety switch device 3 performs processing for detecting whether the switch unit 31 has been operated. When the switch unit 31 has been operated, since a stop instruction signal is output from the switch unit 31, the packet generation unit 32 in the safety switch device 3 converts the stop instruction signal into a packet and outputs the packet to the operation terminal 1, which further transfers the packet received from the safety switch device 3 to the controller 2. The controller 2 restores a stop instruction signal from the packet received from the operation terminal 1 and stops the machine 4 based on the restored stop instruction signal. It takes a certain time, after the controller 2 receives a packet from the operation terminal 1, until it receives the next packet, and when this time exceeds a preset time limit (set to a time shorter than the timer period) as well, the controller 2 stops the machine 4 for the sake of safety (alarm stop).
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a safety switch device, an operation terminal, and a machine control system including the same which can reliably stop a machine operating based on machine operation information in an emergency and achieve high convenience and versatility and low cost can be realized.
In another aspect of the present disclosure, in place of a dedicated teaching pendant, a teaching pendant including a mechanical safety switch unit such as an emergency stop button and an enable switch can be formed on a portable operation terminal (smart device) such as a tablet or a smartphone, so that the machine can be reliably stopped in an emergency and safety is high while achieving cost reduction and ensuring versatility and operator convenience. In still another aspect of the present disclosure, since a packet associated with a stop instruction signal is transmitted from the operation terminal to a controller for the machine using a communication channel common to the machine operation information, the cost is low. In still another aspect of the present disclosure, since a packet is transmitted from the safety switch device to the operation terminal via a communication channel different from that used to transmit the machine operation information and the packet to the controller, no signals interfere with each other. In still another aspect of the present disclosure, since packet generation processing associated with a stop instruction signal is dualized, the possibility that the controller will receive an erroneous stop instruction signal can be reduced even when a bug occurs within the operation terminal or communication failure occurs in each communication path, and safety is high.
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Attentive and detail-oriented medical assistant with over 5 years experience. An AAMA Certified Medical Assistant and Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) since 2011, I have experience in both administrative and clinical duties and a true passion for helping people in the health profession.
Medical assistants are called on to perform a variety of clinical and patient duties that are crucial to helping doctors see and treat patients in an efficient manner. An effective medical assistant is detail-oriented and organized with strong people skills, as they prepare patients before they see a doctor. The Bureau of Labour Statistics puts the median salary at $30,590 per year, with a much faster than average growth outlook for the next decade.
The job outlook for medical assistants (and health professionals in general) is so rosy because the youngest members of the baby boomer generation are now past 50 years of age — and as you can imagine, this has considerable implications for the U.S.’s health industry.
The number of Americans aged 65 and older is projected to more than double from 46 million today to over 98 million by 2060, and the 65-and-older age group’s share of the total population will rise to nearly 24 percent from 15 percent.
The aging of the baby boom generation could fuel a 75 percent increase in the number of Americans aged 65 and older requiring nursing home care, to about 2.3 million in 2030 from 1.3 million in 2010.
In a nutshell, as one of the largest demographic cohorts ages and grows in need of more health care and treatment, the demand for medical assistants and other health professionals will increase as well.
So, how can you create a top-notch medical assistant resume that will put you in front of the competition? Check out the detailed breakdown of each section below.
The purpose of the resume objective section is to grab the attention of a potential employer and hit them with the main takeaways that present you as the ideal candidate for the role.
Alternatively, you may wish to use a data-driven professional summary, a punchy resume profile, or an achievement-centered summary of qualifications.
This is the most punchy, curated part of your resume, like an elevator pitch. If you ended up in an elevator with a doctor you wanted to work with or HR manager of a hospital you wanted to work in, this is what you would want to say to them.
Similar to writing an introduction to a term paper in high school or university, you may want to write this section last, as it should be a snapshot of you that is further explained in the more detailed sections that follow.
The answer to this question is meant to be less knowledge-based (i.e., “I know how to draw blood”), but more about you as an individual personality (i.e., “I am very well organized and great at calming down people who are distressed”).
If you’re still unsure, ask a colleague or a friend who knows you in a professional setting. You might also consider directing this question at people already in the profession or role you are looking to get into (in this case, other medical assistants).
This also functions as an excellent question should you find yourself in a networking environment; people generally love talking about themselves, and it gives you a much deeper insight into the kind of personalities and skillsets that are useful in your field.
Certifications and training are very important hiring qualifications in health professions because of the many specializations that exist, and because medical malpractice is a particularly sensitive legal liability. Any relevant certifications should be highlighted near the top of your resume as they will immediately qualify (or disqualify) you from the position.
Although in some states it is not technically a requirement for medical assistants to be certified, this is likely a case of regulations lagging behind the industry, and the reality is you will most likely be competing against those who are certified.
Most organizations require applicants to pass an exam and graduate from an accredited program. However, some organizations, such as AMT, allow students to sit for the RMA examination without a degree or diploma from an accredited institution if they have already gained extensive work experience as a full-time medical assistant; you can find out more here.
CPR or BLS are two other certifications you may wish to include.
As for other certifications, consider including specific ones that are particularly relevant to the job posting or position you are applying for. For clinical medical assistants, taking blood samples is a central job function, so any phlebotomy certification (CPT or RPT) should be highlighted. CPR or BLS are two other certifications you may wish to include.
If you are applying as a medical assistant for a more specialized discipline, such as ophthalmology or podiatry, you’ll want to highlight your niche certifications that qualify you for the position.
You’ll want to focus on displaying the core competencies needed for the role, while also indicating your value-add through specific achievements. The idea is not to just show that you can and have done the day-to-day tasks, but to demonstrate a high level of ability that separates you from the pack. Always remember that a potential employer is not reading your resume to see what you can do, but rather to see what you can do for them.
Similarly, it is important that you use specifics wherever possible, to give potential employers a better idea of your capacity.
Option (a) is very much a “duh” statement…if someone didn’t know what a medical assistant was, you might give that as a broad answer to give them the general idea.
But, the person who is going to be hiring you definitely knows what a medical assistant does…so that’s just not going to cut it. Option (b), on the other hand, gives your potential employer an idea of the workload you’ve proven to be capable of and the kind of environment you have experience in.
As a general rule, you want to describe your past work experience using action verbs to paint a clearer picture of what exactly you did or currently do. Not only is it more descriptive for your potential employer, but it also gives you a chance to market yourself a little bit more. For an exhaustive list of action verbs that you can use on your resume, check out The Longest Action Verb List In The Universe.
Although the minimum requirement for medical assistants is generally a high school diploma or GED, increasingly small practices and hospitals are looking for candidates who have pursued more formal medical assistant education and training; see the certification section above or get more information here.
If you have completed the minimum requirement of high school or GED, have not been to college or university, but have a lot of professional working experience, you may want to consider combining Education & Certification as one category instead of separating them as seen on the sample resume above.
If you haven’t pursued a diploma or degree, consider beefing up on other certifications and training, and place more emphasis on your professional experience and certifications on your resume.
You may not want to list all of these skills on your resume; remember that you want to give your potential employer a clear idea of your best qualifications, not an exhaustive list of everything you can do. However, you might keep these skills in mind for the interview stage of the hiring process. You can also get more information on writing a skills section here.
Follow the tips above to craft a top-class medical assistant resume and stand out in a competitive job field. If you haven’t started creating your resume yet, jump over to the resume builder and get started today!
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The following remarks were presented by Sam Pambrun as part of the 150th Anniversary Observances of the Battle of Frenchtown. They occurred at Frenchtown Hall, Lowden, Washington on December 10, 2005.
This is a famous place.
Frenchtown is the site of the last battle between whites and Indians in the Walla Walla Valley as well as other significant historic events.
–Naturalists: David Douglas, John Kirk Townsend, and Thomas Nuttall.
This place has weathered the Missoula Floods and the ash of Mounts Mazama and St. Helens.
In 1923 the community of Walla Walla produced and presented a pageant copyrighted by Stephen B. L. Penrose. The play, entitled “How the West was Won,” was presented on June 6 & 7, 1923. My grandfather, Sam Pambrun, played the role of his grandfather, Hudson Bay Company Chief Trader Pierre Chrysologue Pambrun in this 1923 pageant. I planned to use the script to prepare for my remarks here.
However, after studying the history of the Walla Walla Valley presented in the 1923 pageant, I think I’d rather stick a little closer to the truth than what I found in Penrose’s play. What I want to talk about didn’t make it into the 1923 Walla Walla Pageant. I want to talk about those who came to this Valley to live with the aboriginal inhabitants – – – not as conquerors, but as friends and family.
The impetus for the settlement of the Walla Walla Valley began 190 years ago in a community over a thousand miles away – at the Red River settlement, now the great city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In 1816 the struggle between the Northwest and Hudson’s Bay Companies reached the boiling point at “Seven Oaks,” a pastoral place beside the Red River near the Hudson’s Bay Company Fort Douglas.
The reaction to this “massacre” was immediate. Besides the ensuing armed conflicts and court cases, the impact of it reached the Oregon Country via the 100-day express. When those first colonists in Oregon, the men of the Northwest Company stationed at Fort George (Astoria, Oregon) heard of the Seven Oaks Massacre, some abandoned their posts and hurried to Red River to check on their families.
Tom McKay left the year before the massacre in 1815. Donald McKenzie, Louis Napoleon Bonnefant’s relative and several others made a dash across the continent in 1816 upon hearing their families may be in danger.
The Canadian Metís who began settling in the Walla Walla Valley in 1824, recognizing they were “guests” of the Waiilatpu and Wallulapam (Cayuse and Walla Walla) Indians, sought permission to settle there, and in most cases, married into the local tribes.
While the French Canadian Metís generally got along well with their native hosts, other, “white” settlers and traders didn’t do so well. John Clarke, while in the employ of the Astor Company, shortly before its sale to the Northwest Company, hanged an Indian boy who was living with the Palouses while they were camped at Wallula. This event occurred in 1813 and effectively ended Pax Walla Walla.
The Northwest Company began building a post a few miles upriver from the mouth of the Walla Walla in 1816. As a result of Clarke’s indiscretion, a Northwest fur brigade was attacked. The builders of Fort Nez Perce were harassed. The fur traders who had been attending what they called the “Indian Rendezvous” at Wallula every summer since 1811 now found that attending the “Indian Rendezvous” was risky. The Fort Nez Perce stockade was finally completed in 1818, the final work being accomplished under armed guard.
More retired Canadian Metís fur traders continued to settle at Frenchtown and they continued to marry into the Waiilatpu & Wallulapam tribes. The community essentially became a French and Indian village scattered over 50 square miles.
When the Whitmans arrived in 1836 there were over a dozen Metís log cabins surrounding their mission. Although they wrote over 100,000 words during their 11-year stay at Waiilatpu, they never once mentioned their half-breed neighbors in writing.
The Frenchtown Metís prospered, even weathering blame for the Whitman Massacre. By 1847 there were well over 50 Metís families living in the Frenchtown area. Land claims were casual; no surveying, no fences, nothing written, just counsel and agreement with the tribes. Frenchtown residents considered the Indians the governing body of the valley; not the missionaries.
The Walla Walla Treaty Council of 1855 started Frenchtown’s slide into oblivion. The Treaty interpreters were mostly Frenchtown residents, all were Metís and/or had Indian wives. Their empathy for their in-laws did no good in heading off the land rush that followed the Treaty signing by just two weeks. However, the Frenchtown interpreters were somewhat successful in assisting the tribal chiefs in securing the best deal they could. The Walla Walla Treaty, from the perspective of Indian rights, is probably the best of all the Indian Treaties enacted west of the Rocky Mountains.
Descendents of the following 1855 interpreters still live in the area today: William Cameron McKay, A.D. Pambrun, Matthew Dauphin, John Whitford, William Craig, and Patrick McKenzie. Descendents of the natives whose land title was extinguished by the Treaty of 1855 are also still here today.
The death blow to Frenchtown was delivered by Captain George McClellan who rode through the Walla Walla Valley in October of 1855, announcing that the valley was under martial law and only military personnel may stay, everyone else must get out. The Metís questioned this order, seeing no reason why their relatives would do them harm. McClellan persisted, informing the residents of Frenchtown they would be removed by force if they persisted in disobeying US Army orders.
Some of the Frenchtown Metís moved to the Willamette Valley, some joined Narcisse Cornoyer’s “French Canadians,” and mustered into service as the Oregon Mounted Volunteers “Company K.” Some Frenchtown Metís joined their native relatives in the hostilities to come.
The Battle of Walla Walla was fought over terrain on the Touchet and Walla Walla Rivers, ending in a siege in the heart of Frenchtown, between the LaRocque and Tellier cabins. Just prior to the battle, Colonel Kelly’s Oregon Mounted Volunteers captured Peopeomoxmox, the great Walla Walla chief, on the Touchet River. Peo was “detained” when he rode up to the OMV carrying a white flag. He was later tied and executed at the LaRocque cabin the third day of his detention.
In a curious circumstance, it seems that Joseph LaRocque’s wife “Lizette Walla Walla,” was either Peo’s sister or daughter. Why the OMV chose to establish their headquarters at a house where Peo’s sister or daughter lived is a coincidence worth further investigation.
After the Battle of Walla Walla, Frenchtown was never the same. Some of the original settlers moved back to their homes; some were displaced by Americans who filed claims on their land. Some of the Metís families who’d called Frenchtown home scattered to other locations around the Pacific Northwest. A few moved back to Red River.
During the 1860’s, 70’s & 80’s the community continued as a Catholic, French-speaking, French culture, French and Indian society of close knit families – – – despite an influx of white Americans.
In 1887 The Dawes Act was adopted, allowing individual Indians to own land on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Many of the original Metís settlers removed themselves to the Reservation to claim land there. Frenchtown became Lowden, the religion became Protestant, the population became white, the language English, and the culture became Frontier American.
If one studies the community of Frenchtown carefully, one might say that British politics were responsible for its creation, and American politics for its demise. Our task here today is to determine if the place, and the community merits a rebirth, and if so, to take those steps necessary to assure the success of this venture.
Click here for the 1870 Frenchtown census. Note that in column 6, “color”, many residents were initially identified as “H.B.” (presumably meaning “Half-Breed”), then the census taker went back and crossed out H.B. and wrote in either “W” for White or “Ind” for Indian, H.B. apparently not being an available census category.
A Frenchtown cabin map can be found on p. 8 of our Frenchtown Historic Site Master Plan, which is available online.
The History & Artifacts Committee is collecting information on Frenchtown families. Please send any relevant information to co-chairs Judith Fortney and Gerald Reed.
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Why is fiber beneficial to the body and how does it affect blood sugar levels?
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Glucomannan is a soluble, dietary fiber shown to help maintain healthy blood sugar levels by delaying stomach emptying and promoting a gradual absorption of blood sugar from the intestines. Glucomannan is also known for helping to maintain normal cholesterol and triglyceride levels while promoting weight loss.
Acid Alpha-lipoic acid, found in the mitochondria, is an energy producer found within cells. Alpha-lipoic acid is a powerful antioxidant. Alpha-lipoic acid has been shown to support normal insulin sensitivity. Alpha-lipoic acid promotes the production of energy from fat and sugar, which promotes the normal elimination of glucose from the blood and supports normal insulin function. Alpha-lipoic acid supports healthy glucose uptake by the muscles and promotes normal glucose oxidation.
Gymnema is used as a wellness plant in India. The leaves of Gymnema support normal glucose absorption and help with reducing sugar cravings. Gymnema has been known to help maintain healthy blood sugar levels. There have been several studies on gymnema and the effects it has on blood sugar levels. The results have shown the Gymnema supports healthy blood sugar levels.
Ginseng is part of a group of adaptogenic herbs from the plant family Araliacae. "Ginseng" means "essence of the earth in the form of a man." "Seng" is a term employed by Chinese medicinal root gatherers for fleshy roots used as tonics. American ginseng grows in shady woodlands with rich soils. It is native to Ohio and found mostly in the Appalachian region of the state. Its range outside of Ohio extends into the eastern half of the United States, from Quebec to Minnesota, and south to Georgia and Oklahoma. Ginseng is helpful in maintaining normal blood glucose levels. Ginseng is also believed to possess outstanding healing properties. Ginseng is an adaptogen, which helps the body maintain proper balance and fight fatigue. It has been used to maintain good cardiovascular health. By acting as an adaptogen, it aids the body in directly dealing with the effects of mental and physical stress. Ginseng is used to enhance physical (including sexual) and mental performance, and to increase energy and resistance to the harmful effects of stress and aging. In traditional Chinese medicine, ginseng is a tonic used to increase strength, support blood volume, promote life and appetite, quiet the spirit, and provide wisdom. Ginseng was used to support cognitive function and support gastrointestinal health. Ginsengs promote Yang energy, support circulation, the immune system and blood supply.
Artichokes, nuts, beans, whole grains and shellfish are the main sources of magnesium. Sixty percent of the body’s magnesium resides in the bones. Magnesium operates as a co-enzyme to promote optimal nervous system functioning and to support the regulation of body temperature, energy metabolism, DNA and RNA synthesis, and the formation of bones. Magnesium works alongside B-vitamins in the production of energy. It supports the normal conduction of nerve impulses and helps maintain a healthy heart. It promotes normal protein synthesis, which is necessary in muscle development. Plus, studies point to a potential role for magnesium supplements in energy metabolism efficiency in endurance athletes. Magnesium is also well known for its role in supporting-bone building properties, working in conjunction with calcium.
Zinc is largely found in fortified cereals, red meats, eggs, poultry and certain seafood, including oysters. It is a component of multiple enzymes and proteins. It supports the regulation of gene expression. Zinc is an essential trace mineral that supports functions in 300 different enzymes. Zinc promotes almost all biochemical pathways and physiological processes. More than 90 percent of the body’s zinc is stored in the bones (30 percent) and muscles (60 percent), but zinc is also found in virtually all body tissues. Zinc also promotes normal healing, provides immune system support, promotes a healthy prostate gland and supports normal fertility and sperm production in males. Because zinc supports a great number of enzymatic processes, it has been found to promote a large range of bodily functions including digestion, energy production, growth, cellular repair, collagen synthesis, bone strength, cognitive function and carbohydrate metabolism (glucose utilization and insulin production).
Chromium is found naturally in some cereals, meats, poultry, brewer’s yeast, broccoli, prunes mushrooms, fish and beer. Chromium is an essential trace mineral that promotes normal glucose metabolism, helps maintain healthy insulin levels, and helps maintain healthy blood levels of cholesterol and other fats. It may also help with appetite control. Chromium has been shown to help maintain healthy blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides levels, and to aid in weight loss. Chromium may promote an increase in lean body and muscle mass.
Vanadium is found naturally in seafood, mushrooms, some cereals and soybeans. Vanadium a trace mineral is known for being effective in maintaining healthy blood glucose levels. Vanadium helps increase muscle mass, supports normal blood flow and helps maintain normal glycogen synthesis and storage.
Biotin is naturally found in egg yolks, peanuts, beef liver, milk (10 mcg/cup), cereals, almonds and Brewer’s yeast. Biotin is known to help maintain healthy blood sugar levels. It also helps to strengthen hair and nails, increase energy levels and help maintain normal cholesterol levels.
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Boston, MA – The New England Revolution are committed to making a lasting impact on the lives of young people in the Boston community, which is why the club is expanding its community collaboration with America SCORES Boston.
The collaboration between the Revolution and America SCORES will help the organizations better assist under-resourced youth in greater Boston while also cultivating the growth of soccer throughout the region. As a key part of the Revolution’s commitment, the club will continue to host the SCORES Cup, the premiere city-wide fundraising soccer tournament that raises over $300,000 annually for America SCORES Boston programming.
The new collaboration also features a matching-donation program, “Revs Score, America SCORES,” aimed at providing financial support to enable America SCORES Boston to continue providing its program free of charge to Boston area youth. For every Revolution goal scored at Gillette Stadium, the New England Revolution Charitable Foundation will contribute $100 per goal, which equates the cost of one week of programming for one child. All donations by the Revolution will be matched by one of America SCORES Boston’s corporate partners. “Revs Score, America SCORES” was announced at the sixth annual America SCORES Boston Celebration Gala at the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts on Oct. 6 and will take effect immediately.
Additionally, the collaboration will expand player involvement with youth in America SCORES Boston’s after-school program through Revolution Academy-run soccer clinics and participation in SCORES’ Service Learning Projects.
The New England Revolution Charitable Foundation is the nonprofit organization through which the Revolution support charitable and philanthropic organizations throughout New England. The foundation assists a variety of charitable organizations and programs by supporting their health and wellness and sporting initiatives. In particular, the Revolution target activities specifically aimed towards youth programs and programs with close ties to the game of soccer. This support comes in the form of both direct grants and in-kind donations of tickets and Revolution memorabilia used at charity fundraisers, and through player appearances at charity functions and educational programs. For more information about the New England Revolution Charitable Foundation please visit the community page at revolutionsoccer.net/community.
America SCORES Boston offers under-resourced youth in Boston Public Schools an innovative blend of soccer, academic support and enrichment programs that fosters the development of the whole child – as an athlete; a student; and a caring, confident, and engaged member of the community. Our programs empower youth to create positive in their lives, in their communities and around the world. SCORES serves over 1,400 youth each year and is one of the largest and fastest growing school-based after-school programs in Boston. Founded in 1999, America SCORES Boston is an independent, federally recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit and an affiliate of America SCORES, founded in 1994. For more information, please visit www.americascoresboston.org.
As Liverpool Football Club (LFC) returns to the U.S. for the 2016 pre-season tour the club will participate in a series of community activities, cultural visits, press conferences & training sessions throughout its week-long stay in the Bay Area.
LFC will distribute daily media alerts containing further event details& information on participants, available Club spokespeople, locations & timing surrounding each media opportunity & availability. For more information on Liverpool FC’s 2016 U.S. pre-season tour visit www.lfctour.com.
Dedham, MA – Papa Gino’s and the New England Revolution are teaming up for a fourth consecutive year for the “Play, Eat, Score” contest. The contest awards five local New England youth soccer teams with the ultimate prize: a surprise visit from a Revolution player and a Papa Gino’s pizza party at their soccer practice.
Teams can be nominated to win “Play, Eat, Score” through an entry form that can be found online at www.revolutionsoccer.net, the official website of the Revolution. Coaches, family members and players are encouraged to enter their teams. Winners will be selected and awarded from April – June 2016.
Last year, the “Play, Eat, Score” program connected a number of Revolution stars with local youth soccer organizations. Players such as Darrius Barnes, Steve Neumann, Brad Knighton and Scott Caldwell attended a practice session of the winning teams, helping teach the young players some of the skills and drills that they learned on their path to becoming pros, while also delivering Papa Gino’s pizza to the teams.
In addition to the surprise visit and Papa Gino’s Pizza Party, each winning team receives a prize pack that includes great items from both Papa Gino’s and the New England Revolution.
To enter your team to win, please visit www.revolutionsoccer.net/playeatscore and tell us why your team should have a Revolution player deliver the prize package to your practice.
The fifth annual SCORES Celebration gala to raise funds for America SCORES Boston’s soccer, academic support and enrichment programming for Boston’s at-risk youth. The evening’s festivities will include leading soccer stars and youth program beneficiaries who will take to an indoor soccer pitch for skills & drills demonstrations, youth poetry recitals, a live auction and epic foosball competitions. New to this year’s Celebration is a celebratory banner raising in recognition of 11 years of America SCORES Cup action. This year, SCORES will honor 2015 Cup champions Signal Ridge Capital Partners (Premier Division Champions) and Wells Fargo Securities (First Division Champions, two time winner) and will unveil banners for past SCORES Cup champions as they raise all 11 to the rafters of Cyclorama. Attendees will also enjoy a taste from local restaurants including Estragon, Morton’s, Teranga, Orinoco, Super Fusion and more, as well as craft beer from Boston’s own Samuel Adams.
America SCORES Boston offers youth in Boston Public Schools an innovative blend of soccer, academic support and enrichment programs that foster the development of the whole child – as an athlete; a student; and a caring, confident, and engaged member of the community. SCORES serves more than 1,400 youth each year and is one of the largest and fastest growing school-based after-school programs in Boston. Founded in 1999, America SCORES Boston is an independent, federally recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit and an affiliate of America SCORES, founded in 1994. For more information, please visit www.americascoresboston.org.
New England Revolution stars Juan Agudelo, Jose Goncalves and Jermaine Jones will help raise money for charity by becoming amateur mixologists at the Revs’ annual Celebrity Bartending fundraiser on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The trio will be behind the bar at McGreevy’s in Boston, serving signature drinks and additional libations to those in attendance. All proceeds from the evening will benefit the ThinkTaylor Foundation, which was founded by Revolution legend Taylor Twellman.
The Celebrity Bartending fundraiser will kick off at 6:30 p.m. at McGreevy’s, with Agudelo, Goncalves, and Jones scheduled to serve up cocktails from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Rev Girls and team mascot, Slyde, will also be on site with a series of Revolution giveaways, as well as a raffle for fans in attendance featuring signed memorabilia and tickets to the Revs’ home game against Orlando City SC on Saturday, Sept. 5.
There is no cover charge for the event, however fans must be 21 and older and possess a valid ID for entry.
School’s back in session! Santander Bank, N.A. is hosting a public meet and greet with New England Revolution star forward Charlie Davies to celebrate the Bank’s Santander Soccer Scholars program, which recognizes New England students’ academic achievements. Davies, a New England native, serves as the champion and official face of the 2015 Santander Soccer Scholars program.
Attendees will have the opportunity to improve their soccer abilities during a skills and drills demonstration led by Davies, pose for pictures with the Revolution Mascot Slyde, enjoy complimentary refreshments, win prizes, and nominate a deserving local student as a Santander Soccer Scholar. The free event will offer chances to win a VIP match day experience throughout the season and the first 20 people in attendance will receive tickets to an upcoming Revs game.
To nominate a child for the Santander Soccer Scholars program, parents are invited to submit up to 100 words highlighting their child’s finest academic accomplishments from the 2014-2015 school year by visiting http://www.revolutionsoccer.net/santander-soccer-scholars.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 3:30 – 5:00p.m.
Summer soccer celebration with New England Revolution star forward Charlie Davies in recognition of Santander Bank, N.A.’s Santander Soccer Scholars* program. Those who are attending the event, which is open to the public, will have the opportunity to meet and pose for pictures with Charlie Davies. They will also be able to improve their soccer techniques during a skills demo led by Davies, win prizes, enjoy complimentary refreshments, and enter a deserving local student they know to be a Soccer Scholar. The first 20 people in attendance will receive tickets to an upcoming Revs match.
Great visuals of local kids dribbling and juggling the ball as well as trying their hand at fancy footwork with soccer pro Charlie Davies in the Providence market.
The Santander Soccer Scholars program recognizes the academic achievements of New England students. For a chance to participate in the Santander Soccer Scholars program, parents are invited to submit up to 100 words highlighting their child’s finest academic accomplishments from the 2014-2015 school year at http://www.revolutionsoccer.net/santander-soccer-scholars now through October 1, 2015. Each winner, selected at random, will receive four tickets to a designated home match, one parking pass, and a photo opportunity with Charlie Davies. Depending on their ages, winning children will also have the chance to serve as an Official MLS Ball Kid, be the ball carrier or participate on the Revolution Dream Team, where they will walk onto the field with the Revolution starting lineup and stand with the players during the national anthem.
Santander Bank, N.A. is one of the largest retail banks in the United States by deposits. Its main corporate offices are in Boston and it operates principally in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Santander’s 9,703 employees serve its 1.8 million customers through the Bank’s 703 branches, 2,092 ATMs, call centers, website and mobile app. Supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Santander in the United States is a wholly-owned, financially autonomous subsidiary of Banco Santander (NYSE: SAN), a global commercial and retail bank. For more information about Santander, visit www.santanderbank.com or call 877-768-2265.
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Byron Bay lighthouse. Photo: Yortw via flickr.
News from the front desk Issue 419: Byron Bay on the NSW north coast is not just an iconic holiday destination but a highly green one. It’s also a bit of a “canary”. If Byron can’t make good planning and a healthy environment stick, with its lush history of hippies and deep greens, then it’s going to be a lot harder for anyone else.
So it was instructive and maybe slightly unnerving to call in there (briefly) to chat with some locals and find t not all is well in Paradise.
In so many ways Byron is a microcosm of the increasingly uncomfortable tension between maintaining or protecting great places and sharing them with others. So yes, to be brutal, a conflict, that as populations surge, geography starts to become a stronger definer of privilege and opportunity. Especially given the irresistible pulling power of centre of activity and talent.
At Byron Bay, the early hippies came in old cars and vans, camped in tents, unrestricted by rules or regulations, lived in old fibro shacks. Some moved into the hinterland, colonising old farmlands and sleepy villages. Others bought blocks of land at Wategos Beach, where the first subdivision in the 70s would have set you back $700.
Today one long term resident of the area sold a 56 acre slice of rural paradise and fabulous house outside of Byron for $6 million and swapped it for a modest one bedroom cottage on Wategos – for around the same money.
Others property stories are even more impressive: a fisherman’s shack sold for $16 million; Chris Hemsworth’s enormous celebrity pad nearing completion and stunning the locals with its scale.
The celebrity and billionaire pulling power of the town is legendary.
But lurking beneath the glamour and natural beauty are stories of the stifling by-products of success, left unchecked.
Former long term mayor of Byron Bay Jan Barham renowned for her feisty defence of the town’s inhabitants and its green agenda says Airbnb and its forebear homestays are a scourge, robbing the town of affordable accommodation and putting enormous pressure on services and development.
At its worst, after 9/11 and the Ansett pilots’ strike when no one wanted to go on a plane, some houses had 30 occupants for the summer, she says. Locals were pushed out through noise and rowdy teenage-style behaviour.
When Barham wanted to curtail the rampant holiday letting, one owner complained his business of renting 30 houses in the town would be badly affected.
Current deputy mayor Michael Lyon agrees housing is a serious issue and says a policy to limit Airbnb rentals to 180 a year would be hard to police.
The area is swamped with 2.2 million visitors a year for a population base of 30,000m, he says. It That’s a tourist density to resident ratiothat’s probably the highest in the world, he says and it puts enormous strain on infrastructure. The state government gets a big whack of GST provided by Byron’s tourists, but gives very little back to help the town manage the impact.
The infrastructure shortfall is about $100 million, he estimates.
Locals also complain that development controls have been eroded in recent years, mainly after Barham left in 2012 when she was in state Parliament and a Greens councillor Rose Wanchap, switched sides giving conservatives the balance of power.
Lyon says the current crop of councillors has done a good job of reversing the damage done and that the council is now almost entirely on the same “green” page.
“I’m proud of the current council because even though we’ve had our differences it’s become more collegiate; it’s a good team,” Lyon says.
He says a commercial development in town, the Mercado, on the site of the old Palace Cinema, produced a good result, with 5 star Green Star, high energy efficiency, and a development more modest than it might otherwise have been. And it’s kept out fast food chains such as McDonalds and KFC.
Another controversial development is West Byron on the entrance to the town from the freeway that could house up to 1000 dwellings after dual occupancy. Lyon says 2o0-300 dwellings are more appropriate.
The site wasd first owned by developer Terry Agnew who is understood to have first bought out Crighton Holdings and, according to a media report in 2017 is now in partnership with Gold Coast developer Villa World Ltd.
Another big issue is the conflict between the owners of expensive property on the ocean front facing rising sea levels and the council’s policy of planned retreat, which encourages development to move away from the shore rather than try to outbuild the tide – so to speak – with sea walls and raised houses.
One such recent battle was won on behalf of planned retreat and against three property owners at Byron’s Belongil Beach in the NSW Land and Environment Court in a 21 December decision by Justice Brian Preston.
Lyon says there will be “a number of battles” about planned retreat.”A problem, he says, is the pressure that well-heeled and well connected owners are placing on state government to allow them to protect their property.
He suspects it’s the reason council’s coastal zone management plan submitted under old legislation to the Department of Planning has not been ratified.
Barham is delighted with Justice Preston’s decision.
She’s read the judgment several times and says it’s a work of beauty. A sweet irony perhaps is that Preston represented Club Med years ago when it wanted to build a huge development at Byron, and lost.
When we called she was part way going through her archive of materials on local politics and activism stuffed into a double garage and which she’s recently dived into for a documentary on the area by Sharon Shostak.
The thing that people don’t understand, Barham says, is that between the 50s and the 70s there were around 30 cyclones that pummelled Byron Bay.
It’s the kind of thing that newer residents or property owners who don’t live there might easily not know.
During her term on the Byron Shire Council Barham did her best to make people aware of the environmental needs of the area they lived in. She had a long stint in council, starting in 1999 as councillor, ending in 2012 after she was elected to the NSW Legislative Council and when the state government brought in laws to prevent dual membership of state parliament and local councils.
Council did not allow development in areas considered at risk.
But decisions made under the previous council influence were now coming home to roost. She thinks the current mayor Simon Richardson is more inclined to mediate outcomes with developers.
At the same time “some of the country’s richest people” moved to the area and were not going to let the council tell them what to do, she says. This combined with the NSW Labor government’s Part 3A reforms that allowed the state government to override local government on big developments.
“The funny thing is that I just found some old late 80s and early 90s articles in local media about greenies who just want to take away the rights to your land and all this environmentalism will send everyone to the poorhouse.
“What we did by protecting those areas was to make this the most valuable real estate outside Australian capital cities.
These days a lot of people have been worn down, she says. But the recent rise of the hard right climate deniers in the US and Australia had shaken people awake. The students strike late last year is part of an awakening that has energised people.
But campaigning for the environment can come at a personal cost.
In state Parliament when Barham’s put forward a climate change bill she had to endure comments from then environment minister Mark Speakman, now Attorney General, that she wanted everyone to become a vegetarian.
It was nothing of the sort, “it was a governance bill that government must report and have climate change action plans across all agencies”.
Barham also faced death threats and a constant rumour mill, but the counter for that she says was to simply go out and mix more with community groups.
She’s a big fan of “slow democracy”. “More consultation, take more time, gather more evidence. I’ve always been very conscious to be science-based and was very grounded in really strong principles that on a personal level I was doing the right thing.
“I always felt the community had my back and this is where people get confused about what politics is: it’s never about you; you are representing the community and their children and their children’s children. It’s about the future.
It doesn’t mean you have to please all the people all the time, either.
“People can wear an outcome that goes against them if the process has been fair. I’ve had people who would accept if something they were personally attached to didn’t go their way but knew that for everything else we did it was always in the best interests of the community.
How does Barham reconcile the tension between the green agenda that protects the environment and people and a social equity agenda that could reasonably argue that the best places could be more equitably shared?
For instance, Philip Bull in this Spinifex contribution, says strong zoning tends to entrench social and economic privilege, attracting and enabling the most talented and well-heeled to prosper and excluding others.
Those tensions between the haves and the have-nots of a beautiful environment?
“There’s a tension because it’s a fact, Barham says.
“There is a carrying capacity. Look what’s happened with the fish kill [at Menindee]. Water is deprived from the ecosystem because there is a commercial priority given to the cotton farmers.
But at Byron strong protection of the environment means you can be offered $16 million for your property. But if you love the area it might be theoretical.
This is only half the site – there is a DA for the other half of W Byron for over 300 dwellings. Added to that are the inevitable dual occupancies and granny flats and it creeps up to close to 1000 dwellngs – equal to a 20% increase in Byron Bay’s housing stock and population. On a wetland area that will be drained into Belongil Creek that is part of Cape Byron Marine Park and which contains a koala habitat corridor and is home to 2 listed threatened frog species. Added to that it is on Ewingsdale rd, the main road into town which is so congested at peak hour and in holiday season it takes up to 30m to travel the 8 kms from the highway into town.
Thank-you Jan Barham for representing the locals during your stint as Mayor. What an amazing woman and leader.
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https://www.thefifthestate.com.au/columns/news-from-the-front-desk/on-byron-bays-slow-democracy-and-fast-money-a-summer-special/
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XT has gone 11-speed, and the new Shimano XT Cranksets are spinning on XTR/Dura-ace inspired bottom brackets. They have a smaller bearing size to enhance rolling efficiency and for shaving some weight. They are also better sealed to reject whatever muck mother earth conjures up and tries throw at them.
I replaced my drivetrain about a month ago and went from 3x9 to 1x11 and cannot be happier. This review will be identical for all the parts I used to do the conversion on my 2014 Diamondback Sortie 1 29er. I chose all the parts as a good compromise for what I believe to be high quality, long lasting, lightweight and low cost parts. So far I have not experienced any problems with my setup and would recommend each part individually and as a whole setup. I have tried many times to get the chain to jump when back pedaling on the granny gear, but cannot. Including tax, I was just under $400 total for everything. I would highly recommend each part I used in my swap. Below is a list of the parts I used in my swap.
Solid BB ridden xt for years. Tried XTR because it was on sale and did't notice a difference.
This was my first external bottom bracket so I wasn't sure what to expect. At first it felt a little cheap and plastic but I figured since it's XT it should be fine. Weighing in at 76g, that's a huge drop from the 312g on my old internal one. So far it's riding great. It came with a little adapter for your wrench since its smaller. I think I'm going to just buy the cup sockets though so I can torque them.
Wow! Juse 20 bucks for all this performance!
Easy installation and super performance. Perfect match for XT crankset.
This was an upgraded replacement for a bottom bracket that essentially seized after a couple of years of use. Diameter of this bottom bracket is smaller than other Shimano bottom brackets. But, this one comes with a plastic adapter that will work with your current BB tool. No need to buy another tool!
Used to replace a Shimano SM-BB51 along with the Foundation Shimano Style BB Wrench. That wrench fits the original SM-BB51 cups and the new MT800 bottom bracket comes with a plastic adapter to adapt the wrench to the smaller cups on this BB. The plastic adapter is a pain, but got the job done. Comes pre-greased.
It had been a few years since I last had Shimano drive train on my bikes. I had a new build and the price to weight ratio compared to SRAM was substantial. So I decided to try it out again. I was very surprised to see how much improvement from my old drive train there was. It is crisp, smooth and precise. Really happy with XT and will consider it for future builds and replacemenrs.
This BB is labeled "mountain" but with the included spacer, I installed on a 68/73 BB shell Trek road bike. I believe the BB accepts shaft diameters of 24mm not sure though because most BB don't include the measurements.
In my opinion, bottom bracket compatibility/sizing make BB the most frustrating item for me to purchase. I think it is the marketing aspect of not including the measurements but rather labeling BB the same name as the crankset the manufacture hopes to sell at the same time.
JensonUSA is the bike shop I frequent most because of the price, selection, shipping offers (usually 2 days with the package arriving before noon), and return policy.
Ive been riding bikes for 25 years. In my opinion, Shimano makes some of the best components available. The price is right and XT finds the sweet spot between affordability and function.
Shimano changes everything, but gives you an adapter.
Light weight, extremely smooth, and looks to be very well sealed.
Very pleased with this purchase and recommend the MT800 BB and Jenson USA highly. Quality of this part is top-notch, service and shipping were super-fast.
Jensen carries good quality products at good value. Multiple purchases have been made with no issues. Highly recommend. Also very knowledgeable staff if you ever need to talk tpo them.
This is a good BB for the price...not much else to say about that. Easy to install and fairly durable. But...even after you eventually roast the bearings, they aren't that expensive to replace.
Great bottom braket replacement for my Single Speed rebuild!
Great price for this Shimano XT M8000 bottom bracket. I couldn’t be happier with my new set up! Easily assembled and the compatibility with my Large Surely Karate Monkey was spot on! I was riding red rocks on the same day I assembled it!
Its a shimano bottom bracket, works well, its cheap, and its easy to install. enough said.
Excellent product. I replaced an older entry-level BB on one of my customers bikes. This new one was a fantastic price and spun very smoothly. I highly recommend it.
This article is amazing for the price. The quality is very very good and i am very happy with my purchase.
Along with an XT 8000 crank, this is maybe the best inexpensive BB ever.
Easy to replace if you remember to clean the threads in your frame. Looks great and smooth creak free pedaling.
Decided to replace my bottom bracket for this one as mine was beginning to creak. Pedaling feels a lot smoother now! Great product.
Received the correct item and installed with no issues. Have not put any time on the new build yet, but will update if I find any issues with the product.
New size with the plastic insert is kind of funny but it's exactly what you love and expect from a Shimano BB. Seals up great so it lasts a long time.
There isn't much to discuss only to say that this is one of those work horse parts that lasts forever and you never notice because it works so well. The icing on the cake is the price.
Great upgrade from my prior set up! Love not having the front derailleur to mess with. They were easy to set up (with the help of a friend!
Works well for the SLX M7000 Crankset and Jenson's has good prices on most everything!
Ótimo movimento central. Peça resistente e de bom acabamento.
It's an upgrade the the BB70 (old XT). Cups are smaller, so you have to use the provided plastic tool or buy a new BB tool. Otherwise, it's an upgrade.
Great value to finish off a XT build or just as a upgrade.
Replaced a 2y/o bottom bracket (also shimano) for the sake of replacing when changing drive trains. Took a little to get the threads seated, but otherwise went on like a charm.
Jenson's website does not show all the parts that come with this bottom bracket. Just so you don't have to spend time researching or calling customer service, I opened the box and it does indeed come with the special adapter tool plus 3 spacer rings. However, keep in mind that you will still need the traditional Shimano BB tool to attach this TL-FC25 to install the bottom bracket.
Xt is always a good value. Can't go wrong.
will this fit on my 2012 Stumpy?
BEST ANSWER: No, this is a threaded bottom bracket. Your frame accepts a PF30 pressfit bottom bracket. You will need a PF30 to Shimano adaptor to run these cranks.
Will this BB work on a 68mm shell with a 73mm spindle using the included spacers?
BEST ANSWER: Yep, it comes with three 2.5mm spacers. For a 68mm shell you'll put 2 spacers on the drive side and 1 on the non-drive side.
What bottom bracket tool do you need for this?
BEST ANSWER: The standard Shimano BB tool that was used with previous versions works. The diameter of this BB is smaller, but included with the BB is a sweet adapter. The adapter fits over the bb and the tool goes over the adapter. I actually like it better than using the tool by itself on the older (bigger diameter) bottom brackets. So short answer is if you already have a Shimano BB tool, you do not need anything else.
I bought a "SHIMANO TL-FC37 BOTTOM BRACKET TOOL FOR ULTEGRA SM-BBR60" tool that is steel and fits on a 1/2 drive socket wrench. It works great on the XT MT800 and is very well made.... I bought mine on eBay.
You need the original outboard bearing wrench that is used on normal size outboard bearing cups and then the new xt bottom bracket will have an adapter in the box.
You need the Park Tool BBT-59. The bottom bracket also comes with a plastic adapter to use the standard external bottom bracket tool.
The bb comes withe a plastic adapter which works with a Shimano TL-FC32 wrench.
I used the Park Tool 16-Notch Bottom Bracket Tool, 41mm version (BBT-59).
Standard Shimano tool. The BB comes with an adapter.
I used channel locks and a rag for scratch protection.
Hi, i have scalpel team . today its run with sram and BB30 pressfit. i want to change to shimano xt crank. do i need the xt mt800 or the pressfit version?
Can I replace a SM-BB51 bracket?
BEST ANSWER: Quick answer, yes. All the shimano threaded bottom brackets play well together. In my experience the shimano ones hold up way better then sram and are way less expensive then Chris king or the likes. You will need a bottom bracket wrench and a torque wrench to reinstall the crank arms and pay attention to the torque on the bottom bracket itself as it will have an impact on the drag on the bearings.
Or just pay a shop, but what fun is that. Good luck and keep riding!
Yep, I will pay a shop for sure.
Yes, this will replace that bottom bracket.
Will it work with SRAM X1-1400 GXP crankset?
BEST ANSWER: It should as long as that crankset has a 24mm diameter spindle and I believe it does.
No, gxp means that the spindle's NDS diameter is 22mm so a different bearing is necessary. If it's threaded you will have to buy SRAM or from someone like wheelsmfg.
That depends if you're frame is Press Fit or BSN Threaded. This is an English BSN Threaded BB. It accepts 24mm Shimano Spindle size.
Yes. GXP has a 24 mm spindle just like Shimano hollowtech-II cranksets which usually pair with this bottom bracket.
No, you will need a SRAM GXP bottom bracket.
Will the Shimano BB-MT800 fit into a frame which currently has SRAM GXP bottom bracket? I am looking to change both cranks and BB to Shimano.
BEST ANSWER: Yes this shimano XT BB-MT800 will fit the English threaded BB that the gxp was in .
As long as you have a euro threaded BB and check the shell width.
Will this work with Deore LX cranks?
BEST ANSWER: Hi would not buy anything from Jenson USA, purchased a lot of things & when it comes to guarantee, they just don't care... go & support your local shops, yeah you may be spending more, but you are keeping those little shops in business, I hope you make a wise move, good luck.
Hoping to replace square/tapered BB and crank set with Deore XT FC-M8000 hollowtech cranks. Is this the correct BB?
This is the BB you’ll want. You can also use the XTR BB.
Yes, this is the Shimano BB for those cranks.
Will this work on 2015 niner jet 9?
BEST ANSWER: I am relatively certain it will since you could opt for a XT build out when originally purchasing this bike.
Pretty sure it won't on its own. I believe your frame uses PF30 BB.
if the frame uses a threaded 68/73mm BB Shell.
will this fit an 73 mn shell?
BEST ANSWER: Yes, this will fit both 68 and 73 mm bottom brackets. The sleeve will press into a the cups at 73 mm. And will continue to press into a 68 mm as you turn the cups as you tighten your B.B.
Yes it will. You will not have to use the included spacers.
Can this bottom bracket fit a 2012 Santa Cruz Blur TRc? Santa Cruz website states that this bikes B.B. is a 73mm - Threaded - ISO, not sure if that’s compatible with this B.B. ?
This should be compatible with your frame, but you also need to be sure that you are matching your crank spindle to this BB. If you are running a Shimano MTB style crank, you should be good to go. If you need further assistance confirming compatibility, hit up our Gear Advisors at 888.880.3811.
It certainly will, I have one installed on my 2016 Santa Cruz 5010c which has the same 73mm bbq shell. Just be aware that you may not need to use the spacers supplied, check the included instructions.
Yes, it should work for threaded BB with width 68-73 mm. As long as it is not an Italian thred (reverse direction), which most likely happens to be found only on Italian frames.
I have a 2012 specialized camber. Is this the bottom bracket I need?
If your camber is an elite or comp build then yes use the shimano mt800 bottom bracket 73mm threaded. If you have a pro or expert build you will need a PF30 73x46mm bottom bracket.
No, your bike uses a press fit bottom bracket, this is a threaded bracket. you'll need a press fit bottom bracket like the attached.
Will this work well with a RF Aeffect Cinch crankset (24mm)?
BEST ANSWER: Yes, this BB-MT800 is for cranksets with 24mm spindle, so it'll work with the Race Face Cinch.
will this fit 2017 jet 9 rdo?
BEST ANSWER: I used this on a Non boost Norco THREADED bottom bracket. So I do not know about boost if you have that. I really like it and it solved my creaking.
I have it on my 2016 RIP 9 RDO so I'd say yes, I don't see them using different bottom brackets on product lines.
I have a 2017 transition patrol the website says 73mm BSA Threaded and has a gpx in there will this fit my bike?
BEST ANSWER: It will definitely fit the frame thread and width. You may or may not need 1 of the spacers depending on the chain line you end up with.
Yes, this fits 68 or 73mm shell width and english (BSA) threads.
will this work with an older pair of XT cranks? roughly 2024 models?
Will this fit a 2018 kona honzo al?
BEST ANSWER: It depends. Some frames for that model take the pf92 and others take the gxp 73. If your frame uses the gxp then I believe it will fit. But it may not interface properly with your cranks. Best bet is to look up your bike on the kona website and see what they say.
No, it is a pressfit frame and will not accept a threaded bb.
Does this fit Santa Cruz Bronson v1 (2015)?
replacing SMBB70 100mm for Motobacane Fat Tire Bike. Will this work?
BEST ANSWER: Thanks. Turns out I have sram crankset S-1400 so I think I need a GXP one.
Can this be used on a 83mm bottom bracket shell if the internal sleeve is removed?
BEST ANSWER: Certainly it could, although I would just go for a Saint bb or use a 83mm sleeve with the new bb if you have one. Helps to keep water out of your bottom bracket which leads to longer bearing life.
Hi!, please could you confirm if this crankset works with SHIMANO XT BB-MT800 BOTTOM BRACKET 73mm? thank you!
BEST ANSWER: Purchased 2 sets of bb and crank for a specialized enduro and an intense tracer. flawless excellent performance. highly recommend .
Thank you, I just received my set in the mail, thrilled to hear they work well together as a set.
Will this fit a 2009 giant?
BEST ANSWER: If your frame has a BSA (english)threaded bottom bracket shell then this will thread right in. Does frame have threads?
If your frame is press fit(no threads) you would need some adapters to make these work.
As long as it has a threaded BB then yes (as long as you don't have a downhill or freeride bike with the wider 83mm BB).
Will this fit my 2010 Specialized Enduro?
BEST ANSWER: I don't think it will fit. I couldn't find much specs for this bike model, but all I found refers to custom BB and PF30 variants on some models so this threaded BB won't fit. Check the BB shell on your bike, if you don't see threads in it (smooth finish) surely this BB doesn't fit your bike. Have a nice luck!
Mostly likely, but use a measure or calipers to determine bottom bracket shell width, and then check the product details to make sure which if any spacers to use. Also, this is an English thread which should be right unless you have some version of press fit.
Will this fit my Scott Aspect 950?
BEST ANSWER: Looks like the 950 uses a Shimano BB-UN-100, which, appears to be at least 68mm. So, this should fit just fine. However, the BB on your Scott is for tapered cranks. You won't be able to use the existing crank arms and would need to use SLX/XT/XTR crank arms. If you're already aware of that then disregard! Good luck!
BEST ANSWER: You will need to confirm that you have a 24mm spindle. If so, then yes, you can use the Shimano BB on Race Face cranks.
will this fit a 24mm spindle?
BEST ANSWER: Yes... Good luck. just make sure you use the spacers correctly. Also your 2017 JET 9 RDO states its a 73mm "threaded" BB.
Do I need specifically sized hollowtech cranksfor this bottom bracket?
BEST ANSWER: This is a standard size for Shimano crankset. All current Shimano spindles should fit.
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https://www.jensonusa.com/Shimano-XT-BB-MT800-Bottom-Bracket
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establishes its true relationship with the theory of the earth, is to know in which strata we find each species, and whether there are any universal laws relative to the zoological subdivisions or to the greater or lesser similarity between those species and today's. The recognized laws in this respect are excellent and very clear.
First, it is certain that the oviparous quadrupeds appear much earlier than the viviparous quadrupeds [those which give birth to live offspring], that they are even more abundant, stronger, and more varied in the ancient strata than on the present surface of the earth.
The ichthyosaurs, the plesiosaurus, several turtles, and several crocodiles are under the chalk in the lands commonly called the Jura. The monitors [a species of lizard] of Thuringia would be even older, if, as the Werner school maintains, the copper schists which contain them in the middle of so many varieties of fish believed to be fresh water creatures are among the most ancient beds of the secondary formation. The immense saurians [species of reptile] and the huge turtles of Maestricht are in the chalk formation itself. But these are marine animals.
This first appearance of bony fossils seems therefore already to announce that there existed dry lands and fresh waters before the formation of the chalk. But neither at this period nor during the time when the chalk was formed, nor even long after that, is there any encrustation of fossilized bones of terrestrial mammals or at least the small number of them which people claim forms only an almost inconsequential exception.
We begin to find the bones of marine mammals, that is to say, of lamantins [manatees] and seals, in the rough limestone with shells which covers the chalk in our regions. At that level, however, there is still no bone of a terrestrial mammal.
In spite of the most through research, I have not be able to discover any distinct trace of this class of animals [terrestrial mammals] before the formations deposited on top of the rough limestone. To be sure, some lignites and molasse [soft greenish sandstone] contain them, but I doubt very much whether these formations are all, as is believed, earlier than this limestone. The places where they have furnished bones are too limited, too few in number, so that one is obliged to assume some irregularity or some change in their formation. By contrast, as soon as we reach the formations above the rough limestone, the bones of land animals show up in large numbers.
Thus, since it is reasonable to believe that the shell fish and fish did not exist at the time when the primordial formations were established, we must also believe that the oviparous quadrupeds began at the same time as the fish, as early as the first ages which produced the secondary formations, but that the terrestrial quadrupeds did not come, at least in considerable numbers, until a long time later, when the rough limestones which contain most of our species of shell creatures, although in species different from ours, had already been laid down.
We should note that these rough limestones, the ones which supply Paris with construction materials, are the last layers which indicate a long and tranquil period of the sea above our continents. After them we certainly find again formations full of shells and other products of the sea, but these are loose formations, sands, marls, sandstones, clays, which reveal a more or less disturbed means of transport rather than a calm precipitation. If there are there some small regular rocky layers below or above these transported formations, they generally show indications of having been deposited in fresh water.
Thus, almost all the known bones of viviparous quadrupeds are either in formations made from fresh water or in these formations of transported material. Consequently there is every reason to believe that these quadrupeds began to live or at least to leave their remains in the layers which we can excavate only since the penultimate retreat of the sea, during the conditions which preceded its last irruption.
But there is also an order in the disposition of these bones among themselves, and this order reveals once more a very remarkable succession among the species. In the deposits we are quite sure of, at first all the genera unknown today, the palaeotheriums, the anoplotheriums, and so on, belong in the most ancient of formations of those under consideration here, those which rest immediately on top of the rough limestone. These are principally the ones which fill the regular layers deposited by fresh waters or the beds of transported material, formed a very long time ago, composed in general of sands and round pebbles. These were perhaps the first alluvial deposits of this ancient world. We also find with them some lost species of known genera, but in small numbers, and some oviparous quadrupeds and fish, all apparently fresh water creatures. The beds which contain them are always covered to a greater or lesser extent by layers of transported material filled with shells and other marine products.
The fossil mastodons, the most famous of these unknown species which belong to known genera or to genera very closely related to those that we do know about, like the elephants, rhinoceroses, and hippopotamuses, are not found with these older genera. We find them only in the formations of transported material, sometimes with sea shells, sometimes with shells from fresh water, but never in the regular rocky layers. Everything found with these species is either unknown, like them, or at least doubtful.
Finally, the bones of species which appear the same as ours are buried only in the last alluvial deposits formed on the edges of rivers or on the bottoms of ancient ponds or dried up swamps, or in the depths of peat layers, or in the cracks and caverns of some escarpments, or finally a little distance below ground in those places where they could have been buried by rock slides or by human beings. Their shallow position has also made these bones, the most recent of all, almost always the least well preserved.
classification of the species nor that it displays a similarly demonstrable character. There are numerous reasons why this is not the case.
Firstly, all my determinations of species were made on the bones themselves or on good diagrams. However, I have not often myself observed all the places where these bones were discovered. Very frequently I was obliged to rely on vague or ambiguous details, provided by people who did not clearly realize themselves what it was necessary to observe. Even more frequently I have not found any of that information at all.
Secondly, in this matter it is possible to have infinitely more ambiguity than with the bones themselves. The same ground can appear recent in those places where it is shallow and old in those places where it is covered by the layers which have succeeded it. Some ancient formations could have been transported by partial floods and have covered recent bones. They could have collapsed on them, buried them, and mixed them up with old marine material which they had previously hidden. Some ancient bones could have been washed away by water and later caught again in recent alluvial deposits. Finally, some recent bones could have fallen in fissures or caverns in ancient rocks and there have been enveloped by stalactites or other encrustations. It would be necessary in each case to analyze and take into account all of these circumstances, which could hide the true origin of the fossils. And rarely have the people who collected these bones suspected this need. Thus, the result has been that the true features of their deposit have almost always been neglected or unappreciated.
Thirdly, there are some doubtful species which have affected to a greater or lesser extent the reliability of results for such a long time that we will not reach clear distinctions concerning them. Thus the horses and buffalo, which are found with the elephants, do not yet have any specific and particular characteristics. And for many years to come geologists unwilling to adopt my chronological sequence for the bony fossils will be able to derive from these doubtful species an argument, and do so all the more conveniently because they will take it from my book.
But while admitting that these time lines are susceptible to some objections from people who will consider some particular case casually, I am no less persuaded that those who take into account the totality of the phenomena will be stopped by these small partial difficulties. They will recognize with me that there has been at least one and very probably two stages in the class of quadrupeds before the one which today lives on the earth's land surface.
Here I expect one more objection; indeed, people have already made it to me.
changes, carried to this extreme difference by the long succession of years?
changes in the structure of forms in organic bodies and who think that through habit over centuries all species could change themselves from one species into another or result from a single one of their species.
However, we can reply to them following their own logic that if the species have changed by degrees, we ought to have found traces of these gradual modifications, that we ought to have discovered certain intermediate structures between the palaeotherium and today's species and that up to the present time this has not happened at all. Why have the depths of the earth not preserved monuments of such a curious genealogy, unless it is because the earlier species were as unchanging as our own, or at least because the catastrophe which destroyed them did not leave them time to develop their variations?
As for the naturalists who recognize that the varieties keep within certain limits fixed by nature, in order to respond to them, we must examine just how far these limits extend, a curious study, extremely interesting in itself in all its ramifications, a subject which, however, people have concerned themselves with very little up to now.
understanding that the word species means the individuals who descend from one another or from common parents and those who resemble them as much as they resemble each other. Thus, we call varieties of a species only those races more or less different which can arise from it by reproduction. Our observations on the differences among the ancestors and the descendants are therefore for us the only reasonable rule, because all others would take us back to hypotheses without proofs.
Thus the most superficial characteristics are the most variable. Colour is closely related to sunlight; the thickness of the hair to heat; size to the abundance of nourishment. But in a wild animal even these varieties are strongly limited by what is natural for this animal, which does not willingly stray from the places where it conveniently finds everything necessary to maintain the species and which spreads out to a distant place only when it finds there the same combination of these conditions. Thus, although the wolf and the fox live from the torrid zone right up to the glacial zone, they hardly give evidence, in this immense space, of another variety except for a little more or a less beauty in their fur. I have compared the fox skulls from the north and from Egypt with those from France, and I have found only individual differences. Those wild animals who are hemmed in by more limited spaces vary much less again, above all the carnivores. A more abundant mane is the only difference between the Persian and the Moroccan hyenas.
The herbivorous wild animals demonstrate a little more significantly the influence of the climate, because it is linked to the influence of food, which is going to differ in amount and quality. Thus, elephants will be larger in one forest than in another. They will have slightly longer tusks in the places where their food is better for the formation of the ivory material. It will be the same for reindeer and stags in relation to their forests. But let someone take two elephants, as different as can be, and let him see if there is the least difference in the number or the articulations of the bones, in the structure of their teeth, and so on. Moreover, the herbivorous species in the wild appear less widely dispersed than the carnivores, because the type of food and the temperature restrict them.
Nature takes care also to prevent the alteration of species which could result from interbreeding, by the mutual aversion which she has created in them. It takes every trick, all the power of man to bring about a union, even with species which resemble each other the most. And when the offspring are fertile, something which happens very rarely, their fertility does not go on beyond a few generations and would probably not take place without the continuation of the care which aroused it. We do not see in our woods individuals intermediate between the hare and the rabbit, between the red deer and the fallow deer, between the marten and the stone marten.
But the empire of man alters this order. It develops all the variations to which the type of each species is susceptible and derives from them products which the species, left to themselves, would never have produced. Here the degree of variations is still proportional to the intensity of their cause, which is slavery.
The degree of variation is not very high in the semi-domesticated species, like the cat. Softer hair, more vibrant colours, a stronger or weaker build, that is all that this shows. But there is no constant difference between the skeleton of an Angora cat and the skeleton of a feral cat.
In the domestic herbivores, which we transport to all sorts of climates and subject to all sorts of diets, to which we apportion different forms of work and food, we do obtain larger variations, but still entirely superficial. Some variation in size, longer or shorter horns, sometimes missing entirely, a stronger or weaker hump of fat on the shoulders--these constitute the differences among bulls. And these differences remain for a long time, even in races transported out of the country where they were formed, when one takes care to prevent crossbreeding. The innumerable varieties of sheep are like this as well, whose differences are a matter chiefly of the wool, because that is what man has given the most attention to. The varieties are a little fewer in the horse, although they are still very noticeable. In general, the forms of the bones vary little; their connections, articulations, and the structure of the large molar teeth never vary. The little development in the tusks of the domestic pig and the fusion of its cloven hooves in a few of its types are the extreme of the differences which we have produced in the domestic herbivores.
species some families with six digits.
But in all these variations, the relationships of the bones remain the same, and the structure of the teeth never changes to an appreciable degree. At the very most there are some individuals in which an additional false molar develops, whether on one side or on the other (77). There are thus characteristics in the animals which resist all influences, whether natural or human, and nothing indicates that the passage of time has, so far as they are concerned, more effect than the climate and domestication.
I know that some naturalists rely a great deal on the thousands of centuries which they add up with the stroke of a pen. But in such matters we can hardly judge what a lengthy time would produce, except by multiplying mentally what a lesser time produces. I have therefore sought to collect the oldest documents on the structures of animals. There are none at all still extant as old or as abundant as those Egypt has provided us. That country offers us, not only the pictures, but the very bodies of the animals embalmed in its catacombs.
In ancient Rome I have examined with the greatest care the pictures of animals and birds engraved on the numerous obelisques which have come from Egypt. In their overall shapes, the only thing which could have concerned the artists, all these figures bear a perfect resemblance to the species as we see them today.
My knowledgeable colleague, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, impressed with the importance of this research, has taken care to collect in the tombs and temples of Higher and Lower Egypt as many animal mummies as he could. He brought back embalmed cats, ibises, birds of prey, dogs, monkeys, crocodiles, and the head of a bull. We certainly do not observe more differences between these creatures and those which we see today than between human mummies and today's human skeletons. We could find differences between the mummies of the ibis and the ibis as naturalists have described it right up to the present time. However, I have resolved all doubts in a report on this bird, a document which is found in a supplement to this discourse, where I have shown that the ibis is now still as it was at the time of the pharaohs. I am very aware that I refer there only to individual specimens two or three thousand years old. But it is always a matter of going back as far one can.
Thus, in the known facts, there is nothing which can in the least support the public opinion that the new genera which I have discovered or established among the fossils, any more than those which other naturalists have established, the palaeotheriums, anoplotheriums, megalonyx, mastodons, pterodactyls, ichtyosaurus, and so on, could have been the ancestors of some animals today, those differentiated from them only by the influence of time or climate. And even if it were true (something I am still far from believing) that elephants, rhinoceroses, elks, and fossil bears do not differ from present animals more than dogs differ among themselves, we would not be able to conclude from that the identity of species, because the dogs types have been subjected to the influence of domesticity which the other animals have neither been subjected to nor could endure.
Moreover, when I maintain that the rock strata contain the bones of several genera and the loose strata contain the fossil bones of several species which no longer exist, I do not claim that a new creation must have produced those species existing today. I say only that they did not exist in the places where we see them at present and that they must have come there from somewhere else.
Let us suppose, for example, that a huge irruption of the sea covers the continent of New Holland with a mountain of sand or other debris. The sea will bury there the bodies of kangaroos, phascolomes [wombats], dasyures [small carnivorous marsupials], perameles [bandicoots], flying phalangers [species of Australian marsupial], echidna [species ant eater] and ornithorhynchus [duck-billed platypus], and will destroy entirely the species of all these genera, because none of them exists now in other countries.
Suppose this same revolution changes into dry land the numerous small straits which separate New Holland from the continent of Asia. It will open the way for elephants, rhinoceroses, buffaloes, horses, camels, tigers, and all the other Asian quadrupeds. These will come to populate the land where they have been previously unknown.
Suppose then that a naturalist, having diligently studied all this living nature, decides to search through the soil on which it dwells. He will find there the remains of totally different creatures.
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Extremely easy to use. Very good selection of items. So much easier then getting off the plane and driving to the store upon arrival.
Quick and easy to use for non-Spanish speaking Americans that own/vacation in Cabo!
Always excellent selection, decent prices, reliable and quick delivery and the best part....I dont have to go shopping!
The web site is getting better every year! Thank you for your prompt delivery!
Thank you for such timely responses, very helpful!
Super user friendly!!! Fairly priced items and delivery fee. We're looking forward to using this service in the future!!!
Very easy to use and we were surprised at the diversity of products able to be purchased.
SO excited that you are carrying the Retin-A products now and at such a great price! Thank you!
I have used Prickly Pear since 2015, it is such a great start to your vacation! Every year they are prompt on their arrival - it makes the first day truly the start of your vacation instead of worrying about grocery shopping after check in.
There's more and more to pick from and it's getting easier to use every time!
This site was much easier and more user friendly then the last service we used.
Super easy process and completely reasonable prices. Great to not have to go to the store on our own!
Great delivery service! Very pleased with their service, have been using them for years. Beats taking a cab to Walmart!
Have been using Prickly Pear for several years and always get great products and service.
Really couldn't have been easier!
Easy to Navigate through the website, easy to sign up, Easy to pick your groceries and confirm that is what you want. All in all a very easy choice for having groceries delivered when you arrive at your destination. Thanks, Prickly Pear.
Excellent service - great company! I always use them when I come to Cabo!
Always love doing business with you guys. Makes my trip so easy and pleasurable not to have to spend vacation food shopping.
I have used this company in the past and they are fantastic! The website is very easy to use and if there is something you want that isn't on the list, they do their best to find it. They are on time and take extra care with your delivery. I highly recommend them for any food, drink or alcohol!
Everything was ordered with ease; any items that were not available, we just added them to the comment section at check out. I would highly recommend this service so you can start your vacation as soon as you check in.
Great and easy shopping experience.
This is the company to use for your Cabo delivery, very pleased with the communication and professional service. My second time using Prickly Pear Cabo Delivery. Thanks again for the great service!!!
The only way to go on vacation. Food is there when you get there. no running around looking for the groceries one less thing to worry about.
LOVE your service!!! Would not shop myself again! I love that you can "refresh" your past orders! You guys are great!!!
Thank you very much. Your website is very easy to use.
Did a great job, sent confirmation of our order ahead of time (other places don't do this). Our order was a bit delayed so they gave us a few freebies to make up. We were able to text them a few last minute items and they accommodated us. Very pleased & would use them again! So nice to have food in our room when we arrived tired & hungry!
Easy to navigate and well organized. Found everything we were looking for and more!
The website is great. I have passed the information on to the 24 guests that are traveling with me to place various orders for our stay. GREAT RESOURCE and I am looking forward to your company helping complete my vacation experience!!!!
What a fantastic service! Thank you!
Looking forward to our trip. Thank you for providing this valuable service.
Site was easy to navigate and had everything we needed!
The new website is very easy to use. We made orders last year and now we will ALWAYS order to stock the condo! It is so much easier than taking a half of a day to go shopping ourselves. Prices are reasonable and delivery charge is less than Instacart back home. I love this service!
Nice selection of products, website is very well organized!
Yes, your website is much easier to use than other delivery services in Cabo - great job!!!
Thank you for listing your website and the products in English! :-) Looking forward to enjoying Cabo and not having to spend time grocery shopping and paying for a taxi.
Traveling from Missouri and entertaining friends... donâ??t want to go to store as we want to enjoy every minute of our Cabo time! P.P. has always exceeded our expectations and makes grocery shopping so easy! Very trustworthy!
Super easy site to order from and look forward to my delivery next week!
Everything was well laid out and easy to navigate. Looking forward to our first delivery so we can leave positive feedback.
So far I really like the idea of not having to go to the store after I travel. It was so easy to shop on line.
The layout for the website seems more user friendly than others. The process is very simple. I used this service last year and had my order within 3 to 4 hours.
Ordering our groceries and liquor through Prickly Pear made planning for our trip to Cabo a breeze! The website was super easy to use and they have any and everything you could possibly need. We are looking forward to using them again in the future!
Great website. Able to order quickly and easily and SO much nicer than having to rush to the store upon arrival. Looking forward to our delivery.
I heard about this company and was very excited that I didnâ??t have to go shopping! Prices are very reasonable with great options!
The best website ever!!! So easy to use.
Love this! We love all inclusives but they donâ??t have a couple of brands we really like. This makes our vacation perfect!
Very efficient and easy to use - great idea for vacationers !!!
This site was so easy to use and I am so excited to use these services. I contacted the company a few weeks ago with a few questions and they responded right away. As long as we receive our groceries when we get to Cabo i will 100% use them again!
Good selection of all items. Shopping aisle made the entire ordering process easy to use.
I've used your service for the past 5 visits to Cabo. Having your delivery people bring it directly to the room especially with the beer being cold is a real advantage. I recommend you to everybody going to Cabo.
Convenient way to start a family reunion having snacks and goodies waiting for you upon your late afternoon arrival!
I found it very helpful that I could save my cart items and return at a later time to purchase.
Your website was so easy to work through! The service you provide makes the start of our vacation a relaxing one....thank you!!!
Thank you so much! We definitely did not want to waste time grocery shopping. I love this service.
Wouldn't come to Cabo without your help!
Have used Prickly Pear in the past and highly recommend the service. Wish they had a branch in our home town!
great service and always use them!
Thanks Michelle! ð??? I appreciate your effort to find products meeting special needs at reasonable prices. Thatâ??s why Iâ??m a repeat customer since 2014.
Love love love your service and tell everyone about you! It's so great to NOT have to go grocery shopping, and be able to relax sooner!
Never stop at Walmart again! This is a great service!!
Nice selection of groceries, very easy to navigate.
Smooth transaction - we are repeat Prickly Pear customers and we appreciate the excellent customer service!!
We have been using Prickly Pear for years and will continue to do so. The service is amazing!
I have used your company for many years and have been very pleased with the selection of food and on time delivery.
What a great service! Super user friendly.
Great service and very polite to work with. I highly recommend their services!
Prickly Pear is awesome. 5th time using their service and they get it right every time! Thanks!
We have used your service for years. All of the groceries always arrive in a timely manner. We really appreciate the great job you do.
Your website is user friendly. The shopping categories helped to locate what we needed.We have used your delivery service three times in the past and will continue to do so.
Very easy to use! Loved the way things were sorted and how on point the search feature was.
Perfect way to start a vacation with groceries delivered. Service was excellent last time I used it.
Website is great! Much better than the older site, where I had difficulty navigating. This one is very easy to use. We love Prickly Pear. Who wants to spend a whole day of their vacation shopping? Not me!! I'd rather be at the pool.
Ease of use was amazing! I am so happy to be able to get to our condo and have the groceries delivered for the 2 weeks. If I run out of anything, I will be sure to call and have them bring more! Couldn't be happier!
Excellent website. Very user friendly.
Your service has worked well for us and makes the first days more relaxing. Thanks.
Great idea. Can't wait for the delivery to our room. Thank you.
Great to have this service available! It is nice to know that our groceries will be delivered to the resort and we don't need to schedule time to take a taxi and go shopping.
I like your new web site. Very easy to use!
Love the service and the new website!!!
