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Footage of postwar Berlin showing Wilhelmstraße, Berliner Stadtschloss, Friedrich der Große, Berliner Dom, Brandenburger Tor, Funkturm Olympiastadion and Märzfeld.
From 1837 two buildings together housed the Prussian Interior Ministry, which Hermann Goering assumed control of in 1933. Through it he controlled the Prussian police force numbering 50,000 'auxiliary policemen', mostly recruited form the SA and ϟϟ and used to persecute opponents. On November 1, 1934 it was merged with the Reich Interior Ministry headed by Wilhelm Frick who was responsible for drafting many of the "Gleichschaltung" laws that consolidated the Nazi regime and was instrumental in passing laws against Jews such as the notorious Nuremberg Laws, in September 1935. He was succeeded in the post in 1943 by Himmler.
Annex of the former Reich Ministry of the Interior at Dorotheenstraße No. 93, later used by the GDR Ministry of Justice and now by the Bundestag. The building was constructed from 1935 to 1937 to a design by Konrad Nonn who had been a NS party member and activist of the Kampfbund Deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure. It was one of the first government buildings erected by the Nazis.
[Chancellor Konrad] Adenauer's chief personal aide is Dr. Hans Globke, State Secretary of the Bonn Chancellery. Though not a member of the Nazi Party, he was a high official of the Nazi Interior Ministry and co-author of a legal interpretation of the 1935 Nuremberg racial laws. Those laws, defining a Jew as anyone with a Jewish grandparent, laid the legal basis for the persecution of all Jews in Germany.
Wilhelmstrasse, site of the Third Reich's most important ministries and embassies. Apart from the Air Ministry, all the major public buildings along the Wilhelmstrasse were destroyed by Allied bombing during 1944 and early 1945. The Wilhelmstrasse as far south as the Zimmerstrasse was in the Soviet Zone of occupation, and apart from clearing the rubble from the street little was done to reconstruct the area until the founding of the DDR in 1949. The communist DDR regime regarded the former government precinct as a relic of Prussian and Nazi militarism and imperialism, and had all the ruins of the government buildings demolished in the early 1950s. In the late 1950s there were almost no buildings at all along the Wilhelmstrasse from Unter den Linden to the Leipziger Strasse. In the 1980s, apartment blocks were built along this section of the street.
Site of the former headquarters of the Reich Colonial office, set up to reclaim the colonies lost through the treaty of Versailles.
Wilhelmstrae 64 then and in 2007. Built by Carl Vohl in 1903, the building used to be the liaison office of the Prussian king and the kaiser to the government, housing the Privy Civil Cabinet of the Prussian king and German Emperor. During the Weimar Republic the building served as part of the Prussian Ministry of State. Between 1922 to 1932 Prussian Minister President Otto Braun of the Social Democrat Party lived and worked here. From 1932 to 1933 the president of the Prussian Council of State (and future West German chancellor) Konrad Adenauer, used this as his apartment whilst serving as a Centre Party politician and chief mayor of Cologne. Upon taking power, this is where Hitler put Ribbentrop's office and the Nazis' liaison office, both under the authority of deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess who was made responsible for ensuring that all laws, statutes, regulations, promotions and so forth conformed to National Socialist ideology.
After his mysterious flight t0 Scotland in 1941, Martin Bormann took over. After the war the building's damage was repaired and the building was used as a student residence. Until 1970 the East German State Secretariat for Professional Schools was based here, followed by the East German state publishing house until the demise of the DDR in 1990. It now serves as the Berlin office of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.
Under the Nazis the Prussian Ministry of Justice was merged with the Reich Ministry of Justice and headed by Franz Gürtner who was responsible for coordinating jurisprudence in the Third Reich. Detesting the cruel ways of the Gestapo and SA in dealing with prisoners of war, he protested unsuccessfully to Hitler, nevertheless staying on in the cabinet, hoping to reform the establishment from within. Instead, he found himself providing official sanction and legal grounds for a series of criminal actions under the Hitler administration. His successor, Otto Thierack, forwent any pretence of legality and simply began handing undesirable groups over to the ϟϟ having come to an understanding with Heinrich Himmler that certain categories of prisoners were to be, to use their words, "annihilated through work". Lengthy paperwork involved in clemency proceedings for those sentenced to death was greatly shortened and, at his personal instigation, the execution shed at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin was outfitted with eight iron hooks in December 1942 so that several people could be put to death at once by hanging. At the mass executions beginning on 7 September 1943, it also happened that some prisoners were hanged "by mistake". Thierack simply covered up these mistakes and demanded that the hangings continue. The building was demolished in 1950 after having been badly damaged during the war, and today the site serves as the embassy of Afghanistan.
The Reich Ministry of Science and Public Education in July, 1943 and the site today. It was headed by Bernhard Rust who had tried to bring the school system into line with Nazi ideology whilst discharging those regarded as politically or racially "undesirable" from scientific and research work. The building received minimal damage during the war and in August 1945, some of its rooms were set aside for the German Central Authority for Public Education. In October 1949 upon the official creation of the DDR, this became the East German Ministry of Public Education. From 1963 until 1989 the ministry was headed by the wife of East Germany's last Head of State, Margot Honecker. From 1970 until the dissolution of East Germany in 1990 it housed the East German Academy of Educational Science. Today it serves as offices for members of the Bundestag.
[t]he most interesting example of Berlin‟s impassive popular mood was the attitude toward the tightly closed British Embassy which is just around the corner from the Adlon. There it stands, with gilded lions and unicorns upon its portals. I had rather expected that this diplomatic seat of the arch-enemy would attract some attention, especially on a Sunday, when this part of town was thronged with outside visitors. Yet, though I watched closely for some time, I never saw a soul give the building more than a passing glance, much less point to it or demonstrate in any way.
Originally this was the site of a palace built in 1735 and obtained by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and had been the residence of the Hohenzollern princes until the revolution in 1918. The Reich Ministry for Food and Agriculture (RMEL) from 1919 to 1945. It had been bombed during the war, after which the office became the Federal Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests under the communist authorities. It was finally demolished in 1962 and remained vacant until the mid 1980s when the East Germans began building high-rise apartment blocks.
Standing among the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineers Buro Happold and consisting of a 19,000 square metre site covered with 2,711 stelae arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. Incredibly, the company employed to produce anti-graffiti coating for the blocks was Degussa, a big German chemical company, which once owned Degesch- the firm that produced the Zyklon B used to gas Jews in concentration camps.
My students in 2016 standing among the stelae which vary in height from eight feet to just under sixteen feet and three feet wide, supposedly designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere; a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states that the design represents a radical approach to the traditional concept of a memorial, partly because Eisenman did not use any symbolism. An attached underground "Place of Information" holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem. They are found underground- not marked prominently, not easy to find, and not integral to the display.
it would be impossible to know what the structure is meant to commemorate; there’s nothing about these concrete slabs that signifies any of the words of the title, except, perhaps, “memorial”—insofar as some of them, depending on their height, may resemble either headstones or sarcophagi. So it’s something to do with death. And as for the title itself—which murdered Jews? When? Where? Does the list include Rosa Luxemburg, who was killed in Berlin by rightist thugs in 1919, or the foreign minister Walther Rathenau, also killed here by rightist thugs, in 1922? Or Isaac Babel and Osip Mandelstam, who died in Soviet captivity? Or, pardon my sarcasm, Claude Lanzmann’s uncle, who was killed in Paris by his jealous mistress?
Easyjet was forced to apologise after fashion photographs shot at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin were published in its in-flight magazine. In the pictures, models pose in designer clothes among the concrete blocks of the "Field of Stelae". The budget airline said it was unaware of the images until they appeared in the magazine, which is published by a company called INK whose relationship with Easyjet was under review.
Men cruising men. At the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. Note the man bottom left who stripped off. Despite, this, Grindr's CEO Joel Simkhai has declared himself to be "deeply moved" by how app members "take part in the memory of the holocaust"
The Foreign Office was [...] not a hoard of resistance. It was also no retreat of old-ministerial bureaucrats, who, under a bad government, would not abandon their country and simply continue their ministry. There was also no targeted infiltration by national socialists, which was not necessary at all. What was more characteristic of AA was the "self-equalisation. An antidemocratic and an anti-Semitic consensus prevailed among the officials in the Wilhelmstrasse and the Hitler government. The most aristocratic diplomats represented the traditional upper-class anti-Semitism, which was less radical than the genocidal anti-Semitism of the national socialists. But both wanted to overcome the "plague of peace" of Versailles and make Germany a great power again. There were only differences in the assessment of the risk of war.
Nothing is left of it today, but the Reich Aviation Ministry can be seen in the background.
In 1939 the office issued a formal statement about the so-called Jewish question as a factor of foreign policy. Among other things, "[t]he realisation that Judaism in the world will always be the implacable opponent of the Third Reich forces the decision to prevent any strengthening of the Jewish position. A Jewish state [ie: British Palestine] would, however, bring a legal system of international law to world Jewry. " The research results published in October 2010 by the independent historian commission, convened by the then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in 2005, show that "after the attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Foreign Office took the initiative to solve the 'Jewish question' at European level. Eckart Conze (historian and spokesman of the commission) said in a 2010 interview that the Foreign Office "was actively involved in all measures of persecution, deprivation, expulsion and extermination of the Jews from the beginning... The target 'final solution' was already very early recognisable."
After the end of the Second World War, a number of leading members of the Office in the so-called Wilhelmstraßen process.
Then and now as seen from Voßstraße. It had been built in 1884-86 by Boeckmann architects as a residential building. In 1925 the house was extended and fitted to the neighbouring German Railway Company. Today it is the only house of the old Voßstraße still existing. With the founding of the Ministry of Aviation on May 5, 1933, the Reichsverkehrsministerium lost the jurisdiction over the Department of Aviation. The Department of Motor Transport and Shipping was divided into two separate departments as Erich Klausener became head of the shipping division. After Klausener's assassination during the so-called Röhm-Putsch on June 30, 1934, the division received a new department head with Max Waldeck at the beginning of 1935. In the same year, the two railway divisions were merged after the head of the administrative department had retired. As of March 20, 1935, the Reichsverkehrsminister (Minister of Transport and Transport) was named "The Reich and Prussian Transport Minister" after the corresponding tasks had been taken over from the Prussian Ministry of Transport. Added to this were other transport tasks from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Agriculture. The Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Reichsbahn Company) was placed under the Act for the Reorganisation of the Reichsbank and the German Reichsbahn Act (Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft) on 30 January 1937, and received the name "Deutsche Reichsbahn". The Reichsbahn committees were taken over to the ministry as department head in the rank of ministerial directors. Until the end of the Second World War the structure changed only insignificantly. In the operational and construction department E II was the unit 21 "mass transport", which from 1940 was responsible for the organization and timetable of the special trains for the deportation of Jews from Germany ordered by the ϟϟ. This meant that the Reichsverkehrsministerium was responsible for a substantial part of the Holocaust.
At the western entrance to the subway station "Kaiserhof" at Berlin, Wilhelmplatz (today station "Mohrenstraße", line U2); built 1908 after a design by Alfred Grenander, destroyed in 1936.
For some years a regular daily meeting had taken place in the Propaganda Ministry on the Wilhelmplatz in Berlin, attended by Goebbels, senior officials of the RMVP and liaison and media staff from other ministries, the Party Chancellery and the Wehrmacht. These press conferences would normally begin at 11.am (although the time could vary from 10.00 am to noon) and lasted for half an hour to forty-five minutes. Goebbels dominated proceedings and the only other regular speaker was the OKW liaison officer who would give a brief account of developments at the front(s). The ministerial conference was very much a platform for Goebbels to perform. The Minister would use the 'conference’ to provide guidelines and detailed instructions for the implementation of German propaganda. It was not intended to offer a dialogue with journalists. As Goebbels widened the scope of his brief during the war the conference expanded from twenty in attendance gradually increasing after the invasion of Russia to fifty or sixty persons.
Wilhelmplatz was built over during the German Democratic Republic era. The Czech Embassy is visible in the foreground of the picture whilst the historic statues have since been reinstated.
A member of the Hitlerjugend on a street sign where Wilhelmstrasse intersects with Wilhelmplatz, and as it appeared after the war.
Directly across the street is this memorial to Georg Elser, who had concealed a time bomb in the Bürgerbräukeller, set to go off during Hitler's speech on 8 November. The bomb exploded, killing seven people and injuring sixty-three, but Hitler escaped unharmed; he had cut his speech short and left about half an hour early. Elser was arrested, imprisoned for 5 ½ years and executed shortly before the end of the war.
at a window of the Kaiserhof, Rohm was keeping an anxious watch on the door from which Hitler must emerge. Shortly after noon a roar went up from the crowd: the Leader was coming. He ran down the steps to his car and in a couple of minutes was back in the Kaiserhof, As he entered the room his lieutenants crowded to greet him. The improbable had happened: Adolf Hitler, the petty official's son from Austria, the down-and-out of the Home for Men, the Meldeganger of the List Regiment, had become Chancellor of the German Reich.
The bronze statue of Leopold I shown with my students during my 2016 Bavarian International School trip was moved in 2005 to its current location on Wilhelmplatz.
The NSDAP leader was often in Berlin, where since February 1931 he regularly stayed in a suite at the legendary Hotel Kaiserhof at 4 Wilhelmplatz (formerly Ziethenplatz), across the street from the Reich Chancellery. The hotel was the first luxury hotel in the city, opened in 1875 and three years later one of the showpieces of the 1878 Congress of Berlin, which took place under the leadership of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Since the early 1920s, the hotel management had sympathized with the right‑wing nationalist forces operating against the Weimar state, so it was no coincidence that the top floor of the hotel turned into the NSDAP’s provisional headquarters.
The Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda – RMVP), was established by a presidential decree, signed on 12 March 1933 and promulgated on the following day, which defined the task of the new ministry as the dissemination of ‘enlightenment and propaganda within the population concerning the policy of the Reich Government and the national reconstruction of the German Fatherland’. In June Hitler was to define the scope of the RMVP in even more general terms, making Goebbels responsible for the ‘spiritual direction of the nation’. Not only did this vague directive provide Goebbels with room to out-manoeuvre his critics within the Party; it also put the seal of legitimacy on what was soon to be the ministry’s wholesale control of the mass-media. Nevertheless, Goebbels was constantly involved in quarrels with ministerial colleagues who resented the encroachment of this new ministry on their old domain.
Standing in front of the site in 2007. Currently serving as the German Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security, this is where Goebbels was in charge of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP) was responsible for the content-related control of the press, literature, fine arts, film, theatre, music and broadcasting.
The part of the building visible here behind my students is the Marschall House, converted by Karl Reichle in 1934 to serve as the entrance area to the Ministry of Propaganda. The walled up archways and windows of today were originally passageways to the main building of the Ministry of Propaganda. The ministry was re-established shortly after the "seizure of power" by the Nazis as the central institution of Nazi propaganda. It was in the Cabinet Hitler under the direction of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who exerted control of all German mass media and cultural workers through his ministry and the Reich Chamber of Culture built in the fall of 1933.
No one who lived in Germany in the Thirties, and who cared about such matters, can ever forget the sickening decline of the cultural standards of a people who had had such high ones for so long a time. This was inevitable, of course, the moment the Nazi leaders decided that the arts, literature, the press, radio and the films must serve exclusively the propaganda purposes of the new regime and its outlandish philosophy. Not a single living German writer of any importance, with the exception of Ernst Juenger and Ernst Wiechert in the earlier years, was published in Germany during the Nazi time. Almost all of them, led by Thomas Mann, emigrated; the few who remained were silent or were silenced. Every manuscript of a book or a play had to be submitted to the Propaganda Ministry before it could be approved for publication or production.