Love Prickly Pear Cabo - awesome service!!
Love this service. We use Prickly Pear every year!
Love this grocery delivery service!! We have used Prickly Pear for years and have always been very satisfied. Love the pre-stock service!
Great service and quality products. We have used this service the last 4 years we have been to Cabo and have always had great service. Nice to not have to waste part of our vacation grocery shopping!
You always work with us and all of our friends! Thank you!
Your website is much better than it used to be. We love ordering from you and appreciate how you go out of your way to always find us whatever we need.
Awesome to be able to go off last years order!!!
We do not have great needs but appreciate the convenience of having a few things delivered. We have been using Prickly Pear and it's predecessor "Where in Cabos" for a number of years. Great service. Easy to use.
Have used Prickly Pear for several years . Excellent service- Highly recommend to Cabo travelers.
We looked at a few different services and you had the best website by far! So easy to use and when I had a question, someone responded to my email within minutes!
I received a few referrals but this site was by far the easiest to navigate. Plus had everything I needed.
Prickly Pear has always gone above and beyond for food delivery!!! Awesome to work with!!!!!
Thank you Sylvia, easy to order from your website.
This service is exceptional. It saves us so much time not having to go into Cabo San Lucas and navigating the crowded Walmart.
Customer service is great, service is SUPER easy and convenient!
One of the easiest websites I have ever used!!!
I have been using you guys for a long time now. I almost opted to stop at the store on the way in as my friend is picking me up but Im simply too lazy and you guys are so convenient! Always recommend you on Trip advisor! See ya soon!
You continue to provide the best kind of service to all of us that love Cabo and come back year after year! Thank you.
Fantastic site!!...and had Costco brands which is big plus for our clan!!
Love you & your service! Makes coming to Cabo a breeze upon arrival!
The new website is wonderful! I love all the additional selections and the ease of use on the website.
You make our vacation so much easier. I loved the fun of grocery shopping in Cabo however you have spoiled us and we really prefer the ability to start our vacation as soon as our feet hit the ground! Your selection is great, delivery has always been on time, and we appreciate the fact that you keep an eye on arrival times. Thank you Prickly Pear!
This is a WONDERFUL service! Thank you!!
So easy to use and great food options.
Thank you for your efforts to please. The emails were very helpful.
Last time we used your service it was excellent!
Michelle, you answered all my questions quickly. Looking forward to our travel to Cabo. We've traveled here many times, but this is the first time we've used your great service.
Has great reviews on Tripadvisor, looking forward to arriving and not having to run to the store.
I received a very quick response to my email and found them to be very accommodating to my request.
This is a wonderful service. We are so grateful they survived the hurricane last year and did so much to help the Cabo community recover. Thank you!
Love the convenience of Prickly Pear and have always been pleased with the reliable service - deliveries have always been on time and complete -no hassles with shopping for groceries - what a great way to start your vacation!
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1994-2009 Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R EX500 Rear Brake Pads - Fitment 1994-2009 kawasaki ninja 500 ex500 solid rotor. Fitment 1994-2009 kawasaki ninja 500 ex500 solid rotor. Decent low cost replacement black led turn signals integrated mirrors (left & right sides)glass mirror measures 3 1/3″ x 5 1/2″, stem length 4″. Fitmentas the writen,please make sure fits your motor before place an order. These mirrors are not custom made for any bikes, no instruction included please check mounting measurement and position to ensure they will fit your bike.
Kawasaki Ninja 500-1000cc Motorcycle Covers W/lock & Cable - Constructed of water repellant yet breatheble “weatherguard” polyester. Our best selling model, we have sold tens of thousands of these around the globe and they really get the job done. The perfect travel cover whether you want to cover your bike at work or a cross country trip. Reinforced poly grommets are at center and at front wheel area for security and a snug fit and will accept a cable lock. A chamois panel is stitched in where cover would touch windscreen and fuel tank areas to prevent scratches. Lower panel is heat resistant “thermoguard”. Clamshell vents prevent condensation and lofting. A high quality, midweight and highly water resistant cover. We are riders too and beleive this is the best lightweight cover on the market 2 year warranty. This cover folds small and light yet gives big time protection against the elements. Double top stitched for durability.
1987-2009 Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R EX500 Heavy Duty Chain – Orange - Mirror material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break). Comes with mounting bolts/nuts for easy installation. High quality 6061 billet aluminum flaming wedge style mirror heads and flame stems (left & right sides). Fitment kawasaki ninja ex500 500r 1987-2009. Measurement ,width, from the mounting bolt to the outer tip of the mirror face is 85″ ,height, 55″ ,mirror face, 5″ x 2″ ,material 6061 billet aluminum ,color the same like pictures show,condition 100% brand new ,quantity 1 pair ,installation note peel off the protective skin on the acrylic glass before use.
i5 New Front Brake Lever for Kawasaki Ninja 500 600 ZX6 ZX7 ZX9 ZX11 ZRX 1100 - High quality aluminum with black finish. Brand new front brake lever. To fit kawasaki ninja 500 1992-2009, zx600d/zx600e/zx6/zzr600 1990-2004, zx6r 1998-1999, zx750/zx7/zx7r 1989-2003, zx9/zx9r 1994-1999, concours 1992-2006, zrx1100 1999-2000, zx11 1990-2001.
i5 Black Front Brake & Clutch Levers for Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R 650 ZX6 ZX6R ZZR600 ZX9 ZX9R - High quality aluminum levers with black finish. To fit kawasaki ninja 500 1992-2009, zx6/zx600d 1990-1993, zx6/zx600e 1994-2002, zzr600 2003-2004, zx6r 1995-1999, ninja 650 2006-2008, zx9r 1998-1999. During checkout your quantity will show as 1, this represents one pair. Brand new front brake and clutch levers.
100/90-16 (54H) Bridgestone Battlax BT45 H-Rated Front Motorcycle Tire for Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500 1987-1993 - Dual tread compound (dtc) motorcycle tire offering long lasting center compound and softer side compound. Larger crown radius for greater stability and longer motorcycle tire life. Bridgestone battlax bt45 h-rated bias ply motorcycle tire, designed to give performance and mileage on today’s sport-touring bikes. Bridgestone battlax bt45 v-rated bias ply motorcycle tire, designed to give performance and mileage on sport bikes.
Fuel Tank Switch Valve Petcock for Kawasaki Ninja 500 Ex500 500r New - Center to center mounting hole 34mm. Kawasaki ninja500 fuel switch valve. Kawasaki ninja500 petcock. Package including 1 petcock switch + 2 filter screen + 2 ring seal.
Starter Relay Solenoid Switch Magnetic For KAWASAKI NINJA 500 EX500D EX 500 D 1994-2000 /B - 1997 kawasaki street bike ninja 500 ex500d sportbike. 1996 kawasaki street bike ninja 500 ex500d sportbike. 1994 kawasaki street bike ninja 500 ex500d sportbike. 2000 kawasaki street bike ninja 500r ex500d sportbike. Replacement solenoid relay for honda oem 27010-1213. Aftermarket starter solenoids relay for. 1998 kawasaki street bike ninja 500r ex500d sportbike. 1999 kawasaki street bike ninja 500r ex500d sportbike. 1995 kawasaki street bike ninja 500 ex500d sportbike.
2 PCS Short Stalk mini LED Turn Signals Lights Blinkers for 1989 Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500A - Amber led quantity12sizeplease see picture. Need connect your flasher. Material metal plastic. Input12v power1w. Easy install. Led shrot stalk turn signals lights blinkers indicators for 1989 kawasaki ninja 500 ex500a. 100% brand new.
FXCNC Racing Motorcycle CNC 3 Holes Gas Fuel Tank Oil Cap Cover Fit For KAWASAKI NINJA 500 ZX-6 / ZX-6E ZRX-1100 ZRX-1200 ZXR-400 NINJA 250R / 250 / EX250 - Fitment kawasaki ninja 250r/250/ex250 88-07,zxr-250/zx-7/zx-7rr all years(production description have more model and years),please check if this product match your motorcycle before buying. Easy installation multi-purpose compatibility sealed and durable. 100% cnc aluminum 6061, t9 and silver anodization. Outer disk is made of alloy,shiny black,durable and sturdyinside disk made by abs,heat resistance,stable,excellent impact resistance. Rubber gasket design, effectively prevent the gasoline to play.
1987-1993 Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500 Speedometer Cable - Fitment 1987-1993 kawasaki ninja 500 ex500. Match oem exactly for a perfect fit. Keep your motorcycle working smoothly with a new cable. High quality cable meets or exceeds oem specifications. Volar motorsport cable.
Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZX6/ZX600D ZX600E ZX6R ZX9 ZX9R ZZR600 Brake & Clutch LEVERS - Oem replacement. High tensile strength aluminum construction. Easy to install,grease the pivot-bolt when installing levers,do not over-tighten the pivot-bolt. Package content1 pair ( barke & clutch levers ). Colorcarbon look.
Chrome motorcycle mirrors with Fire Flame Bar Fit Honda CBR600 600RR 900RR 929RR 954RR 1000RR RC51 Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZZR600 ZX6R/636/ZX6RR ZX750/ZX7/ZX7R ZX9/ZX9R by SMT - Fit suzuki katana 600 1998-2007, gsxr600 1992-2005, katana 750 1998-2007, gsxr750 1991-2005, gsxr1000 2001-2004, gsxr1100 1993-1998, hayabusa 1999-2012. 5cm quanity1 pair(2 pcs ) fitment fit honda cbr600 f1/f2/f3 1987-1998, cbr600 f4/f4i 1999-2006, 600rr 2003-2012, 900rr 1998-1999, 929rr 2000-2001, 954rr 2002-2003, 1000rr 2004-2012, rc51 2000-2006. Fit yamaha yzf r6 2006-2008 (not r6s), yzf r1 2002-2008. Oem style racing mirrors (left & right sides) color the same like pictures show condition brand new material abs shell and aluminum arm mirror size approx. 11cm5. Fit kawasaki ninja 500 1994-2010, zzr600 2005-2008, zx6r/636/zx6rr 1998-2004 (not 2005+), zx750/zx7/zx7r 1993-2002, zx9/zx9r 1998-2003.
i5 Chrome Front Brake & Clutch Levers for Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R 650 ZX6 ZX6R ZZR600 ZX9 ZX9R - During checkout your quantity will show as 1, this represents one pair. To fit kawasaki ninja 500 1992-2009, zx6/zx600d 1990-1993, zx6/zx600e 1994-2002, zzr600 2003-2004, zx6r 1995-1999, ninja 650 2006-2008, zx9r 1998-1999. High quality aluminum levers with chrome finish. Brand new chrome front brake and clutch levers.
Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZX6/ZX600D ZX600E ZX6R ZX9 ZX9R ZZR600 Brake & Clutch LEVERS - Oem replacement. High tensile strength aluminum construction. Package content1 pair ( barke & clutch levers ). Colorblue. Easy to install,grease the pivot-bolt when installing levers,do not over-tighten the pivot-bolt.
Starter Magnetic switch For KAWASAKI NINJA 500 EX500D EX 500 D 1994 1995 1996 2006 /B - Aftermarket starter solenoids relay for. 1996 kawasaki street bike ninja 500 ex500d. 1994 kawasaki street bike ninja 500 ex500d 1995 kawasaki street bike ninja 500 ex500d. Replacement solenoid relay for honda oem 27010-1213.
CALTRIC EXHAUST PIPE HOLDER GASKET Fits KAWASAKI NINJA 500 EX500D 1994-2009 - This gaskets on the end of the exhaust pipe. Caltric brand product.
Motorcycle New Turn Signal Mirror for Kawasaki Ninja 500 250R Triumph Daytona Trophy Ducati new - Fitmentyamaha fzr600/600r/750/1000 1989-1999 yzf600/600r750/1000r 1995-2009 yzf r6 1999-2012. Adjustable mirror angle (up & down, left & right, forward & backward). Extremely bright led turn signals 100,000 hours long lasting. Peel off the protective skin on the acrylic glass before usecomes with necessary hardware for easy installation,quantity 1 pair,instructions not included,condition brand new, never used,mirror material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break),shell material high impact abs shell,turn signals led amber color. Motorcycle high quality led turn signals integrated mirrors (left & right sides) , custom make mirrors new.
K & L Fork & Dust Seal Kit for Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500 1997-2009 - K & l fork seals are of the highest quality available and are the exact replacement for most applications listed.
K & L Carburetor Parts Kit for Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500 1987-2005 - Never use carb cleaner on carburetor rubber components, it can cause swelling and possible damage. Some kits do not come with jets please read all notes and special notes before purchase.
CALTRIC CLUTCH COVER GASKET FITS KAWASAKI NINJA 500 EX500 EX 500 1987-1996 - Caltric brand product. Kawasaki ninja500 fuel switch valve. Center to center mounting hole 34mm. Package including 1 petcock switch + 2 filter screen + 2 ring seal.
i5 Carbon Front Brake & Clutch Levers for Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R 650 ZX6 ZX6R ZZR600 ZX9 ZX9R - Brand new front brake and clutch levers. During checkout your quantity will show as 1, this represents one pair. To fit kawasaki ninja 500 1992-2009, zx6/zx600d 1990-1993, zx6/zx600e 1994-2002, zzr600 2003-2004, zx6r 1995-1999, ninja 650 2006-2008, zx9r 1998-1999. High quality aluminum levers with carbon finish.
Pro X Front Brake Master Cylinder Rebuild Kit for Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500 1994-2009 - Prox has a complete line of brake master cylinder rebuild kits. Each kits contains all the necessary components to rebuild the brake master cylinder. The kits are assembled with high quality components all designed and manufactured to meet or exceed the oem parts.
FXCNC Racing Motorcycle Gas Tank Cover Fuel Cover Cap Fit For Kawasaki NINJA 500 / EX500 / 500R 1987 – 2001, ZX-6R 1995 – 1999, ZX-7 / ZX-7RR All Years - No installation instruction if you need any help, please inquiry for the professional mechanic. Material t6061-t6 aluminum, high quality aluminum material+abs. Multicolor can choose, just reference to the picture, and then send email to us for the color you want. Fit for kawasaki ninja 500 / ex500 / 500r 1987, 2001,zx-6r 1995, 1999,zx-7 / zx-7rr all years, more fitable model please read on the product description if not those model and not during that year, please don’t buy this and feel free to contact us. Package 1 piece gas cap.
Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZX6/ZX600D ZX600E ZX6R ZX9 ZX9R ZZR600 Brake & Clutch LEVERS - High tensile strength aluminum construction. Package content1 pair ( barke & clutch levers ). Easy to install,grease the pivot-bolt when installing levers,do not over-tighten the pivot-bolt. Oem replacement. Colorsilver.
Red Motorcycle Windscreen Windshield Well-Nuts Washers Fairing Mounting Bolts Kit for 1994 Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500D - To fit for 1994 kawasaki ninja 500 ex500d. 8-m5 stainless steel and 8 pcs red aluminum nut caps. 8-white nylon washers. 8pcs m5-rubber well nuts. Bulk packed.
XKH Group Motorcycle Alloy Teardrop Flame Custom Mirror for Kawasaki Ninja 500 All Year Models Chrome new - Adjustable mirror angle (up & down, left & right). Mirror (glass) material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break). Fitmenthonda cbr 600 1999-2007 honda cbr 600rr 2003-2007 honda cbr 900rr 1998-1999. Motorcycle high quality 6061 billet aluminum flaming wedge style mirror heads and flame stems (left & right sides) new. Comes with mounting bolts/nuts for easy installationmeasurement ,width, from the mounting bolt to the outer tip of the mirror face is 85″ ,height, 55″ ,mirror face, 5″ x 2″ ,material 6061 billet aluminum ,color the same like pictures show,condition 100% brand new ,quantity 1 pair ,installation note peel off the protective skin on the acrylic glass before use.
Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZX6/ZX600D ZX600E ZX6R ZX9 ZX9R ZZR600 Brake & Clutch LEVERS - Package content1 pair ( barke & clutch levers ). Oem replacement. Easy to install,grease the pivot-bolt when installing levers,do not over-tighten the pivot-bolt. High tensile strength aluminum construction. Colorred.
TARAZON Front Brake Rotor Disc for Kawasaki Ninja 500 R 1994-2009 EX500 S GPZ500 S ER-5 - Fitment detail model and year please see the product description. Wave shape brake disc rotor light wieght than oem, and good heat dissipation. Including 1 piece brake rotor, we also have matched front/rear rotor. High quality stainless steelensure durable braking power. 1 business day handling time ,5-7 working days fast delivery for this item.
HURI Fuel Gas Petcock Valve Switch Pump for Kawasaki Ninja 250R 900R 500 500R EX250F ZX900A EX500 Yamaha XJ550 XJ650 XJ750R Suzuki GSF600 GSF1200 LS650 Savage 650 - Package include 1pc petcock + 1pc huri pocket tape. Noteyou could apply for a full refund if you didn’t receive huri branded pocket tape. Fit yamaha virago 750 xv750 xj550 xj650 xj750r rz350 suzuki dr650se drz400sm drz400s drz400e drz400 gsf600 gsf1200 lt80 lt 80 ls650 savage 650. Fit kawasaki ninja 250r 900r 500 500r ex250f zx900a ex500 zephyr 750 zr750 zrx1200 vn800 vulcan 800 zx1100 gpz1100. Replacement parts,non original.
One Pair Black Sport Bike Mirrors with long stem for 1993 Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500A - Sold in pairseasy install100% brand newhardware inclusive. Mirror body and stem colorblackmirror glass colorclear. Mirror size(approx)6-1/4 x 3-1/4 inchesstem length7-1/2 inches. Material abs plastic mirror house,metal stemmirrorreal glass. Long stem black sport bike mirrors for 1993 kawasaki ninja 500 ex500a.
Motorcycle Mini Racing Mirror Kawasaki Ninja 500 Zzr600 636 Zx6Rr Zx750 Zx7R Zx9R Black by SMT-MOTO - Fit yamaha yzf r6 2006-2008 (not r6s), yzf r1 2002-2008. Fit kawasaki ninja 500 1994-2010, zzr600 2005-2008, zx6r/636/zx6rr 1998-2004 (not 2005+), zx750/zx7/zx7r 1993-2002, zx9/zx9r 1998-2003. Fit suzuki katana 600 1998-2007, gsxr600 1992-2005, katana 750 1998-2007, gsxr750 1991-2005, gsxr1000 2001-2004, gsxr1100 1993-1998, hayabusa 1999-2012. Fitment fit honda cbr600 f1/f2/f3 1987-1998, cbr600 f4/f4i 1999-2006, 600rr 2003-2012, 900rr 1998-1999, 929rr 2000-2001, 954rr 2002-2003, 1000rr 2004-2012, rc51 2000-2006.
Coffman’s Shorty Exhausts for Kawasaki Ninja 500-EX500 (1987-09) Sportbike with Red Tips - 2008-2013 attn california residents due to california emission regulations, this product can be used for “closed course competition only” within california. If purchased, buyer agrees to these terms. Designed for stock header use only. This twin set of custom exhausts are manufactured from 304 stainless steel tubing that is cnc machined, mandrel bent and tig welded to perfection. They then include a billit aluminum tip that is available in an array of colors, sound suppressor and an internal 2 way core system which allows you to adjust to suit your needs. The case is high temp powdercoated in a black satin finish.
Alloy Teardrop Flame Custom Mirror Kawasaki Ninja 500 All Year Models Chrome - High quality 6061 billet aluminum flaming wedge style mirror heads and flame stems (left & right sides). Measurement ,width, from the mounting bolt to the outer tip of the mirror face is 85″ ,height, 55″ ,mirror face, 5″ x 2″ ,material 6061 billet aluminum ,color the same like pictures show,condition 100% brand new ,quantity 1 pair ,installation note peel off the protective skin on the acrylic glass before use. Adjustable mirror angle (up & down, left & right). Mirror material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break). Comes with mounting bolts/nuts for easy installation.
Alpha Rider Universial 10x Windshield Bolts 5MM Windscreen Mounting Screws for kawasaki Ninja 500 1987-1993 EX500A | Ninja 500 1994-1996 EX500D | Ninja 500R 1997-2009 EX500D Black - Fitments for kawasaki ninja 500 1987-1993 ex500a | ninja 500 1994-1996 ex500d | ninja 500r 1997-2009 ex500d. Material anodized aluminum | bolt size 5mm x 16mm. Pacakge a set of 10 bolts with wellnuts and washers | cnc anodized aluminum bolts x 10 | rubber wellnuts x 10 | plastic washers x 10 | hex key wrench x 1. Universal fit for motorcycle using m5 5mm bolts. Pls make sure the informations (year model submodel) of your motorcycle before you take order pls feel free to contact us if you have any other questions thx.
1987-2009 Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R EX500 Heavy Duty Chain – Black - Please view installation instructions. Volar motorsport heavy duty chain. Color black important professional installation is suggested. Tensile strength 7,400 lbs. Fitment kawasaki ninja ex500 500r 1987-2009. Quality engineered for strength and durability. Material alloy steel links 104 clip masterlink is included.
i5 New Black Clutch Lever for Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R ZX6 ZX6R ZX ZZR 600 ZX9 - Brand new clutch lever. High quality aluminum with black finish. To fit kawasaki ninja 500 1992-2009, zx6/zx600d1990-1993, zx6/zx600e 1994-2002, zzr600 2003-2004, zx6r 1995-1999, zx9r 1998-1999 (not 2000+). This lever uses your existing adjuster mechanism, this lever will not fit if you do not currently have a chrome adjustment dial on your clutch lever.
110/70H-17 (54H) Bridgestone Battlax BT45 H-Rated Front Motorcycle Tire for Kawasaki Ninja 500 EX500 1994-2009 - Larger crown radius for greater stability and longer motorcycle tire life. Bridgestone battlax bt45 v-rated bias ply motorcycle tire, designed to give performance and mileage on sport bikes. Bridgestone battlax bt45 h-rated bias ply motorcycle tire, designed to give performance and mileage on today’s sport-touring bikes. Dual tread compound (dtc) motorcycle tire offering long lasting center compound and softer side compound.
Black Mirror Kawasaki Ninja 500 Zx6R Zx7R Zx9R Zx 10R 12R 14R 636 Ducati Monster - Comes necessary hardwares for easy installation,material high impact abs shell,quantity 1 pair (left & right sides),lens measures 32″ x 44″,overall length 9″,bolt space can be adjusted from 118″ (30mm) to 236″ (60mm),easy installation no install instructions . Mirror (glass) material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break). Adjustable mounting position. Adjustable mirror angle (up & down, left & right, forward & backward). 100% brand new mirrors ,repalcement custom make mirror.
Motorcycle Black Mirror Kawasaki Ninja 500 Zx6R Zx7R Zx9R Zx 10R 12R 14R 636 Ducati Monster - Motorcycle 100% brand new mirrors ,repalcement custom make mirror. Adjustable mounting position. Adjustable mirror angle (up & down, left & right, forward & backward). Comes necessary hardwares for easy installation,material high impact abs shell,quantity 1 pair (left & right sides),lens measures 32″ x 44″,overall length 9″,bolt space can be adjusted from 118″ (30mm) to 236″ (60mm),easy installation no install instructions . Mirror (glass) material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break).
1987-2009 Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R EX500 Heavy Duty Chain – Green - 1 business day handling time ,5-7 working days fast delivery for this item. Fitment 1990-2015 kawasaki ninja ex500. Fitment kawasaki ninja ex500 500r 1987-2009. Fitment detail model and year please see the product description. Including 1 piece brake rotor, we also have matched front/rear rotor.
Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZX6 ZX600D ZX600E ZZR600 ZX6R ZX7 ZX750 ZX7R Brake Lever - High tensile strength aluminum construction. Easy to install,grease the pivot-bolt when installing levers,do not over-tighten the pivot-bolt. Package content1 pc. Oem replacement. Color black.
Rzmmotor Motorcycle CNC Aluminum Gas Fuel Tank Oil Cap Cover Fit For Kawasaki NINJA 500 EX500 500R 1987-2001 ZX-6R 1995 – 1999 ZX-7 ZX-7RR All Years Orange - 100% cnc aluminum 6061, t10 and silver anodization. Outer disk is made of alloy,shiny black,durable and sturdyinside disk made by abs,heat resistance,stable,excellent impact resistance. Please check if this product match your motorcycle before buying. Rubber gasket design, effectively prevent the gasoline to play. Easy installation multi-purpose compatibility sealed and durable.
XYZCTEM Turn Signal LED Integrated Sports Racing Mirrors for Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZX6 ZX6R Ex,Honda CBR 600 1000 RR Hurricane ,Yamaha YZF R1 R6 R6S Fazer FZR 600,Suzuki GSXR 600 750 1000 Bandit And more - Adjustable mounting position please check the measurements below mirror (glass) material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break)comes necessary hardwares for easy installation. Material high impact abs shell glass mirror with built-in led turn signals, light color is amber color black quantity 1 pair . Decent low cost replacement black led turn signals integrated mirrors (left & right sides)glass mirror measures 3 1/3″ x 5 1/2″, stem length 4″. These mirrors are not custom made for any bikes, no instruction included please check mounting measurement and position to ensure they will fit your bike. Fitmentas the writen,please make sure fits your motor before place an order .
XKH Group Motorcycle Turn Signal Mirror fit for Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZX7R ZX6R ER6F 636 Z750 CHROME New NEW - Extremely bright led turn signals 100,000 hours long lasting. Fitmenthonda cbr600 f1/f2/f3/f4/f4i cbr600rr 1987-2010 cbr900/929/954 cbr900rr 1993-2004. Adjustable mirror angle (up & down, left & right, forward & backward). Motorcycle high quality led turn signals integrated mirrors (left & right sides) repalcement custom mirror new. Peel off the protective skin on the acrylic glass before usecomes with necessary hardware for easy installation,quantity 1 pair,instructions not included,condition brand new, never used,mirror material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break),shell material high impact abs shell,color matte black,turn signals led amber color.
Turn Signal Mirror fit for Kawasaki Ninja 500 ZX7R ZX6R ER6F 636 Z750 CHROME New - Extremely bright led turn signals 100,000 hours long lasting. Peel off the protective skin on the acrylic glass before use. High quality led turn signals integrated mirrors (left & right sides) repalcement custom mirror. Adjustable mirror angle (up & down, left & right, forward & backward). Comes with necessary hardware for easy installation,quantity 1 pair,instructions not included,condition brand new, never used,mirror material acrylic (provides clear view and not easy to crack or break),shell material high impact abs shell,color matte black,turn signals led amber color,,,,,.
1987-2009 Kawasaki Ninja 500 500R EX500 Heavy Duty Chain – Red - Fitment detail model and year please see the product description. Fitment kawasaki ninja ex500 500r 1987-2009. Including 1 piece brake rotor, we also have matched front/rear rotor. 1 business day handling time ,5-7 working days fast delivery for this item. Fitment 1990-2015 kawasaki ninja ex500.
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Topic: 2.5" exhuast system manifold back for ma61 supra.
Im advertising it again because i cant wait any longer to sell it. Its sitting on my garage floor taking room i need to work with. has 3" stainless dump pipe on end... $80 no offers.
Topic: RA65 celica power steering pump.
as it says a RA65 celica power steer pump. Still attached to motor.
Fixed Black racing seat for ae86. Been told is an East Bear imitation [good jap brand]. Pretty good condition. Looks a lot like the one I have attached but there is no writing on it and it isn't a Recaro.
Not ono since I am thinking of putting it in my car anyways.
Whiteline fixed swaybars front and rear for ae86.
Once in a while, it'll make this loud sorta rumbling which means u have to open the lid and move the clothes that r being washed around to even up the load distribution or something. Not sure what happens if u keep letting it rumble for long. Otherwise it works well. Dad had to just waste money on a "newer" looking washing machine than on my car .
Stock Mirage seats? Has Martini racing on it tho.
Prices are ono to some extent only. No unreasonable offers please.
just picked up a ke55 4 door but its gonna need some work. at the moment i need a set of all 4 doors, boot, bonnet, and front quarters. any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have to get rid of the RSM I installed 3 weeks ago. My gf bought me a TV and now I need that DIN space. I have the Stand, RSM and G-SEnsor, my mechanic has the box and instructions, but its all in Japanese, you can print the PDF form the apexi site.
Well if anyones interested, PM me.
Heres a pic, not that detailed, will post better ones tonight if you wish.
what are you's willing to pay for it?
Still in excellent condition, like new. Even still got the original manual.
This is a genuine offer as there are lower spec item auctioned for about the same price. TRy ebay and use libretto as keyword for search. You'll see how expensive they are ..
2 RA40 Bonnets FS. One A-Grade (no rust and no repairs) $100; other B-Grade (minor rust that has been repaired) $50. Won't fit in postpack so yu'll have to drive to Newcastle if you want them.
I have here an AE82 gearbox which I have no use for - it's now sitting on my garage space. Not sure what its condition is (hence the $80 price) but it came from an import motor I got from JMS in Adelaide.
Am in Brisbane but can arrange postage elsewhere at the buyer's expense.
Supercharger Drive System (SDS) for the 5SFE for sale. This is a new unit and should fit the 3S with little or no modifications.
Recomended boost is 4psi, but can handle 9 for short periods of time.
The system will bolt on an additional 88-100+ horse power at the wheels, which translates to 100-135+ net horse power at the crank. Vortech V5Q G-Trim, in place on a 5SFE engine, producing 180WHP and 170lb/ft on an automatic transmission. Est 210whp on the 5spd version.
if I get enough response I willabout offer a group buy at a lower price.
Apart from a few little scratches it's fine.
JZX81 cross member and front mounted sump. Suitable for conversion with JXZ90. $500 but will consider separating.
14 inch mags to suit most toyota 4 stud vehicles. Has worn 195 tyres on them(bout 25% left) Origanally of the corona in the pic.
As stated a 3 speed auto trans with overdrive from an 86 corona with a 22r. Vehicle had done 200000kms when was wrecked. Trans shifted fine.
I just took this off my car (1990 Celica). I think its got around 100000km on it. My car was making clicking noices so i thought it was the diff inside the gearbox. The wheel bearing ended up being being stuffed to the point my wheel hit the guard so im not sure if there was anything ever wrong with the diff. I ended up replacing the box with an MR2 turbo one that can take the power of my engine and got a new wheel bearing. Most likely the gearbox is fine but im not 100%. The synchos are good as well.
hi, i have a 80hp genuine wet nitrous NOS kit, comes with a 10lb bottle, bracket, autometer nos pressure gauge and everything u need to install in your car. the kit is only 1years old, i am goin to sell my car, so selling the nos kit too.
I have for sale a few things..
Make an offer if your interested..
carbon fibre top skin bonded to the OEM bonnet webbing/frame work $500 firm, cheaper if you trade in your old bonnet.
pics available on the parts for sale forum.
The lenses are to the best of my knowledge now out of stock world wide ! These things now are still available amoungst groups like us but dont wait to long to grab a set if you want them. And Besides a New set ex Toyota if they were still available would cost you almost $100 plus postage anyway so keep that in mind.
I've got a set of series 2 SX seats for sale. They will bolt straight into any AE92 Corolla.
There in fairly good condition, The foam is still very firm in both seats.
asking price is $150 which is what i purchased them for, or nearest offer.
Hey guys i have a set of Relfex mags for sale they are in very good condition. Two good olympic tyres 185/65R14.
Topic: New 4 Door remote c/locking kit.
as stated new kit never fitted.
If anyone is interested I have a T50 box from a Sprinter. I think it needs new syncos. Got stuck in 4th one day and never came out. Might be good to rebuild.
A rebuilt block, has had one cylinder re-sleeved, and acid dipped, so looks pretty new, I have the rest of the engine, like the cam, crank, and some of the rocker gear, and anybody who want to buy ti can have the lot. I thought that if you get one of these free engines, pull it apart and use some of the bits that are not good on my engine, you can build a brand new engine!!!
I'm looking around the 600 dollar mark, but prepared to go a fair bit lower, as it cost me just to get the head, the block rebuilt, and to get the full gasket kit about 700 bucks. I just want to get some money back!!
4afe engine from 93 model seca, Done 170,000km, good condition.
Got an RA40 Celica Dash for sale brand new...$150.dollars in grey.
Brand new Kenwood KFC-5708C speakers.
Awesome mid and high notes, sounded much nicer than the Alpines, not a massive bass speaker.
APEXi SAFC II For Sale.
Still in the box, never used.
$565, includes registered/insured postage anywhere in australia.
as it says, stock nippon denso cooler of the 1ggte for sale.
ATRAC 4 (Chip: 2652AR). 10 second shock resistant memory. 8x oversampling, 1-bit memory. SSIR-EX AM/FM stereo tuner rotary encoder level control. Detachable front panel, remote supplied. Provides MD & CD changer control. CD Text support when used with CD Text equipped CD changer. D-Bass including Digital D-Bass for MDs. Radio station naming. List function, allows scrolling through radio presets or disc names without interupting current station or disc. Auto-Scroll for MD titles. Adjustable display contrast. Auto-dimmer.
i know this is a little out of place but ohwell someone may be interested. got these laying around at work, been there for a while so they are looking pretty sad.
the 351 is out of an XD, the heads are off but i have all the parts there. the welsh plugs are a little rusted, the motor is pretty grotty cause its been sitting for yonks but it still turns over quite easily by hand.
C4 transmission. also been sitting for yonks. not 100% sure on its condition but im TOLD it works. so that ones a bit of a gamble.
the stuff is at my work which is denham court servo so if you want to see it it must be during business hours or there abouts.
These bits are up for grabs at the listed prices.
Replies by PM/email thanks guys.
I have the following rims for sale. They are 2 piece Zepter rims with brand new 225-45-16 Falken ZE512 rear and brand new 205-50-16 Falken ZE512 front. Rims are 16x7 +23 front and 16x8 +23 rear in near perfect condition. One wheel only has a tiny mark on the rims edge otherwise they are perfect. Slight corrosion from weather on the centre nuts.
I have a perfect 5sp C50 box from a 4afc, worked fine before the conversion now siting at home.
A friend wants to get rid of a number plate. Open to any decent offers.
hi ive got a brand new apexi vtech controller, dont know if this is the best forum to place it in, but yeah. I pre-ordered but im broke now so i need to sell it. going price is 500, i bought it for 693 dollars.
I have a Corons Mk2, body in excellent condition, motor in parts. Reconditioned head, new gaskets - still in packaging, needs timing gear, or would be good for parts.
As heading says, great condition. $100.
In melbourne but can ship anywhere.
I have some xenon projector fog lights they are off 180sx (I don't know if there a factory Nissan or after market Jap item but they work & have mounting brackets(they blok FMIC) the car is just off the boat so they could be like $60 or $300 bucks worth I have no idea, Huksjai brand??
Chequer plate alloy floor mats (front) (like the ones they sell at Carmate for $100,they just need a wash) pretty much fit any car except the Nissans with the dump pipe bluge, u just need to screw them down, they are pre-drilled.
but wait there is still more as a freebie a blue neon light thats plugs into the cig lighter, with wire ext to mount under car, cost $30.
Asking $100 for the lot or best offers, (if ppl want to offer more than $100 thats fine 2) (u pickem up from Hurstville area (Syd).
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I was born in Columbus, Ohio. My parents were divorced. My mother was on welfare. She cleaned houses. She had four sons, and I am the oldest. The oldest is always the aggressor.
We lived in public housing in Poindexter Village, one of the first public housing units in the United States. It is still there today. It still looks the same. When I go back to Columbus, I drive by just to look at it. And I think about those days.
So growing up was rough. My mother used to rob Peter to pay Paul. From that experience, my brothers and I were determined we would never utilize a pawnshop to pay the utility bill, because my mother did it. She would pawn things, and we would help get them out.
We had a newspaper route, and we made our own money. From the newspaper route, we won contests to travel. That gave me the instinct to want to see more than Columbus and to travel.
It was 1964. The racial climate — well, we’d seen better days. But I came to get an education, and they said LeMoyne was a good school. I got on a Greyhound bus with two pork chop sandwiches that my grandmother made for me, and I rode to LeMoyne-Owen College with no dormitory. I stayed with a woman on Walker Avenue, and the rent I paid was $1 per day. I got a work-study job, so I paid for my own tuition with that. I began to love the school and to love Memphis.
I went through a special summer program at Columbia University in New York City for minorities in broadcast journalism, created as a result of the 1968 Kerner Commission that suggested — after the death of Martin Luther King — that we needed more diversity in broadcast journalism and journalism in general. So they started training people, and I came to Channel 5 and stayed 12 years.
As a reporter, I covered City Hall. I said, “I can do a better job.” In 1983, I left Channel 5 and ran for the Memphis City Council, and I ran at-large. At that time, it was unheard of: No African-American had ever been elected at-large. But I said, “It’s time.” Bill Gibbons defeated me by 9,000 votes.
Needless to say, I was discouraged. But, if you want something, you go after it. Four years later I ran again, at-large. On this one, I was confident because I only had one challenger, a housewife and former principal. Her quote in the paper was, “I’m running for the council because I don’t have anything better to do.” Little did I know that Florence Leffler had a husband who had just departed the Earth, and he was very well-respected. She trounced me — 20,000 votes.
Meanwhile I was teaching school and working as Harold Ford Sr.’s press secretary. In 1991, I started a 17-year career at FedEx in corporate communications.
Also in 1991, nobody was challenging Andy Allisandratos for the City Council. I was not going to give him a free ride. Well? I beat Andy by 20,000 votes. That was the year the city elected its first black mayor, Willie Herenton, and everyone was coming out.
Since then, I’ve never looked back. I’ve been elected to the council five times, and that is really historic. I’ve been here 17 years now, and this is my second term as chairman. I am the second longest-serving African-American in the history of the council.
Who was the first? J.O. Patterson Jr. He served for 20 years. And I was elected two and a half years ago to the Memphis Charter Commission to overhaul the city’s charter. So I’ve been elected six times, and I’ve been very fortunate.
I knew I had it made when … I don’t have it made yet, and anyone who thinks they have has reached the top of their game and won’t go any further. Every day brings new adventures; every day brings a new learning experience. I have reached higher than I thought I would ever reach and achieve in political service, but I don’t have it made.
The most difficult thing is trying to balance the needs of our community with the diverse views expressed in the community, trying to come out with a cohesive statement from the council on a wide variety of issues, and maintaining a balance and respect for individual ideas even when those ideas differ from yours.
Success is a life’s journey. Success is what you feel it is, but I think everyone has the potential for greater success tomorrow than they have today. It’s ongoing.
It’s important to remember that we’re put on Earth for only a short period, and we’ve got to pave the way for others.
When my first child was born … Mickell, my son, is the joy of my life. I gave him three rules for college: 1) Make at least a C average; 2) Don’t get on drugs or liquor; 3) Don’t get anyone pregnant. As long as you do those three things, you’ll always have me. He did that and more. Now he’s a grown man and he’s living his life in a model way, and I’m extremely proud of him.
One of the worst days of my life … I probably have not experienced the worst day of my life yet. It is still to come.
A career in politics is rewarding. It should be the goal of many people to do their part to help make our community better.
The greatest joy is when people understand what you do and why you’re doing it. It’s rewarding when people say, “Keep doing what you’re doing. I agree with your philosophy.” That gives me joy.
If I had a magic wand, I would eliminate the word “race” from the vocabulary of everyone in Memphis and Shelby County because race has been used as a crutch by both communities, black and white. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps are real. With hard work, dedication, minus drugs, you will be successful. Eliminate “race” and see how many arguments we have then.
I have never been drunk.
The most important thing in life is being true to yourself, being honest, living a good life, helping somebody else, giving back to your community, paving the way for others.
I wouldn’t be where I am if it had not been for the inspiration of others. I stand here on the shoulders of someone who paved the way for me, and I never forget that. It goes back to the J.O. Pattersons and the Reverend James Netters of the world. It is now my obligation to make it easier for somebody to take my place.
When your job is a public servant, you have to be aware of your public image and not do stupid things. We are held to a higher standard, and we must maintain that higher standard, maintain ourselves with dignity in the community. Walk the walk and talk the talk.
People don’t realize how stressful it can sometimes be as a public servant trying to balance the needs of everyone in the community. You can’t please everyone, and you have to accept that. We make hard decisions, we do the best we can, but then we have to move on.
As chairman of the City Council I try to respect the differences of others on the council and not take it personally, because when you take it personally, that’s when you lose your effectiveness in terms of what the overall goal is, and that is to do whatever is in the best interest of all of our citizens in Memphis and Shelby County.
The most important lesson I’ve learned is to speak less and listen more. I learn from others every day, and the opinions of others help balance my ideas and work them into what I think is a more acceptable framework for what I’m doing. I’ve learned I’m not always right. It was a hard lesson to learn.
I pay a personal price when I eat junk food. I realize it’s a lifestyle change that I need to make.
If I could make one change in the world (sings) I’d like to see the world as one in peaceful harmony! (laughs) That’s an idealistic situation, but if we could do that, think about how much better the world would be without a lot of dissension.
I’ll never forget a lesson that took me a long time to learn: Relationships are better than money. Relationships make the world go around.
If I could do one thing over … I don’t have any major regrets in life. Everything has been a learning experience.
The greatest honor was being selected by the U.S. Jaycees as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in America in 1983 based on my work in broadcast journalism. I did a show on the Mound Bayou Hospital in Mississippi. It was the only hospital in rural Mississippi that took care of indigent patients, and it was closing. I interviewed those patients, and my documentary helped keep the hospital open. That honor put me in the company of people like Elvis Presley and Orson Welles.
Above everything else trust your instincts.
My final 2 cents is that more people should be encouraged to go into public service. More people should prepare themselves for my job, for your job, and for a variety of jobs in this community — and they only do that through education, hard work, and staying off drugs. We’ve got to look out for one another. You need to do something to help make our community greater. That’s what I tell folks: Do something.
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When you force a query plan via the Query Store, you will need to track what happens: Sometimes the request to force a plan will fail, and you will want to know when and why. There are several ways of getting feedback, ranging from the built-in reports to using extended events. Enrico explains the details.
In one of my previous articles about the Query Store I briefly touched on the subject of forcing an execution plan via the Query Store. There is, however, much more to relate than I could fit in the previous introduction article. In this article, I’ll be explaining how you can set up a test to find out what happens when you force a plan, both through the Query Store built-in reports and via Query Store’s own DMVs. I’ll then use these to demonstrate what happens when plan-forcing fails, and what is causing the failure.
In my “Forcing Execution Plans using the Query Store” article I described how it was easier to force a specific execution plan than it was to manually build a plan guide: However, I didn’t go into more detail about the way that the Query Store records forced plans or what happens when execution plans can no longer be forced.
There are several ways in which we can force specific execution plans for a query through the Query Store. You have the alternatives of forcing execution plans through the various built-in reports that are provided through the Query Store or by using the sp_query_store_force_plan stored procedure.
In order to get several plans for a single query inside the Query Store, I created a stored procedure that retrieves data from the SalesOrderDetail table based on the ProductID inside the AdventureWorks database.
The next step is to execute the sp_SalesbyProduct stored procedure. I am executing the stored procedure twice with different parameters, 710 and 870. I picked both these parameter values deliberately, basing my choice on how the table data is distributed inside the statistics of the table. Because there are only 44 sales inside the SalesOrderDetail table for Product ID 710, the Query Optimizer resorts to using an ‘Index Seek’ operation. There are a lot more sales for Product ID 870, 4688 to be exact. For such a high number of rows the Query Optimizer chooses to scan the entire table and uses an Index Scan operation.
Between executions of the stored procedure I am forcing a clearance of the plan cache. The reason for this is that SQL Server always prefers to avoid the cost of (re)compilation of execution plans. This is especially true for stored procedures that can easily be parameterized. If I didn’t clear the plan cache between both executions, the first execution would result in a parameterized execution plan inside the plan cache. The second time the stored procedure would be executed the Query Optimizer would detect there already is an execution plan in the plan cache that could be used for the execution of the stored procedure. Even though the execution plan in the plan cache was compiled for a parameter value of 710, SQL Server would execute the exact same plan but then use the parameter value of 870. This way we would never get a different plan based on the parameter value unless we either trigger an execution plan recompilation or remove the plan from the plan cache.
Through the Query Store built-in reports, I can see that two different plans were used when executing the T-SQL above. One of the execution plans uses an Index Seek operation to retrieve the data, whereas the other uses an Index Scan.
Let’s force one of the plans for the query. In this case I want to force the execution plan that uses an Index Seek operation. From figure 1 above, we can see that our query received a Query Store query ID of 1375, and the execution plan we want to use has an execution plan ID of 1459.
By running the stored procedure above, the execution plan is forced as shown by the little “V” on top of the circle depicting the specific execution plan in figure 2 below.
So besides showing a “V” on the execution plan inside the graphical Query Store reports, how does the Query Store record what execution plan is forced, and for what query?
Before we were able to use the Query Store, we would query the sys.plan_guides DMV when we were dealing with forced execution plans, so this seems the first logical place to look for forced plans. But, as you can see in figure 3 below, the Query Store doesn’t record information about the forced-plan inside the sys.plan_guides DMV.
Instead, the Query Store records those plans that are forced inside one of its own DMVs: sys.query_store_plan. By running the following query, we can retrieve all the plans that were forced using the Query Store including some additional information such as the number of occasions that the plan-forcing failed.
Figure 4: forced plan information inside sys.query_store_plan.
To easily identify all the queries that have an execution plan forced, you can also use the (custom) Query Store Database Dashboard. The Query Store Database Dashboard is an open-source and free SSMS report that returns additional information that is stored inside the Query Store, and that isn’t available through the built-in reports. It also includes a section that shows all the forced plans for a database that has the Query Store enabled. You can download the Query Store Database Dashboard through its GitHub page: https://github.com/Evdlaar/QueryStoreDashboard.
As you have seen in figure 4, the Query Store also records information when it isn’t able to force the execution plan, such as the number of times that it failed to force the plan and the last reason for failure.
As it turns out, there are various reasons why the Query Store is unable to force the execution plan that we want. Let’s take a look at some of those reasons for failure through some examples.
For starters, what would happen if you remove an index that the forced execution plan uses? The plan we forced earlier happens to use the IX_SalesOrderDetail_ProductID index on the SalesOrderDetail table for an Index Seek operation, so let’s disable the index!
We can show this by running our stored procedure again, this time with a product ID of 870. Without plan forcing, this would result in an Index Scan operation and as you can see in figure 6 below we do not get an execution plan forced on the query.
If we run our query to grab forced plan information from the Query Store we can see if, and why, it failed to force the execution plan.
As you can see in figure 7 above, the Query Store couldn’t force the execution plan because one of the operators inside the execution plan depended on the index we disabled. Hence the NO_INDEX inside the last_force_failure_reason_desc column.
So what happens when we enable our index again? Would the Query Store go back to forcing the execution plan again?
Directly after rebuilding the index (a rebuild is required to enable the index) the Query Store is able to force the execution plan again.
Remove a single execution plan based on its ID.
If we are to purge the Query Store by using the “Purge Query Data” button on the Query Store properties page or by running the ALTER DATABASE [db_name] SET QUERY_STORE CLEAR command we would remove all data inside the Query Store. This means we don’t just remove all the execution plans and runtime statistics, but we will also remove the plan forcing rules we created. The result is simple, since we removed the plan forcing rules by purging the Query Store nothing gets forced.
We can also choose for a more elegant method, removing a specific execution plan from the Query Store. For this we can use the stored procedure sys.query_store_remove_plan followed with the execution plan ID.
However, if we run the command above we are confronted by the error message shown below in figure 9.
The message is pretty clear, as long as the execution plan is being forced for a query it can only be deleted by purging the entire Query Store.
Occurs when a forced plan tries to modify data inside an index that is rebuild online.
A drawback of using the plan force failure information inside the sys.query_store_plan DMV is that you cannot see when a plan force failure occurred. As we have seen before, the Query Store only records the total amount of times a plan force failure occurred and what the last plan force failure was. Thankfully there is an Extended Event we can use to track when a plan force failure occurred and why it occurred.
Let’s set up an Extended Event session to track plan force failures using the example where we removed the index from the table that we are querying.
The Extended Event that we need is called query_store_plan_forcing_failed and it records the error number, message, query ID and the plan ID.
As before, we didn’t get the execution plan we forced through the Query Store. Instead, we see the execution plan with the Index Scan instead of the Index Seek.
There is a ring buffer for the session that we created in order to monitor the Query Store plan force failures. If we take a look at the Extended Event data collected inside the ring buffer, we get to see a lot more information than was returned by the Query Store DMV.
As you can see in figure 11 we can see when the extended event triggered, in this case 2016-11-23 at 19:19:06. We can also see the query ID with a value of “1” and the plan ID, also a value of “1” in this case. The error_number of “8712” corresponds with the error description “NO_INDEX” we also see in the sys.query_store_plan DMV. Interestingly enough, the “message” we see recorded in the extended event session indicates we used a plan hint that specified an index that no longer exists. We didn’t use any plan hints inside the stored procedure we used for testing so it seems that this error message is reused.
In this article we took a look at what happens when you force an execution plan via the Query Store and how you can identify plans that were forced. Through an example we took a look at what happens when the Query Store is unable to force an execution plan and how we can find out why plan-forcing failed through the sys.query_store_plan DMV. Finally, we used an Extended Events session to gather additional information that isn’t available through the Query Store DMVs, including a date/time of the plan force failure and an error message.
Thanks for this excellent article! It really helped me out when we had Query Store trouble.
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2019-04-26T06:17:34Z
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https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/database-administration/determining-happens-force-execution-plan-via-query-store/
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Washington Report -To Disavow or Debate Gilad Atzmon?
(WASHINGTON DC) - Last night Ali Abunimah and other respected Palestinian writers and activists signed a statement calling for “The Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon,” who is winding up his U.S. tour with events in Washington, DC today and tomorrow. The Washington Report is convinced that Atzmon’s interview tonight by Prof. Norton Mezvinsky couldn’t come at a better time. Please read Abunimah’s statement and Atzmon’s response below. Then come to tonight’s discussion and decide for yourself whether to shun Atzmon or engage him in debate. For those who want to further explore the renowned jazz musician’s ideas and music, copies of Atzmon’s latest book, The Wandering Who?, as well as his three CDs, will be available for purchase.
A Response to Ali Abunimah & Co.
Ali Abunimah & Co tend to present themselves as advocates of “One Democratic State in Palestine.” This leaves me puzzled: what kind of democracy do they have in mind, exactly? For by calling for my “disavowal,” they prove beyond a doubt that they cannot tolerate even some elementary cultural criticism—criticism that is endorsed and praised by some of the most respected thinkers within our movement and beyond.
In fact, I am pretty delighted with the outraged reactions to my thoughts. I guess it enables us to map the discourse and its boundaries—and means that those boundaries are now official. Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.
However, I also have some bad news for my would-be silencers, Palestinian and Jewish alike. I do not have any plans to slow down or drift away. I am a jazz musician and an independent thinker. I am basically a free agent—I say what I think and think what I say. The popularity of my writing among Palestinians, solidarity activists and truth seekers is the direct outcome of my sincere approach to the subject matter.
Whether my detractors accept it or not, the strength of my arguments is grounded on the transparent truthful nature of my premises. Until now, not one of my opponents has been able to point out a single discrepancy within my argument or the facts I cite. For instance, I contend that since Israel defines itself as the Jewish State—its tanks and planes decorated with Jewish symbols—it is our duty to ask: Who are the Jews? What is Judaism? And what is Jewishness all about?
The fact that some activists shy away from asking those questions doesn’t mean that the rest of us also should behave cowardly.
In case my detractors—be they Zionists, Anti-Zionist Zionists or Palestinians—fail to realize it, Palestine is not alone anymore, and is no longer an isolated, remote discourse. Even as I write, AIPAC is publicly and relentlessly pushing America into a new global conflict. In Britain, 80 percent of Tory MPs are members of the Conservative Friends of Israel. What we are witnessing here is a clear Zionist shift from the discourse of a “promised land” to one of a “promised planet.” I’m convinced that calling a spade a spade could actually save the world, including Americans, Brits, Iranians and Palestinians. But it also can save the Jews from the grave potential consequences inflicted on them by the Jewish lobbies.
Sadly, Ali Abunimah has misrepresented my thoughts. Clearly there is no racism, anti-Semitism or Holocaust denial in my writing. As determined as my detractors are to find it, they have failed to identify a single bit of evidence of such tendencies in my work. Ali Abunimah says on my behalf that “one cannot self-describe as a Jew and also do work in solidarity with Palestine, because to identify as a Jew is to be a Zionist.” What a ludicrous interpretation of my writing, in which I go out of my way to define the issue in categorical terms. What I am obviously opposing is Jewish racial exclusivity. If Israel is in the wrong for being a Jews-only State, I argue, then its Jewish critics better fight it using an inclusive, universalist ideology and practice.
I am indeed critical of Jewish identity politics, Jewish culture and Jewish ideology. I am also critical of the Jewish cultural attitude toward history. I am critical of Jewishness and any form of Jewish exclusive political activism. And yet, I wonder, why should any person who seeks justice and peace object to my approach? Is Jewish culture or identity politics beyond criticism? Are Jews chosen after all.
I am sorry to disappoint my Palestinian and Jewish opposition league, but it seems as if their terminology is faulty and misleading: Zionism is not colonialism, for colonialism is defined as a material exchange between a Mother State and a Settler State. The fact that there is no Jewish Mother State suggests that Zionism doesn’t fit the colonial model.
Nor is Israel an Apartheid State, for Apartheid is defined by the exploitation of the indigenous residents. Yet the Jewish State prefers that the Palestinians simply and completely disappear. In other words, we are dealing here with a unique racially driven expansionist philosophy not very different from the Nazis’ Lebensraum.
Israel is not Zionism, and vice versa. Israel is the outcome of the Zionist project. If Zionism is a promise to establish a “Jewish National Home in Palestine,” Israel is its post-revolutionary product. Indeed, Israelis are barely familiar with Zionist thought and ideology. From their perspective, anti-Zionist ranting is a remote Diaspora discourse.
Shalom does not mean peace, reconciliation or harmony. Its accurate English translation is “security for the Jews.” Israeli culture lacks a clear notion of “peace” as we know it—i.e., harmony and reconciliation.
I suggest that my detractors spend some time and think this through, so they can understand that the issues involving this conflict and its resolution go far beyond mere political discourse.
I would like to take this opportunity to advise my opponents that their campaign is counterproductive. Those who are interested in my ideas realize that we are living in a post-political and post-ideological era. Like myself, they are interested in an ethical argument. They are not “party members,” and they are not taking “orders” from any sectarian group or ideology. Instead they listen to their hearts. Those pro-Palestinian organizations sponsoring my current U.S. book tour realize very well that my work galvanizes a demarcation line between truth and its enemies.
In spite of the relentless slander campaign against my writing, it has not achieved a thing except to expose a rigorous intellectual intolerance in our midst. If my opposition is concerned with my thoughts, it will have to learn to debate. Before we can proceed, I guess, my detractors may have to actually read my book and decide exactly what they are against.
Found the article at last. Here you write: I'm picking on the way you and others try to change the subject by misusing the word antisemitic at every juncture when the only REAL subject is the Zionist persecution of Palestinians in their native homeland. _______________ That is not true with respect to The Wandering Who. The words are what they are. Calling the Jewish God evil is not the same thing as calling Zionism wrong. Referencing Jacob Schiff as Mr. Atzmon does is not the same thing as calling Zionism wrong. You then write: It is about apartheid, it is about 'Jewish Only' roads and laws for Jews and different laws for Arabs. Gilad and I and this large unified group that actively supports Palestinians through journalism, music and activism, know this whole thing is a ruse, a distraction, and that what you are saying is overly specific and out of context. ______________ There is nothing overly specific about saying a discourse on Esther is a diatribe against Jews. You must address these questions instead of claiming they are besides the point. Thus far you have not done so. There followed the following discourse: Me: What evidence do you have that Alan Greenspan saved the economy to permit Paul Wolfowitz to wage war? Since Mr. Atzmon claims it is in the open, you can show us that. Tim King: Why are you straying off in this direction when the whole thing is over the character assault article? I'm sorry, but my role is not to sit here and systematically answer questions like this, I could take the time to take it all apart, but there is no reason to. ______________ If you can take me apart do so. Show everyone the evidence that Alan Greenspan did what he did to enable Paul Wolfowitz to do what he did. This would include some sort of memorandum or recorded conversation indicating the real reason for Alan Greenspan's action. Barring that your argument is defeated. The book is Jew baiting unless you show it to be otherwise. Thus far, you have not. I still do not understand your use of a "anti semantic". Are you implying Mr. Atzmon did not in fact say what I said he said? Let us go to the text, shall we?
Calling the Jewish God an evil God is not being against the Jewish religion to you? Fascinating. If one were to say Mohammed is evil, would that be Islamophobic to you? If one said Jesus Christ was evil, would that be anti-Christian to you? There is no such word as antisemantic or anti semantic. What word did you intend to use?
Tim King: Come on I'm playing with you by using the word anti-semantic, You should have been able to figure that out, but don't leave any stone unturned right? I'm picking on the way you and others try to change the subject by misusing the word antisemitic at every juncture when the only REAL subject is the Zionist persecution of Palestinians in their native homeland. It is about apartheid, it is about 'Jewish Only' roads and laws for Jews and different laws for Arabs. Gilad and I and this large unified group that actively supports Palestinians through journalism, music and activism, know this whole thing is a ruse, a distraction, and that what you are saying is overly specific and out of context.
Also, answer two questions. It is not at all besides the point. Mr. Atzmon attacks Judaism at all points, except for a quotation from Rashi that he pretty clearly robbed from a movie. Do you believe that the charges of power lust, treachery, etc., that Mr. Atzmon implies were justifiably leveled against Jews as a result of Esther were in fact justifiably levelled?
Tim King: Again, semantics, Gilad attacks the results of militant, right-sing Zionism which is a philosophy unlike that of Judaism.
What evidence do you have that Alan Greenspan saved the economy to permit Paul Wolfowitz to wage war? Since Mr. Atzmon claims it is in the open, you can show us that.
Tim King: Why are you straying off in this direction when the whole thing is over the character assault article? I'm sorry, but my role is not to sit here and systematically answer questions like this, I could take the time to take it all apart, but there is no reason to.
not you in particular Mr. King. To call the Jewish God evil, as he does in his "essay" on the Pentateuch, is to call the Jewish religion evil. Now people can similarly call Islam evil or Christianity evil. What they cannot do is to say they are not criticizing Islam or Christianity and then say Jesus Christ or Mohammed is evil. Since Mr. Atzmon did just that, saying he was not criticizing Judaism and proceeding to call the Jewish God evil and the book of Esther a guide to lobbying, all one can say is that he is a lying hypocrit.
Tim King: Well that is the complete opposite of how we see it, it is also untrue and all a sidetracking game of semantics, and we all need to be antisemantic when it comes to this subject; clarity is everything and word games are battle schemes. I was telling a friend yesterday about an article defending Gilad this week from Rich Siegel. It was a case of a Jew defending a former Jew who defends Palestinians, while people claiming to be Palestinians attack him for being antisemitic. Now isn't that just a little bit ridiculous? I admit that some people being drug down this road are not doing it specifically to benefit Zionist Israel, or out of fear from being threatened or because they were bribed; some are actually deceived into believing that because of a word or some paragraph in a book, that they should abandon and actually turn against one of the strongest voices in this cause. I have been in touch with many people in Palestine and all reassure me that they love and value Gilad and that he is who they have faith in, not any of the mostly American-Palestinians listed on the paper by Ali.
Why don't you ever debate people? All you do is post where they can censor serious challenges to your work.
Editor: Gonzaga, I am not sure who you are addressing? My policy as editor, is that when people post false information in comments, I either counter it in bold, or delete it. The truth is that I spend far too much time countering comments and there is no real value in giving real credence to false allegations, viewpoints, etc.
Dear all, This hyper-sensitive and potentially explosive issue merits much more than a knee jerk reaction, which is why I have refrained until this moment from making any comments. I know Gilad Atzmon, I have read much of his writings, he gifted me his book, 'The Wandering Who?' which I have put aside to take with me on my forthcoming flight to Australia so I can read it uninterrupted. I like Gilad, I love his music and I am very partial to his quirky personality. All in all, in my opinion, Gilad, as a package, is a decent, well-meaning human being who should not be isolated or scorned simply because some of his writings and sayings are not always to our taste. I too had an opportunity, albeit fleetingly, to meet Ali Abunimeh here in London and he afforded me the courtesy of enquiring about my well being when my email account was hacked into last year. I read Ali Abunimeh extensively and I was listening to his latest key-note speech at Harvard only last week. I have a lot of time and respect for Ali, another decent human being,which makes one more reason why I did not react immediately. What made me change my mind was this very well thought out and well written, informative piece by Rich Siegel, whom I know through Facebook and, of course, his music. I, as a Palestinian, who has been working all his life to direct the spotlight on the plight of my people and my country through writings, debates and speeches, have always welcomed any meaningful debate which keeps Palestine and Palestinians on the front page. I have always maintained that if ever we are to achieve peace in Palestine we very much need the unencumbered by religious doctrines or ideologies on our side. There is no need for us Palestinians to say that we are not 'anti-Semitic' for the simple reason that we are Semites ourselves. There is no reason for us, the Palestinians, to say that we like or dislike Jews. What we should emphatically say, and should not be distracted from by squabbles and arguments, is that we are anti Zionist, anti occupation, anti racist and anti apartheid. All these labels point in one direction only, we are anti Israel in its current form as a Jewish state. May I humbly suggest that Ali and his co-signatories have a private or civilised public debate with Gilad and Rich and any other like-minded Jews who want to see an end to our suffering and a clear path to lasting, durable and viable peace in Palestine.
The story says it all. The folks from the mid-east want to spread their hatred among the rest of the world. I have no need to hear about the Jews nor the Palistinians. They have been fighting among themselve for two thousand years and will continue fighting for the remainder on my lifetime. Please take your hatred away.
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2019-04-18T20:46:19Z
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http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march142012/gilad-debate.php
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Friends, we are gathered here today to honor those Marvel superheroes we lost. Or, more aptly, worry about the ones probably about to exit.
In last year’s mega-epic “Avengers: Infinity War,” cosmic villain Thanos wiped out half of galactic existence with one apocalyptic snap of his Infinity Gauntlet, powered by six all-powerful Infinity Stones. And going halfsies on a universal scale meant a bunch of our favorite do-gooders went bye-bye, disintegrating into ash and leaving fans in a nervous state … at least until we see the culmination of the 22-film Marvel movie saga so far with “Avengers: Endgame” (in theaters April 26).
What’s most intriguing for fans is not who’s deceased now but who will be at the end of “Endgame,” especially if there’s another all-out climactic fight with Thanos. Evans, Downey and Hemsworth have talked about this being their swan song after years of Marvel movies, and dead heroes with sequels in the works – Spider-Man (Tom Holland) has one coming out this summer! – may not stay that way.
The Asgardian thunder god has had a good run – including three solo films – but botched his chance at taking out Thanos before he could do his nefarious deed. With half-brother Loki dead by Thanos’ hand, Thor has nothing to lose this time around and may give his life for another chance to make things right.
Chris Evans has been the most vocal about his goodbyes; that could be a total swerve but leaving everything on the battlefield has been pretty much his entire character arc. And it would be the biggest emotional gut punch for fans. Given what’s happened in the comics, someone else other than Steve Rogers will likely carry Cap’s shield going forward – though if death doesn’t await Steve, walking off into the sunset with a happyish ending could work, too.
Arguably the most A-list of all the Marvel dudes, Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark is more likely to stick than Cap to stick around: He’s been a mentor to Spider-Man and maybe he plays the Nick Fury get-the-band-together role in upcoming movies. But consider how much he’s changed since being the endlessly cocky arms dealer from the first “Iron Man,” and him sacrificing everything to ensure a future makes a lot of sense.
Played by Sebastian Stan, Bucky Barnes took over Cap’s shield from Steve Rogers in the comics – a possibility for the movies, too. And there’s been talk of a show on the Disney+ streaming service with him and Anthony Mackie’s Falcon. That all said, he did spend decades as a notorious Hydra assassin, so if he does come back to life, Bucky going down swinging with his best friend Cap would be a huge moment AND right his karma.
James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) is already crippled so one would hope another tragedy wouldn’t befall him. Yet of the surviving Avengers with no upcoming solo movies, he’s probably a good bet to be part of the death toll if Hawkeye doesn’t perish.
Karen Gillan’s former space villainess – and one of Thanos’ daughters, along with Gamora – really, really wants to take out Dad. By any means necessary. Which could be bad for her health.
What happens to Scarlett Johansson’s secret agent is, kind of like the character, a very large question mark. She has a solo film coming in the next round of Marvel movies but it’s set to be a prequel that takes place before the first “Avengers.” Maybe the answer is have the cake and eat it, too: Watch her die valiantly in “Endgame” but then explore her adventures in the past.
The longtime S.H.I.E.L.D. mainstay played by Cobie Smulders will appear in “Spider-Man: Far From Home” (out July 5). What we don’t know yet is if it takes place pre- or post-snap. Her fate is pretty much 50/50 at this point.
The android Vision (Paul Bettany) was powered by an Infinity Stone that Thanos ripped out of his head. Things aren’t looking so good for his magical love interest (Elizabeth Olsen), either. The good news is the twosome are set to star in a Disney+ show, so they’ve got that going for them.
Like Maria Hill, Samuel L. Jackson’s well-known S.H.I.E.L.D. dude is in the new “Spider-Man” so his fate is undetermined. He’s been as integral to the Marvel world as Iron Man and even though Jackson is 70, Nick’s connection with Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) makes one think he’ll always be orbiting this universe.
Thanos threw his assassin daughter (Zoe Saldana) off a cliff to kill her and obtain the Soul Stone, yet the end of “Infinity War” glimpsed Gamora as a child within the cosmic jewel. Her role is probably essential to “Endgame” and it’s hard to believe they’d off the “Guardians” female lead before a third film.
Dave Bautista’s muscular space warrior is the low-key MVP of the “Guardians” franchise. And Gunn returning for another movie is a good thing for Drax fans.
The Wakandan tribe leader (Winston Duke) was a fan favorite in “Black Panther” and looks to be a big part of that series’ future. Plus, we’re hoping he arm-wrestles Drax one day.
Like M’Baku, Danai Gurira’s Dora Milaje general is a primetime player in Wakanda and with Marvel continuing to emphasize the female contingent, it’s unlikely to sideline one of the best.
There’s the aforementioned Disney+ show with Winter Soldier, of course. Of those two, though, Sam Wilson seems like the best man to be passed the Captain America shield and mantle if Steve Rogers steps down or (more likely) dies.
Oh, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), your hotheadedness snatched defeat from the jaws of victory battling Thanos. No matter, we forgive you. Expect the “Guardians” main man to get another shot at heroism – and at life.
The “Endgame” trailer shows that Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) reconvenes with Cap and friends, and would probably like to have his more heroic girlfriend (Evangeline Lilly) back. Their fates are inextricably tied, they’re the super-shrinking faces of the Bay Area corner of the Marvel universe, and their movies make money, so safe bet they’ll be back.
Benedict Wong’s magic man returns in “Endgame” after helping the heroes stave off Thanos’ minions in “Infinity War.” Losing him would also be a pretty boneheaded decision, considering the Marvel universe is already severely lacking in Asian superheroes.
Thor’s new warrior-woman buddy (Tessa Thompson) from “Thor: Ragnarok” was offscreen in “Infinity War” yet somehow survived Thanos’ razing of the Asgardian starship that felled poor Loki. Fans love Valkyrie – and apparently want her to date Captain Marvel – so she could go the distance.
Current state: Alive and disintegrated, respectively.
One of the most heartbreaking scenes in “Infinity War” was fan-favorite Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) watching in disbelief as his tree buddy (Vin Diesel) faded away into nothingness. You can’t have a “Guardians” movie without those two; plus, think of all the lost toy sales!
Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) and his rage-monster alter ego are key personalities in the Marvel universe and even though there’s no Hulk solo film in sight, he’s a valuable dual threat that you can insert in and improve any Marvel project (see: “Thor: Ragnarok”).
Earth’s sorcerer supreme (Benedict Cumberbatch) is supposed to have a sequel sooner than later, so him telling Tony, “There was no other way,” after Thanos wins – and before he disappeared – was probably referring more to their eventual success down the line rather than the infinite doom of the moment.
On the one hand, the “Infinity War” scene where Peter Parker (Tom Holland) dissolves in Tony Stark’s arms is so tragically beautiful. On the other hand, he’s the best movie Spidey ever. While we’ll know exactly where “Far From Home” falls in the overall timeline soon enough, this kid’s too good not to build future movies around.
Right, like they’re going to kill off their newest and possibly most powerful superhero anytime soon.
Wakanda forever, obviously. Even though things look sort of bleak going in, Chadwick Boseman’s African warrior king is the main character of the biggest movie of 2018 and a best picture Oscar nominee. He’s the best-case scenario for survival, especially with a sequel coming.
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2019-04-22T10:11:09Z
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http://usanews.ca/2019/03/every-marvel-superheros-chance-of-survival-ranked/
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Vintage 2017 reminds us of The Beatles: it conveys a velvety, tactile, chewy, lukewarm, innovative and all-embracing sensation.
2017 kicked off with a series of strange weather events: an unusually dry winter with above-average temperatures, with only two very cold weeks in February, very little snow and only in the Apennines. The vines’ vegetative season (and, in general, of all plants) started ten days earlier, followed by a period of fast vegetative development due to far above-average temperatures and lack of rainfall, which pushed the beginning of growth a full eighteen days ahead of usual schedule.
Unfortunately, the Easter full moon and the two following weeks led to a drastic drop in temperatures and endemic frost across Northern and Central Italy, decimating the buds and reducing the production potential of many distributional areas.
We saw next to no rainfall in spring, just here and there, concentrated in the month of April, and often associated with heavy storms and hailstorms. No rainfall at all in the following months of May, June and July. The unusual prolonged spring drought was further exacerbated by the sudden rise in temperatures, which hit over 33°C in mid-June. The summer season was marked by the arrival African anticyclones, which had been so many and so prolonged only in 2003. African anticyclones have become the rule in the Mediterranean area in summertime. Nearly unknown in Italy until the mid-1990s, African anticyclones have replaced the mild high pressure systems from the Azores, which now can be seen more and more often in autumn.
In some Central-Italian areas, when the veraison process set in, it had not been raining for over 140 days, thus considerably reducing the level of groundwater aquifers (the last time the level had been so low was in the two-year period 2003-2004) as well as the flow of rivers and streams.
It is of common knowledge by now that the five hottest years in the past 130 years occurred in the space of fifteen years (2003, 2007, 2012, 2015 and 2017), with 2003 and 2017 being by far the hottest (no less than 14 days above 40°C throughout Central Italy).
The vines reached the veraison stage in good phytosanitary conditions, with very little concern for downy mildew, botrytis cinerea and lobesia botrana and, in only a few cases, for powdery mildew. In all winegrowing areas, owing to the drought and high temperatures, the clusters grew little in size, remaining loose and with very thick skin. Harvesting, which was performed very early for the early grape varieties such as Merlot, Chardonnay and Syrah, was quite heterogeneous when it came to the Sangiovese.
Harvesting began in August (in the fresher areas where sunlight and warmth sped the ripening process up) and extended into late September in the areas where the (rare) foliage protected the clusters or, more frequently, where it was not too hot or too dry to wait for the phenolic ripening to be complete. The statistical data are quite shocking: in nearly all vineyard fields, the rate of withered and discarded clusters ranged from 5 to 20%, the drop in output in the hilly areas often exceeded 40%, harvesting was performed 20 days ahead of schedule on average and the yield of red grapes at the wineries was often below 58%.
Despite all these alarming facts, the wines appear to be the result of a warm yet not extreme year, with more than adequate aromas and better tannins than what we got from the 2007 and 2003 vintages, actually closer to the 2009 and 2015.
It was a challenging year, during which experience and the ability to predict water shortage since January worked in favor of our winery. Our careful management of the soil and respect for the foliage allowed us to protect the vines. Now the question is whether such a result- quite good all things considered- is due to our experience gained in vineyard management and winemaking in the previous hot years or to the plants which, having to deal with hot temperatures and lack of rainfall throughout the year, were able to self-adjust the grape load so as to preserve the few leaves and energies available.
Year 2016 took off in substantial continuity with fall 2015: mild temperatures, very little rainfall and abundant winds.
The winter’s low rainfall helped us perform winter vineyard management practices, but it also caused seriously decreased water supply levels in both winegrowing areas and high mountain regions due to the lack of snow until February.
Under these conditions, the vines never entered full dormancy.
Therefore, we expected early budbreak which, in Central Italy, occurred two weeks ahead of time as compared with the average of the past fifteen years. Early budbreak affected not only vines but all crops and all over Europe. Instead, March reversed the winter trend with abundant and continuous rainfall (even snowfall at times) and dropping temperatures, which continued through May, with solid rainfall alternating with sunny days throughout the month of June.
The early budbreak was negatively affected by the stress caused by the reversal of seasonal trend from hot to cold temperatures and high humidity, bringing the first signs of disease here and there, such as leaf yellowing and even downy mildew. Luckily, the spring rains pushed water tables back to normal levels. The first ten-day period of July brought hot temperatures, lack of rainfall, high humidity and moderate night-day temperatures swings until August.
The veraison stage was delayed by a few days as compared with the average of the past fifteen years and we were quite worried about the risk of unbalanced vegetative growth (due to the increased water availability and high temperatures); the hot July weather caused major stress in very few cases.
During the month of August, the plants slowly entered the reproductive stage, slowing down the growth of the shoots and completing the veraison process.
August weather was quite favourable, with normal temperatures for the season, large night-day temperature swings, low humidity and a regular rainfall pattern. Harvest was slightly delayed as compared with the average of the past ten years, but accompanied by large night-day temperatures swings and healthy plants.
Grape yield was high, as well as wine production.
We made some good wine, the fruit of an “easy” and well-balanced vintage; aside from a few “scars” caused by the hot summer temperatures and high grape yield. Our wines feature generous fruity notes, good tannins and steady aromas: the prerequisites for a beautiful evolution over time.
The beginning of 2015 was marked by abundant rainfall, which actually began in summer 2013. The vineyards’ vegetative season got off to an early and luxuriant start: many leaves, many clusters, some worries about downy mildew and, above all, about another cold and humid year like 2014. Flowering occurred on time.
The rains, which fell from early 2015 into the last days of June, suddenly made way for the first heatwave of the year, because of the arrival of the longest African anticyclone that has every hit Italy. No rain for 40 days and temperatures soaring above 34°C and moderate night-day temperature swings.
The vines reached the beginning of the veraison process in good condition: a well-distributed and non-excessive fruit load, well-balanced by the leaves, low powdery mildew, downy mildew and grapevine moth pressure. The beginning of harvest time was marked by warm temperatures and a dry spell, which created a seemingly ideal situation for harvesting: beautiful and healthy grapes with high sugar levels, but also hiding some dangers up its sleeve, such as rise in pH level, loss of leaves and slowdown in evolution of flavours and tannins.
A beautiful vintage: outgoing, generous fruit and colour, but not always equally deep and fresh and, perhaps, long-lived.
2014 will be definitely remembered for its climate anomalies and frequent extraordinary events.
Winter 2013-2014 brought very little snow and abundant rainfall, replenishing the water tables, which were already high from the previous season.
These meteorological events, together with mild winter temperatures, led to very early budbreak. This event represents the first, major anomaly of the year, because in the past we had never seen vegetative season getting off to an early start after a humid winter, being early budbreak usually the consequence of a dry winter season. This led to some difficulties in completing the pruning operations and, above all, to a high disease pressure (as the pathogens had very little trouble getting through the winter) and, at the same time, to a lush vegetative growth, not well-supported, however, by the roots, which suffered from the excess of water in the soil (even cold and, at times, asphyxial soils) with leaf yellowing as a consequence.
The spring and summer growth, from flowering onwards, was affected by the frequent rainfall and moderate temperature peaks. As rarely occurred, the vineyards required careful management to fight against fungal diseases (downy mildew, powdery mildew and botrytis which proved to be very virulent) and in order to manage the canopy.
The veraison stage occurred 3-5 days ahead of time, actually nullifying the effects of the early budbreak. The ripening of grapes began in quite critical conditions due to the low temperatures (in particular, the maximum temperatures), little solar irradiance (with the sun veiled because of the high humidity) and very abundant rainfall (with the most rainy July in the previous 66 years and the disastrous downpours on September 21, which hit both sides of the Tuscan-Romagna Apennines, and the most extraordinary amount of rainfall recorded since 1962).
At harvest time, the vines had not achieved the desired sugar levels and color. Harvesting was, thus, performed not so much because the grapes were ripe, but in order to preserve the grapes’ health, the thickness of skins and the drop (often anomalous) in acidity.
Among the good news is the red grapes’ bouquet, which, all things considered, is more complete than that of the 2013 vintage (more vegetal) and things could have been far more catastrophic had it not been for the early budbreak and the lower fruit load than vintage 2013.
At the winery, we had a hard time separating the best grapes and working very carefully on the delicate skins and very fragile and oxygen-sensitive musts.
Our first vintage. Very different from many others. Definitely, a vintage of character.
Normal rainfall and snowfall levels in winter, providing for deep water supplies, and then continuous and incessant rainfall throughout May, with overflowing water tables saturating the ground and causing lack of oxygen in the soils to the point of asphyxia. The late spring and summer season will be remembered as basically cold and humid with very few sunny weeks bringing, as a consequence, virulent fungal diseases, downy mildew at first, followed by powdery mildew and, late into the season, by botrytis. Late budbreak and flowering, and then a long growth season slowly leading to veraison.
The mid-summer rainfall was followed by rains, alternating with sunny weather until harvest, which was performed behind schedule and gave high grape yield.
The wines offer beautiful aromatic potential, minerality and acidity. We had trouble with extraction and in pursuing power in very vertical wines bordering on under-ripeness. Definitely a long-lived vintage.
It was a very intense and hard year, striving to achieve vegetative-production balance in the vineyards and sharing the difficult choices we had to make for this vintage. A year that put the nature-man relationship to the test, marked by the obsessive pursuit of balance and the sensitivity required evaluating the skins and clusters. These aspects of knowledge, often associated with instinct, make emotions possible even in this vintage, which features an old-fashioned flavour and a “pre-global warming” style.
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2019-04-23T22:22:25Z
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https://www.noeliaricci.com/en/climate-trend/
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One week ago, just around this time*, I became a Mom.
That moment. That moment of meeting this little, beautiful, sweet person - it will forever turn me into a sentimental mess. Those 9 months of guessing if he was a boy or girl, wondering what he would look like, just trying to imagine who this sweet child was all came together in the most powerful moment I have ever experienced. The only word I can use is "perfect". The moment I met my son was simply perfect.
The birth of our little boy has changed me in ways I have only just begun to understand.
My heart has grown in a way I didn't even know was possible. But I do know that there is a now a place that belongs only to this baby boy. And it will be his forever.
* I attempted to write this post last night - when he was officially one week old - but instead I opted to sit with Mr. Fix-It, holding our baby, and soaking it all in. And crying my eyes out.
Our little guy arrived on Monday, October 22 at 8:30pm. Labor and delivery were wonderfully smooth and easy. We have been loving on this sweetie since he arrived. Follow along on instagram or twitter (@thefixits) for updates and lots of pics and I'll be back here soon to post more.
It's official - we will be meeting this little one SOON! Any final guesses? All of a sudden I'm convinced this baby is a boy. It will certainly be a surprise! Things may be quiet around here for a couple of days, but we're looking forward to sharing some exciting baby news. Thanks for all of your love and support!
My first week of maternity leave wound up being much more exciting than I bargained for! On Monday, I enjoyed myself - lounging around, preparing a few things for baby, but generally laying low. Tuesday morning I had my weekly non-stress test and OB appointment. That's when things got interesting.
During the non-stress test I had two contractions. I noticed some activity on the monitor, but baby kept on moving and its heartbeat was chugging away. I didn't think much of it, but when the nurse came to read the test she took her time looking it over and then left the room. I sat around waiting for a while and was then informed I needed to follow up with a BPP (bio-physical profile). Luckily, Mr. Fix-It had just arrived to meet me for the OB appointment, so I called him to come join me in the antenatal resource center. We had a second ultrasound of the day, and baby cooperated immediately - the tech was able to see what she was looking for (movement, "breathing activity", etc). Everything was just fine. However, during the original non-stress test baby's heart rate was dipping with contractions so they were worried s/he may be in some distress.
We headed downstairs to my OB and she let me know she had just received the results of my test and wanted me to follow up with an extended non-stress test to ensure that everything was truly ok. If the heart rate continued to dip, we would have a conversation about inducing that day, or even a c-section if necessary. Mr. Fix-It and I both simultaneously got goofy grins on our faces and glazed over.
We went down to OB Triage and got hooked up to the fetal monitors. Mr. Fix-It called my Mom to keep her posted, and she was on a flight within an hour. If baby was coming today, she wasn't missing the big event! Baby passed the second test with flying colors, and we were sent home soon after lunch time. It made for quite the eventful morning!
The rest of the week was spent running errands, relaxing, and hanging out with the Grandma-to-be. Everyone is getting REALLY excited about this little one's arrival - on to week 40!
Week 38 (October 12 specifically) was a BIG milestone that I've been looking forward to for, well, since August. Week 38 meant the start of maternity leave! I spent the final two weeks of work semi-frantically wrapping up paperwork: client notes, transfer summaries, discharge papers, assessment reports, treatment reviews...the list goes on. Each night I'd review all the tasks I had to complete the next day, feel overwhelmed and anxious, and beg baby to stay put until at least October 13. Thankfully, little one cooperated.
Finishing work also meant no longer having to commute. I'd replayed a few scenarios in my mind of making my way back to the city while in labor. I wasn't entirely worried that I'd be in the situation, but really, you never know. I've had times where it's taken me just about two hours to get home. So I figured it's always best to have a plan. (And don't even get me started on the challenges in bladder holding during that drive). I'm done - amen!
People have started asking if I was feeling that things were "getting close". Physically, I've felt mostly the same. Baby's head is still low, I have occasional cramping, but I don't have any sort of sixth sense that this baby is showing up at any second. I think we're hanging tight for a bit longer. Mentally, though, YES. And no. I have these moments of thinking about how different things are *just* about to be, and then I also realize I'm in some bizarre state of denial. I swear I walk around totally forgetting that there is an actual baby on the way. Seriously, some nights I'll lay in bed and think to myself, "there's not really a baby in there". And then I wake up and have a quick moment of panic and think, "ohmigod, is the baby still there?!", and I check my belly and confirm that I am still, in fact, most likely quite pregnant. I was joking to colleagues that I may need to self-refer for a psych eval.
The reality is, though, getting to this phase of pregnancy just seems so unbelievable. Spending months and months imagining this tiny human in your life as a distant, unreachable thing suddenly shifting to a real, actual thing that IS HAPPENING is just more that I can comprehend. I don't think it will all entirely come together until I actually see this little one and hold him/her in my arms. We are SO CLOSE!
So, the funny part is that our baby LOVES to kick and push whenever pressure is placed on my belly. For the entire test our kid had a field day pushing and fighting the monitors. The nurse asked me TWICE to sit still because the belts kept shifting. I had to laugh and blame the baby. Sorry, kid! You're FEISTY!
In other news, my observation of the week is that my food tolerance has shifted. I'm noticing that complex foods sound completely unappealing. As in, the more ingredients in a dish, the less I am interested. An apple? Great. Yogurt with granola? Yum. A savory dish with all sorts of herbs and marinade? I couldn't even take two bites. I vaguely remember reading a reason why this can occur, especially as your body prepares for labor. Of course I'm forgetting now, but I can tell you that if you offered me a bowl of chili I might dry heave a little.
As for this baby's arrival? Your guess is as good as mine. I've been feeling crampy here and there, which supposedly means my body is revving up a little. Now that this munchkin is full term, I'm starting to get antsy. I fully realize, however, that we're not at the finish line just yet and this little one will arrive whenever it is good and ready!
It's so wonderful to have talented friends! A while back fellow Weddingbee blogger, Mrs. Snapdragon, aka Penny, asked if we might "swap" photos. She had an upcoming event that she wanted documented, and in exchange she would shoot a session for me and Mr. Fix-It. While I wasn't available to photograph her event, I still took her up on the offer for a maternity shoot! So, basically, I totally owe her!
Here are some of the highlights of our photoshoot by Lake Michigan!
I'm so glad to have these photos! I'm sure in just a few short weeks we'll look back and barely be able to remember when life was just the two of us.
I love you, honey! Something tells me year three is going to be the best one yet.
Week 34 made me realize how much I'm slowing down! I spent a busy weekend with two of my best girlfriends and - ooof! - I was exhausted by the end of each day. It was great, though, we enjoyed a blissful spa day at the Trump and shared many yummy meals. Such a treat!
This week also brought a huge accomplishment - my last full week at work! This pregnancy is timed perfectly with a number of Jewish Holidays, with at least one day per week off between now and my leave. The mindset of getting through only partial weeks is making this homestretch feel incredibly more manageable.
Also exciting, our childbirth classes at the hospital started this week. We signed up for four evening classes spread over a month versus the one-day marathon class. So far, I haven't learned anything new but it's definitely helpful to review all the basics. I think the class made everything feel that much more soon - especially when it was recommended that we be truly prepared: car seat installed, hospital bags packed, hospital pre-registration complete, birth plans, etc. The nurse repeatedly told us to think of the due date as a "due month" - baby could arrive any time between weeks 37-41. Eeep!
And perhaps you noticed this week's photo looks a little different than some previous shots. We took maternity pictures! I can't wait to share them, but that will be a separate post. I'm so glad we opted to take a few photos. I didn't feel the need to go too crazy, but I know it will be great to have a memento from this time in our life.
Did you take maternity photos?
Last week, I met a colleague for lunch. Her due date was just a few days before my own. The next day I received an e-mail saying that she'd had her little boy! Even though most babies don't arrive at 35 weeks, I suddenly felt as though it's really time to be prepared for our little one's arrival. So now, our hospital bags are officially packed.
1. Comfy Cotton Yoga Pants (2): As much as I love my Lululemon, I opted to pack two pairs of soft, breathable, loose yoga pants for the hospital. One pair of cropped, one full length.
2. Nursing Tanks (2): I've been told that nursing tanks are far more practical for the hospital than nursing bras. They allow you to be discreet when visitors are around and give you one less thing to manage.
3. Toiletries: My toiletry bag is ready to go! Items include: toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, face wash, hair ties, etc.
4. Pillow: I'll be taking one pillow from home. One great tip I received is to make sure to bring a distinct pillow case so it doesn't get lost among hospital items.
5. Camera: This one is a no-brainer. I've got an empty SD card ready to go, and a fully charged battery. We'll also have our cell phones, chargers, and Mr. Fix-It will likely have a laptop.
6. Flip Flops: To keep my feet protected from hospital floors and showers.
7. Lanisoh Lanolin Cream: I've heard in the early days of nursing, you want to use cream every time you feed, no matter what.
10. Bath Robe: I splurged on a nice robe. Hopefully it will help me look a little more put together post-delivery. I also imagine I'll be spending lots of time in it in those early days at home.
1. Pacifier and Strap: Probably totally unnecessary, but I threw it in the bag anyway. I do think I'll appreciate baby's paci not rolling around on the hospital floor, though.
2. Baby Gown with Cuff (2): I packed two thinking they'll be good to have for when we're hanging out in the room before heading home. I made sure to choose gowns with cuffs so that we can protect baby's face from accidental scratches.
3. Booties: We have a hand knit pair from a family friend. They're just too cute and if baby is anything like its Mommy, it will perpetually have chilly feet.
4. Burp Cloths: Maybe superflous, but again, if baby is anything like its Mommy it will be a bit of a puker.
5. Going Home Outfit: I found a similar kimono-style outfit at Nordstrom several months back. It's super soft, gender-neutral, and timeless. I can't wait to put it on baby! And I'll admit, I also snuck a blue cap and pink bow in the bag so our baby can look like a boy or girl.
6. Boppy: I'm bringing the boppy. Great for hospital guests and middle of the night feedings.
7. Nail Clipper: Some newborns have pretty scratchy nails. If baby's need a little trim, we'll be ready.
8. Swaddle blankets: I've packed these exact two for our little one. I'm secretly thinking the purple will be for a girl and the teal for a boy. But of course, I purchased both knowing they're pretty neutral and they'll see plenty of use.
9. Baby Book: I'm bringing our baby book to the hospital in the event the nurses are nice enough to imprint baby footprints in it. Also, we can have family sign and if I need a project (ha!) I can start entering basic info.
And those are the basics! What was in your hospital bag? Have any packing tips for first time parents?
Is anyone else as jazzed as I am about the iPhone 5? My 4 had seen better days, so I've just been dyyyyyying to upgrade. The 5 looks like it's going to be a solid device, and the upgrades to iOS6 are fantastic. My only complaint? Apple changed the charge port but didn't go universal USB. Shame on you, Apple - now we have to buy new chargers and we're creating more waste in the world as our old ones now have to be discarded. At least with a universal USB we could use all the same cords and cables for kindles, cameras, etc.
Out of curiosity, where do you fall on the black/white iPhone debate? I've always opted for black, but now I'm mixing it up and went white. I was swayed when I heard that white can be easier to find when digging through a purse. With a little one soon on my hip, I'm thinking I'll appreciate those extra 2 seconds not spent searching for my phone.
I CANNOT WAIT for these lovelies to arrive in the mail! And of course, my adorable case will be monogrammed with an "A". Happy iPhone Day!
Week 33 was calm and crazy all at the same time. Labor day meant a shorter work week, and Friday brought the start of a fun, girly weekend with two of my favorite friends. Work, on the other hand, was totally nuts. Just as I'm working to wind down my case load and terminate a few clients, things got busier than ever. I can't say much due to privacy issues, but people do funny things around endings. Some disappear, some want to squeeze in extra sessions, and others act out hoping to reinforce their importance.
This week also brought a light at the end of the tunnel. Turning the page to September on my calendar has felt like a huge accomplishment. I'm scheduling clients through September, and then I'll spend the first two weeks of October in the office wrapping up paperwork. This means I'll work through week 38, but by week 36 all my clinical work will be complete. Fingers crossed this means I'll have some quiet time at home before our little one decides to arrive. Funny enough, despite most first borns coming late, I keep hearing stories about early arrivals. "I had my son 3 weeks early - have your bags packed!"
Baby and I also had an OB appointment this week. It was quick and easy: weight - down a pound, blood pressure - 110/70, fetal heartbeat - 150BPM, questions for the doctor - nope! It doesn't get more straightforward than that. I've also started rotating doctors for my appointments. The practice we're using has 7 OB/GYNS on staff, each of them being on call 1 day per week. This means the odds of my doctor delivering our baby are pretty low, so I'm slowly making the rounds to meet everyone. Of course, the reality is that the doctor is in the room for the last few minutes of delivery, and after enduring labor I imagine I won't care if a monkey delivers my baby. But who knows? Perhaps a friendly face will be comforting after all.
Whoa baby! Everyone who saw me this week, especially clients, couldn't help but comment on how big this baby bump has gotten! I have been feeling it too - bigger, slower, and less comfortable. I don't have any real complaints, I'm just undeniably pregnant at this point.
This week I went for a pre-natal massage. It was amazingly heavenly. I cozied in, all propped up on my side, and felt muscle tension just melt away. I haven't noticed feeling terribly tight or sore, but the massage made me realize how good it felt to really stretch and loosen up. I've also been back at pre-natal yoga which I really need to keep up.
How Far Along: 32 Weeks. Watching the calendar approach September was SO exciting.
Weight Gain: 15lbs. Woo hoo!
Gender: Not finding out. Lately, I'm completely sure baby is a girl. Mr. Fix-It has still held strong with "boy" as his guess from day 1.
Movement: Holy Moses. This kid is ACTIVE. The kicks, stretches, and rolls are enough to propel me out of bed at night.
Sleep: Not the best. I have nights of amaaaazing sleep and then a night or two where baby is moving like nuts, I constantly have to go to the bathroom, and despite my best efforts at tossing and turning I simply can't get comfortable.
What I Miss: Sleeping on my stomach. I know I won't get to sleep through the night for a while, but the idea of at least being able to get physically comfortable is very exciting.
Cravings: Ben and Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Ice Cream has been my favorite thing lately. I'm not eating it regularly, but OMG IT'S GOOD.
Symptoms: Big baby kicks resulting in sleepless nights. Bathroom trips resulting in sleepless nights. Limbs falling asleep resulting in sleepless nights. Basically, mama needs a nap!
Best Moment of the Week: Knowing that things are moving along as they should! Keep doing your thing, baby.
I am SO EXCITED to share this post with you! Creating a nursery for our baby has been one of the most fun projects we've completed. I've already shared our inspiration and bits and pieces along the way, and now the room is officially complete.
I know you're really just here for the pictures, so take a peek!
Every time Mr. Fix-It and I walk by we just can't help but smile. I can not wait for our little one to fill this space!
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2019-04-26T06:39:32Z
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http://www.teamvaughnblog.com/2012/
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The "practical" portion of this curriculum has to be accomplished in the context of a community. Learning how to live in community will prepare the seminarian to effectively guide Basic Christian Communities and his parish.
The commands of Christ in imitation of His hidden life is also called the Life of Repentance. Though Christ needed no repentance, He had to teach us how to repent; thus He demonstrated this through His hidden life.
The Life of Repentance, which is the beginning of the spiritual life that should eventually grow to CHARITY, has three elements. The Fathers enumerate them as Prayer, Fasting and Good Works. Community Life must be a blend of these three. The saints had prescribed how much of each is needed every day and an ideal community life must have the right blend. Too much of one over the others will cause an unbalanced spiritual life.
In the first place, be of one heart and one mind; this is the very essence of the unity of the Church. Thus "com" meaning "with" and "unitas" meaning "one". Every one must have the same beliefs, the same goals and the same means to the goal. Renewal in the Church had always been the establishment of a new community. This is more obvious in the reforms of religious orders.
Every rule in the community is geared towards the avoidance of vices, growing in virtue and preservation of charity. It is ignorance of Christ's commands that has made many seminaries ignorant of the rationale of old seminary rules; this has caused them to put aside the old rules.
The God-appointed perfect ambiance for obeying the commands of Christ and thus, for growing in holiness, is the Christian family. And Christ with the Holy Family is the perfect example. It is for this purpose, personal sanctification, that the sacrament of holy matrimony was instituted.
Obedience to the commands of Christ can be practiced only in the context of the family. How can you love your neighbor if there is no neighbor? On the other hand, if one does not love his wife or brother and sister, he cannot love someone outside the family no matter how much he pretends he does.
But God foresaw that most families would not live up to this model. So God made provision for a substitute, an alternative for the family. And this is the Church, the Christian community or monastic community wherein the governing principles are exactly the same as a Christian family. And, consequently, the seminaries, which are substitutes for the Christian family and patterned after monasteries, serve the same purpose.
The training for obedience to the commands of Christ is done best within the context of the family or, if this is not possible due to the neglect of the parents, in the monasteries or seminaries. In learning the commands of Christ, it is best that the seminarians also put them into practice. For most, if not for all the seminarians, the seminary is the first and last place where they will learn and practice the commands of Christ.
1) They must exert conscientious effort to carry out God's will in all circumstances and at all times. They must have a thorough knowledge of their own likes and dislikes that usually interfere in finding out God's will. To exercise "denying themselves", they must obey the commands of Christ, of the Church, of the Constitutions and of their superiors.
2) When something happens to them, good or bad, they are to accept it without fuss as from God's loving providence.
3) They must have the simplicity of a dove, avoiding double-dealing or manipulations using deceit to get what they want.
4) They must know how to keep confidences and speak only of those things that will give glory to God, avoiding looking at things from the worldly point of view or from the feeble reasoning of their minds.
5) They must treat everyone in a gentle manner, never losing their temper or exhibiting anger.
6) Upon learning the commands of Christ, they must immediately discover whether they have obeyed them or not. If not, this would be sin; they must be sorry for this and keep it always before their eyes; "My sins are always before me."
7) In denying themselves, they must accept every over-ruling of their desires, opinions and ways of doing things.
8) In obedience to Christ who commanded us to leave father, mother... they must avoid all attachment to relatives. They must love them in a spiritual way as Christ loved Joseph and Mary.
9) Still, as part of detachment, they must have no preference whatsoever for assignments, persons, place, companion or any similar things. And believe that the superior has done things well.
10) Some form of uniformity is important in community life for the sake of good order that leads to holiness. Avoid what is out of the ordinary, for this breeds jealousy and disagreements. This applies to food, clothing, things in the room and what is assigned to each one for his use. The seminary must set down what these things ought to be.
11) Charity must rule all the acts of the seminarians; this is shown in gentlemanliness and courtesies, being humble and meek in all things. Or, as St. Paul says, to develop the virtues of humility, patience, fortitude and perseverance.
12) Satan is more zealously going to attack those who seek God by suggesting acts that are contrary to the commands of Christ, as he did in Paradise. The seminarians' most powerful weapon is the knowledge of Christ's commands, without which he has no way of detecting the suggestions of the devil. Devilish suggestions are: to use mere human means in doing God's work, the desire to be known by men through publicity, to impose our opinions on others, and self-indulgence.
13) Whenever they have doubts, they must try to resolve it by a conscious examination of conscience using the commands of Christ as their criterion (because all the answers on what they must do in all circumstances are there). But if their knowledge of Christ's commands is insufficient, they must consult the spiritual director, who hopefully is well versed with the commands of Christ. They should not discuss this with anyone else because this worsens the problem (through wrong advise) and causes problems for others by tempting them with the same doubts.
Chastity is built on poverty and obedience is built on chastity. No one can remain chaste unless he practices voluntary poverty. The wrong concept that diocesan priests do not practice poverty, unlike religious, is a misconception with disastrous results. Maybe diocesan priests may not observe the external observances of poverty; but definitely they must have the spirit of poverty to eventually be chaste and obedient. If the seminarian does not practice it now, he will never have a chance to do so afterwards, in which case he can never be chaste. The Curé d'Ars, patron saint of the diocesan clergy, is the excellent example of one who practiced the three vows.
When the Acts of the Apostles described the first Christian communities, the point first emphasized is the spirit of poverty, i.e., their attitude towards worldly goods; "they had all things in common" (Act 4:32). St Barnabas wrote: "If you are partakers in things incorruptible, how much more of those things which are corruptible" (c. 70-13-, E., 1.148); " …no one saying that any of the things is his own."
1) Christ lived poorly from birth to death. In our weakness we may live a little better, but within the bounds of the spirit of poverty. Christ's insistence on it by His example shows that it is fundamental in building the spiritual life. It is based on His command to "deny oneself". Without the spirit of poverty, which should be learned in the seminary, the diocesan priest will be overwhelmed and enslaved by the things of the world.
2) Like the early Christians, all belongings in the seminary must be considered common property and must be given to each according to their needs. No one may dispose of or lend what is given to him for his use to another without due permission. Nor should he accept anything from another without permission. And though allowed to receive gifts from outside, the seminarian must present it to the superior for proper disposal or for common use. As much as possible the seminarians must have almost the same things; same number of clothes, cassocks, soap and toothpaste, etc. He may possess nothing without permission.
3) He must consider everything in the seminary as sacred vessels, taking good care of everything and not allowing these things to deteriorate or get damaged through negligence.
4) He should never go for extraordinary or exotic things. In everything he must be moderate and, if possible, feel the bite of poverty by choosing things that are inferior in quality.
5) The room, cabinets and desk must not be locked because this smacks of ownership.
6) It is the spirit of poverty, too, that we do not desire for any position of importance in the seminary or excel in any activity for the sake of vanity.
1) Joseph, Mary and Jesus were all chaste. That is the model of the Christian home and every monastery, convent or seminary. Since in the seminary, even if he had learned the commands of Christ, the seminarian has his fallen nature intact. He must absolutely have no contact with women until he has developed, in some degree, the virtue of chastity (which can only grow on the spirit of poverty). If he must, contacts must be rare and the following safeguards must be observed. He must not speak to a woman alone; nor must he show anything that smacks of affection. He must not speak close to her.
2) And, since the desert Fathers state that gluttony is the mother of unchastity, all must be moderate in their eating. Eating only food "in season, easily available in the locality and cheap." An unchaste reputation is most damaging to the work of God. So much so that works, even good and holy, may be avoided if there is suspicion of unchastity.
3) Sloth has always been the workshop of the devil. And the first thoughts that entertain a slothful seminarian are impure thoughts. So he must avoid being idle.
1) Christ's life was described thus: "He was obedient unto death." "He learned obedience from suffering." "He was subject to them," (Luke 2:51). We must obey the Holy Father, the Bishop and those set over us like the Rector of the seminary. Obey all superiors in all matters not obviously against the commands of Christ. And our obedience must be prompt and cheerful believing that, though what they command may not be the best, to obey them is the best thing for us to do.
2) No one is to command or order another to do anything, or to correct anyone unless asked of him by the superior or if it is already his duty to do so.
3) If a work is to be left unfinished for any reason, the superior must be informed.
4) No one is to interfere with anybody else's work unless asked to or there is an immediate need.
5) In the spirit of detachment from families and relations, letter writing must be entirely avoided if not reduced to the minimum. All letters going in and out must pass the superior unsealed. The superior has the last word on whether to send it or not.
6) To develop the virtue of temperance that leads to chastity, no one may eat out of the appointed time, unless there is a need and with the permission of the superior. Seminarians may not keep food in their rooms for their private consumption without permission. And no one should enter another's room. And if there is a need to do so, the door must remain open. No one may bring anybody inside his room.
1) The sick seminarian, because of the physical infirmity must receive utmost care from the community. Around the sick we must be quiet, speaking in a low voice and seeing to it that whatever we say will console and encourage the sick to accept God's will, keeping in mind what St. Augustine said: that sickness is a forced retreat.
2) On the par of the sick seminarian, he must realize that he is as if in a pulpit to witness publicly to Christian virtues, especially patience and meekness. Those taking care of him must see Christ's example in him. He must be obedient to doctors. He must try not to make it difficult for others to take care of him by complaints.
3) Any seminarian who feels unwell must report his condition to the superior but must leave it to the superior what course of action to take. No one is to take any medicine or call a doctor without the superior's permission.
Decorum is how we must look, act and speak in a manner that would in some degree reflect Christ so that we may attract those truly seeking God and they, on their part may feel comfortable in listening to the words of life. Remember that the slightest impropriety can ruin what we have built.
a) Guard your eyes from roving all about. Avoid undignified and childish behavior or anything that smacks of affectation or the mundane.
b) Do not touch one another, even in fun or sports. Limit yourself to the gestures of friendship or, in rare occasions, greetings (like upon seeing a long lost friend).
c) Dress up neatly with regards to clothing but avoiding what is too stylish or too elegant.
d) The rooms, though minimal in furnishing, must be neat and all in order in matters of bedding, books and papers. What we ought to practice, we must practice in the privacy of our rooms, preserving the modesty mentioned by sleeping with proper clothing even in warm weather.
The purpose of community life is to learn how to charitably behave towards others. If we cannot be charitable to those who are in the seminary we cannot be charitable to those outside. St. Augustine says: "He who does not love one does not love all."
a) The bond of holiness must unite all. Bear mutual respect for one another. Avoid particular friendship; ostracize no one, avoid forming factions and groups.
b) Great courtesy must be shown the superiors. Do not interrupt them while they are speaking, or worse, contradict them. Special signs of respect must be shown to superiors, those already ordained priest, directors and professors. But the special respect due to the superior must be reserved to the superior alone.
c) "Since in much talking you will not escape sin," periods of silence must be imposed. In learning spiritual matters, solitude and silence is essential. A talkative seminary will never do God's work well. There must be periods and places of Grand Silence. Periods of Grand Silence are from awakening until after Prime or morning prayers; then from Compline or night prayers until sleeping time, which includes the whole night. Places of Grand Silence are: church, sacristy, sleeping quarters and refectory (during meals). During the day, talking must be minimal, only on what is needed and must be done softly or in a low voice. Talking is allowed only during recreation: though we must avoid rowdiness and arguments. Though humor is good don't let it get out of control by sticking to what is useful and agreeable.
Silence also means care in walking, closing doors, and other physical noises.
d) Talking to those not connected with the seminary is discouraged, since their worldliness could tempt the seminarian. St. Basil in his "Long Rules" warns us of the world entering through such persons; "through the visitor's parlor," quips St. Teresa of Avila. This includes hired gardeners, cooks and workers. Charity, though, calls for a brief passing greeting.
e) Colloquium. This is group conversation, which can be held during recreation wherein the seminarians can edify and encourage one another while refuting wrong concepts raised by other seminarians. During such meetings avoid acting out vices, stubbornness, and effeminacy even for a joke. Express your opinions humbly, avoid showing anger or bad temper or even mere annoyance. Do not hurt anyone in word or deed or in any other way.
f) To discourage gossip, which is the mother of talkativeness, observe confidentiality. Do not say what is not needed to be said.
g) Avoid rash judgments by slurring the reputation of anyone, especially superiors. Do not grumble or criticize those over you or the policies of the seminary. Unless it goes against the commands of Christ, do not take sides in any argument.
h) It would be useless talking to discuss national and international affairs and other political matters. "No one in God's army gets involved in secular affairs," St. Paul wrote.
Christ gave norms on how the apostles should behave with one another and how they should behave towards Pharisees and Scribes and other authorities.
a) As a general rule we should not seek frequent contact with outside people during the years of formation in the seminary unless obedience or necessity calls for it.
b) We should not be involved in mundane affairs like other people's lawsuits, execution of wills, business negotiations or any similar endeavors.
c) Do not eat with non-confreres without the superior's permission.
d) Do not be messengers for messages, letters or anything else in either direction between confreres or between confreres and outsiders.
e) The way of life and the written rules of the seminary must not be shown to any outsider unless such a one is truly seeking to enter the same seminary. This is the hidden life. Do not expose it. It is hidden not because there is something secret about it since everything is written down in Scriptures and the Fathers. It is hidden that one may seek God within his heart quietly and undisturbed.
f) Do not discuss with non-confreres the state of the nation or government. It is presumptuous and a sign of pride.
g) For those who need to go out or go places, precautions must be made. They must go two by two. Each one must say where he is going, why and when he is coming back. And as soon as he returns he must give an accounting to the superior. This precaution will help the seminarian avoid dangerous occasions of sin. If he has to sleep outside, he must do so, preferably in a parish or a seminary or convent guesthouse.
Christ and His disciples had spiritual practices like going to the temple or going to secluded places. Here are some practices of great spiritual help and must be preferred to other practices.
a) We must honor in a special way the Blessed Trinity. And this is done through the recitation of the Divine Office, celebration of the sacrifice of the Mass and reception of the sacraments. These liturgical functions should receive the greatest reverence in word and in act. Gregorian Chant, instead of profane songs must accompany the Liturgy.
If for some reason we cannot attend the Divine Office, we should pray wherever we are the St. Francis way, substituting the Our Father for the number of psalms.
b) Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary must be fostered by specially celebrating her feasts, singing devoutly her hymn after Compline, and having a replica of her true face in a prominent place. Devotion to her must be in imitating her virtues rather than in shallow meaningless gestures.
c) There must be weekly confessions to an assigned confessor, daily mass, communion at least on Sundays, one-day silent retreat once a month and a week's silent retreat once a year. Seminarians with problems must not hesitate to go on an extended retreat, like one month or one year.
Recollections, both for seminarians and for priests, can never be overstated. St. Bernard advising Pope Eugene III wrote: "I fear, lest in the midst of your occupation without number, you may lose hope of ever getting through with them and allow your heart to harden. It would be very prudent of you to withdraw from such occupations even if only for a little while rather than let them get the better of you and little by little lead you where you do not want to go… to indifference."
St. Bernard was writing to a Pope who was doing his spiritual duties! And he advises him to withdraw once in a while from his work… to examine himself. He calls the apostolate that does not come from and does not strengthen the spiritual life "hae occupationes maledictae,"(St. Bernard, De Consideratione, 11.2).
d) Meditation is also essential to understand the commands of Christ. How this is done is learned in the curriculum. And time should be set aside for this, preferably after mass in the morning and before Compline in the evening. It must be done in community.
e) Though there must be Scriptural and Patristic readings during Divine Offices, Masses, and refectory readings, the seminarian must still have his own personal spiritual reading. Preferably it must be a book written by a saint and not by a mere human author due to the danger of the author presenting heresies without us realizing it. The seminary days are short, and there are so many good books written by saints. Why waste time with books written by non-saints?
f) Examination of conscience is essential to grow in self-knowledge. Though most seminaries do it twice a day, a penitential walk before Compline done by all seminarians together is a good practice.
g) There must be a weekly conference with the superior to remind the seminarians of often forgotten rules, to correct noticed faults, to encourage the faint of heart, condemn vices and preserve charity.
h) Chapter of Faults. During Fridays, all must gather together where each one is given the opportunity to accuse himself of a failing. The attending superior may give corrections in the spirit of charity and humility, and a penance. This is an excellent practice in humility. While the superior is giving his conference, if a seminarian feels the superior is referring to his fault, he should stand up to acknowledge the fault until told to sit down.
i) Though penances and mortifications are worthwhile, being a beginner in the seminary, no one will undertake any penances or mortifications outside of the regular life without the permission of the superior.
j) There must be a fixed time in the seminary for getting up, going to bed, prayers, divine office and meals.
k) Over and above the mentioned practices, the seminarian must not do anything without the permission of the superior.
Adapting a program of renewal is difficult, if not impossible, for the same reason that the program is needed in the first place: "they no longer walked with Him". No one wants the narrow way, no one wants the heroic self-denial that it entails; everyone wants to do their own will rather than the will of God. When people no longer walk with Christ, problems arise. And the only way to solve it is to walk with Christ once more.
This is the experience everywhere. The older seminaries had snubbed the renewal program; it is the new seminaries and the seminaries of new movements that adapted the renewal programs. There is, for example, the new St. Gregory the Great seminary in the Diocese of Lincoln, Redemptoris Mater seminaries of the Neocathecumenal movement and the new St. John Vianney Theological Seminary of the Archdiocese of Denver. They had just begun to tread the narrow path; though these seminaries are all agreed that spiritual formation must take precedence in the training of seminarians, none of them have a concrete program.
Seminaries that would like to adapt the renewal program will be at a total loss on how and where to start in that nobody has ever been trained to give such as the above course. The experts in Patrology know the writings of the Fathers more from the literary point rather than from the ascetical aspect. In fact from Patrology courses students only recall the title of their writings, like City of God, but do not recall or worse never learned any of its contents.
This Practicum will give the participant an overview of the commands of Christ in outline form. This is very general. It will clearly show that the commands of Christ are different from the Ten Commandments of God and will give a hint on what are the commands of Christ. The outline will enable the serious participant to fit in all the commands of Christ within the given outline.
This practicum is also good as a crash course for seminarians who will soon be ordained but who never took the course in Spiritual Formation. It is also good for seminarians who will not have the chance to undergo this new formation program.
This practicum is ideal also as an ongoing program for priests. It is a good substitute for their yearly or monthly retreat… though it will take only one day.
This practicum has already been tried for priests, seminarians, nuns and members of mandated organizations. From experience, priests and seminarians have learned more about spirituality from this one-day practicum than from their years of theology, not so much because the practicum offers much but more because they never had any spiritual formation at all.
A better practicum is to live with a community that is trying to live according to the commands of Christ. In this way, there is theory and practice. The learning will be more thorough. Some 6 to12 months would be fine. Our dream is that all seminaries would eventually become like such communities that they might be breeding grounds for holiness in their respective dioceses.
It needs more than the above to truly start a genuine renewal. We need spiritually mature people. But the above would be a good start.
Or, as the Diocese of Lincoln did it, start an entirely new seminary with this curriculum. Both professors and seminarians may enroll in this seminary. It could start as a small seminary where they will only learn spirituality while learning the rest of the subjects in theology in their respective seminaries. Seminarians from all over may attend this and be prepared as future teachers of spirituality in their respective seminaries. It will be sort of a national seminary on spirituality. The seminarians will learn and live the commands of Christ; this is unlike schools of spirituality where they merely learn theories but without opportunities for practice aside from being merely speculative in their teaching of spirituality.
To further facilitate implementation of the Spiritual Formation Program, the Commission on Seminaries will prepare four manuals for professors (as soon as this draft is approved by the Vatican), each corresponding to each year of Theology, where commentaries for the three readings of Sunday Masses for each liturgical year will be presented. Though all the books are available in the seminary Library, this manual will be of some help. This manual for professors shall include an outline, which shall be given to the seminarians. They may keep this and use it when they leave the seminary. They can refer to this in preparing their Sunday homilies.
This website will contain just-made lectures that are not yet published in the manual. The lectures will probably appear in this website first, while the manual is being prepared. With this arrangement, the above Spiritual Formation Program can be started immediately because the materials for teaching will appear on a weekly basis. But, of course, this is only possible with seminaries with Internet connection. For those without Internet connection, the first lectures can be mailed through special courier (e.g., Fast Mail or DHL).
The website will contain subject matters for the deepening of the spiritual life so the seminarians can still grow in spirituality even after ordination. This is also ideal for priests as part of their ongoing program. The web site will have a question-and-answer portion wherewith anyone can ask questions or clarification or even seek spiritual direction.
The website can be used for private, personal retreats wherein one can choose the topics on spirituality that interest him; this is unlike listening to speakers who might speak on topics that do not interest him at all. Consider also the convenience of a website--one does not have to travel anywhere to get together for a retreat. They can do it in their own rooms. And they can do it leisurely which is the very essence of contemplation.
And as the HEADING states, to facilitate the renewal, the Commission on Seminaries is contemplating on shouldering all the expenses for the above Practicum, manuals and website.
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Much more than just a “community recreation center” or “playground,” the ultimate of Knightdale Station Amenities is Knightdale Station Park. In addition to being host to community residents functions, Knightdale Station Park also is host to an array of fantastic Town of Knightdale activities throughout the year.
In the warmer months, Knightdale Station Park hosts the popular “Food Truck Thursdays” events which are set to begin for the 2019 season on April 18. Holiday-themed family events are also scheduled year-round at the ‘ultimate’ in Knightdale Station Amenities. New to Knightdale Station Park this Spring will also be the new Knightdale Splash Park. This brand new addition to the Knightdale Station Amenities will surely keep the kids cool all summer long.
Below is just a sampling of the Town of Knightdale events hosted throughout the year at Knightdale Station Park.
The YMCA and Aquatics Center at Knightdale Station offers a wide variety of programs and services that help us nurture the potential of kids, help you live healthier, and allow us to support our neighbors who need us most. In addition to the outdoor pool, the Aquatics Center complex includes a pool house with offices, space for lifeguards and restrooms for swimmers, plus a Kid’s Camp building with separate restrooms for younger swimmers.
The pool and deck area comprises 23,000 square feet and the entirety of the Aquatics Center and YMCA facility will sit on about eight acres of land when completed.
Mon. – Fri. : 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Sat.: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sun.: 1 – 7 p.m.
For a full listing of programs offered for both youth and adults, visit the YMCA at Knightdale Station website here.
Our look at the incredible Knightdale Station Amenities will continue in our next blog entry. There we will continue to showcase why searching for a new home in Knightdale NC, is the way to go for you and your family. That being said the only place you want to search is the new homes for sale at Knightdale Station that can be seen here.
When taking a look at Life in Knightdale NC, the one word constantly heard is growth. Of course, many things factor into this Eastern Wake County town seeing its young families grow and prosper. Likewise, it is no coincidence to see business and employment opportunities grow and prosper in Knightdale. In this series of blog posts, we will go in-depth in analyzing Life in Knightdale NC. We will look at the growth that has seen the town named among the most thriving and decorated state and even nation-wide.
Consequently, we will take a detailed look at how the youthfulness, a low cost of living and safety in the town has played into its continued growth. Also, we will look at the recognition and accolades both on a state and national platform received by Knightdale.
Our goal is helping you to take an educated approach when looking at new homes for sale in Knightdale NC. Maybe, you may even find a brand new place to actually call home t the Knightdale Station new home community.
Knightdale placed eighth among over 130 municipalities on the 2018 annual list of Fastest Growing Cities in North Carolina. The HomeSnacks.com poll analyzed NC cities with a minimum population of 5,000 using data from the US Census Bureau.
The experts at HomeSnacks cited an increase in residential neighborhoods like the Knightdale Station new home community for the high ranking. Likewise, it noted that Life in Knightdale NC saw an incredible 212.14 percent increase in population from 2010-2017. These facts coupled with a steady flow of new business to the community should see Knightdale continue climbing as one of the Fastest Growing Cities in North Carolina.
A major aspect leading to the growth of Knightdale is the town’s overall reasonable cost of living. Given its low median resident’s age of 30.8 years old, young families’ can take advantage of a burgeoning housing market. Thus, many of those in said age bracket are able to afford the new homes for sale in Knightdale NC like those at the Knightdale Station new home community.
Cost-effective housing in accordance with a more than comparable median household income is just a few of the areas which were listed as reasons why Knightdale was recently named number 3 overall by movoto.com out of 83 municipalities with a minimum population of 10,000 on their annual list of the Most Affordable Places in NC.
The same movoto.com study noted, Knightdale’s ranking among Most Affordable Places in NC has coincided with a more youthful occupancy. “With a median age of 30, Knightdale is one of the youngest and arguably the hippest towns in the Raleigh metro area…and perhaps what makes this possible is the town’s affordability,” the article read.
Ironically, those young families will be touched upon in our second blog post on Life in Knightdale NC. Likewise, we will help you make an educated selection on new homes for sale in Knightdale NC at Knightdale Station.
The foremost authority on “helping you understand what it’s like to live in different places across America,” at homesnacks.net have released their poll of the Best Places to Raise a Family for 2019 and the Town of Knightdale was once again near the top of their listing, landing among the top 15 municipalities in the state.
In the site’s blogpost by Chris Kolmar, detailing the 2019 Best Places to Raise a Family in NC, he gives a basic overview and methodology of how the results are figured out, in addition to a brief recollection of questions the average family, such as yous that has just found your new dream home at Knightdale Station, may ask which their analysis can help you too arrive an easier and educated answer.
Utilizing all of the information explained above, the experts at HomeSnacks then give each of the 60 municipalities a “family score,” whereas, obviously, the higher the score the higher the ranking on the final list of Best Places to Raise a Family in NC.
The Town of Knightdale finished in the final listing of Best Places to raise a Family in NC at number 14, with an overall amenities score of 58. Its overall score in the ever important categories of safety, education, and affordability were both a solid 8 out of 10, to help wityh its lofty position on the list.
To read more on the 2019 Best Places to Raise a Family in NC visit homesnacks.net.
The Freshest Seafood in Knightdale is located only minutes from your new dream home at the Knightdale Station master planned community, at A’Net’s Katch, where you can eat in or take home and cook.
The freshest Seafood in Knightdale is available from an incredible selection of over 75 items in the ‘take home’ display case. The options for ‘take home’ range from crab legs to oysters to fresh filets and whole fish. In addition, A’Net’s Katch offers all the amenities one would need to prepare these delicious items, including, Seafood breaders, cajun boils, cocktail and tarter sauces, and so much more.
On top of all of these items, Annette also has her own line of products that can be purchased and include their famous Bang Sauce, Bull Sauce, Bay Sauce, low fat tarter sauce, made from scratch cocktail and tarter sauces, 12 blend seasoning and A’Net’s secret recipe batters that were created right in their very own kitchen.
To find out more about stopping in to try, or bringing home some of the Freshest Seafood in Knightdale at A’Nets Katch, visit anetskatch.com.
In the same vein as the numerous Knightdale Holiday Events held at Knightdale Station that have become tradition, the town’s parks and recreation department will be hosting their second annual Valentine’s Day themed, five kilometer “Cupid Run,” Saturday, February 9.
Based upon the fantastic response and turnout from the community at the inaugural Cupid Run event in 2016, and for each year since thereafter, it included amongst the calendar of Knightdale Holiday Events for a second straight year. Joining another of the successful Knightdale Holiday Events that has now become an annual tradition in the community, the Turkey Leg 5K, which takes place around Thanksgiving, these “fun runs” not only to give the community another way enjoy a great day of family fun, but they also promote a healthy lifestyle and outdoor living in the local community.
The Cupid Run will kick off at 9:30 a.m. and start in Knightdale Station Park. Registration for the event is on going right now and in addition to taking part in the newest tradition among the Knightdale Holiday Events, by signing up, you will also get a winter hat, a medal for finishing the 5K and a timing bib. In addition to the finisher medals there will also be medals given out to the first, second, and third place male and female finishers. Keeping in the festive and fun feel of all Knightdale Holiday Events, there will also be medals awarded for the “Best Dressed” in accordance with the Valentine’s Day theme, much as they do in November’s “Turkey Leg” event.
For more information on the 2019 Knightdale Parks and Recreation Department’s “Cupid Run,” or any of the great upcoming Knightdale Holiday Events, visit knightdalenc.gov.
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Yellowstone National Park holds the distinction of being the first national park in the United States and in the world. It exhibits magnificent geological features such as a 30-mile-diameter volcanic caldera; myriads of geysers, including Old Faithful; and a major community of large animals such as deer, elk, moose, and bear.
What many visitors to Yellowstone do not realize, however, is that it also contains latent evidence of massive amounts of ice that filled the basin of Yellowstone Lake to a depth of over 3,000 feet, and glaciers that flowed from the high elevations in the park northward into Montana along the Yellowstone River and southward into the Snake River at the foot of the Tetons. These glaciers are conventionally thought to have been present hundreds of thousands of years ago during several ice ages, the last of which reached its peak about 18,000 years ago. However, if one accepts the literal biblical chronology that the age of the earth is only six to ten thousand years old, how is it possible for ice to have filled the basins and valleys of Yellowstone in such a short time?
I reported in an earlier issue of Acts & Facts about numerical simulations of glacier growth in Yosemite National Park from a storm called the Pineapple Express.1 The storm picked up moisture from warm seasurface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean after the Genesis Flood and doubled or quadrupled the precipitation in the park at warmer seasurface temperatures. Enhanced snowfall and greater frequency of storms during the Ice Age explained the glaciation in the Sierra Nevada from a young-earth perspective. Glaciers thousands of feet thick would have readily developed in hundreds of years following the Flood.
Wesley Brewer and I completed additional simulations for other storms in Yosemite National Park that confirmed the original findings.2, 3 We found that the major type of storm that appears to have contributed the most to the glaciations during the Ice Age was a deep upper-low type of storm. We then proceeded to conduct simulations on three other storms for Yellowstone National Park.4 The reason for conducting similar studies in Yellowstone was to determine if warm sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean would also cause glaciation in mountains farther north and inland from the coast.
The basic mechanism that was proposed to form glaciers in short periods of time was a warm ocean heated by the events of the Genesis Flood.5 Geologic work done during the Flood is believed to have transferred heat from magma in the mid-ocean ridges on the sea floor to the ocean. A warm ocean would have produced a giant “El Niño” effect—increased evaporation over the ocean and more transport of moisture over land to be condensed as precipitation on the mountains. The case studies done in Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks confirmed this theory.
Of the three types of storms simulated in Yellowstone National Park, the type that moves rapidly from west to east across the Northwest and the northern Rocky Mountains was found to be the primary contributor to glacier growth. It is common for the polar jet stream to move southward from Canada and strengthen during winter, producing a series of rapidly moving, small-amplitude waves in the jet stream with associated surface storms that move from the Pacific Ocean across the North American continent.
During the Ice Age, the jet stream is thought to have been located across central California.6 Each storm moving with the waves in the jet stream typically lasted about 24 hours in a given location and precipitated a moderate amount of rain or snow. However, the cumulative effect of many such storms augmented with moisture from a warm ocean can rapidly grow glaciers at high elevations in Yellowstone National Park. Other types of storms such as the Gulf of Alaska low and the plunging western low can produce more precipitation during each storm and can last longer, but their frequencies are typically much less.
A ten-day series of zonal flow storms during the Christmas holidays of 2005-2006 was simulated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s mesoscale Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model.7 The storm period was validated using observed sea-surface temperatures (SST) in the Pacific Ocean. Then the sea-surface temperature was artificially set in the model to six prescribed temperatures between 32°F and 113°F to determine the effects of a warm ocean.
Figure 1 shows an example of the total accumulated precipitation in millimeters over the ten-day period for a sea-surface temperature of 104°F. Note that the boundary of Yellowstone National Park is shown in the center of the figure near 44°N and 114°W and the Great Salt Lake is shown near 41°N and 112°W. The West Coast near Seattle is shown in the upper left-hand corner of the figure. The total accumulated precipitation over the ten-day period is displayed in millimeters of equivalent liquid precipitation in various colors according to the legend at the bottom of the figure.
The main region of precipitation in and around Yellowstone National Park occurred along the continental divide, which runs northwestward from Colorado along the Wind River Range in Wyoming and through the southwest corner of the park. Farther south, a region of moderate precipitation occurred along the Wasatch Mountains in eastern Utah and along the mountains of southern Utah and northern Arizona near Grand Canyon. The heaviest precipitation for this series of storms occurred over the Pacific Ocean and along the West Coast. The magnitude of precipitation in the park reached about 40 inches (~1,000 mm) and about 80 inches (~2,000 mm) over the ocean.
Figure 2 shows the accumulated WRF model precipitation for the continuous zonal flow storm in Yellowstone National Park as a function of simulation time and sea-surface temperature. Precipitation accumulated more rapidly for the warmest sea-surface temperatures, somewhat similar to what Brewer and I reported for Yosemite National Park.2,3 The increased accumulation rates at the warmer temperatures were expected, since the rate of growth of snow in clouds and the formation of precipitation are governed by a strong function of sea-surface temperature. However, in Yellowstone, the accumulation rate is a complex function of temperature, which indicates that some other factor is also important. Brewer and I suggested that convection over the Pacific Ocean and along the West Coast and sinking air over the intermountain region modified this relationship.4 Only at the warmest sea-surface temperatures, above about 86oF, does the strong function of sea-surface temperature dominate.
There are several important consequences to these dual driving forces on the accumulation of precipitation during the Ice Age: 1) storms crossing the coastline and mountain barriers close inland would produce high accumulation rates that are strongly proportional to seasurface temperature; 2) storms crossing the intermountain region would produce high accumulation rates on mountain barriers for sea-surface temperatures warmer than about 86°F; 3) accumulation rates on mountain barriers more than a hundred miles inland from the coastline would be reduced somewhat for cooler sea-surface temperatures; and 4) precipitation would be greatly depressed in valleys and on plateaus inland from the coastline and downwind of mountain barriers.
The reduction of precipitation downwind of mountain barriers occurs today along and downwind of the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains and is known as the rain shadow effect. However, during the Ice Age this effect would have been even greater. It may have led to the hypothesized ice-free region between the Cordilleran ice sheet along the coastal mountains of British Columbia and North America, and the Laurentide ice sheet of central Canada. This ice-free corridor has long been believed to have been the path that Ice Age man used to migrate southward on the North American continent from Beringia to Central and South America. These simulations appear to support this view of conditions during a rapid ice age.
Figure 3 shows glacier depth as a function of precipitation rate and frequency of storms in Yellowstone National Park. Notice that glacier thickness is a function of precipitation rate, frequency of storms, and the length of an ice age. The blue oval represents a region of average conditions that likely occurred during an ice age with a warm ocean. Since precipitation rate is a function of sea-surface temperature and storm frequency is a function of the location of the jet stream, it appears that the presence of glaciers in Yellowstone National Park during the Ice Age can easily be explained by warm sea-surface temperatures and a more southerly position of the jet stream. Glacier depth could have easily exceeded about 3,000 feet per century.
Glaciers thousands of feet thick could have readily developed in the mountains in and around Yellowstone National Park during the hundreds of years following the Genesis Flood. Glaciers filled Yellowstone Lake, topped many of the mountains, and flowed down the canyons and valleys in and around Yellowstone. The glaciers in Yellowstone were estimated to be a minimum of 3,000 feet thick for sea-surface temperatures warmer than 86°F over the period of a century.
Precipitation in the intermountain valleys and plateaus decreased significantly in the simulations, magnifying the difference in precipitation between the mountains and the valleys. This “rain shadow” effect not only occurred downwind of mountain barriers, but also within a hundred miles or so of the coastline. The cause for this effect was hypothesized to be increased convection and rising motions over the ocean, with descending motions inland. These model results support the theory that an ice-free zone extended from north to south in western Canada and the northwestern United States, separating the Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets and allowing Ice Age immigration from Beringia to Central and South America. The difference from the conventional theory is that this happened in just a few hundred years after the Genesis Flood because of the extreme precipitation rates caused by the warm oceans.
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* Dr. Vardiman is Senior Research Scientist, Astro/Geophysics, at the Institute for Creation Research.
Cite this article: Vardiman, L. 2010. An Ice Age in Yellowstone National Park. Acts & Facts. 39 (12): 12-14.
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Lukáč P., Mikuš O., Morva I., Zábudlá Z., Trnovec J., Morvová M., Hensel K.: Dependence of the Dissociative Recombination Coefficient of Molecular Ions Kr2+ with Electrons on the Electron and Gas Temperature, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 21 (6), 065002 (2012).
Onderka M., Krein A., Wrede S. et al.: Dynamics of storm-driven suspended sediments in a headwater catchment described by multivariable modeling, Journal of Soils and Sediments Volume 12 (4), 620-635 (2012).
Onderka M., Wrede S., Rodny M. et al.: Hydrogeologic and landscape controls of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) and dissolved silica (DSi) fluxes in heterogeneous ca, Journal of Hydrology 450-451, 36-47 (2012).
Onderka M., Wrede S., Rodny M. et al.: Long-term persistence of stream nitrate concentrations (memory effect) inferred from spectral analysis and detrended fluctuation, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 223, 241-252 (2012).
Szalay Zs., Ráheľ J., Machala Z., Hensel K.: Assessing the Self-cleaning Capability of a Coplanar Barrier Discharge with Different Barrier Surface Coatings and Electrode Geometries, Acta Univ. Carolin. Math. Phys. 53 (2), 69-77 (2012).
Gmucová K., Morvová M., Havránek E., Kliman J., Košinár I., Kunecová D., Malakhov A.I., Anisimov J.S., Morva I., et al.: Carbonized waste for the cut-down of environmental pollution with heavy metals, Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters 8, 405-11 (2011).
Janda M., Machala Z.: Imaging of transient spark in atmospheric pressure air by fast iCCD camera, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 39 (11) 2246-2247 (2011).
Janda M., Martišovitš V., Machala Z.: Transient spark: a dc-driven repetitively pulsed discharge and its control by electric circuit parameters, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 20, 035015 (10pp) (2011).
Leštinská L., Martišovitš V., Machala Z.: Corona discharge as a temperature probe for atmospheric air microwave plasma jet, J. Quant. Spec. Rad. Transfer 112, 2779-2786 (2011).
Leštinský M., Hensel K.: Temperature Influence on Properties of Microdischarges, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 39 (11), 2186-2187 (2011).
Lukáč P., Mikuš O., Morva I., Zábudlá Z., Trnovec J., and Morvová M.: Electron temperature dependence of the dissociative recombination coefficient of molecular argon ions Ar+2 with electrons, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 51 (7), 672-682 (2011).
Lukáč P., Mikuš O., Morva I., Zábudlá Z., Trnovec J., and Morvová M.: Electron and gas temperature dependences of the dissociative recombination coefficient of molecular ions Ar+2 with electrons, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 20 (5), 055012 (2011).
Malinovský Ľ., Lukáč P., Morva I., and Zábudlá Z.: Determination of the temperature of electrons heated by microwaves from the spectral line intensities emitted by the neon afterglow plasma, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 44 (21), 215204 (2011).
Onderka M., Rodny M., Velísková Y.: Suspended particulate matter concentrations retrieved from self-calibrated multispectral satellite imagery, Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics 59 (4), 251-261 (2011).
Pekárová, P.; Miklánek, P.; Halmová, D.; et al.: Long-term trend and multi-annual variability of water temperature in the pristine Bela River basin (Slovakia), Journal of Hydrology 3-4, 333-340 (2011).
Pongrác B., Machala Z.: Electro-Spraying of Water with Streamer Corona Discharge, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 39, 2664-2665 (2011).
Šipoldová Z., Machala Z.: Bio-decontamination of plastic and dental surfaces with atmospheric pressure air DC discharges, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 39, 2970-2971 (2011).
Foissac C., Kristof J., Annusova A., Martišovitš V., Veis P., and Supiot P.: Vacuum UV and UV spectroscopy of N2–Ar mixture discharge created by a RF helical coupling device, Plasma Sources Science & Technology 19 (5), 055006 (2010).
Janda M., Machala Z., Laux C.O.: Optical and Electrical Study of Transient Spark Discharge in Air, Acta Physica Universitatis Comenianae L-LI, 85-93 (2010).
Machala Z., Chládeková L., Pelach M.: Plasma agents in bio-decontamination by dc discharges in atmospheric air, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43, 222001 (2010).
Onderka M., Pekarova P., Miklanek P. et al.: Examination of the dissolved inorganic nitrogen budget in three experimental microbasins with contrasting land cover-a mass bala, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 210 (1-4), 251-261 (2010).
Stancu G.D., Janda M., Kaddouri F., Lacoste D., Laux C.O.: Time-Resolved CRDS Measurements of N2(A) Density Produced by Nanosecond Discharges in Atmospheric Pressure Nitrogen and Air, J. Phys. Chem. A 114, 201-208 (2010).
Hensel K.: Microdischarges in Ceramic Foams and Honeycombs, Eur. Phys. J. D 54 (2), 141-148 (2009).
Hensel K.: Studená plazma ako potenciálny nástroj na zlepšenie účinnosti automobilových katalyzátorov, Čs. čas. fyz. 59 (4), 255-256 (2009).
Hensel K., Machala Z., Tardiveau P.: Capillary Microplasmas for Ozone Generation, Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 47 (2), 22813 (2009).
Machala Z.: Plazma a živé organizmy, Čs. čas. fyz. 59 (6), 370-376 (2009).
Machala Z., Jedlovský I., Chládeková L., Pongrác B., Giertl D., Janda M., Šikurová L., Polčic P.: DC discharges in atmospheric air for bio-decontamination – spectroscopic methods for mechanism identification, Eur. Phys. J. D, 54, 195-204 (2009).
Malinovský L., Lukáč P., Foltín V., Morva I., Morvová M.: On the electron temperature dependence of the dissociative recombination of Ne-2(+) ions with electrons, Journal of Physics B - Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 42 (10), 105701 (2009).
Mikuš O., Lukáč P., Morva I., Zábudlá Z., Trnovec J., Morvová M.: Electron and gas temperature dependences of the dissociative recombination coefficient of molecular ions Ne-2(+) with electrons, Plasma Sources Science & Technology 18 (2), 025031 (2009).
Sato S., Hensel K., Hayashi H., Takashima K., Mizuno A: Honeycomb Discharge for Diesel Exhaust Cleaning, J. Electrostat. 67 (2-3), 77-83 (2009).
Hensel K., Sato S., Mizuno A.: Sliding Discharge inside Glass Capillaries, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 36 (4), 1282-1283 (2008).
Hensel K., Sato S., Mizuno A.: Electrical Discharge in Honeycomb Monolith, Chem. Listy 102 (16), s1318-s1321 (2008).
Hensel K., Tardiveau P.: ICCD Camera Imaging of Discharges in Porous Ceramics, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 36 (4), 980-981 (2008).
Janda M., Machala Z.: Transient spark discharge in N2/CO2/H2O mixtures at atmospheric pressure, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 36 (4), 916-917 (2008).
Janda M., Machala Z., Morvová M., Morva I.: Study of Plasma Induced Chemistry by DC Discharges Above Water Surface in CO2/N2/H2O Mixture, Orig. Life Evol. Biosph., 38, 23-35 (2008).
Leštinská L., Foltin V., Machala Z.: Emission Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Nitrogen Microwave Plasma, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 36, 962-963 (2008).
Leštinská L., Martišovitš V., Zahoran M., Machala Z.: Atmospheric pressure MW plasma for waste carbon treatment, Chemické listy 102 (16), S1428-S1431 (2008).
Machala Z., Jedlovský I., Martišovitš V.: DC discharges in atmospheric air and their transitions, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 36, 918-919 (2008).
Mikuš O., Lukáč P., Morva I., Morvová M., Foltin V.: The Dual Mode Microwave Afterglow Apparatus for Measuring the Electron Temperature Dependence of the Electron-Ion Recombination, Contributions to Plasma Physics 48 (4), 311-325 (2008).
Pawłat J., Ihara S., Hensel K., Yamabe C.: Treatment of Surfactants in the Foaming Column, Chem. Listy 102 (16), s1494-s1497 (2008).
Hensel K., Martišovitš V., Machala Z., Janda M., Leštinský M., Tardiveau P., Mizuno A.: Electrical and Optical Properties of AC Microdischarges in Porous Ceramics, Plasma Process. Polym. 4 (7-8), 682-693 (2007).
Janda M., Martišovitš V., Morvová M., Machala Z., Hensel K.: Monte Carlo simulations of electron dynamics in N2/CO2 mixtures, Eur. Phys. J. D 45 (2), 309-315 (2007).
Machala Z., Janda M., Hensel K., Jedlovský I., Leštinská L., Foltin V., Martišovitš V., Morvová M.: Emission Spectroscopy of Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas for Bio-medical and Environmental Applications, J. Molec. Spectrosc. 243 (2), 194-201 (2007).
Foltin V., Leštinská L., Machala Z.: Spectroscopic investigations of atmospheric pressure microwave torch nitrogen plasma jet, Czech. J. Phys. 56, B712-720 (2006).
Janda M., Hensel K., Martišovitš V., Morvová M.: Theoretical Study of Influence of H2O on Parameters of Low-Temperature Plasmas in Humid Mixtures, Czech. J. Phys. 56, B774-B780 (2006).
Pawłat J., Hensel K., Ihara S.: Generation of Oxidants and Removal of Indigo Blue by Pulsed Power in Bubbling and Foaming Systems, Czech. J. Phys. 56, B1174-B1178 (2006).
Hensel K., Katsura S., Mizuno A.: DC Microdischarges inside Porous Ceramics, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 33, 574-575 (2005).
Janda M., Machala Z., Morvová M., Franček V., Lukáč P.: WEB-EEDF: Open Source Software for Modeling the Electron Dynamics, Acta Physica Slovaca 55, 507-514 (2005).
Machala Z., Laux C.O. and Kruger C.H.: Transverse DC Glow Discharges in Atmospheric Pressure Air, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 33 - Special Issue on Plasma Images, 320-321 (2005).
Machala Z., Marode E., Morvová M., Lukáč P.: DC glow discharges in atmospheric air as a source for VOC abatement, Plasma Process. Polym. 2, 152-161 (2005).
Pawłat J., Hensel K., Ihara S.: Decomposition of Humic Acid and Methylene Blue by Electric Discharge in Foam, Acta Phys. Slovaca 55 (5), 479-485 (2005).
Hensel K., Matsui Y., Katsura S., Mizuno A.: Generation of Microdischarges in Porous Materials, Czech. J. Phys. 54, C683-C689 (2004).
Jašík J., Macko P., Martišovitš V., Lukáč P., Veis P.: A time - resolved study of the U - V radiation produced in the initial time period of a pulsed argon discharge, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 54 (6), 661 (2004).
Machala Z., Marode E., Laux C.O., Kruger C.H.: DC glow discharges in atmospheric pressure air, J. Advanced Oxid. Technol. 7, No. 2, 133-137 (2004).
Pawłat J., Hensel K.: Discoloration of the Solutions in the Foaming Environment, Czech. J. Phys. 54, C964-C969 (2004).
Morvová M., Morva I., Janda M., Hanic F., Lukáč P.: Combustion and carbonisation exhaust utilisation in electric discharge and its relation to prebiotic chemistry, Int. J. of Mass Spectrometry 223 (1-3): 613-625 Jan. 15 (2003).
Hensel K., Hayashi N., Yamabe C., Morvová M.: Positive DC Corona Discharge in N2-NO-CO2-O2 Mixtures, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 41 (1), 336-345 (2002).
Macko P., Martišovitš V., Veis P.: Vibrational population of the O-2(b(1) Sigma(+)(g)) state in a low-pressure oxygen pulsed discharge, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 51 (5), 491 (2001).
Hajossy R., Pastva P., Morva I.: Reply to comment on "Ignition of welding arc during a short-circuit of melted electrodes" (1999 J.Phys.D: Appl.Phys. Vol.32, p.1058), J.Phys. D: Appl.Phys. 33, 2342-2344 (2000).
Hanic F., Morvová M., Morva I.: Thermochemical Aspects of the Conversion of Gaseous System CO2-N2-H2O into Solid Mixture of Amino Acids, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Vol.60, 1111-1121 (2000).
Hensel K., Yamabe C.: Corona Discharge in NOx-COx Mixtures, Rep. Fac. Sci. Engrg. Saga Univ. 29 (1), 47-56 (2000).
Huczko A., Lange H., Sioda M., Rzanek-Boroch Z., Morvová M.: Plasma Decomposition of Carbon-Bearing Reactants, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, Vol.50 No.5, pp. 615-622 (2000).
Machala Z., Morvová M., Marode E., Morva I.: Removal of cyclohexanone in Transition Electric Discharges at Atmospheric Pressure, J.Phys. D: Appl.Phys., Vol.33 No 24, 3198-3213 (2000).
Morvová M., Hanic F., Morva I.: Plasma Technologies for Reducing CO2 Emissions from Combustion Exaust with Toxic Admixtures to Utilisable Products Sparing Energy and Environment, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Vol.61, 273-287 (2000).
Hajossy R., Pastva P., Morva I.: Ignition of welding arc during a short-circuit of melted electrodes, J. Phys.D.: Appl.Phys. 32, 1058-1065 (1999).