During and after the war, the three arched windows at the front are still recognisable amidst the ruins.
In 1890 Das Preussische Kriegsministerium at Leipzigerstrasse 5 was enlarged by the construction of an huge extension in Wilhelmstrasse. During the Weimar Republic it contained the offices of the Reich Defence Ministry. In 1933 the newly-formed Reich Aviation Ministry headed by Goering moved into it, at which point he ordered the complex destroyed and a monumental new building designed by Ernst Sagebiel constructed on the site, housing 2000 rooms.
Historians have devoted considerable attention to Hitler’s plans for the rebuilding of Berlin, but they have rarely acknowledged their effect on both the face of tourist Berlin and the meaning of a visit to the capital between 1933 and 1945. Yet it is impossible to overestimate the degree to which Berlin’s new buildings – among them, the Reich Chancellery, the Reich Sport Field, the Reich Ministry of Transportation and the Reich Aviation Ministry – became key sights for visitors to the city.
Model of the entire complex and site today.
On February 2, 1933, the Ordinance on the Reichskommissar for Aviation was issued, ordering a Reichskommissar for the aviation ministry. This was a first step towards establishing an air force. In addition to the army and the navy, it would become a part of the Reichswehr. The Reichskommissar for aviation was responsible for the planning and development of aviation, directly subordinate to the Reichskanzler. To this end, he received from the Reich Ministry of Transportation and the Reich Ministry of the Interior power over all civilian aviation and air defence. To serve as Reichskommissar Hitler appointed the Jagdflieger of the First World War, Nazi politician and Prussian Minister of the Interior Hermann Goering. In January 1935, Goering laid the cornerstone of the new Air Ministry. It would occupy a four-hundred-thousand-square-foot site off the Leipziger Strasse. Hitler personally checked each façade in plaster miniature. Its central longitudinal block and side wings would house four thousand bureaucrats and officers in its twenty-eight hundred rooms. Throughout 1935 the country’s finest architects and sculptors chiselled at heroic reliefs with motifs like “Flag Company,” designed by Professor Arnold Waldschmidt of the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts. The Berliners made smug comments about this extravagance- “Pure and simple, and hang the expense!” was one; “Just humble gold” was another.
As well as to the 2007 film Mein Führer - Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (Mein Führer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler), the centre photo showing perhaps incongruously the flags of the EU and German state.
The Main Hall (Ehrensaal) inside then and now. Three days after Reichskristallnacht in November 1938, Goering held a conference here (now the Euro Hall) wherein it was resolved that a thousand million Reichsmarks would be demanded from German Jews to pay for the damage caused by the pogrom.
“The swine will think twice,” he said, “before they inflict a second murder on us.” But the unthinking and needlessly destructive mode of revenge that Goebbels had selected outraged him. As his limousine made its way through the shards in Berlin the next morning, November 10 he got fighting mad and called a terse meeting of the Nazi party leaders at the Air Ministry building. Walther Darré heard Göring call the pogrom “a bloody outrage.” The field marshal lectured them all on their “lack of discipline.” He reserved his most pained language for Dr. Joseph Goebbels. “I buy most of my works of art from Jewish dealers,” he cried. Goebbels rushed yelping to the Führer’s lunch table but found little sympathy. Hitler had spent the night in Munich issuing orders to stop the outrages and sending out his adjutants to protect Jewish businesses like Bernheimer’s, the antique dealers. Himmler was also furious with Goebbels for having made free with the local SS units to stage the pogrom.
The building from the Nazi-era in 2007. The Reich Aviation Ministry remains the only major surviving public building in the Wilhelmstrasse from the Nazi era at Wilhelmstraße 81-85, south of the Leipziger Strasse, a huge edifice built on the orders of Hermann Göring between 1933 and 1936 based on a design by Ernst Sagebiel, who shortly afterwards rebuilt Tempelhof Airport on a similarly gigantic scale. One writer has described it as "in the typical style of National Socialist intimidation architecture." It ran for more than 250 metres along Wilhelmstraße, partly on the site of the former Prussian War Ministry that had dated from 1819, and covered the full length of the block between Prinz-Albrecht-Straße and Leipziger Straße, even running along Leipziger Straße itself to join on to the Prussian Herrenhaus, the former Upper House of the Prussian Parliament. It comprised of a reinforced concrete skeleton with an exterior facing of limestone and travertine (a form of marble).
With its seven storeys and total floor area of 112,000 square metres, 2,800 rooms, seven kilometres of corridors, over four thousand windows, seventeen stairways, and with the stone coming from no fewer than fifty quarries, the vast building served the growing bureaucracy of the Luftwaffe, plus Germany’s civil aviation authority which was also located there. Yet it took only eighteen months to build, the army of labourers working double shifts and Sundays. The first thousand rooms were handed over in October 1935 after just eight months' construction. When it had been finally completed, four thousand bureaucrats and their secretaries were employed within its walls. This building escaped major damage during the war. As one of the few intact government buildings in central Berlin, it ended up being occupied by the Council of Ministers of the new German Democratic Republic in 1949. As such it was at the centre of the popular demonstrations during the workers' uprising of June 17, 1953.
During the war. Ironically, this was the one building in Berlin not bombed from the air. After the war, the building housed the Soviet Military Administration, followed in turn by the National Economic Commission. On October 7, 1949, the German Democratic Republic was founded in the Great Hall.. Up until 1989 the building served as the East German House of the Ministries, with the complex bordering the Berlin Wall (see below). From 1991 to 1995 the building was used by Treuhand Anstalt, the trustee organisation for the privatisation of former DDR state enterprises. Since 1999 it has housed the German Ministry of Finance.
The central Monument in memory of the 1953 Uprising in the East German Democratic Republic is represented by a groundfloor relief, surrounded by a low barrier, created by Wolfgang Rüppel. The groundfloor monument, in Leipziger Straße at the corner of Wilhelmstraße in front of the Federal Ministry of Finance (officially named the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus) and an older wall-mounted plaque on the façade itself. Remarkably, Max Lingner's 3- metre by 24-metre long mural "Aufbau der Republik" (Building the Republic) is allowed to remain in situ. (Photos from my 2012 school trip on the anniversary of the uprising). After the war, the slightly damaged building of the RLM was initially used by the Soviet military administration (SMAD). Later, the German Economic Commission (DWK) and then the State Plank Commission and the Economics Council of the DDR obtained parts of the building. It served as the meeting place of the German People's Council, which on October 7, 1949 founded the DDR by establishing the constitution and established itself as a provisional Volkskammer. After the establishment of the DDR, various trade ministries of the economy were accommodated in the complex. The building was now officially designated as the House of Ministries.
Between the years 1950 and 1953 the monumental painting portrait and landscape painter Lingner in the northeastern pillar precinct replaced the previous large-format stone relief of marching soldiers of the Wehrmacht with the weaving hook crosses of the sculptor Arnold Waldschmidt shown above incorporating tiles from Meissner porcelain were created. The image of a restrained new beginning after the war originally conceived by the artist was revised several times at the request of the President of the Council of States, Walter Ulbricht and the Prime Minister, Otto Grotewohl, in order to present an euphoric departure of the working class. Lingner had had to revise it no fewer than five times, so that it ultimately bore little resemblance to the first draft. Originally based on family scenes, the final version had a more sinister look about it, a series of jovial set-pieces with an almost military undertone, people in marching poise and with fixed, uniform smiles on their faces. Lingner hated it (as well as Grotewohl's interference) and refused to look at it when going past. With a degree of irony, the building became the focal point a year later of the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany when, on June 17, 1953 a demonstration took place in front of the building. Today, the "monument to the events of the seventeenth of June nineteen hundred fifty-three", designed by Wolfgang Rüppel serves to commemorate the first demonstration against Soviet rule in the Eastern bloc.
The Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin is the state parliament for the German state of Berlin according to the state's constitution. The parliament is based at this building on Niederkirchnerstraße, which until 1934 was the seat of the Abgeordnetenhaus (House of Representatives), the second chamber of the Preußischer Landtag. Goering used it as an officers' club connected to the Air Force on the same block as his own Ministry.
On the evening of March 11, 1938 Göring held a banquet at the Haus der Flieger. He took advantage of the intermissions between the artists’ performances to brief the British Ambassador Henderson and the Czechoslovakian Envoy Mastny on the events in Austria. He did not refrain from giving his word of honour that no like measures were being planned for Czechoslovakia. After midnight in the Chancellery, Hitler accepted the first congratulatory notes on bringing about a turn in the Austrian situation.
The new exhibition and documentation centre with the redesigned historic grounds were opened to the public on May 7, 2010 according to a prize-winning design by the architect Ursula Wilms (Heinle, Wischer und Partner, Berlin) and the landscape architect Heinz W. Hallmann (Aachen) on the site of the GESTAPO headquarters on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse. The Reich’s Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt- RSHA) – Nazi Germany’s central authority, established on September 27, 1939, with the aim of coordinating the Nazi terror system during the war. It consisted of the former Main Security Police Office (Hauptamt der Sicherheitspolizei) and the Main SD Office (SD-Hauptamt). It brought together and controlled all the SD’s and state’s repressive bodies. Headed by Heydrich, the RSHA answered to Himmler. Following the former's death, the RSHA was run by Himmler personally until 1943 when it was taken over by E. Kaltenbrunner. The RSHA comprised seven departments: personnel, organisation and administration, security services (SD), internal and external affairs, the Gestapo, criminal police, and others. In February 1944 one of the SD departments was put in charge of Abwehr (counter-intelligence).
under hideous torture in the Gestapo dungeon in the Prinz Albrechtstrasse in Berlin Colonel von Hofacker broke down and told of Rommel’s part in the conspiracy. "Tell the people in Berlin they can count on me,” Hofacker quoted the Field Marshal as assuring him. It was a phrase that stuck in Hitler’s mind when he heard of it and which led him to decide that his favourite general, whom he knew to be the most popular one in Germany, must die.
The boundary between the American and Soviet zones of occupation in Berlin ran along the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, so the street soon became a fortified boundary, and the Berlin Wall ran along the south side of the street, renamed Niederkirchnerstrasse, from 1961 to 1989 shown here in 1990 and today in 2018 with my students from Bavarian International School. To their right is the Martin Gropius Bau which was a museum in 1945 and which suffered extensive damage during the battle, mainly due to its close proximity to the Gestapo building, which had a large courtyard that opened onto the side of the Bau. At dawn on April 29th 1945, Colonel Antonov’s 301st Soviet Rifle Division assaulted the Gestapo Headquarters and managed to capture it after heavy fighting, pouring thousands of rounds from the windows of the museum into the courtyard. The return fire from the SS defenders is clearly visible on the side wall and plasterwork of the Bau. An SS counter attack forced the Soviet troops to withdraw, leaving seven inmates who had survived a massacre of prisoners on April 23rd still confined to their cells. The last two photos show the Bau as it was at the end of the war with the Gestapo building visible on the left and a comparison shot from 2019. The Topography of Terror exhibition now occupies the site of the Gestapo HQ.
Above ran the Berlin wall and on top was the Airforce HQ and later the Federal Ministry of Finance. On August 13, 1961 the construction of the wall began, which would eventually consist of a barrier system over 150 kilometres in length, built to stop the flood of refugees from East to West shown during its construction and during my 2011 class tour of Berlin. A mere two months earlier at an international press conference held on June 15 at the House of Ministries across the road, today serving as the Federal Ministry of Finance, Walter Ulbricht famously declared, “No one has any intention of building a wall!” By the fall of 1961, over 2.6 million people had managed to escape across the border between the two sectors. The 200 metre long remnant of the wall here at Niederkirchnerstrasse marked the border between the districts of Mitte (East) and Kreuzberg (West), separating the two sides of Niederkirchnerstrasse and Zimmerstrasse from one another along their entire length. The border strip here was only a few metres wide, and buildings like the one that now houses the Berlin House of Representatives and today’s Federal Ministry of Finance were integrated into the inner wall.
The building then and what's left the site today. The buildings on the Prinz-Albrecht site were partly destroyed during the war or demolished after the war. In the 1970s, among other things, a building rubble company and an autodrome for driving license-free driving used the area.
At the beginning of the 1980s, several initiatives were launched to build a memorial on the site. In 1987, the Museum Project Topography of Terror was created. On the premises of the former Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8, now Niederkirchnerstraße 8, the museum strives to document the Nazi terrorist apparatus. The Prinz-Albrecht-Palais was located in the immediate vicinity of Wilhelmstrasse 102, which became the headquarters of the security service (SD) of the ϟϟ from 1934 onwards, and from 1939 onwards also the Reichsicherheitshauptamt (RSHA). The former Hotel Prinz-Albrecht on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 9 was, from 1934 the seat of the "Reichsführung ϟϟ". This building ensemble is today called "Prinz-Albrecht-Gelände" and the documentation centre on Niederkirchnerstraße 8 is one of the state museums in Berlin. Remains of the house prison in the cellar of the secret state police have been preserved and are now under monument protection. They are publicly accessible as part of the exhibition topography of the terror. Between 1933 and 1945, about 15,000 political prisoners were imprisoned and interrogated in prison cells. The prison was infamous for its torture methods and for many detainees through the station to the concentration camps.
The bombed out shell of the Gestapo-ϟϟ headquarters, 1945 which had been defended by Henri Fenet, the surviving 'Charlemagne' battalion commander. On the right one can see the prison cell windows of the Gestapo gaol in the south wing of the building facing the inner courtyard on Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8, in 1945, temporarily walled up after damage caused by bombs.
Colonel Antonov's 301st Rifle Division began its assault in earnest at dawn on 29 April, not long after the newly married couple in the Fuhrer bunker had retired. Two of his rifle regiments attacked Gestapo headquarters on the Prinz-Albrechtstrasse, a building which had been heavily damaged in the 3 February air raid. In the now standard tactic, a03mm heavy howitzers were brought forward to blast open a breach at close range. Two battalions stormed in and hoisted a red banner, but the Soviet accounts fail to reveal the fact that after fierce fighting and heavy casualties they were forced to withdraw that evening by a ferocious Waffen SS counter-attack. The Russians had no idea whether any prisoners of the Gestapo remained alive inside. In fact, there were seven left who had been specially spared from the horrendous massacre which had taken place on the night of 23 April.
Excavated cells from the basement of the Gestapo headquarters in 1948 and today showing images of political prisoners from the Gestapo archives. This served as an expansion of the Gestapo "house prison" in the basement of the south wing of Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8, which was established in 1933 with twenty cells and expanded in 1936 by seventeen single cells and a community cell. Somewhat later, the prisoners' residence and waiting room located between the cells was upgraded to an air-raid-proof shelter. Speer had rejected this new development of the site, wanting instead to design the north-south axis not only as a street of ministries and administrative buildings, but to be used for private and commercial buildings. The Nazis' persecution and extermination policy was not only controlled bureaucratically from this area, but the Einsatztruppen were selected for subsequent mass murders of Jews and political opponents - here at this site interrogations and torture took place. Since the in-house prison was designed for only about fifty prisoners, the length of stay of the prisoners was limited- either they died as a result of torture and detention, or they were sent to other prisons and concentration camps.
The excavated cells behind the museum with the Reichsluftfahrtministerium in the background.
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https://www.tracesofevil.com/2010/01/reich-aviation-ministry-and-gestapo.html
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51 2017 Chief Executive – Sun Dreams S.A.
47 2017 Chief Financial Officer – Sun Dreams S.A.
Mr. Mohammed V. Moosa was Non-Executive Independent Chairman of the Board of Sun International Limited. He served as Minister of Constitutional Development from 1996 to 1999 and as Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism from 1999 to 2004. Valli previously served as Chairman of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, Chairman of Eskom Holdings, as a national executive committee member of the African National Congress and as president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. He currently holds directorships, among others, in Anglo Platinum (non-executive Chairman), Imperial Holdings, Sanlam and Sappi. He is also the Chairman of the environmental organisation WWF (SA).