Morvová M.: The influence of water vapour and temperature on depletion of carbon monoxide in dc corona discharge, Czech.J.Phys. Vol.49, No.12, pp. 1703-1720 (1999).
Šáro Š., Matoš M., Martišovitš V.: The experimental pressent and future of superheavy nuclei synthesis, Acta Physica Slovaca 49 (1), 75 (1999).
Hajossy R., Morva I.: Optimum experimental design for reconstruction of flame front propagation in a long pipe, Measuring Science and Technology 9, 100-108 (1998).
Martišovitš V., Košinár I., Trnovec J., Zahoran M.: In situ monitoring of uniformity by and point signal during plasma etching, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 48 (10), 1225 (1998).
Morvová M.: DC corona discharge in CO2 - air and CO - air mixtures for various electrode materials, J.PhysD: Appl.Phys 31, pp. 1865-1874 (1998).
Kurdel M., Morvová M.: DC corona discharge influence on chemical composition in mixtures of natural gas with air and its combustion exhaust with air, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 205-215 (1997).
Martišovitš V., Zahoran M.: Transport of chemically active species in plasma reactor for etching, Plasma Sources Science & Technology 6 (3), 280 (1997).
Šimko T., Martišovitš V., Bretagne J., Gousset G.: Computer simulations of H+ and H3+ transport parameters in hydrogen drift tubes, Physical Review E. 56 (5), 5908 (1997).
Hajossy R., Morva I., Pavlík J., Šúra P.: A simple digital multilevel streak image of combustion,, Review of Scientific Instruments , 67, p. 733-736, (3) March (1996).
Hensel K., Morvová M.: The Conversion of NOx in a Corona Discharge with an Inner Electrode Material Variation, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 36 (1), 51-61 (1996).
Trnovec J., Martišovitš V.: Theoretical study of heterogeneous reactions during plasma etching and depasition by mass spectrometry of stable species, Acta Physica Slovaca 46 (1), 57 (1996).
Cernak M., van Velthuizen E.M., Morva I., Rutgers W.R.: Effect of cathode surface properties on glow-to-arc transition in a short positive corona gap in ambient air, J.Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 28, 1126-1132 (1995).
Hajossy R., Morva I., Martišovitš V.: Starting Short-Circuits in Gas Metal Arc Welding, Int.J. Joining of materials 7 (1), 1-7 (1995).
Heid R., Bazaliy Y. B., Martišovitš V., Cox D. L.: Staggered superconductivity in UPt3: A new phenomenological approach, Phys. Rev. Letters 74 (3), 2571-74 (1995).
Hajossy R., Morva I.: Cathode and anode falls of arcs with fusible electrodes, J.Phys.D.:Appl.Phys., 27, 2095-2101 (1994).
Hajossy R., Martišovitš V., Morva I.: Short-circuit duration as a criterion of precision for electric measurementsin arc, Acta Physica Slovaca 43 (1), 20 (1993).
Martišovitš V., Zahoran M., Košinár I., Trnovec J.: Effect of chemical reaction stoichiometry on the pressure variation in the etch chamber during etching of aluminium, Physics Letters A 173 (6), 462 (1993).
Morvová M., Morva I., Kurdel M.: The Use of Corona Discharge for Rubber Crush Drier Exhaust Control, Contribution of Plasma Physics 33, No.4, pp.285-295 (1993).
Martišovitš V., Miertušová J., Šurda V., Trnovec J., Zahoran M.: Investigations into deposit forming during aluminium etching in CCl4 plasma, Acta Physica Slovaca 36 (2), 116 (1986).
Morva I., Tegelhofová M.: Production of organometalic compounds by the explosion of a copper wire in xylene, water and their mixtures, Acta Physica Slovaca 36, No.3, 171-176 (1986).
Tegelhofová M., Martišovitš V.: Formation of polymer deposits in corona discharge of both polarities in CO and its mixtures with H2 and H2O, Acta Physica Slovaca 36, No.3, 164-170 (1986).
Tegelhofová M., Martišovitš V.: Chemical reactions in corona discharge in CO and its mixtures, Acta Physica Slovaca 33 (1), 25-35 (1983).
Veis P., Veisová E., Tegelhofová M.: Study of structural changes in surface layers of apples due to corona discharge, Acta Physica Slovaca 33, No.3, 195-198 (1983).
Červeňan Ľ, Martišovitš V.: A study of the radial distribution of the ultraviolet radiation from hollow cathode glow discharge, Acta Physica Slovaca 32 (6), 341 (1982).
Martišovitš V., Košinár I.: Influence of the two-stage ionisation on radial profiles of charged and metastable particles, Acta Physica Slovaca 32 (3-4), 217 (1982).
Pavlík J., Morva I.: Explosions of thin Cu and Al wires, Acta Physica Slovaca 32 (3-4), 205 (1982).
Teplanová K., Košinár I., Martišovitš V.: Numerical solution of the diffusion model of the electric sheath, Acta Physica Slovaca 32 (3-4), 235 (1982).
Červeňan Ľ, Martišovitš V.: A simple hollow cathode device for the study of the negative glow by the effusion technique, Acta Physica Slovaca 31 (4), 215 (1981).
Košinár I., Kryukov N.A., Reďko T.P.: Diffuzija atomov medi v inertnych gazach, Opt Spektrosk. 50, 62 (1981).
Košinár I., Reďko T.P.: Some dependences of the backround current in a Bennett radiofrequency mass spectrometer, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 30, 1293 (1980).
Košinár I., Martišovitš V., Teplanová K.: Theory of the electric sheat in the diffusion regime discharge plasma, Acta Physica Slovaca 29 (2), 139 (1979).
Luknárová M., Martišovitš V.: Measurement of electrical conductivity of low - temperature alkali plasma by week probing signals, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 29 (11), 1237 (1979).
Martišovitš V.: The interaction of plasma with a solid surface, Acta Physica Slovaca 29 (2), 133 (1979).
Martišovitš V.: Transport of metastable atoms in a positive column including radial variation of the excitation rate, Journal de Physique IV 40 (7), 185 (1979).
Martišovitš V.: Effect of collisions between the metastable atoms on their radial transport in a positive column at various spatial distribution, Journal de Physique IV 40 (7), 183 (1979).
Tegelhofová M., Martišovitš V.: Convection in corona discharge, Acta Physica Slovaca 29, No.2, 103-108 (1979).
Tegelhofová M., Martišovitš V.: The decomposition of carbon monoxide in corona discharge, Acta Physica Slovaca 28, No.1, 38-45 (1978).
Červeňan Ľ., Martišovitš V.: A study of the plasma column with attention to the region near the wall, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 26 (5), 507 (1976).
Martišovitš V., Kalužay J.: Amplitúdová modulácia jasu pri oscilografickom snímaní hmotového spektra, Československý časopis pro fyziku A 24, 254 (1974).
Červeňan Ľ, Martišovitš V.: A time - resolved study of the U - V radiation produced in the initial time period of a pulsed argon discharge, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 23 (12), 1333 (1973).
Košinár I.: Some dependences of the backround current in a Bennett radiofrequency mass spectrometer, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 23, 1219 (1973).
Košinár I.: A note on the mobility of some ions in a high field, Fyzikálny časopis SAV 22, 186 (1972).
Martišovitš V., Košinár I.: A note on the time-of-flihgt technique of the detection of metastable atoms, Journal of Physics B - Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 5 (10), L214 (1972).
Martišovitš V., Preložník V.: A study of the background current in a Bennett radio - frequency mass spectrometer, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 22 (11), 1102 (1972).
Martišovitš V.: Radial structure of the collision - dominated plasma column, Journal of Physics B - Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 3 (6), 850 (1970).
Martišovitš V., Szarka Š.: An investigation of the energy gain in Bennett´s radio - frequency mass spectrometer, Journal of Scientific Instruments ( Journal of Physics E), Series 2., 1 (3), 326 (1968).
Martišovitš V., Veis Š.: Quantitative description of blood oxygenation process in oxygenator for extracorporal circulation, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 29 (6), 485 (1967).
Martišovitš V.: Vysokofrekvenčný hmotový spektrometer, Matematicko-fyzikálny časopis SAV 13 (1), 72 (1963).
Hensel K., Le Delliou P., Tardiveau P., Pasquiers S.:: Discharge Propagation in Capillary Tubes Assisted by Bias Electric Field, 7th International Symposium on Electromagnetic Devices and Processes in Environment Protection ELMECO-7, Nałęczów (Poland), September 28-30, 39-40 (2011).
Morvová M., Morva I., Janda M.: Overview of removal methods for CO2 and other greenhouse gas and details of the method using non-thermal plasma, 139th TMS Annual Meeting, Symposium Carbon Dioxide and Other Greenhouse Gas Reduction Metallurgy, Seattle (USA), February 14-18, p. 3-14 (2010).
Hensel K., Janda M., Ráheľ J.: Generation of Discharges inside the Honeycomb Monolith Assisted by Diffuse Coplanar Surface Barrier Discharge, 19th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry ISPC 19, Bochum (Germany), July 26-31, CD-ROM (2009).
Hensel K., Kim H. H.: Effect of Noble Gases and Water Vapor on Discharge in Porous Ceramics, 19th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry ISPC 19, Bochum (Germany), July 26-31, CD-ROM (2009).
Hensel K., Leštinský M., Homola T., Ráheľ J.: Coplanar Surface Barrier Discharge Assisted Generation of Discharges inside the Honeycomb Monolith, 17th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes SAPP XVII, Liptovsky Jan (Slovakia), January 17-22, 163-164 (2009).
Hensel K., Mizuno A.: Formaldehyde Abatement by Atmospheric Plasma and Catalyst, 23rd Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology SPPT, Prague (Czech Republic), June 16-19, 149 (2008).
Hensel K., Sato S., Mizuno A.: Electrical Discharge in Honeycomb Monolith, 2nd Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry CESPC, Brno (Czech Republic), August 31 - September 4, 140-141 (2008).
Janda M., Stancu G.D., Spence T.G., Harb C., Kaddouri F., Pai D., Lacoste D., Laux C.O.: Measurements of N2(A) by pulsed cavity ringdown spectroscopy in repetitively pulsed nanosecond discharges, XVII International Conference on Gas Discharges and their Applications, Cardiff, UK, September 7-12, p. 385-388 (2008).
Morvova M., Martisovits V., Morva I., Kosinar I., Janda M., Kunecova D., Kolesarova N., Biskupicova V. and Morvova M. jr.: Non-thermal plasma based system for exhaust treatment in reduced atmosphere of pyrolysis gases, 3rd International School of Advances Plasma Technology, Varenna (Italy), July 28-31, p. 77-88 (2008).
Pawłat J., Ihara S., Hensel K., Yamabe C.: Treatment of Surfactants in the Foaming Column, 2nd Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry CESPC, Brno (Czech Republic), August 31 - September 4, 138-139 (2008).
Sato S., Hensel K., Takashima K., Mizuno A.: Generation Condition of Honeycomb Discharge, 6th Conference of the French Electrostatics Society, Paris (France), July 7-9, 366-371 (2008).
Sato S., Hensel K., Takashima K., Mizuno A.: Generation Condition of Discharge in Honeycomb Catalyst, IUMRS International Conference in Asia 2008 (IUMRS-ICA 2008), Nagoya (Japan), December 9-13 (2008).
Sato S., Hensel K., Yamauchi H., Takashima K., Mizuno A.: Emission Spectrum of Honeycomb Discharge, 32nd Annual Meeting of Institute of Electrostatics of Japan, Oita (Japan), September 18-19, 143-144 (2008).
Stancu G.D., Janda M., Kaddouri F., Pai D., Rolon J.C., Laux C.O.: Two-photon absorption laser induced fluorescence study of repetitively pulsed nanosecond discharges in atmospheric pressure air, 39th Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, Seattle, WA, June 23-26, AIAA 2008-3882 (2008).
Stancu G.D., Janda M., Kaddouri F., Spence T.G., Harb C., Lacoste D., Laux C.O.: Study of nanosecond repetetively pulsed discharges in atmospheric air or nitrogen by advanced laser diagnostic techniques, Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised Gases (ESCAMPIG), Granada (Spain), July 15-19 (CD-ROM, Topic 5) (2008).
Čermák P., Varga J., Macko P., Martišovitš V., Veis P.: Study of nitrogen dielectric barrier discharge at near and over atmospheric pressure by optical emission spectroscopy, 16th Annual Conference of Doctoral Students WDS07, Prague (Czech Republic), June 5-8, p. 101-05 (2007).
Hensel K., Sato S.: Elektrické a optické vlastnosti výbojov v sklenných kapilárach, Moderné trendy vo fyzike plazmy a pevných látok III, Bratislava (Slovakia), October 4, 46-49 (2007).
Hensel K., Tardiveau P.: ICCD Camera Imaging of Microdischarges in Porous Ceramics, 27th Annual Meeting of Institute of Electrostatics of Japan, Tsukuba (Japan), September 10-11, 5-6 (2007).
Hensel K., Tardiveau P.: Vizualizácia mikrovýbojov v poréznych keramikách, Moderné trendy vo fyzike plazmy a pevných látok III, Bratislava (Slovakia), October 4, 43-45 (2007).
Leštinský M., Hensel K.: Odstraňovanie NO pomocou mikrovýbojov v poréznych keramikách, Moderné trendy vo fyzike plazmy a pevných látok III, Bratislava (Slovakia), October 4, 82-85 (2007).
Leštinský M., Hensel K., Martišovitš V.: Ozone Generation by Microdischarges in Porous Ceramics, 16th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes, Podbanské (Slovakia), January 20-25, 217-218 (2007).
Sato S., Hensel K., Yamauchi H., Takashima K., Mizuno A.: Emission Spectroscopy of Sliding Discharge inside Quartz Capillary Tubes at Atmospheric Pressure, 27th Annual Meeting of Institute of Electrostatics of Japan, Tsukuba (Japan), September 10-11, 1-2 (2007).
Stancu G.D., Janda M., Pai D., Lacoste D.A. and Laux C.O.: Laser-based diagnostics of repetitively pulsed nanosecond discharges in atmospheric pressure air, 7th Cavity Ring Down User meeting, Greifswald, Germany, Book of abstracts, 43 (2007).
Janda M., Hensel K., Martišovitš V., Morvová M.: Theoretical Study of the Influence of H2O on Parameters of Low-Temperature Plasma in Humid Mixtures, 22nd Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology SPPT, Prague (Czech Republic), June 26-29, 39-40 (2006).
Pawłat J., Hensel K., Ihara S.: Generation of Liquid Phase Oxidants in Bubbles and Foam, 22nd Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology SPPT, Prague (Czech Republic), June 26-29, 79-80 (2006).
Morvová M., Morva I., Fógelová B.,Obderka M., Lukáč P.: Synergetic Effect of Non-Thermal Plasma Based Systems and Electrolysis for Waste-Water Treatment, Proc. of 15th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes and 3rd EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing, Podbanské (Slovakia), January 15-20, 215-216 (2005).
Morvová M., Morva I., Hanic F., Košinár I., Amena M., Franček V., Janda M., Fógelová B., Vláčilíková J.: Pyrolýza drevnej hmoty spojená s výrobou tepla, kvapalných a plynných palív a so zabezpečením čistenia exhalátov, Využitie ihličnatej kalamitnej hmoty na energetické účely: odborný seminár s medzinárodnou účasťou, Trenčín, Slovakia, January 17 (2005).
Morvová M., Morva I., Hensel K., Košinár I., Lukáč P.: The Removal of CO2, CO, NOx and Nicotine from Tobacco Smoke Using Non-Thermal Plasma System, 15th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes and 3rd EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing, Podbanské (Slovakia), January 15-20, 217-218 (2005).
Pawłat J., Hensel K., Ihara S.: Decomposition of Humic Acids and Methylene Blue during the Electrical Discharge in Foam, 15th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes and 3rd EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing, Podbanské (Slovakia), January 15-20, 229-230 (2005).
Hensel K., Matsui Y., Katsura S., Mizuno A.: Generation of Micro-discharge in Porous Material, 21st Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology SPPT, Prague (Czech Republic), June 14-17, CD-ROM (2004).
Matsui Y., Hensel K., Takashima K., Katsura S., Mizuno A.: Micro-discharge in Porous Ceramics, International COE Forum on Plasma Science and Technology, Nagoya (Japan), April 5-7, 65-66 (2004).
Morvová M., Morva I., Hensel K., Pawłat J., Košútová Z.: Non-Thermal Plasma Influence on Tobacco Smoke, International COE Forum on Plasma Science and Technology, Nagoya (Japan), April 5-7, 281-282 (2004).
Pawłat J., Hensel K.: Discoloration of the Solutions in the Foaming Environment, 21st Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology SPPT, Prague (Czech Republic), June 14-17, CD-ROM (2004).
Sawada J.,Matsui Y., Hensel K., Koyamoto I., Takashima K., Katsura S., Mizuno A.: Microdischarge in Porous Ceramics for Exhaust Gas Cleaning, 5th International Conference on Applied Electrostatics ICAES 2004, Shanghai (China), November 2-5, 128-131 (2004), published in the book 'Recent Development in Applied Electrostatics', editors S. Keping and Y. Gefei, Elsevier (2004).
Hensel K., Pawłat J., Mizuno A.: Combination of Plasma and Catalyst for Removal of Formaldehyde, 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry ISPC 16, Taormina (Italy), June 22-27, paper ISPC-215, CD-ROM (2003).
Hensel K., Pawłat J., Takashima K., Mizuno A.: Possibilities of Formaldehyde Removal by Discharge Plasma, International Joint Power Generation Conference IJPGC 2003, Georgia (USA), June 15-19, paper IJPGC2003-40149, CD-ROM (2003).
Hensel K., Pawłat J., Takashima K., Mizuno A.: Treatment of HCHO Using Corona Discharge and Pellet Catalysts, 30th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science ICOPS 2003, Cheju (Korea), June 2-5, 276 (2003).
Chmielewská E., Morvová M., Vojs M., Gáplovská K: Microporous carbon coated clinoptilolite rich tuff carrier vs. Other related materials for phenol removal, 3er Congreso Mexicano de Zeolitas Naturales - Zacatecas, 9.-12.11.2003, MX, Universidad Autonoma metropolitana, pp. 46-49 (2003).
Morvová M., Morva I., Hanic F.: The Model for Origin of Life due to Exhaust Utilisation in Electric Discharge, 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Taormina, Italy June 22-27, (2003).
Morvová M., Morva I., Janda M., Hanic F., Lukáč P.: Non-thermal plasma technique applied to waste carbonisation, 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Edited by R. d´Agostino, P. Favia, F. Fracassi, F. Palumbo, Taormina, Italy, June 22-27, Book of Abstracts (2003).
Morvová M., Svetková K, Fógelová B., Janda M., Hanic F., Morva I., Lukáč P.: Non-thermal Plasma Technique Applied to Waste Carbonization, 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Taormina, Italy June 22-27, Abstracts and full papers CD (2003).
Pawłat J., Hensel K., Yamabe C., Mizuno A.: Possibilities of VOC Treatment in Cylindrical Foaming Reactor, 16th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry ISPC 16, Taormina (Italy), June 22-27, paper ISPC-251, CD-ROM (2003).
Pawłat J., Hensel K., Yamabe C., Mizuno A.: Cylindrical Foaming Reactor - Electrical Discharge in Foam Bubbles, International Joint Power Generation Conference IJPGC 2003, Georgia (USA), June 15-19, paper IJPGC2003-40163, CD-ROM (2003).
Pawłat J., Hensel K., Yamabe C., Mizuno A.: Acetaldehyde Treatment in Foaming Column, 30th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science ICOPS 2003, Cheju (Korea), June 2-5, 276 (2003).
Morvová M., Majková E., Dubničková A.Z.: Education and employment for women in physics in Slovakia, AIP Conference Proceedings, Paris, 7.-9.3.2002, AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol.628, Paris-IUPAP, pp.215-216 (2002).
Morvová M., Morva I., Lukáč P., Hanic F.: Plasmochemical reactions in electrical discharges for environmental applications, Invited lecture in 1st International Conference on Global Research and Education, Bratislava, Slovakia, Conference Proceedings pp.45-52, September 23-26 (2002).
Hensel K., Hayashi N., Yamabe C., Morvová M.: Spectroscopic Study of Positive Corona Discharge in Mixtures Containing N2, NO, CO2, O2 and H2O, 25th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases XXV ICPIG, Nagoya (Japan), July 17-21, vol.4, 19-23 (2001).
Hensel K., Hayashi N., Yamabe C., Morvová M.: Spectroscopic Study of Positive Corona Discharge in Mixtures Containing N2, NO, CO2, O2 and H2O, 3rd International Symposium on Non-thermal Plasma Technology for Pollution Control ISPNT-3, Seogwipo (Korea), April 23-27, 219-222 (2001).
Hensel K., Ihara S., Satoh S., Hayashi N., Yamabe C., Morvová M.: The Effect of Water on the Positive Streamer Corona Discharge in N2-NO-CO2 Mixtures, 2nd Polish-Japanese Hakone Group Symposium on Non-thermal Plasma Processing of Water and Air, Nagoya (Japan), July 23-24, 72-76 (2001).
Hensel K., Yamabe C., Morvová M.: The Analysis of Dry and Wet Gas Mixtures Containing NOx-CO2 Treated by Positive DC Streamer Corona Discharge, 4th International Conference on Applied Electrostatics, Dalian (China), October 8-12, 288-291 (2001).
Morvová M., Morva I., Janda M.: Utilisation of CO2, fixation of nitrogen and exhaust gas cleaning in electric discharge with electrode catalysis, APP Spring meeting in Diagnostic of Non-Equilibrium High Pressure Plasmas, Bad Honnef, Germany, February 18-21, 209-212, (2001).
Morvová M., Morva I., Lukáč P.: Plasmochemical Reactions in Electric Discharges, 14th Symposium FSO, Ed. Brno Technological University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Book of Invited Lectures, pp.238-251 (2001).
Hensel K., Yamabe C.: Spectroscopic Study of Corona Discharge in N2-NO-CO2 Mixtures, 10th Asian Conference on Electrical Discharge ACED-2000, Kyoto (Japan), November 6-7, paper A-118, 103-106 (2000).
Hensel K., Yamabe C., Morvová M.: Corona Discharge in NOx-COx, 3rd International Symposium on Electromagnetic Devices And Processes In Environment Protection ELMECO 2000, Lublin (Poland), June 4-6, 15 (2000).
Hensel K., Yamabe C., Morvová M.: Some Aspects of Corona Discharge in Mixtures Containing NOx-COx, 1999 Japan-Korea Joint Symposium on Electrical Discharge and High Voltage Engineering, Kitakyushu (Japan), October 25-26, 141-143 (1999).
Morvová M., Morva I., Hanic F.: Single Step Removal of CO2 Incorporating CO2 and Nitrogen Fixation from Gas Phase in Electric Discharge, Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Editors: P.Riemer, B. Eliason, and A. Wokaun, Elsevier Science Ltd., 137-142 (1999).
Morvová M., Morva I., Janda M.: Utilisation of CO2, fixation of nitrogen and exhaust gas cleaning in electric discharge with electrode catalysis, 3th Czech-Rusian Seminar on Electrophysical and Thermochemical Processes in Low Temperature Plasma, Brno, Czech Republic, November 16-19, 100-103 (1999).
Morvová M., Hanic F., Morva I.: Chemical and physical processes in conversion of the geseous system CO2-N2-H2O into solid condensate of amino acids, Book of contributed papers from 11th Symposium on elementary processes and chemical reactions in low temperature plasma, Part 2, pp. 237-241, Ed.Morvová M.&K.Hensel, JSMF, ISBN 80-967454-8-4 (1998).
Morvová M., Morva I., Košútová Z.: Corona discharge effects on tobacco smoke, Book of contributed papers from 11th Symposium on elementary processes and chemical reactions in low temperature plasma, Part 2, pp. 232-236, Ed.Morvová M.&K.Hensel, JSMF, ISBN 80-967454-8-4 (1998).
Morvová M., Gašparík R., Hensel K., Švehla B.: Simultaneous Removal of SiF4 and NOx Using Corona Discharge, 5th International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry HAKONE V, Mílovy (Czech Republic), September 2-4, 92-96 (1996).
Ružinská E., Kurdel M., Morvová M.: Influence of DC corona discharge with one electrode deep in water on the mixture of combustion products of natural gas with natural gas, Book of Contributed Papers from V. International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry HAKONE V, pp. 290-294, Mílovy, September 2-4 (1996).
Hensel K., Morvová M.: Conversion of NOx in Corona Discharge with Inner Electrode Material Variation, 30th Nordic Plasma and Gas Discharge Symposium, Geilo (Norway), February 5-8 (1995).
Trnovec J., Martišovitš V., Košinár I., Juráni R.: In situ monitoring of plasma etching and deposition by using the gas pressure difference, 12th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry, Mineapolis, USA, August 21-25, p. 379-384 (1995).
Hensel K., Morvová M.: Removal of NOx in Corona Discharge at the Atmospheric Pressure with Inner Electrode Material Variation, 10th Symposium on Elementary Processes and Chemical Reactions in Low Temperature Plasma, Stará Lesná (Slovakia), September 5-9, 18 (1994).
Morvová M.: The effect of dc corona discharge with various electrode materials on exhaust components, Book of invited papers from 10th Symposium on elementary processes and chemical reactions in low temperature plasma, pp.155-183, Stará Lesná, High Tatras, September 5.-9. (1994).
Šimko T., Martišovitš V., Bretagne J.: On the accuracy of the Wannier formula during nonstationary period of ionic transport, 12th ESCAMPIG, Noordwijkerhout, NL, August 23-26, p. 258-259 (1994).
Morvová M., Kurdel M., Morva I.: The Plasmochemical and Electrocatalytical Effects of Corona Discharge of Both Polarities on CO and CO2 Mixtures with Air for Various Materials of Electrodes, Book of Contributed Papers from IV International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry HAKONE IV, pp.159-164, Bratislava, August 30th-September 1st (1993).
Morvová M., Morva I., Kurdel M.: Corona Discharge Action on Combustion Exhausts, Book of Contributed Papers from IV International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry HAKONE IV, pp. 93-98, Bratislava, August 30th-September 1st (1993).
Morvová M., Morva I., Kurdel M.: Corona discharge action on combustion exhaust, Book of Contributed Papers from IV International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry HAKONE IV, pp.93-98, Bratislava, August 30th-September 1st (1993).
Morvová M., Morva I.: Denox and desox by corona discharge, 8th Symposium on Elementary Processes and Chemical reaction in Low Temperature Plasma, Book of Contributed Papers, pp.45-49, JSMF, Bratislava (1990).
Martišovitš V., Košinár I.: Effect of the two - stage ionization on radial transport of charged and metastable particles, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Minsk, Soviet Union, July 14-18, p. 745 (1981).
Košinár I., Martišovitš V., Veis: Effect of boundary conditions on radial transport of metastable atoms in a positive column, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Berlin, Germany, September 12-17, p. 233 (1977).
Martišovitš V., Košinár I., Tarábek P., Veis Š.: Destruction of metastable atoms by electron impact in the argon and neon positive column, European Conference on Atomic and Milecular Physics of Ionized Gases : ESCAMPIG, Bratislava, Slovakia, August 24-26, p. 94-95 (1976).
Martišovitš V., Košinár I., Tarábek P., Veis: An experimental study of metastable atom flux to the tube wall in an argon positive column of glow discharge, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Eindhoven, NL, August 18-22, p. 59 (1975).
Martišovitš V., Košinár I., Veis: A theoretical study of metastable atom diffusion in a positive column of glow discharge, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Eindhoven, NL, August 18-22, p. 60 (1975).
Martišovitš V.: The ion current to the discharge tube wall in a positive column of an argon discharge, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Prague, Czechoslovakia, September 10-14, p. 140 (1973).
Martišovitš V.: Mobilities of ions in the parent gas over a wide range of values of E/N, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Vol. 1 Contributed Papers, Oxford, GB, September 13-18, p. 3 (1971).
Martišovitš V.: Pressure dependence of "neutral flow" effusing from an argon positive column, International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Vol. 1 Contributed Papers, Oxford, GB, September 13-18, p. 122 (1971).
Martišovitš V., Červeňan: Time - resolved measurements of a "neutral flow" effusing from an argon positive column, ICPIG 1971: 10 th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Oxford , 13.-18.9.1971. GB, September 13-18, p. 123 (1971).
Martišovitš V.: Kineatic energy distribution for ions reaching the wall of the discharge tube at the low-pressure regime, 4th Czechoslovak Conference on Electronics and Vacuum Physics, Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 7-12, p. 161 (1968).
Martišovitš V.: Die Anwendung des Hochfrequenz - massenspektrometers zur Untersuchung der Glimmentlandung, 3rd Czechoslovak Conference on Electronics and Vacuum Physics Transaction, Prague, Czechoslovakia, September 23-28, p. 103 (1965).
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Growing up, I have many fond memories of Fisher Price toys. Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments has been turning those fond memories into ornaments for us to relive those wonderful childhood memories during the holiday season.
The First to Start the Series….
In 2007, Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments started the Fisher Price series with toys from years ago. The first in the series is the See N Say. A childhood classic toy, the See N Say, made by Fisher Price is a 2007 Hallmark Keepsake ornament. Pull on the string and hear the authentic sounds of education.
The Barn with all the Animals….
I will never forget when you opened the barn door on the farm and it would make a mooing sound. The Play Family Farm does the same! This 2008, Hallmark Keepsake ornament, Play Family Farm, is the classic toy that displays sounds on a farm. Open the barn door on this Hallmark Keepsake ornament and see what animal sound you hear.
The Newest Addition to the Series….
The newest Fisher Price Hallmark Keepsake Ornament is the Change-a-Tune Piano. Rotate the knob to hear one of three classic tunes.
The 2011 Little People Lil Movers Fire Truck, is what is the featured picture for this blog entry.
Two of my Personal Favorites….
From the Hallmark Fisher Price Ornament series, my two favorites are the 2009 Chatter Telephone and the 2009 School Bus.
A miniature version of the 1960’s classic Fisher Price toy, the Chatter Telephone has all of the bright color and the wheels move like that original one. The School Bus has the wheels that move and the bus driver and people inside.
What are everyone’s big plans for the weekend? We have Aiden the Elf’s birthday party Saturday that we are all looking forward to. I think we will finish up with the Christmas decorations and get up the last of the trees. Of course we will have some work to do because an elf’s work is never done. It is a good thing we love what we do!
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Do not forget to check The Ornament Factory out on our other social media. We are on Facebook,Twitter , and Instagram!
Hey everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! The elves and I had a great weekend and enjoyed a lot of yummy food! We were able to get some more decorating done too. Jack the elf has been busy with the outside lights. Elves, Brandon, Big Daniel, and Aiden have been hard at work doing some of the inside decorating getting the big tree up and lights on it. It takes some time but it looks amazing when they are done. Ben and Nathan have been busy shopping. This time of year is always magical!
I have always enjoyed looking outside and seeing the different birds. The more colorful the better. Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments has a special collection of just birds called Beauty of Birds. This series celebrates many different types of birds for the holidays.
The Start of Beauty of Birds….
The Beauty of Birds series started in 2005 with the Northern Cardinal, Beauty of Birds #1. The stunning Cardinal would look beautiful on any tree!
The 2015 Western Tanager, Beauty of Birds #11 is another beautiful bird in the series. Looking spectacular with his red and gold plumes, the Western Tanager is the 11th in the Beauty of Birds series. Add him to your collection and you can almost hear him singing in the pinewood tree.
Cedar Waxwing, Beauty of Birds #9 was introduced in 2013. Love the beauty of backyard birds? This year’s addition to the Beauty of Birds series features an artistically crafted cedar waxwing. He’s proudly perched on a twig of mistletoe, which just might become this berry eater’s next meal.
The last of the series I would like to share is Pine Grosbeak. This Hallmark Keepsake Ornament joined the series in 2016 and is 12th in the series. Holding a twig a berries to share this beauty has vibrant colors to make it stand out.
You could make an entire tree out of this Hallmark Keepsake series. If you have a bird lover in your family or friends these would make a great Christmas gift. I have seen some people that have smaller trees decorated with some of the Beauty of Birds Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments too.
Back to work I go! Lots to do here at The Ornaments Factory! I am looking forward to later when I can go home and get some more decorating done. I have some great ideas for more lights. You can never have enough Christmas lights.
Happy Thanksgiving from The Ornament Factory!
All of us elves wanted to wish you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving! We all cannot wait to sit down with the other elves and enjoy a delicious meal together.
Some of our traditions for Thanksgiving are watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, making dinner, watching the Peanuts Thanksgiving movie, and sharing what we are all thankful for. We are all thankful for each and every one of you.
Here are two of the Thanksgiving ornaments we have.
Here is the 2013, Giving Thanks, ornament.
This is the 2012, Thanksgiving Feast.
The BIG question about Harley Davidson and The Grinch.
Hello fellow Hallmark Keepsake Ornament fans! All of the elves here at The Ornament Factory have been receiving many questions about two of the well loved Hallmark Ornament series. I am here to set the record straight on them.
The question we have been asked a lot lately is why is there no new 2018 Harley Davidson or Grinch Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments? This is a good question from fans of those two series.
Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments no longer has the licensing agreement for Harley Davidson and The Grinch. The 2017 Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments for these two well loved series were the last.
These two series could still return. Back in 2012 Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments had this very thing happen with Mattel and had to stop making a popular series, Barbie, among others. In 2015 the beloved Barbie series came back as Hallmark was able to get the licensing agreement back. Barbie even did something cute with one of the 2015 ornaments. They did the Celebration Barbie from the two years that were missed. These were the 2013 and 2014 Celebration Barbie Ornament Set and the 2013 and 2014 Celebration Barbie Ornament set (African American).
All of the previous years Hallmark Ornaments from the Harley Davidson series and The Grinch series are still available! You can still order them from The Ornament Factory.
A Few of the Harley Davidson Ornaments….
The 1999 Electra-Glide continues the evolution of this classic touring motorcycle. The Electra-Glide name became part of the Harley-Davidson legend when an electric starter was added to the Panhead motor in 1965. The Panhead gave way to the Shovelhead (1966) and Evo (1984). This series will feature a selection of motorcycles from Harley-Davidson’s 96-year history. Add the1999 Electra-Glide, Mini Harley-Davidson #1 to your collection today.
The next Harley Davidson Hallmark Ornament for you to see is the 2003 100th Anniv. Ed. Ultra Classic Electra Glide. Since its introduction in 1965, the mighty Electra Glide has reigned supreme as the King of the Highway. For the 100th Anniversary of Harley-Davidson, the 2003 Ultra Classic Electra Glide takes touring comfort to new levels with its powerful Twin Cam 88 V-twin engine mated to a smooth 5-speed transmission. The Ultra features electronic cruise control, front and rear speakers, fairing and lowers, CB, intercom for rider and passenger, and spacious saddlebags and Tour Pak. With its striking Black and Sterling Silver paint, special anniversary badges, and gold cast wheels, the 2003 Ultra Classic Electra Glide ranks easily as one of the most beautiful motorcycles on the road.
The last Harley Davidson Hallmark Ornament for you to see in this blog is the 2000 Fat Boy, Harley Davidson #2. The Fat Boy was introduced in 1990, styled in a monochromatic silver/gray with contrasting, sparse yellow highlights. Its Evolution engine, narrowed front fenders, and custom air cleaner make it the ultimate Factory Custom in the Softail family line.
A Couple of the Grinch Ornaments we have in Stock….
The Grinch has been a well loved Hallmark Ornament series. Here are a few of the Hallmark Ornaments we currently have in stock.
We will start with the 1998 The Grinch. This 1998 Hallmark Keepsake Ornament features the Dr. Suess character, “The Grinch.” This Hallmark ornament in the first Grinch ornament produced by Hallmark. Don’t forget his dog, Max, who the Grinch is holding in his arms, in this Hallmark Christmas ornament.
Another well loved The Grinch Hallmark Keepsake Ornament is the 2003 The Grinch and Cindy-Lou Who. The Grinch dressed as Santa with Cindy Lou Who makes up this 2003 Hallmark Keepsake ornament. There are two separate ornaments to help recreate the last part of the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The last Hallmark Ornament for The Grinch series I will be sharing today is the 2008 A Smile Most Unpleasant. The Grinch is stealing Christmas in the Hallmark Keepsake ornament.
A few weeks ago I did a blog on the Hallmark Keepsake series, Puppy Love. Just to balance it out here is the series from Hallmark Ornaments for the kitten lovers, Mischievous Kittens. The series started back in 1999 and has continued every year since.
First in the Mischievous Kittens Hallmark Ornament Series is Mischievous Kittens #1. This is a hard to find ornament. This 1999 Hallmark Keepsake Ornament features a very playful kitten who seems to want a goldfish as a friend.
it starts to roll around! Third in the Mischievous Kittens Hallmark Ornament Series, 2001 Mischievous Kittens #3 would be a great addition to your Christmas tree.
Twas the night before Christmas,and Kitty was stirring, lapping up milk and happily purring, when, what to her mischievous eyes did appear, but Santa himself who smiled through his beard. I believe that’s my milk he said with a pat, but you’re welcome to it, you have been such a good cat. #10 in the Mischievous Kittens Hallmark Keepsake Ornament series.
The 2018 Hallmark Keepsake Mischievous Kitten#20….
Mischievous Kitten #20 from the popular Mischievous Kitten series was first released in July of 2018. This has a playful kitten sitting in a red box adorned with white snowflakes, playing and getting tangled in the lights and garland. This is a must have to the kitten lover in your life.
Are you a dog lover or a cat lover. That seems to a debate that comes up when we talk about the Hallmark Puppy Love Series and the Mischievous Kitten series. Leave us a comment with which is your favorite and why. I know Jack the Elf and I are big puppy lovers.
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Every year, my students are surprised when I tell them that a half-mile wall (six feet tall and one foot wide) was constructed to segregate Black people from a White Neighborhood in Detroit.
When was this wall built? 1700s? 1800s? The surprise is palpable when I reveal the truth: 1941.
Damningly, this wall was not built against the wishes of the US government, but instead to please the federal government. The wall was built by a White housing developer in order to gain a FHA insurance (providing great deals on mortgages). Before building the wall, the government denied the White developers the loan. After building the wall, the government accepted the loan. Again, the wall was built in 1941 in a northern city with the full endorsement of the federal government.
Facts like these destroy a certain myth about America, the “clean” narrative that racism is some long-forgotten monster (confined to the south of course) that was undid completely by the magic beans of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, leading to one giant melting pot where we all live happily ever after.
Wrong. Racism was a concerted and intentional force of nature fully enabled and promoted by the United States government well into the 20th century.
Government-sponsored racism occurred not just in Alabama and Mississippi, but also Detroit, Cleveland, San Francisco, Miami, and pretty much any other urban center you can think of.
Richard Rothstein’s book, “The Color of Law,” pokes holes in the ‘history book’ narrative of our not-so-post-racial society. I recently read this book, and my main takeaway was how many different ways that our federal, state, and local government directly played a role in racially segregating the country. These policies of segregation eventually ended, but there were no efforts to undo their effects. We still live in segregation’s shadow.
The main argument put forward by Richard Rothstein is that America has created a caste system through systematic exploitation and geographic separation of African Americans through “racially explicit government policies” .
That’s a fancy way of saying that this was intentional, it was not hidden, and it was meant to keep African American people subjugated and separated from White society.
It’s a damning claim, but one that Rothstein backs up with direct evidence from local ordinances, federal laws, and other primary source documentation.
Like all other cities in America, Philadelphia was “redlined” by HOLC: Black neighborhoods (in red) were deemed the riskiest neighborhoods simply because Black people lived there.
New Deal programs: In order to stimulate the economy after the Great Depression in the 1930s and 1940s, President Roosevelt created various government programs such as the CCC, the PWA, and the TVA. The PWA (Public Works Administration), for example, created thousands of ‘whites only’ and ‘blacks only’ housing projects across America, from the north to the south .
Public Housing: Public housing projects built to help low-income people furthered pre-existing segregation. In Detroit, for example, public housing for low-income people was put in predominantly African American neighborhoods and far away from predominantly White neighborhoods. Policies like this ensured that low income and Black neighborhoods stayed one and the same.
FHA and HOLC: This is a big one. In order to encourage middle-class families to buy single-family homes in suburbs, US President Franklin Roosevelt created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) in order to issue lower-interest, more favorable mortgages to struggling citizens. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was created to insure bank mortgages of these more favorable HOLC mortgages. In order to assess a neighborhood’s risk, HOLC created color-coded maps of every metropolitan area in the country. Guess What? If a neighborhood had any African Americans who lived in it, that neighborhood received the highest level of risk (even if it was a middle-class neighborhood). As for the FHA, they made an intentional policy of insuring homes only if they “continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes.” The FHA rejected their great mortgages to African Americans (due to their perceived high risk) or to Whites in Black neighborhoods; this encouraged White people to move to all-White suburbs, where their mortgages would be guaranteed at great rates. By 1950, the FHA was insuring about half of homes nation-wide. This essentially meant that state-sponsored segregation took hold in metropolitan areas: cities (black and low income) and newly-formed suburbs (white families). This is more or less the same system that exists today .
US courts: The Supreme Court, federal courts, and local courts repeatedly upheld racist housing covenants set up by private White organizations to keep Black people out of their neighborhoods. In hundreds of cases, time after time, judges said that neighborhoods and towns that excluded people based on race did not violate the constitution because they were private agreements. This occurred until the mid-late twentieth century, and there were never any government efforts to undo the damage caused .
IRS and taxes: Often, racist restrictive housing covenants were endorsed by churches. On Chicago’s south side for example, signatures for a whites-only neighborhood covenant were jointly organized by the priest of a catholic church and the rabbi of a temple. Nonetheless, the many religious figures and institutions that played a role in promoting segregation continued to pay no taxes. The IRS sat aside and watched as this all played out when they should have stripped these peoples’ tax exempt status for promoting segregation .
Police-enabled violence: There were hundreds of acts of violence towards Black families who tried to move into predominantly White neighborhoods, and these acts were not taken seriously and even supported by the police. In 1957, Bill and Daisy Myers, an African American couple, bought a home in Levittown, Pennsylvania, which had a covenant that banned African Americans. Around 600 demonstrators showed up to throw rocks at the family, fly the Confederate Flag, and blast music all night. Police were given orders to not interfere with rioters, and they sat back for months as crosses were burned, a KKK symbol was painted on a next door house, and the Myers’ home was vandalized. After months, the state of Pennsylvania took action against the rioters, but Bill and Daisy Myers moved away from Levittown, Pennsylvania several years after they moved in. Acts like these proved that racism occurred with government enabling not just in the south, but in places all over the country, such as Chicago, Detroit, Miami, and Pennsylvania .
Richard Rothstein’s “The Color of Law” changes the game because he asserts that segregation happened in large part because of intentional government policy and decisions, not just the incidental decisions of private citizens.
The implication of this is that the government needs to have a central role in resolving harm created from segregation.
The harm is stark: today, the median white family income is about $60,000 and the median black family income is about $37,000; however, median White household wealth is about $134,000 while median Black household wealth is about $11,000 .
I will repeat that statistic: median White household wealth is about $134,000 while median Black household wealth is about $11,000.
What that means is that White children, on average, receive a huge advantage from the day they are born. Wealth breeds stability, protection from emergencies, and leisures that provide a stable upbringing. White privilege in its purest and most factual form.
Where did that wealth disparity come from? A large part of that is because White families took advantage of FHA/HOLC mortgages that were largely obscured from Black families, who could not buy homes in the suburbs because their very presence in a neighborhood made their loan uninsurable according to FHA/HOLC guidelines.
Remember those FHA loans that White people got and Black people could not get? That home that a White family bought in the suburb became $$$$$$$$$.
Look at housing prices over time. If a White family bought a single-family home in 1963, on average, they would have accumulated nearly $200,000 in wealth from that home. What happens to that wealth? It trickles down to the next generation…of White Americans. Black Americans stay stuck because they continued to rent, mostly unable to buy homes in the lily White suburbs.
Because of Rothstein’s evidence that government policies played such a direct role in this segregation, the government has an obligation to help fix this. Rothstein proposes a variety of fixes to all of the problems.
For example, he suggests the government buying up properties in predominantly White suburbs at today’s market prices (e.g. $350,000) and resold to African Americans for discounted prices that their Grandparents should have been entitled to (e.g. $75,000). He also suggests banning ordinances on zoning rules that ban multifamily housing (e.g. apartments) in largely single-family neighborhoods. These rules obviously affect people of color (who have much less wealth) more than White Americans, and they are “racist without saying they are racist” type of rules .
Ultimately and sadly, these solutions would be unpalatable to a large majority of (White) Americans, who are very content with the current state of affairs and who prefer to pretend that racial segregation is an incidental phenomenon that has no attribution to their government or their ancestors.
Ah, yes. Education. The whole point of my blog.
The implications of government-sponsored and government-enabled segregation are huge on our education system. The wealth accrued due to segregation directly leads to who has money today. Then, this lack of school diversity in a diverse country creates a caste system, one that reverberates into schools.
Upper caste: Largely white and upper income kids go to the quality schools in the suburbs, lavished with all the trappings of the good life: working air conditioning and heating, happy and experienced teachers, music, art, activities, students who stay in the same schools, and parental involvement in school.
Lower caste: Largely people of color and lower income kids go to low quality schools in the inner city. In fact, their schools are the ones that shut down in favor of inconsistent (and often for-profit) charter schools. Students in these schools face inexperienced and ineffective teachers (who leave for the stable ‘burbs as soon as they can), dilapidated school conditions, poverty, violence in and out of school, and trauma faced due to the effects of poverty.
If you don’t believe that this is true, try being a teacher like I have been for the last half decade. I have taught in various urban and suburban schools. My finding? Schools match the communities that they are in. Housing and economics matter when it comes to schools. Period. The two are inexorably intertwined.
Don’t believe me? Look at this list put together by School Niche of Metro Detroit’s top schools for 2018. Suburban schools where largely White families have accrued wealth through their housing are right at the top. Birmingham, Troy, Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe. Obviously, lots of new money has flooded these suburbs in the last half-century, but plenty of old money remains from the days when the FHA and HOLC made sure that those suburbs would remains ‘Whites only.’ Nothing has been done to rectify this injustice. So what can be done to undo segregation in the schools?
As I argued in my last blog post, school of choice has been an ineffective solution to the school segregation; low income and African American parents largely end up with their choices of ineffective and inadequate urban public schools, subpar and corrupt charter schools, and the worst inner-ring suburban school districts. Real “school of choice” would give low income parents the option to send their kids en masse to truly quality schools; this will never happen because upper income White parents would simply withdraw their students into other schools before the effect could take place.
Honestly, I am stuck after that. Until America and its people come to terms with its racist past, no honest and properly comprehensive change can be made to change this injustice. For now, we must learn the truth and educate others about the truth.
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. Pp. 54.
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2019-04-23T12:03:30Z
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The modern society is characterized by an unprecedented level of development. The technologies and social progress have made human life incomparably better than the life of people at any other epoch before. However, nowadays it is getting to be obvious that the mankind has a high price to pay for this progress which threatens to the future existence of humans as well as the life at large on the Earth. In fact, this is natural environment that humans probably unconsciously sacrifice for the sake of the progress. Nonetheless, nowadays, people grow more and more conscious of the importance of the problem of environmental protection as environmental problems have become really international.
Unquestionably, environmental problems cannot be located in a definite region or state but they inevitably affect the entire world and, thus, need united efforts of all nations throughout the world to get these problems solved. The necessity of the solution of environmental problems is nowadays practically unarguable and world political and economic leaders as well as numerous public and international organizations underline that it is necessary to work out effective tools to solve environmental problems, or at least, minimize their negative effects. Paradoxically, despite the recognition of the threat to the future of the world and mankind on the international level, the international environmental problems still remained unresolved or the efforts to solve them are insufficient. Consequently, it is possible to presuppose that there are serious obstacles in the way of solving the existing international environmental problem, which need to be researched in order to eliminate them.
Before discussing the main obstacles that slow down the solution of international environmental problems, it is necessary to briefly dwell upon the major problems and find out its basic causes in order to better understand what the obstacles actually are. First of all, it should be said that nowadays the world community face a serious problem of exhaustion of natural resources that leads to numerous environmental problems which are international by nature as they affect the entire world. Among the most serious problems the mankind faces today may be named deforestation, acid precipitation and air pollution, rapid population growth, desertification, global warming, depletion of atmospheric ozone, ocean pollution, food production and equitable distribution.
It is necessary to underline that all these problems are closely interlinked and are interdependent. For instance, the growth of population leads to the higher need in food production that results in the enlargement of agricultural lands, the latter may gradually lead to desertification and deforestation of lands. Or else, the acid precipitation and air pollution, along with ocean pollution and depletion of atmospheric ozone lead to the global climate change resulting in the global warming.
Unquestionably, the major cause of environmental problems is human activity and, what is more, the most harmful is the growing economic activity of people which lead to larger exploitation of natural resources, industrialization of practically all regions and, consequently, to the growing pollution of the environment. In this respect, it should be mentioned that economic progress is traditionally associated with the industrialization, even though the leading countries are entering the post-industrial stage of the development, it does not necessarily mean that the level of pollution in these countries is getting lower, while developing countries still have to undergo the stage of industrialization to approach the developed countries in the standards and quality of life. In such a situation, environment becomes a hostage of economic progress.
The rapidly deteriorating environmental situation poses new challenges that need to be solved and, thus, the world community has to unite its efforts in order to solve these problems. Naturally, the international community attempts to make certain efforts to solve the existing environmental problems. In this respect, it is worthy of mention 1972 Stockholm’s Conference, June 1992 Rio Conference on Environment, 2002 Johannesburg’s Conference on the Environment, which targeted at the development of the effective strategy of solving international environmental problems but, nonetheless, the effectiveness of these international efforts remains extremely low.
Naturally, in such a situation it is necessary to find out the basic causes of the low effectiveness of international problems in solving international environmental problems. Obviously, it cannot be just the lack of political will or desire to minimize the negative impact of humans on environment and solve environmental problems. In fact, the major obstacles in the way of solving international environmental problems are more profound and quite objective.
First of all, it should be said that one of the main obstacles is the existing model of implementation of international environmental treaties. In fact, nowadays, each state has its own environmental policy and its own vision of the solution of environmental problems. Moreover, it is practically impossible to force a state to sign an international environmental treaty without its will to do it. As a result, international environmental treaties are signed only by those states that agree to comply with them, while others can simply ignore them.
Naturally, such a situation cannot contribute to the effective solution of international environmental problems since a single state or a group of state cannot solve the problems which are really global since it is impossible to decrease air pollution, for instance, when some states keep increase it. The same may be said about practically any global problem. In this respect, it is worthy of mention that the US, for instance, being one of the largest states that causes a serious harm to the environment, still refuses from Kyoto Protocol which is supported by European countries and Japan and it targets at the prevention of negative consequences of industrial pollution of the environment.
Obviously, the solution of international environmental problems should be based on the acceptance of important decisions concerning environmental protection by all states without exception, including the most developed and powerful ones. Another serious obstacle in the way of solving international environmental problems is closely related to the previous one and, to a significant extent, defines it. To put it more precisely, regardless numerous conferences, researches, declarations and agreements, there are still no international police force to enforce such agreements and, as such, compliance to provisions and obligations of international environmental agreements depends on the good face of the states. Moreover, there are no punishments or rewards to check compliance. Practically, it means that all the treaties signed by states are formal and are not obligatory. Naturally, such an attitude to environmental problems cannot lead to their effective solution. It is obvious that any decision needs to be accepted by all responsible parties in order to be implemented effectively. This is why, in the current situation, the existing treaties and agreements simply turn to be totally useless as long as there is no effective tools and mechanisms that could change the attitude of states to their own responsibilities defined by international environmental agreements.
In actuality, practically all those treaties and agreements, even being signed by many states, rather resemble declarations than real efforts of states to solve the existing environmental problems. Beyond doubts, international treaties and agreements are the basis of the general struggle with the existing environmental problems but, at the same time, it is necessary to construct an effective system of the practical implementation of these treaties and agreements. In such a way, it will be possible to create mechanisms which regulate the responsibility of each state that signs an international environmental treaty or agreement and develop an effective system of control over the fulfillment of the treaties and agreements.
In fact, control is probably the key issue since nowadays there are practically no legal mechanisms which could force a state to fulfill its obligations in accordance with international environmental treaties. Obviously, the modern world lacks international institutions that could really focus on the development of effective ways of solving environmental problems and, moreover, control each state in order to realize the programs targeting at the solution of environmental problems on the international level.
However, there is even a more serious obstacle in the way of solving international environmental problems. This is the enormous gap that exists between countries in the modern world. In this respect, it should be said that the leaders of rich and poor countries have different perspectives not only on environmental problems but also on their causes and ways of solving. Practically, it means that often poor countries underline that their contribution in the pollution of the environment is incomparably lower than that of developed countries. As a result, they view developed countries as the main source of the environmental pollution and many of the existing international environmental problems.
Furthermore, the level of economic development of poor and rich countries is absolutely different that also influences the perspective they view environmental problems. In fact, poor countries are often unable to cope not only with international environmental problems but even with the environmental problems on the local level basically because of the lack of financial resources, technologies and professionals. On the other hand, rich countries, being able to improve dramatically the situation within their own territory are not always willing to help poorer states to overcome existing environmental problems even though it is clear that these problems affect the entire world directly or not.
No wonder that poor and rich countries also argues about the possible ways of solving international environmental problems. For instance, at the Rio Conference of 1992, poor developing countries emphasized development and global equity concerns while the rich industrialized countries emphasized issues related to international governance of environment.
Naturally, the difference in the position of poor and rich countries can be logically explained. Obviously, developing countries, being economically poor, realize that they have a bunch of socio-economic problems which, at the present moment, are much more significant and important than environmental ones. Consequently, they would rather focus on the solution of socio-economic problems than on environmental ones. Moreover, even if they are willing to solve environmental problems, they, as it has been just mentioned above, do not have either financial or technological resources to solve them. As a result, they naturally appeal to the international community, notably to rich countries, hoping from international support in their efforts of solving environmental problems in terms of international treaties, for instance.
On the other hand, rich countries, having sufficient financial, technological and professional human resources, are more concerned about the effective use of these resources. Unquestionably, they can fully control the use of funds they spend on the solution of international environmental problems on their own territory in terms of some international programs. Obviously, they can help either financially or technologically poor countries, but this is where the major problems begin. In fact, often it is quite difficult to trace the way the financial help, for instance, was used by the government of a developing country, or any organization in this country. Anyway, there is the risk that financial or even technological help would be misused or simply stolen out. At the same time, environmental protection is really expansive and needs a lot of funds. In fact, the more developed the country is the more expansive is the environmental protection. In this respect, it is possible again to refer to the refusal of the US to sign the Kyoto Protocol because it is obvious that the fulfillment of its norms will lead to enormous financial losses of American company as well as federal budget.
As a result, developed countries are more concerned on the effective governance of the fulfillment of existing international treaties, agreements, and programs since it is mainly developed countries that pay for the environmental protection worldwide.
In fact, there are a variety of obstacles that interfere in the process of solving international environmental problems but the roots of many of these obstacles may be found in the national interests of states which define their policy both domestic and foreign, including environment-related issues. On analyzing the obstacles in the way of solving international environmental issues, it is getting to be obvious that they always take a back seat to national interests. In actuality, the policy of any state is defined by its national interests that are always of the primary importance to any state. This is why taking part in any international programs, conferences and signing international treaties or agreements the decisions made by countries are always governed by the main condition whether the decision the state takes correspond to its national interests or not.
In this respect, it is possible to estimate that nowadays national interests remain prior to international problems. Actually, this a historical trend that apparently needs to be overcome for it makes the international efforts in the way of solving international environmental problems absolutely ineffective. In fact, the problem is that political leaders cannot overcome their probably innate fear to lose the political, economic or military struggle on the international arena and, in such a situation, the level of development of a country is of little importance. As the solution of international environmental problems implies the participation of the entire world community this means that it will also need reciprocal efforts from the part of all countries.
However, it is impossible to solve the existing international environmental problems without economic and political losses that mean a serious threat to national interests. As it has been already said, the prevention of environmental pollution is expansive. Moreover, the modern economy of all countries of the world is historically oriented on the exploitation of natural resources and, consequently, it cannot be immediately redirected on the environmentally friendly technologies. Such a shift would be strategically important but, at the same time, it would immediately affect national interests of states. For instance, the decrease of oil and natural gas consumption would lead to a substantial shift in industrial structure in economies of many countries since it will be necessary to find new sources of energy that means additional researches, development of new technologies and their implementation, and all this need will need additional funding. Moreover, it would probably make new products more expansive and, thus, less competitive and again this is a direct threat to national interests.
Thus, taking into account all above mentioned, it is possible to conclude that nowadays environmental problems are extremely serious and, what is more, not a single country is able to solve environmental problems alone without support and participation of other countries. Moreover, the only possibly way of solving environmental problems is the close international cooperation which should not be declarative but really effective and practically applicable. This means that important decision and programs developed and accepted on the international level should be practically implemented under the meticulous control of the world community, i.e. under the control of international organizations that could have authority to punish or reward countries for their environmental policy. However, this is rather an ideal view on the solution of international environmental problems that nowadays face numerous obstacles many of which result from the protection of national interests of each state regardless the interests of the entire world.
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A Pakistani man whose father was killed by a US drone strike is to appeal a judgement handed down today in a case seeking to determine the legality of intelligence sharing in relation to GCHQ assistance in CIA drone strikes.
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A heavily pregnant British woman is being denied bail in Pakistan, and faces giving birth in prison in around a month’s time as a result.
A US federal appeals court has offered new hope to a Virginia death row inmate, ruling that compelling evidence of his innocence must be considered further before he is killed.
The victims of deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are today questioning the British government's apparent failure to regulate companies seeking to profit from the CIA's illegal targeted killing programme.
Major Olympic sponsor GE is facing calls to honour the ‘Olympic truce’ by acting to stop the use of its drone components in strikes carried out by the US in Pakistan and Yemen.
The Peshawar High Court has ordered Pakistan's Government to produce a record of all those killed in drone strikes in North and South Waziristan.
Two Gaddafi opponents who were rendered along with their families by the US and UK to pre-revolutionary Libya have for the first time given evidence to London’s Metropolitan Police.
The Government this week confirmed that plans for secret courts would extend to challenges against detention without charge or trial – known as habeas corpus proceedings.
Londoner Shaker Aamer may have been among those forcibly administered "mind-altering drugs" by the US military, either as part of an interrogation or as a de facto disciplinary measure - tactics revealed in a recently-declassified Pentagon report.
The European Parliament’s Justice Committee has demanded that European countries make greater efforts to investigate CIA renditions and secret prisons on their territory.
The UK Government has this week decided to impose strict export controls on the anaesthetic propofol, following the revelation that American prisons planned to use the medicine to execute prisoners.
The British Government will today be forced to answer for its ongoing failure to assist Yunus Rahmatullah, a prisoner seized by UK forces in Iraq and subsequently illegally rendered to Afghanistan where he has been held for eight years without charge or trial.
New flight data unearthed and analysed by Reprieve has revealed glaring holes in the Romanian Parliament’s so-called ‘Inquiry’ into CIA secret detention and rendition flights on Romanian soil.
The British Medical Association’s annual meeting today called for an end to the use of medicines in executions, and controls on the distribution and export of drugs used for this purpose.
Expert lawyers today warned that the Government’s controversial plans for secret courts would create a “statutory straitjacket” for judges – contradicting ministers’ claims that judges will always have the “final decision” over the use of closed procedures.
In the first of a series of releases, Reprieve today highlights the corporations behind the extraordinary rendition of "high value detainee" Abu Zubaydah from Thailand to a secret prison in Poland on 5 December 2002.
A new House of Lords report has warned that measures in the Justice and Security Bill would allow ministers to reverse key ‘concessions’ – notably over inquests – which they claim to have made to controversial plans for closed courts.
A teenager who was rendered at age twelve by the UK to Gaddafi's Libya has compared Ken Clarke's secret court plans to her experience of 'justice' under Gaddafi, whereby the Security Services would "whisper in the ear of the judge" evidence used to convict her father.
The Justice and Security Bill has been published today. The government claims to have made significant concessions. In fact, none of these touch the heart of the bill, which is designed to place our Security Services above the law and keep torture and rendition out of open court.
A new project which brings together all the available data on hundreds of victims of rendition, torture and secret detention launches online today.
A judge in the final appeal hearing of Ivan Teleguz, who is facing the death penalty in Virginia despite key witnesses having renounced their testimony against him, has said it would be “more humane” to allow him to present evidence of his innocence.
Reprieve has today released a new video aimed at helping pharmaceutical companies unwillingly caught up in the US death penalty system.
A Ukrainian prisoner will make a last-ditch attempt to convince a US court of his innocence today, after the prosecution's key witnesses admitted to lying in his original trial.
The former head of the CIA’s counter-terrorism centre has warned against turning Yemen into “the Arabian equivalent of Waziristan” with drone strikes.
The Algerian government's arbitrary imprisonment of an innocent man continued today as its parliamentary elections were met by notably low voter turnout.
An Islamabad-based legal charity has today launched legal action against the Pakistani Government in Peshawar's High Court on behalf of the victims of a deadly CIA drone strike in March 2012.
US hospitals are facing shortages of a key medicine used in surgical anaesthesia as death rows stockpile the same drug for use in executions, new figures have shown.
Investors in IT and security giant Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) are being warned over the company’s involvement in the CIA’s illegal programme of rendition and torture.
An Algerian judge this week arbitrarily denied bail to a former Guantánamo detainee, despite his meeting all of the bail requirements set out in the country’s penal procedures code.
This weekend, CODEPINK, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Reprieve hosted the International Drone Summit in Washington, DC.
This weekend's international Drone Summit aims to bring transparency and the rule of law to the CIA’s covert targeted killing programme in Pakistan and beyond.
After months of pressure from lawyers and activists, the US government has this week granted Pakistani human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar a visa to attend and speak at an International Drone Summit in Washington DC on April 28, 2012.
Virginia’s executioners are not even checking that prisoners are properly anaesthetised before injecting them with lethal chemicals which can cause excruciating pain, according to new documents filed by lawyers.
Lawyers for a Pakistani student whose civilian father was killed in a drone strike have taken further legal action over the British Government’s refusal to come clean on its policy of providing intelligence to support the CIA’s illegal programme.
Representatives of a prisoner tortured by the CIA and held without charge or trial for 10 years will today (Thursday) meet prosecutors to discuss charges against former senior members of the Polish intelligence services for complicity in his abuse.
The US state of Virginia is pressing ahead with plans to execute Ivan Teleguz, despite the near total collapse of the case against him after the prosecution’s two key witnesses admitted lying in court.
An Islamabad court will hand down judgment tomorrow (Tuesday) over the Pakistani police’s failure to investigate two reports by Pakistani citizens on the murder of innocent civilians by CIA unmanned aerial vehicles (drones).
The US government has failed to grant a visa to Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar, effectively blocking his appearance at an International Drone Summit in Washington DC on April 28.
An Islamabad Court will hand down judgment tomorrow (Thursday) over the Pakistani police’s failure to investigate two reports by Pakistani citizens on the murder of innocent civilians by CIA unmanned aerial vehicles (drones).
Prime Minister David Cameron has today been urged to take action in the case of Joshua French, a British national facing execution in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has released a report, rejecting the Government's proposals in the Justice and Security Green Paper as "inherently unfair".
Lawyers for the Head of the Tripoli Military Council, Abdel Hakim Belhadj, have announced that they are extending their legal action against the British Government and its security forces, for the alleged illegal rendition of Mr Belhadj and his wife to Libya in 2004, to include the Commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory.
On 10 April 2012 the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of Babar Ahmad and Others v The United Kingdom, concluding that there would be no violation of the European Convention on Human Rights if the United Kingdom extradited the applicants to the United States.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights has today attacked the Government’s Green Paper on Justice and Security for using “vague predictions” and “spurious assertions” to justify dangerous changes to the legal system.
Reprieve’s Crofton Black this week gave evidence to the European Parliament on new developments in his European renditions accountability investigation.
Lundbeck has become the first recipient of a new Corporate Social Responsibility Award for Ethical Leadership in the Pharmaceutical Industry. The Award, which was presented to Lundbeck’s Chief Executive Officer, Ulf Wiinberg by legal action charity Reprieve, is given in recognition of the steps the company has taken to prevent the use of its medicines in executions in the USA.
A federal judge yesterday banned the import of a key anaesthetic used in lethal injections, in a major blow to US execution chambers desperate for supplies.
Leading pharmaceutical company Lundbeck has become the first to sign up to a new ‘Pharmaceutical Hippocratic oath’ for the industry which condemns the use of drugs in executions.
On the 10th anniversary of the CIA's seizure of its torture ‘guinea pig’ Abu Zubaydah, Poland has emerged as the first government to charge one of its own officials over the abuse of prisoners in the European secret prison system.
Commenting on MP David Davis' speech to the House of Commons tonight, in which he outlined how the US and UK have attempted to suppress embarrassing information in the name of 'national security,' and challenged the Government over its plans set out in the Green Paper on Justice and Security, Reprieve's Executive Director, Clare Algar said: "This demonstrates just how ready the intelligence services are to cry national security in order to cover up their own embarrassment."
Reprieve has today released an analysis of the case of Binyam Mohamed v Foreign and Commonwealth Office aimed at debunking the dangerous myths around the case.
In a Tirana press conference today, Reprieve's Katie Taylor will describe how the Albanian authorities are unnecessarily preventing the return home of an innocent former ex-Guantánamo prisoner to Egypt.
Legal action charity Reprieve has today launched a campaign calling on pharmaceutical companies to sign a ‘Pharmaceutical Hippocratic oath’ under which they pledge not to become involved in executions by lethal injection.
The Lahore High Court on Wednesday 21st March ordered Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to immediately write to the government of the United States demanding details about seven Pakistani nationals currently detained in Afghanistan at Bagram Airbase, including the reasons for their arrest and the legal charges levelled against them.
"Having failed to win the public argument the security services have retreated to the secret lunch. This is not an acceptable basis on which to simply junk our centuries-old tradition of open justice."
Reprieve and solicitors Leigh Day & Co have announced that they will be issuing formal legal proceedings this week against the UK Foreign Secretary on behalf of Noor Khan, whose father was killed last year in a drone strike on a Jirga – or council of elders – in North West Pakistan.
The Justice Secretary today admitted that he was “unsettled” by the response of a group of expert lawyers to the Government’s controversial secret justice plans.
Poland’s authorities have, without warning, moved crucial evidence of a secret CIA prison to an undisclosed location, in what appears to be a last ditch attempt to impede human rights lawyers working on the case.
The former Director of Public Prosecutions has today warned that the Government's plans to introduce secret court proceedings in civil cases are an audacious attack on Britain's justice system, and risk placing the Government above the law.
Relatives of children killed and injured by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have today filed a complaint against the USA with the United Nations.
The British Government has been reported to the police over war crimes in Iraq, following its failure to secure the release of a prisoner rendered to Afghanistan and held without charge or trial for eight years.
The British Government could face investigation over war crimes committed in the rendition of prisoners during the Iraq war unless it can secure the release of a detainee from Bagram prison, Afghanistan, by this (Monday) morning.
The British Government could face investigation over war crimes committed in the rendition of prisoners during the Iraq war, unless it can persuade the US to honour agreements governing detainee transfers within the week.
Today marks ten years since Londoner Shaker Aamer was transferred to the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay, where he has since been abused and held in punishing isolation but never charged with any crime.
An Islamabad-based human rights charity has today called on Pakistan’s Government to demand the adoption of a UN resolution requiring that the USA stops carrying out drone strikes in its country.
Two Libyans who were rendered by Britain into the hands of the Gaddafi regime in 2004 are to sue Sir Mark Allen, the former MI6 director who apparently played a central role in organising the operation.
An Algerian citizen who was detained for eight years in Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial has been imprisoned again, after the US authorities returned him to Algeria despite his pleas that he would face arbitrary detention there.
Іван Телегуз народився в 1978 році в маленькому містечку Кам'янка, яке на той час було розташоване на території Радянського Союзу, а зараз – на Західній Україні.
Reprieve today welcomes the Government's announcement that it will not go ahead with the flawed Gibson Inquiry, and will set up a new inquiry once police investigations into UK collusion in Libya renditions have concluded.
Response to today's joint statement by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan Police on investigations into UK complicity in the torture of detainees.
11 January 2012 will mark the 10-year anniversary of the opening of the US prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Human rights groups, including Reprieve, have today criticised the Government's Detainee Inquiry as 'deficient' and lacking in the necessary powers to get to the truth about Britain's involvement in torture and rendition.
A coalition of medical professionals from around the world has today called on pharmaceuticals company Hospira to prevent their products from being used in US executions.
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2019-04-22T08:10:31Z
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https://reprieve.org.uk/press-releases/page/2012/
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CORE Advanced is for the advanced rescuer who is expected to manage and supervise resuscitation events.
CORE Advanced course information [PDF].
How is CORE Advanced obtained?
Certification requires the learner to demonstrate a given standard of simulated practical skills, facilitated by self-directed learning, face-to-face training, and formal assessment.
A learner will contact a CORE provider to organise their face-to-face training. Before attending the face-to-face training, there is a minimum period during which the learner will be expected to acquire the necessary theory with pre-reading.
CORE Advanced learners should have access to Resuscitation – A Guide for Advanced Rescuers at least three weeks before their face-to-face training. CORE Advanced includes a multi-choice knowledge assessment that uses the content from Resuscitation – A Guide for Advanced Rescuers. This manual contains the theory and knowledge directly applicable to the course and is available from our shop.
Face-to-face training is delivered by one or more CORE instructors who have been certified by the New Zealand Resuscitation Council.
Scenarios for the management of collapse and medical emergencies.
The training should also provide the learner with ample opportunity for discussion.
Face-to-face training is designed to enable a mix of health professionals to work in teams, just as they might in real life. Although the final learner mix will be tailored as required, the New Zealand Resuscitation Council advocates for multi-disciplinary courses wherever feasible.
CORE Advanced may be completed in one day or spaced out over a number of days, evenings or even weeks. This flexibility allows the course to be completed in circumstances where learners are unable to attend full-day practical courses, and allows the content to be incorporated into broader courses covering additional material.
Face-to-face training will be delivered as a series of modules covering the essential practical skills of resuscitation. Four skill stations are based around four key management guidelines, while four sets of scenarios focus on adult collapse, child collapse, and injury.
Following this skill station the learner will be able to demonstrate a DRS ABCD management plan for adult collapse, both as a lone rescuer and in a team of two.
Following this skill station the learner will be able to demonstrate a DRS ABCD management plan for child collapse and infant collapse, both as a lone rescuer and in a team of two.
Chest compression (hand, finger and encircling grip).
All learners will learn all components of the child collapse management plan.
Following this skill station the learner will be able to demonstrate the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) on a collapsed person.
Correctly size and insert a laryngeal mask airway.
As part of this skill station, learners will be exposed to the principles of endotracheal intubation.
Manage common adult cardiac arrest scenarios.
Manage common child and infant collapse scenarios.
Apply the principles of care recommended for the management of resuscitation in special circumstances.
Communicate effectively and understand the importance of, and establish, team behaviour.
To gain CORE certification there is a formal assessment. For CORE Advanced this involves assessment of the skills of resuscitation as well as assessment of theoretical knowledge and cardiac rhythms. Learners have to pass all assessments to achieve certification.
The learner will demonstrate the management of adult collapse.
The learner will demonstrate the management of child or infant collapse.
The learner will demonstrate the safe use of an AED.
The learner will demonstrate the safe use of a manual defibrillator.
The safe delivery of oxygen from an oxygen cylinder.
Insertion of a laryngeal mask airway.
The instructor will make every effort to support your learning opportunities and, if necessary, provide additional coaching to help you pass the CORE assessment. All assessments are graded between 1 (low) and 5 (high).
To obtain certification, a learner must pass all assessments within six weeks of the face-to-face training.
To pass an assessment, a learner must get a grade of at least 3.
No more than three attempts at an assessment can be made in one day.
If the learner does not pass an assessment after three attempts, they may re-attempt after 48 hours.
If the learner does not pass four or more assessments on the day of face-to-face training, the learner cannot re-attempt assessment. To gain certification, the learner would need to repeat the course.
Certification is dated the same as that of the learner’s face-to-face training, regardless of the date they pass all assessments.
CORE Advanced includes an assessment of theoretical knowledge of resuscitation comprising multi-choice questions. Questions are intended to demonstrate whether the learner has worked carefully through the reference material.
Compassionate consideration may be granted where circumstances prevent the learner from re-sitting within the required time frame (for example in the case of illness). The procedure for compassionate consideration is that the learner submit a written request explaining the circumstances to their Course Director. This should be supported by a written statement from the Course Director and forwarded to the New Zealand Resuscitation Council. The New Zealand Resuscitation Council will respond within five working days.
CORE certificates are conferred by the New Zealand Resuscitation Council, and valid for one year from the time of successful completion of the assessment. For their own purposes, employing organisations and accreditation bodies may recognise the certification for longer. Due to fall-off in skill retention, the New Zealand Resuscitation Council would not support any recognition period longer than three years.
Successful completion of CORE certification does not qualify the learner to perform, or indicate that the learner is competent to perform, the skills of resuscitation in the clinical setting. The application of certification to indicate clinical competence must be decided solely by the clinical institution within which the learner practices.
The material taught as part of CORE may not correspond exactly to that which the learner is permitted to practice in his or her own clinical institution. The final clinical application of these skills is solely at the discretion of the clinical institution concerned.
Learners seeking CORE certification should have the prior skills and theoretical knowledge necessary to complete the course. Because the New Zealand Resuscitation Council considers that all learners should complete the entire course for their skill level, there is no specific recognition of prior learning for CORE courses.
CORE Advanced learners shall receive a certificate dated from the date of their face-to-face training. If you lose your certificate, your Course Director should be able to provide this. Please contact them in the first instance. If your Course Director is unable to provide you with a replacement certificate then the New Zealand Resuscitation Council can do this for a fee.
The New Zealand Resuscitation Council and Australian Resuscitation Council recognise the certification provided from each council's course as equivalent for the purposes of professional or workplace credentialing. Although each council's courses teach slightly different material to reflect differences in national resuscitation guidelines, these differences are minor and have no impact on the quality or outcomes of resuscitation in practice.
This arrangement applies only to CORE Provider courses. No other courses are currently recognised for cross-crediting purposes.
Quality is of paramount importance to the New Zealand Resuscitation Council. For this reason a key feature of the CORE course is a prescriptive method of delivery, content and assessment.
As part of the quality assurance requirements of Council, learners will be invited to complete an evaluation for courses attended. This feedback allows the New Zealand Resuscitation Council to identify course difficulties, give feedback to instructors, and consider modifications to the course and administrative processes.
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https://www.nzrc.org.nz/training/CORE/core-advanced/
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Editor’s Note: There is another large scale purge of the more general red pill videos underway. Analysis of the New Zealand event is nearly impossible when the Orwellian kakistocracy is hauling people before courts for sharing the crime video. Therefore under these circumstances we feel it is important to review, educate and update prior events, and get some of our posts recycled before our site is taken down in the latest Orwellian purges. If we are removed, our material is backed up, and we will endeavor to post it under “Winter Watch II”.
Unlike more botched deceptions of the last few years, I have had much more difficulty dissecting the haunting James Holmes “Batman” shooting. If it was a straight hoax as opposed to a hybrid or a false flag, the Crime Syndicate employed a well-executed scheme and utilized in Holmes a first-class actor (far more skillful then the B teamers of late). I am willing to entertain Holmes being a mind-controlled individual. The operators of this event seem to be a different A team crew, and best of class. Did one of the masters of this stagecraft retire, quit, or die after Aurora?
I listened to several hours of the psychiatrist’s interview with Holmes, and did note a number of things that don’t add up.
The Holmes trial was long and rather superficial, but certain evidence was introduced that was highly suspect. Most notable are the crime scene photos from the Arapaho County DA. There is no blood in the theater. The bullet trajectory angles shown don’t combine with the location of the “shooter” Holmes. The white markers are forensic tags, but as you will see in these photos, little sign of actual bullets. The fabric is pristine. There were allegedly 12 dead and 58 non-fatal wounded from gunfire at this scene. In fact, there are enough alleged bullets (see photo #4) in these photos that one would expect blood everywhere. Where is it? These are trial evidence photos, not media, meaning blood and carnage is not cleaned up or censored for the sensibilities of the viewer.
Here is more cartoon world forensics showing exit hallway. Given Holmes firing position shown in second photo (as diagrammed by the DA), all these magic “bullets’ would have had to make a sharp angle turn and flatten trajectories to effect this pattern. See enlarged.
Par for the course, there was no CCTV footage out of the very modern theater. None from the emergency exit, none from inside the screening room, none from the lobby, none from the parking lot and none from a cell-phone camera. There was no footage from the mall either.
But here is the evidence photo of alleged bullet trajectories sprayed throughout. I would invite all readers to go through the crime scene photos.
Second photo is a close up of shell casings marked on the floor, but where are the actual shells. Where is blood? If this was a trial photo would you as a jurist accept this as evidence of shell casings?
Various other “evidence photos” released by DA.
Winter Watch Takeway: If James Holmes was an actor, he is truly in a class of his own in terms of the staged deceptions. In this case I lean toward a mind controlled patsy similar to Sirhan Sirhan. But unlike Sirhan, Holmes is out of sight and locked away into the star chamber system. The scene in the theater itself is another poorly done and insulting staged deception. Holmes himself doesn’t remember a thing except an empty theater when he left.
I live in NZ , been here 18 years.Long time Pru Bear and Winter Watch follower. This event does not add up to say the least. Having said that, I believe a good case could be made if charges are filed against someone downloading or sharing a video, that the one they are sharing is a computer generated fake since the real video would show bullet holes in walls, shell casings not only ejecting from a different area of the upper receiver, specifically the chamber, but those same shells hitting the ground. One could then seek discovery under the official information act to provide the real video coverage from the police as a part of their defense.
keep in mind that we do not have a DA or Government Prosecutor. We operate under a Solicitor General . This means that the Crown pays a private law firm to prosecute the cases. This creates a problem in that further loose ends can surface, such as a rogue law clerk, when facts/evidence are expected to be challenged by the defense..Oh wait…He’s defending himself…Imagine that..He still would be entitled to Standby Counsel but I suspect that he will plead guilty and vanish.
The issue I am wrestling with at this time are the motivations?? On 5 March John Podesta was visiting under the pretense of talking about election rigging by the Chinese for our 2020 election???Thanks for the concern Johnny….
The country is hardly a “Rapefugee” mecca and the recent immigrant Muslims pretty much stay to themselves and enjoy a higher standard of living as Taxi Drivers and Dairy Operators. We don’t on the surface have an itching problem with them.
The key issue with Christchurch is that it is the prime location for US Military Aircraft and a base for NOAH in relation to so called transport and logistics to Antarctica.
This guy was later pronounced dead after 8 hours along with his wife having a heart attack???
Later that story vanished and he’s alive and safe.
To add further insult to injury, New Zealanders as a whole are somewhat detached from the victims since most if not all are not related to them, and anyone can tell you, the South Island has about 2 degrees of separation while Auckland stands at about 4 or 5. Our PM then wore a Hajib when visiting Muslims after the event. You can imagine how angry the simple white Kiwi bloke has become as his identity appears to be diluted by such a display, After all, his binary thought process of Muslim Bad / America Good is challenged. Now add gun control to this and we become a powder keg of Nationalism ready to blow if/whena retaliatory attack were to hit???
Perhaps they should wait until we voluntarily turn in our weapons before they strike???
Long story short, I believe we are being used as a geopolitical pawn in the balance of power between China and the US in Oceania.
The average gunshot victim requires 3.3 units of blood – this is almost 2 quarts.
Thus there should be approximately 30 gallons of blood in the theater. Since no blood is visible, this was clearly a hoax, with the unfortunate Holmes the only victim.
Of course, blood could be cleaned up off the floor — and one would expect that this would be done rather quickly. But what is glaring is that for all the bullet holes in the fabric seats, there’s not one visible stain of blood — let alone soda or candy. Really weird. Magic fabric?
At a crime scene, nobody cleans up ANYTHING until all photography is complete.
My “Lincoln-Douglas debate” at r/conspiracy. I am clovize.
>quotes the other party. This is the mentality we are up against.
I am mildly surprised to see they did a full cleanup job on the seats before doing the bullet tracing. But let’s not ask anyone with forensic experience if that is how it is done sometimes, it is more fun to not know.
The floor is painted black in some parts, carpeted in others. Row 5 looks like the carpet has been removed, it would be too soaked with blood to be cleanable. Maybe the seats were getting too stinky and it wasn’t possible to separate off the aircon from the other theatres. There would be a lot of blood, it would start rotting quickly.
For all the bullet holes (at implausible trajectory angles) in the fabric seats, there’s not one visible stain of blood or signs of tearing or fraying. Magic fabric?
Look at the nice clean round exit hole from the steel pipe. I guess that means this is hard point not soft point bullets, so they won’t make much of a hole even if they have passed through a body unless they are tumbling.
The question about the seats and floor being cleaned before bullet tracing was done should be directed to people who actually know about that stuff, or about this case. There are books written on crime scene analysis, you might find some info there.
If it is not plausible for the seats and floor to have been cleaned at that stage, why do you think fakers would publish photos with without splashing some fake blood around? Do you think people put in charge of such a difficult operation would know even less about the subject than you?
>should be directed to people who actually know about that stuff, or about this case.
Appeal to authority, much? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury- these are the “crime scene” evidence photos, that we made “at a later date”, and after the theater was completely remodeled.
>Do you think people put in charge of such a difficult operation would know even less about the subject than you?
I see lots of mistakes in these operations. Some is just hubris- but I also think they do this deliberately to gauge public gullibility and what they can get away with. And apparently it works.
@TheBulshitPoliceBlog, 12 dead and 58 injured, that about 230 units!
Seventy people dead or wounded and not a drop of blood at the crime scene. Give me a break. My guess, one of the first FEMA Integrated Capstone Events. FEMA admits to using LARP’s and moulage at around the 9 minute mark in this video.
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2019-04-23T10:45:36Z
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https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/03/the-aurora-shooting-sometimes-pictures-are-louder-than-words/
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APPLETON, Wisc. — Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. On top of that, there’s a daily lunch break that comes with time for kids to get outside and move around. Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day.
And the action doesn’t stop there. Teachers like Lisa Sackman in the sixth-grade wing offer “brain breaks” every 20 minutes. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need. And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science.
Giebel said it’s clear to her that students concentrate better than they did three years ago when there were far fewer options for physical activity at school. But the kids themselves “don’t notice it,” she added. Indeed, students are mostly unimpressed with how much movement they get in their day.
During a group science lab in Giebel and Jolma’s class, Anna Wang, 13, sat on one of the wobbly chairs the school purchased for classrooms this year. “It was the only option,” Anna, 13, said with a shrug as she rocked back and forth on the chair, adding that she didn’t think the seating made any difference.
Despite her stated disinterest, the level of physical activity Anna and her classmates experience during their school day is unusual and probably beneficial. In the U.S., where 31 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 are obese, most school children move far too little, experts say. Thirty years of focus on increasing academic minutes in the school day has resulted in reduced recess and physical education time at many schools. The lack of physical activity is taking a toll on student fitness and that’s bad for growing brains, research shows.
But now a growing number of politicians and educators, like those in Appleton, have begun to heed the research and decided that to improve academic performance, they must do something about their students’ physical fitness as well.
As a result of this new attitude, at least 14 state legislatures considered new laws in 2016 that would increase the amount of physical education or recess schools are required to offer or raise the bar for qualifications for physical education teachers, according to a 2016 report by the Society for Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE). Some even took action. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students.
Charles Hillman, a kinesiology professor at Northeastern University in Boston who studies the connection between the body and the brain, says there’s strong evidence that supports making physical education and recess a priority in schools.
Hillman also cautions that physical activity alone has not been shown to increase cognitive performance. A slow walk for example, does little to make anyone smarter. What is definitely tied to brain health, Hillman said, is physical fitness.
The prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus of physically fit children are better developed than those of less fit children, Hillman said. These two brain structures control many of the abilities that lead to high academic achievement: long-term memory, self-regulation and goal making, among other key functions.
Hillman, who is advising the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the latest exercise research for the 2018 revision of the department’s recommendations for physical fitness, said that evidence of a connection between fitness and brain function has mounted steadily over the years.
A 2009 Stanford University study found that fifth, seventh and ninth grade students in California who passed the state physical fitness test and those whose fitness improved between fifth and seventh grade scored better than their less fit peers on the state’s standardized tests. A 2013 study of nearly 12,000 Nebraska students also found that aerobically fit students were more likely to pass the state’s standardized math and reading tests, regardless of their weight or socioeconomic status. Another 2013 study that randomly assigned 8- and 9-year-old Illinois children to a nine-month after-school fitness program found that the kids whose fitness improved also got better at paying attention and ignoring distractions. They also improved to young-adult levels in their ability to regulate their behavior.
School districts that have added more physical activity to their daily schedules in the hope of improving academic performance have also seen measurable changes. When a Ft. Worth, Texas school made a much-publicized switch for its kindergarten and first-grade students from one 20-minute recess a day to four 15-minute recesses — or an hour, total —it found that students were more focused in class and that teachers were able to move through curricular material faster. Off-task behaviors in class decreased by 25 to 35 percent and students’ body mass indexes (weight divided by height) stabilized or decreased, said Deborah Rhea, a professor at Texas Christian University and the lead researcher on the longer-recess initiative.
“We’re at least getting closer to a healthy environment that’s conducive to learning for teachers and for kids,” Rhea said of the multiple 15-minute breaks.
All of this research comes after nearly three decades of school policies that decreased recess time amidst fears that the unstructured time led to student fights or took time away from students’ focus on passing standardized tests. One 2007 survey by George Washington University found that 20 percent of a representative sample of districts had decreased recess time by an average of 50 minutes a week and 9 percent had reduced physical education time by an average of 40 minutes.
Today, middle and high schools are still the least likely to have daily physical education or recess. Forty-one states require physical education at the middle school level, according to the 2016 annual report by SHAPE, and 46 require it in high school. But only 15 states include a specific amount of time middle school kids must spend in physical education per week; only six states have a similar time requirement at the high school level. Most states don’t require middle or high schools to offer recess at all.
The idea that young children need to move a lot is fairly intuitive to anyone who has ever spent time in the company of a child under age eight. But older children need movement too — at least an hour a day according to federal guidelines — and they are getting a lot less of it. Fewer than one in three high school students — 27 percent in 2015 — are getting the recommended number of minutes of daily exercise, according to data from Child Trends, a nonprofit research organization focused on youth issues. Girls, black students and Hispanic students get less exercise than white boys.
Moreover, budgets for physical education equipment and supplies are tiny; the median is just $764 per year per school, according to SHAPE’s 2016 report.
Several factors seem to be leading educators and policymakers to begin addressing those consequences: the current backlash against standardized testing, the ever-improving understanding of brain science and the influence of national campaigns like former First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! and SHAPE’s efforts to influence national legislation, such as ESSA.
The idea of adding so many minutes of movement to the day, especially during class, was initially met with some resistance, said Mikki Duran, who oversees Appleton’s physical education department. Teachers told her they didn’t have time. Duran’s answer was that taking time to move would actually result in more focused time to learn. Once they tried it, she said, most teachers became quick converts.
Today, every school in Appleton has its own program, each aimed at increasing physical activity and fitness. At Horizons Elementary, at least 40 of the school’s 350 kids start every day in the school gym playing a game like “Castle” — a kind of dodge ball, capture-the-flag mash-up. The gym stays open all day for teachers or aides wanting to bring kids down to run a lap and burn off some excess energy. There’s also a running club, and the teachers themselves often start staff meetings with a few laps around the school track.
The physical education teacher here, Carrie Michiels, has also introduced “Fit in 15” breaks for classroom teachers for the days their students aren’t scheduled to take a full physical education class.
For several educators in Appleton, the pursuit of better fitness has also become personal. After learning more about the effects of physical fitness on the brain a few years ago, Kaleidoscope principal Al Brant decided he needed to make a change. Heavy-set all his life, he opted for gastric bypass surgery, improved his diet and started exercising. He lost 120 pounds and spent part of last summer on a trip with his daughter to climb 19,300 feet to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro. The photos of his trek decorate his office walls along with pictures of his bow-hunting expeditions.
“It changed my attitude about promoting phy-ed,” Brant said of his experience.
Now, he wants his students to know about personal fitness long before they become overweight adults. He has prioritized movement at his school, offering strong support to the physical education teachers here. Staff meetings are now regularly interrupted as teachers get up and move for a few seconds or minutes, just like the “brain breaks” offered in most classrooms. Brant has also fully bought-in to the idea of movement during class. Last spring, he authorized the $9,072 purchase of 144 wobbly chairs — the ones the kids appear to love even as they insist they don’t.
The change in students’ ability to focus, especially in the kids who struggle with attention deficit disorder, has been noticeable, he said. He advises other principals thinking of making a shift at their schools to find a few adult champions who can help explain the brain science and offer practical advice to other teachers on how to make movement a bigger part of the day. He also says it’s worth having physical education options with clear curricula and learning standards. The more kids understand about what they can do to be fit now, the more likely they’ll be able to stay fit as adults.
Indeed, said Wright, the national advocate from SHAPE, the biggest pay-off of more physical education and recess for America’s schoolchildren would be fitter adults.
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Christine Armstrong is a co-founder of Jericho Chambers, a progressive communications consultancy structured like a barristers’ set.
She takes time out of a very busy – but very balanced – schedule to discuss her career path, ‘disruptive’ businesses and how we could make life better for working parents.
To begin with, could you introduce yourself and tell me a bit about your background?
I’m Christine Armstrong, I’m co-founder of Jericho Chambers, I’m a contributing editor at Management Today and I have a column in the International Business Times. I have three daughters aged six, four and one.
Originally I did a degree in politics at York and went to work in a public affairs PR firm, was there eight years and I worked in the States and in Canada. Then I went to an advertising agency called BBDO, was working in their European hub and moved from a communications focus to a more research and insight focus which I really enjoyed. When I had my first baby I went to work for WPP in one of their research companies, but it didn’t really work for me so left and then set up Jericho.
How did you start out on your career journey, which it seems has been varied. Did you set out to be a thought leader or just to be an ad exec?
I don’t think I would have known what thought leadership was or had a view on it. I didn’t set out with any clear goal at all. My career has evolved in response to throwing myself into jobs and following what’s interested me. I’ve been guided by the opportunities and the things that have caught my energy and I’ve pursued those things.
I’ve been fascinated with the idea of Jericho, the consultancy you co-founded with Robert Phillips, formerly of Edelman and George Pitcher, formerly of Luther Pendragon. It’s structured like a barrister’s chambers. Do you always work independently or do you collaborate?
When it was originally conceived we imagined it like a barristers chambers, where people would have their own lines of business – they might collaborate, they might work independently – but essentially people would have their own work streams and then you would contribute to the centre in terms of supporting the building and the brand and the team.
But it’s evolved in a really good way: it’s much more collaborative, so almost all the projects that we work on multiple people are involved with. But the structure remains hugely flexible; it means that everyone has other lives. I can write, I can do the school run most days, there are no fixed hours; literally people come and go as suits their needs and do whatever else interests them. That, for me, is a very important and special thing about Jericho – in addition to it changing the way that we approach and think about how companies behave and how they do things better.
Do you think of yourselves as being ‘disruptive’?
We recognise that the world’s changed and that the old ways of dealing with lots of things don’t work anymore. We had a meeting yesterday with an organisation that was saying that they’d followed the same agenda – doing the same things – and they get completely and utterly ignored by the people that matter to them. They came in saying “why is that?” So many organisations know the world has changed yet aren’t sure how to respond. They’ve don’t know how to do things differently or do things better. They struggle with the idea that they need to change what they do – not just what they say. And so we help companies, organisations and people with those things. I don’t know if that’s disruptive; I prefer to think that it’s progressive.
Your consultancy positions itself as taking an ethical approach to communications and public affairs. It takes a lot of guts to say: we’re going to do things differently; we’re going to rebel against the industries we came of professional age in. Do you find it easy to be rebellious?
I think we do and I think running your own organisation gives you a huge amount of confidence to say: “we don’t want to work on that” or “I don’t think that’s the right thing” or “If you’re looking for that then we’re really not the right organisation to help you with it”. I think that’s really important.
I think you have to be a bit careful with the word ‘ethical’ because sometimes companies might not be perceived to be ethical – there may be problems that they’re trying to address – and you have to be careful about refusing to help people if you think that they genuinely have good intentions and want to change. Then I think it would be wrong to say “we’re not going to help you because you’ve done something wrong in the past or because we don’t like how you’ve behaved” if you genuinely think they want to do things better. That’s the question that you have to try to ask yourself when you’re talking to people.
So not covering up problems but trying to solve problems?
At Jericho we think about organisations: how they exist in the world, how they behave, what they do and the impact that they have; what their purpose is, whether they’re offering something that’s positive to society and to their community.
It’s about accepting that traditional power structures have broken down, that top down management and top down communication don’t work and that world is messy and complicated. So it’s how the brand engages with the world, what it considers its community to be and how it engages with those people.
You’ve had an enviable career in advertising, PR and market research. When you were at school, and at university, what did you want to be ‘when you grew up’?
That’s a very Dickensian name.
Does the digital era ever disappoint you?
No, I love the digital stuff too, I love The Pool at the moment – I love some of the great digital stuff that’s out there, it’s brilliant, I wouldn’t choose one or the other – but I do love a great magazine. There was some Facebook quiz where you had to ask your children what they thought of you and one of them was “what does your mum really like to do?” and they said: “read”. I will genuinely read anything – from highbrow to absolute trash. That’s my happy space.
What’s your most hated bit of business jargon or marketing speak?
It’s hard to choose; there are a few. Actually, there are bits of jargon that I hate but one of the things that drew me towards Jericho is that I did work with a lot of accountants, many of whom were based in America – and I don’t think it was that they were American, I think it was that they were in a remote place – but those long distant aggressive emails and capitalisation…That’s probably my most hated thing about business: that really aggressive, hard-edged tone around things which actually should just be a perfectly polite, perfectly reasonable transactional conversation. That’s one of my particular bugbears.
I’m alright with those – I probably use them! One of the things that drives me mad is when people say “I think we’re overthinking this”. And maybe I say it, which does worry me. But I think, generally, people say it when they want to shut stuff down, and actually it means we haven’t thought about it or we don’t want to think about it. So when people say “we’re overthinking this”, I really look for it and think “what are we trying to ignore, what is it that we don’t want to address here?” I read it as code for the something we don’t want to look at.
My personal favourite, or least favourite, is ‘action’ as a verb.
“We’re going to action this”. The thing is I’ve been in this so long, I think I don’t notice it, which is really shameful isn’t it? I can’t be a purist about these things because I work in environments where people use those words all the time and you do probably pick them up.
I’m always wary of people using quasi-academic words – ‘paradigm’ is a fairly common one – to express what are actually really simple ideas; those people always send alarm bells ringing in my head, trying to pretend that they’re clever.
Can you describe a typical working day for you, if there is such a thing?
People always tell me there isn’t when I do ‘Power Mums’ interviews so I suppose I can’t reject that as a thesis.
In an ideal world I drop my six year old to school at the gate at 8.30 and my four year old at the gate at 8.45. I feel an immense sense of achievement if I can do that. There’s something really psychologically reassuring in the ritual of sending your children through the school gates and thinking “all is well in the world”.
So I try not to do too many breakfasts and I try to do that as often as I can – three of four times a week. It doesn’t always work. And then I come into Jericho – I often work from home on Fridays – and do all the things you’d expect: meetings, call, seeing the team, seeing clients, writing, presenting. And when I can, which isn’t as often as I’d like to but I definitely do it on Fridays – I try to do school pick-up. My older daughter’s school finishes at either at 4 or at 5 depending on whether she’s got a club, so I try and pick her up twice a week and then go home and do the evening stuff. I do stay online and track things but I’m much better than I used to be at turning off and not doing stuff all night, just unwinding and relaxing.
You run the ‘Power Mums’ series on Management Today, where you interview high powered women who are also mothers. You fit into this category yourself, but has anything you’ve heard in the course of these interviews really surprised you about how other women manage their demanding lives?
There are a couple of things that I find very interesting.
One is that these are mostly women who spend fifteen years or more years being trained and growing up in a corporate environment. When they get pregnant they retreat into a residential area they’ve never really spent a lot of time in except for at the weekends, where they don’t have a social network because their social network is very much around work and colleagues in the centre of town. They’re pulled out of that environment and suddenly they’re in this place where they don’t know the neighbours, don’t know what time the postman comes, probably don’t know which day the rubbish goes, don’t know the bloke at the corner shop. They’re there with a small baby that they have no idea how to cope with because they’ve never done anything in their life so far that would equip them to deal with this baby. I think that’s a really bonkers thing that we do to people! It’s really stressful; I’m not surprised people get depressed. It’s an extraordinary idea. And then you have to build this whole new social network in that environment.
Consequently one of the problems that Power Mums have is that many of them go back to work very quickly. It’s not socially acceptable now to go back to work after four weeks like some senior mums used to do, so what they do is secretly work throughout their whole maternity leave. They’ll be on calls, they’ll be on email and they’ll be quite involved with the office and they will completely fail to turn up to baby swimming, baby yoga, baby Pilates, baby music-making and all the other things. And the only serious purpose of those things, in my view, is that you build your social network. Then, when your child is four and the school calls up and says they’re sick and they need to go home now and you’re trapped in a board meeting, you’ve got a whole list of people that you can phone and say “help”. But if you haven’t invested that time early on and you don’t have a permanent nanny looking after other children or something else, then you’re in a really difficult position. So the advice that I give to women with careers if they’re going to have babies is: don’t neglect that local network because you’re going to need it later. This network lives for the next 10, 15, 20 years in your community, and if you don’t have it, it’s really isolating.
The other observation is that women go through their careers in their twenties/early thirties – whenever they have a baby – and they assume that if they flourish in a career environment, that they’re a ‘career’ person. Someone said it to me when I had my first baby: “it will change your perspective”. At the time I thought it was a really patronising thing to say but I was completely wrong. Because it does change your perspective; the happiest women are the women who are honest about whether it’s changed their perspective or not.
Some women have the baby, go back to work full time, are completely comfortable and happy with that and that’s brilliant. And then lots of women find it difficult to recognise that actually, their priorities have changed. So what I see is that the happiest women are the ones who are most able to be honest about who they are at that point in time, and how much time they’re willing to spend at work versus being at home – to keep an eye on that and keep adjusting it.
The other key factor in my observation around happiness is the ability to control your own schedule. So if you are in a really corporate environment where you can’t go in at 10am because there’s a parent/teacher coffee thing that you just want to drop into, or you really can’t get out for particular events, that can feel very constraining and get very frustrating.
I think the kind of relationship that you have with your partner or husband is also critical. And there are two models that I’ve observed that I call the alpha/alpha or the alpha/beta model: you can have alpha/alpha where you’ve got Power Mum and Power Dad and the benefit of that is you’ve got resources, so you can have a support team of nannies and cleaners and that can work well. The parents can really understand each other’s worlds – they relate to the fact that they’re busy and they can compromise what they have to. But they can seem to orbit somewhat remotely if they’re not careful.
The other model is the alpha/beta, where you’ve got a dad who takes a lower key role, is at home or maybe runs their own business, and that can work really well because it gives you more flexibility. I think where it can get difficult – and people say this more ‘off the record’ than on the record – is if it turns into a sort of reversed Victorian marriage model where the mum goes “hang on, I earn all the money and I never see my kids, while you don’t earn the money and you see our kids all the time”. If there’s a jealousy that develops there I think that can be really challenging.
Do you think that the introduction of shared parental leave will change some of those dynamics and you’ll ever find yourself doing a dedicated ‘Power Dads’ column?
I’ve done Power Dads before. The problem with Power Dads is that they’re really boring! They have absolutely no guilt, because there’s no societal pressure on them to be at home, and they have no hostile judgement.
The mums, however, have people at work who roll their eyes because they think they’re “a bit part time” because they’re trying to get out the door at 5 or 6 o’clock. But then they go to the school gates and they don’t know everyone because they’re not always there, or they’re at the school play and they don’t know everyone. So then they feel socially excluded, and social exclusion is as painful as physical pain; the physical pain of feeling slightly outsider at the office and slightly outsider at the school gate is really profound.
And it’s that, I think, that is the challenge of modern corporate motherhood. Because everyone says “we want more women CEOs and more women in boardrooms”, but you write a Power Mum interview and it gets posted on Facebook and somebody will write underneath it: “she might be powerful but she’s no mother”. And that is piercing, really horrid. As a society we have to be honest about what we’re asking senior women to do when they have children and whether we’re comfortable with the idea that there will be mothers who never get home to have dinner with their kids in the week. Is that OK? Or are we judging that person? Because at the moment, it’s really hard for people to feel good about this stuff.
You’ve written about Marissa Mayer, the Yahoo boss who plans to take a very short maternity leave. You thought that she’s in a no-win situation as regards her balancing her responsibilities. Do you think this is a common thing among working women, even those with less stratospheric careers than Ms Mayer?
I think you need to be really tough and determined and do a really big job, especially when you have kids. You need to feel within you that you think it’s the right thing – I notice it’s often those people who have got working mothers themselves as a model and confidently feel “I’m at ease with this and it’s fine”. For those people who don’t have such an innate, strong sense that this is the right thing to do it can be extremely painful and stressful.
In that article you also talked about your experience of having children and how it offered an escape from work and a chance to take stock. You also said it felt like a period where you have no idea what you’re doing. Have you ever felt like that in your working life, or suffered from so-called ‘imposter syndrome’?
Definitely now, more than ever. For example, I still struggle to describe myself as a journalist; I feel like it’s fraudulent which my editor finds funny.
You publish this great digital magazine called the Revolutionary Times and your colleague and co-founder George Pitcher has said that there’s no conflict of interest in doing both journalism and PR. Do you feel the same way?
I do interviews and I comment on things in International Business Times that are in the news, but no, I don’t see a conflict and if I did think there was a conflict that I wouldn’t write it.
You’ve also got your family friendly holiday villas company, Villas4Kids. Did you always have the entrepreneurial spirit?
That’s more my husband’s – he runs it, that’s his business. It happened by accident entirely; long before I met him he bought these houses in Cyprus and just ran them as rentals, and then when we had our first child we just realised how much clobber – unbelievable volumes of stuff – you have to take on holiday with a small child. Then we just thought “well, why don’t we make over our houses?” The bookings went through the roof, the interest was huge and then we just started asking our neighbours and people we knew if they wanted to do the same and it really evolved from there. I don’t know if that’s ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ or not.
Finally, what would you change, either legally or socially, to make life easier for working mums and indeed dads?
There’s only one thing for me: our obsession with hours. And I have to say that the legal profession is one of the worst offenders, because the most challenging roles I see in Power Mum interviews are jobs that measure hours. So management consultancies, accountants, law firms are incredibly difficult and I am hugely frustrated by the fact that we’ve been talking about the nonsense of these working hours for decades. All the research shows this: that they’re not productive, they make us unhappy, they make us stressed, they’re not good for the economy…and yet nobody does anything about it. I still interview women who work 60, 70 hours a week.
I interviewed a woman who said that her daughter was going on about “finding her true love”. She said “I wonder where she got that idea from”, and I thought, “she’s never watched Frozen with her kids. She’s got girls the same age as mine, and if she’s never watched Frozen…”. It’s quite a big part of what girls seem to think and talk about.
To be fair, if some of my neighbours who are at home with their kids heard this, they would laugh uproariously at the idea that I’m completely engaged with my children because obviously I’m here a lot. But the comparison between the flexibility I have and someone who works 60, 70 hours a week in a corporate office is, I think, monumental.
So I would encourage all employers to change hours and I would encourage everyone who’s having a baby to think really hard about how they’re going to manage their time and not just accept the system that they go back into, but to try and make it work for them. Because otherwise it’s very easy to become disconnected from things that are going on in your home life and with your children. It’s an absolute tragedy of our society that women – and men – who want to be involved with their kids, who are interested in them, who want to play a part in their lives every day, but also have a career, are somehow being forced into binary positions. It’s crazy.
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https://vardags.com/family-law/interview-christine-armstrong-co-founder-jericho-chambers
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Hollywood Beach offers great people-watching, and a great place to kick back by the ocean.
A Key West tradition is the nightly sunset celebration at Mallory Square, complete with street performers like Catman.
Make sure to visit Bahia Honda State Park while you're in the Florida Keys.
Delray Beach is brimming with quirky shops and cafes.
Hunt for treasure on Hallandale Beach.
Southeast Florida radiates balmy temperatures, luxury, and Latin and Caribbean flavors. Whether you’re dreaming of a big-city getaway in Miami Beach, a laid-back fishing trip in the Florida Keys, or an indulgent splurge in the Palm Beaches, you’re sure to find your perfect vacation here.
The outdoors are key here – at Bahia Honda State Park, a nature trail climbs the Old Bahia Honda Bridge to present an island panorama and crystalline view of the fish that snorkelers and anglers seek. Inside the National Key Deer Refuge, an endangered species of miniature white-tailed deer roams freely.
Thanks to the early 20th-century influence of architect Addison Mizner, a walk through Boca Raton mimics a walk through the Mediterranean, with a namesake lake, Lake Boca, and the Atlantic Ocean providing the water views. The luxurious Boca Raton Resort & Club reinvigorates Mizner’s 1926 Cloister Inn and the Old Floresta district stuns with his showcase homes. Fulfill the city’s upscale wish by touring the Boca Raton Museum of Art, shopping in malls both open-air and mega and feasting in a number of fine restaurants.
To the west, Boynton Beach goes green with golf; to the east, it sparkles Atlantic Ocean blue. In between, discover public arts programs and a 1913 schoolhouse re-purposed as the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum and Learning Center, presenting hands-on, interactive exhibits on Florida history..
Eats. Boutiques. Entertainment. Arts. They’re everywhere you look in Coconut Grove, south of downtown Miami. CocoWalk and Mayfair in the Grove are trendy complexes dedicated to these pursuits, but take to the streets to experience “the Grove” as it has always been. The entrance to The Barnacle Historic State Park, an 1891 estate on Biscayne Bay, hides amid shady trees. Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, a European-inspired manse with an orchidarium and 34 rooms embellished with five centuries of antiques and art, is also here.
Surf, play volleyball or pier fish at this Blue Wave Beach. Quiet Waters Park offers a playground of another kind, including a children’s splash zone. The Deerfield Beach Arboretum sits in quiet contrast, with a butterfly garden amid trees from five continents.
When locals saved two aging schools from demolition in the 1980s, Old School Square resurrected the buildings as the Cornell Art Museum and the Crest Theatre. Delray’s patronage of the arts, and preservation, lives on in the galleries of Pineapple Grove Arts District, cultural centers including the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, and events like Art and Jazz on the Avenue (the avenue is Atlantic, and its shopping and dining possibilities don’t stop ’til you reach the ocean).
Fort Lauderdale has become synonymous with luxury – resorts, yachts and dream homes could be considered staples of the community. But let’s not forget what drew the luxe in: the Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterway, respectively responsible for Fort Lauderdale’s beachfront promenade (loll at a sidewalk café or walk along the Wave Wall) and a Venetian-like canal system where water taxis and, yes, gondolas run. Offshore from this Blue Wave Beach, fishing, diving and water sports dominate. For shopping, dining, nightlife and people-watching, Las Olas Boulevard, The Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass Mills and The Village at Gulfstream Park are musts.
The water tower here is painted to look like a beach ball. Enough said. Try your hand at horses and Vegas-style slots at Gulfstream Racing & Casino and shopping and dining at The Village of Gulfstream Park.
Most beaches boast boardwalks. This one boasts a Broadwalk, two and a half pedestrian-friendly miles fronting Hollywood’s Blue Wave Beach. In the historic downtown, visitors find sidewalk cafes, galleries and ArtsPark at Young Circle, where a visual arts pavilion hosts artisan demos and even the children’s playground equipment is artful. Just a half-mile from the Broadwalk, wind through the mangroves in a canoe or kayak at Anne Kolb Nature Center at West Lake Park.
Homestead still works an agricultural angle, and any of its roadside stands offer sweet produce in season. The National Register recognizes a downtown school, residences and the town hall while crowds have made its eccentric Coral Castle a popular roadside attraction since 1953.
Islamorada, called the sport fishing capital of the world, rates among anglers of all ages and skill levels. Theater of the Sea has been hosting marine shows since 1946, though today you can actually swim with the dolphins, sea lions and stingrays.
The best way to see the spectacular reefs here is to dive right in (snorkeling and paddling are also acceptable). John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park runs glass-bottom boat tours in the shallow waters of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary just outside the park's borders, and divers delight upon reaching the sunken “Christ of the Abyss,” cast from a mold of a statue that rests in the Mediterranean Sea.
At the bottom of the U.S. and the top of many travelers’ life lists, Key West is colorful and free. Delight in innocent debauchery along Duval Street and celebrate the sunset at Mallory Square; then hop between historic digs along the Pelican Path (the sites are plenty, including the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, Audubon House and Tropical Gardens and Harry S. Truman Little White House). Take off in a seaplane (or boat) to reach one of the country’s most remote recreational areas, Dry Tortugas National Park. The ultra-clear, jewel-blue water makes for unmatched fishing, diving and snorkeling.
A mainland gateway to Palm Beach, Lake Worth boasts a shore of its own, with a newly renovated pier, surf-able waves and unique restaurants. Away from the sand, Art Link International holds Highwaymen paintings among its collection.
Marathon is a jumping-off point for sport fishing and the Seven Mile Bridge, one of America’s iconic drives. Charters and tournaments evidence the area’s angling meddle while an annual seafood festival proves that conch fritters taste best with a side of live music. Both point to Marathon’s fishing village foundation – learn more about the Middle Key history at Crane Point Museum and Nature Center.
Ever the melting pot, Miami mixes ethnic neighborhoods with avant garde art, resulting in a big city made accessible by defined urban enclaves. Gentrifying Wynwood locates galleries and museums near the markets of Little San Juan. The Design District packs furniture, antiques and art within Little Haiti. And along Little Havana’s Calle Ocho (Eighth Street), the cigars are still hand-rolled, the café con leche steaming. The Biscayne Bay backdrop makes national-scale shopping, dining and nightlife memorable at downtown’s Bayside Marketplace, particularly at night when the water reflects city lights. Beyond the skyline and the bay, the Miami Seaquarium and the palm-and-sand paradise of Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park occupy Key Biscayne.
Here, the playground is as pretty as the players. Palms and the Atlantic Ocean landscape Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival and Miami Modern structures (the Miami Design Preservation League conducts tours), and art is all around in galleries, museums and events like Art Basel in Miami Beach, the most influential art show in the Americas. Shopping, too, goes world-class inside lush Bal Harbour – dress for an excursion here, then take a casual approach along Collins Avenue and Lincoln Road (also suitable for dining and keeping an eye on the scene). One block from Collins, legendary Ocean Drive unfurls shopping, noshing, beach going and partying, with lounges that come alive late into the night.
In 1896, Henry Flagler built a grand home-away-from-home for visitors here, the Palm Beach Inn. In 1902, he built a home for his bride, Whitehall. He doubled the size of the Palm Beach Inn and renamed it The Breakers. After twice burning down, the inn has been reconstructed. It still stands today, luxurious as ever, and Whitehall persists as the Flagler Museum (Flagler’s collections as well as the tea partie hosted at the museum’s café from Thanksgiving to Easter conjure up America’s Gilded Age). Palm Beach’s reputation as a playground for the wealthy persists too. The affluence is palpable along Worth Avenue, where fine art, labels like Cartier and Chanel and established restaurants grace Mediterranean storefronts and courtyards. Take the seasonal, historic walking tour of this Addison Mizner-designed district that begins at the Atlantic and leads you up Worth Avenue. Stay and shop!
Just east of Fort Lauderdale, Plantation maintains a lush, inland oasis of golf greens and parks. Plantation Preserve offers the best of both, its course an Audubon-certified par 72; its park a walk through wetlands to a Tequesta Indian burial mound.
As its name suggests, the heart of this city north of Fort Lauderdale belongs to fishing. Tours are offered periodically of the 1907 Hillsboro Lighthouse, its black and white hull and skeletal construction as striking as the golden sand below.
West Palm Beach sits inland from Palm Beach, but echoes some of the same flavors in museums (notably, the Norton Museum of Art) and an attractive open-air collection of shops and restaurants along Clematis Street. By day, discover the district’s historic appeal; by night, love it for its lounges and live music. For younger visitors, the South Florida Science Museum, Palm Beach Zoo and nearby Lion Country Safari present adventuresome options – Lion Country encourages visitors to drive through African-inspired forests and plains for glimpses of giraffes, zebras, rhinos and wildebeests.
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Other factors may also be important, such as convenience of use, disposal, fragrance, colour, texture, and so on, but we feel these are not likely to be used in superiority claims (although they may well influence the customer into choosing a particular product).
The four categories identified above are the ones on which comparative claims are likely to be based. The features are not entirely independent of one another, although they do arise from different parts of the product, and the Panel feel that claims of superiority in one or more of them would be acceptable to Clearcast.
Although it clearly has its limitations, the Panel are persuaded that the evaporimetry test, known as the trans-epidermal water loss test (hereafter TEWL), is currently the best scientific method for measuring the wetness of skin. This records the release of water vapour from the uppermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum. The method fits the criteria for scientific validity: it gives reproducible results, these results can be achieved in any laboratory with trained personnel, and the results are meaningful. Until an alternative, and more reliable, method of assessing skin dryness is developed, the Panel feels that superiority claims should derive from TEWL measurements.
It is the Panel’s recommendation that a superiority claim with respect to skin dryness should only be accepted if it can be demonstrated in tests carried out on both female forearms and on babies bottoms, and the Panel believes that the latter form of testing is best done after overnight wear, although for nappies designed for the youngest babies this should be for at least 4 hours.
TEWL studies on adult female forearms appear to be an excellent methodology, giving stability and reproducibility of measurement, and control of perturbing variables. Tests on adult female forearms offer the best site for wetness testing on soft skin that most resembles a baby’s skin. This form of testing is known to give reproducible measurements, although clearly it cannot take into account zonal variability in the characteristics and behaviour of human skin. Despite this limitation, the Panel feels that female forearm TEW L testing is an acceptable way of comparing skin dryness beneath a wet nappy, and Appendix 1 of this report gives the protocol which should be followed when carrying out such tests.
The Panel feels that, before a superiority claim for dryness can be accepted, there has to be supporting evidence based on real-life consumer use, and testing a baby’s skin after it has worn a nappy overnight would best seem to meet this requirement.
Again the body-regional variability of human skin characteristics and behaviour is such that testing must involve statistically meaningful numbers and sub-groups of babies, and that there must be standardization in the positioning of the baby for testing, the region where the probe is applied, and the way in which the probe is used.
On-baby testing is not without its problems because it is not physically possible to measure skin wetness in the immediate genital area of a baby, nor is it likely that mothers would approve of, or cooperate in, tests in this area. In any case this is not the area of skin which is likely to be pressed against the surface of the nappy during wear. Absorbent nappies are designed to disperse urine away from the point of insult, and skin adjacent to the pubic region will consequently be beneath wetted material. The part of a baby most likely to be pressed against a wetted nappy is its bottom, and the Panel feels that it is practicable to carry out a TEWL test in this region as near to the gluteal grove as possible. Appendix 2 lists the requirements that must be met for such testing to give acceptable results.
Prior to the launch of a new, or improved, product designed to reduce skin wetness, the samples of nappies to be tested must be of representative quality to those that are to be marketed. Likewise the purchase of competitors’ nappies should be made in such a manner as to ensure they are also representative. When a superiority claim is being made for a product that is already widely available then all samples for testing, including those of the would-be claimant, should be purchased simultaneously from the same outlets.
The alternative method of demonstrating the potential of a nappy to keep a baby’s skin dry is a re-wet test, in which another surface is pressed against a wetted nappy and the amount of fluid removed is measured. While such tests are much easier to carry out, and are likely to give reproducible results to a higher level of scientific acceptability, the Panel were persuaded that they were of secondary importance in assessing what actually happens during use.
However, re-wet demonstrations have been used in advertisements, and may continue to be so used. To be acceptable, the demonstration must simulate the conditions to be expected during nappy use, such as a reasonable time for the nappy’s absorbency to work; the application of a pressure similar to that experienced when the nappy is being worn by a baby; and the use of a re-wet surface that resembles skin. In using such a demonstration no impression of dryness superiority may be stated or implied unless superiority has also been demonstrated by both the female forearm and baby’s bottom TEWL tests.
Recommendation: that advertisers should be allowed to claim superiority in keeping a baby’s skin dry. Dryness ability must be proved using the two TEWL tests specified, but may be demonstrated to viewers in other ways.
It should be permitted to claim that a nappy is capable of holding more urine and semi-liquid faeces without there being any leakage. During the course of a night a baby may urinate into a nappy several times and there is a possibility that the garment may approach its holding capacity.
The capacity of a nappy to retain body waste does not necessarily correlate directly with the amount of absorbent material used in the nappy. The Panel accepts that improved retention capacity for a nappy would be a reasonable claim to make, but this must not be rely solely on there being more of the absorbent polymer present. This has to be shown to work effectively, and that a larger nappy loading is being retained, without leakage, under conditions that simulate its being worn by a baby.
Recommendation: that advertisers should be allowed to claim that their product can cope with more body waste without leakage. This would only be permissible if it can be demonstrated that competitive products would leak when subject to normal waste levels.
There are several ways a nappy that could cause a baby discomfort. These stem from features such as insufficient choice of nappy sizes for appropriate age groups, poor adjustability in fastenings, the need for tightness of elastic grips to prevent leakage, and the quality of the material in contact with baby’s skin. Although these features are not easily measured, the Panel believes that a product which seeks to eliminate them could claim superiority in comfort of wear, where discomfort is evidenced by red weals on the body, and chaffing and chapping of the baby’s skin.
Advertisers should bear in mind that were such superiority claims regarding comfort of wear to be made, then the Panel would need to consider and approve protocols in advance of testing.
Recommendation: that advertisers should be allowed to claim superiority in comfort and wearability over extended periods of time.
Ways of preventing, helping to prevent, or relieving this skin condition could result from uniqueness of nappy construction, improved ventilation, or special ingredients designed for the purpose. Construction could include better locking away of urine and keeping it separate from faeces, while better air-flow by means of vents or ‘breathable’ materials could be used to reduce humidity. Nappy rash might also be checked by the use of anti-microbial and anti-enzymatic agents in a section of the nappy, or by having skin-protection agents or emollients as part of the surface that is in contact with the baby.
Again advertisers should bear in mind that if such claims are made, Clearcast suggests it would submitting protocols before testing.
Recommendation: that advertisers be allowed to claim hygiene benefits that help prevent nappy rash.
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The psypoke chats (http://psypokes.com/chats.php) are for Psypoke users to communicate in live chat. The channel, #psypoke, is designated for general discussion and general pokemon discussion. Other channels, such as #psypoketrivia and #psypokejeopardy, are currently "inactive," meaning that there are no Psypoke staff members in them, and may not be entered.
To access the chatrooms, users may either use the site's java application or an IRC program. To use the java chat, users must visit http://psypokes.com/chats.php, and click the link that directs to the channel the user wishes to visit. If using an IRC program, users should connect to the KBFail Network (address: irc.kbfail.net; port: 6667) and join the channel (#psypoke).
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3. Major Flooding - Flooding the channel with messages is strictly prohibited. "Major" is defined as flooding the channel with messages, notices, CTCPs, or any other mass form of communication that does not stop after twelve (12) lines. Flooding with notices and/or CTCPs is an automatic thirty-day ban, regardless of the length of the flood.
All Class "A" Violations will result in a forum warning, and may result in a mirrored forum ban.
First Offense: User is temporarily banned from the chats for no less than thirty (30) days.
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This command will list all effective bans on the Psypoke Chats, along with who set the ban, and why. Should there be any questions or concerns about these bans, all users are welcome to message a channel operator, specifically the operator who set the ban in question.
Any and all questions, comments, or concerns should either be messaged to a channel operator on the chats or forums, or posted a thread in the Help Forum.
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I have no idea what it means but I like it.
Regular readers of this blog will know that a recurring theme is the notion of meaning in our working lives. I’m also a big fan of simple models and frameworks to help structure and analyse complex ideas. So, I was excited to discover an article which not only conducted an extensive review of the literature of meaning in work, but which presented a simple way of categorising the various ways in which people find meaning.
How'm I looking? Lookin' good!
Self-esteem can play an important part in career success. This has been on my mind quite a bit in recent weeks. I have been doing a lot of work with people involved in organisational restructuring. Even when they are not facing redundancy, they are often having to deal with the prospect of applying for roles within a new structure or working under radically different conditions. When someone decides that all or part of what you have spent the last few years working at is not worth doing, it can severely dent your feelings of validity.
I have also been teaching on an introductory management course, where the issue of self-esteem came up in relation to staff motivation and performance management.
It is traditional to focus on the dangers of low self-esteem, which is usually linked to under-performance, lack of initiative, social withdrawal, fear of change, even depression and self-harm. Consequently, much of the advice around is about how to raise your self-esteem.
But there are dangers in too much self-esteem.
So, do your dials go up to 11?
I’ve been having some very interesting conversations lately on LinkedIn groups.
In one discussion, a Canadian career service manager described how his team had been increasingly using the term ‘career literacy’ to describe what they were trying to develop in their students. He asked what we thought of the term.
Part of me really likes the idea of literacy as a set of skills that enables you to interact with information. According to the UNESCO definition, literacy involves “a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society“. That fits rather well with the aims of a careers service.
My reservation with the term is that, in a university setting, literacy could be interpreted as rather a basic level of learning. By the time students have reached university, they should have gone beyond literacy and be operating in the realm of analysis and critical thinking. Would it have face value with the academic community?
So, what other terms could we use and what would they imply? Can we come up with something which appeals to those who are looking at immediate solutions as well as giving a strong message about developing an ability to deal with issues over the entire course of your career?
This kicked the random word generator in my brain into overdrive and I tried to come up with a range of phrases to describe what we are trying to nurture in our clients.
The UK Government recently released Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers: A Strategy for Social Mobility.
The report quotes some depressing statistics about social mobility in the UK.
Only one in five young people from the poorest families achieve five good GCSEs, including English and maths, compared with three quarters from the richest families.
25% of children from poor backgrounds fail to meet the expected attainment level at the end of primary school, compared to 3% from affluent backgrounds.
Almost one in five children receive free school meals, yet this group accounts for fewer than one in a hundred Oxbridge students.
Only a quarter of boys from working-class backgrounds get middle-class (professional or managerial) jobs.
Just one in nine of those with parents from low income backgrounds reach the top income quartile, whereas almost half of those with parents in the top income quartile stay there.
Only 7% of the population attend independent schools, but the privately educated account for more than half of the top level of most professions, including 70% of high court judges, 54% of top journalists and 54% of chief executive officers of FTSE 100 companies.
The influence of parental income on the income of children in Britain is among the strongest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Parental income has over one and a half times the impact on male incomes in Britain compared with Canada, Germany and Sweden.
Why have I left it so long between the last posting and this one?
Partly, of course, there was the Christmas break. Too many things to do (and besides, who is going to read this blog in preference to spending precious festive time with their loved ones?).
Oh, and then there was that workshop on Time Management that I had to prepare (I really didn’t have time to do it before now, honestly). And I had to have a few breaks in order to catch up on my LoveFilm DVDs (I’ve got to get my money’s worth). And setting up the new Kindle on our WiFi took much longer than I anticipated.
And then I have to own up to the excessive amount of time I spent trying to beat the backgammon game on my phone (I’m sure it cheats!).
OK. I admit it. I’ve been putting it off.
Let’s say the word together: PROCRASTINATION.
It’s not just me, and it’s not just about writing blog posts. Whether it’s a student putting off their visit to the careers office until the last week of their final year or the dissatisfied worker who never gets round to changing their career, the ‘I’ll do it later’ attitude prevents many people from engaging with career development tasks.
Flexibility - a key component of employability?
I am preparing material for an employability module, and I’ve been getting myself into it by exploring different definitions and concepts of employability.
Coming at that question from a careers adviser’s perspective, I tend, by default, to think about employability in terms of the awareness and attributes of the individual job seeker. So into my head come the career management skills of the classic DOTS model (although, why it’s called DOTS and not SODT escapes me).
However, that’s not the only way of looking at employability. I thought it might be useful to share some of the perspectives on this subject that I have found most interesting. This is not meant to be an exhaustive literature review on the subject of employability, just an idiosyncratic collection of things that have caught my attention.
I would like to thank Elaine Denniss from The Careers Group for contributing this guest posting. — David.
In preparing to facilitate a recent Guidance Forum on using a strengths-based approach in careers guidance, I revisited some of the positive psychology and strengths-based literature. Because of this, I have been reflecting further on how I can incorporate some of the ideas, theories and approaches into my careers work.
The positive psychology and strengths-based movement has been gaining momentum over recent years with a growing body of research demonstrating the benefits of positive emotion and focusing on our strengths for our life and our work. In emphasising strengths rather than weaknesses, positive psychology moves us away from the Negativity Bias whereby we find it easier to pay attention to what’s wrong or areas requiring development. The concept of strengths appeared in business literature with Peter Drucker (1967) and subsequently through the vision of Donald Clifton of The Gallup Organisation and the work of Martin Seligman in the field of positive psychology.
I would like to thank Rebecca Valentine from Edinburgh University for contributing this guest posting. — David.
Here at the University of Edinburgh Careers Service we have regular guidance issues forums where the careers advisers get together to look at new developments and to discuss client case studies. A while ago I was asked to facilitate a case-study forum using a solution-focused team model.
The model comes from solution focused brief therapy (SFBT), an approach I first came across during my time as a Connexions Adviser South of the border. Instead of concentrating on problems and looking to the past to see how they have come about, SFBT seeks to focus on preferred futures and how they might be realised.
One of the key principles of SFBT is that the client and helper develop a collaborative partnership in which the helper encourages their client to find their own resources and solutions to tackle the problem. Central to SFBT is the belief that the client already has the solutions; they just need help to discover them. It’s also about identifying small steps that can be taken; big problems do not always need a big solution. SFBT often involves the client making small changes in their lives that can have big consequences.
Since being introduced to SFBT, I have continued to use some of the core techniques in my one-to-one practice and I find it to be a particularly useful approach with clients who present as overly negative, or when the discussion gets bogged down in “problem talk”.
A few years ago Bristol Solutions Group developed a reflective practice team model based on the principles of SFBT (see O’Connell & Palmer 2003 for details). It’s this model that I encountered during my time at Connexions. I saw it used very effectively on a number of occasions in multi-agency forums where professionals would come together to discuss difficult cases. I discussed the format with my colleague here at Edinburgh and we decided to give it a go in one of our guidance issues forums.
A few concepts that I blogged about have been floating round in my head for a while. A recent discussion with a client made them come together.
She was talking about how her educational background in Africa had given her a particular mindset about career success. She explained that in her home country, passing a relevant professional examination pretty much guaranteed an appropriate job. When she came to the UK, it was a great shock to her that just having good qualifications was not enough. She had been surprised at the emphasis placed on demonstrating acceptable personal qualities and the importance of networking. It had taken her quite a while to overcome this mindset, and even now her initial reaction when faced with a career challenge was to think about what training she could obtain.
She was quite surprised when I told her that it wasn’t just people from outside the UK that suffered from this blinkered attitude to employability and career success.
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With less than a month to go before a new BTCC season roars into life at Brands Hatch on 29/30 March, fans already swoon over the prospect of seven champions now jostling for honours among 32 entrants for the coming campaign.
Among those, double champions Menu (1997 & 2000) and Giovanardi (2007-08), racing for BMR Racing and Motorbase Performance respectively, offer the most nostalgia.
Colin Turkington was last season’s king of the BTCC comebacks, the 2009 champion returning 12 months ago with the West Surrey Racing squad he has remained loyal to during his career, and doing so with style, claiming five wins to make it feel as though the Northern Irishman had never been away.
When deciphering some of Britain’s finest touring car drivers of the modern era, James Thompson is a name that will feature in many people’s script, and his two comebacks in the championship both proved that in spades.
Back in 1995, the bright-eyed Yorkshire youngster stepped up to join John Cleland at Vauxhall’s works team at the tender age of just 20, and stunned the paddock by becoming the youngest BTCC race winner at Thruxton later that year to set him on the route to stardom that ran up until the conclusion of 2004.
Entertaining during a mixed spell for Honda in an Accord between 1997-2000, Thompson switched to Vauxhall for 2001, a change that brought his finest hours. He claimed a total of 18 wins in that period, clinching the formerly elusive BTCC crown in both 2002 and 2004 during fierce duels with Yvan Muller, before leaving for the World Touring Car Championship stage in 2005.
Having left to contest the 2005 World Touring Car Championship where he took a victory on the opening weekend with Alfa Romeo, Thompson agreed to return to BTCC a year later on a part-time rota, sharing a second SEAT Leon with fellow Brit, Darren Turner.
Thompson raced five of the 10 weekends with the Spanish manufacturer in 2006 alongside his full-time WTCC programme in a bid to help Plato and, more importantly, help the brand on their way towards what became their first major title success in the British championship – SEAT being his WTCC stable at the time also.
He couldn’t have started the new Leon model’s life much smarter, as a fine performance in the opening race of the season at Brands Hatch saw Thompson make a winning return by forcing his way past Tom Chilton to win, Thompson even leading the series after those first three races.
After claiming another podium at Mondello and two top-four finishes at Oulton Park, he returned at Croft in a stellar weekend that saw him graciously gift the win to his team-mate Plato on the final lap of race one, only to dominate the final race of the day for a second and final win in 2006.
Three second places at Snetterton were the final party piece of his part-time season that saw him finish a superb sixth in the points, a crash and two fifth places at the Silverstone season finale wrapping up his year before returning his full focus to the WTCC.
Thompson then found himself making another shock comeback from WTCC when Gordon Shedden was bizarrely left without a drive following a trying time for Team Dynamics at the start of the year after their main sponsor at the time – Halfords – departed.
Thompson came in and immediately got to grips with the Honda Civic at Thruxton for a race three podium before shocking the system at a wet Donington Park. His wet-weather ability shone through as he took victory in only the fourth race of his second return, before calmly resisting pressure from Matt Neal in a dry second race to make it a double.
In the third race he gambled on slick tyres on a drying track to attempt the second ever BTCC treble, but ran out of laps when the decision was paying off in the final half of the race as shown by he recovery through the pack from last to sixth.
One more win followed at the reverse-grid race at Oulton Park as he notched up 10 top-six finishes in 18 races contested, Thompson leaving the series after Knockhill where he was replaced by former F1 star Johnny Herbert for the remainder of the season.
In fact, Thompson was still not done as he made another one-off appearance at the final round of 2011, racing with Motorbase in a third Ford Focus.
During the late 70s and throughout the 80s, Winston ‘Win’ Percy was a star performer in touring cars. Having joined the late Tom Walkinshaw’s Mazda squad in 1980, he instantly showed his class in saloon car racing by claiming the title in ’80 and ’81 for the TWR team.
He then became one of only three drivers – Bill McGovern and Andy Rouse the other contingents – to claim a hat-trick of titles in succession after moving to Toyota for his 1982 triumph in a Carolla, owed to by a pre-season misunderstanding enforced from Walkinshaw’s somewhat off-beat sense of humour, before continuing with TWR into WTCC.
A touring car gentleman and legacy, Percy was not done from BTCC yet however, as in 1987, Andy Rouse passed the duties of his trusty Ford Sierra RS500 into the hands of Percy at the Silverstone round to make a one-off BTCC return.
He adapted to the Sierra better than expected and was over a second quicker than the opposition in practice, and in qualifying showed them what they would be dealing with by claiming pole position. However, as the lights went out, disaster struck as he stalled the car from pole position, eventually getting the RS500 rolling at the tail of the field while cars streamed by him.
Percy then set about a scintillating comeback from the rear of the field, carving through the lower class traffic before picking off his faster rivals one by one – including the likes of Tim Harvey’s Rover Vitesse – to claw his way into the lead of the 15-lap race in a flash with the quick disposal of Dave Brodie and Frank Sytner.
HERE’S a slice of footage of the race itself.
After four wins in three seasons at Renault he moved to Vauxhall in 2000, beating Muller in a bitter 2001 squabble for supremacy between the Astra team-mates to become BTCC champion for the first occasion during a tension-fuelled Brands Hatch finale that left fingernails a sorry state for all involved.
Plato was employed by SEAT in 2003 to aid their driver development, and leaped at the opportunity to return to touring cars when the Spanish manufacturer decided to launch an assault on the BTCC with a pair of Toledos for the following year. Plato was the natural option for them, partnered by SEAT Cupra champion and future World Touring Car Championship title winner, Rob Huff.
It was almost as though Plato had never taken the sabbatical when the new season came around, as he ran competitively inside the top 10 for the season’s first race at Thruxton along with his young team-mate, where he first implemented a tactic he would exploit all season as he dropped back towards the 10th place in a bid to start the reverse-grid race from the front.
It worked at the Hampshire venue as he grabbed the early lead, and fans were treated to a vintage Plato performance as he locked horns with his arch nemesis Muller – still at Vauxhall – for the entire race. Plato produced an almost Scalextric-like drive to keep the Frenchman behind him for the second half of the race, and win SEAT’s first BTCC race for a popular victory.
From there the rest is history; Plato finished the year third in the championship with seven wins, while Huff took two of his own for the team on their dream debut year.
Plato has since been an iconic character of the BTCC, and his success on the track has since grown from his comeback year, narrowly missing out on the 2007 title during his five-year tenure at SEAT at which he clinched 32 race victories with the marque.
A move to Chevrolet was the savior in 2009 following SEAT’s manufacturer backing exiting during the winter season, and the second ever hat-trick (besides Dan Eaves at Thruxton, 2005) came his way at the seaosn finale at Brands Hatch, before revenge was sweet a year later when Plato notched up his second title in 2010 with the Chevrolet Cruze under the Silverline team.
Plato has since been a title contender each season since, and will enter 2014 as a favourite once again with the MG KX Momentum Racing squad.
Ford are a manufacturer that have been with the BTCC since its beginning, winning class C races with Jeff Uren in a Ford Zephyr against eventual 1958 champion Jack Sears and since becoming famous through many unique, popular and beautiful machines to grace Britain’s premier saloon car series, many of which were also very, very quick.
From Sears hurling a beefy and powerful NASCAR-style Ford Galaxy around the British circuits, Andy Rouse and Gordon Spice‘s famous duels as Ford Capri team-mates, all the way up to the favorable battles between the almighty Ford Sierra RS500 machines – the blue oval were a strong part of the championship.
The Supertouring era brought the Ford Mondeo to BTCC during the 90s, which was the tool that Nigel Mansell famously thundered into a bridge parapet in the TOCA Shootout and battled to the lead with at Donington in 1993 and 1998 respectively, and was present up until the 2000 season with budgets then higher than ever seen in BTCC.
Arena Motosport brought the manufacturer back to BTCC in 2009, with Tom Chilton at the helm of the team ready for a new challenge with the Ford Focus built to the then S2000 regulations.
Partnered with Alan Morrison, Chilton eventually got the Ford Focus ST to the front of the field at the final round at Brands Hatch after a learning season for them, securing pole before suffering a heart-breaking last corner defeat to Plato, after a power steering problem made him run wide and lose out on their first win since 2000 by a tiny 0.015s.
That win – and more – came a season later however, as an updated turbocharged version of the car rocketed to a total of six poles and seven wins between Chilton and Tom Onslow-Cole, the latter finishing fourth in the 2010 standings.
A new car saw Chilton only manage one pole and two victories in 2011, while their old machine has since claimed seven victories – six in the hands of Mat Jackson and one in those of Aron Smith.
Former WTCC champion and sometime Formula 1 refugee Gabriele Tarquini had once taken the BTCC by storm in the mid-90s, winning the 1994 title with Alfa Romeo on their debut before partaking in numerous touring car championships around the world following a split from the UK series after 1995.
The Italian then made a return during the 1997 season with Honda, joining Thompson in two competitive Honda Accords, and it wasn’t long before Tarquini got back to winning ways as he took a hard-fought win at Thruxton. This was ultimately his only win in a promising – if not inconsistent – year that saw him finish a solid sixth in the championship.
After another year away, Tarquini returned with Honda for the rounds at Knockhill and Brands Hatch in a bid to aid Thompson’s fading title challenge, before returning full-time for the last year of the Super Touring era in 2000.
He finished sixth in the championship once again, but collected four poles during the competitive season, and three wins at Knockhill, Donington and Oulton Park in his final year of BTCC.
This paved the waved for a ETCC and WTCC career of wide success to follow for the Italian, who remains a threat on the world stage to this day having won the European championship with Alfa Romeo, plus the World Touring Car Championship title for SEAT in a hard-fought 2009 contest.
The spectacular Italian is well regarded in motorsport folklore as one of, if not the best touring car driver there is, with nine worldwide tin-top titles to his mantle around the world.
His visit to Blighty in 2006 immediately oozed class once he got into his stride, before becoming a fan favourite and quickly earning a place in BTCC memories with two championships heading his direction at Vauxhall in just four seasons.
It was not so much a comeback you could argue because he had of course just missed out on becoming the fourth man to win three consecutive championships on the spin in 2009 (ironically to Turkington himself), although he was – just like Turkington – left inexplicably without a drive for 2010, following Vauxhall pulling the plug on their works backing in BTCC.
However, literally days before the season was about to get underway at Thruxton, Triple Eight worked hard to put together a late deal to field two Vectras for Giovanardi and former Clio Cup champion Phil Glew, and the fans trackside could not believe their luck when the black Vectras took to the track with the Italian’s name branded on one of them for the first round.
It became a fairytale story from then on that weekend when Giovanardi and Glew were both in the top 10, Giovanardi even sticking the #888 car on the front row. He then stunned even himself with a dominant display on Sunday, winning race one after a puncture for both Hondas of Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden, and then doubling up in race two.
…having claimed two memorable 2010 wins on his last weekend.
Comeback two – 2014 – We’ll have to wait and see….
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2019-04-22T16:12:06Z
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https://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2014/03/btccs-kings-comebacks/
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Human, Scout 1/ Scoundrel 2, Male 25 yrs.
Thrail Averrod is from the planet of Commenor, just outside the Core systems. As a result, he was highly exposed to events of the Galactic Civil War. His father was a TIE pilot who was killed early in the war, but the security risks surrounding the incident prevented him from ever knowing the whole story about his father’s death. Thrail looked up to his father and wanted badly to follow his steps in service to the Empire, and the struggle was all but over by the time he came of age. Then Thrawn came, instilling a sense of purpose and dignity back into the remaining Imperial forces. Thrail enlisted and underwent a series of training exercises designed to turn him into a covert operative. He was trained as an infiltrator who could operate out of remote, often uncivilized worlds. This fit well with the somewhat smaller resources at the Empire’s disposal. Yet eventuall Thrawn was defeated, and Thrail used what skills he had obtained to sink back into the primitive worlds from which he operated. Thrail considers himself highly committed to the ideals espoused by the Galactic Empire, but their continued failure has frustrated him and even caused him to begin doubting his beliefs. He is well beyond his years and wavers between the man who was once an Imperial soldier, confident in his abilities and a frustrated man who has seen the ideals of his youth ravaged by defeat. After a few years of isolation Thrail has determined to attempt to get back into the flow of life. He has no affinity for smuggling, but the opportunity presented itself and it fit fairly well with the skills he had. Thrail is a little over six feet tall and wears a thin beard.
Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm still up for this game. I'll get you stats, etc. in a few days.
Human Scoundrel 2/ Tech Specialist 1 Male 25 yrs.
Equipment: Tracker Utility Vest, heavily modified N'Gant-Zarvel Heavy Carbine, heavily modified DL-44, comlink, Blaster Repair kit, 395 credit chip.
Skills: Astrogate +9, Bluff +7, Computer Use +11, Craft (blaster pistols and rifles) +9, Disable Device +9, Forgery +9, Gamble +8, Gather Information +8, Knowledge (technology) + 11, Knowledge (world lore) +9, Profession (mechanic) +8, Repair +16, Search +9, Sleight of Hand +8.
Feats: Armor Proficiency (light), Gearhead, Skill Emphasis (repair), Technical Wizard.
Languages: Basic, Durese, Huttese, Rodese.
Jacen Macka grew up on the planet of Corellia, with his father and two brothers. His father was one of the best mechanics in the sector, and Jacen learned everything he knows from his father. One day, while his father was out stocking up on supplies, Captain Malcom Kijin stopped by for some needed repairs to his ship. After Jacen fixed up his ship, Captain Kijin asked Jacen to join his crew, bcause they were in need of someone who was handy with a hydrospanner. Jacen agreed instantly, for he had always wanted to travel the spacelanes, to see other planets, so he left his family on Corellia. That was just a few months ago, but he has become a regular at the dejarik board since then.
Jacen Macka stands just under six feet, with reddish-brown hair, and vivid green eyes. He wears his Tracker Utility vest like it's a second skin, where he keeps parts for blasters, in case someone needs their's fixed. He wears a pair of goggles on his head, for when he's doing heavy-duty repairs, and he always seems to have grease on his face, no matter how many times he hits the refresher.
Good work everybody...I'm just waiting on stats for blivengo player and stats from a friend. Also waiting on Drayqson's background.
Here's my descrip for Vate, sorry if the quality isn't top (I'm intimidated by the others so far) but I just whipped it up.