Mr. Anthony M. Leeming, BComm, BAcc, CA(SA), is a Chief Executive, Executive Director of Sun International Limited. Anthony is a director of various group companies and has over 16 years’ experience in the hotels, resorts and gaming industries, having joined the group in 1999 as the group financial manager. In addition to the overall group financial responsibilities, Anthony is also responsible for the group’s IT and procurement functions and is integrally involved with the group’s corporate finance activities.
Mr. Jabulane Albert Mabuza is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of the Company. Jabu, who was previously the Group CEO of Tsogo Sun Holdings Limited until 2011, currently serves as the Chairman of Telkom SA SOC, Eskom SOC and Anheuser – Busch InBev / SAB Miller - Africa. He is also the Chairman of Business Leadership South Africa, as well as the Chairman of the Casino Association of South Africa. Recently, Jabu was appointed by the Presidency as a co-convenor together with the Treasury Minister to look into the state of the South African economy. Jabu holds a Doctorate in Commerce (Honoris Causa) from the University of the Witwatersrand and was also the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award – Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Awards in 2016.
Mr. Norman Basthdaw is a Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director of the Company. Prior to his appointment to the board, Norman was the Group Executive: Mergers and Acquisitions at Sun International from March 2013. He is a qualified chartered accountant by profession and holds a B Compt (Hons), CTA, CA (SA) as well as a M Com and a Higher Diploma in Company Law. Norman’s prior experience includes senior corporate finance and finance positions at, among others, ABSA Bank Limited, Gensec Bank Limited a subsidiary of Sanlam, Genbel Securities Limited and Allied Electronics Corporation Limited. He has also been instrumental in Sun International’s expansion into Latin America.
Mr. Jaime Wilhelm serves as Chief Executive – Sun Dreams S.A. of the Company. He holds Business Administration and Economics, MBA.
Mr. Thabo F. Mosololi serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Company. He holds BCom Honours, CA(SA), EDP, MAP, Diploma in project management, International Business certificate.
Mr. M Zaine Miller serves as Group Chief Information Officer of the Company. He holds CIO certification, electrical engineering, electronics.
Ms. Verna L. Robson serves as Director - Group Human Resources of the Company. She holds BProc (Legal), Advanced Human Resource Management.
Mr. Rob A. Collins serves as Group Strategy and Operations Officer of the Company. He holds BCom (Legal), BCom Honours (Marketing), Higher Diploma Tax Law, Company Law.
Ms. Catherine Nyathi serves as Chief Audit Executive of the Company. She holds CA(SA), Post Graduate Diploma in Banking Law, Post Graduate (Honours) in Corporate Governance.
Mr. Andrew G. Johnston is Director - Corporate Services, Group Company Secretary of the Company. Mr Johnston is a qualified and admitted attorney having served as a senior executive and group company secretary of several large public listed companies in South Africa over the past 25 years. He holds the BA, LLB, FCIS and Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law qualifications and was a member of the Accounting and Auditing Task Force of The King Committee responsible for implementing the third King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa. In addition to the aforegoing Mr Johnston serves as a member of the CRISA Committee, is Chairman of the JSE Company Secretary Forum and is a member of The International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Philip Leon Campher serves as Lead Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company effective January 1, 2018. He currently serves as Non-Executive Independent Director of Sun International Ltd. Leon has extensive experience in investment management with Old Mutual, Syfrets Managed Assets, Coronation and African Harvest. He is the CEO of the Savings and Investment Association of South Africa, director of the International Investment Funds Association, a director of STRATE Limited, Brimstone Investment Corp Limited and Safex Clearing Company (Pty) Limited (this is now JSE Clear) and Chairman of Equites Property Fund Limited.
Mr. Samuel Sithole is Non-Executive Director of the Company. Sam, who is a qualified chartered accountant by profession is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Value Capital Partners Proprietary Limited and has over 20 years of experience in the accounting and private equity industries in South Africa and internationally. Sam serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Allied Electronics Corporation Limited, Adcorp Holdings Limited and African Phoenix Investments Limited.
Mr. Peter Douglas St. John Bacon serves as Non-Executive Independent Director of Sun International Ltd., effective February 1, 2013. Peter has over 36 years’ experience in the hospitality, resorts and gaming industry. He previously served as managing director of Sun International (South Africa) Limited from 1994 and as the group’s chief executive from 2003 until his retirement in June 2006. Peter serves as a director of Woolworths Holdings Limited, Elgin Wine Company (Pty) Ltd, Standard Inn Holdings and Atlantic Leaf Properties Ltd. In addition, he serves as Chairman of the National Sea Rescue Institute and previously served as Chairman of Cape Town Routes Unlimited and Chairman of the Tourism Grading Council Awards Committee.
Mr. Enrique Andres Cibie Bluth is Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company. Enrique was appointed to the board with effect from 22 August 2014. Enrique is a Chilean national and currently serves as a non-executive director on various boards in Chile, having previously served as the chief executive of various multi-national and Chilean companies. Enrique is also a director of the Sun Dreams board in Chile.
Mr. Graham Wayne Dempster is a Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company. He is a qualified chartered accountant by profession, previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Nedbank Group Limited and has over 35 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry in South Africa and internationally. Graham serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Imperial Holdings Limited, Telkom SA SOC Limited and AECI Limited and as Chairman of Long4life Limited.
Dr. Nolulamo Nobambiswano Gwagwa, BA (Fort Hare), MTRP (Natal), MSc (London), Ph.D. (London), serves as Non-Executive Independent Director of Sun International Ltd., since November 2005. Lulu was appointed to the board in 2005. Lulu served as a deputy director general in the National Department of Public Works and served a five-year term as CEO of the Independent Development Trust. She currently also holds directorships, among others, in FirstRand, Massmart and Tsebo Outsourcing and was previously on the board of ACSA. Lulu is the CEO of Lereko Investments.
Ms. Caroline Mary Henry serves as Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company. Caroline was appointed as independent non-executive director of the board with effect from 3 October 2016. Caroline has over 20 years of experience in the finance sector. Since 2005, she headed Eskom's treasury function gaining invaluable experience in debt capital markets and treasury. In 2013 she served as acting chief financial officer taking responsibility for financial reporting, treasury, shared services, insurance, and oversight of the Eskom pension and provident fund. Caroline contributed in various capacities (member & executive) to Eskom's Investment and Finance Committee, the New Build Oversight Committee, Audit and Risk Committee, the Executive Committee, Nuclear Management Committee and the Eskom Pension & Provident Fund (EPPF) Investment Committee.
Mr. Vusumuzi (Vusi) Khanyile is Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company. Vusi was up until earlier this year the Chairman of Thebe Investment Corporation having been its founding managing director in 1992. In addition to having headed up the Finance Department of the African National Congress between 1990 and 1992, Vusi also serves as the Chairman of Santam Limited and as a director of the Worldwide Fund (WWF). Vusi’s qualifications include a BComm (Hons.) degree in accounting and finance from the University of Birmingham, a Fellowship in Development Finance from Princeton University and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Transkei.
Ms. B. L. M. Makgabo-Fiskerstrand is Non-Executive Independent Director of Sun International Ltd., since March 2010. Tumi is the founder and executive director of Africa Worldwide Media, a Johannesburg-based production company, and founder of Tumi Makgabo Enterprises, focused on identifying investment opportunities throughout the African continent. Tumi also worked for CNN International and the FIFA 2010 World Cup Organising Committee South Africa, and serves on the boards of South African Tourism and the Foschini Group. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum of Young Global Leaders.
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https://uk.reuters.com/business/stocks/company-officers/SUIJ.J
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All Writing & Content © Nick Kushner Unless Noted Otherwise. 2002 AD.
A, relatively, old essay / discourse of mine after delving into the occult for a couple of years. Written in the last quarter of 2002 in a literature college course I hated but attempted to make the best of.
In a sense it set the tone for what would become The NACHTKABARETT a little less than 2 years later. To my knowledge, now as well as then, this is an approach and parallelism to Nietzsche's philosophy which has not been touched upon.
BY A SINGLE ACT OF CREATIVE ADAPTATION.
As given by Hermes Trismegistus, Lord of Wisdom, unto Maria Prophetissa, sister of Moses.
It can be said that the man who hates religion the most is often the most spiritual of individuals in that he is living of his own convictions since he is the one who is not satisfied with the limits society has set upon him. Similarly he who is living by his own convictions is oftentimes one who is more prone to analyze nature and more importantly his own self. A key example of an individual as such would undoubtedly be Friedrich Nietzsche. He is a man who arguably coined the phrase "God is Dead" and wrote such books as The Antichrist. Nietzsche was a reactionary atheist yet an atheist who took to himself a new religion; he viewed man as something that "should be overcome." Many historians and propagandists have distorted this philosophy to meet their own schemes and as fodder for their own political motives yet Nietzsche's teachings bear striking parallels to another type of philosophical and spiritual approach, the modern Western occult. As such, when read metaphorically and symbolically it is apparent that there are many underlying occult significances and themes in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nietzsche's 1883-1885 "novel" of a philosophical thesis, Thus Spake Zarathustra, demonstrates the epitome of what his Übermensch is. Übermensch, which translates to Superman or Overman, is defined in Thus Spake Zarathustra and the methods and path to its attainment is outlined. The staple of this philosophy is "based on the force of the empowerment of the individual Will, or consciousness" (Flowers, 114). This power of the individual Will is a staple, if not the very root, of much of Nietzsche's work however for the sake of this author's argument the rubric will revolve around the definition and path outlined in Thus Spake Zarathustra.
"God is dead", cried Nietzsche in the opening chapter of Thus Spake Zarathustra. This does not represent the destruction of the aspirant towards the greater good or the higher existence but to the contrary, the expiration of the ruling god of the complacent. The operative word when dealing with Nietzsche is "complacent" or "the herd" as he very often referred to the masses as being. If god is a shepherd, Nietzsche would advocate that the select enlightened few lay waste the pasture walls and fight in the wild free land so that they shall survive on their own by their own pride, abilities and willfulness, by their Will they shall succeed. It is a cry for a new era where we aren't slaves to a god that doesn't exist, an era where our independent Will will take us to greater heights rather than submission and forfeiture of that Will. "What is the great dragon which the spirit no longer wants to call lord or God? The great dragon is called 'Thou Shalt'. But the spirit of the lion says 'I Will!'" (Nietzsche, 55). Instead of following God, as is the root of Christian spiritualism, Nietzsche illustrates that the differentiation between his philosophy and that of the "Great Dragon" of Christianity is that the attainment of the Übermensch is to become at one with God through the empowerment of the individual will instead of its submission in the name of the aspirant's spiritual goal.
"I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All creatures hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and do you want to be the ebb of this great tide, and return to animals rather than to overcome man?"
The crime we commit against ourselves, humanity and the preservation of the human intellect is that we don't aspire beyond ourselves. Undoubtedly bitter against Christianity for which he blames this ethos of submission over attainment, the Dead God Nietzsche proclaims is the death of our will to complacency and given way to the rise to our Will To Power.
The irony that Nietzsche evidently didn't realize is that this treatise of the death of religion and the ascension of the Will is in actuality deeply spiritual, or at least in all probability he didn't plan on his philosophy having such deep-rooted spiritual connotations in the true sense of the word. For example, the closing of each chapter's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" is akin to a mass' "So Let It Be Done." This spirituality is absolutely divorced from the Christianity of the herd, it is a spirituality of the Qabalah, the staple of virtually all modern Western occult philosophies revolve around. Whereas Nietzsche spoke of a symbolic ascension of the soul or the Will the study and practice of Qabalah is that of a the actual ascension of the soul by mean of the Will.
The study of Qabalah is one which has endured much longer than Christianity. It is not a religion per se nor a book of commandments but a way of thought and action, specifically thought and intent motivating action and the reaction that ensues. It is a process by means of which ascends the soul beyond our earthly state towards eventual unity with God, the highest plane of existence. "This state of total realization is obtained by balance and the raising of consciousness up through all levels of Existence to the source itself" (Halevi, Introduction). It is a goal that "only the man of deep devotion and conscious intention can sustain such a vision" (Halevi, 210). Akin to that of Nietzsche's Übermensch "these studies were considered highly secret; and yet, as with all esoteric doctrines, they remained concealed not because anyone hid them but because they were simply unintelligible to anyone who had no interest in the upper worlds" (Halevi, 17). The will of the individual must be ready and able to accept their own personal responsibility of their freedom and that they alone are responsible for the well being of the soul. "Yes, even when he commands himself: then also must he make amends for his commanding. He must become judge and avenger and victim of his own law" (Nietzsche, 137).
The speculative Qabalah, which concerns the abstract philosophical doctrines on the nature of God, the universe and man; and the practical Qabalah which involves magical practices intended to produce specific results. The first seeks a transformation of the soul in accordance with the will of God, the second seeks a transformation in accordance with the will of man.
Three Books Of Occult Philosophy, Henry Cornelius Agrippa. Trans. D. Tyson. Ed.
Again, we see the idea of will and how it is integral to the process of transformation, both of the soul and man as well as an outline of a higher purpose of being. For Nietzsche, it is the Superman, "Man is a rope, fastened between animal and Superman, a rope over an abyss. A dangerous going-across, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and staying still" (Nietzsche, 43).
A spiritual voyage is echoed throughout these two passages, man being the voyager and the rope as the vessel just as society is the unforgiving and damning abyss below which one does not cross over readily as they curse your solitary feat. The Journey, "that is why it is sometimes called 'the Place of Dead', or where the sense of individuality may cease to be, because the Qabalist has passed beyond the fleshy estate" (Halevi, 214). Qabalistically this journey represents the ascension of the soul towards God, however, the Nietzschean equivocation of this journey represents man moving closer and closer to attaining the Übermensch. The further across the rope man travels the further distant and the further alien are those ideals and boundaries set forth for him in the state of Man. The further across the rope man voyages represents his greater independence and greater strengthening of his Will to do so, just as the soul's devotion, intent and ability is strengthens as it reaches the higher states. "Such spiritual excursions to the various stages of ascension were described in terms of Heavenly Halls, the Throne of God, and, in one work, a description of the Divine Adam and his dimension" (Halevi, 18).
"The teaching is complete and perfect, although it wears many garments" (Halevi, 16). This is true in that in the grand, or Divine scheme, everything is related. One of these garments that the teaching may be disguised in is the pursuit of Alchemy. Almost as old as Qabablistic study, Alchemy is yet another esoteric pursuit which holds striking similarities to both Nietzsche and the Qabalah. Although the method of attainment has yet again been changed, the goal of the alchemist remains the same as that of the Qabalist "since the true alchemist was a special kind of person, probably too intellectual in many ways, who was seeking what he considered a higher goal than the facets of life".
Alchemy is an occult study whose entire basis is also shaped around the theme of transformation. On a surface level, the transformations that are undergone are the transformations of metals and there are seven specific metals, each assigned a planetary likeness, which are dealt with in Alchemy, the Sun as gold, the Moon as silver, Mercury as quicksilver, Mars as iron, Venus as copper, Saturn as lead and Jupiter as tin. "Yet for the alchemist there was a fascination which led him on. The journey of exploration was not so much a chemical process as a search for the inner meaning of the whole material universe" (Burland, 1). Through the use of these metals the transformations of such occurs during their mixing. Mercury can be coagulated to slow its movement and any other can be made molten, in doing so to create an amalgamation that hardens and takes on new characteristics and properties.
Early Alchemists, particularly when the practice of Alchemy was at its height in the Middle Ages, did not have modern scientific tools and methods nor did they have a modern set of elemental rules in dealing with the mixture and manipulations of such metals. Instead of formulas being used to illustrate change, paintings and etching with highly symbolic references were made to illustrate the metals and their changing properties. The dualities of nature such as the Sun and Moon were represented to illustrate this process as well as their combinations such as Mercury representing the hermaphrodite, the duality as one, unified as a whole was most significantly the most important of all Alchemical elements. To understand the mind and aspirations of the Alchemist we must also "think ourselves back to the position of the intelligent man viewing changes in things and changes in himself, and focusing his mind not so much on the details of the individual changes as on the idea of change" (Taylor, 7). The changes caused in Alchemical practice by the Alchemist were examples or allegories of the Great Work as to not think of a sublimation of Mercury as an individual act but part of the whole where this is one step in the elevation of one's soul to Übermensch.
The wise old man with his crucibles and furnaces also had his learned books which served to guide him in his experiments. He was impressed with the need to develop his own personality until he was in touch with the whole of creation. The final revelation of the secret came with such suddenness. The alchemist firmly believed that a power from above had enlightened him at the moment when he was fit to receive the knowledge. The making of gold was thought of as a seal of approval set on a lifetime of work and study.
A lifetime worth of study and process far exceeds the material value of gold unequivocally but it wasn't the material value that was sought after by the Alchemist, the day to day ritual of toil, sacrifice, study and transformations became his ritual, his furnace as his altar. Through his manipulations of the metals he is able to transform himself by proxy by taking on the role of the Creator to become as one, unified with God. For the alchemist his Great Work represented "man is a rope, fastened between animal and Superman, a rope over an abyss" (Nietzsche, 43). Teetering on the brink of madness the closer the alchemist achieves in creating gold the closer he is to becoming the Übermensch, being one and the same next to God where, "the seer has ascended the seven steps of wisdom. This could be explained by some modern mathematicians as a picture of ascent into muti-dimensional existence at stages rising beyond our three-dimensional world" (Burland, 25).
The transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding. The savage who cannot conceive of the number six, the orthodox mathematician who cannot conceive of the fourth dimension, the philosopher who cannot conceive of the Absolute – all these are one; all must be impregnated with the Divine Essence [...] and give birth to their idea.
777 And Other Qabalistic Writings Of Aleister Crowley. Aleister Crowley.
Thus the Übermensch is beyond man in all facets of comprehension and being as he has, as stated, transcended to a higher level than man as well as the beyond the comprehension of the ordinary man. As Crowley states further to illustrate the comprehension of the uninitiated and unenlightened, "The secrets of the Adepts are not to be revealed to men. When a man comes to me and asks for the Truth, I go away and practise teaching the Differential Calculus to a Bushman; and I answer the former only when I have succeeded in the latter" (Crowley, xii).
Despite that Nietzsche would have considered one viewing his work as religion as a blasphemy, it is often that the individual who desires no followers is on the path to a higher existence. Although on a surface level Nietzsche's writings bear little similarity to any type of spiritual path it is our duty as intellectuals to view life metaphorically and symbolically and find the underlying hidden truth for ourselves as well as for the sake our selves. If there is a one true path to enlightenment the path will not be written in plain English, it will not be spelled out because it is not something that everyone deserves to know, it must be earned. It is one that must be lived first hand, and living life first hand by one's own firm convictions, not to follow the complacent herd is the philosophy of Nietzsche. If the process not be done that way then the process will fail as the adept must be able to comprehend and accept this higher existence else he be damned to repeat his life again. This is much akin to the concept of reincarnation and karma, as our soul is born unto lower levels of existence, such as an insect or a boar, if that life is lived to the fullest extent and knowledge of oneself and the world is able to be comprehended then each successive life will progress and ascend upwards into existences which are higher than the previous, assuming we earn that ascension by our practices and experiences. With that said it would not in the least be a stretch to equate Nietzsche's Übermensch with the obtainment of Nirvana. Just as Buddhism and Yoga can be argued for, the path to occult and spiritual enlightenment and attaining Übermensch are two different methods of attaining the same common goal.
1. Agrippa, Henry Cornelius. Three Books Of Occult Philosophy. Trans. D. Tyson. Ed. J. Freake. Llewellyn Publications: Minnesota, 1998.
2. Burland, C.A. The Arts Of The Alchemists. Weindenfeld and Nicholson: England, 1967.
3. Crowley, Aleister. 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings Of Aleister Crowley. Ed. I. Regardie. Samuel Weiser, Inc.: Maine, 2000.
4. Flowers, Stephen E. Lords Of The Left Hand Path. Runa-Raven Press: Texas, 1997.
5. Halevi, Z'ev Ben Shimon. The Way Of Kabbalah. Samuel Weiser, Inc.: Maine, 1976.
6. Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zarathustra. Trans. R.J. Hollingdale. Penguin Books: Maryland, 1972.
7. Taylor, F. Sherwood. The Alchemists. Arno Press: New York, 1974.
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http://www.nachtkabarett.com/NietzscheOccult
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New Delta One Suite. The color scheme is a big improvement and there is now some storage. The door adds little as far as privacy, and space for the feet in bed mode is still cramped.
Delta doesn’t buy many new planes. It sees more profit in acquiring used airframes and retrofitting newer systems and interiors.
But the widely heralded launch of Delta’s A350s presented an opportunity to score a rare trifecta — flying a new Delta plane and sampling two new products, the Delta One Suites and Premium Select, Delta’s first real premium economy product.
On October 30, 2017, Delta began revenue flights with the A350-900s that it had been gushing over for months. On October 31, I experienced Delta’s premium economy product on the first revenue flight of A350 tail number N501DN.
On November 7, 2017, I flew from NRT to DTW in Delta’s vaunted A350 business-class suites. This is my unusually lengthy report on that flight.
Flying a brand new airplane is fun and exciting. This flight, however, was bittersweet. The arrival of A350s spelled the end of the 747s that Delta/Northwest had been flying to NRT for nearly three decades. Over the last 20 years or so, I’ve flown those 747s to or from NRT dozens of times. Today, twin-engine, long-range wide bodies, are the darlings of the airline industry.
A 747 photo exhibition in the NRT Sky Club serves as something of a shrine to the Queen of the Skies. Raise a toast and sing Auld Lang Syne.
On October 31, I got a peek at the A350 business-class section while on the way to premium economy.
Delta actually added a dash of color to the normal “50 shades of gray” decor. Nice.
Having been quite pleased with premium economy, as I made my way from the Delta Sky Club, I was looking forward to checking out the Delta One Suite. Would it measure up to the hype?
DL 276 was scheduled to depart at 17:50 from Terminal 1 Gate 25. Boarding was to begin at 17:20. That seemed like a problem for an on-time departure. The A350-900 accommodates over 300 passengers. Delta and most other US airlines try to begin boarding 40 to as much as 50 minutes before scheduled departure for domestic flights on narrow – body aircraft. And many international flights start boarding 60 minutes before departure. Allowing only 30 minutes for boarding this flight seemed ambitious.
Boarding began with pre-boards at 17:25. Premium passengers, business class (32) and premium economy (48), together over 25% of all passengers, boarded next. Business class used the forward boarding door. All other passengers used the second door.
Delta A350-900 at Gate 25. Using two boarding doors decreases boarding time and improves the pre-departure experience for business-class passengers.
My suite was 3A, a window seat on the port side.
Suite 3A at boarding. I like the look.
Compared to other Delta One seats, the design and color scheme of the suite was impressive.
Delta provided a pamphlet to identify the suite features and explain how they operate.
In addition to help from the guide, there were several employees/contractors on board in plain clothes but with clearly visible IDs to assist the flight attendants and passengers with any questions or technical issues with the seat.
Many think a new plane is safer and more reliable than an old plane. Realize though there are reasons why test pilots are well paid. And while the A350 has come a long way since flight test, sorting out all the bugs in a complex system and crew familiarization takes time. Often there are unanticipated issues with many new airframe/engine/avionics/pilot combinations.
In September 2018, I flew on a Qatar Airways 777-300ER and experienced the Qatar Qsuite for the first time. The Qsuite is far superior in size, comfort and overall look.
The privacy door is the feature that distinguishes this seat from other business-class seats. It slides forward to close the narrow opening into the suite. The door remains open and locked during taxi, takeoff, approach and landing. Shortly after takeoff, a flight attendant (FA) activates the door for passenger use.
Seats in the center section have a privacy screen that can be raised during flight.
Center seat with privacy screen raised. Even with the screen lowered communication between adjacent passengers appears difficult. Note where this passenger places the pillow and duvet.
I really liked the wide, flat console. There is plenty of room for spreading out for work and placing items like glasses, phone, wallet and other items one might want to keep at hand in flight.
There are two controls for the seat and lighting.
The primary control is mounted on the console right where one would rest the right hand. This panel also deploys the tray table.
The other control is mounted on the side of the console. It is used when the seat is in bed mode. Suite lighting is “infinitely variable” between off and maximum brightness.
I kept hitting the light switch while trying to find a comfortable position in bed mode.
One of the best attributes of the Delta One suite is the video screen. The picture on the 18-inch video screen is clear and bright. The screen is positioned directly in front of the seat in a fixed position meaning that viewing is available whenever the system is on.
The video remote is concealed under a panel on the console.
In bed mode, feet and legs extend into a narrow slot under the video screen. The footwell induces some of the “foot claustrophobia” many experience on Delta 767s.
Some suites have a storage compartment for shoes. I asked one of the helpers on the flight to find it. He could not. In fact not all suites have this feature.
Delta provides pillows and a duvet, a Tumi amenity kit, slippers, LSTN noise-cancelling headsets, and bottled water. Since the A350 is Delta’s new flagship and it wants to charge a premium for flights on this aircraft, Delta should provide a mattress pad and pajamas as it does on some other long-haul flights.
The Tumi amenity kit contains a dental kit, Kiehl’s lip balm and hand lotion, mouthwash, facial tissues, socks, eyeshade, earplugs, and a pen. A shoe horn would be an inexpensive, helpful addition.
Delta has recently switched headset suppliers from Bose to LSTN. I prefer the sound quality and noise cancellation capability of the Bose headsets. These LSTN headsets are flimsy in comparison and appear to be identical to the headsets Delta provides in premium economy.
At the end of the flight the FAs did not collect the headsets in premium economy or business class. That makes me think these headsets aren’t very expensive.
While I was exploring the seat and reading the instruction guide, FAs handed out menus.
FAs brought pre-departure beverages at 17:43.
We waited in the alley only four minutes before resolving the mechanical issue and getting cleared to taxi to the active runway.
The A350 lifted off on NRT’s main runway, One Six Right(16R), at 18:23. The climb continued on the runway heading until crossing the coast.
At 18:34, the captain stated that there was an area of turbulence ahead. He directed the flight attendants to delay service for 30 minutes. The captain’s warning was likely based on pilot reports he received through a pre-flight briefing. Air masses move. Because this was an evening flight, convection was probably not the source of turbulence. Given the time between the briefing and reaching the area of reported turbulence, unless the area of turbulence was quite large, it seemed likely that the reported turbulence would have moved or dissipated. Still, safety first is a good policy.
Sure enough, we ran into only a couple of small bumps while climbing. But service was delayed until hot towels at 19:07 followed by linen for the tray table, beverages and warm nuts at 19:19.
I was tempted to try the Japanese meal but after a week in Southeast Asia enjoying primarily asian food, Australian beef sounded too good to pass up.
The starter was king salmon wrapped in zucchini and herb chicken breast.
Appetizers garnished with eggplant sauce and cranberry jelly.
Next, was the mixed greens salad. It was served with creamy spinach and broccoli soup.
I tried the Inception pinot noir. It tasted like flavored water. I switched to the Rioja for the entree. It was better.
The FAs cleared the initial courses and then served the beef tenderloin.
The tenderloin was accompanied by a red-wine reduction and pistachio and garlic crumble plus mashed sweet potatoes, and braised red cabbage.
Unfortunately, I missed my favorite part of the meal, dessert, when I fell asleep. The FA later said she tried to rouse me. I had been looking forward to an ice cream sundae, some cheese and an apple custard tart. Yes, all three.
The meal was very good except that the beef was overdone which often happens on planes. The presentation of the food and the service from the FA was terrific. I appreciated the fact that Delta has abandoned the faux wood trays it used for serving meals in business class.
Buh bye fake wood trays. Hello linen.
Delta now uses clear plastic trays (appetizer, soup and salad only) on the first meal service and arrival meal that show the cloth underneath.
I had the croque monsieur for the mid flight snack. It was served a little less than five hours before landing.
The sandwich was a little greasy but tasted good.
There was a decent selection of snacks in the galley. Delta could do much better with presentation of snacks and beverages though.
These are the snacks on a shorter, recent American 777-200 flight.
As usual, the last meal service was breakfast. It would be nice if airlines served a final meal that was appropriate for the time of arrival. Breakfast was served one hour and 40 minutes before landing. Other than the tasty fresh fruit, the meal was unremarkable.
The flight landed at 15:30 local. The flight lasted 11 hours and 35 minutes and covered slightly more than the 6,398 great circle miles between NRT and DTW.
We parked at Gate A40 at 15:40.
The cushion seemed hard (a mattress pad would be nice). In bed mode the space for the feet felt cramped. The armrest by the window was annoying. It is small and cannot be raised and lowered. It was hard to position the seat for the perfect setting for lounging. The A350 suite is clearly the best business-class seat Delta flies. It could command a premium over other delta flights with inferior seats; however, based on this one ride, I prefer seats like the Super Diamond and even an older but larger and more comfortable seat of Singapore Airlines’ 777-200.
AA Super Diamond business-class seat.
Business-class seat on Singapore Air 777-200. These seats are extremely spacious and comfortable and have lots of storage.
In comparison to the other business-class seat with a door, the Qatar Qsuite looks better than the D1 suite and is not as claustrophobic although it too requires putting the lower body in a narrow tube in bed mode.
The console offers plenty of room for working and there are several open nooks and crannies for storing personal items in flight. I wish there was some storage in a secure compartment. Not all suites have shoe storage. Overall, however, the seat feels cramped, especially in bed mode. There is no place to put the pillows and duvet Delta supplies.
It is nice but not a game changer for privacy since anyone over the age of 10 who is walking down the aisle can see inside the suite. Seats that abut the aisle benefit the most from the door and wall it retracts into.
Business class finally has some color. I found it refreshing and soothing.
Since the A350-900 is Delta’s new Queen of the Skies and it is charging a premium for these flights, this nearly 12-hour flight merits a mattress pad, pajamas and a thicker duvet. The cabin was awfully cold as on the flight on October 31. Also the LSTN headsets seemed inferior to ones from Bose.
For business class the screen size and picture quality are fantastic. Unfortunately, there is no live TV and no Berlitz World Traveler system.
I found the experience in business class on the Delta A350-900 to be quite good but not the greatest thing since sliced bread as the fanfare would have one expect. Maybe “all that” minus the bag of chips. I still wish Delta had retained the order for 787s. I think all new generation long-haul aircraft should have electronically dimming windows.
Have you flown Delta’s A350-900? Do you have additional thoughts on or disagreements with my report card?
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The Indian aviation sector may see a sharp rise of 7.3% in airfares next year, according to a new industry survey. The fifth annual Global Travel Forecast, published by Global Business Travel Association and Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), also predicts that India will become the world’s largest aviation market by 2025, with airports operating beyond capacity.
International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac has hailed domestic growth in India, but warned that the country still faces infrastructure challenges.In a wide-ranging interview with the Press Trust of India, de Juniac welcomed another month of strong domestic growth and said that the Indian government's role was to be commended. "The Indian government has a vision for aviation in India. There is a clear aviation policy which reflects a national development strategy that appreciates aviation’s role," he said.