Vate was born on one of the many orbiting cities of Duro, son of two gifted shipbuilders.. Which city exactly, he doesn’t remember. He moved around a lot from city to city when he was young as his parents worked on various shipbuilding and design projects.. However, when he was really young, Imperial rule and its bias towards humans found Vate and his family out of work and hopping from world to world trying to get by.
His parents passed away shortly after his 12th birthday. There weren’t any real reasons, but a lot of it was probably the stress of raising him with little to no income. Finding himself completely alone, Vate continued on to wander the outer rim worlds (unable to afford travel or living in the Core, and reluctant to return to Duro), from job to job, ship to ship, planet to planet. His exceptional intellect and inherited affinity for the mechanical kept him alive through the harsh rim worlds.
His history is checkered at best, from repairing serving droids in cantinas to piloting smuggler vessels; he’s done a lot in his relatively short lifetime. How does he manage it? Well, he can’t seem to keep a job for more than a few months at a time. It was usually just bad luck, but he left a pirate crew for moral reasons when they started slaving.
Personality wise, he isn’t as talkative as other Duros, preferring to let his actions speak for him. That can mean starting the hyperdrive without warning anybody or throwing tools at inanimate objects. He doesn’t have a lot of patience, but he makes up for it with a lot of mechanical and space experience.
Vate stands a little above average height for a Duros at 1.7 meters tall, with blue grey skin and dull dark blue eyes. His skin also bears a few scars and early wrinkles earned in various close scrapes and harsh environments. His clothing is plain and perpetually dirty, be it dust or grease, usually a shirt and breeches. His main adornments are a tool bag of sorts he carries over his shoulder, a pair of large cloth pouches he fashioned from military ammo pouches to hang from his belt and a holster containing his worn looking slugthrower. It all looks generally homespun or cobbled together.
I was wondering, do we have stats for the captain and the ship?
The Stats for the Captain are not going to be available for your guys right now.
If i dont get them soon, we'll start without them.
Growing up on Esseles, the ruling planet of the Darpa sector, Micheal developed his soldering skills after joining the rebellion. He spent a good part of his young adult live fighting for the freedom of others. Protecting the freedom of others became his primary goal and true to his Esselian nature, once something is done a a certian way or a number of times it becomes second nature and will almost never be done a different way. Meaning, in this case, protecting others became second nature to Mike, a way to use what he had learned throughout his life to help those around him.
Once the empire was defeated at Endor however, Mike found himself doing mop up work. Something he did not completely enjoy. Sure it had to be done to protect the fledgling NR as it constructed itself in the Ashes of the Empire, but he didn't have to like it. Working only for a year after the battle of Endor, Mike left the NR for his home planet where he worked with the local Law enforcement.
To protect and serve became his life once again, taking up most of his time and leaving very little room for a love life or for friends. The one true friend that he could call on for aid had disappered for location unknown sometime before Mike left the NR, hurting him slightly because his friend had not trusted him enough to tell Mike where he was going or when he would return. Dispite this slight break in friendship, Mike still makes friends easy and enjoys the company of others as long as they respect his views as he does theirs. Honor and Justice as also high on the list for qualities that are respected. His people honor Hero's every year on his world, thus heroic qualities are an instant way to gain Mike's trust.
Working on the Force brought a lot of strange meetings with off worlders seeking to use Mike's forgotten and out of the way planet to hide from Galaxtic authorities. More then a few times had Mike pulled some scum bag from the streets only to ship him back to courscant on some major warrent the holonet had put out. Almost a 2 years after leaving the NR and joining the Esselian Police force Mike found It became almost an unwritten manditory skill to be able to speak more then one language when working on the streets. Learning to speak Ryl was a prioridty because most of the crooks he had delt with were twi lek. For 10 years Mike spent his time working cases and enjoying new found friends. Untill Malcom returned from God knows where and offered him a job on his ship as First Mate......having spent his time training new recruits for 3 of those 10 years Mike felt his skills where passed on to a new generation and thus he took up his friends offer. Knowing the kind of trouble he could get into and that any help the old scoundral could get would be help that probabaly saved his live.
Mike stands about 5'9 and looks to weigh about 165 pounds. He wears a pair of black trousers with high military issue combat boots. To compliment his pants, he wears a red tee under his tracker vest, which is also black. Both hips carry his beloved weapons and each are held in custom designed holsters that have the blasters almost clinging to his body yet leave them free enough to be drawn at a moments notice. His shaggy black hair is kept shoulder length or shorter most of the time on special occations however he can clean up fairly well. Inherited from his father, Micheal's eyes come in two falvor....well colors. One bright blue eye and One emerald green. Both eye's however carry the same warm feeling when cast upon friends and the same intense hate or cold determination when fallen upon enemies. He carries as well a scar across his left cheek, faint but still visible when close to him and he is clean shaven, which happens very rarly. Normally He keeps about a 3 day old scruff, just to keep the tough look.
Crav was born among a traveling religious faction of mostly Gotals and Givin. They went from planet to planet in the outer rim trying to spread the gospel of Gubot, a strange sect that worships vacuum of space, claiming that god exists in the nothingness. Crav grew up completely immersed in the doctrine, but never, even in his impressionable youth, bought into the teachings. When he was twenty, he ran out on the faction while they were preparing to leave a crowded starport on Tatooine. He stowed away on a private vessel, initially hoping to stay onboard only long enough to ensure the faction would be long gone, but shortly after he had hidden himself in large storage space in the center of the ship he felt the repulsorlift engines engage. He jumped out, hoping to disembark before the ship left to port, but instead ran head-long into on of the ship’s crew. It turned out that the ship was the Galilee, a smuggling shuttle captained by a Shistavanen known as Luuf. Instead of kicking the young Gotal out, or worse, Luuf decided to let Crav join his small smuggling party.
In general, Luuf’s crew dealt mostly in spice shipments from Kessel to Nar Shadda and other Hutt-controlled worlds. For the first year or so, Crav was an ideal crewman. But he eventually grew tired of the lack-luster position he’d found himself in. He began to take advantage of Luuf’s trust, stealing small portions of each spice shipment and selling it in the seedy cantina’s on the planet’s they made their drops on. He had accumulated a small fortune when his luck went south. He was going about his usual business of opening the containers and removing a small portion of spice from each when he felt something on his wrist. He figured it was just some of the packing material, until he felt an intense pain in the same spot. Then, there were two more stings of pain, one lower down on his wrist and one on the top of his hand. He pulled his arm out quickly to find three sand ticks attached to his lower arm. He pulled out the modified Quick-6 that Luuf had given him after a year of service and shot them off at point-blank range. The gunfire brought the other crewmembers running. They found Crav on the floor, his arm throbbing and beginning to swell. Crav quickly lied that he heard sounds coming from the container and opened it to see what was wrong when the sand ticks jumped out at him. Though Luuf didn’t exactly believe Crav, he gave him the benefit of the doubt because of his years of faithful service and landed at the nearest port.
When they got Crav to a medcenter, an infection from the sand tick bites had already taken hold of his arm, and it was too late to save it. The medical droids, who were causing Crav additional pain just by their presence, amputated the arm just above the elbow and put the Gotal in a bacta tank. Because of his suspicions about Crav, Luuf decided to leave him in the medical center, taking off without him with no thought of returning. When Crav came out of the tank, he was told that his crew had abandoned him. Knowing now that no one would be suspicious of his credits, he shelled out for a cybernetic limb. It was slightly above the baseline model; it offered no exceptional benefits, but he suffered no penalties because of it. He opted not to cover it so it would remind him of the evils of greed. After he had fully recovered, he found a new ship, captain, and crew to join.
Crav Grisoth is an average height and weight Gotal with yellowish-grey skin, dark grey fur, and red eyes. He wears a loose-fitting, long-sleeve, black shirt with three buttons at the neck that he leaves unbuttoned. The left-arm sleeve is ripped off at the shoulder, exposing his partially cybernetic arm. The cybernetic portion is made of dull-grey durasteel that mimics Gotal bone structure. He has a green piece of fabric wrapped around his left arm where the technology meets biology. He also wears light-brown pants that he tucks into knee-high black dewback-leather boots. He has a thick, matching dewback-leather belt with a holster on it. He also wears a bandolier that stretches across his body from a dewback skull that rests on his right shoulder.
Great, everybody is here, Now we can start.
are any of you still interested in this game?
I'm still interested, but if it's falling apart, then all I can say is too bad.
In case this game is still going, I'll be away from the 5th to the 12th.
I'm still totally interested, but if this thing is going to drag to a halt, someone give me a heads up if a good game shows up.
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2019-04-26T06:02:42Z
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http://holonet.swrpgnetwork.com/archive/index.php/t-18106.html?s=08eed740ebe52b05b97e46608392d889
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Two men drive around the desert escaping a dark, unknown force chasing them.
A touring band's van breaks down in the middle of the desert highway, but when kind strangers happen to drive by offering help, one of the band members suspects something weird might be going on.
A man driving along the highway gets into a terrible accident, and must rely on a 911 operator to help.
A man comes to a small desert town looking for his sister, who's been missing for over a decade.
A family's summer vacation gets cut short when they're targeted by a group of sadistic masked men.
I have to say, this was probably a better film than V/H/S overall, although V/H/S had a stronger difference between their hits and misses. There's more consistency here, with almost every short ranging from decent to pretty good. The only exception would be The Accident (and, to a lesser extent, Siren). The Accident is perfectly twisted and goes against expectations (the less said about it the better), and Siren feels like a condensed version of a gruesome Twilight Zone episode. The other three shorts don't stand up to the quality of those two, but they're still enjoyable on their own.
Is anyone going to check this one out? For those who liked the mythology aspect of V/H/S, Southbound has plenty of that in it. Don't be surprised if this becomes another franchise.
* Juciano makes the best damned Caesar dressing I've ever tasted in my life.
No shakycam found footage? Count me in. I love horror anthologies, and I love the trend of intertwined stories like in Trick 'r Treat and A Christmas Horror Story. Thanks for the tip!
Found footage and uneven quality aside the short film form of the VHS series has kind of swayed me to the idea of it being a better choice for the average horror tale. No middling interminable forty five minute lead in to the meat of the story. Do voracious horror movie consumption once a week with friends so this will undoubtedly get watched.
I am so beyond stoked for this but I can't find a list of showtimes anywhere. I know it's supposed to get a limited release this Friday, anyone know where it will be playing? I'm in Austin.
I love everything about the concept and other anthology type movies but man the people made VHS is real turn off. That poo poo was just awful.
The first one was fun. The rest... yeah.
This looks really dope. I'm gonna be in the New York literally a block away from the one theater showing it on friday and I'm really tempted to go. I liked pretty much all the V/H/S movies (Although the 3rd one feels really week compared to the first two) so this is right up my alley.
Give it a chance. If you absolutely hated VHS but like other anthologies this is probably exactly the movie for you. What really carries this one is its cohesiveness between the wraparound story and the individual segments. It just seems a lot tighter than most of the anthologies I've watched lately.
There are seriously people who liked the first V/H/S better than V/H/S/2?
If it wasn't for Tuesday the 17th, the first VHS would have been really bad. VHS 2 was eons better than the first one, I actually kind of liked that one; the zombie story, E.T. abduction, and insane cult were all far more interesting than the hotel or godawful "alien" one. That being said, a better anthology film without the fatiguing found footage angle sounds interesting, I'd give this one a watch.
I enjoyed the V/H/S movies, even though the segments weren't all perfect, but 2 is my favorite if only for "Safe Haven".
I did, I think if you switched the last films in both movies the first one would be pretty sterling.
V/H/S is an almost perfect movie that accidentally ends up having a really strong thematic through line. V/H/S 2 has two good segments.
Wow, this was great, very John Carpenter-y. There aren't any real weak segments, though I did think Siren was a little long and none of them felt super punchy. It's a very small film, which I super appreciate, and I love the use of anamorphic lenses, which make the wide format feel really appropriate, especially with the broad desert vistas.
There was some great creepy moments, some good laughs, and amazing atmosphere. I didn't care much for the wraparound story as a whole. I'd rate this above VHS 3, below the better parts of 1 and 2.
Loved it. Not as great as VHS 1/2 but not far behind. Great soundtrack too. I think The Accident was my favorite segment, really creepy and a really fresh idea too. Also super creepy.
I quite enjoyed most of this movie and as opposed to VHS, where I had to just accept that some of the shorts were going to be poo poo and I had to find the one or two good ones in the bunch, none of the stories in this were really lacking. My only real problem is that the want to have the stories just flow into each other made it seem sometimes that there wasn't a real ending to the story. Like 'The Accident' was the strongest story to me but the ending didn't have anything to it; I feel like I missed something but what was he supposed to get from what happened? Or was he supposed to have lost some portion of his humanity since he seemed pretty nonplussed by it when he was leaving? Also the CG was super lovely, but that's fine since it didn't really permeate the movie.
If anything it was still leaps and bounds better than VHS Viral or Tales of Halloween.
Just finished it and gotta say it was pretty loving good. "The Accident" really creeped me out on a visceral level (the abandoned hospital). Anyways, the whole thing had this really great cosmic horrorish vibe with some great existential absurdity thrown in there too. I can't believe no one has brought up the score yet, cuz it owns.
Also, I don't understand people that don't like V/H/S. Like, just stay away from me.
Check out VHS 1 and 2 first. They are found footage horror movies made by some of the same people that made Southbound (and tons of other great directors).
I like certain things more about VHS1 than 2. VHS2 has a lot more comedy-horror and its segments are more disjointed, and it tries to explain the arc of the franchise. The first is more sleazy and voyeuristic, and works a lot more thematically, like somebody's gross home video you'd find in an abandoned house's basement. Viral is overall the weakest of the trilogy but it has some great segments in it.
Been wanting to check out Southbound since I heard about it though. Apparently there's an Unrated version?
Wow, Bob, wow. Fire walk with me.
I really liked The Accident, but the rest of the segments didn't work for me very well, especially the wrap around story. The rest felt uneven. It was still a step up from VHS 3, which was unwatchable. Not bad, but a mixed bag.
VHS1 is a mean film, which I really appreciate (along with the violent, if unintentional, takedown of male gaze), and also the most found-footage-y. If anything, Southbound was too soft and likable.
Also check out Creepshow, which wasn't the first anthology horror movie but is definitely (or at least arguably) the best.
What makes you think it was unintentional?
From what I understand the people behind the different shorts had no idea what the others were making. There was no guide, no one-word starting topic, no communication, they just all happened to go for similar themes.
Maybe I was missing something but a lot of the shorts felt half-baked in comparison to some of the V/H/S shorts, which felt very self contained and complete. Still enjoyed it though. I think The Accident was by far my favorite.
The Accident and the short before it were the best parts of Southbound. Everything following The Accident just fell flat for me. Really disappointing, since this movie got off to such a good start. I'd say that this movie has a better theme and wraparound plot than VHS 3, and is basically a better film overall, but it's just not as memorable and fun. It's been about three days since I watched this, and I'll be damned if I can remember anything after the scene with the strange people in the bar. I'd watch VHS 3 before watching this again.
I wish we could get another one of these anthologies that's as good or better than VHS 1. That one is easily the best, with 2 a close second. It just feels like each one of these is less awesome than the one before.
The Accident's really good with some fine visuals, but Jailbreak was just awful. A mish-mash of ideas that just didn't seem to go anywhere with some of the clunkiest lines delivered.
How gory is this film? I love horror and can handle some gore, but I just want a barometer of how the film is in regards to violence, gore, etc.
I'm no stranger to gore, but The Accident came close to making me look away.
Just watched it and didn't understand it at all. What were the dudes doing in the Way In? Was I supposed to catch some central theme or plot with stuff like the 911 operator being one of the devil people on a payphone?
Seriously I did not understand the unifying theme of this movie at all.
But I did enjoy it.
Saw it, was meh. More of the same boring mini horror movies.
I suspect The Way In was some combination of a revenge-killing/ a pre-emptive strike to keep the one guy's daughter safe. Lo and behold, his hell is to never touch her again, constantly chasing her.
Unifying theme: "The past is a piece of poo poo sometimes."
Lucas in The Accident was the only one without a bad past so he's the only one to get away clean..
Just saw this. It was entertaining, but I didn't love it. As with the VHS films some parts were more than others, but I don't think a lot of it was fleshed out as much as it could've. The Accident was the best of the segments and its gore/makeup effects were great, but a lot of the rest didn't go far enough. I liked the creature effects on the reaper things too, though the more we saw of them the less intimidating they were.
The Accident left me feeling legitimately disturbed and unsettled and there is not very many things that have done that and I enjoyed the rest of the film well enough, I watched it a month ago now I think and the main thing in my mind still is absolutely The Accident and I find myself thinking about it sometimes and then feeling creeped out all over again. Really creepy stuff.
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2019-04-26T13:52:23Z
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3762328&pagenumber=1
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The Chief of Naval Operation's Expeditionary Warfare Division and the Naval Sea Systems Command's Naval Special Warfare Program Office successfully launched six Rafael Spike missiles from an unmanned surface vessel precision engagement module (USV PEM) on Oct. 24th, the first time the Navy has shot a Spike missile from an unmanned surface vessel.
Recently, the third and last of the Royal Moroccan Navy’s new Sigma class frigates was subjected to its Sea Acceptance Trials (SAT). All Thales systems on board of the ship as well as the functional chains for Anti Air Warfare, Anti Surface Warfare and Electronic Warfare performed flawlessly. Tacticos, Thales’s Combat Management System is the first CMS in the world to have been successfully teamed with the MBDA VL MICA. The ship was commissioned in September 2012.
General Dynamics NASSCO on October 24 delivered USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE 14) to the U.S. Navy, marking the completion of a highly successful U.S. shipbuilding program that has spanned more than a decade.
The French DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement) has successfully carried out the first end to end firing of the MdCN (Missile de Croisière Naval or naval cruise missile) in its submarine version.
The newest amphibious assault ship America (LHA 6) was christened Oct. 20 at a ceremony in Pascagoula, Miss. "When America joins the fleet, we'll be a stronger, more flexible, and a better Marine Corps team. We need this ship," said Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mark Ferguson during the ceremony.
According to china.org.cn, the United States recently acquired satellite imagery showing an aircraft carrier currently being assembled in military shipyard of Shanghai. China's current and only aircraft carrier was recently delivered to the Chinese navy and training has just started.
Austal held a keel-laying ceremony today for the third Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) – Jackson (LCS 6), one of five Austal-designed 127-metre US Navy Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships under contract with the US Navy. Dr. Katherine Holmes Cochran, the ship’s sponsor, was present to weld her initials onto the keel plate as the Keel Authenticator. She was assisted by J.B. Craig, III, who is an “A” Class welder that has been part of the Austal team since November of 2011.
On october 18, 2012, DCNS launched the Normandie FREMM frigate in the presence of French Minister of Defence, and Minister of Economy and Finance. This success underlines once again the industrial dynamism of DCNS: six multi-mission frigates are currently under construction.
Raytheon Company has been awarded a $45.3 million U.S. Navy contract to provide MK 54 lightweight torpedo hardware, test equipment, spares and related engineering and repair services for U.S. fleet inventory and in support of foreign military sales to the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy. The award represents an exercised option of a current Navy contract for MK 54 torpedo kits.
DCNS has been awarded two new contracts for landing grids compatible with helicopters and rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles. The grids will be installed on two new patrol boats under construction for China Marine Surveillance.
Finland's Ministry of Defense announced on October 15, 2012 it selected Marine Alutech Oy Ab shipyard for the delivery of 12 U700 amphibious assault craft (with an option for a possible order of additional units) in a contract worth around 34 million euros. The ships will be delivered in the years 2014-2016. Marine Alutech shipyard is a longtime contractor for the Ministry of Defence of Finland for construction of high-speed motor boats and small boats watercraft.
Workers at BAE Systems moved on sunday the biggest section of HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, the first of two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, out of the company’s shipbuilding hall at Govan for the first time.
Iran's speedboats have been equipped with the capability to fire different types of anti-ship cruise missiles, an Iranian defense official announced on Monday. "Our missiles have the capability of being launched from boats with the speed of over 30 knots, and these missiles include Zafar, Nasr, Nour and Qader," Deputy Defense Minister and Head of Iran's Aerospace Organization General Mehdi Farah told FNA, adding that "Qadir missiles" will also be added to the list in near future.
U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFF) assigned a flag officer to lead an administrative investigation and established a safety board to review the facts and circumstances Oct. 15 that led to the collision between a Navy submarine and an Aegis cruiser off the coast of Florida Oct. 13.
The Yantar Shipyard in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will start on Friday the construction of a new Krivak IV class frigate for Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
On Wednesday October 10th 2012, Royal Norwegian Navy marked history by firing an NSM (Kongsberg's Naval Strike Missile) anti-ship missile from a surface vessel for the first time. The vessel in question was HNoMS Glimt, Skjold class coastal corvette. Five days later, on October 15th 2012, another NSM missile was launched from HNoMS Roald Amundsen, Nansen class Frigate. Both firing tests were reported as successful.
Israel on Sunday unveiled an enhanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for maritime and air surveillance that allows faster and more precise identification of objects. The drone, called Heron 1 (Shoval), will help improve Israel's Naval and Air Force's recognition of unknown or hostile ships and aircraft even if they are 300 km away, with a radar that can reach Turkey, Cyprus or Egypt.
Shortly after its official delivery and commissioning to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy last month, China's first aircraft carrier has already started training for air operations with helicopters and naval jets.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group (GA-EMS) announces the delivery to the U.S. Navy and successful initial firing of a new railgun prototype. The Advanced Containment Launcher (ACL) delivered to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Va. is designed to deliver significantly higher muzzle energies than ever demonstrated in a tactically relevant configuration.
In the sky above the Gulf of Mexico near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., the future of Marine aviation punched through the warm Florida air Oct. 2. F-35B Joint Strike Fighters with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 from Eglin conducted the first air-to-air refuel of an operational aircraft in the program’s history. Previous aerial refueling operations with the F-35 had been conducted with test aircraft.
Fresh pictures of a Zubr class air-cushioned landing craft bound for China have emerged. The pictures show the LCAC during its builder trials in Ukraine before its delivery to the Chinese Navy.
BrahMos, the Russian-Indian supersonic cruise missile joint venture, is to test-fire their anti-ship missile from a submarine platform by year-end, the Russian partner NPO Mashninostroyenie said Friday.
The 127/64 Light Weight Vulcano, already mounted on the Italian frigate “Carlo Bergamini” – the first European multipurpose frigate – is playing a leading role also in Parow, Germany, the seat of the Military School of the German Navy, where last 19 September Oto Melara delivered to the German Navy the first naval gun in a large order which already includes a wide range of products and might be further extended and enlarged.
AMAZONAS, the first of three BAE Systems built Ocean Patrol Vessels being delivered to the Brazilian Navy, has arrived in her home port of Rio de Janeiro for the first time after eight weeks at sea. Following her departure from Portsmouth in August, AMAZONAS has undertaken an intense programme of trials as well as a series of diplomatic visits in Europe and Africa during her 5000 mile journey.
The Indian Navy has successfully test-fired a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile launched from a warship off the western Goa coast, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) reported on Sunday.
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2019-04-24T07:51:37Z
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The feelings of Mr J. Wilmot Birdsey, as he stood wedged in the crowd that moved inch by inch towards the gates of the Chelsea Football Ground, rather resembled those of a starving man who has just been given a meal but realizes that he is not likely to get another for many days. He was full and happy. He bubbled over with the joy of living and a warm affection for his fellow-man. At the back of his mind there lurked the black shadow of future privations, but for the moment he did not allow it to disturb him. On this maddest, merriest day of all the glad New Year he was content to revel in the present and allow the future to take care of itself.
Mr Birdsey had been doing something which he had not done since he left New York five years ago. He had been watching a game of baseball.
New York lost a great baseball fan when Hugo Percy de Wynter Framlinghame, sixth Earl of Carricksteed, married Mae Elinor, only daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Wilmot Birdsey of East Seventy-Third Street; for scarcely had that internationally important event taken place when Mrs Birdsey, announcing that for the future the home would be in England as near as possible to dear Mae and dear Hugo, scooped J. Wilmot out of his comfortable morris chair as if he had been a clam, corked him up in a swift taxicab, and decanted him into a Deck B stateroom on the Olympic. And there he was, an exile.
Mr Birdsey submitted to the worst bit of kidnapping since the days of the old press gang with that delightful amiability which made him so popular among his fellows and such a cypher in his home. At an early date in his married life his position had been clearly defined beyond possibility of mistake. It was his business to make money, and, when called upon, to jump through hoops and sham dead at the bidding of his wife and daughter Mae. These duties he had been performing conscientiously for a matter of twenty years.
It was only occasionally that his humble role jarred upon him, for he loved his wife and idolized his daughter. The international alliance had been one of these occasions. He had no objection to Hugo Percy, sixth Earl of Carricksteed. The crushing blow had been the sentence of exile. He loved baseball with a love passing the love of women, and the prospect of never seeing a game again in his life appalled him.
And then, one morning, like a voice from another world, had come the news that the White Sox and the Giants were to give an exhibition in London at the Chelsea Football Ground. He had counted the days like a child before Christmas.
There had been obstacles to overcome before he could attend the game, but he had overcome them, and had been seated in the front row when the two teams lined up before King George.
And now he was moving slowly from the ground with the rest of the spectators. Fate had been very good to him. It had given him a great game, even unto two home-runs. But its crowning benevolence had been to allot the seats on either side of him to two men of his own mettle, two god-like beings who knew every move on the board, and howled like wolves when they did not see eye to eye with the umpire. Long before the ninth innings he was feeling towards them the affection of a shipwrecked mariner who meets a couple of boyhood's chums on a desert island.
As he shouldered his way towards the gate he was aware of these two men, one on either side of him. He looked at them fondly, trying to make up his mind which of them he liked best. It was sad to think that they must soon go out of his life again for ever.
He came to a sudden resolution. He would postpone the parting. He would ask them to dinner. Over the best that the Savoy Hotel could provide they would fight the afternoon's battle over again. He did not know who they were or anything about them, but what did that matter? They were brother-fans. That was enough for him.
The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance. His face was cold and impassive now, almost forbiddingly so; but only half an hour before it had been a battle-field of conflicting emotions, and his hat still showed the dent where he had banged it against the edge of his seat on the occasion of Mr Daly's home-run. A worthy guest!
The man on Mr Birdsey's left belonged to another species of fan. Though there had been times during the game when he had howled, for the most part he had watched in silence so hungrily tense that a less experienced observer than Mr Birdsey might have attributed his immobility to boredom. But one glance at his set jaw and gleaming eyes told him that here also was a man and a brother.
This man's eyes were still gleaming, and under their curiously deep tan his bearded cheeks were pale. He was staring straight in front of him with an unseeing gaze.
Mr Birdsey tapped the young man on the shoulder.
'Come and have some dinner at my hotel and talk it over,' said Mr Birdsey impulsively.
'Sure!' said the young man.
Mr Birdsey turned and tapped the shoulder of the man on his left.
The result was a little unexpected. The man gave a start that was almost a leap, and the pallor of his face became a sickly white. His eyes, as he swung round, met Mr Birdsey's for an instant before they dropped, and there was panic fear in them. His breath whistled softly through clenched teeth.
Mr Birdsey was taken aback. The cordiality of the clean-shaven young man had not prepared him for the possibility of such a reception. He felt chilled. He was on the point of apologizing with some murmur about a mistake, when the man reassured him by smiling. It was rather a painful smile, but it was enough for Mr Birdsey. This man might be of a nervous temperament, but his heart was in the right place.
He, too, smiled. He was a small, stout, red-faced little man, and he possessed a smile that rarely failed to set strangers at their ease. Many strenuous years on the New York Stock Exchange had not destroyed a certain childlike amiability in Mr Birdsey, and it shone out when he smiled at you.
When three men, all strangers, sit down to dinner together, conversation, even if they happen to have a mutual passion for baseball, is apt to be for a while a little difficult. The first fine frenzy in which Mr Birdsey had issued his invitations had begun to ebb by the time the soup was served, and he was conscious of a feeling of embarrassment.
There was some subtle hitch in the orderly progress of affairs. He sensed it in the air. Both of his guests were disposed to silence, and the clean-shaven young man had developed a trick of staring at the man with the beard, which was obviously distressing that sensitive person.
He spoke with the earnestness of a general calling up his reserves for the grand attack. The success of this little dinner mattered enormously to him. There were circumstances which were going to make it an oasis in his life. He wanted it to be an occasion to which, in grey days to come, he could look back and be consoled. He could not let it be a failure.
He was about to speak when the young man anticipated him. Leaning forward, he addressed the bearded man, who was crumbling bread with an absent look in his eyes.
The effect of these words on the other was as curious as the effect of Mr Birdsey's tap on the shoulder had been. He looked up like a hunted animal.
He shook his head without speaking.
'Where do you live now, Mr Johnson?' asked Waterall.
The bearded man hesitated again. 'Algiers,' he said.
Mr Birdsey was inspired to help matters along with small-talk.
'Have you been there some time?' inquired Waterall.
Mr Birdsey was an intelligent man, and he could see that Waterall's table-talk was for some reason getting upon Johnson's nerves. Like a good host, he endeavoured to cut in and make things smooth.
'It's a hell on earth,' snapped Johnson, and slew the conversation on the spot.
Through a grim silence an angel in human form fluttered in--a waiter bearing a bottle. The pop of the cork was more than music to Mr Birdsey's ears. It was the booming of the guns of the relieving army.
The first glass, as first glasses will, thawed the bearded man, to the extent of inducing him to try and pick up the fragments of the conversation which he had shattered.
He stopped, and emptied his glass. Mr Birdsey was still perturbed. True, conversation was proceeding in a sort of way, but it had taken a distinctly gloomy turn. Slightly flushed with the excellent champagne which he had selected for this important dinner, he endeavoured to lighten it.
Mr Birdsey giggled self-consciously, but not without a certain impish pride.
He looked at the bearded man.
The young man Waterall leaned forward. His manner was quiet, but his eyes were glittering.
'Wasn't that enough of an adventure for you?' he said.
Their eyes met across the table. Seated between them, Mr Birdsey looked from one to the other, vaguely disturbed. Something was happening, a drama was going on, and he had not the key to it.
'What's all this?' said Mr Birdsey feebly.
Waterall turned to him, the vulturine cast of his face more noticeable than ever. Mr Birdsey was conscious of a sudden distaste for this young man.
Mr Birdsey stared at his guest with eyes that grew momently wider. He was amazed to find that deep down in him there was an unmistakable feeling of elation. He had made up his mind, when he left home that morning, that this was to be a day of days. Well, nobody could call this an anti-climax.
Benyon did not reply. Outside, the Strand traffic sent a faint murmur into the warm, comfortable room.
Benyon raised his head. His hands were trembling.
Mr Birdsey's heart was almost too full for words. He had found him at last, the Super-Fan, the man who would go through fire and water for a sight of a game of baseball. Till that moment he had been regarding himself as the nearest approach to that dizzy eminence. He had braved great perils to see this game. Even in this moment his mind would not wholly detach itself from speculation as to what his wife would say to him when he slunk back into the fold. But what had he risked compared with this man Benyon? Mr Birdsey glowed. He could not restrain his sympathy and admiration. True, the man was a criminal. He had robbed a bank of a hundred thousand dollars. But, after all, what was that? They would probably have wasted the money in foolishness. And, anyway, a bank which couldn't take care of its money deserved to lose it.
Mr Birdsey felt almost a righteous glow of indignation against the New Asiatic Bank.
'Well, it's lucky it's only us that's recognized you,' he said.
Waterall stared. 'Are you proposing that we should hush this thing up, Mr Birdsey?' he said coldly.
Waterall rose and went to the telephone.
Undoubtedly the young man was doing his duty as a citizen, yet it is to be recorded that Mr Birdsey eyed him with unmixed horror.
'You can't! You mustn't!' he cried.
It seemed incredible to Mr Birdsey that this aspect of the affair should not be the one to strike everybody to the exclusion of all other aspects.
Waterall shrugged his shoulders, and walked to the telephone. Benyon spoke.
Waterall turned, and found himself looking into the muzzle of a small pistol. He laughed.
Benyon rested his shaking hand on the edge of the table.
He took off the receiver.
'Give me Scotland Yard,' he said.
He had turned his back to Benyon. Benyon sat motionless. Then, with a thud, the pistol fell to the ground. The next moment Benyon had broken down. His face was buried in his arms, and he was a wreck of a man, sobbing like a hurt child.
Mr Birdsey was profoundly distressed. He sat tingling and helpless. This was a nightmare.
Waterall's level voice spoke at the telephone.
He hung up the receiver. Benyon sprang to his feet. He stood, shaking, a pitiable sight. Mr Birdsey had risen with him. They stood looking at Waterall.
He took out his cigarette case. He was feeling a great deal more strung-up and nervous than he would have had the others suspect. He had had a moment of very swift thinking before he had decided to treat that ugly little pistol in a spirit of contempt. Its production had given him a decided shock, and now he was suffering from reaction. As a consequence, because his nerves were strained, he lit his cigarette very languidly, very carefully, and with an offensive superiority which was to Mr Birdsey the last straw.
These things are matters of an instant. Only an infinitesimal fraction of time elapsed between the spectacle of Mr Birdsey, indignant but inactive, and Mr Birdsey berserk, seeing red, frankly and undisguisedly running amok. The transformation took place in the space of time required for the lighting of a match.
Even as the match gave out its flame, Mr Birdsey sprang.
And, even as he clung to his man, breathless, bruised, feeling as if all the world had dissolved in one vast explosion of dynamite, the door opened, banged to, and feet fled down the passage.
Mr Birdsey disentangled himself, and rose painfully. The shock had brought him to himself. He was no longer berserk. He was a middle-aged gentleman of high respectability who had been behaving in a very peculiar way.
Mr Birdsey tested gingerly the mechanism of a leg which lay under suspicion of being broken. Relieved, he put his foot to the ground again. He shook his head at Waterall. He was slightly crumpled, but he achieved a manner of dignified reproof.
Waterall was quivering with fury, disappointment, and the peculiar unpleasantness of being treated by an elderly gentleman like a sack of coals. He stammered with rage.
Something seemed to click inside Mr Birdsey's soul. It was the berserk mood vanishing and reason leaping back on to her throne. He was able now to think calmly, and what he thought about filled him with a sudden gloom.
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2019-04-23T15:59:45Z
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Frankly while I think Elsa would make some allowances for princesses who feel oppressed in some way, as Elsa was, I'm not sure at all what Elsa would see in Jasmine. चमेली has virtually no responsibilities, fears, या anxieties and spends much of her दिन lounging around the palace, whereas it seems Elsa at least has royal duties to focus on and her powers to keep under control. Elsa also highly values family, and चमेली and the Sultan live in two totally different worlds; in the context of the movie it seems neither has any regard for the other. चमेली also doesn't personally overcome anything during the course of the movie; she just has a lot of romantic notions and does a lot of tagging along with अलादीन rather than venturing out on her own accord to discover herself (besides one roughly 2 घंटा attempt). Jasmine's only real plague is the pressure for her to find a suitor- while I think Elsa would sympathize with this, it's nothing that Elsa herself has personally gone through. I'm sure Elsa wishes she could as freely express herself as चमेली does without consequence, but as Elsa is क्वीन and has to maintain composure, I think she may look down a bit at चमेली constantly exercising her voice on every matter.
Like Jasmine, I think Elsa may look down on Merida's attitude and frequent clashes with her mother, Elinor. Elsa would likely adore and admire Elinor, who retains her calm and composure at all times, despite her own feelings and reservations. This is someone who Elsa is striving to be. Elsa seems both practical and traditionally feminine which Merida is not. Elsa sees value in tradition and adheres to social expectations. I feel that has become part of her identity for better या for worse. She does not value behavior that complicate things but rather brings about harmony. She’s all for playfulness and passion but she as a क्वीन has to abide द्वारा rules for herself and those around her. She has to maintain a status quo which doesn’t always leave room for personal whims. She has to walk the line of keeping people at खाड़ी, बे In order to maintain authority. This clashes with Merida, who brings about all her personal opinions and feelings first rather than royal duty, and who would much rather start conflict than settle for something she doesn't want या peacefully reach a compromise.
I was honestly baffled as to why some of फैन्पॉप thought Elsa would like Snow White so much as to have her in her चोटी, शीर्ष 5. Snow White is very similar to Jasmine, she has virtually no responsibilities, overcomes absolutely nothing (besides a minor scare in the forest), and if there's any princess who has no fears and anxities, it's Snow. I think Elsa may find some similarities between Snow White and Anna in their hyper and bubbly personalities and positive attitudes, which would probably give Elsa a bit of a soft spot for Snow, but Snow White's main motivations are romance and her prince, and Elsa isn't even on the same planet in that aspect. I thinks he may also find Snow irritatingly naive and probably roll her eyes at Snow taking the सेब from the Queen. Elsa has so many walls up and I think Snow White would just be way too trusting for Elsa's taste.
I'm sure I'll get a legion of फैन्पॉप users disagreeing with me on this one (honestly my #6, 7, and 8 can all be switched around with each other because these are the 3 that I am the least sure about their placements). But other than having a 'regal' air and giving up Phillip for royal responsibilitiy, I really don't see why Elsa would have any proclivity for Aurora. While I do see her liking Aurora's proper and tranquil nature, I see Elsa as a fairly modern woman whose only preoccupancies are maintaining control of her powers, protecting her sister, and running her country. I think she would have a tougher time relating to the classic princesses whose motives, for all intents and purposes, rely heavily on romance. I also might think Elsa would be a bit...bitter?? towards Aurora. She has no duty to rule, the country adored her from the get go, she still has her parents, she has the magical gifts of beauty and song, had several parental figures. I don't personally see Elsa as a कड़वा person, but I also don't see her falling for Aurora's charm और than any other person. (On the other hand, I can see a perspective where Elsa would प्यार Aurora because of this. It could go either way, and that's why I think these rankings aren't so clear with Elsa.) I think Elsa would like Aurora, and respect that she chose her duty over Phillip. She also would connect to Aurora's loneliness and longing for companionship.
If this were beginning-of-the-movie-Elsa, it would be easy to say that Elsa would dislike Ariel the most. Since I am using Elsa at the end of the film as the basis for making this list, I see her opinion on Ariel as being और understanding and favorable. I think to summarize Ariel, Elsa would like Ariel's sense of fearlessness and secretly wish she (elsa) could be like that. I think she would harbor a secret desire to be as devil-may-care as Ariel is. HOWEVER, I still think she would dislike Ariel's teenage antics and the fact that the catalyst to her leaving Atlantica was a teenage crush.. That being said, I still think she would like Ariel and have a soft spot for her, दिया her similarities to Anna, but also see a lot of her least प्रिय things about Anna in Ariel.
I also wanted to add one और point about Ariel--- I think a lot of Elsa's opinions on Ariel will rest on Elsa's opinion on Ariel's relationship with Triton. I wonder how Elsa feels about her parents in retrospect. Were they actually horrible and paranoid to the point of traumatizing her? Has she romanticized that trauma like many people do (ie “it made me who I am”)?? So would she think Ariel was particularly reckless and disobedient to a well meaning father? या that she was a ब्रेव young woman who questioned oppressive parenting? We will never truly know how Elsa will think of her parents later on, although I'm inclined to think that Elsa will sadly and slowly realize that while they may have had good intentions, they ultimately parented her the absolute WRONG way that they should have and that a lot of her internal problems come from them. In this sense, I think she would understand Ariel's needing to leave, but unfortunately we will never know this, so I think Ariel is sort of a floater in the rankings because of सवालों that will remain unanswered.
I think Elsa would applaud Pocahontas’s sense of duty, bravery, introspection. But she’d be that free spirit that simultaneously frustrated and fascinated Elsa. Pocahontas doesn't have nearly the same responsibility that Elsa does, but Pocahontas is torn between two sides, and I think Elsa would actually relate to Pocahontas' attitude during this period (being indecisive, conflicted, and confused), since that's how Elsa acted as well. The only thing I think Elsa may not be crazy about is Pocahontas repeatedly running off with John. Somehow I think she'd see Poca as a little bit childish and also self-centered. Poca didn't really care much about her responsibilities या duties until it directly affected her. I think she would like Pocahontas' arc, and like Pocahontas better at the end of the film rather than at the beginning. I also think Pocahontas lives Elsa's dream life. She is mostly carefree, has a great relationship with her father, is well respected द्वारा her peers, can speak her mind (and does it thoughtfully and concisely rather than abrasively like Jas), without being penalized, cares a lot about peace and avoiding conflict, and still has authority and rule over her tribe. Elsa would hold Pocahontas in warm regard.
I truly think Elsa would feel a protective tenderness towards Cinderella. Elsa would प्यार Cinderella's quiet strength through all the abuse she endures from her stepfamily and admire the poise that सिंडरेला retains through her hardships. She would also enjoy Cinderella's subtle snark because Elsa has that sense of humor as well. She may not care so much for Cinderella's romantic encounter with the prince या that she marries him not knowing him for long, but those negative feelings would be और than cancelled out द्वारा her admiration for Cinderella's composure, grace, humility, and kindness.
Elsa and Tiana have a lot in common. First and foremost, I think Elsa would strongly relate to Tiana having the need to put responsibility and duty first (in a liberal sense, Tiana does have some sense of 'duty' to her father to obtain the restaurant to carry on his dream) and fun second. Secondly, both Tiana and Elsa have a very practical, realistic, and introverted personality where they can both be very single-minded and have a hard time with change. I think Elsa may feel relieved and grateful that there is a princess who shares this quality with her because I think it's something that Elsa is probably insecure about. Both have big trust issues with others and sometimes don't give people the time of day; although I think Elsa would never have kissed Naveen. In a loose sense, I also believe Elsa may understand well the way Tiana is stereotyped and the prejudice Tiana feels because Elsa is also deathly afraid of this type of rejection from her subjects, and would admire how Tiana powers through it to get to her restaurant. While she would have a high regard for Tiana's goals, I don't think she would necessarily care one way या the other for Tiana's passion project because it is, in the end, an indulgence for Tiana and Elsa doesn't get to have the luxury of indulging in what she wants very often. However, everyone has their own private gratifications and I think Elsa probably likes that Tiana gets to do something she loves every दिन for a career.
For all that Tiana and Elsa have in common in personality, Rapunzel and Elsa have connections in spades. Like Elsa, Rapunzel also has powers that cause her to be locked up, far away from society, although for nearly opposite reasons -Rapunzel because in the wrong hands her powers could be deadly and be exploited, Elsa because Elsa HERSELF could cause mayhem with her powers. The main difference here is that Rapunzel's powers can't harm anyone, but can be used to aid someone with bad intentions. Elsa would sympathize with Rapunzel being cooped up from the outside world due do a power she was born with beyond her control and be furious at the way Gothel uses Rapunzel for her own benefit. Like Elsa Rapunzel is an insecure, anxious, and indecisive person and also has a guilty conscience about Gothel, just as Elsa does about Anna. I think she may also draw a lot of similarities between Rapunzel and Anna; if Ariel has some of Anna's qualities that Elsa isn't fond of, Rapunzel has the qualities that Elsa LOVES about Anna. Like Anna, Rapunzel is all about looking for the good in others, and I think Elsa would really appreciate this about Rapunzel because it's something that is displayed in Anna. I also think Elsa would see a positive role model in Rapunzel in how Punz uses her powers for good and to aid on her adventures. Elsa may see some inspiration in how Flynn isn't repulsed द्वारा Rapunzel's powers and how Rapunzel isn't ashamed of them या made to feel like she should be.
I think Elsa may admire मूलन above all the other princesses. Elsa would see so many idiosyncrasy's in Mulan's character that would be reflected in her own. मूलन has pressure to take on responsibilities she's not cut out for-- being pressured to be the "perfect bride" as Elsa felt to be the "perfect daughter". Both women have a lot riding on their shoulders. I think at their core, both मूलन and Elsa feel like they have to hold back some core part of who they are in order to make their families (and in Elsa's case, kingdom) proud. She would respect मूलन for her dedication to her family and how she returned to them after the war. Small notes to Mulan's story like how romance isn't a focus at all may also be important to Elsa.
Some things I have noted about Elsa is her attention to duty especially in regards to family and how she has an admiration for those who see the good in others. Belle encompasses all of these attributes and more. Belle has a gentle closeness with her father and defends him for being "crazy" या "weird". This staunch defense against those who are "different" is what I think would सील, मुहर the deal for Belle to be Elsa's favorite, because it works on a number of levels. First, Belle continues to be herself despite the drone-ish, monotonous quality of the people in her town who are easily led and persuaded, much like the subjects of Arandelle. On चोटी, शीर्ष of continuing to be her genuine self, Belle defends her father against numerous insults big brutes like Gaston who she also smartly but politely rejects several times, something else I think Elsa would admire. Elsa would relate to feeling outcasted like Belle, but और than that, would think the world of Belle in how she sticks up for the Beast. Beast is seen as a terrifying monster who should be locked away from the world-- and I think Elsa would प्यार how Belle never judges Beast for his appearance या outwardly horrifying qualities but rather on what's on the inside. Belle also vindicates the Beast several times but also falls for the Beast despite all his outward monstrous qualities, be it his attitude, his lack of culture, या his appearance. Belle is someone who Elsa would have loved to have in her life because Belle would दिखाना Elsa that she is capable of being loved and being seen as और than just a monster. I also see a similarity in attitude, in both being reserved, mannered, having that muted sense of humor that's almost so sly आप miss it, and both strike me as being well-read दिया how much time Elsa spends cooped inside. I think she would प्यार and understand how Belle gives up her freedom on behalf of her father; Elsa और या less did this for her family and for Anna. Elsa would commend Belle's bravery, her wit, her patience, and adore that Belle has a sense of adventure (venturing into the West Wing) but that she isn't too rash या impulsive and has a persistent sense of loyalty.
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Común Tierra | Blog | Llamado de la Montaña 2012: The First IberoAmerican EcoVillage Gathering!
Llamado de la Montaña 2012: The First IberoAmerican EcoVillage Gathering!
With our friend and co-founder of Consejo de Visiones, Alberto Ruz!
Com os amigos Reni, Cali, Silvio e Beatriz outros casais nômades!
From the moment we found out about the Consejo de Visiones: Llamado de la Montaña 2012 (Vision Council: Call of the Mountain 2012), we knew we would be there. Even thousands of miles away from the host of the event, Atlantida EcoVillage in the south of Colombia, we heard the call, and marked it on our calendar, a source of inspiration waiting for us in Colombia. We did everything to get there.
Of course it wasn’t easy, as the nomadic life is full of surprises and challenges… we were in Mexico at the time, and had to cross half the continent, through Central America and the Panama Canal to South America. It was months of hard work and many adventures traveling through 6 countries, visiting projects, editing materials, raising money to support the project ... with the passage of our pilgrimage to the south, the gathering became almost a mythical destination for us, always giving us direction and motivation to make it to South America.
When people asked us how long it took to arrive at the Llamado, the response of 15 months seemed like a joke, but it was the truest answer we could give! More than a year ago we designed our route and plans to arrive in time for the gathering. Minhoca, our beloved motorhome, has her own rhythm, and is a bit slower and more complex than a normal car, bus, etc.... We had multiple problems with both of our fuel systems (propane and gasoline), and we had to make the most difficult crossing of the trip, crossing the Panama Canal, and then cross the entire length of Colombia to get to Atlantida.
After a successful crossing into Colombia, we took a break on our way South, storing Minhoca with our dear friends Kawak and Sandalo in their beautiful ranch in Antioquia… The two then joined us on the way to the Llamado.
Sándalo, Ryan, Kawak, Minhoca and the dogs!
In early January the four of us set out towards the gathering, finally approaching the event that we had looked forward to for so long. Two more friends joined us in Cali, Katie and Blitz, who had flown down from California to travel with us for a few weeks and participate in the gathering. We headed out the 6 of us, still with severe mechanical difficulties: the engine was so weak that during the long uphill climbs on the way we couldn’t manage more than 5 miles per hour … a pedestrian walked faster than us! But finally, we reached Atlantida at midnight on January 4, exhausted and relieved.
The first two days before the event, January 5-6, we participated in a conference of ENA, the EcoVillage Network of the Americas. ENA is a branch of GEN, the Global EcoVillage Network, and was founded in the 90's to connect projects and create a network. ENA was created in a different era of the EcoVillage movement and, recently inactive, called the meeting to take a look at the future of the organization and how to accompany the growth and transformation of the EcoVillage movements in the Americas.
Out of this meeting came the proposal to create C.A.S.A., a new organizational platform to include EcoVillages, Eco-Caravans, EcoBarrios and other Urban Sustainability projects. CASA means Consejo de Asentamientos Sustentables de las Americas, or Council of Sustainable Settlements of the Americas, and is a new organization that will work alongside ENA, amplifying relations with parallel movements, creating partnerships and helping to empower all of the eco-community projects to succeed and gain recognition as real-life solutions for the global transition we are in. The organizational process actually lasted all week, and now is in the hands of working groups who are organizing activities for the Peace Village to take place during the RIO+20 conference in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012.
The Call of the Mountain is a meeting of the EcoVillages in Colombia that has been happening for 5 years, and this year the proposal was to expand the annual gathering to be a Consejo de Visiones, a Vision Council, continuing a tradition that has been building for over 20 years throughout Latin America.
The event officially began January 7 and lasted through the 14, bringing together 478 people from 28 countries worldwide, a very diverse group: ecovillagers, environmentalists, indigenous groups, local communities, holistic therapists, spiritual seekers, etc... Diverse but united in seeking a just and sustainable world for all. Following the organizational structure of the Vision Council, there were 10 different Councils covering topics and cultural themes that together form the worldview and practices to build a better world. In this edition, the Councils were: Ecology, Health and Healing, Arts and Culture, Education, Youth, New Time (Council of the Noosphere), Spirituality and Traditions, Solidarity Economy, Networks and Social Movements, and the Council of Latin American Ecovillages.
Each day began with a choice of several Energetic Awakening activities: meditation, yoga, breathing, BioDanza, and so on. Those who wanted to sleep in joined the rest for breakfast between 8-9, and then everyone went to the Plenary, where important announcements were made, and then certain leaders and elders were invited to give conferences. From the plenary, we split up into the 10 councils, each organizing their own activities and workshops. After lunch there was some free time for personal activities and a barter market, and then from 3 to 6 more workshops and activities within the Councils.
By late afternoon, we gathered in the great Maloka to practice Universal Dances of Peace, circular dances that incorporate sacred music from around the world. It was always a special moment to come together as a community and feel the power of our unity, singing and circling together, praying for peace in the world.
After dinner was la Noche Magica, (Magic Night) with artistic shows, open mic, and concerts in the Maloka.
Throughout the days we all shared everyday work of the Village, primarily by helping in the kitchen, cleaning and serving meals to the community. The teams were organized according to the color of a badge that each participant received upon entry to the gathering. A fundamental dynamic of these gatherings is that all participants work for the village and are a part of making it all happen.
The Llamado was also simultaneously the Ibero-American EcoVillage Gathering, which meant the EcoVillage Council was really active with workshops and presentations from EcoVillages throughout the Americas and Europe, and of course a lot of cross-pollination and alliance-building.
Also, much of the vision and structure of C.A.S.A. was further discussed and developed during brainstorms and meetings within the EcoVillage Council, solidifying the validity and importance of this new organizational proposal.
During the gathering, we had the opportunity to share some of the learning from our 20 month long (and counting) journey through Mexico and Central America, sharing ideas and stories collected from the projects we have visited so far.
As part of the Ecology Council, we hosted a workshop on the construction of bike-machines, showing our 2 videos on the topic, and demonstrating Darlene and Burbuja, blending up a banana smoothie and even washing some clothes.
At night we organized the Cinema Consejo, exhibiting some Común Tierra short films, and opening a space for other people and projects present at the gathering to exhibit their own work.
And of course, SEED EXCHANGE!
Común Tierra seed exchange and postcards during the barter market on the last day of the gathering.
Colombia has a national EcoVillage Network, called RENACE, which has been organizing the annual Llamados and coordinates other functions of the national EcoVillage movement. Among other activities, RENACE organizes an alternative currency that works throughout Colombia’s EcoVillages, called La Montaña, The Mountain, which was used during the event’s barter market. During the final day of the meeting RENACE met to discuss the network, and decide how to organize next years meeting, the Call of the Mountain 2013.
This Consejo de Visiones was very well organized and planned. With nearly 500 people, the event had tons of activities, always punctual, well communicated and well structured. The timing of meals, the plenary sessions, the activities were always on time, something not always easy in our Latino culture. The beautiful Maloka built for the event held space for the entire gathering with an energy of integration and spirituality. We know that organizing an event like this is a great challenge and a donation of time and energy, requiring a lot of work to manifest. That’s why we are so grateful to the team of organizers of RENACE and especially of the Atlantida EcoVillage who invested so much energy and infrastructure for the event, and the Atlantida EcoVillagers who offered their love and dedication to make this gathering possible. Through these examples, these labors of love, we are inspired to see it is possible to build together as a community, that we do have all the conditions to be the change we want in the world, and most importantly, we can do it with love and high-quality standards. Thank you familia!
More than an event, the call was a real experience of connection and alliance between South, Central and North America building a world culture of peace and sustainability. We are grateful to be part of this link that is strengthening and growing each year, building and deepening relationships, sharing the stories of our cultures, as individuals, communities, villages, nations. The Llamado is a living laboratory of planetary consciousness where we are building the present and future that we dream of!
And so it was, a Vision Council, a place of relating, building, healing, communicating and forming agreements to work together. A portal in which we recognize ourselves as agents of transformation in the world.
We leave inspired, filled with purpose, and guided by a vision of a world transformed into a planetary Eco-Village, an Eco-Planet, an Eco-World. So it will be!
We write from Salento, where we are traveling in Caravan with a group of artists and friends, living as a small temporary community ... More adventures on the way!
For more photos visit our Facebook group here.
¡Mil gracias por compartir con tanto detalle muy importante para los de nosotros que no pudieran asistir!
Beautiful! Very inspiring! Thank you! Obrigado!
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2019-04-24T10:05:47Z
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There are parties, and then there are eight-day-long parties filled with fried food, games, and presents. I have never been to one of the latter before, which is how, on the second Sunday in December, I find myself standing by the gates of the Chesed-El Synagogue, waiting to join the congregation for their final Hanukkah event of the year.
Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday also known as the Festival of Lights, commemorates the success of the Maccabean Revolt, a military campaign launched by a group of Jewish rebels to reclaim Judea, now modern-day Palestine, from the Selucid Empire in 167 BCE.
Upon recapturing Jerusalem and reclaiming the Second Temple, the Maccabean rebels found only one jar of oil in it—barely enough for a night’s ritual use—but the single jar kept the temple’s lamp burning for eight days and nights. Nearly two millennia later, these events are celebrated by Jews the world over as a symbol of the endurance of Jewish identity.
The Chesed-El Synagogue, tucked away in the hilly neighbourhood of Oxley Rise, is the second of two synagogues serving the local Jewish community. The first, the Maghain Aboth Synagogue in the traditional Jewish quarter of Waterloo-Middle Road, was built by Sir Manasseh Meyer, a Baghdadi Jewish merchant, philanthropist, and community leader, in 1878.
When the community grew too large and fractious for one synagogue to accommodate, Sir Meyer commissioned the building of the Chesed-El, which opened in 1905.
Today, led by Rabbi Jean-Pierre Fettmann, it serves a congregation of around 150 members of diverse backgrounds. While early Jewish Singaporeans were mostly Baghdadi (Indo-Iraqi) Jews, the community today is mostly made up of immigrants from all around the world, including the US, Australia, Israel, France, and the UK. Community leaders estimate there to be around 3,000 Jews in Singapore, though only under a thousand of these are practising.
We arrive at the synagogue early, and the building is nearly deserted. Apart from a stack of paper plates and soda bottles by the entrance, there’s little indication of the festivities to come.
With only one or two guests around, we take the opportunity to roam the building. The rain which has plagued most of December has subsided; this afternoon, sunshine comes streaming in through the windows, bathing the synagogue’s Palladian architecture in light. The sight is breathtaking, and I find myself wishing that I didn’t have anywhere to be or anything to do except drink in the silence.
Eventually, however, the sound of children’s voices filters through the hush. Suddenly, and all at once, it seems, the party has begun.
I make my way over to the tentage in the synagogue’s yard, which is set up like almost like a condominium’s function room, complete with adjoining kitchen. Inside, around 30 to 40 children, from toddlers to 12-year-olds, their parents trailing behind them, have gathered for the kids’ programme.
Tables are scattered with colour pencils and crayons for a colouring contest, as well as bowls of crisps and multicoloured dreidels (a small four-sided top, beloved by children at Hanukkah parties). An event team has been hired to help the children craft DIY acrylic keychains of their own design, and a foosball table has been set up in the middle. Someone tells me the grand prize is an iPad.
Rabbi Fettmann facing off against young congregants in a game of foosball.
As I weave in and out of the crowd, I start to feel like I’ve gatecrashed a sort of Christmas party, five-year-old’s birthday, and Sunday School fête all rolled into one. The combination of the familiar and foreign is disconcerting; in many ways, it’s like any other community gathering I’ve attended—the parents chatting in the corner, the bowls of junk food and the party games—but with just enough elements of difference to make me look twice. The boys are all in yarmulkes (brimless skullcaps), and instead of cartoon characters or scenes from books, the children are colouring in menorahs (the iconic nine-branched candelabra, of which one candle is lit for every night of Hanukkah).
And then, to my surprise, I see a Chinese face in the crowd.
Jack (background), with his wife and one of his sons.
Jack, 37, is a Noahide, or a non-Jewish person who abides by the Seven Laws of Noah, a set of Jewish religious principles set out by the Talmud. The local Noahide community, which numbers around 30 to 40 members, do not observe all aspects of Jewish custom. For example, they do not keep the Shabbat, but meet regularly to study the Torah and attend events at the synagogue.
For Joseph, who discovered Judaism around five or six years ago, Hanukkah is a time to celebrate with the rest of the community and educate his three children on the significance and history of their faith.
“In our lives, we have our highs and lows,” he tells me.
This sentiment is echoed by Maggie, whom I meet by the synagogue’s entrance, not long after I flee the crowds of children for the safety of the drinks counter, where most of the adults have gathered. Maggie, 35, who was born in Shanghai and converted to Judaism upon marriage, moved to Singapore eight years ago, and is attending the festivities with her husband and their three children.
Maggie (right), with her youngest child.
Eating fried food is a hallmark of Hanukkah parties—a delicious, if greasy, celebration of the miracle oil which the Maccabean rebels found in the Second Temple. In addition to the sufganiyot, there are spring rolls for a dash of local flavour. Aviv also points out the bourekas, a kind of pasty that’s usually filled with potato or cheese, and which he sometimes likes to make himself.
Sadly, by this time, the latkes, a kind of potato pancake similar to a mini potato rosti, and a staple of Hanukkah feasts, are all gone. Apparently, the appeal of fried potatoes transcends all religions and cultures.
I take my plate of food and drift between the entrance and the synagogue’s main hall, where the adults are mostly chatting in groups. A few boys have wandered over from the children’s tent and have taken out some religious texts for study. Before long, a couple of men come over to join them, guiding them through the Hebrew passages.
This is but one of many small displays of warmth and generosity I observe over the afternoon. As a ‘minor’ Jewish holiday, Hanukkah is not the most overtly religious of the Jewish festivals; several people have joked to me over the course of the afternoon that it’s really just a big party. It is, however, a party in celebration of the bonds of community, and of keeping the flames of kinship alive between Jews of all generations.
To that end, while it’s ostensibly open to the whole congregation, it strikes me that it’s the children whom the event is really for. Their parents have brought them here for something much larger than a single afternoon of fun; it’s over these tables of games and party snacks that they – the future of the community, as Rabbi Fettmann remarks to me with obvious pride and affection – will learn to look at each other and recognise their kin. In the midst of this, I can’t help but feel like an interloper.
In the middle of my ruminations, I bump into Anthony and Tania, a British couple I met earlier on in the children’s tent, who are attending the party with their young daughter and five-day-old son. The couple, who look remarkably relaxed despite the sleeplessness of new parenthood, tell me they haven’t even given their boy a name yet. They are waiting for his brit milah (circumcision) ceremony, to be held the following Wednesday.
They invite me to attend, and then, apropos of nothing, ask if I would like to hold their son.
Their trust and openness astonishes me; they barely know me, after all. But when Tania passes her son’s warm weight into my arms, and his little fingers curl around mine, I find myself feeling a little less out of place.
Shortly afterwards, the party begins to wind down.
Half-eaten bourekas are left on plates, drinks are abandoned in their cups, and children are slowly shepherded back into the main hall while their indulgent parents trail behind them. Once everyone has gathered, Rabbi Fettmann announces the young winners of the various competitions, to the crowd’s obliging claps and cheers.
Finally, to close the day’s festivities, Rabbi Fettmann lights eight candles, one for each day of Hanukkah. Together with Rabbi Abergel of the Maghain Aboth synagogue, he leads the congregation in singing Ma’oz Tzur, a Hebrew song traditionally sung after the lighting of the menorah. All around me, their voices fill the hall, bright and rich and resonant with joy.
When I leave, the candles are still burning.
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2019-04-25T03:57:43Z
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http://www.ricemedia.co/culture-people-singapore-jewish-community-hanukkah/
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March | 2011 | How Lucky Can Anybody Be?
Thursday night I enjoyed my second win of the year and went to see an advanced screening of West is West, courtesy of The Vancouver Sun. West is West is the sequel to the 1999 film, East is East. In the first film, we meet George Khan and his large family. Khan is a Pakistani Muslim who came to England, married Ella, and had seven children with her. That film deals with the culture clash between George and his children who rebel against his traditional values and attempts to arrange their marriages.
In West is West, we see the Khans four years later. Their youngest son, Sajid, is being taunted and bullied at school for being Pakistani. He responds by denying his heritage and hurling insults at his father, who still wants to instil traditional values into the last of his children. George Khan takes his son to Pakistan in an attempt to teach him what it means to be Pakistani. However, Sajid is not the only one who ends up struggling with questions about cultural identity.
I must admit I liked West is West better than the original film. I found the darker elements of East is East difficult to watch and thought of George Khan as truly unlikeable character. Yet, in the sequel, he is portrayed in a much more complex way and it is easy to feel sympathy for him, rather than just dislike. The film is also very funny at times and that makes up for some cliche moments that occur. I would recommend all of you check it out, especially on a grey day that needs some brightening.
I am very pleased to have won two tickets to an advance screening of West is West at Tinseltown, courtesy of The Vancouver Sun! I really wanted to see this movie because I enjoyed East is East, so much. West is West is its sequel. I will be attending the screening with my husband on March 24th, so I promise all of you a detailed movie review soon after.
The approximate retail value of the prize is $25.00. My current total winnings is now: $89.50. This win has definitely made my month!
Not wanting to squander my winnings, I also made plans to see Unknown the next day. My husband and I made it just in time…to take our pick of seats. I don’t know how movie theatres survive today. I like going out and I like seeing movies on the big screen. Probably most people now have large TVs so they have no desire to go out anymore.
The movie turned out to be pretty fun. After a car accident, Liam Neeson’s character comes out of a coma to find out his wife no longer recognizes him and some other guy is pretending to be him. Anyhow, you most likely know this – I don’t have cable or read entertainment news anymore, so I have no idea what movies are playing. If not, let me tell you the best part.
The movie is set in Berlin.
There you go. You’ll enjoy the movie, too, if you like car chases.
Entered for a copy of the Factory Girl DVD.
Entered to win a Bambi DVD because I haven’t seen it yet and, furthermore, I am soon to have a lot of neices- and nephews-in-law.
Entered to win tickets to the musical Yippies in Love.
Completed a survey at the Hotel Vancouver for an entry into a monthly draw for dinner.
Entered a business card draw at the Smart Mouth coffee shop in Gastown.
The Miss 604 Dining Out for Life Listel Jazz Package: Accommodation for two in an art-infused Gallery Floor room at the Listel, a $100 CDN gift certificate for dinner in the award-winning O’Doul’s Restaurant & Bar (with live jazz 7 nights a week), and the O’Doul’s Jazz CD “Take Time”, featuring Vancouver’s top jazz performers for your personal collection (2 entries).
Two tickets to the opening night and Vancouver premiere of Wonderland on March 24 at 8 p.m. at the Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts, on the Georgia Straight website.
Also on the Georgia Straight website, A pair of tickets to see Wild Honey at the UBC Frederic Wood theatre.
A Whole Foods – Intrepid Travel Peru Trip 9-night/10-day adventure for 2 including airfare, accommodations, local transportation and select meals.
The Discover Mussels trip to San Francisco (good name!). This prize includes airfare to San Francisco, four nights accommodation, a day trip to the world renowned vineyards of nearby Napa Valley and dinner at one of San Francisco’s top seafood restaurants.
A ten-day cruise on Holland America (entered on the Frontgate website).
Entered to win a trip to Oahu on the Traditional Home magazine website.
A pair of tickets ($84 value) to the March 26, 8 p.m. performance of 1984 at The Cultch, also entered on the Georgia Straight website.
The A Touch of the Irish Evening including 4 tickets to opening night of Riverdance on April 5th, dinner for 4 at the Irish Heather GastroPub and a night’s stay at the Westin Grand Vancouver on the CTV website.
A Banana Republic gift card on this site.
A contest for one of 10 The King’s Speech DVDs on this other site; apparently lots of people love this movie and they keep recommending it to me.
The same website for a copy of the Food Inc. and Sharkwater DVD. I far prefer documentaries and nonfiction books, so this is finally a contest I am really excited about.
Another DVD contest, this time for The Fighter, which I also have heard about.
A 9-day trip to England.
A large round 15″ Pizza with three toppings and a 12″ Garlic Cheese Fingers every month for a year from Pizza Delight. I’m sure I could find a use for this.
-BIG St. Pat’s Night Out!
-Win 1 Of 2 Shiseido Prize Packs Valued At $131 Each!
-Win 1 Of 5 Pairs Of Levi’s Curve ID Jeans Valued At $100!
-Win A Trip For 2 To Paris, France Valued At $5,000!
-Win 1 Of 5 Olay Prize Packs Valued At $50 Each!
-Win A $500 Tommy Hilfiger Gift Card!
Win $100 worth of cheese at the Holland Shopping Centre – Dutch cheese is incredibly delicious and I will host a wine and cheese party if I win.
-Win 1 Of 5 $500 Gift Cards At Winners!
-Win A $1,000 Spa Gift Certificate!
-Win A Trip For 2 To See Lady Gaga In Vegas Valued At $2,500!
-Win A Trip For 2 To Holland, To Attend The Flower Parade!
-Win 1 Of 10 Signed Copies Of Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table Cookbook!
-Win 1 Of 10 AVENE Gift Baskets Valued At $400 Each!
-Win 30 Full Size Cake Beauty Products, Valued At Up To $1,000!
-Win A 5-night Trip For 2 To A Sandals Resort Of Your Choice Valued At $5,000!
-Win 1 Of 158 Prizes Of 2 VIP Passes To The Bachelor Season Finale Party!
-WIN tickets to see Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s WONDERLAND!
-Win An ACER Liquid Mt, Valued At $399.99!
Win 1 Of 5 Brinno BirdWatchCam Digital Bird Cameras Valued At $230 Each! – My mother loves watching the birds at her bird feeders, so I thought it might be fun to photograph them for her.
-Win 1 Of 2 Prizes Of A 2-night Trip For 2 To Quebec City Valued At $5,000!
-Win a Scrubbing Bubbles Accessory Package – I like a clean bathroom!
in Chile & Argentina and $1,000 CAD spending money!
-Win An Amtrak Coast Starlight Trip For 2 Valued At $2,500!
-Win 1 Of 6 $100 Bench.ca Gift Cards!
-Win A Pair Of Vancouver Canucks Tickets, One Set Drawn For Each Game!
-Win A Pack Of 4 Tickets To The Vancouver Canucks Valued At $1,900!
-Win 1 Of 2 Prizes Of Air Canada Tickets For 2 Anywhere In North America!
-Win A Sony PlayStation 3 And LittleBigPlanet 2 Game, Valued At $360!
-Win 1 Of 6 Prizes Of A 1 Year Supply Of Hill’s Science Diet Valued At $550!
-Enter for a chance to win a $500 grocery gift card or 1 of 5 Life Made Delicious** gift baskets!
-Win 1 Of 5 $500 Home Depot Gift Cards!
-Win All You Can Eat Ribs At Montana’s Valued At $30!
-Win A Rowenta Beauty Gift Pack!
Another win! This time it’s two movie tickets for Unknown from the Georgia Straight. It sounded like a plot-twister of a movie and I rarely even have a chance to read up about movies these days, never mind actually seeing them. Aside from The King’s Speech, which my coworker saw and recommended, I didn’t recognize any of the nominated movies. I discover movies these days from the trailers on the DVDs I borrow from the library. Thus, my wonderful husband and I will be off to see this psychological thriller.
I never did get my winning tickets in the mail from the first contest.
During lunch, I scour Urbanspoon for my favourite local restaurants and add them to my Burnaby Now entry into their $2000 contest – shopping sprees at Lougheed, Brentwood and Metrotown Malls.
Valentine’s Day dinner at The Teahouse, via Raul’s Hummingbird 604.
Entered to win an iPad (four entries actually).
Entered to win another $500 grocery gift card.
An iPod Nano (because I am sure someone in my circle of friends can use it – it’s a music thing I assume).
A Tide gift basket because I am into doing laundry a lot. At $125, that’s like a few years’ supply of laundry detergent.
Tickets to the ballet for two orchestra seats to the February 19 performance of Volo.
Tickets to the musical Falsettos.
Entered a Surrey Public Library contest for four movie tickets.
Entered to win two tickets to the Spirit of Africa Festival opening night concert.
Tickets to a Vancouver Cantata Singers concert later this month.
Tickets to the Gnomeo and Juliet movie, which, thanks to the skill-testing question, I remembered I had a nascent crush on James McAvoy.
Entered the Leonidas Chocolate contest.
A vacation in Richmond: two nights at a Richmond hotel, dinner at a good Chinese restaurant and more. I can fit all this into my unusual work schedule! I really hope I win this one!
The True Grit novel – apparently it’s now some sort of Oscar-nominated film. I like books, especially nonfiction ones, but there aren’t many book contests, so this is as close as I can get to entering a book I want contest.
Entered for tickets to the Vancouver International Dance Festival.
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Abigail Reynolds has worked with volunteers to construct the cinematic environment for Extraction: Projection. Entitled Extraction/Exchange, the installation is made of corrugated card, pallets and reclaimed wood and refers to disparate sources, from picture palaces to modernist architecture, as well as bringing in local references such as Gwennap Pit and the Minack Theatre.
The Extraction: Projection exhibition opens on 27 and 28 April with films by Harun Farocki and Stefanos Tsivopoulos. Following this, guest curators José Roca from Colombia, Daniel Muzyczuk and Agnieszka Pindera from Poland, have been invited to make selections of projected image work in response to the theme. Each of these programmes will run for six days and the curators will visit Cornwall to talk about their selections.