India registered double-digit domestic air passenger growth for the 45th straight month in May even though volumes have fallen in recent months, airlines' according to IATA. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said the country's Revenue Passenger Kilometre (RPK) -- a measure of passenger volumes -- rose 16.6 per cent in May. Passenger demand has continued to be supported by strong growth in the number of airport connections within the country too; 22 per cent more airport-pairs are scheduled to operate in 2018 compared to last year," IATA said.
Passenger numbers in India have consistently seen double-digit growth over the past few years, significantly outperforming the global average. India is predicted to be among the top three passenger aviation markets by 2026, according to Maneesh Jaikrishna, Vice President, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern & Southern Africa, SITA. In an interview Jaikrishna stated that India will become the third largest aviation market in terms of passengers by 2026 and by the year 2020, passenger traffic at Indian airports is expected to increase to 421 million from currently being at 308.75 million in 2017-18.
Recent orders from India, which is the fastest growing aviation market in the world after US and China, according to jet manufacturers Airbus SE and Boeing Co, puts the country ahead of China in the narrow-body aircraft order book. India, which has the third-largest aircraft order book after the US and China, now has more narrow-body orders than China, aviation consultants CAPA India said in a recent report.
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Boeing through its subsidiary Aviall, announced 27 July it signed an exclusive agreement with Sabena technics to distribute its Vigiplane security monitoring system for aircraft on ground. Under this agreement, Aviall will provide exclusive supply chain distribution support for Vigiplane in North America. Using the latest technologies, Vigiplane offers 24/7, 360-degree monitoring for aircraft on ground and is accessible from all mobile devices. Its high-definition cameras operate autonomously from aircraft systems and are monitored through a secure, cloud-based server. The device, which does not require any certification or cabin modification, can be easily and quickly installed on all aircraft types.
Boeing and Jeju Air celebrated the delivery of the airline's first direct-buy Next-Generation 737-800 aircraft on 23 July during a ceremony at the Seattle Delivery Center. With this delivery Jeju Air will become the first low-cost carrier (LCC) in Korea to own and operate a Next-Generation 737-800.
Boeing 23 July released its 2018 Pilot & Technician Outlook, projecting demand for 790,000 pilots over the next 20 years. This represents double the current workforce and the most significant demand in the outlook's nine-year history. The demand is being driven by an anticipated doubling of the global commercial airplane fleet — as reported in Boeing's Commercial Market Outlook — as well as record-high air travel demand and a tightening labor supply.
Delta Air Lines and its partner Aeromexico will connect the city of Detroit with Queretaro starting September 17, 2018, creating a bridge between these two major industrial cities. This is the 13th route launched under the Joint Cooperation Agreement (JCA) between both airlines, strengthening the power of the network in the transborder market.
JetBlue with its pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), announced 27 July the ratification of a four-year contract. With 98% of eligible pilots voting, 74% cast ballots in favor of the agreement. The contractual terms, including market competitive pay rates, per diems and 401(k) provisions, will be effective August 1, 2018. Negotiations began in 2015 and have been guided by the National Mediation Board (NMB) since 2017.
KLM Royal Dutch Airline will begin operating flights to the city of Boston (BOS) in the United States from the start of the 2019 summer schedule. KLM will operate a three weekly service between Amsterdam and this new destination on the North-East coast of the United States. The service will be operated with an Airbus A330-300.
Trans States Airlines announced 28 July that it has entered into a three-year agreement with United Airlines to operate at least seven additional Embraer 145 aircraft under the United Express regional service brand. The additional aircraft are the beginning of a long-term commitment to growing the airline's United Express program. The first seven aircraft will be phased into revenue service starting in October of this year, with all aircraft in service by January of 2019.
China Eastern Airlines marked 10 years of nonstop cross-Strait operations in early July. According to data China Eastern operates 101 weekly cross-Strait services from 19 destinations in mainland China to four destinations in Taiwan. The airline has an accumulated more than 9000 flights and more than 1.5 million passengers.
China's home-developed Y-12 versatile plane has started to carry the domestic short haul civil transport in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, according its developer. The Nenjiang Mo'ergen airport started operations last Friday, opening flights between the Nenjiang City and the provincial capital Harbin, as well as the cities of Mohe and Heihe on the China-Russia border.
Delta launched services between Shanghai Pudong International Airport and its hub in Atlanta on 20 July, the airline’s busiest day of the summer. Delta Flight 185, operated by one of Delta’s Boeing 777-200LR aircraft. Delta celebrated with an inaugural reception for important members, including Delta CEO, Ed Bastian, at the Delta Air Lines Museum. Delta also set up a customary gate party for customers of flight 185 before its takeoff.
Gulfstream Aerospace handed over a Gulfstream G550 tailored for in-flight medical care to the Beijing Red Cross Emergency Medical Center during a ceremony this week at the aircraft manufacturer's headquarters in Savannah, Georgia. Li Libing, director of the Beijing Red Cross Emergency Center, showcased the aircraft during the July 25 ceremony and also indicated an interest in adding a similarly equipped Gulfstream G650ER to its fleet, Gulfstream said.
Revenue Management Systems announced that it has been selected to provide Tibet Airlines with its state-of-the-art revenue management, inventory control, and reporting tools. airRM will enable Tibet Airlines to identify sales opportunities, maximize passenger revenues, closely control pricing, and analyze performance. Tibet Airlines is the fifth and most recent addition to RMS’s customers in the Chinese market. They join Beijing Capital Airlines, Chengdu Airlines Shandong Airlines and China United Airlines.
Boeing and GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced that they have reached an agreement for 35 additional 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. The deal, which includes 20 firm orders and an option for 15 more, would take GECAS' 737-800BCF order book from 15 to 50 and enable GECAS to serve the growing express air cargo market. The commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of General Electric is the launch customer of the new 737-800BCF. It took delivery of the first converted jet in April and leased it to a Swedish cargo carrier.
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and Oz Management have closed on an aircraft portfolio purchase, STARR 2018, structured with the inclusion of a dedicated asset manager for equity investors. The transaction will allow GECAS to sell a portfolio of aircraft to Start Ltd., which is financing the acquisition through 144A debt and equity. The portfolio includes 24 in-production Boeing and Airbus aircraft. The aircraft are on lease to 16 airlines in 15 countries with a total appraised value of approximately $700 million. A multi-year agreement between GECAS and an Oz affiliate will allow the affiliate to serve as an asset manager for current and potential future transactions.
Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) confirmed 25 July that it has delivered one ATR 72-500, MSN 785, to CSA Czech Airlines on lease.
Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) confirmed 25 July that it has delivered two Embraer E195, MSNs 19000247 and 19000237, to LOT Polish Airlines on lease.
Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) and GE Aviation signed a memorandum of understanding for a ten-year TrueChoiceTM Flight Hour agreement for its CF34-10E engines fleet. Under the agreement, NAC will offer GE Aviation-provided maintenance, repair and overhaul services to its CF34-10E lessees.
SMBC Aviation Capital announced 13 July that Philippine Airlines (PAL) has added its first Airbus A350 XWB MSN 0221 to its fleet. The A350-900 XWB, which is the first of two to be delivered to Philippine Airlines on sale and leaseback includes the financing of Pre-Delivery Payments. SMBC Aviation Capital, together with Airbus and Philippine Airlines celebrated receipt of the aircraft at the Airbus facility in Toulouse. The aircraft will now be deployed on the airline’s long-haul routes including between Manila and New York, thus allowing the airline to fly all year round between the two destinations.
EI-GEW Airbus A330-203 c/n 472 I-Fly Air Test at Mexico City 20/05/18 in all white colours Tempus Tour decals prior delivery ex PT-MVG.
EI-GGK Boeing 737 MAX 8 c/n 64606 Air Italy Delivered Farnbourgh-Milan Malpensa 19/05/18.
EI-SIG Airbus A320-251N c/n 8333 SAS Airlines Delivered Hamburg Finkenwerder-Stockholm Arlanda 26/07/18.
HZ-AS37 Airbus A320-214 c/n 4394 Saudi Arabian Airlines Ferried Jeddah-Sofia 17/07/18 for GECAS.
N791AS Boeing 737-490(F) c/n 28886 ASL Airlines Air Test at Smith Reynolds Airport 18/07/18 prior delivery.
N797AS Boeing 737-490(F) c/n 28892 ASL Airlines Ferried Dothan-Smith Reynolds 20/07/18 after freighter conversion for paint prior delivery.
OY-YCE ATR72-212A(600) c/n 1471 Nordic Aviation Capital Ferried Billund-Mönchengladbach 04/07/18.
RP-C8994 Airbus A320-233 c/n 749 Philippines AirAsia Ferried Clark International-Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International-Dubai World Central-Cairo International-Shannon-Cotswold Airport 22-24/07/18 for part-out & scrap.
SP-HAU Airbus A321-231 c/n 864 Small Planet Airlines Polska Delivered Ostava-Warsaw 24/07/18 ex G-OZBL.
SU-ALA Airbus A330-243 c/n 326 Air Leisure Ferried Kiev-Cairo 23/07/18 after wet-lease to Fanair ex EI-FSG.
VP-BDQ Boeing 777-212 c/n 28529 Standard Chartered Avn Finance Ferried Victorville-Lagos 18/07/18 ex EI-FLD.
VP-BUB Airbus A330-223 c/n 1002 Norwind Airlines Delivered Teruel-Moscow Sheremetyevo 25/07/18 ex EI-ESA.
Ashish Saraf, who had been serving as vice president – Industry Development, Strategic Partnerships and Offsets, since 2015 at Airbus India, focusing on ‘Make in India’ initiatives, is now the head of the helicopter division of Airbus India to lead its initiatives across the civil, defence and parapublic rotorcraft markets. Saraf, whose appointment is effective July 1, 2018, is based in New Delhi; he takes over from Xavier Hay who leaves India after six years to take over new responsibilities.
Boeing and Jet Airways confirmed that the Indian carrier placed an order for an additional 75 737 MAX 8 airplanes during a signing ceremony at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. The order, valued at $8.8 billion at current list prices, was previously posted as unidentified on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website. This order for an additional 75 MAX airplanes helps the Indian carrier expand its network to meet surging demand in the fastest-growing aviation market in the world.
GKN Fokker Elmo and the State of Maharashtra (India) have signed an MOU for investment in a second manufacturing facility for wiring interconnection systems in India at the Farnborough Airshow. The new site, a fully-owned GKN Aerospace business, is located in Pune in the state Maharashtra and is scheduled to come on line in the fourth quarter of 2018. Production will start in the first quarter of 2019, the work force is expected to grow to 800 in 2027.
New Delhi and Mumbai International Airports will soon be operating environmentally friendly Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) TaxiBot vehicles. IAI's agreement with Delhi-based KSU Aviation includes the first phase of the contract to carry out controlled trials at the airports till end 2018. The second phase includes delivery of 38 additional vehicles within four years to the two airports.
Indian airlines are moving towards the international market in search of better returns as the intensifying fight for a bigger share of the world’s fastest growing domestic market drives down profits, says a recent report by Reuters. A data report from the travel firm Rome2Rio, says that, India is among the cheapest domestic airlines market in the world, with an average fare of 13 cents per kilometer flown, less than half the 27 cents per km average in China and the United States of America (US). Promotional offers on a two-hour flight from Mumbai to Delhi, such as, USD 50 one-way tickets, are easier to find, and for the airlines that are expected to take delivery for more than 500 aircraft in the next five years, the pressure on profits and fares are also increasing. The Indian airlines market is growing by 30 pc.
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BOC Aviation (BOCA), via a Cayman-based subsidiary, agreed to purchase 17 A320neo and A321neo aircraft from Airbus for approximately US$2.2 billion at list prices. BOC Aviation expects to take delivery of the aircraft in 2020 and 2021, and deliver them to an airline customer. The transaction will be funded through cash on hand, the proceeds of loans or other borrowings by BOCA and/or cash generated from the company's business operations.
According to a report Aviation Week 20 July stated Air China and Sichuan Airlines will each begin receiving Airbus A350s early in August following delayed Chinese validation of the type’s airworthiness certification.
China Aircraft Leasing Company (CALC) announced that it has selected CFM International’s advanced LEAP-1A engine to power 17 firm and up to 50 option new Airbus A320neo family aircraft. In addition, the leasing company finalized an order for CFM56-5B engines to power three firm, nine option Airbus A320ceo aircraft. These two agreements are valued at $550 million U.S. at list price.
Cathay Pacific will commence a new non-stop service to Seattle on 31 March 2019, becoming the only airline that will directly link Hong Kong with the fastest-growing city on the west coast of the United States. Cathay Pacific Chief Executive Officer Rupert Hogg said the Seattle route, which will be operated by the Airbus A350-900 aircraft, underscores the airline’s expansion strategy to connect new destinations not otherwise served from Hong Kong – and to link its home, one of the most innovative cities in Asia, with tech hubs the world over.
A strategic partnership and mutual promotion mechanism was established as Etihad Aviation Group (EAG) CEO Tony Douglas and Jiangsu Provincial Overseas Cooperation and Investment Company Limited (JOCIC) Chairman Luo Hua inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during Chinese President Xi Jinping's three-day state visit to the United Arab Emirates. The MoU signifies that EAG will provide the companies investing in the China-UAE Industrial Park with preferred air transportation and cargo rates on the routes and services between China and other cities on Etihad Airways entire network. JOCIC and the companies of the China-UAE Industrial Park also designate Etihad Airways as their preferred airline.
SKYTRAX announced the winners of the 2018 SKYTRAX World Airline Awards during a coveted ceremony at The Langham Hotel in London. Hainan Airlines was named a SKYTRAX Five-Star Airline for the eighth consecutive year, in addition to being awarded Best Business Class Amenities, Best Airline China, and Best Airlines Staff in China designations. After joining the roster of SKYTRAX World's Top 10 Airlines for the first time in 2017, the airline moved up the rankings to claim eighth place this year, becoming the first mainland China-based airline to win the honour for the second year in a row.
Hainan Airlines and BBC Global News signed a major new deal at a special signing ceremony at the BBC's headquarters in London to celebrate their partnership. Yufei Wang, Vice President, Branding, Hainan Airlines and Jim Egan, CEO, BBC Global News, spoke about the significance of this strategic commercial partnership which will see BBC StoryWorks, the award-winning content marketing division of BBC Global News, produce digital and video content for Hainan Airlines to mark the launch of its new route and the beauty of its destinations.
Boeing and two undisclosed airlines have reached agreements to buy a total of 15 787-9 Dreamliners valued at $4.2 billion per current list prices, the company announced at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. One of the airlines would become a new 787 customer. The second airline is adding more 787s to their Dreamliner fleet. Both commitments will be reflected on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website once they are finalized.
Boeing and British Airways announced a commitment for three 777-300ER (Extended Range) airplanes. British Airways will take the 777s on an operating lease with a leasing company. The carrier is one of the world's largest operators of the long-range jet, operating 58 777-200ER and 777-300ER airplanes across its global network.
Boeing and Hawaiian Airlines announced the companies finalized an order yesterday for 10 787-9 Dreamliners, valued at $2.82 billion at list prices. The deal also includes purchase rights for 10 additional 787s. Hawaiian announced in March that it had selected the 787-9 Dreamliner to serve medium to long-haul routes, signing a letter of intent for the aircraft.
Boeing and Novus Aviation Capital, announced its first direct agreement with Boeing for up to four 777-300ERs (Extended Range) at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. The commitment carries a list-price value of $1.44 billion and will be reflected on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website once it is finalized.
Boeing and an unidentified customer reached an agreement during the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow for an additional 100 737 MAX airplanes, the company announced. The commitment carries a list-price value of $11.7 billion and will be reflected on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website once it is finalized.
Boeing and four customers have signed commitments for a total of 93 737 MAX airplanes, including a carrier that has committed to 40 of the high-capacity version of the MAX 8 airplane. The commitments, valued at nearly $11 billion at current list prices, were announced at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. The agreements will be reflected on Boeing's Orders and Deliveries website when they have been finalized. The four unidentified customers hail from the airline and airplane leasing industries.
Delta Air Lines and WestJet have signed a definitive agreement to create a comprehensive transborder joint venture arrangement that will offer customers an extensive route network within the U.S. and Canada. "Delta's future is global and together with WestJet, we can augment the two airlines' capabilities and bring together our strengths in this important trans-border market," said Ed Bastian, Delta's CEO. "Combined, we will be able to offer more destinations to customers with an integrated network, superior airline products, improved airport connections and significantly enhanced frequent flyer benefits. The JV will provide an unmatched passenger experience for customers travelling between the U.S. and Canada."
GE Aviation and its joint CFM International received more than $22 billion (USD) in orders and commitments for its jet engines and services at the 2018 Farnborough Air Show. Engine orders and commitments included more than 850 LEAP and CFM56 engines, 250 CF34 engines, close to 100 GE90-115B engines and almost 50 GEnx engines.
Pobeda has agreed with Boeing for the order of 15 B737 MAX 8 aircraft, with delivery from autumn 2019. According to the carrier's development strategy, by 2020, its fleet should consist of 45 aircraft.
Avolon announced 13 July the delivery of one A320Neo to Air India. This is the twelfth Avolon aircraft on lease to Air India.
Boeing and GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced today that they have reached an agreement for 35 additional 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. The deal, which includes 20 firm orders and an option for 15 more, would take GECAS' 737-800BCF order book from 15 to 50 and enable GECAS to serve the growing express air cargo market.
Following the delivery last week of Okay Airways’ first leased Boeing 737 MAX 8, GECAS signed another contract with Okay Airways for the purchase-and-leaseback with pre-delivery payment financing of two Boeing 737 MAX 8s. The aircraft, fitted with CFM LEAP-1B engines, are scheduled for delivery in July and September 2019.
GECAS welcomed 16 July Hongtu Airlines’ to the GE Pavilion in Farnborough to commemorate the agreement to lease four A320neo’s from GECAS’ skyline orderbook when they enter service beginning in the first quarter of 2019.
Goshawk Aviation Limited has placed a firm order for 20 A320neo. Goshawk has an owned, managed and committed fleet of over 220 aircraft including the direct order with Airbus. Goshawk has more than 120 Airbus aircraft in its portfolio (A320 Family including NEO, A330 Family including NEO and A350-900).
Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) confirmed 13 July the delivery of one ATR 72-600, MSN 1492, to AirSWIFT on lease.
TrueNoord has closed a senior secured debt facility of US$ 500 million. The facility will be deployed to refinance part of the existing TrueNoord portfolio of Embraer, Bombardier and ATR aircraft. The remaining part of the debt facility will be used as a warehouse for future business development and fleet expansion.
EI-FJI Boeing 737-8JP c/n 37817 Jeju Air Ferried East Midlands-Budapest 18/07/18 after paint.
EI-GGK Boeing 737 MAX 8 c/n 64606 Air Italy Delivered Paine Field-Shannon-Farnbourgh 12/13-07/18.
G-DRTE Boeing 737-8K5 c/n 28228 Jet2 Delivered Lasham-Manchester 17/07/18 ex EI-RUH.
G-DRTF Boeing 737-85P c/n 28387 Jet2 Delivered Bournemouth-Manchester 18/07/18 ex EI-RUI.
OE-LCF Airbus A321-211 c/n 1966 Anisec Luftfahrt Delivered Toulouse/Francazal-Lourdes-Norwich 13/07/18 for paint into Level colours ex D-ABCF.
OE-IAD Boeing 737-4M0(F) c/n 29203 ASL Airlines Delivered Shannon-Liege 17/07/18 ex N496CS.
OE-LCP Airbus A321-211 c/n 6629 Anisec Luftfahrt Delivered Bratislava-Vienna 13/07/18 after paint ex HB-JOV.
OO-SBA Airbus A321-231 c/n 2730 flyVLM Delivered Dublin-Brussels 12/07/18 in all white colours ex G-ZBAF.
OY-YBN ATR72-212A(500) c/n 785 Nordic Avition Capital Ferried Billund-Prague 16/07/18 on lease to CSA Czech Airlines.
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Is food the next frontier?
When one thinks of merger and acquisition action in Canadian business, typically it’s the resource sectors, followed by financial services as the heavy hitters with the most going on, even in tough times. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada, mining has become the No. 1 targeted sector in Ontario and British Columbia. But traditional hotbeds of resource activity such as Alberta are starting to see a shift in M&A activity. Where oil and gas deals once represented 80 per cent of the acquisitions in that province, they have declined to represent 50 per cent of the province’s takeover market. By comparison, a PwC report in October noted that M&A activity in Saskatchewan was 23-per-cent higher in 2011 than in 2010. It is home to uranium, potash, and farmland, which is considered to be among the least expensive in the developed world.
Expectations are that deals in the resource sector will continue to dominate the M&A landscape, but it should be no surprise that the food, beverage, and agri-business sector — a relatively unassuming but critical market to the world’s economy — has been evolving towards a global industry with huge potential for big business in the coming years, especially so in emerging markets as the world’s food supply becomes a larger focus. In developing markets such as China and India, population increases and rising incomes are the reasons for their ever-increasing number of consumers buying branded packaged foods.
Food has always been big business here at home. According to the Conference Board of Canada, the food sector represents more than nine per cent of the country’s gross domestic product and 13 per cent of all employment in Canada. It is also the second largest employer in the manufacturing sector.
While uncertainty coming from the European debt crisis remains the biggest potential damper on the year for M&A activity, the credit crisis has taught companies over the last few years to hang on to cash and, overall, heading into 2012 Canadian companies have stronger balance sheets than they did two years ago. All of which means they can afford to be opportunistic in their pursuits. Experts point to a lot of itchy fingers holding on to private equity cash waiting for the right deal. That is definitely the case in the food industry.
Law firms and other business service sectors have been watching the food industry closely for the last few years. Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP formed its food, beverage, and agri-business practice group in 2009 because it was “seeing a lot of deals getting done,” says Michael Stevenson, a partner in Blakes’ M&A and food, beverage, and agri-business practice groups.
David Woollcombe, a partner in the business law group with McCarthy Tétrault LLP, says the U.S. food market is ripe for consolidation and that could impact Canada positively. “The key thing in that business that may drive M&A is the world is getting smaller, with shrinking distance between producer and consumer — globalization and world population shifts — think of the food business as a long continuum starting with biotech, leading to seed production, leading to crop inputs and that’s where you see some activity in Canada in fertilizer in terms of potash,” explains Woollcombe.
What follows fertilizer is crop production with private farms, the big “protein producers” including pork and beef, and commodities handling companies. From there you get into food processing with companies such as Kraft, and then retail. “We’ve certainly seen M&A in the crop input sector, commodities handling, and in the food producers,” says Woollcombe.
Canadians have a huge advantage in this sector equipped with good governance and strong balance sheets, says O’Donoghue. She notes Agrium is looking abroad over the long term to Asia, Brazil, China, and Indonesia. They are selling some products in those countries through distributors, but it doesn’t have boots on the ground there yet. “If you’re not keeping pace with the growth that is happening outside of North America I think the fear is you’ll be left behind.” But going internationally demands a company look at the challenges of doing business abroad.
Woollcombe adds that Canadian food and agriculture companies are actually doing more business abroad than people may think. “In various industries you often hear that Canadian companies are getting gobbled up and not buying as much outside Canada to the same degree as non-Canadians are buying in Canada. I’m not sure that’s actually true. We see lots of Canadian companies looking to make acquisitions outside of Canada,” he says.
Foreign companies are also looking for opportunities to make acquisitions in Canada that will allow them to take something back to their own markets, whether that’s processes or good brands they can leverage.
But while some see Canada as a leader in food production and innovation, it also risks falling behind, according to experts who follow the sector. “I think there are terrific opportunities in the developing economies that we could be taking advantage of to get in early in the market development,” says Ken Smith, associate dean of executive programs and associate professor in the College of Management and Economics at the University of Guelph.
In the last year, notable mergers and acquisitions in the food industry in Canada have included Canadian companies selling to foreign buyers. In December 2010, Liberté Inc. of Quebec was purchased by Paris-based Yoplait SAS, the second-largest brand of fresh dairy products in the world. Founded in 1936, Liberté offers more than 100 products, including various types of yogurt, kefir, cheese, sour cream, and tofu distributed in Canada and the northeastern United States. The company posted $175 million in sales in 2009, and had been owned by the U.S-based Swander Pace Capital private equity firm since 2003. “It ticked a lot of boxes that people were looking at in the categories of diet foods, natural foods,” says Valerie Scott, principal with Swander Pace Capital.
Knibutat disagrees that there are more acquisitions of Canadian companies happening than foreign buys being made. “There’s a notion of hollowing out whenever someone buys what is thought to be a gem, but when you consider that since 2008 the ratio of buy/sells into the U.S. has been in favour of Canadian companies buying more companies than U.S. companies have bought as it relates to volume and we’re also seeing the value of Canadian deals exceeding that of the U.S.,” he says.
Across the board, he says Canadian companies tend to acquire abroad more as opposed to other countries’ companies coming here to buy, and there have been a number of large transactions recently in the food industry to prove that. For example, in November 2011 Lunenburg, N.S.-based High Liner Foods Inc. bought Icelandic Group’s U.S. and Asian operations for US$230.6 million, making it the biggest supplier of frozen seafood to North American restaurants, hospitals, and schools. It is also acquiring a plant in China and companies that buy fish from other Asian countries. Another example is Montreal-based cheese manufacturer Saputo Inc., which also made a large acquisition in early 2011 of DCI Cheese Co. of Richfield, Wis. for US$270.5 million. Saputo sells cheese products to more than 40 countries around the world.
Even during lean times, the food industry in Canada saw five-per-cent growth last year. Scott says over the last few years, she has seen a lot of resilience within Canadian companies even in periods of economic slowdown, but cracks are starting to appear in the sector. “The strength of the Canadian dollar is an important trend for buyers and producers in the industry. Commodity prices and how that affects the bounty and profitability of Canadian food companies is also becoming more of an issue than it has been in the past,” she says.
An example is Toronto-based artisan bread maker ACE Bakery, which was bought by Weston Foods (Canada) Inc., in November 2010 for $110 million. “These companies have all traded at a very high premium almost reflecting it will be the last time they will be sold because now they are in a big strategic company and no longer a smaller entrepreneurial company,” says Scott.
Despite the volatility in the equity markets, corporations are sitting on cash reserves looking to enhance their growth strategies, says Marco Galante, principal with the J.H. Chapman Group LLC, an investment bank in the food industry. Overall, he says M&A activity from 2010 to 2011 for Canada and the United States has increased appreciably since 2008. In 2008 and 2009, the number of transactions in the food sector in the U.S. dropped by 50 per cent. However, from 2009 to 2010 it increased by 36 per cent. In the Canadian market between 2008 and 2009 the market dropped by 36 per cent, yet from 2009 to 2010 and into 2011 the increase of activity has been as high as 25 per cent.
“The market is still fairly robust and there is cash at corporate levels and pent-up cash in the private equity area. The combination of that means there are acquirers looking at good opportunities both strategic and non-strategic. But equally, there are fewer sellers coming to market and part of the reason is the sellers are asking if it is the right time to sell today given the environment,” says Galante. While he says there was continued growth of M&A in 2011 in the food sector, one of the constraints is increasing commodity prices and the impact on gross margin and cash flow.
The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board has also been building its interest in the food sector, demonstrating that it is seen as a strategic investment area, says Knibutat. The deregulation of the Canadian Wheat Board could also be a catalyst for deals, he adds.
The federal government has said it will move forward with a proposed deregulation of grain marketing in Canada. With a targeted implementation date of August 2012, the change would give western Canadian farmers the ability to sell their wheat and barley to whomever they choose. Currently, farmers are required to sell directly to the CWB, which, in turn, sells to the market. Last year, the CWB posted $5.1 billion in sales.
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The defendants John Currie and John Currie Architect Inc. (collectively referred to in these reasons as the “Architects”) bring this application under Rule 18A. They seek a ruling that some of the claims against them are barred by a limitation clause in a contract for architectural services. The plaintiffs resist the application, arguing, firstly, that the issue ought not to be determined under Rule 18A, and secondly, that if it is determined, it ought to be determined in their favour.
The plaintiff Coast Foundation is a non-profit society dedicated to improving the lives of persons suffering from mental illness. It operates a 34-unit apartment complex, known as Frances Court, constructed in 1988 and 1989 with the aid of funding from the plaintiff Commission. The building has developed a leaky envelope and requires extensive repairs. The defendants are the designers and builders of Frances Court.
3.9.1. … [T]he Client agrees that any and all claims which he has or hereafter may have against the Architect in any way arising out of or related to the Architect’s duties and responsibilities pursuant to this agreement (hereinafter referred to in this Article 3.9 as “claims” or “claim”), whether such claims sound in contract or in tort, shall be limited to the amount of $250,000.00 each claim ….
and following the expiration of such period, the Client shall have no claim whatsoever against the Architect. ….
The plaintiff Commission has taken an assignment of the plaintiff Foundation’s rights under the contract.
The case at bar is, I am told, one of a number of cases involving leaky buildings constructed with funding from the plaintiff Commission and designed by architects under materially identical contracts. While the current application is not a formal “test case”, it is apparent that the decision of the court in this case could affect a number of other actions, as well.
The six-year limitation period under clause 3.9.6 expired well before the plaintiff commenced this action. If the clause is applicable to the plaintiffs’ claims, then the claims are barred. The applicant defendants say that clause 3.9.6 encompasses both claims in contract and tort, and that it covers both the claims of the Foundation and the claims of the Commission insofar as they are based on an assignment of the Foundation’s rights.
The plaintiffs, on the other hand, argue that the clause is not broad enough to encompass claims sounding in negligence. In the alternative, they argue that the building failures evidence a fundamental breach of the contract, and that therefore the Architects cannot invoke the limitation clause.
The current application concerns only the interpretation and application of the limitation clause. Even if I determine that issue, there are many matters – including matters between the plaintiffs and the Architects – that will remain outstanding.
Some of the issues that are outside the scope of the current application are largely factual, and could probably be resolved by the court with of a small amount of further evidence. There is, for example, an issue as to whether any part of the plaintiffs’ claims arises out of pre-contractual negligence of the Architects, and whether the contractual provision bars such claims. Similarly, there is an issue as to whether any claim arises out of a warranty inspection alleged to have been conducted by the Architects outside the scope of the contract. There is also an issue as to whether John Currie Architect Inc. is a successor of John Robert Currie for the purposes of the contract.
Other issues are more complex – these include the claim of the plaintiff Commission that the Architects owe it a direct duty of care. Any tort claim that the Commission may have against the Architects that does not arise by way of an assignment of the Foundation’s claims is beyond the scope of this summary trial.
Finally, the current application does not encompass the plaintiffs’ claims against the defendants other than the Architects. This is particularly significant, as those other defendants allege contributory fault on the part of the Architects. At trial, therefore, the court will have to assess the degree to which any damage is the Architects’ fault, even if the limitation clause absolves them of financial responsibility.
(ii) the application under subrule (1) will not assist the efficient resolution of the proceeding.
(ii) the court is of the opinion that it would be unjust to decide the issues on the application ….