Running concurrently, The Exchange will present archive footage compiled by Awen Productions from South West Film and Television Archive relating to Cornwall’s extractive industries – mining, fishing and farming. Also on view will be compilations of films made by Holman’s Film Unit in Camborne, screened courtesy of the Trevithick Society.
The Extraction: Projection exhibition opens with screenings of two films that relate directly to the theme of extraction.
‘At the beginning of the 17th Century, Potosí was one of the largest cities in the world – comparable to London or Paris. During the Spanish colonial rule, enormous quantities of silver were shipped from Potosí to Europe, giving the early capitalist system a tremendous push, and initiating the start of the modern era.
Harun Farocki’s film reflects on the history of Potosí through a detailed examination of a Baroque painting that depicts the Cerro Rico (the ‘rich mountain’) on which the town’s fortunes were founded.
Many chroniclers have commented that the real ‘discovery’ of the so-called New World did not happen during the 16th century, but in the 18th and 19th centuries, when scientific travellers surveyed the territory in order to chart it and provide a detailed inventory of its resources. While the discourse of science appeared to be devoid of political implications, the expeditions of most of these travellers were financed or endorsed by the colonial powers of the time, and had specific economic goals. Besides mapping the territory and classifying the natural resources, paving the way for their later exploitation, these travellers made acute observations of the social structures they encountered, and their scientifically sanctioned views on race or gender, for example, helped establish or consolidate a hierarchical society based on exclusion. The aftermath of the colonial enterprise can be felt even today, with the continuous plundering of developing countries and their impoverished inhabitants by the unstoppable forces of Capital. This programme approaches the theme of extraction by way of commenting on this continued mining of natural and human resources.
The video programme is loosely divided into three sections. The first three videos deal with exploration in terms of the interplay of territory and power; the second section deals with extraction of local resources; and the programme concludes with a light-hearted riff on the idea of colonial power.
Sugar in the Air is the title of a novel by Ernest Charles Large, about alternative production models in a period of economic recession. This story of a scientist extracting food from the atmosphere resembles the figure of Friedlieb F. Runge, the nineteenth-century German industrial chemist who was one of the first to discover and isolate many organic compounds. Today recognised as the inventor of a forerunner of modern paper chromatography, a visual method for separation and identification of substances in the mixture, he believed in a ‘creative drive’ that pushes matter to form into colours and shapes. While both characters – the fictional hero of Sugar in the Air and the historical figure Runge – believed in total human control over nature, only Runge had faith in divine reason causing natural phenomena; thus his discoveries can be considered mediums of obscure forces. Moreover chemistry experiments can be understood as a process through which, by mixing or extracting compounds, a certain image of the world becomes visible.
Exposure to view as a necessity in order to gain significance is a means of art production as well. By looking at six episodes, with artists directing the gaze of viewers towards specific objects or processes, we shall address diverse aspects of these semi-scientific extractive processes. In terms of medium, three of the works presented are based on already existing materials rather than creating further new ones. This could, on the one hand, refer to the artists’ views on the contemporary civilisation of excess and over-production or, on the other, reflect an urge to find what was overlooked, and display/extract what was hidden. In Interface, a self-referential documentary about the filmmaking process, Harun Farocki presents an interesting perspective on the role of the artist-as-producer in contemporary culture. Through an explanatory introduction to editing processes, manipulations and montage techniques, he investigates the re-reading of moving images. Arthur’s Lipsett’s 21-87 is entirely composed of found footage and cuts of film that were discarded in the editing process. He exploited images depicting science, technology and destruction that indicated the concerns of contemporary society about industrial dehumanisation, consumerism, and the decline of religion. Eugeniusz Rudnik, a Polish electro-acoustic composer, has never made a film, but his works made out of bits of magnetic tape found in the rubbish bin have an illustrative and narrative quality. By gluing them together he makes a mute tape tell a story. Black screen added to Rudnik’s sound piece for this programme simultaneously recalls the etymology of ‘chemistry’, which derives from the Egyptian word for ‘black’, itself named after the black earth of Egypt.
The programme also includes a video by Hubert Czerepok entitled Lux Aeterna (Latin for eternal light) composed entirely of quotations from Romantic poetry and the writings of statesmen, madmen, and tyrants (Juliusz Słowacki, Thomas Jefferson, Anders Breivik, Adolf Hitler), juxtaposed with the landscapes of Norway. Modernist ideas of controlling nature are juxtaposed with the Romantic sublime and the pleasure of the possibility of being crushed by the bewildering forces of nature.
Thematically Communication Problems’ Basics by Igor Krenz & Wojciech Niedzielko and Ballon by Collective Actions refer to the other aspect of the ‘scientific romance’ by E.C. Large – which is also a story of the failure of the individual scientist in the struggle with Capital. These films again recall Runge, whose ideas for large-scale productions were far ahead of their time and were successfully discouraged by bureaucracy. These two rather environmentally oriented films do not employ the montage experiments already mentioned, but are focused on the characters’ actions rather than on post-production techniques. Although Communication Problems’ Basics is based on reverse motion, through this very simple technical manipulation the artists addressed the problem of a general lack of comprehension. Even more important, they sadly proved that the majority decides what the norm is. In some respects a very similar approach can be found in the action documentations made by Collective Actions, an informal grouping of Russian avant-garde artists who were primarily active in the broad field of conceptually inflected performance art in the 1970s. Many of their actions involved aspects of duration and were staged on the outskirts of Moscow, often taking place in semi-clandestine locations, the exact coordinates of which were only disclosed and trafficked by word of mouth.
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Some medical conditions or issues e.g. sleep apnea, or hot flushes during menopause.
Jet lag and shift work.
Engaging in a stimulating activity before sleep e.g. a hard task, doing work close to bed time or in bed, an intensive TV show or a heated discussion.
Using screens in bed or right before heading to bed.
Exercise later in the evening. A double-edge sword. Restorative exercises may often help us to fall asleep (e.g. yoga), while vigorous exercise may make it more difficult.
Hormones. Especially the release of melatonin or our stress hormones.
Hormones are chemical messengers within the body that have the ability to evoke physiological changes - they rule the roost! We've got all sorts of hormones to help us keep up with life demands, whether that be hunger hormones to tell us when we're full or hungry, reproductive hormones to guide our monthly cycle, and stress hormones, which are designed to help our body cope under pressure.
Melatonin is our sleep hormone - its role is to help us get to sleep and stay asleep. It works to a day-night cycle, with its production minimised by light, and amplified by darkness - when night time rolls round, the release of melatonin makes us feel relaxed, sleepy and ready for bed.
Until the invention of artificial light, and the wave of technology to follow, our ancestor would watch the sun go down, and either set up the fireplace or light a candle. Nowadays, our evenings are typically illuminated by artificial light, in particularly, the blue wavelength (commonly used as the backlight of mobiles and our computers). This type of light is stimulating during the day (natural morning sun is conveniently rich in blue light), and hugely disruptive to our melatonin release at night. While all light can suppress melatonin, blue light is the worst, and fantastic at tricking the brain it's still daytime.
To safe-guard melatonin release be really mindful of technology use before bed (especially mobiles and computers), as well as the TV, and even the colour of your light bulbs. In contrast, warm yellow light (like candlelight), is far less suppressive on melatonin production. There's great apps/in-built systems to switch the backlight on your phone or computer to a warmer dimmer light, so if you are needing to use technology closer to bed it won't be as disruptive.
The human body runs on a circadian rhythm (24 hour cycle), that lines up our sleep-wake cycle with day and night. Getting natural sunlight in the morning and throughout the day, as well as reducing our exposure to blue light in the eve, is hugely effective at helping our body keep to this cycle, and regulating the hormones that keep us awake and help us to sleep.
Enjoy a little natural sunlight on your eyes and skin in the morning - you could eat breakfast on the porch, pop the washing out on the line, or try and squeeze in a short morning walk. During your lunch break at work go for a quick walk outside or eat lunch outdoors.
In the eve, work on reducing blue light exposure to aid the release of the sleep hormone, melatonin - remember we want oodles of this before bed! If you really need to use technology then switch to a warmer dimmer light - I use the app f.lux on my Mac. Keep the phone out of your bedroom!
Good for some, a win-now-lose-later situation for others. Our appetite for sleep has similarities to our appetite for food - if we're snacking too often during the day, we may upset our appetite at our main meals. Same with our sleep appetite when we go to bed at night. It may be worth persevering through the day, even if you're feeling really tired, to try and give yourself the best shot at a deep and restful sleep at night.
Short power naps (30 minutes or less) may be beneficial, but anything longer may confuse your body clock.
Before bed we want to be winding down, not winding up. Too often we're doing work right before bed, or tackling a stimulating project late at night - I get it, sometimes there's not enough hours in the day! But it's important to set boundaries, as the stress/stimulating nature of the task may linger and interfere with our sleep. Alternatively, taking our phones to bed and aimlessly scroll through our social feeds as a way of unwinding is a no-no - aside from the blue-light, the nature of our newsfeed and bombardment of information/colour can be very stimulating.
Carve out time before bed to relax, unwind, and signal to the body it's time to sleep - aim for an hour of dedicated unwinding time.
Relaxing looks different to everyone - you could try having a bath, reading a good book, lighting some candles and doing some stretches, writing down any pesky thoughts you're having so you don't carry them to bed, or laying out your clothes for the next day.
Set social media and technology boundaries. Commit to switching off by a certain time each eve.
What we eat or drink can disrupt our sleep. A common culprit is caffeine, a stimulant found in coffee, tea, energy drinks or chocolate, which makes us feel alert. Caffeine can remain elevated in our blood for hours after consumption (6-8 hours), and so if we're enjoying it later in the day we may still feel its wiring effects at bedtime.
If you have trouble with sleep skip the caffeinated drinks after midday, or switch to decaffeinated options. If you think your sleep issues may be linked to your caffeine intake try reducing your consumption (try just 1x a day, in the morning) or remove it altogether for a period and see if this helps.
Sugar intake, particularly around bedtime (hello dessert!), can cause a spike in blood sugar levels and disrupt our sleep. Sweet foods/drinks containing cacao/cocoa e.g. chocolate or hot chocolates, also contain caffeine - eat/drink with caution at bedtime.
Although alcohol has been reported to help some drift off to sleep, it disrupts REM/deep sleep, making us wake up during the night.
Magnesium is a mineral that's important in helping our body to physically relax, particularly our muscular system. Stress tends to gobble up our magnesium stores, making relaxing more difficult - and when we're tired, we tend to be more stressed, and so it can become a viscous cycle.
Up your intake of magnesium-rich foods to help maintain good stores - dark green leafy veggies, nuts, seeds, fish, avocado, banana and fish are all great sources.
Alternatively you may benefit from a magnesium supplement - quality is important here, so talk to a health professional for guidance.
6. Create a sleeping space that's supportive of a restful night.
It's easier to relax when we're feeling comfortable. Aim to keep the temperature in your room nice and cool, make sure the space is dark enough (invest in some good curtains or use an eye mask, remove artificial light sources e.g. alarm clocks), and try to minimise any potential sources of noises (ticking clocks) that might distract you from getting a good night sleep.
Stress and insomnia are often best buds. Working towards managing stress whether through switching up our physical reality, priortising us more, or rewiring our mental landscape, is one of the most empowering things we can do for ourselves, and is a huge form of self-love. Stress can be so deliberating, in so many way.s If it's a problem for you, please explore this area.
Say no more. If you're too tired, or your schedule is looking too packed, just say no.
Do more things you love and make you, you! Read a book, go for a walk, have a bath or do some yoga. Never feel guilty for making time for you.
Make sure you have outlets to talk to, whether family, friends or professional help.
Spend less time online and on social media - not only can it be a huge time waster, but it can also drive a little anxiety. Put boundaries in place, especially later in the eve.
Turn on a dim light and read a favourite book to distract the mind and get it sleepy again.
Get up and shift to a new sleeping spot (like a couch) and spend the night there. Sometimes a change in space can help. It always helps me.
Deep, slow breaths - if you can focus on this, and I mean really commit in the moment, you may drift back to sleep without even realising. Slow, deep breaths relax our nervous system.
Observe your thoughts, without judgement. This was a trick I was taught to counter insomnia. When you're in bed trying to sleep, with some serious monkey chatter going on, practice just observing your thoughts rather then partaking in the commentary. You're mind will continue to jump, but thoughts will get more and more obscure, until eventually you've drifted off.
If I'm feeling stressed and worried I ask myself a few important questions: "Is lying here stressing about this situation going to make it better?" - probably not. "Will it solve the issue" - no. Then, REALLY, what is the point in worrying? It can be hard, but sometimes we have to really try and rein in our minds or they run rampant. I try mentally bookmark whatever's going on, and promise myself to revisit it tomorrow. Sometimes pulling out a pad and pen and jotting down what's making me feel stressed can help.
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“I am honored to receive this award because it recognizes commitment to a standard and brings into focus the exertion trauma nurses undertake to ensure they fill the current working information and expertise to give patients what they need,” said Beebe-Woodard. “Earning this award would not fill been feasible without the advocate of my colleagues and the pathway to certification established by UVM Medical focus that has removed every barrier for their employees.” Beebe-Woodard is triple board certified in emergency nursing, having earned BCEN’s Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) and Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN) credentials as well as the TCRN.
BCEN annually recognizes individual specialty certified emergency nurses as well as hospitals and health systems that demonstrate and foster certified nursing excellence and advocate for emergency nurse board certification. Learn more about BCEN’s Distinguished Awards and National Certification Champion Awards at bcen.org/awards.
The independent, nonprofit Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN®) develops robust certification exams fostering empowered nurses across the emergency spectrum who contribute noticeably to patient care, safety and outcomes. Over 51,000 BCEN certifications are currently held by registered nurses (RNs) who specialize in emergency, flight, captious care ground transport, pediatric emergency and trauma nursing. BCEN offers the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN®), Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN®), Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN®), Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN®) and the Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN®) certifications. The CEN, CFRN, CPEN, and TCRN certifications are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Specialty Nursing Certification (ABSNC), the only accrediting carcass specifically for nursing certifications. Learn more at bcen.org. supervene BCEN on Facebook and LinkedIn.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) selected Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance as the winner of the 2016 BCEN Honorary Certification Recognition Award – little Health care Facility. The homage was presented at a ceremony on September 16 as fragment of the Emergency Nursing 2016 Conference at the Los Angeles Convention focus in California. The accolade celebrates the hard drudgery and achievement of Angel MedFlight's medical crew. all of Angel MedFlight's nurses fill earned their Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) credential, joining an elite group of air medical transport clinicians who hold the prestigious designation. Worldwide less than 3,400 nurses fill earned the certification.
Administered by the BCEN, the CFRN is a specialty care certification that verifies medical expertise specific to flight nursing. The rigorous exam tests a nurse's information of carcass systems, disease specific care, and flight physiology. Nationally, only 59% of nurses who seize the test win their CFRN credential. Few fixed-wing air ambulance medical teams achieve 100 percent certification, making Angel MedFlight's accomplishment an impressive distinction worthy of the BCEN's recognition and award.
"We launched an initiative for their flight nurses to win their CFRN credential when Angel MedFlight changed ownership in 2014. They are very arrogant to achieve this goal," Jason Siegert, President and Chief Operating Officer of Angel MedFlight, said. "The CFRN credential tells healthcare professionals, patients, and their family members that they can depend on the proven clinical expertise of the Angel MedFlight medical team. This accomplishment demonstrates their ongoing commitment to exceed air medical transport standards and lead the air ambulance industry."
About the CFRN and the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing The Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) credential is administered by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) and measures the attainment of medical information specific to flight nursing. The program is designed to elevate professional standards and enhance individual performance. BCEN certifications can subsist viewed as a guarantee of competency and commitment to continuing education and provides proof of dedication to the drill of emergency nursing care.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provides information on registered nurses in general rather than emergency latitude nurses specifically. For the years 2014 through 2024, the BLS predicted a 16% job growth for registered nurses. The BLS also reported in May 2015 that these nurses earned median annual salaries of $67,490.
The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) offers certification for emergency nurses to prove that they fill the information and skills necessary to drudgery in the field. BCEN offers several designations to individuals who pass the appropriate examination, including Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN), Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN), Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN) and Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN).
Certificate programs in emergency latitude nursing prepare graduates for the area, as they learn about crucial topics such as toxicology, outfit operation, stabilization, and emergency treatment.
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Parenthood has been associated with declines in leisure-time exercise and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), but less is known about its impact on sedentary time and light-intensity activity. Although the health benefits of MVPA are well established, a growing body of research has been showing that even after controlling for MVPA levels, a detrimental dose–response association exists between sedentary time and adverse health outcomes and a beneficial dose–response association exists for light-intensity activity.
This study examined the impact of parenthood, the number of children in the home, and the age of the youngest child on objectively measured physical activity (i.e., accelerometer derived daily minutes of sedentary, light, and MVPA) among a nationally representative cross-sectional sample of 2234 men and women who participated in the 2009–2011 Canadian Health Measures Survey.
After controlling for sociodemographic variables, ANCOVAs indicated that parents engaged in more light activity but less MVPA than non-parents and women whose youngest child was aged 12–15 years were more sedentary than women without children. Among both men and women, having a child <6 years of age in the home was associated with the greatest amount of light activity and lowest MVPA.
Modest differences emerged between the physical activity level of parents and non-parents for both genders and across intensity levels. In general, parenthood was associated with less MVPA and more light-intensity activity, and more differences emerged among women compared to men. More research is needed before conclusions can be drawn regarding the health consequences of these differences.
Exercise participation has been shown to be negatively impacted by life transitions such as becoming a parent . This is cause for concern, as parenthood is associated with weight gain and higher body mass index for both men and women . Evidence also exists that parental inactivity may lead to inactivity among children, thus negatively impacting the health and well-being of future generations [2, 3].
In a meta-analytic review of 17 studies comparing the physical activity patterns of parents and non-parents, Bellows-Riecken and Rhodes found that all but three studies reported a negative relationship between parenthood and exercise or physical activity. This difference was associated with an overall medium-sized effect and mothers were less active than fathers. Several more studies have been published since this review comparing physical activity levels between parents and non-parents with similar results. Hull et al. found that adults who had a child reported a greater decrease in physical activity over the course of a 2-year period compared to those who remained childless. Similarly, Berge et al. found that mothers engaged in less self-reported total exercise and both mothers and fathers engaged in less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) compared to non-parents. Using both self-report and accelerometer data, Candelaria et al. found that parents spent more time engaged in household activities and less time sitting compared to non-parents. Parenthood was not related, however, to minutes of MVPA and self-reported leisure, transport, job-related, and total activity. Adamo et al. analyzed cross-sectional accelerometer data collected as part of the 2007–2009 Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) and found that mothers with children under age 6 and fathers with children aged 6–11 engaged in fewer minutes of MVPA per day compared to women or men without children. In addition, parents with children under age 6 were less likely to meet physical activity guidelines.
Only one study used accelerometry to examine intensity levels other than MVPA. In a prospective study, Rhodes et al. compared changes in time spent in MVPA, light-intensity activity, and sedentary pursuits across 12 months among couples not expecting a child, expecting their first child, or expecting their second child. Parents who were expecting their second child engaged in fewer minutes of MVPA but were less sedentary and engaged in more light-intensity activity at baseline compared to couples without children. Compared to women without children, first-time mothers showed a larger decrease in minutes of MVPA across the study period.
Theoretical models can be useful in helping us understand physical activity behavior. One theoretical approach which may be particularly applicable to parenthood is the social-ecological model [4, 9, 10]. According to this approach, intrapersonal, interpersonal, the institutional and community environment, and policy factors all impact individuals’ ability or likelihood to engage in physical activity. In their review on parenthood and physical activity, Bellows-Riecken and Rhodes noted that despite the fact that parenthood is influenced by and embedded in all levels of this model, no study to date has explicitly adopted this approach . After coding the studies in their review, these authors found that the majority focused only on intrapersonal and interpersonal factors while environmental and policy factors were excluded .
Although this body of evidence contributes towards our understanding of exercise participation during parenthood, it is not without limitations. Only three studies used accelerometry [6–8], and only one study examined intensity levels other than MVPA . Most MVPA is comprised of leisure-time exercise and fitness activities such as brisk walking, jogging, cycling, and swimming . Although the health benefits of MVPA are well established , a growing body of research has been showing that even after controlling for MVPA levels, a detrimental dose–response association exists between time spent sitting and adverse health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease mortality and all-cause mortality [13–15] and a beneficial dose–response association exists for light-intensity activity [16, 17]. Light-intensity activity characterizes most household activities (e.g., cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, gardening) and accounts for the majority of physical activity .
These findings highlight the importance of adopting an integrated approach which examines the distribution of activities in all intensity ranges across the 24-hour day . Since an increase in one type of behavior necessarily requires a decrease in another type, the distribution of sleep, sedentary, light, and MVPA does play a role in the relationship between activity and health and/or disease. For example, using data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Buman et al. demonstrated that beneficial associations were observed in cardiovascular disease risk markers with the reallocation of 30 minutes/day of sedentary time to either sleep, light-intensity activity, or, MVPA, which produced the strongest effect. Similarly, cluster analyses have shown that the accumulation of multiple risk factors is linked with poorer health outcomes compared to fewer risk factors (e.g., low MVPA and high sedentary vs. high MVPA and high sedentary) [13, 19, 20]. Although public health guidelines have traditionally focused solely on the promotion of MVPA, this, too, is starting to change. For example, in 2011, the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) and the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute released the first evidence-based integrated Canadian Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Guidelines for children and youth ages 5–17 . These guidelines stress the importance of taking a 24-hour approach and, in addition to accumulating at least 60 minutes of MVPA per day, recommend minimizing recreational screen time, motorized transportation, time spent sitting, and time spent indoors during the day . According to CSEP, the development of similar guidelines aimed at adults is of immediate concern and will be developed as soon as resources are available .
While the existing research indicates that parenthood negatively impacts leisure-time exercise and MVPA, further research is needed to understand the relationship between parenthood and overall activity patterns (i.e., sedentary behavior, light-intensity activity and MVPA) and inform the need for population-level interventions across the activity spectrum . Thus, the purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of a number of interpersonal factors related to parenthood (i.e., parental status, the number of children in the home, and the age of the youngest child) on objectively measured physical activity across intensity levels (i.e., daily minutes of sedentary, light, and MVPA) among a nationally representative sample of men and women between the ages of 18 and 64 participating in the 2009–2011 CHMS.
We hypothesized that parents would engage in less MVPA, more light-intensity activity, and less sedentary activity. These hypotheses were based on evidence from cross-sectional studies indicating that parents tend to engage in less leisure-time physical activity compared to non-parents and from prospective studies indicating that physical activity decreases from pre-parenthood to parenthood [5, 8, 24].
The CHMS is a cross-sectional, nationally-representative survey covering household populations aged 3 to 79 . The survey is conducted by Statistics Canada with ethical approval granted by Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. The survey excludes residents of Indian Reserves or Crown lands, institutions, certain remote regions, and full-time members of the Canadian Forces. It represents approximately 96% of Canadians and each survey respondent is given a weight corresponding to the number of persons represented by the respondent. The survey is voluntary and data were collected at 18 sites across Canada between August 27, 2009 and November 30, 2011 (Cycle 2). In addition to a personal interview, participants also underwent a series of direct measures at a mobile examination unit and received an Actical accelerometer (Phillips – Respironics, Oregon, USA) to wear. Participants were instructed to wear the accelerometer during all waking hours for 7 days starting the day after their mobile examination centre appointment. More information about the CHMS is available through Statistics Canada’s Web site (http://www.statcan.ca).
Parents were defined as adults living with a dependent child aged 15 years or younger. The CHMS (Cycle 2) dataset included 6395 respondents, of which 4948 (72.7%) provided valid accelerometer data. Pregnant women (n = 23), respondents which did not provide complete demographic data (n = 59), parents living with a dependent child aged 16 or older (n = 159), and respondents who were not between the ages of 18 and 64 (n = 2473) were excluded. In total, 2234 respondents (1205 women and 1029 men) were eligible for the current study. Five hundred eighty-six women (48.6%), and 440 (42.8%) men had at least one dependent child aged 15 or younger in the home.
The Actical is a small, lightweight waterproof, omni-directional accelerometer which is worn over the right hip using an elasticized belt. All data are blind to participants while the device is being worn. A 1-minute epoch was used and monitors were calibrated prior to the start of data collection and re-tested upon return. In line with previous population-based analyses using accelerometry , a day had to include 10 or more hours of wear time in order to be considered valid, and only respondents with 4 or more valid days were included in analyses. Accelerometer measurement and data treatment procedures have been described in full elsewhere .
Parental status was determined based on a single derived variable describing the living arrangement of the respondent. Respondents categorized as ‘Parent living with spouse/partner and children’ or ‘Single parent living with children’ were classified as ‘parents,’ and respondents in all other living arrangements were categorized as ‘non-parents.’ The variable ‘Number of persons in household less than 16 years of age’ was used to ensure that parents had at least one child in the household under the age of 16 and the number of children in the home (i.e., none, 1, 2, or 3 or more). In addition, the variables ‘Number of persons in household less than 12 years of age’ and ‘Number of persons in household less than 6 years of age’ were used to determine the age category of the youngest child in the home (i.e., <6 years, 6–11 years, or 12–15 years).
The variables of interest for this study were: average daily minutes of sedentary, light, and MVPA. Validated cut-points were applied to the raw accelerometer data in order to convert the raw counts per minute (cpm) into corresponding intensity levels: sedentary (1 to less than 2 metabolic equivalents (METS); <100 cpm), light (2 to less than 3 METS; 100 – 1534 cpm), and MVPA (3 or more METS; 1535 or more cpm) .
Evidence exists that physical activity may be associated with numerous intrapersonal (e.g., demographic) characteristics such as age, body mass index (BMI), ethnicity, income, education, marital status, and health status [27, 28]. For this reason, these demographic characteristics were used as covariates. Age and BMI were treated as continuous variables. Marital status was categorized as married/common-law versus Single/separated/widowed/divorced. Highest education level achieved was grouped into less than secondary, secondary school diploma, some post-secondary, or post-secondary graduate. Total household income, adjusted for the number of people in the household, was categorized into lowest income grouping, lower middle income grouping, upper middle income grouping, and highest income grouping. Ethnicity was collapsed into white versus other, and self-rated health was categorized as poor/fair, good, very good, and excellent. Except for self-rated health, which was collapsed from five to four categories because of limited sample sizes in the poor and fair categories, variable categories reflect CHMS response options.
All analyses were conducted separately by gender and using weighted data to correct for non-response bias and to represent the Canadian population. This weight corresponds to the number of individuals in the entire population which are represented by each respondent. First, descriptive statistics (means and 95% confidence intervals) were computed for parents and non-parents with respect to demographic and personal characteristics as well as daily minutes of sedentary, light, and MVPA. Next, one-way ANCOVAs were used to examine whether group differences existed for parenthood status (i.e., parents versus non-parents), age of youngest child (i.e., <6 years, 6–11 years, or 12–15 years), or number of children (i.e., none, 1, 2, or 3 or more) with respect to the variables of interest: sedentary, light, or MVPA per day. All analyses controlled for parental age, marital status, education, income, ethnicity, self-rated health, and BMI. Variance estimates (95% confidence intervals) and significance tests were calculated using bootstrap procedures. ANCOVAs were followed up with pairwise comparisons using a Bonferroni correction. All statistical analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS version 21.0 during September to October 2013.
This study included 2234 men and women representative of the Canadian population between the ages of 18 and 64. Irrespective of gender, parents tended to be significantly younger, married or living with a common-law spouse, more likely to have attained post-secondary education, and less likely to report having poor or fair health compared to non-parents. The demographic characteristics of the sample are reported in Table 1.
Note. BMI = body mass index (weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared) aAge and BMI are presented as categorical variables for descriptive purposes only. For covariate purposes, these variables were continuous.
* Significantly different from respondents of the same gender with children (p < .05).
Women with at least one dependent child in the home engaged in significantly fewer minutes of daily MVPA (p = .000) but significantly more minutes of light intensity activity (p = .001) compared to women without any dependent children in the home (see Table 2). When number of children was examined, women with one child engaged in more light-intensity activity (p = .005) than women without children, and women with two or three or more children engaged in fewer minutes of MVPA (ps = .000 and .005, respectively) compared to women without children. Finally, when the age of the youngest child was examined, women whose youngest child was aged 12–15 years engaged in significantly more sedentary behavior than women without children (p = .017), whereas women whose youngest child was aged six years or younger engaged in more light-intensity activity (p = .000), and less MVPA (p = .000) compared to women without children.
Note. Asterisks signify significant post-hoc differences (Bonferroni corrected) between respondents in the target category and those without children. ANCOVAs controlled for age, body mass index, marital status, education, ethnicity, income adequacy, and self-rated health. All estimates rounded to one decimal point based on Statistics Canada’s rounding guidelines in order to avoid implying greater precision than actually exists. CI = Confidence interval. MVPA = moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
Among men, the presence of a dependent child in the home was related only to light activity, so that men with a dependent child in the home engaged in more light intensity activity than their counterparts without children (p = .000; see Table 3). Light activity was similarly the only intensity related with the number of children in the home, so that fathers with 2 children in the home engaged in more light intensity activity than men without children (p = .000). With respect to the age of the youngest child in the home, men with a child younger than six years of age engaged in more light activity (p = .000) but less MVPA than men without children (p = .000).
* p < .05. *** p < .001.
This is the first study to examine the impact of parenthood on Canadians’ intensity-specific physical activity using accelerometers and a nationally representative sample. Differences emerged between the physical activity level of parents and non-parents for both genders and across intensity levels. As hypothesized, parents seem to engage in more light-intensity activity but less MVPA compared to non-parents, and parenthood appears to be more strongly related to physical activity among women compared to men. Cohen recommended using the following values to interpret the strength of the eta-squared effect: .01 small, .06 moderate, and .14 large. Effect sizes using this criterion reveal small differences for light-intensity activity among both men and women and small to small-moderate sized differences for MVPA among men and women, respectively.
Light-intensity activity was positively related to parenthood, number of children, and age of youngest child for both women and men. These results are in line with Candelaria et al. and Rhodes et al.’s findings. Specifically, Candelaria et al. found that parents engaged in more self-reported household activity than non-parents and Rhodes et al. found that parents engaged in more objectively-measured light-intensity activity than non-parents, a difference equivalent to a moderate effect size. Although the effect sizes in the present study were small, the findings are encouraging nonetheless because convincing evidence exists that even after controlling for sedentary time and MVPA, engaging in light-intensity activity is associated with numerous positive outcomes including lower cardiovascular heart disease rates , improved blood glucose levels , lower waist circumference and reduced metabolic risk , and improved physical health and well-being . Light-intensity activities include the majority of household tasks, such as cooking, washing dishes, laundry, and light gardening and are the major determinants of variability in total energy expenditure because of the number of daily hours they represent . Having one child was associated with more light activity for women whereas having 2 children was associated with the most activity among men. This is consistent with findings that having 2 children in the home is the only family configuration associated with a reduction in men’s recreation time . For both sexes, having at least one child under the age of six was associated with more light activity. This is consistent with evidence indicating that the younger the child the more parental time is spent on caregiving activities .
For women, being a mother, having 2 or more children, or a child under 6 were all associated with lower MVPA (small to small-moderate effect sizes) whereas among fathers, only having a child under 6 was associated with lower MVPA (small effect size). These findings are in line with previous research indicating that women’s participation in leisure-time exercise is more adversely affected by parenthood than men’s . However, the present effect sizes were smaller than the moderate effect sizes reported by Rhodes et al. using accelerometer data and Bellows-Riecken and Rhodes in their review on parenthood and physical activity. It should also be noted that MVPA levels were low irrespective of gender and parenthood status. While this confirms previous findings , it is cause for concern as the health benefits associated with regular MVPA are well-established and include reduced all-cause morbidity and mortality .
In contrast to our hypotheses and previous research [6, 8], parenthood was not consistently related to sedentary time. Only one difference emerged, such that women whose youngest child was 12 to 15 years old spent more time being sedentary compared to women without children. However, this finding should be interpreted with caution based on the small number of women with children in this age range. Sedentary time refers to almost all sitting-based activities and includes work-related sitting as well as recreational-based sedentary activities such as watching television, reading, or socializing [11, 34]. Irrespective of parenthood, men and women spent over nine and a half hours of their day in sedentary pursuits, a finding which is of concern given the public health burden associated with excessive sitting [13–15].
In addition, it should be pointed out that when time spent in sedentary, light, and MVPA intensity activity is summed, it becomes clear that parents accumulated approximately 30 more minutes of wear time per day compared to non-parents. Since all participants wore the accelerometer for all waking hours, this difference indicates that parents spent more time awake (i.e., slept less) compared to non-parents. This finding is in line with previous research. For example, a study analyzing data collected from over 19,500 respondents representing 26.1 million Canadians as part of Statistics Canada's 2005 General Social Survey found that “kids deprived parents of sleep” . Specifically, Canadians with two or more children slept, on average, 25 minutes less than Canadians without children . From our results, it appears that Canadian parents spend the time they are not sleeping engaged in light-intensity activities, most likely related to their additional caregiving responsibilities. While the reallocation of sedentary time to sleep, light-intensity activity or MVPA appears to be beneficial , the health consequences of reallocating sleep time to light-intensity activity are unknown. Nevertheless, from a physical activity standpoint it is encouraging to find that this additional ‘waking time’ was not spent being sedentary (e.g., watching television).
From a social ecological perspective, there are a number of reasons why the present differences may have emerged. Personal factors such as time constraints and a lack of money due to the responsibilities and costs associated with raising children are both associated with lower exercise participation and may explain why parents tend to engage in less MVPA or leisure-time exercise . Several organizational, environmental and policy factors have also been shown to negatively affect physical activity. These include a societal pressure to be a good parent, volunteer, and fundraise for their child’s school, work and social cultures that don’t value physical activity, work demands which do not make allowances for parenthood, and rigid work hours . These factors also help explain why parenthood was associated with more light-intensity activity but less MVPA, and why greater differences were observed for women compared to men. Specifically, evidence exists that compared to fathering, mothering is associated with a greater overall time commitment, more physical work, more time alone with children, more overall responsibility, and, not surprisingly, less free time . With respect to income, motherhood is associated with lower hourly pay, resulting in mothers having less money to spend on themselves compared to fathers .
With respect to research, these findings underscore the importance of examining overall patterns of physical activity rather than only MVPA. Historically, reliance on self-reported data has prevented these types of investigations as questionnaires lack the sensitivity to accurately quantify light-intensity activity and sedentary time . As more researchers begin to incorporate accelerometers into their work, there is no doubt that more studies will begin to take a more comprehensive view of physical activity by examining intensities beyond MVPA.
In terms of practical significance, the present results highlight the importance of continuing to promote MVPA participation among both parents and individuals without children. Health habits are established during childhood and by making the time to exercise, parents can act as important role models for their children . With respect to light activity, parents should be encouraged to continue being as active as possible. Our findings also highlighted the fact that all participants spent the largest proportion of their day being sedentary. Given the adverse health outcomes associated with high sedentary time , public health interventions aimed at reducing sedentary behavior are justified.
Strengths of the present study include objectively measured physical activity data from participants representative of the Canadian population. Analyses were conducted separately to examine the impact of parenthood, number of children, as well as the age of the youngest child, allowing us to more closely examine the relationship between physical activity and parenthood. However, several limitations must also be acknowledged. First, the cross-sectional design of the CHMS precludes us from drawing any cause and effect conclusions about the relationship between parenthood and physical activity. As parents and non-parents may be different in a number of ways, including, for instance, in their degree of interest in physical activity, our inability to control for additional ‘third factors’ represents a limitation. More studies employing prospective designs are needed to draw stronger conclusions regarding the impact of parenthood on physical activity levels. Second, the way in which the CHMS assessed living arrangements may have impacted our ability to correctly categorize all individuals as parents versus non-parents. For example, for participants who indicated that they were a ‘single parent living with children,’ there was no way to know what percentage of time the children actually lived with them. As a result, some individuals may have been categorized as ‘parents’ even though they were not the main caregivers of a child. However, only 16.0% of women and 3.2% of men in our sample were single parents (see Table 1), making it unlikely that this limitation could have significantly impacted the present results. Finally, this analysis only includes participants with complete accelerometer data (72.7% of the original CHMS sample). However, each respondent in this subsample was assigned a weight corresponding to how many individuals from the general population they represent in order to minimize response bias.
In summary, Canadian parents consistently engage in more light-intensity physical activity but less MVPA than non-parents. Women’s MVPA levels appear to be more strongly associated with parenthood than men’s. For both parents, having a child under 6 was associated with the lowest levels of MVPA but the highest levels of light intensity activity. Although evidence exists suggesting that optimal health depends as much upon reducing sedentary time and increasing light-intensity activity as it does upon accumulating adequate MVPA, more research is needed before conclusions can be drawn regarding the health effects associated with these differences.
AG conceived the research, conducted the data analysis, and drafted the manuscript. SAE helped inform the data analysis plan and edited the manuscript. AD assisted with conducting the literature review and helped to draft the manuscript. JAT edited the manuscript and helped shape the discussion. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Yash Tandon explains the contradictions of ‘imperial finance capital’ in controlling neo-colonial states like Libya. While Gaddafi was being ‘accommodated’ by imperial powers, the ‘Arab Spring’ forced their hand, he says.
To put the West’s case bluntly and simply, it has apparently intervened in Libya to ‘protect the people’ from the ‘dictator’ Gaddafi. This begs the question: whose dictator is Gaddafi?
If there is one third world leader in the whole galaxy of the Empire’s neo-colonial dictators, one who best exemplifies the contradiction between the Empire and a neo-colony, it is Gaddafi. Libya is a neo-colony in the sense that Kwame Nkrumah used the term, and Gaddafi, like Robert Mugabe, is objectively a neo-colonial dictator though subjectively anti-imperialist.
To understand this apparent contradiction, one needs to appreciate the vital difference between a colony and neo-colony. A neo-colony is ruled by the Empire not directly; only indirectly - through its agents in the countries concerned. Whilst a neo-colonial economy, and hence the neo-colonial state, is, in the ultimate analysis, controlled by the Empire - on behalf of global finance capital. There is a ‘government’ that is in the seat of governance, and this government, or regime, is often in open defiance of the Empire. When the Empire talks of ‘regime change’, it means change in government without losing its control over the neo-colony.
To put the matter from the other side, a neo-colony is not, as the term might imply, a docile, submissive, community. It is a community, or a people, still in struggle against the Empire for its full liberation. The people occasionally rebel against the government if they are oppressed or economically marginalised, as, among others, in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Zimbabwe. In rebelling against a neo-colonial government, however, the people also rebel, objectively, against the Empire, against the neo-colonial economic and political order. These are two sides of the same coin; they are the same phenomenon. Flip one side of the coin, and you see the face of Gaddafi; flip the other side and you see the face of the Empire. The challenge facing a neo-colonial ‘upstart’ like Gaddafi and Mugabe is how to keep the coin with the face of the Empire visible. Of course, the Empire has the reverse challenge. In the case of both Zimbabwe and Libya, the Empire has been better than its rebellious neo-colonial dictators in keeping the coin with the ‘dictator’s’ face visible at the top.
How has the Empire managed to do this? It has done so by using three weapons: one, by exploiting the divisions among the people; two, by using the ‘humanitarian’ card; and three by exploiting its bigger control over the world media. In both Libya and Zimbabwe, the Empire has been able to portray itself as a ‘saviour’ of the people, an ‘ally’ to ‘help’ them remove the government and put in place one that is more ‘democratic’. This is what is currently happening in the Arab world and many parts of Africa where the people have taken to the streets to protest against a system that is oppressing and exploiting them.
Each neo-colony is different. Each has its own history, culture, economic links with the global economy and ethnic, religious and class configuration. To understand the specific character of Libya and Gaddafi, a bit of knowledge of history is necessary. It is important to bear in mind that Libya is part of an ancient civilisation going back to the Phoenicians in the 5th century B.C., well before the birth of western civilisation. In more recent times, after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Libya fell in the hands of Italy. In October 1911, Italian battleships attacked Tripoli, bombing the city for three days. Resistance followed under Omar Mukhtar's Mojahideen guerrilla forces. Thousands of Libyans were forced to leave their land and live in concentration camps. Thousands died of hunger, illness and some of them were hanged or shot because they were believed to be helping the Mojahideen. The Libyan historian Mahmoud Ali At-Taeb said in an interview with the Libyan magazine Ash-Shoura (October 1979) that in November 1930 there were at least 17 funerals a day in the camps due to hunger, illness and depression. Mukhtar's nearly 20 year struggle came to an end when he was captured in battle and on 16 September 1931 hanged in front of his followers in the concentration camp of Sollouq by the orders of the Italian court. He was about 83 years old, but he kept on fighting until death. Today Mukhtar’s face is shown on the Libyan 10 Dinar bill. His final years were immortalized in the movie ‘The Lion of the Desert’ (1981). This history, and the heroic resistance put by Libya’s national hero, Omar Mukhtar, go some way to explain the arrogance of Gaddafi towards Western civilisation and colonisation.
This is the legacy that inspires Gaddafi, just as in Zimbabwe it is Kaguvi's spirit (his mudzimu) that inspired Mugabe and the people to fight the second Chimurenga against the British Empire. Coming to modern times, on 1 September 1969, Colonel Gaddafi overthrew King Idris in a bloodless military coup. The British tried to dislodge him (the so-called ‘Hilton Assignment’) but failed. Gaddafi has been in power ever since. In 1977, he renamed the Libyan Arab Republic the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Gaddafi created a system of ‘Islamic socialism’ which blended Arab nationalism; ‘direct, popular democracy‘; aspects of the welfare state; and Islamic morals (among them, outlawing alcohol and gambling), on all of which he elaborated in his ‘The Green Book’. He closed down American and British military bases and partly nationalised foreign oil and commercial interests in Libya. In June 1972 he announced that any Arab wishing to volunteer for the Palestinian struggle for liberation could register at any Libyan embassy and would be given training on armed combat. In the hope of persuading the West to end support for Israel, he promoted oil embargoes as a political weapon. On 7 October 1972, he praised the Lod Airport massacre, carried out by the Japanese Red Army. In 1976 after a series of attacks by the Irish Provisional IRA, he claimed that he had been supplying arms to the IRA.
Notwithstanding all this, and despite Gaddafi being a thorn in the flesh of the Empire, Libya (like Zimbabwe) has remained a neo-colony of the Empire. A few facts attest to this reality. Libya is OPEC's 8th largest oil producer. It depends primarily upon revenues from the petroleum sector, which contributes practically all export earnings and over half of GDP. According to the International Energy Agency, more than 70 per cent of its oil is exported to European countries, especially Italy, France, Germany, and Spain, many of whom have invested heavily in Libyan oil. For example, by the end of October 2010, the number of French companies in Libya had nearly doubled from 2008 - most of them in the energy sector. It is no wonder that President Sarkozy is so nervous about the outcome of the current civil war in Libya. Italy alone buys a quarter of Libya's oil and 15 per cent of its natural gas. In all these years, Italian companies continued to retain a strong presence in Libya, which owned significant shares in Italy's Eni oil corporation, Fiat, Unicredit bank and Finmeccanica. In January 2002, Gaddafi purchased a 7.5 per cent share of Italian football club Juventus for US$ 21 million, through a long-standing association with Italian industrialist Gianni Agnelli. As well as Italy, several other European and British companies maintained strong commercial interests in Libya. This is at the national level. But at the personal level, the Gaddafi family became extremely wealthy as a result of his continuing links with the Empire. The $70 billion Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) is a state institution, but it would be a safe bet that Gaddafi has (or had, until a recent freeze on it) full control over it. Whilst he financed many groups fighting the Empire, he and his sons, known to live in opulent luxury in the West, often donated money to ‘liberal’ causes, such as the London School of Economics Centre for the ‘Study of Global Governance’; indeed, the former Director of the LSE, Anthony Giddens, (Prime Minister Tony Blair’s political mentor) visited Gaddafi in 2007 to give him some lectures on ‘democracy’.
However, Gaddafi has his idiosyncrasies. He is trusted neither by the Empire nor by his fellow heads of state in the Arab League and the African Union. President Museveni, in praising Gaddafi as a ‘nationalist’ criticised him for his ‘mistakes’ - among them, backing Idi Amin in Uganda; pushing for a United States of Africa; proclaiming himself ‘king of kings’; ignoring the plight of Southern Sudan; and promoting terrorism. For the Empire, Gaddafi had become an unreliable, indeed dangerous, neo-colonial dictator. The Empire had to bring him to book.
Here is a brief account of how the Empire ‘disciplined’ Gaddafi and finally succeeded. For most of the 1980s and 90s, Libya was under the Empire’s economic and diplomatic sanctions. In April 1986, a joint US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps force attacked Libya. In 1993 the UN imposed sanctions against it. As the sanctions began to bite, President Nelson Mandela made a media-hyped visit to Gaddafi in 1997 followed by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. As a result of these overtures, Gaddafi agreed in 1999 to hand over two Libyans accused of planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, which came down on Lockerbie, Scotland. Gaddafi paid compensation to victims of Lockerbie - US$2.7 billion to the families of the 270 victims, i.e. up to US$10 million each. The UN sanctions were thereupon suspended, but US sanctions against Libya remained in force. Gaddafi went on to cooperate with investigations into previous Libyan acts of state-sponsored terrorism, and agreed to end his nuclear weapons program. On 15 May 2006, the US State Department announced that it would restore full diplomatic relations with Libya, and that it would be removed from the list of nations supporting terrorism. Libya was thus restored to its ancien regime status as a neo-colony.
Following Gaddafi’s rehabilitation, several imperial Heads of State, most flamboyantly the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi rushed to Tripoli to shower the ‘dictator’ with photo opportunities of kisses and hugs and to secure from him investment opportunities as well as access to oil. In March 2004, Blair went to Libya, and praised Gaddafi for his co-operation. In July 2007, Sarkozy visited Libya and signed a number of bilateral and multilateral (European Union) agreements. In August 2008, Berlusconi signed a landmark cooperation treaty in Benghazi, under which Italy agreed to pay $5 billion to Libya as compensation for its former military occupation, in exchange for Libya agreeing to stop illegal immigration to Italy, and investments in Italian companies. As the diplomatic editor of The Daily Telegraph, David Blair, said, Libya's 'Brother Leader', had gone from being ‘the epitome of revolutionary chic’ to ‘an eccentric statesman with entirely benign relations with the West’. (The Daily Telegraph, 13 August 2009). Britain’s Prime Minister Cameron, not to miss his turn, went to Libya to sell arms to the Empire’s neo-colonial dictator, even as the people were marching against him in Tripoli.
But soon the imperial dictators were to regret their sudden passion for Gaddafi. The Tunisian and Egyptian ‘people’s revolutions’ took them by surprise. When the contagion spread to Libya, the Empire could no longer defend the recently rehabilitated Gaddafi. It jumped on the ‘democratic bandwagon’, making a quick U-turn, and ditched Gaddafi as quickly as they had dashed to hug him. That Gaddafi ran a tight-fisted autocratic regime in Libya for decades was a well-known fact. His autocracy was never a matter of much concern to the Empire. There were other equally harsh regimes in the service of the Empire in other parts of the Arab world, such as Bahrain and Yemen, as well as in many pro-imperial neo-colonies in Africa. What tipped the scale against Gaddafi was his unreliability, and not the fact that he was a ‘dictator’. The challenge the Empire faced since his turnaround in 1999 had been how to turn Gaddafi from a dictator who served ‘revolutionary’ causes to one who would serve imperial interests without creating problems for it. When this did not happen, he had to go, as indeed Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Egypt’s Mubarak, long time ‘allies’ (read, ‘neo-colonial dictators’) of the Empire.
But how to get rid of Gaddafi became a bigger problem for the Empire than getting rid of Ben Ali and Mubarak. Earlier, I explained two vital differences between a colony and neo-colony. There is a third difference between the two. Unlike colonies, neo-colonies are ‘sovereign’ states, and members of the UN. They have rights as ‘independent nations’, rights to self-determination, and rights to development. The Empire cannot just bomb a sovereign member of the UN, for example, without the UN’s sanction, especially of its Security Council, which is the organ in the UN that deals with matters of international peace and security. This creates hurdles for the Empire. In the UN context, for example, the Empire has to get Russia and China (the two other permanent members of the Security Council with a veto power) on board, and at least a majority of the remaining non-permanent members before it can attack a neo-colony. The Empire could not just attack Libya and take out Gaddafi. A proper rationale had to be engineered - one that could be sold to the Empire’s own sceptical publics, to ‘allies’ in the other neo-colonies, and to allies in non-imperial Europe and the rest of the third world. The critical support needed here was that of the other neo-colonies in the Arab World, best of all if it could be expressed institutionally by the Arab League. After much neo-colonial ‘persuasion’ and carrot dangling, this was achieved. For years the League has been belittled, even ridiculed, by the Empire for its flabbiness and foibles. Suddenly, when the League supported the ‘no-fly zone’ against Libya, it became ‘the voice of the Arab people’. In the event, Russia and China abstained, as also did India and Brazil, for reasons that we cannot go into here. For good measure, the African neo-colonies - South Africa, Nigeria and Gabon - voted in favour of the resolution.
Once these ‘enabling conditions’ of a new ‘diplomatic reality’ was created, the Empire was quickly able to get the Security Council to pass a ‘consensus’ resolution. Resolution 1973 (2011) demanded ‘an immediate ceasefire in Libya, including an end to the current attacks against civilians’, which it said might constitute ‘crimes against humanity’; it imposed a ban on all flights in the country’s airspace - ‘a no-fly zone’; and tightened sanctions on the Gaddafi regime and its supporters. It authorised Member States, ‘acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack in the country, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory’ - requesting them to immediately inform the Secretary-General of such measures.
However, even before the ink was dry, France had begun to bomb Libya. Soon France was joined by Britain and the United States, until the ‘authority’ of the UN was effectively transferred from it to NATO. International lawyers will no doubt write copious papers on the legality of the actions that followed in terms of both the resolution and international law. For example, in an ‘open letter to President Barack Obama on the crisis in Libya’ the National Conference of Black Lawyers argued that there was ‘no lawful basis for commencing a military campaign’ in Libya. But in the world of ‘diplomatic reality’, this is just ‘a lot of noise’ after the fact. And in any case, there are always several contending views on the legality or otherwise of such actions. Above all, there is no equivalent of the Nuremburg Tribunal or the International Criminal Court that dare put on trial the Imperial Dictators -Obama, Clinton, Sarkozy, or Cameron. The ICC is essentially a neo-colonial tool of the Empire, meant to be used only against third world or former East and Central European dictators and violators of human rights.
Libya is a neo-colonial state; it is imperial finance capital which, despite contradictions, is in effective control of the state and its economy. Gaddafi has been an unwilling neo-colonial dictator for finance capital, with a rather utopian vision to liberate from the Empire; utopian because he wanted to fight the Empire whilst still keeping the country’s and his own wealth within the imperial industrial, financial and banking system. The Empire might have accommodated him, and indeed did rehabilitate him after his turnaround in 1999, but the ‘Arab Spring’ upset the programme of the Empire, and it had to quickly take a U-turn and ditch Gaddafi just as it Ben Ali and Mubarak. The issue of how things might move forward in Libya is a big issue, one which I shall write about in the next column.
* Yash Tandon is a writer on development theory and practice, chairman of SEATINI and senior adviser to the South Centre.
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Green is the new pink. Sustainability is en vogue. And quite rightly so. Illustrations come by the bookful: Take climate change, pollution, the sixth global mass extinction, land degradation, threats to food security. You name it, we have it. The world is hitting the environmental buffers, more and more jeopardizing meaningful development. However, simply gazing at these symptoms will leave us stumped for an answer – numerous global efforts don’t bear fruit. Instead, green ideas have to drill down on the root causes.
The challenge lies beyond the green surface: mankind is using 50 percent more resources than the Earth can sustainably produce and unless we change course, by 2030 even two planets will not be enough. At the same time, half the world’s carbon emissions are produced by just 11 percent of its people, while, with grim symmetry, 50 percent of the world’s people produce just 11 percent of its emissions. In a nutshell, we are currently not living off of our ecological annual interest, but drawing down the accumulated natural capital, leaving future generations with a huge debt. Us humans, we are both the problem and the solution for sustainable development.
To accept the green challenge, we thus have to focus on humans. And we simply are not moved to action by data dumps. Instead, human knowledge is based on emotional stories. People are storytelling organisms that lead storied lives. All too often, the public, scientists and politicians stare at each other over a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Surely, anecdotes don’t make science. Data is important. It informs the story. But it is not the story. Without a compelling story, great ideas – also the green ones – are dead on arrival. To get green ideas across and make sense of the science of sustainability, hence my agenda begins with ‘Once upon a time…’ I try to use the molding power of stories. I turn data into drama, numbers into narrative, and stats into stories – to create real behavior change.
For this, we have to leave the green ivory tower and move from mere scientifically reliable knowledge to a socially robust consensus on sustainability. How leaving the ivory tower might look like, I would like to illustrate, using marine pollution as example. Instead of yawning about the remarkable but nevertheless dull statistics of trash entering the ocean, let’s hitch a hike on a floating motorcycle and go on journey from to friendly floatees.
What do space and the ocean have in common? Their vastness, that we know little about it, and that both resemble the mess in a teenager’s room. Rather than piles of tossed out toys, used underwear and dirty dishes, in space one will find a junkyard of spent rocket stages and dead spacecraft. These end up in Earth’s orbit ever since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957. The number of pieces of space debris has risen to a burgeoning blizzard of over 500,000 fragments in orbit. Even though this space garbage is going to have a major impact on the future economics of space flight, it is of somewhat less concerning to humanity than the equally messy oceans.
Just how messy they are, an unintentional experiment showed when the Japanese tsunami in March 2011 swept about 4.8 million tons of debris into the sea. ‘You don’t often get a chance to take an entire city, put it in the ocean, and see what happens to all the stuff,’ Marcus Eriksen says. The scientist and adventurer sailed after the tsunami garbage on its 7,000-km journey across the Pacific to find out all about marine debris. The debris included a rusting Japanese Harley-Davidson motorcycle, a set of golf clubs, and a 50-meter fishing boat, found by beachcomber in British Columbia.
But beachcombers can only comb fivepercent of the floating debris. The much bigger part ends up in the Earth’s five great subtropical gyres – enormous, slow-moving whirlpools on the ocean’s surface which accumulate debris for years from currents and winds. Thousands of kilometers across, the biggest of these gyres is known as The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Located between two huge population and industrial centres – Asia and North America –the patch serves as Earth’s mighty bellybutton, covered in thin confetti of plastic;more than three million tons of confetti. In the world’s oceans that sum up to hundreds of million tons. And indeed the marine garbage problem is a problem of plastic, making up 85 percent of all debris in the sea.
Our economy is based on the one-time use of throw away plastics. ‘Instead of hunting and gathering, we now shop. And every time we shop, we accumulate plastic: a toothbrush, a vat of butter, a bag of chips, a candy bar wrapper,they’re all made of plastic,’ illustrates another sailing environmentalist, Josh Berry. Over six million tons a day make their way to the sea, 80 percent of it from land. The rest stems from the 10,000 containers lost by container ships each year or ghost nets, fishing nets left in the ocean, and the like. Once waterborne, debris becomes mobile blown by the wind, or following the flow of ocean currents, ending up in gyres and after decades on the seabed.
Problem solved? Not quite. Unlike in the deep space, the trash in the oceans is of a bigger concern than the threat to the odd satellite, orbiting the blue planet. Its name is well deserved, since blue oceans cover two thirds of the Earth and provide over a billion people with food. You wouldn’t want to trash the place where your food comes from, would you?
Beyond global food security, oceans are essential to the health and survival of all life, power our climate and are a critical ecosystem of the biosphere. The marine ecosystem makes up a large part of biodiversity, the global web of life. Just take the ASEAN region, harboring the mega-diverse coral triangle. It supports six of the world’s seven marine turtle species, 51 of the 70 mangrove species and 75 percent of global coral species. The ecosystem services such reefs provide globally, come to an estimated annual value of $112.5 billion.
Beyond this money, the region is also crucial to the global cycle of plankton, tiny floating marine creatures, which regulate the global climate and feed all other marine animals. But now, for every kilo of plankton per cubic meter of seawater, the great garbage patches contain approximately six kilos of plastic. That means that there is more trash in the oceans than living beings and, even worse, it is passed up the food chain to reach all marine life. A sad fact which endangers the vital biodiversity, the very same beings make up.
Coral is smothered by plastic, fish get trapped in drifting ghost nets, birds die from eating plastic. Ninety-five percent of the sea bird Northern Fulmar, found dead on beaches have plastic in their stomachs. Marine debris harms an estimated 100,000 sea turtles and marine mammals, and millions of other sea creatures each year. For instance, plastic shopping bags can clog digestive tracts, causing starvation tricking the animal into thinking it is full.
However, much of the plastic is ending up as microplastic – fragments less than five millimeters across. On the bright sight, this microplastic is hosting life, creating a new niche in the vast oceans. The tiny fragments in the Atlantic Ocean have been colonized by microbes not found in open water, a community dubbed the plastisphere.
Trashing is a good thing then? Hardly, since on the flipside, the plastisphere can also work as a mini raft, transporting dangerous species around the world, like the Vibrio bacteria causing cholera. And such rafts can be much bigger, like our Japanese Harley-Davidson, on which invasive species can be hitching rides around the globe. Hotspots like the bays of San Francisco or Manila amount to global zoos of invasive species, which break the earth’s natural barriers, muck up the area’s marine environments, cost billions of dollars to manage, and endanger local biodiversity.
Another way biodiversity is put in peril is the thin layer of industrial chemicals and petroleum, coating the plastic particles, creating little poison pills that fish eat and absorb. And if fish are feasting on these toxic morsels, then be sure, we are too.
To avoid feeding on poison and to protect the marine web of life, there is a very easy way: reducing and preventing trash from entering our waterways. It is critical to manage man-made debris at every point, from its manufacture to a product’s consumption. Slowly this is recognized by the plastic industry, meeting on International Marine Debris Conferences to address the ocean garbage issue – with what results remains to be seen.
On a regional level, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity – in cooperation with GIZ, the German development cooperation arm – has a strong emphasis on marine topics. The centre, based in the Philippine university town Los Baños, coordinates networks of marine protected areas and takes marine debris seriously.
From Los Baños comes also a clear solution on the local level, as the first Philippine city to enforce a ban on plastic bags in 2008; now followed by 60 other Philippine municipalities, but lobbied against by the plastic industries. Perhaps making the business case is more convincing: Increasing the recycling rate by 14 percent in a few years – thus lowering plastic waste – the Republic of Korea already created economic benefits of $1.6 billion a year.
Until this trickles down, join the global anti-litter movement. True to the motto Clean Up the World, an astounding 35 million volunteer in 130 countries each year. Join them next 15th September – the International Coastal Cleanup. In 2012, the global effort on 28,516 kilometers of global waterways and beaches netted a staggering 5 million kg of trash, equivalent to the weight of 41 blue whales. What to do with all this garbage showed activist David de Rothschild. He built a raft, the Plastiki, from old plastic bottles and sailed into, where else but the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
If that is too adventurous for you, perhaps you are lucky and find a friendly floatee – 350,000 of them are travelling the world’s oceans since 1992 when some containers with child’s bath toy were washed overboard a cargo ship. As friendly as the red beavers, green frogs, blue turtles and yellow ducks might seem, they still are among the ocean’s silent killers.
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Oct. 31, 2014 – Two years ago, PASS began to expand our educational offerings to include a conference targeted to the business analytics community. This year, we’ve had more discussion within our community about what our business analytics strategy means for PASS.
Next week at Summit, we’ll be holding a special PASS Business Analytics Direction and Q&A session. Throughout the week, members of the Board will also be available to listen to your feedback and answer your questions about our plans for BA. If you will be at Summit, I hope you will take some time to talk to me or other Board members about our BA initiatives.
One of the concerns I’ve heard expressed is that our expansion to serve the business analytics community could negatively affect how we serve our core SQL Server and BI members. I’d like to share with you how we are allocating resources to ensure that does not happen.
Business analytics is a natural extension of our core, data-centric SQL Server and business intelligence communities. We – the DBAs, database developers, data architects, and BI professionals – work with business and data analysts, data scientists, line-of-business managers, and others on the business side whose lives revolve around data every day. The business and data analysts are our colleagues, our clients, our customers.
PASS Summit has long been the main source of fundraising for PASS, funding the many other learning opportunities and programs we offer throughout the year. As PASS leaders saw the expanding attention to business analytics in the data industry, developing a focused conference and other learning opportunities for those working in the business analytics space made sense. This would both introduce an additional revenue stream to help secure the organization’s future capability to better serve all our members and bring us in closer touch with a growing community of data professionals.
PASS’s BA-related activities and budget were structured from the beginning to be fully self-funding, with no cross-funding or subsidization from PASS’s SQL Server-related revenues. When PASS announced in July 2012 that it would be hosting the new PASS Business Analytics Conference in Spring 2013, the conference was projected to break even – we made a modest profit. To date, the net profit we’ve realized from our two BA Conference events has covered the cost of all of our other BA-related initiatives, including staff time to support new BA-related Virtual Chapters, 24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition, and other activities.
At the same time, our fiscal year 2015 budget supports continuing growth for our core SQLSaturday events and SQL Server and BI Chapters and Virtual Chapters around the world, an ever-growing PASS Summit, and continuing IT investments to modernize our platforms and take advantage of technology to enable a stronger, more connected PASS community.
The BA Conference and other BA offerings may not be taking funding from PASS’s SQL Server activities, but do these expanded initiatives affect the energy and focus that PASS leaders, volunteers, and staff can bring to serving SQL Server and BI professionals?
Judging from the energy, hard work, and creativity that’s gone into next week’s PASS Summit – which will feature the biggest program and the largest gathering of SQL Server and BI pros ever – our HQ and community teams are committed to serving the needs of our core members.
One of the strengths of PASS is that our membership is so diverse, made up of a variety of roles, interests, and talents. The PASS community is already the hub and connector for many different data communities – from 275+ local Chapters around the world to 27 language- and topic-focused Virtual Chapters to speaker and blogger communities and beyond. These communities serve different locales, different learning needs, different technology interests, and different career and professional growth goals – and each interacts with PASS in a different way. But they all come together under the PASS mission of empowering data professionals to connect, share, and learn.
The way that PASS invests in these different data communities shows that it can be AND rather than OR. With the passion and dedication of our members and volunteers, we can continue growing not only in breadth, but also in depth in the communities we already serve.
In the coming months, we’ll publish more about our BA strategy and direction. And I hope you will bring your questions to the PASS Business Analytics Direction and Q&A session at Summit on Friday, Nov. 7, at 2:15pm in Room 307/308. I’ll see you there.
February 3, 2015 – The PASS Board of Directors kicked off 2015 with a 2-day in-person meeting in Seattle focusing on goal-setting, global growth and SQLRally initiatives, volunteers, the PASS Business Analytics Conference, and a recommitment to communicating regularly with the community.
Part of communicating better and more often involves letting our members know what Board members are working on and talking about, as well as getting input and feedback all along the way. Going forward, we will be posting meeting agendas ahead of time, summarizing discussions and decisions in recaps like this one (watch for January’s official minutes to be posted next week), and holding regular Town Hall Q&A webcasts for you to share your feedback and ask questions.
Our first Town Hall Q&A will be next week – Feb. 11 at 10:00am PT/18:00 UTC – and we look forward to discussing any topics from January’s Board meeting and hearing what your top priorities are for the coming year.
With that, let’s dive into our jam-packed January meeting.
Last year, we began transitioning the PASS Global Growth portfolio into global growth initiatives for each of our community portfolio areas. Special Projects Director James Rowland-Jones (JRJ), who led the former Global Growth portfolio, highlighted the primary global growth goals for each portfolio, as set by the Executive Committee: reaching the community and beyond, growing leadership, enabling engagement by evolving the operational framework for PASS, using activity-based goals to gauge performance of regions, and being passionate, relevant, and influencing others to connect throughout the PASS organization overall.
To provide greater global representation, in 2013 the PASS Board converted one at-large seat to a Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regional seat, currently held by Jen Stirrup. In preparation for converting another at-large seat into a Latin America (LATAM) regional seat for the 2016 Board elections, we are taking steps to add Board advisors from LATAM and have set eligibility benchmarks for the LATAM Board seat.
VP of Finance & Governance Adam Jorgensen will be chairing a global growth committee focusing on LATAM and filling that Board seat in 2016, calling on individual portfolio owners to participate as required. We are also starting to work on the strategy for targeting the next region.
Continuing the Global Growth theme, JRJ reviewed recent PASS SQLRally events and led the Board in a discussion about the pros and cons of this event model. A task force led by JRJ will review feedback and options and present proposals for a new, more flexible model for regional events. Further information on contacting the task force will be made available through the Connector soon.
With each Board portfolio now having its own volunteers component – instead of having a separate PASS Volunteers portfolio – Board members spent some time talking about the wide range of volunteer leadership roles within PASS and the commitment it takes to be successful.
Acknowledging how important volunteers are to PASS as well as the many obligations people have inside and outside the organization, Virtual Chapters Director Wendy Pastrick reviewed the first draft of a PASS Leadership policy that provides guidance around volunteers in PASS leadership roles. The policy‘s guidelines are designed to help develop leadership skills, transition volunteers into new leadership roles, and support new leaders. We’ll be reviewing the policy draft, providing feedback, and sharing the next version with the community for feedback.
Jen Stirrup, Director of the new Business Analytics portfolio, shared an update on the restructuring of the PASS Business Analytics Conference for 2015, including market research on redefining the target audience, new approaches to attract more attendees, updating the program, and a focus on community building.
Programs Director Amy Lewis gave an overview of the conference’s sessions, targeted at business and data analytics professionals, and the speaker lineup, which features some of the top experts in the industry.
VP of Marketing Denise McInerney updated us on marketing goals and successes, attendance forecasts and actuals, and demand-generation plans, stressing the importance of differentiating this conference from other data analytics events. Denise reminded us all to spread the word through our companies, social media channels, and various data communities we’re involved in – and I encourage everyone in PASS to do the same.
JRJ presented the projected versus actual sponsor sales and updated the Board on the BA Conference sales team focus and approach for lead generation and partner incentives.
With a clear picture of where and how additional resources could help the BA Conference teams hit the targets for registration and sponsors in this new market, the Board approved a $35,000 budget exception to support increased sales and marketing activities and resources for the conference.
The Board also discussed possibilities for local PASS-sponsored BA initiatives. We agreed to continue exploring options and speaking to members of the community and come back with a plan by June 30.
A common theme throughout our discussions was how to improve communications and interactions with community members about all of these topics. From providing better and easier access to Board members and facilitating feedback to providing proactive communications and doing a better job of explaining what we’re doing and why, we know we can do more.
Denise reviewed some of steps we took at PASS Summit in November to enable better communications between the Board and community members, including the progress report on goals during the annual Board Q&A session and Board “office hours” in the Community Zone. Then Denise gave us an overview of the comprehensive plan the Marketing team is working on to get community input on and improve communications and interaction with all our members.
We’re already working to add a variety of ways to contact Board members directly from the Board of Directors webpage, as well as ways you can easily provide feedback or ask questions. And the Marketing team is reviewing how to better use all our communications channels and identifying new ones.
This Board meeting recap (and those to follow) is also part of our commitment to better communications, along with providing advance notice of Board meeting agendas – maybe even with a possibility of having time set aside to discuss community-requested topics – and hosting regular live web-based Q&A Town Hall meetings.
Each Director-at-Large also presented a draft of their portfolio goals for Fiscal Year 2016, beginning July 1, 2015, for discussion and feedback. You can read about each Director’s portfolio assignment here, and stay tuned for blog posts coming soon from each portfolio owner – as well as Board-level goals from the Executive Committee (made up of me, Adam, Denise, and Immediate Past President Bill Graziano).
Until then, please feel free to reach out to any of us with your questions, comments, and ideas and remember to join us Feb. 11 for our first Town Hall Q&A.
June 23, 2015 — I wanted to take a minute to offer a recap of our May 15th meeting. The focus of the meeting was to review the “lessons learned” materials regarding the 2015 PASS Business Analytics conference. The discussion was led by Jen Stirrup, Director of the PASS Business Analytics portfolio. Here are the highlights from that discussion.
• Jen reviewed the growing industry trends for Business Analytics and how PASS can play a critical role in that community. Organizations need people who understand data in a variety of ways (curation, administration, management, custodian, and analysis). Business analytics enables companies to incorporate data-drive decision making. PASS is well positioned to offering learning opportunities for members to expand their current roles into new careers, as well as offer companies seeking BA practitioners a place to find talented data professionals.
• The PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015 presented the right content for its audience. A review of attendee titles show that the conference attracted and engaged its intended audience. According to a sponsor survey from the conference, 87% of exhibitors and sponsors are interested in future PASS BA conferences.
• The Board heard from PASS HQ representatives about the opportunity that PASS has to support the BA community. With Gartner predicting in excess of 4 million analytics jobs by the end of this year many companies are struggling to find talent. People who work in data with a focus on the Microsoft data platform want to learn methods for making data-based decisions. PASS can help to foster this community and present content to support those needs.
• PASS is working hard to determine the best venue and logistics for future BA conference events. The Board discussed potential options as well as resources and strategic direction.
A full review of the PASS BA 2015 conference will be held at the in-person June Board meeting in Vancouver, Canada. For more details about the May meetings, see the posted minutes on the PASS Governance page. Also, keep an eye on the BA Insights and Connector newsletters and on this blog, for news from the next Board meeting.
As always, stay in touch by contacting us. We welcome any and all feedback!
June 29, 2015--The results are in and the PASS Business Analytics Conference (BAC) 2015 was a success! At the recent Board meeting this month, the PASS Board reviewed the outcomes of this event and discussed the future of PASS Business Analytics (BA). A primary goal of the PASS Board of Directors is not just to maintain but to improve the health of our organization and our community. Reaching this goal means offering the best learning environments possible, such as PASS Summit, 24 Hours of PASS, and more. It also means looking beyond today’s landscape and preparing for the future of SQL Server and related data technologies.
Over the past few years, we’ve watched as companies across all industries embrace data to become more competitive, results-oriented, and data-driven. This has created significant new challenges and opportunities in data analytics and BA. Now, experienced BA and data analytics professionals are in high demand and short supply. And those entering this nascent field are in need of the type of community and learning environment that SQL Server professionals enjoy as PASS members.
This is one of the reasons that we started PASS BAC in 2013. Like most new endeavors, it’s taken a few years to find its bearings. Following PASS BAC 2014, we evolved to support the needs of business and data analysts. This included revamping content and refining our focus within the analyst audience. So we rebooted BAC 2015, tailoring it to focus on those who consume data and use it to drive business decisions.
With this refined approach, we renewed our focus on providing real-world, applicable learning that can give attendees an immediate and direct means to benefit their organizations—just as PASS Summit provides for DBAs and other data facilitators. We created a conference for people who extract and manipulate data using technologies such as Excel, Power BI, SQL, Hive, and R throughout all the stages in the analytical process. We delivered practical, best practices information, hands-on training, and visionary thought leadership.