A summary trial can serve as an efficient manner of disposing of issues or claims in appropriate circumstances. Where the court has the entire claim before it on a summary trial application, it will generally endeavour to grant judgment unless credibility issues preclude the fair adjudication of matters on affidavit evidence. There are, of course, exceptions. Discoveries, for example, may not have progressed to the point where the court is satisfied that each side has had an opportunity to uncover all of the evidence that might be important to its case. In such a case, it might be unjust to grant judgment: Bank of British Columbia v. Anglo-American Cedar Products Ltd. (1984), 57 B.C.L.R. 350 (S.C.). The court will also decline to grant judgment where the complexity of the issues is such that the court is unable to absorb all of the evidence and legal argument in the compressed time available within the Rule 18A procedure: Chen v. Chen, 2002 BCSC 906, 22 C.P.C.(5th) 73.
The question of when the court ought to give judgment on an issue, as opposed to on the claim generally, is more complex. The court is justifiably reluctant to decide cases in a piecemeal fashion. In addition to all of the concerns that arise when the entire claim is before the court, there is a multitude of others. The result is that the court must exercise considerable caution before coming to the conclusion that it should grant judgment on an issue in a summary trial.
Where a Rule 18A application requires determination of a difficult issue of law that might not need to be resolved in order to decide the claim at trial, for example, the court may conclude that the appropriate development of the common law demands restraint: Bacchus Agents (1981) Ltd. v. Phillipe Dandurand Wines Ltd., 2002 BCCA 138, 164 B.C.A.C. 300.
The court must also be wary of making determinations on particular issues on a Rule 18A application when those issues are inexorably intertwined with other issues that are to be left for determination at trial: Prevost v. Vetter, 2002 BCCA 202, 210 D.L.R. (4th) 649; inter-relatedness of issues is not always obvious, and caution is necessary whenever a party seeks judgment on an issue as opposed to judgment generally under Rule 18A: B.M.P. Global et al v. Bank of Nova Scotia, 2003 BCCA 534, B.C.J. No. 2383.
It must be borne in mind that the primary purpose of Rule 18A is the efficient resolution of disputes. Where the court does not consider that the determination of an issue under Rule 18A will assist in the efficient resolution of the dispute, it ought not to make the determination.
There are at least two aspects to be considered in gauging the efficiency of the summary trial process. First, this court must be concerned about the allocation of its own resources: North Vancouver (District) v. Lunde (1998), 60 B.C.L.R. (3d) 201 at 212 (C.A.) (paragraph 33). Summary trial applications that will not, even if successful, reduce the length of trial, should, in general, be discouraged. The court must recognize the reality that judicial time is a scarce resource.
Second, the court must consider the efficiency of a partial determination from the standpoint of the litigation itself. Piecemeal decision-making is rarely an efficient manner in which to resolve a dispute. It raises the possibility of multiple appeals on individual issues, and this will generally impede rather than hasten the orderly determination of the action.
The issue presented by the Architects is an important one from their standpoint. In my view, the evidence on this application is sufficient to determine it. While there would be many issues outstanding even after the limitation issue was decided, I would not be dissuaded from making a determination simply because, even if I resolved the limitation issues, other issues would remain.
I am also of the view that the limitation issue, at least on its face, is not so closely related to the other issues in the litigation that it could not be decided in isolation.
I am, however, mindful that the raison d’être for Rule 18A is the efficient determination of claims. While this court performs an increasing proportion of its work through the summary trial procedure, it remains the case that the trial process is generally more conducive to a full and just determination of disputes. The summary procedure’s chief advantages are speed and efficiency. Where the court is not convinced that the determination of an issue will be a speedy or efficient step towards resolution of the dispute, it ought not to accede to an application under Rule 18A.
In this case, neither party suggests that a determination of the limitation issue in a summary trial will reduce the total amount of court time needed to resolve the dispute. There will be no reduction in the evidence presented at trial, and any reduction in the time needed for argument will be more than offset by the court time taken up in arguing the issue in the summary trial application.
The limitation issue is sufficiently important that it is virtually certain that an appeal would be taken – indeed, it is quite likely that an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada would be pursued after a judgment of the Court of Appeal. In the meantime, the trial of the action will either be postponed, or proceed under an awkward uncertainty as to what issues will ultimately need to be decided.
The Architects argue that this court, by determining the limitation issue in advance of trial, will remove uncertainty, and facilitate settlement. I have no doubt that a decision on the limitations issue would change the dynamics of settlement negotiations. Whether it would facilitate or complicate settlement is a matter on which I can only speculate. I accept that the court should, in appropriate cases, consider the prospect of settlement as a factor in determining whether to deal with a substantive issue on a Rule 18A application: Inspiration Management Ltd. v. McDermid St. Lawrence Ltd. (1989), 36 B.C.L.R.(2d) 202 (C.A.). In many cases, however, it would simply be unjust to allow one party, over the objection of another, to have a single issue determined in advance of all others, in the hope that it will enhance its bargaining position.
In the present case, I am not persuaded that a determination of the limitation issue in advance of the trial would be an efficient procedure to follow. Instead, it is more likely to result in a delayed trial, quite possibly with an awkward presentation of evidence and argument.
In the circumstances, I have concluded that determination of the limitation issue on a summary trial will not assist the efficient resolution of the proceeding. In my view, it would be unjust to decide the limitation issue on this application. The Architect’s motion under Rule 18A is dismissed; the limitation issue should be determined at trial.
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later by an unscrupulous art dealer.
Two recently published books advance new theories about the famous explorer who may not have been the first to discover the Americas but was the one who set off a chain of events that led to exploration, conquest, and colonization. One author claims that he was really Scottish and the other that he was a spy!
In "La vida de Cristoforo Colonne" published last month in Spain, Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga, an engineer and amateur historian, advances a startling new theory that revises the way that Admiral Christopher Columbus has been portrayed for centuries. He claims Columbus was the son of wealthy Scottish merchants living in Genoa and not poor weavers!
But did he look Scottish?
The portrait to the left which is currently on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and widely published in school textbooks was painted by Sebastiano del Piombo (1485–1547) many years after Columbus' death. Piombo was one of Michelangelo's students and may have been the most sought after portraitist of his day. He didn't even learn how to paint until 10 years after the death of Columbus. Though it bears an inscription that says it is a portrait of Columbus, ever since the 19th century many art historians have dismissed the inscription as having been added years later to increase the value of the painting. Piombo's biographer, Michael Hirst, includes the painting in his biography, but with the simple caption, "Portrait of a Man." The subject was probably a Bolognese cleric painted around 1530. Due to its great artistic quality it still remains the most enduring image of Columbus even though the subject's identity has been in doubt for over 100 years.
So, who was Christopher Columbus and what did he really look like? His younger son, Ferdinand, described him in his biography as tall, well-built, with a long face, high cheekbones, an aquiline nose, light-colored eyes, pale skin that tended to redden, and blond hair that turned white by the time he was thirty. In 1493 a young court page witnessed Columbus' triumphal entrance into the city of Barcelona. Later he described him in a book nearly the same though he added Columbus had very red hair, a ruddy complexion, and freckles. It is possible that he dyed his hair or wore a wig for the festivities since no other contemporary reports mention red hair. Whether his hair was blond, red, or white, the descriptions by his son and others bear little resemblance to the Piombo portrait of a man with a round face, fat nose, and dark hair. In fact, the written descriptions of the Admiral could easily describe a Scotsman.
who knew Christopher Columbus personally.
According to Paul Martin Lester, out of the 71 or more portraits of Columbus, the painting that is most likely an accurate portrait was by Alonso Berruguete ( 1488 – 1561 ) since he knew Christopher Columbus and painted him less than 15 years after his death. Berruguete also lived at court in Valladolid where the people remembered Columbus well. If this is the Admiral's true likeness, he does indeed look Scottish.
The traditional story is that he was born Christoforo Colombo the son of a weaver who lived in Genoa, an independent citystate northwest of Rome in Liguria, Italy. Genoa was a wealthy seafaring state controlling many islands in the Mediterranean. Though the child Christoforo undoubtedly existed, this may not have been the same child that grew up to be the great explorer. Very little is really known about Columbus' origin or history before he married into the nobility of Portugal. What we do know is that he was never known as Christopher Columbus during his life. He started calling himself Colón or Colom (he used both spellings) when he was a young man and didn't adopt Christoferens (not Cristoforo) as a first name until he went to the Spanish court to ask for funds to explore the western sea. Christoferens Colón means Bearer of Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Some historians say that he was a member of a family of mercenaries who were well known enemies of the King of Spain and that is why he changed his name. Others say it was because he was ashamed of his humble beginnings as the son of a weaver. The amateur historian Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga claims that he has proof that he was born in Genoa, but not to weavers. Instead, he was the son of expatriate merchant parents who relocated from Scotland. He was christened Peter (Pedro in Italian) and was called Scotto, meaning the Scot. Pedro Scotto had a hard time blending in with all his red hair, the story goes, and so he pushed himself all the harder to stand out. He became a sailor at the age of 14, fell in love with the sea, and learned how to navigate.
He didn't learn to read or write as a child, but he taught himself Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Greek after he left Genoa. While he was still a young man with no great accomplishments he married into Portuguese nobility. This has led to more theories that he was really from a noble Portuguese or Catalán family with ties to other great navigators, otherwise he wouldn't have had access to books and tutors or could have been an acceptable suitor and, eventually, husband to Dona Filipa Moniz, daughter of the governor of Porto Santo in the Madeiras.
Portuguese historian Manuel da Silva Rosa puts forward one of several theories claiming that Columbus was Portuguese in his new book "O Mistério Colombo Revelado" ("The Columbus Mystery Revealed"), describing how Columbus may have been a "secret agent" for King John II of Portugal, as part of a plan to misdirect Portugal's rivals concerning India. This theory explains why Columbus went to such lengths in his own lifetime to obscure his origins. It also explains many contradictions and inconsistencies in his own writing.
During this time, King John II of Portugal was consolidating his control over the African gold trade and had succeeded in establishing a South African trade route to India. This was necessary because the overland route used by Europeans for centuries was blocked by the rise of the Turks in the Middle East. No one had sought a route to India by traveling West around the world even though most educated people believed that the Earth was spherical. However, based on ancient Greek calculations the unexplored Earth was as vast as the known world and covered with nothing but water. That would have made it too great a distance for any ship to travel without making port for supplies and water. Columbus, on the other hand believed the world was much smaller. In a way they were both right, the world was bigger than he thought but there was land in between.
The Spanish had just fought a long war against the Moors in Spain and had recaptured all the land in the South at a great cost. Before they rebuilt their treasury, King John II of Portugal, according to de Silva, sent Columbus to the Court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to entice them into emptying their treasury further to fund his voyage and thus eliminate any chance that they would try to attack Portugal or challenge his dominion over the African sea route to India.
written in his own hand.
People say that Columbus died penniless, but that is not true, he died disappointed that he never regained his title of Viceroy and Governor of Hispaniola (modern Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and was suing the Crown for his share of the riches he had discovered, but he was far from penniless. It is well documented that after his death, Columbus' younger son, Ferdinand, inherited a large library of books, charts, maps, and journals from his father. With the rest of his inheritance he built one of the largest and most complete libraries in Europe and paid for full-time librarians to staff the site day and night. Upon Ferdinand's death the bulk of the library passed into the possession of the Cathedral of Seville, so we have a tremendous amount of primary documentation on the adult life and voyages of Columbus.
One of the most intriguing theories sounds like the subplot of a Dan Brown novel. According to de Silva not only was Columbus a spy but, "Columbus's cryptic signature, "XpoFERENS Colon" as we decipher it, indicates that he was a member of the super-secretive Templar Military Order of Christ, which had a stronghold in Portugal at the time leading up to his voyage. As a member, like his father-in-law and brothers-in-law, he was dedicated to ridding the world of Muslims, who had invaded and occupied his country several centuries earlier."
Whatever we know about Columbus it is clear that he was a strong, ambitious man, highly intelligent but deeply flawed as well. He drove himself and those around him without mercy and tried to amass great power and fortune. He often wrote of himself as a foreigner, an outsider. He was extremely secretive and lived in a time of secret societies, secret missions, and international intrigue. If he was not one of the plotters, he was surely manipulated by those who were. He moved in the highest circles of power, yet he preferred to live on the far side of the earth. On his 4th trip to the New World he earned the enmity of those around him who complained to the King of Spain that he was a bad governor. Columbus was deposed and stripped of his title and rank. He spent the rest of his days suing to regain what he had lost. He died without success in his villa outside of Valladolid, Spain, at age 54. Eventually his elder son, Diego, regained the title and became the 4th Viceroy of the Indies.
Whatever his early life was, it shaped his personality in adulthood. In most cases tall, handsome, vigorous, young men with sharp minds are very popular with their fellows—unless there is something about them that makes them peculiar. Perhaps he grew up in Genoa a gangly, red-headed, freckled boy named Pedro, with immigrant parents who spoke broken Italian. He wanted to make friends with the dark-eyed boys with brown limbs, and curly black hair who lived near his home but they bullied and teased him for his pale, white skin and odd ways. He hated who he was and swore to grow up and show them he was greater than them all. But in the end, no matter how much he learned, or how hard he worked, or however many accolades he received, he still remained the same little boy inside, who didn't fit in, the outsider.
Looks Are Deceiving: the Portraits of Christopher Columbus by Paul Martin Lester.
O Mistério Colombo Revelado ("The Columbus Mystery Revealed") by Manuel da Silva Rosa.
La vida de Cristoforo Colonne ("The Life of Cristoforo Colon") by Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga.
The Mysterious History of Columbus by John Noble Wilford.
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I really had to go back and check when I last shared a health update because it does not feel like it’s been a month already! These weeks have gone by so fast, and because of that, I have not kept very good track of how I’ve been doing. Eesh.
Overall Health: Fatigue and Fibro have both eased, even before my nutrient IV last week! In between the awful bouts of pain, I’ve had times of almost excess energy. Strange. And wonderful. I’ve been steadily adding my supplements/vitamins back in. Although I did realize that Resveratrol (2/day) causes upset stomach for me! Less than 24 hrs on it and I was having the same problems that I had a few months ago. I cut back to 1/day and am fine again. So. Shrug.
Nov 29- started 21day workout challenge.
Dec 16- tired all day, oddly energetic late evening. Two clonidine for migraine. Minimal fibropain until evening, left calf cramped. Mood good.
Migraine: These are still daily – and pretty intense every day, but I feel like they are responding to treatment better lately.
Sleep: I’m still getting just about 7 hours exactly with 2 or 3 wakings in the night. Most nights I am completely exhausted but have to wait til I can get the pain down to a decent level to go to bed. Sometimes my naps ruin going to bed at a halfway decent hour and other nights I’m still falling asleep on the couch at 9pm.
Memory/Brain Fog: After a full month on Turmeric instead of Neuroflam, I think it’s working – at the very least I haven’t noticed a big decrease in my memory. The only thing is that I have had a shorter attention span lately. I’m not sure if that has to do with this or just fatigue?
Vision: There hasn’t been any vision loss this month – huzzah! But I have had semi-frequent blurring.
TMJ: This has stayed the same – I’m attributing it to the fact that I haven’t been to my bodywork doctor in about four months. It pops painfully most every day and aches so that my teeth hurt daily.
Fibromyalgia: I’m happy to report that this has eased slightly. I think it’s because of the extra thing we added to my nutrient IV last time. (of course, I cannot remember what it was called, but it was specifically to see if it helped with inflammation in the joints/the awful aching) My left calf is still tense/self flexing throughout the day and I’ve been getting cramps in my feet/calves again. I’m glad that they haven’t started again in my hands/elbows though. Ice is still the current magic treatment – be it on my calves or neck. If I’m resting, I’ve got one on me.
Mood: Even though I’m only taking 2 Xiao Chai Hu Tang a day (instead of my previous 4), this has stayed good.