Were we successful? Well, 77% of attendees were in our target Analyst audience. Our hands-on lab sessions were overflowing, the Expo Hall was buzzing, and more than half the BA and business intelligence (BI) attendees said that they would recommend the conference to colleagues, noting that we’d delivered “practical/effective training” that was both “inspiring” and “interactive”.
* PASS should continue organizing a conference for data and business analysts.
* We should continue with our refined approach for PASS BAC 2016.
* We should continue to engage with the BA audience and influencers.
* We should build a coherent development and engagement strategy for this growing community.
The Board agreed. By continuing to invest in PASS BAC and by fostering a community, we can meet the unique needs of business and data analysts. We already have many offerings that serve PASS members who are interested in BA. And we have growing resources and support from willing volunteers. From the Business Analytics and Excel Business Intelligence Virtual Chapters and BA Insights newsletter to webinars, the pieces are in place to support PASS BAC and the growth of our community, including the establishment of an advisory committee and a three-year plan laying out the best way to move forward.
We are excited about the opportunities and benefits that these decisions will provide for all data professions within the PASS community. If you have any questions or feedback, we want to hear from you. And we hope you’ll help us spread the word about this new community to the data and business analysts in your organizations.
July 30, 2015 — Our Board of Directors June 2015 meeting was held in Vancouver, Canada. Most of our meetings occur via conference call every month, but we try to meet in-face at least three times a year. At this two-day meeting we had a lot of topics to discuss and meeting in-person leads to better conversations than a phone call could ever provide.
You’ve already heard much of the news from that meeting from previous posts on the PASS blog and various articles in our newsletters, but here are the highlights.
· On Day 1 we welcomed two recent additions to the PASS HQ team: Georgia Dahle as director of Marketing and Charlie Yates-Bishop as director of Sales. As part of our regular review of internal PASS HQ processes, we also reviewed current IT priorities.
· We revisited a discussion from our January 2015 meeting regarding the introduction of Latin America (LATAM) regional Board advisors. Read more about that discussion here (in English), here (Spanish), or here (Portuguese). After reviewing candidates we voted to approve Eduardo Castro of Costa Rica and Diego Nogare of Brazil as our new regional advisors.
· We reviewed the 2016 budget and set a date (June 24) to vote on it.
· Day 2 opened with the PASS ExecCo elections. You can read about the results and your 2016 ExecCo here.
· We made a definitive decision about the 2016 BAC, which will be held May 2-4, 2016, in Santa Clara, California.
· The Board evaluated an offer to extend the PASS Summit Seattle venue for an additional year (2019).
· We made the difficult but necessary decision to retire the SQLRally event model. We explain this decision and what it means for PASS members here.
As you can see, it was a busy two days. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding any of these topics please don’t hesitate to contact us.
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at Summit in just a few months!
One of the most exciting elements in the upcoming PASS Business Analytics Conference is the interest and enthusiasm from our community members during this year’s call for speakers. We received an overwhelming response, with 136 abstracts submitted for a possible 25 community sessions. We are pleased to announce that over half of the community sessions for the PASS Business Analytics (BA) Conference 2016 have just been released. All of these sessions have come from our public call for speakers.
Our community speakers will support our four learning tracks, which focus on real-world, applicable learning that helps analysts make immediate and direct impacts within their organizations. Expert speakers will offer exceptional thought leadership and prescriptive technical guidance that BA professionals can use to increase their organizations’ competitiveness. Attendees will also learn the latest tools and techniques to maximize data and improve the performance and accuracy of business analysis.
Renowned data visualist Jer Thorp will present the Day One Keynote, which is proudly sponsored by Microsoft.
Check out the newly announced sessions and speakers. More speakers and further details will be announced in the coming months.
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2019-04-20T02:50:14Z
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Dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO) is one of the potential causes for postoperative hemodynamic compromise after surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR). AVR results in subtle changes in left ventricular loading conditions that may provide a substrate for dynamic LVOTO. Various anatomical and physiological factors determine the hemodynamic significance of the resulting LVOTO. The resultant LVOTO, if not addressed timely, culminates as hypotension, compromised forward stroke volume, increased left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP), mitral regurgitation, oxygen supply–demand mismatch, or inability to wean the patient from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).
Echocardiographic identification of the patients at high risk of developing significant LVOTO in the postoperative period directs the prophylactic measures at alleviating the obstruction. These measures aim at favorably manipulating the physiology to reduce the tendency to obstruction. The echocardiographic assessment also aids in diagnosing LVOTO and delineating the anatomical causes for the underlying phenomenon. A clear characterization of the pathophysiological basis and severity of the LVOTO is imperative for the successful management. The article aims to review the risk factors, pathoanatomic mechanisms, echocardiographic assessment, and management of the resultant dynamic LVOTO following AVR.
Dynamic LVOTO following AVR is a consequence of underlying structural and functional pathologies. The patients are anatomically predisposed to post-operative obstruction owing to the ventricular and mitral valve apparatus morphological characteristics. The resultant symptoms get further exaggerated in situations with increased functional demand. Most of the initial studies demonstrated that the hemodynamic changes after AVR may exacerbate preexisting dynamic outflow obstruction with life-threatening consequences. These studies postulated that fixed valvular and dynamic subvalvular obstructions coexist in patients with aortic valve disease.
Bartunek et al. presented the largest prospective study on the index phenomenon. They studied 100 patients undergoing AVR for aortic stenosis (AS) and discovered postoperative LVOT gradients in 14 patients, worsened by vasodilation or beta agonists. The proposed mechanism was a combination of a muscular cavity and systolic anterior motion (SAM) of the anterior mitral valve leaflet, with the LVOTO being more pronounced in small, hyperdynamic, and asymmetrically hypertrophied ventricles. However, there are sporadic case reports of LVOTO following AVR for predominant regurgitant lesions of the aortic valve.
Asymmetric septal hypertrophy (ASH) and SAM of the mitral valve have been described as the causes of high intracavitary pressures in three out of the six patients with aortic valve disease by Nanda et al. Interestingly, two out of the three patients had pure aortic incompetence. In the individual case reports of AS complicated with postoperative LVOTO as reported by Schwinger et al. and Cutrone et al., the left ventricle (LV) was described as having severe concentric hypertrophy. The combination of the venturi and the drag forces forms the basis of LVOTO due to the complex interaction between the altered LV geometry and mitral valve components.
Disproportionate septal thickening, although a characteristic feature of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, may also be evident in other pathological conditions characterized by pressure-overload hypertrophy. The septal hypertrophy results as a consequence of an exaggerated remodeling response of the ventricle to the pressure overload. Lewis and Maron reported an evidence of ASH in as high as almost one-third of the total patients in their series of elderly hypertensive cohort. ASH was defined by the ratio of wall thickness of any two LV segments exceeding 1.5. The reported incidence of ASH is approximately 10% in various series involving patients with unspecified aortic valve disease. ASH was described in 9% of patients with critical AS at catheterization in a study by Hess et al.
Patients can also have dynamic LVOTO without the evidence of SAM. The mechanism responsible for this obstruction is LV septal hypertrophy, especially involving the basal area of the septum (“sigmoid” septum) resulting in a relatively narrow LVOT. The elevated end-systolic LVOT pressure owing to the aortic valve disease is responsible for the “splinting” effect on the LVOT walls, thereby preventing LVOTO. The removal of a fixed obstruction post-AVR “unmasks” the underlying dynamic obstruction, in face of a decline in the LV end-systolic pressure.
In addition, several physiological factors such as filling state, ventricular contractility, systemic vascular resistance, and LV volume determine the hemodynamic significance of the resultant obstruction. The above-mentioned factors predispose to flow acceleration and abnormally high DIG in the background of a hyperdynamic state in a small LV cavity and signify abnormally turbulent ejection dynamics.
Various echocardiographic parameters in the preoperative as well as in the immediate postoperative period can predict the subsequent development of LVOTO after AVR. [Figure 1],,,, depicts the various anatomical, physiological, and geometrical echocardiographic findings which present an elevated risk of postoperative LVOTO.
A narrow LV cavity can occur secondary to hypovolemia or due to hypertrophied cavity. This can result in an obstruction at the level of midventricular area. The preoperative LV volumes can be estimated in ME views by modified Simpson's method, particularly in the setting of asymmetric hypertrophy involving the midcavity of the LV.
A preoperative documentation of a narrow LVOT is another strong predictor for a postoperative high gradient in the LVOT. The normal LVOT diameter is usually 20 ± 2 mm and can vary in accordance with the body surface area. LVOT diameter should be routinely assessed in the preoperative TEE in the ME aortic valve LAX view by the measurement of the endocardium to endocardium distance of the LVOT within 1 cm of the insertion point of the aortic valve leaflets in midsystole.
Various additional features in the preoperative echocardiographic assessment can predict the occurrence of SAM postoperatively, which can aggravate the LVOTO in already hypertrophied ventricles with a narrow outflow tract.,,,, These include the presence of redundant or floppy mitral valve leaflets, posterior mitral leaflet length >15 mm, anterior to posterior leaflet ratio <1.3, and a reduced C-sept distance of <25 mm. The leaflet length measurements should be performed during diastole in the ME LAX view with measurements of each leaflet done from the base of the respective leaflet at the mitral annular level to their tips. C-sept distance is measured as the shortest distance from the septum to the point of coaptation of the leaflets and measured in ME LAX view during systole [Figure 3]a and [Figure 3]b depicting a reduced C-sept distance in a patient with septal hypertrophy].
After AVR with a relief in the valvular stenosis and the subsequent reduction in SVR, the subvalvular obstruction may become evident as explained earlier. This may manifest as difficulty in weaning from the CPB in view of decreased LV stroke volume, elevated LVEDP, and varying degree of mitral regurgitation with a subsequent deterioration of the hemodynamics. [Figure 4] illustrates a case of post-AVR LVOTO characterized by a combination of SAM and interventricular septal hypertrophy as the etiologies for the resultant turbulent flow in the LVOT.
At this point along with the assessment of prosthetic valve to rule out any paravalvular leak, increased gradient across the valve and patient prosthetic mismatch, a complete evaluation of the subvalvular area and the intraventricular cavity may help to rule out any new-onset obstruction in the outflow tract. This may be evident in the transgastric LAX view at an angle of interrogation 120°–140°.
Advancing the probe further with anteflexion may help in acquisition of deep transgastric LAX view from near the LV apex. Both the LVOT and the aortic valve can be interrogated in these views where the application of continuous-wave Doppler helps in identifying any gradient at the valvular and subvalvular level. Any gradient at the level of prosthetic valve may be evident as a smooth symmetric contour of the flow profile across the valve, whereas the dynamic LVOT gradient may be evident as a “dagger-shaped” flow profile or the late peaking jet due to the increase in gradient in the late systole, as depicted in [Figure 5] and [Figure 6].
Sometimes intracavitary or midcavitary obliteration may be seen following the valve replacement, and this is particularly seen in a globally hypertrophied LV. Hyperkinetic LV may exaggerate the preexisting LVOTO in the postoperative period.
The early diagnosis of LVOTO is essentially critical because the treatment and management are based on a pathophysiological rationale. Patients with preoperative risk factors for LVOTO should be evaluated thoroughly immediately after CPB weaning as they may develop gradient in the outflow tract with subsequent hemodynamic compromise.
The management of dynamic LVOTO post-AVR is complex and further compounded by the hemodynamic profile of the patient. In hemodynamically stable patients, the treatment involves the manipulation of the underlying physiological conditions exacerbating the obstruction. For instance, patients are often volume depleted and on inotropic support in the immediate post-CPB period, which can exaggerate the LVOT gradient. An adequate volume loading of the ventricle along with termination of inotropic agent constitutes the most initial step of management. Titrated doses of β-blockers depress the ventricular contractility, thereby accounting for the decline in the ventricular ejection acceleration, alleviating the aortic outflow obstruction. Another favorable attribute to the β-blocker therapy comprises the effect on heart rate, wherein the decreased heart rate increases the ventricular preload by facilitating improved ventricular relaxation and longer filling time before the ventricular ejection. Vasoconstrictors, primarily α1 agonists, such as phenylephrine are beneficial as they augment the size of the functional LVOT and decrease the LVOT pressure gradient by increasing the systemic vascular resistance. Inodilators, diuretic therapy, or intraaortic balloon pump may worsen the clinical condition by decreasing the afterload; hence, they should be discontinued on suspecting the diagnosis. Some authors have proposed the role of low-rate dual-chamber pacing in the setting of postoperative shock precluding the use of β-blockers. They reported a reduction in LVOT gradients owing to the reduced heart rate and contractility. There exists a school of thought which proposes a prophylactic myectomy during surgery for the patients demonstrating marked septal hypertrophy.,,, The above measures need to be cautiously applied in hemodynamically unstable patients.
If SAM contributes to the LVOTO, a grading of degree of SAM will direct the decision-making. A significant SAM may result in an LVOT gradient >50 mmHg with more than mild MR. A SAM not resolving with the medical management should prompt reinstitution of CPB to address the structural issues contributing to LVOTO. A meticulous repair of the mitral valve leaflets or septal myectomy for the thickened basal septum needs to be considered in such a case scenario.
Post-CPB myocardial stunning can mask the underlying features of LVOTO in the immediate postoperative period owing to the poor ventricular pump function. With the gradual improvement in the myocardial kinetics, LVOTO may become evident. Therefore, an initial absence of LVOT gradient in the immediate post-CPB period in background of a poor LV systolic performance does not rule out post-AVR LVOTO. Hence, serial echocardiographic evaluation of myocardial function and gradient across the valvular and subvalvular areas should be contemplated within the first 48 h after surgery as a routine clinical practice.
Dynamic LVOTO following AVR remains an under-recognized cause of postoperative hemodynamic compromise. It is important for the attending perioperative physician to be aware of this phenomenon, as the management is peculiar, comprising of fluid therapy, beta-blockade, and removal of inotropes which are usually continued in an effort toward hemodynamic stability. Intraoperative TEE is indispensable in early diagnosis and monitoring the efficacy of the therapy. Thus, the presence of dynamic LVOTO following AVR must be diagnosed as early as possible with a “high index of suspicion” and should be considered as a potentially fatal complication refractory to conventional management and catastrophic, if inappropriately treated.
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2019-04-23T10:50:48Z
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The cycle lane up West Thomson Street ends in a car park at the Clydebank Health Centre.
The cycle lane up West Thomson Street.
The end of the widened footway and transition onto an on-road painted cycle lane along Alderman Road.
The road markings on part of Alderman Road have been renewed, including a buffer strip between the parking bays and the cycle lane, but there's really no point in painting it less than the width of a car away from the kerb.
The end of the Hallglen cycle path at Hallglen Primary School.
The Hallglen cycle path goes around a bus shelter in New Hallglen Road.
The Hallglen cycle path crosses the spinal path.
The start of around 300 metres of cycle path to Hallglen Primary School from Nevis Place. It crosses the spinal path which doesn't appear to be regarded as a path for cycling.
The road surface at the end of Callendar Boulevard is even worse than this photograph! There is a painted cycle lane on the left side of the carriageway, but not the right.
The painted cycle lanes on Bo'ness Road end here, and a jug-handle is provided to cross to the parallel access road to the right.
The painted cycle lanes continue from here into Grangemouth town centre.
Since my last visit painted cycle lanes have appeared on Hamilton Road west of Daldowie Road. Perhaps some of the extensive hatching could have been sacrificed in order to provide some segregation.
End of the cycle lane and part-time bus lane on Camelon Road, and start of Falkirk town centre's one-way system.
In theory the bus lane should help separate the cycle lane from the traffic in the general traffic lane, but almost all of the car drivers were choosing to drive in the bus lane outside of operational hours.
The start of a narrow painted cycle lane on Camelon Road, just after a collapsing gully at a bus stop.
This is what happens when you resurface the car driving lane and not the cycle lane. A few years later and the surface has deteriorated so much that it can barely support the road markings.
The cycle lane has been painted the wrong way around. Such incompetence!
A big sign for the roundabout at the end of Callendar Boulevard, but motorway regulations do not apply immediately on the road to the right. This sign is in effect a 'No Turn Right' sign for non-motorway traffic, and completely bogus.
The car parking in the Callendar Boulevard painted cycle lanes resumes, but with no waiting restrictions to force drivers to take their cars to the car parks, it appears the council approves.
A break in the car parking to see the narrow painted cycle lanes.
The exit from Callendar Park onto Callendar Boulevard, where cars are regularly left blocking the painted cycle lanes.
The narrow cycle lane on Kelso Street bridge with footway car parking. No waiting restrictions so the assumption must be that the council approves of this.
A cycle lane designed for car parking. Let's not pretend this is designed for cycling.
I don't suppose it matters that this van is parked in the Meiklewood Road cycle lane, since the cycle route turns right at the end of the road.
Junction potholes in the Meiklewood Road cycle lane.
The parking layby is again too narrow for ordinary cars to be reliably parked within, so eroding the buffer zone that is meant to contain door openings.
The painted cycle lane on Meiklewood Road goes around the bend, then vanishes for a bit.
The cycle lane on Meiklewood Road starts to move out from the kerb.
The cycle route is also a recommended route for lorry driving!
A pathetic worn-out narrow painted door-zone cycle lane in Kilmarnock Road from the council that won the "Achievements in Cycling" award at the 2017 Scottish Transport Awards.
The painted cycle lanes start just after the Broomhouse roundabout (M74 motorway junction) and then encounter a bus stop. A stepped ramp footbridge has been provided for pedestrians (including bus passengers) to cross the road.
The cycle lane shifts from the kerbside to the door-zone.
The narrow door-zone cycle lane swerves into the back of some parked cars. On the other side of the road, there's a car parked partly in the cycle lane, partly on the footway.
The Broomhouse cycle lane goes over a flattened build-out, then becomes a painted door-zone cycle lane.
King Street's cycle lane doubles as an overtaking lane when there are parked cars about. A contraflow has been provided on the one-way section by permitting cycling on the existing footway.
Users of this cycle lane need to look out for oncoming motorists overtaking parked cars.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this cycle lane is.
Painted markings direct cyclists from Rutherglen onto the road to the right, but NCN756 actually goes left towards the Smart Bridge. Some dropped kerbs nearer or behind the camera would be useful here.
The view along Calder Street.
End of shared footway, start of on-road painted cycle lanes to Cambuslang along the A724.
Spot the route sign telling cyclists on route (74) to cross the road.
A recommended route for cyclists, along the A724.
Primary school children are expected to cycle along the A724 with only painted cycle lanes for "protection" on route (74).
After the bus stop, the cycle lane resumes on the road.
I guess it's a cycleway.
The cycle lane ends and cyclists directed onto the footway. This sign has (74) rather than the 74 used on other signs nearby. Note also the crayon bike symbol on the carriageway.
I don't know what the designer thought would happen here.
A decaying cycle marking on Edinburgh Road. There is so much potential for a protected cycle facility along the full length of Edinburgh Road, but this is about all there is apart from some ASLs.
No real attempt to allow bike access to housing estate via path from main road, and quite narrow cycle lanes for a 40mph road.
Onto the footway at the roundabout at Drumsagard. South Lanarkshire Council has signed the A724 as NCN74, even though the Sustrans NCN74 goes to Uddingston to join NCN75.
Nothing special at these bus stops.
Back onto the footway for the roundabout.
Each of the entrances to Halfway Park has barriers across it and no dropped kerb, making it difficult for people on bikes to visit. Also, another sign for local primary schools, and car parking in the cycle lane.
A door-zone cycle lane past a layby, and if you get hit, there's nowhere for passing motorists to swerve to avoid hitting you.
The stop-start cycle lane starts again under the parked car at the right of the picture.
Continuous cycle lanes past sideroad and traffic island.
Just when the road gets to a narrow bit on a slight climb, the cycle lane stops briefly.
Cycle lanes leading onto the roundabout in the centre of Morecambe.
A roundabout with cycle lanes on it.
A cycle lane suddenly appears on North Station Road, approaching another roundabout, just when cyclists need to be positioning themselves further to the right unless they happen to be turning left.
Jumping between footway and carriageway cycling at each roundabout, but with no obvious thought given to the transition.
An 'End of Cycle Route' sign approaching the Northgate Road roundabout, but now the cycle route continues along to the end of Wallacewell Road. I don't know why the traffic island encroaches into the cycle lane.
Cycle lane on Wallacewell Road.
Motorbike bypass for traffic boom at the University of Strathclyde. I guess bicycle users could use it too.
Worn out painted cycle lane only visible by its colour, leading from Water St to the Toucan Crossing across Cable St to Chapel St. Google Streetview shows that those signs have been facing the wrong way for over 2 years!
Contraflow cycle lane interrupted by loading bay outside pub.
With-flow and contraflow painted cycle lanes in Church Street, with access to the Stonewell toucan crossing across the footway to the left.
The cycle route cuts through a car park, with an S-shaped paint path where a straight one would fit.
The turning circle at the end of Water Street has a cycle lane painted around it! The access to the riverside path (in #87599) can be seen (centre). The Sainsbury car park also exits onto the turning circle (at right).
NCN 7 leaves the Esplanade for a path across Low Green, only to return to the Esplanade further along.
Some mandatory cycle lanes on the Esplanade that fill up with parked cars in summer. A continuous segregated lane right the way along the Esplanade, such as there is in Southend, may be more appropriate.
Cycle provision on the Esplanade at Ayr switches randomly between mandatory cycle lanes, onto shared-use footway, then back to mandatory cycle lanes, without any proper transition.
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2019-04-26T15:57:40Z
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There is a difference between disease control and symptom control for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
There is no Rheumatoid Arthritis cure. You probably gathered that from yesterday’s funny blog. However, there are medications which can curb many of the effects of RA by actually cutting back the activity of the immune cells.
These are the medicines referred to as DMARDs: disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. The most common are methotrexate and Plaquenil. There are others, but those are used the most today because they are considered the most safe and effective.
Biologics like Humira, Remicade, and Enbrel are also used to hinder disease activity. This is a newer class of DMARDs. For a very few people, DMARDs bring on a complete remission of the Rheumatoid Arthritis.
If you have taken them, though, you know that they are not a cure. They reduce the activity of the rheumatoid disease by interfering with some immune cells which attack us. But those immune cells continue to multiply and fight back. That’s one reason that I say this is like war.
The disease has its weapons – various B and T cells and the cytokines they produce. And you have yours – medications, nutrition, and various therapies. If we had a cure for Rheumatoid Arthritis, then we could fire that ONE weapon and be done with it. Someday we’ll be there.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch… We sit in our tank and fire our big DMARD guns at the rheumatoid disease. This way, we cut the enemy down to a more manageable size. However, then we still have to deal with what I call the “leftovers” – the many symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis which are left after the DMARD has delivered its blow.
As warriors against Rheumatoid Arthritis, we might try to take as little total medication as we can take – and still be able to live our lives fully. Most RA patients live with lots of “leftover” pain.
Why do Rheumatoid Arthritis patients live with leftover pain?
We want to protect our organs from permanent damage due to long term use of too much medication.
We want to avoid side effects of medications, which often compound some symptoms of the RA.
We do not like being judged as weak by others because we are dependent upon medication.
It can be hard when you are deciding whether to take more medicine so that you can get out of bed or whether you want to save your stomach, liver, or kidneys. It’s like a game of Risk.
It is war. So we need to be strategic. If we are going to use any “big guns,” then they should be the ones which can do the most damage to the enemy.
If we were shopping, we’d ask: What will give me the most bang for my buck? Usually, that means giving priority to taking whatever combination of DMARDs will provide us the most disease control possible. Then, after that, we decide how we’ll go after the leftovers. We have to – so that we can function.
It’s not a perfect strategy, but it will do until the cavalry comes …with a cure.
Oh my gosh – this blog is wonderful! I am so glad I found it.
Leftovers – that is exactly what they are. Was trying to discuss this with my Rheumatologist today.
Thank you so much for directing me to your blog. The information provided is much more concise and easier to understand.
The only question I have is this: My doctor told me that I could be in the early stages of RA however he has not put me on the DMARDs mentioned on this blog and instead has me taking mobic and flexeril. He said it’s not severe enough for that stuff and he also said he didn’t want to put me on medication that no one would want to take me off of and he also mentioned that I was very young and he didn’t want to diagnose me with RA or another connective tissue disease, he mentioned seronegative Spondylitsarthopathy ( or something like that ). Is RA something that can be treated with DMARDs once it get’s severe enough or does it need treatment as soon as possible? Is it ok to wait until it really rears it’s ugly head? So far my doctor is going by my blood work. I had a low pos ana test at 1:80, neg for ra factor but I have all the symptoms of RA and another disease Lupus which has been ruled out.
He said I could have seronegative RA but didn’t (again) want to put me on the medication yet.
what would you do if you were in my situation? I had to have my doctor write out a letter of accomodation to my employer due to joint pain interferring with my job.
Thank you for reading this and for finding me on twitter maybe all of us in the same boat can make some sense of this weird disease.
I’m not a doctor, but I’ll tell you what I know.
If your doctor is not sure you have RA yet, then that is a good reason he has not given you DMARDs. If you do have RA, then, yes, the most current medical science says to get on disease modifying treatment asap. Are you seeing a rheumatologist yet?
1) Maybe you will eventually get worse and it will become more obvious that it is RA.
2) Maybe you will do other tests or get a second opinion and find out that it is something else.
3) Maybe the whole thing will just go away. That is rare.
I tell people to do as much research as possible and to keep good records of your symptoms and your medical tests. Take all that info with you when you see a doctor and bring a list of questions to discuss with him.
Very often RA starts out slow like this. Pretty sneaky. But these are serious meds, so you need to be sure. It may take you a few months. I am sorry if that is not good news.
I love your words about “all of us in the same boat” together making sense! That is what I think too. When you have time, read some more of the blog. I put in a search box to help while I am getting all the new stuff fixed. I hope this helps some.
Thank you so much for your reply :). I am seeing a rheumatalogist and have been for almost a year now. He has mainly tested me for lupus and RA, but mainly Lupus because the joint pain hit very suddenly overnight. It comes and goes. When I finally went to see my GP for the joint pain he ran a CBC and I had some abnormal results, a low platelet count and a low lymph count. That was when RA or Lupus was suspected. I had lupus ruled out finally last week and now he’s focusing on RA and the other disease. He asked me to keep a symptom diary and to take pictures of any swelling or face rashes. Those were turned in and due to what was written down Lupus was ruled out thankfully! I do have a striaght back, my lumbar curve is absent due to that issue he’s leaning towards Akalosing Spondylitis ( sorry for the spelling ) if it is not RA but I guess time will tell. It’s been a very difficult year being sent to doctor after doctor. I am sick of seeing doctors!
I’ve done quite a bit of research and all the research into RA state that treatment within the first year of symptoms is very important. that is why I was asking about treatment with DMARDs vs. waiting for it to damage joints if that is what it is.
right now I’m just a big question mark, a sitting duck.
for anyone considering not taking meds to stop the disease I think you should reconsider— I already have damage to my joints within the first year.
I tell my patients that in advanced stages of RA, DMARDs and especially biologics might control inflammation, but pain might still prevail, because pain might be a symptom of post-RA OA. So symptom control is as important as disease control.
One word to Sheri: as long as the diagnosis is uncertain, one shouldn’t use DMARDs, especially if seronegative spondyloarthritis is in question. But your doctor should come to a diagnosis soon!
To Kathy: Thanks for this interesting information. One should look if the rheumatoid factor stays negative and if the anti-citrullinated protein/peptide antibodies (ACPA)are positive or not.
I, too, appreciate this post. Much food for thought here.
And I will share my past year’s experience to add to the pot – through the murkiness of diagnosis for RA. I am sero-negative something. The only thing positive in my labs is for AntiPhsophlipid Syndrome (with one DVT). But fatigue, bilateral stiffness, unreal pain & some swelling in hands, feet, wrists, elbows started suddenly last winter. There’s mild X-ray evidence of joint damage. I was put on Plaquenil for the APS & Ultram for the pain. I felt only worsening of symptoms through the fall of ’09. I had cut back on my hours at work as much as I could afford.
In October, I sort of begged my rheumatologist for a trial of methotrexate because I kept feeling worse. Life was limited, to say the least – as many here can relate to. Now after five months of MTX with an occasional Darvocet on flare days (DC’d Ultram), this sero-negative something is no longer worsening. I have regained some energy, stiffness is less – and this new energy improves my pain tolerance. The rheumatologist has diagnosed this as RA for now – and she thinks it will clarify itself further with time. Was this the wrong approach for a sero-negative situation?
Hey Marge, maybe the doc will come back to reply later, but here is a link you might have a look at. At least a third of RA patients get negative blood tests, so we need to rely on some other diagnosis methods also. There are other tests and there is the method you are using too – to see what works.
Very helpful & reassuring, Kelly. Thank you.
Marge, the decision, which DMARD to take first is made in the light of disease activity. Our approach is more hit hard and early. If the diagnosis is made, then establish an efficient DMARD therapy – and this would be methotrexate. Especially if there’s already “mild X-ray evidence of joint damage”.
But I wouldn’t call it a wrong approach. Plaquenil might also work on seronegative RA.
Thank you for clarification. It’s such a complex issue. But I’ve learned much here.
I have severe RA. Fifteen years of pain but only a year with diagnosis. I take 22.5 mg MTX weekly. Can’t take narcotics – can’t handle the memory issues so I deal with the pain for the most part. I have a wonderful anesthesiologist who helped me through stage 4 RSD following joint surgery. They tell me I also have fibromyalgia and I take Topomax 50mg. I have gastritis of long standing and use Bexium which us a wonder drug and is effective with the side effects of the MTX as well. I’ve had sone real problems following a fall with a herniated disc which has complicated my care.
MTX has helped me tremendously even though I lose a day a week to weakness (I take it at night and I’m wiped out the next day). I couldn’t get out of bed before I started. I was 55. It took me more than 2 hours just to get up. I’m still working thanks to my doctors and my treatment. I have my own business and I plan to work for several more years. I don’t plan to take the biologics because of the possibility of lung problems. I’m hoping researchers find the answer. I know I’m fortunate.
Thank you for sharing Pattie. Fifteen years of pain but only a year of diagnosis is frustrating, isn’t it? I hear that too often. I hate hearing that. How did you finally figure out what was wrong?
I just wrote a long comment on another post but then signed in to google reader and it lost it. Doh! Anyway, I have RA, diagnosed a couple of years ago (aged 25), fast onset and severe (full health to hardly being able to walk within 6 months) but treated brilliantly by the NHS in the UK. I am one of the lucky few who’ve gone into remission. I was on all the DMARDs, none of them working, so Humira was introduced and it worked perfectly. I’ve gradually been taken off all of the DMARDs apart from Methotrexate. Reading this made me think about how the disease is only being subdued – it’s not cured. I feel completely well (and so grateful) but it’s easy to forget that I still have RA – I’m just on strong drugs that keep it at bay. I wanted to ask if you know whether it’s possible that the drugs that I’m on could stop working at some point? I’m sure that it is. I’m 27 and would like to know what kind of future I can expect. Any advice would be so helpful. Thank you for your wonderful site – I feel such empathy for all of the people suffering and know how awful and frightening this illness is. Never lose hope.
I’m so glad your treatment is working. Sometimes a treatment works for many years, so lets hope so!! Like you said, the Biologics (like Humira) can stop working as well because from what I read the body develops immunity to it. Taking methotrexate is supposed to be the best way to prevent that from happening. So you’re doing all you can.
No one can know what future to expect. RA is very unpredicatable. What would I do if I were you? I’d stay with a treatment that works because going off & on it again can increase chances of the treatment not working.
Vent anytime, wirechief. You’re right the prednisone can work very fast. Looks like you may also have some serious concerns with the prednisone and blood sugar though – I hope you get to a good doc who can help advise you with working with both diseases. Sometimes a very low dose of prednisone is effective too. Here’s an article about that – click here.
The key is that RA is a DISEASE. I am walking, talking proof that treatment of RA with antibiotics can and does affect a CLINICAL REMISSION. I have now had RA for six years. I see a Rheumatologist (and of the hundreds of patients his practice, with several Rheumatologists, see, I am the ONLY ONE on the antibiotic protocol! So this is not a group of doctors who promote this protocol..in fact, my own doctor simply continues to be baffled at my success, but WILL NOT recommend this treatment to other patients!). I see that Dr. every 4 months. I have blood tests done annually to check out all systems…heart, kidneys, liver, etc. My Anti CCPR or whatever is now at 126 (or was a few months ago, after I had a relapse when I took Bactrim for a kidney stone post-surgery preventative, BAD IDEA.) My RA was caused by a leaky gut (had Giardia for a full year, undiagnosed until I had a colonoscopy). The clinical trials which have been done using Minocin (and don’t use any generics…they don’t work) frequently allowed the patients to continue on Methotrexate. Those adding the antibiotics always improved much more than those on the Methotrexate only. There are hundreds, if not thousands of us out there using this treatment with success. And a minimum of side effects. Please at least explore this idea! See information on the site by The Road Back Foundation, and read the book by Henry Scammell for more information. Maybe this will not work for all RA patients, but goodness gracious, it is SO MUCH BETTER than taking stuff that is poisonous!
hi,my little daughter 5y has jra for 4y ,all of these past time she has eaten 2.5mg prednisolon every day ,sometimes 5mg or 7.5 by order of her physician and 5mg methox every week,she feels well and dosent have any special complain but her left knee always inflammed,her doctor lives in Tehran and is pedorhommatolog but here in our city we have famous adultrhommatolgist ,recently because of problems of traveling to tehran we decied to go to these specialist in our city but their treatment protocoles are different basically and i am confused and dont know what to do, her doc in tehran is not agree with these in Mashad,here doc stopped systemic prednisolone and begins with hdroxychloroqiune ,she takes his rhommato degree from canada ,tehran pedorhommato doc gets it from australia!they have different opiniones! can you help me what should i do with my little kid between these doctors and dugs?!
Speaking as an adult dx’d w/JRA in 1984 at the age of 7(who was not properly treated as a child & so I live with the damage that possibly could have been avoided), it’s never easy for a parent of a child with JRA to know what the best course of treatment is. I can understand the one doc wanting her to not be on pred. It is one of those love/hate drugs. Kids with JRA are at risk for osteoporosis even if they’ve never taken any form of pred or other corticosteroid (I was dx’d w/osteopenia as early as 1987 and osteoporosis as early as 1989 and I had never taken any form of corticosteroid until I was 25 and had osteoporosis for 13 yrs) and adding pred in can cause that risk to rise. But I also know thar the risks of uncontrolled inflammation are just as scary. The risks of using pred are more easily monitored than the risks caused by uncontrolled inflammation. Knowing the risks with both scenarios and deciding which risks are worth taking helps in making the decision.
Of course long term pred use has it’s risks, but just as with many adults who are not helped with their symptoms except by pred, many kids don’t respond to anything but pred either, so it has its benefits as well. In a number of cases the risks outweigh the benefits. For me, when I was without pred and other RA meds, I got progressively worse. Adding a DMARD alone helped quite a bit, but it was not until I started taking pred again that I ended up getting better, yet at age 35, I have osteoporosis that requires me to take Reclast. But since I am so stiff & have trouble moving without pred & I am not able to take other NSAIDs, the benefits outweigh the risks.
The risks of corticosteroids like pred can be scary, but as long as proper monitoring is combined with using the lowest effective dose for the shortest time possible, then the risks are minimized. Risks of the use of corticosteroids (especially long-term and/or high dose) are: osteoporosis, increased blood pressure, cataracts of the eye, elevated pressure in the eyes (glaucoma), mood swings, weight gain-especially around the face (commonly called “moon face”), the abdomen, and the back of the neck (“buffalo hump”), high blood sugar, which can trigger or worsen diabetes, increased risk of infections, menstrual irregularities, suppressed adrenal gland hormone production (which is why stopping pred and other corticosteroids suddenly or cold-turkey is dangerous), thin skin, easy bruising and slower wound healing, and likely some others I am forgetting. Of all of these, the only ones I either have had in the past or do not currently have are the glaucoma and mood swings. I’ve battled high blood pressure most of my life, even before pred was in the picture. As a child, my BP was a concern until they figured out it was mainly due to what’s commonly called white coat hypertension. But, in my late 20s and early 30s, my BP was so high it was scary, which was partially due to pred use in a high daily dose for an extended time, and partially due to inflammation and pain, both of which can cause an increase in BP. I was dx’d with a cataract this past June. Most 35 yr old people would never dream of being told they had a cataract. For me, it was not a surprise given my continual use of pred from 2006-2009, much of the time at what is considered a high daily dose. I am now on a much lower dose, only 5mg and only take higher doses as part of a burst and taper during a major flare.
The risks of uncontrolled inflammation of JRA are: joint damage, redness, swollen joints that are warm to touch, joint pain, joint stiffness, decreased range of motion or loss of joint function, general “flu-like” symptoms, & inflammation in the cardiovascular system (which leads to a number of problems like high blood pressure, risk of stroke, and heart disease). Inflammation also plays a role in: fatigue or a feeling of being tired, low-grade fever, chills and minor headaches, redness and swelling of the joints, joint damage, deformities of the hands and feet from the swelling and deterioration of tissues and bone, destruction of various tissues, including cartilage, bone, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels. Inside the joint, inflammatory cells inside the joint cause: irritation/disruption, wearing down of cartilage (cushions at the end of bones), swelling of the joint lining (synovium), & production of fluid in the diseased joint lining (synovial fluid). As these things happen, the joint space narrows which can lead to the bone rubbing together just as they do in OA. Inflammation can also affect the skin, lungs, heart, digestive system, & kidneys. It can take a major toll on the body so getting control of inflammation is key. Prednisolone can do that, especially during the time it takes a DMARD to begin working. DMARDs can take, on average 3 mo or more to begin working. Something needs to be done to help the inflammation in that time. Sometimes a DMARD only has a partial response and symptoms of inflammation are still felt despite treatment with a DMARD. So an NSAID or some type of corticosteroid is necessary.
My opinion is this: only you can decide which doctor is best for your child in the situation. And unfortunately, no matter what choice is made, as a caring parent, you may always wonder if the one you didn’t pick would have worked better. It’s just part of the process of the disease. I know patients who pick one treatment over another and then later wonder if they made the right decision. Know this, whichever choice you make, the other one will be available at a later date IF the first doesn’t work out.
I forgot to add that if it were me in your situation, knowing what I know and live with, I would push to keep the prednisolone, keep and/or raise the methotrexate and either consider also adding the hydroxychloroquine OR rather than adding a second DMARD, add a biologic if that is possible. I don’t know how biologics are dealt with in Tehran or Mashad so I don’t know if that is possible. I do know I’d get in touch with the doctor that knows her history, making sure he knows the issue with you traveling to get there and tell him your concerns about her knee. He may be able to help in some way. I don’t know. Some docs are willing to do that for a patient they know. The new docs may be wanting to basically start with a blank slate. Whatever you decide, make sure they do NOT stop her prednisolone suddenly. Stopping it when a patient has been on it for an extended period can be harmful.
hi,im very glad that you answered me so compelet .i think your wright about keeping in touch with first doc ,but i dont know about biologics,here recently speaks about homeopathy (if its spelling was correct!)ihave duobt to go to these treatments,they use the flowers extracts and nature things and moods and minerals,something like chinise medicine!do you mean of biologics of those or not ?
Wayney got it all right there. All the pred use side effects mentioned, i experienced them all except for the menstrual irregularities ;). I couldn’t help but feel really sad hearing toddlers getting JRA. I mean what most adults with RA gone through is already unbearable, what more if it happens to children esp babies! That is injustice and it really breaks my heart!
Though i was diagnosed with RA when i was already 28yo, I easily followed doctors’ orders down to the last detail of medication, from over the counter drugs to DMARDs to restricted drugs to injectibles. but my indescibable pain would not go away. a few hours of relief would soon be down to just a couple of minutes. the body fights both the RA and medicines and adjust to them. i knew my doc was running out of options for she’s not giving me any new kind of pills or whatever other than the ones she had already prescribed. the worst i think is when she suggested me to enroll in a gov’t funded RA treatment program. she used better words when she told me that but i knew what she meant. at that point on, i took control of what i take to treat my RA. i am now on my 9th yr with the last 2-3yrs being PAIN-FREE. no pharma products no invasive procedures. and i thank God truly for that. Still, i go and see my rheumy every 3mos just to check and monitor my already sleeping RA.
I’m not saying that everybody should take the road i took. For I laud everyone for pitching-in in creating RA awareness and demand for better treatment, care and most importantly, the right cure. It touched and inspired me to go out in the open and tell the people around me what i honestly been through. but on the other hand, it’s difficult for me to hear and read that a lot of RA patients are still greatly suffering. There are some natural products out there that can help lessen the suffering, if not all. and if you decide to go and find it, still continue to see your doctors. That’s what I do.
I already have text-book deformities (as what many of the doctors i saw would described them). But I don’t think about that anymore.Tthe most important thing is to stay pain-free and get back to a normal and happy life. And that is my wish for you all RA warriors!
I have been on Methotrexate for only a week. I have been exercising with a exercise bike. My diet is Gluten free because of IBS that I have had since I was 10 years old. I have gained 4 pounds in less than a week. This sounds way to much to me. This is the only side effect I am having from my first dosage of Methotrexate, but at this rate of weight gain I may become obese. What can I do? I am 5’3″ and weigh now 136.6 pounds. This is at the top of my weight class.
Also, my husband and I would like to travel to Costa Rica but I am concerned about the vaccines I may need what can I do about this?
I have never heard of that sudden weight gain happening before from the methotrexate. Is that the only medicine you’ve been taking?
I’m planning to do a post on vaccinations in the next day or so, so hopefully it will be helpful for you. I’m not sure about what rules apply for Costa Rica though – have you asked your doc already?
Hi, I’m sort of new at the war game. Seeing an orthopedic for a hip replacement. Not looking forward to it. Has anyone else had one? Do you know if I will have to stop my metho./Enbrel before operation? Forgot to ask my Rumy I’m sure they will tell me. Would like to get some input. Thanks.
Thank you so much for an informative site. I recently started taking MTX, then had to stop as I became ill with pneumonia. When better, I will continue taking it. I have struggled with myself taking medication, as I do not want to harm the rest of my body by saving one section. The way you have described the buying a ‘big gun’to deal with the major ‘thief’, (of our health), and leaving the ‘left overs’ for a rainy day, was just what I needed to hear. It helped me reach a difficult decision. Blessings to you for sharing.
I am dealing with the leftovers today. The prescribed anti-inflammatory Diclofenac upsets my stomach horrendously I just had to stop taking it yesterday. Today my stomach is way better but I am in horrible leftover pain!
I should add I am currently on Enbrel and methotrexate. The pain medication was taking care of the unresolved elbow/knee/hand pain.
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After Tian Xie had finished, everybody sank into silence for a long time and immersed in absolute fear.
Sitting on the crown on the main head of Hui, Zi Yao observed people from her high level. She looked calm and relaxed as if she had controlled everything in her hands. She let Tian Xie tell the others the truth to break their mind's defense.
As long as they could recognize their sorrow, they wouldn't have the thought of depending on Desolate and this world. That was how she could subdue them and make them work for her. With those top experts, she could fulfill the secret operation she had planned for so many years.
_____ Tame and fuse with Desolate!
At this moment, everybody received a hard shock hitting their souls. They felt dizzy as they didn't know what to do to continue their lives.
Things that had anch.o.r.ed them like responsibility, war, slaughter, and protection had become a hallucination. All the warriors here had lost their will to fight. They didn't know where they should do or return to.
"As long as you serve my Mistress, not only she will ensure your safety but she will also offer you a great opportunity. She will help you get rid of Desolate's confinement. You will be able to fly freely in the world." At this moment, Tian Xie's enticing voice guided them, which added to the intimidating aura from Zi Yao. Some elders of the G.o.d Clan with a weak will had nodded perplexedly.
"Oh sorry, the great opportunity you said isn't attractive to me."
Suddenly, Shi Yan snorted. His mind flickered to open the s.p.a.ce crack connecting to Grace Mainland. The Endless Sea reappeared.
"So you still want to be an imprisoned slave?" sneered Tian Xie.
Shi Yan pouted his lips and didn't care about him. He jumped into the s.p.a.ce slits abruptly.
Perhaps everybody here was Desolate's prisoners, but not him. His soul wasn't created by Desolate. He was independent. Desolate couldn't control his fate.
Also, he wasn't bound to any Absolute Beginning creature!
Currently, he had just perceived the Dark Energy, a kind of power that could change something rotten to magic. As long as he had enough time to understand its subtle features, he could reach Bloodthirsty's level. At the same time, he could avoid Bloodthirsty's tragic fate. Why would he be subdued and become Zi Yao's servant that acted as she pleased?
Moreover, it wasn't the real Zi Yao. It was Hui's soul.
"This s.p.a.ce slit can remain for a while. She can't destroy it because I use the same kind of energy to create it. If you want to leave, you have to act fast," Shi Yan turned around and smiled before he left.
Audrey's beautiful face was moved. She didn't say anything and dashed forward at her max speed.
She went after Shi Yan, flashed, and disappeared into the s.p.a.ce slit.
At the same time, Xuan He, Adele, Frederick, Lei Di, and Azure Dragon weren't hesitant for a long time. They dashed forward rapidly.
As they were hovering pretty close to Shi Yan, before the s.p.a.ce slit closed, all of them with their profound realm had disappeared.
Zi Yao was sitting cross-legged on the imperial crown. Her beautiful eyes squinted as she had a gleam of teasing. It seemed like she had already calculated it.
Before the s.p.a.ce slit closed, a strange energy shook it and deviated it. Before it disappeared, its direction and destination changed.
"Mistress?" Tian Xie frowned and asked for Zi Yao's direction.
Zi Yao's face didn't change. "They can't return to Desolate's Incipient Extent. Shi Yan and that little girl have fused with the Origins of Desolate's clones. As long as they can't come back, Desolate can't awaken. It's good for us then."
Then, she looked at the members of the G.o.d Clan, the Four Heavenly Kings, the chiefs of the twelve families and the elders. "Follow me or I'll destroy you. Choose one for yourself."
The G.o.d Clan's warriors were filled with fear.
It was a misty place without skies or the earth. The remains of broken stars, fragments of the asteroids were floating. The holes in the void flashed and moved strangely like a monster's mouth ready to devour the victims. A desolate, cold, and barren aura filled every corner of the place.
Further from there, the broken pieces of the stars and dregs floated like sawdust in the immensely vast sea.
An unknown chill multiplied in Shi Yan's heart. He was standing on a ma.s.sive, dark-red rock. Looking at the further area, he was horror-struck.
Of course, it wasn't Grace Mainland.
When Shi Yan stepped into the s.p.a.ce slit, he understood that something went wrong. He realized that an energy had shaken s.p.a.ce and affected his teleport.
He didn't know where he was. He released his Soul Consciousness and found that he couldn't reach the end of this place. It was like a small boat floating in the most remote area of an endless sea. He couldn't find commotion of living beings.
All of a sudden, a crunchy noise arose together with slight breathing on a diamond-like rock next to him.
Shi Yan was surprised. His body flashed and he landed on a giant, rough diamond. He looked at Audrey and asked in surprise. "Why are you here?"
Audrey looked a little helter-skelter. Her green dress was torn, revealing her white-jade, glowing thighs that gave people a lot of thoughts. As she heard Shi Yan's voice, she calmed down and spoke immediately. "It's the first time I came to Grace Mainland. This place is strange to me."
While talking, she slowly rose up, her eyes cold and clear. She curiously observed her surrounding. Shortly after, she became odd.
"This place isn't Grace Mainland," Shi Yan forced a smile. "While we teleported, Zi Yao had affected the s.p.a.ce slit. I don't know where we are now. What surprises me the most is that I can't connect to Grace Mainland. I can't find the way back."
After he had got here, he had tried to connect to the Origin of Grace Mainland. Unfortunately, his Soul Consciousness was like a rock sinking into a sea with no echo.
In that cosmos, as soon as his thought flickered, he could connect to Grace Mainland's Origin no matter where he was. Even if when he was in the chaotic s.p.a.ce basin, he could connect to Grace Mainland quickly and return there in just a blink of an eye.
However, in this area, his connection with Grace Mainland was cut off. He couldn't catch any signal or connection.
"Of course, this area isn't Grace Mainland! It's the Sea Domain of Nihility!" Audrey's pretty face was fearful.
Shi Yan was shaken hard. He grimaced. "This place is the Sea Domain of Nihility?"
Audrey forced a smile. "I've never been here before, but I heard about it from my mother. This place is Sea Domain of Nihility. It's the most mysterious area in the world. If Tian Xie's correct that the universe we're dwelling in is just Desolate's Incipient Extent, the Sea Domain of Nihility has escaped from Desolate. Of course, you can't contact Grace Mainland now."
Shi Yan understood it now.
Previously, he could return to Grace Mainland within a moment because he was in the cosmos that Desolate had created. The turbulent s.p.a.ce current didn't belong to Desolate, but it had a magical connection with Desolate. They had many pa.s.sages between each other. That was why he could travel at ease.
However, this Sea Domain of Nihility didn't have a bit related to Desolate's Incipient Extent. In this area, it was just a dream if he wanted to come back to Desolate's Incipient Extent.
"Only you got here?" Shi Yan contemplated for a while and then asked.
"It seems that Xuan He and the others also followed me, but I'm not sure if they got into the s.p.a.ce crack or not. Even if they did, I'm afraid that they will be scattered around the Sea Domain of Nihility. I think they couldn't return to our familiar world."
Shi Yan looked bitter. He scanned the immense s.p.a.ce that he didn't belong to and said, "How can we go back?"
"G.o.d knows," Audrey shook her head. Pausing for a while, she suddenly looked astounded. "Shi Yan, that Hui's clone is close to you, right?"
"Of course I'm close to her. She is…" Shi Yan answered instinctively, but he paused unnaturally and gave a dry smile, "She's a close friend of mine. I could never have imagined that she was the soul of Hui. It's true that we can't predict anything."
"Well, she's not only a close friend, isn't she?" Audrey looked as if she understood everything. Her face was natural, but the corners of her mouth jerked as if she was teasing him. "As long as they are pretty girls, they will have some relationship with you. I think it's a little ambiguous. After I'd returned to Imperial Dark Tribe, I've investigated you. You're that sort of person!" she confirmed.
Shi Yan felt ridiculous, his eyes odd. "Were you too free when you got crazy? Why did you need to investigate me?"
"Well, it was because you're the new Master of Bloodthirsty Force," Audrey pouted her lips.
Shi Yan didn't talk more.
He concentrated on observing the surroundings. He found that the furious energy filled the place. The broken stars, the remains of the asteroids, and the pieces of things that he couldn't name weren't still. From time to time, they moved as the Sea Domain moved and with the changes of the spatial holes in the void.
Not far from them was a sparkling stone that released a scorching heat and waves of terrifying energy.
He sensed it for a while and his eyes brightened. He immediately dashed toward that stone.
Audrey was surprised. She furrowed her brows and followed him.
There was a scarlet stone inlaid inside a crack of a burning red rock. It was as big as a fist, but the energy fluctuations and the waves of fire seething from there were so formidable.
"It's the nucleus of the sun. Although it's just fist-sized, it's priceless. To the people cultivating Fire power Upanishad, it's really helpful," said Audrey with bright eyes.
"Inside the Sea Domain of Nihility, it's really magical. I heard that only Immortal Realm experts could survive this place. We haven't reached the Immortal Realm yet and your realm is even lower than mine. How are we still safe and sound here?" Shi Yan was skeptical.
"Perhaps we haven't reached the dangerous areas yet. I guess we're at the outermost area of the Sea Domain of Nihility," said Audrey faintly.
"It should be because we're fused with the Origin," Shi Yan had another thought. He rose one hand to grab that solar nucleus then spurted a gold flame. The flame surrounded the nucleus and refined it. Gradually, the scarlet stone was melted into drops of fire.
"I used to hear from my mother that the Sea Domain of Nihility has a lot of fragments of the powerful divine weapons. They are much stronger than the secret treasures that we know. There're many things we can't even name. They remain here after the break of the star areas from long, long time ago…"
Seeing him melting down the solar nucleus, she looked surprised, mumbling.
"I believe so. Spark got a piece of Celestial Ice Jade Flake around this place. He had refined it to be his life treasure with formidable powers. Zi Yao took that flake. I think it could be the sharpest weapon the Absolute Beginning Era. I'm afraid this Sea Domain of Nihility used to be the arena of the Absolute Beginning creatures," Shi Yan looked pensive.
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Parties are often accompanied by morning hangover. We do understand that it is hard to keep a check on the amount of alcohol you drink (no judgments). However, you shall reap what you sow and so you experience an intense headache, weakness, feeling of nausea and stomach ache all making you feel like a zombie in the morning. Medically and colloquially this condition is referred to as a hangover.
Hangover is defined as a collated amalgamation of symptoms that develop after drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. Alcohol consumption and the chances of developing a hangover are directly proportional.
Hangover actually starts to develop as the blood alcohol levels start to decrease.(1) After you’ve had your last drink, the blood alcohol level starts to decrease and continues to get worse as it reaches zero.
Typically hangovers last for about 12 hours, however, the time is variable, and it depends on the amount of alcohol you have consumed. It could last about 48 hours in severe cases.
After a heavy night of debauchery, it is normal to wake up with a splitting headache and completely dehydrated. However, a nutritious and healthy breakfast loaded with minerals can help you control your symptoms and even cure your hangover.
Eating eggs post your drinking session could be beneficial, it can help you control your symptoms and drastically reduce your drunken fervor.
Eating eggs the next morning will help your body release the after-effects of alcohol in your bloodstream. Eggs contain L-cysteine an amino acid(2) that is responsible for breaking down the alcoholic components and release these toxins out of the body. Additionally, they are also a great source of protein and will help you regain all your energy.
Ideally, the best way to consume eggs for a hangover would be to drink it raw. However, it is not a feasible option. So it is recommended that you have boiled eggs or make some scrambled eggs.
Note: Ensure not to use too much oil/butter for the preparation as it could interfere with alcohol in the stomach.
The day post your drinking, have at least 3-4 eggs for breakfast, and you could also have it throughout the day as a snack/meal for best results.
Banana is one of the best hangover foods that can help you get rid of the morning blues almost instantly. If you are certain that you’ll be going out, keep a few handy in your fruit basket for the next morning.
Drinking too much alcohol flushes out most of the essential minerals from your body including potassium and magnesium. It is due to this that you feel weak and dizzy and also ends up with muscle cramps and fatigue.
Bananas are rich in potassium and magnesium, and they replenish your body with an adequate amount of the mineral and other electrolytes. Additionally, you could also eat a banana.
Eat 3-4 bananas in the morning once you wake up, it is suggested that you consider this your breakfast with followed by coffee. Alternatively, you could blend 3-4 bananas with milk to make a healthy shake and top it off with honey and savor it.
Bananas are considerably good for your overall health, but excessive consumption could be harmful as it could cause a massive influx of minerals and ions and in the dehydrated state, and your body may not be able to process it. It is recommended that you have 3-4 bananas the next morning in the form of a smoothie or consume them directly.
This wonderful root is not only in a culinary staple, but it is also a medicinal plant that bears lot of benefits for several diseases. One study conducted(3) by Takahashi concluded that ginger with brown sugar and the tangerine extract was able to cure hangovers effectively.
Ginger is naturally an anti-emetic and helps decrease the feeling of nausea in the body and additionally, it acts on the digestive tract and helps in stabilizing the sugar levels in the bloodstream as well, making you feel a little better.
Firstly clean and chop off an inch of ginger.
Strain the solution and pour it into a cup and add some honey into it for taste and consume this solution.
You could have this drink three times a day to keep the hangover at bay; you could also have this immediately after eating your meals in the day as well to aid in digestion.
Foods that are high in carbs like sandwiches, pasta, etc.
Foods high in water content like watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumbers, etc.
There are several ways that you could treat a hangover; some of those remedies include every simple step that you could use in no time and require things that are readily available at home.
This may seem like an eccentric practice. However, it is known to be very helpful for people who are suffering from a severe hangover. All you would need is to gather the energy to walk to your bathroom. This practice is also referred to as hydrotherapy.
The constant shuffling between cold and hot water helps in increased circulation, elimination of pain and toxins and as well as keeps you alert and energized. The hot water revitalizes your skin, whereas the cold water cools it down and helps in increased circulation, helping you keep your hangover symptoms at bay.
Ideally, it would work best with a showerhead. If you have a showerhead, keep switching between hot and cold water, take 30 minutes of a cold shower and alternatively 30 minutes of hot water.
Ideally, this practice has to be done every day in the morning and night, whenever you have a debilitating hangover for at least an hour daily.
Nothing is more satisfying than drinking a refreshing and rejuvenating glass of coconut water when you have a hangover. This is considered to be one of the most buzzing methods to get rid of a hangover.
Alcohol, when in your bloodstream causes oxidative stress and causes you to urinate more as it is a diuretic. Coconut water brims to the lid with antioxidants that reacts with the toxic free radicals and helps in reducing the oxidative stress of the body and also hydrates it.
Ideally, it is suggested that you use ‘tender coconut water,’ in addition to containing potassium, they carry the same amount of magnesium as seen in bananas.
It is suggested that you consume roughly 2 glasses of it, every 4-5 hours during your hangover crisis.
Although there aren’t any side effects from drinking coconut water, it is recommended that you cap your daily intake to almost a liter a day. One downfall of following this regimen would be a constant need to visit the washroom. However, that is a small price to pay.
Alcohol in the bloodstream causes the antidiuretic hormone from being released into the body, which causes less retention of water in the body. Drinking water, the next day is one of the best ways to getting rid of that pounding headache and hangover.
Alcohol in the body causes the body to release less/negligible amounts of antidiuretic hormone which thereby causes the body to release all the water in the body, thus making you feel severely dehydrated. It is also hypothesized that lack of water in the bloodstream could cause headaches, as the brain is just 70% water.
There isn’t any particular way to consume water; it is just recommended that you sip from a large glass every 2-3 minutes, it helps you keep xerostomia (dry mouth syndrome) and dehydration at bay.
Although this depends on how much hangover you have and how dehydrated you are, it is variable and differs from each person. However, it is advised that you start your water ritual by drinking 500 ml, sipping on it every 2-3 minutes.
There are several herbal remedies such as teas, tinctures, and extracts used since ages to treat this age-old disease. They have been very effective on people suffering from a hangover, however, there isn’t much scientific evidence to prove the efficacy of the remedies, but it is to be noted that globally these remedies are used by millions to treat their hangover.
Green tea is loaded with catechins that have potent medical properties. These active components protect your liver from any damage caused by the consumption of alcohol.
Those who regularly drink must include it in their diet for a healthy liver.
Green tea additionally also works in promoting your immune system and aids in proper digestion.
Next, add in the boiling water, let it brew for a minute or two until you see the color change.
Consume it after it rests it cools down considerably.
Do not add green tea to boiling water, instead add lukewarm water to the tea, as the heat might destroy the catechins present in tea and reduce the potency of the herbs.
This perennial herb is a native plant that is originally found in Asia and southern Europe. It boasts of a lot of medicinal properties and has been used for centuries to treat several diseases. It also promotes a healthy digestion process.
Milk thistle has strong antioxidant properties which make it a preferred option to cure a hangover. It protects your liver from harmful toxins and fights off the effects of alcohol. Consuming milk thistle gives you instant relief from digestive distress.
The consumption of milk thistle should not exceed the recommended dosage.
Also referred to as the Eleuthero, is a small herb that is found in the Northeastern part of Asia. It is a traditional medicine that has years of history that backs its medicinal properties. In recent times, a study(4) conducted reported to have found that administering Siberian ginseng reduces the hangover symptoms and its severity.
Although there is no clear understanding of how this herb works to cure a hangover, it has been hypothesized that as it has a lot of antioxidants, it reacts with the toxic free radicals in the body and helps to provide instant relief from the symptoms of a hangover.
You could directly consume the pills that are available in the market. However, it is recommended that you check with your doctor/physician before doing so as this pill can interfere with other drugs such as diabetic medication, blood thinners, etc.
The recommended dosage of this drug is 500 mg and at no cost should you exceed this. Also taking one pill in a day is ideally recommended.
Essential oils have myriad benefits; from headaches to nausea to the dizzy feeling of a hangover, it can instantly provide relief. Essential oils are one of the easiest to use remedies and are also very effective.
Lavender oil has been used since ages as a primary essential oil to treat a lot of diseases. It is also used as an essential oil in aromatherapy to treat body aches, depression, anxiety, and several other disorders.
The pleasing aroma of Lavender Essential oil is known to have a calming effect. It relaxes your stressed body. Further, it has pain relieving properties that reduce the severity of headaches that usually accompany a hangover.
The application of the oil increases blood circulation and thereby eases the problem. The oil contains a compound known as cineole which has potent anti-inflammatory properties that minimize the chances of inflammation which can cause a hangover.
It is necessary to dilute the essential oil with a carrier oil for topical application. Using undiluted oil may cause a severe allergic reaction due to its potent nature.
Add in a few drops of Lavender Essential oil in a carrier oil such as coconut oil, castor oil.
Massage the blend on your forehead and temples. You could also apply it behind the ear or back of the neck which are the trigger points of a headache.
You could also add a few drops of the oil to your bathwater and have a rejuvenating bath.
It is recommended that you use this essential oil moderately as it is a very potent oil and may cause an allergic reaction when used in excess. You could stick to using 3-4 ml of the oil for the whole day.
Yes, it does exist, and it acts the same as ginger does. In simpler terms, it could be termed as consolidated tincture of ginger’s medicinal properties. A recent study(5) conducted even regards this essential oil as an effective remedy for curing nausea and dizziness caused by a hangover.
Ginger consists of shaogols, these are the active ingredients that are present in the oil, and they act as an anti-inflammatory agent and an analgesic that helps in reducing the pain and helps in lowering the blood pressure in the body. It also helps in lowering the blood alcohol level by pushing the liver’s functions.
Add in a few drops of ginger essential oil and massage it on your forehead and temples. You could also apply it behind the ear or back of the neck which are the trigger points of a headache.
Alternatively, you can add the oil to your diffuser and inhale its soothing aroma.
Although there is no such restriction for this oil, it is recommended that you stick to the dosage that is provided on the container. Additionally, you could also consult your doctor/physician for the dosage.
When you drink a lot of alcohol, it gets harder for the body to absorb water. Thereby leaving you severely dehydrated, which can worsen hangover symptoms.
While drinking water is the best way to recover from dehydration, the right essential oil can exponentially increase the process.
Lemon oil supports and aids in hydration. If you’re able to rehydrate quickly, a lot of your hangover symptoms will fade away.
Lemon Essential oil is known for its diuretic properties; in simpler terms, it helps in the retention of water in the body. That is all the water is reabsorbed in the kidneys and urination is reduced-thereby increasing your body’s hydration. It is also proven to stop nausea and vomiting. According to a study(6) conducted in pregnant women, it could prevent vomiting and nausea.
Add in a few drops of Lemon Essential oil and massage it on your forehead and temples. You could also apply it behind the ear or back of the neck which are the trigger points of a headache.
Although there is no such restriction for this oil, it is recommended that you stick to the dosage that is provided on the container Additionally, you could also consult your doctor/physician for the dosage.
According to experts at Stanford University(7), alcohol is a diuretic and causes the body to be severely dehydrated. This results in the shrinking of your dura matter in the brain causing pounding headaches. Not only that, it depletes all the minerals and vitamins in your body causing you to feel fatigued and weak. It especially depletes Vitamin B complex, magnesium.
Drinking too much alcohol could affect your body in many ways and one of them is the depletion of your body’s reserve of vitamin B. Especially, B6 and B12. However, using the supplements could help you get rid of that debilitating headaches.
Supplementing your body with B6 would cause your body to revitalize itself. Especially the liver, it helps in inducing the detoxification process that occurs in the liver(8), and helps in excreting the alcoholic byproducts quicker.
This is probably the easiest thing to do, all you have to do is acquire the supplements from your nearest pharmacy,, and you are good to go.
This is variable. However, the daily recommended intake of the vitamin B6 for males around 14-50 is 1.7 mg(9). However, it is strongly suggested that you consult with your physician/nutritionist before you follow this regimen.
Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol in a single night could overload your liver as it is the detoxification center of your body, adding in magnesium to the body helps in increased functionality of the liver.
Magnesium is known to support and increase the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase; the enzyme breaks down alcohol and helps in eliminating it from the body.
This is probably the easiest thing to do, all you have to do is acquire the supplements from your nearest pharmacy and you are good to go.
This is variable. However, the daily recommended dosage of magnesium(10) has an upper limit of 350mg. However, it is strongly suggested that you consult your physician/nutritionist before you follow this regimen.
This is nature’s most marvelous cactus that has a lot of medicinal benefits, and it grows mostly in Australia.
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial(11), 64 young, adult subjects in good health were randomized to receive 1,600 IU of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus indica) (OFI) extract or indistinguishable placebo five hours before alcohol consumption. Later, subjects consumed a maximum of 1.75 g of alcohol per kilogram of body weight over a four hours. Researchers assessed the subjects for severity of nine symptoms of a hangover and overall well-being on a numerical scale (0-6 points), and blood and urine samples were collected the following morning.
You could directly use the stems and pad of the cactus and remove the pricks. Boil it in simmering water and very carefully extract the juice of the cactus and drink it. Alternatively, you could also use the prickly pear tincture.
There is a clear demarcation(12) that you can consume 300 grams of steamed prickly pear cactus pad and 500 grams of broiled stems of prickly pear cactus as a single dose.
People are likely to be hungover after a night of irresponsible drinking. If you are one of them who cannot control your alcohol intake, then here are some tips that can help you in preventing a hangover.
Do not smoke while you are drinking. Smoking manifolds the symptoms of a hangover and makes it almost unbearable the next morning.
Instead of drinking continuously you could try to drink water or non-alcoholic beverages in between to lessen the effect of alcohol.
Drink a glass of water before going to bed to reduce the severity of a morning headache.
The best thing would be to have a prickly pear supplement at least four hours before you start drinking. It is an excellent option to avoid hangovers.
The best way to prevent a hangover is to abstain from consuming it altogether. However, it may not be a plausible option, but you could practice cautious drinking.
Too much of alcohol is indeed bad for your health. Further, the hangovers you suffer from in the morning can be terrible, the results of which can be severe especially if you need to be functional the next day.
The remedies mentioned above to cure a hangover can help you out in such situations by providing you quick relief from the symptoms.
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Welcome to the nutritional zinc content in 4 different types of eggplant, ranging from 0.23 mg to 0.12 mg per 100g. The basic type of eggplant is Eggplant, raw, where the amount of zinc in 100g is 0.16 mg.
0.16 mg of zinc per 100g, from Eggplant, raw corresponds to 1% of the zinc RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 cup, cubes (or 82 g) the amount of Zinc is 0.13 mg. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of 1%.
Below is a summary list for the top three eggplant items ranked by the amount or level of zinc in 100g.
Following on from the three top eggplant items or products containing zinc we have a more comprehensive break down of Eggplant, raw, and the highest item containing zinc which is Eggplant, pickled. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 4 types of eggplant.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 4 different types of eggplant based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the zinc content in eggplant.
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Eggplant, raw should be considered along with the zinc content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Vegetables and Vegetable Products.Other important and zinc related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 25 kcal (1% RDA), the amount of Protein is 0.98 g (2% RDA), the amount of Fat is 0.18 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 5.88 g (5% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the zinc levels in eggplant.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Eggplant, raw has a nutritional value score of 20 out of 100.Comparing the zinc content and the nutritional density in 100g for Eggplant, raw; We class this as a medium to low zinc content item.In terms of overall nutritional value we class this as an item with a medium nutritional density value.
100 calories of eggplant, raw is a serving size of 4 g, and the amount of Zinc is 0.64 mg (4% RDA). Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 3.92 g (8% RDA), Fat 0.72 g (0% RDA), Carbohydrate 23.52 g (20% RDA). This is shown in the zinc RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
For the food Eggplant, raw the typical serving size is 1 cup, cubes (or 82 g) which contains 0.13 mg of Zinc. The zinc percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 1 %.
To give 100% of the RDA, 100.0 servings of the typical serving size 1 cup, cubes (or 82 g) give the complete RDA. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 20.5 kcal, the Protein content is 0.8 g, the Fat content is 0.15 g and the Carbohydrate content is 4.82 g. The percentages are shown below in the zinc chart, for the typical serving of zinc and the related and important nutritional values.
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 cup, cubes or 82 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 2.0 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 1.3 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 17.2 (kcal).
This list of 4 types of eggplant, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Eggplant, pickled through to Eggplant, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional zinc content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much zinc in eggplant.
The list below gives the total zinc content in the 4 items from the general description 'eggplant' each of which show the zinc amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 4 food items shown in the zinc chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for eggplant based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of zinc per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for eggplant ranked by the amount of zinc per 100g is shown below in the eggplant calories chart.
The level of zinc can be affected by the method of storage for example canned or frozen and also by the method of preparation for example either raw, cooked or fried. The total food items which are raw is 1 item. The highest amount of zinc from the 1 raw items is in Eggplant, raw where the content is 0.16 mg per 100g. The number of food items which are cooked are 2 items. The highest amount of zinc from the 2 cooked items is in Eggplant, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt where the amount is 0.12 mg per 100g. Comparing raw and cooked eggplant shows that cooking can change the levels of zinc by 0.04 mg in a 100g serving.
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of zinc contained in 100g of eggplant, based on the list below of 4 different items under the general description of eggplant, is 0.16 mg of zinc. This average value corresponds to 1.07 % of the recommended dietary allowance (or RDA) in your diet. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 35.50 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 0.89 g, the average amount of Fat is 0.34 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Zinc is found in Eggplant, raw which in 100g contains 0.16 mg of Zinc. This corresponds to 1 % of the recommended daily allowance. For this serving the amount of Calories is 25 kcal, the amount of Protein is 0.98 g, the amount of Fat is 0.18 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 5.88 g.
Using the list below for the 4 different eggplant nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of zinc is found in Eggplant, pickled which contains 0.23 mg of zinc per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is 2 %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 49 kcal, the Protein content is 0.9 g, the Fat content is 0.7 g, the Carbohydrate content is 9.77 g.
The lowest amount of zinc in 100g is in Eggplant, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt which contains 0.12 mg. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance 1 % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 33 kcal, the amount of Protein is 0.83 g, the amount of Fat is 0.23 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 8.14 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a zinc range of 0.11 mg per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 16 kcal for Calories, 0.07 g for Protein, 0.47 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high zinc foods in your diet. For example 100g of Eggplant, raw contains 0.16 mg of zinc. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the zinc nutritional content.
The food with the highest zinc content per typical serving is Eggplant, pickled which contains 0.31 mg in 1 cup (or 136 g). The percentage of the recommended daily value for this serving is 2 %. For this serving the Calories content is 66.64 kcal, the Protein content is 1.22 g, the Fat content is 0.95 g and the Carbohydrate content is 13.29 g.
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