Digestion: This has also been good (well, for me). BUT. As I said at the beginning of this post – I did realize that Resveratrol (2/day) causes upset stomach for me! Less than 24 hrs on it and I was having the same problems that I had a few months ago. I cut back to 1/day and am fine again. So. I’m glad that I realized it quickly.
And that’s it for this month! I’m remaining hopeful that this coming year will be full of further improvements. So much so that even I can’t miss them. Heh. Happy Holidays and I’ll see you again next week with this month’s Book Reviews!
P.S. Did you see this post – How Much More Will Chronic Illness Steal From Me? that I wrote on the emotional side of living with chronic illness? This one, Chronic Illness Silence, I wrote this time last year about how hard it is to share about what chronic illness sufferers go through. This one , The Dark Before the Dawn, is a late night conversation on pain.
P.P.S. For a more upbeat tone, go check out Hesitant Fate, just a short story I wrote from a writing prompt.
P.P.P.S. Watch next month for my Top Reads and Top Posts of 2018!
How much more will Chronic Illness steal from me?
As a girl, I never used to think about growing older. Oh I did in the sense of ‘what do I want to be when I grow up’ and that sort but I never thought past that. Who does when you’re twelve years old and running around barefoot with your pigtails slapping your shoulders?
But with the passage of time, my looking ahead has changed. As it does for everyone. Dreams shift with the wind-blown sand. Hopes are shattered like glass. Sunrises fill your eyes and heart with fire.
Now, instead of career goals and adventures waiting in the future, I look past the busy years to the slow rocking of a chair on a porch. I picture myself sitting there, a blanket on my lap and a long braid down my shoulder. My eyes are dimmed but I can see well enough to read a favorite novel from time to time.
I think about myself, white-haired and worn out. And wonder. I wonder what will I have done in the intervening years? Will I have struggled against this disease that whole time, being relegated to wishing and hoping but stuck fighting just to stay alive? Or will the miracle that I’ve been praying for, finally happen, and I am able to move forward. Move toward a dream. Or two. Or even three.
I will have lived a full life, whether I am chronically ill for the whole length of it, or if I am able to beat it to a large enough degree that I can DO. Do the things that I dream of doing. Do things that I haven’t even thought of.
But there’s a fear deep inside of me. A fear that I rarely acknowledge. For what’s the use of pulling something out for the light of day that you can’t do anything about? But here I am, dusting it off and showing it to you.
There’s a fear deep inside that even though I am fighting and will continue to fight, Lyme will have stolen so many years from me that it’ll be too little too late…All we have is this one life, we don’t get a do-over. Already it has taken 13 years – my whole adult life – how much more will it steal?
Will the old woman in the rocking chair have been there since she was in her thirties?
Will life continue to pass by in a sort of haze- being a part of it but still very much on the outskirts? I am better able to commiserate with people my grandparents age, than with my own.
Deadlines at work and stress over obnoxious coworkers? I have to go back to almost ten years ago to be able to identify with that.
Trying to navigate parenting a young one? Thanks to my health, we haven’t even been able to try for any kids of our own.
Unable to remember that important thing and not sure which doctor to try next? That I understand and have recent experience with.
Are you trying to gauge which medication/supplement/treatment is helping or not? Yep, right there with you.
And while I can laugh about this reality, shoved deep down inside is that fear that it will never change. And if it never changes, how will I react to that fact? I have survived these past few years by simply not thinking about it – by focusing on the fact that I have made progress in healing. Obviously that’s not a bad thing, focusing on the positive. But I know that this fear that is hidden away is going to rear its ugly head eventually and completely. freeze. me. Like it’s done in the past. I know it will again.
Along with that fear is the realization that even while fighting Lyme, I can still have a full life. I can still chase a few dreams and make wonderful memories. Just like I’ve been doing the past 13 years. I finished Culinary School. Traveled overseas and across country. Fell in love. Married. Moved a few times. Gained new friends and nieces and nephews. Picked up an old hobby. Started and finished writing a novel. Etc, etc, etc.
So I share this fear of mine with you not as someone without hope. But as someone that is trying to acknowledge, and share, the hidden things, the secret things that go on in someone living with chronic illness. Just because there may be healing going on, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t a basket full of fears and worries still waiting to be dealt with.
Hello friends! Thanks for coming by SGL for today’s update on my health. Just a quick intro for anyone new here – I have been diagnosed with Lyme Disease along with some lovely friends – like Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, TMJ, Chronic Migraines and a handful of other stuff. The co-infections of Lyme are brutal. Brutal, I tell ya. I think I can accurately say that I’m on the road to health – it’s just a switchback, up and down type of road. If you want to read a bit more – go check out my About Me page. But for now, I’ll dive into the update – hoping that this time next year I’ll be able to see even more improvements in my health.
Overall Health: Fatigue to the max lately. Fibropain as well. I’m sure that not having an IV for almost two months (!!) has a lot to do with how badly I was flaring in October. Since then, my fatigue and fibro have continued to be intense but it is a bit less – and I’m hoping that getting them regular again will keep chipping away at it.
Oct 15- exhausted, brain fog, nap in afternoon helped but by evening whole body ached and hard to get to sleep. Severe pain.
Oct 31- seems that when I limit my iberogast as well, that my stomach is some better. Today was the best day in weeks for it, although water still tastes awful and I’ve still got some iron breath. Fatigue has been very present past few days, did get to the grocery store this am before it hit. Fibropain still present in joints but not as severe.
Nov 8- woke up at 4am till 730, slept again till 93pam. Weary but feel pretty good. minimal attention span.
Migraine: Some days I’m thinking about how much better this area is and then others I’m struggling to keep the pain down to a survivable level.
Sleep: This hasn’t changed much at all – still needing an ice pack most every night, and typically change it out at least once. It would be nice if sleep actually helped my fatigue.
Memory/Brain fog: I am doing something scary – I’m going to see if taking Turmeric pills has the same result as taking the Neuroflam. I’m hoping it does because as much as I love the Neuroflam, it is at least $60 a bottle. (Turmeric/curcumin is a main ingredient in the Neuroflam) My attention span has been spotty often lately. Augh.
Vision: First – I haven’t had any visual auras! I’m very relieved by this. Thing do get blurrier than they should at times.
TMJ: This has increased in popping and pain. I’m attributing it to the fact that I haven’t been to my bodywork doctor in about three months. It pops painfully most every day and aches so that my teeth hurt daily.
Fatigue: Such a big struggle still – but since my IV I have been able to struggle through getting things done a little more during the day. Unexpected naps have been happening regularly though. Blink once and it’s an hour later.
my only pic from my last IV! we did a push on everything which makes it SO much faster!
Fibromyalgia: Such a main point of pain. It’s a constant burning, tingling, throbbing in my limbs, as well as occasional cramping in my feet, calves and hands. The overall aching has been keeping me up late at night, unable to get to sleep. I’m still on ice at least once each day, but it’s typically a pretty fair bit of swapping out ice packs. I’ve continued using the Tens Unit on my legs as well as using Mg lotion.
Mood: This has stayed pretty good lately – although I do feel like some of that might be that I’m just not thinking about anything serious.
Digestion: I almost forgot to add this and it was SUCH a problem for over a month. My digestion was so bad that even water tasted awful. I finally figured out that my stomach was needing a rest from all of the supplements/vitamins that I’ve been taking for so long. I cut it down to five or six a day – instead of the… forty (probably more) a day I was taking. It took only a few days for it to start helping and now I’m slowly adding things back in. It’s nice to not be taking so many pills but I can tell that I definitely need more than what I’m currently on.
To read where I was at last year in this journey- click here – it’s also when my doctor first uttered the most beautiful three words she’s ever said to me.
Well, folks, over a week ago I was thinking about the little improvements that have been happening and realized how nice it was to be able to see them! And then, if you saw my FB or IG posts, you know that last tuesday I crashed and burned harder than I have in months. OY, but isn’t that how it goes? It doesn’t take away (fully) from the improvements but it takes away some of the optimism. I do want to look at where I was at this time last year though to maybe get some of that optimism back…hopefully. So let’s get to it!
Overall Health: Flaring severity has decreased. Brain fog has eased. Fibromyalgia has increased. I’m still exhausted and completely tired of fighting for my health. I’m READY to move on to the next thing in my life to focus on – like becoming a published author maybe?
After a blood test last month, we learned that : my LDL’s are high, my adiponectin is high (dr wrote ‘fat burn’ next to it =) ), Omega-3s are low and that I most likely have SIBO. My doctor has thought that before but with the results of this test, we’ve decided to work on treating it.
I’ve started Resveratrol (2/day), Bearberry (1/day), increased Iberogast to 14 drops/day.
Aug 16. Started DIM Detox, 1/day today only? Feel pretty good, tired. Napped. Worked on book! Low migraine late am. Fibropain shoulders down, minimal in wrists and hands.
Aug 20- energy in am, minimal pain until early afternoon. Migraine and fibromyalgia flared pretty bad in evening, as has been usual.
Aug 24- fatigue has eased and flaring in the evening has calmed down as well. Still some brain fog, fibromyalgia in joints/just all around aching that’s pretty painful and distracting. increased Iberogast to 14 drops/day last week. Am increasing liver, seeing if it helps with fatigue.
THESE above are ALL Sept dates!!!
Migraine: These have been both marginally better, and much worse. — While I have had a slight decrease in severity some days, I also had a visual aura this past week so I feel like it evens out in the end.
Sleep: my doctor had me start taking 5Htp to help with my sleep (among other things) and it did help – a lot – I was waking less during the night, sleeping longer and feeling a wee bit more rested. The problem was that it was causing nightmares and messing up my stomach a lot. I have since gone off of it because the stomach stuff was just too rough. So, I’m back to seven hours tops of sleep with multiple wakings. With frequently needing an ice pack or heating pad.
Memory/Brain fog: The answer is the same as last month – Neuroflam. It is a lifesaver. Not that I’m clear of either memory problems or brain fog but they aren’t so …debilitating now.
Vision: As I said, I had one vision loss this week, although it didn’t progress fully it was the worst I’ve had since June/July. I was able to halt the full nuclear migraine that follows though.
TMJ: While it still isn’t popping too much, I would say this has increased lately because it aches SO OFTEN and my teeth just hurt frequently.
Fatigue: This has either been calm enough that I’ve been able to do minimal things (light cleaning, dog park, slow walks,etc) off and on thru the day or it has just hit me hard that I’ve been stuck on the couch for days on end.
Fibromyalgia: Once again, the biggest pain the past month. Well, along with the fatigue. There’s just a constant burning, tingling, throbbing in my limbs anymore, as well as occasional cramping. The cramping had disappeared for a few weeks but now it’s back occasionally. The overall aching has been keeping me up later at night, unable to relax enough to get to sleep. I’m still on ice at least once each day, but it’s typically a pretty fair bit of swapping out ice packs. I have been using the Tens Unit on my legs this past week and it helps so much! I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before.
Weight Loss: YES! It’s not much but I’m pleased with any.
Mood: Thankfully this has evened out again!
I am going to admit something to you right away – I’m starting this but have no idea when it’ll get finished and posted! With my OH’s graduation and party on Sunday, my parents coming into town today and donation boxes/a dog park run to do before they get here, I’m just not sure how much of this I’ll actually get written today. But, “Well begun is half done”.
**Update: It’s now July 30th and I am just now getting back to this post! The party has been thrown (along with a second one beginning of this month) the parents have come and gone, along with another couple of guests, many dog park runs have occurred and I’m woefully behind on so much that I’ve intended to do. But, this is step one in getting back on track!
Overall Health: I have been a bit better this month. Fatigue has still been a major problem. My back seized up early one morning and it took almost two weeks before it stopped hurting. I’ve seen some improvement in my every-few-weeks flaring, which has been such a relief.
May 14 saw bodywork Dr. Worked on whole left side.
May 15 saw main Dr. Going to start neuroflam. Also went major grocery shopping today. Was worn out in afternoon, dehydrated, some brain fog. Took detox bath in evening, wiped me out.
May 16- woke up with severe fatigue. Slept again until noon. Joints achy and a 7 migraine. Fatigue isn’t so severe this afternoon.
May 18- a better day. Was able to do some light cleaning, cooking, etc. Migraine didn’t hit till later afternoon and then harder in evening. First evening in at least a week that my hip hasn’t hurt and my calf hurts half as bad. Fatigue isn’t near as bad but still underlying.
May 23- took Abby to the park, went to get my hair cut and to two stores.. Worn out and a migraine trying to come in evening. Hip didn’t hurt though!
May 24- woke up early with bad migraine and very hungry. Had a snack and slept again. Migraine was still bad when I woke up, but early afternoon it has eased some. Strong fatigue today.
May 25- woke up feeling better enough that I drove to Eugene in the afternoon. Hit with 8 migraine in the evening, and Soo hungry but ice, clonidine and food kept it from increasing. Took a short nap around 8pm.
May 30 – fibropain flaring all week. In hands especially tonight, maybe because I worked in yard this am. Migraine flaring up to an 8 but then stopping. Fatigue hit hard yesterday, easing off today.
–have been ‘seeing’ things in the corner of my eye. A bit of heart pounding. Fingers hurting/have to focus to straighten all the way.
June 3- severe migraine out of the blue in evening. Vision gone in left eye. Debilitating. Day 15.
June 4- recovery day and keeping the pain down.
June 5 – fighting migraine down. Hit hard in evening. To a level 9. IV today, glutathione push.
June 6- pretty good today. Upset stomach in late am and late evening. Clonidine keeping migraine down. Some fibropain.
June 11-fatigue hit hard all day. Migraine tried to flare throughout the day. Took 2 naps. June 13- decent fatigue but was able to get up and putter around the house as well. Took a long nap. detox bath in the evening.
Have been struggling with bad fatigue for a week and a half. One vision loss migraine.
June 26th iron and nutrient IV.
July 20- back still hurting (a week and a half now) mainly on left side. Possible kidney moved down again?
* I’ve been on the DIM Detox since the end of May and I have slowly but steadily seen an improvement in my mid-month flaring like we were hoping! I did have to cut back to 1/day after increasing to 2/day and having a flare but it’s helping!!!
Migraine: These have slowly decreased from May to end of July. I haven’t had a ‘nuclear migraine’ (aka, vision loss/debilitating) since beginning of June. They are still daily, of course – finish?
Sleep: This hasn’t changed much other than, with the fatigue, I’m needing more naps. Not every day, thankfully, but a lot of times when I do nap, it’s a few hours before I wake up. Which then makes it hard to get to bed before midnight… I am glad that I still don’t need melatonin to get to sleep like I did for so long!
Memory/Brain Fog: This was a big enough of a struggle that I started taking Neuroflam (thankfully I can get it for about $30 cheaper than this amazon price). To experiment, I have been off of it for a few weeks…and I think it really was helping. OY. I was hoping to save that money but anything that helps with mental clarity is worth it. I’ve been so foggy that sitting down and writing (either on here or on my book) has been such a trial that I just haven’t done it. Sadly.
It took at least half an hour to get the needle in to a good vein this time. Second try with the Iron push. Verdict? Doesn’t kick the fatigue.
Vision: Since the beginning of June, I haven’t had full vision loss but I have had some minor sparkles, spots or blurriness. I have been able to attribute them to exhaustion or hunger. When they have been tied to the oncoming of a severe migraine, I’ve been able to halt it from fully forming.
Fibromyalgia: Ahhh, joint aches. Self-cramping. Sporadic tingling. Pain that is trying to claw its way out of my body. This has increased over the months and I’m thinking that it’s due to the fact that I’ve been having cane sugar occasionally. As well as starch. I am okay with never feeling the need to move just because the pain is so bad.
TMJ: This is one thing that has eased off and stayed down, mostly. My teeth will still ache and my jaw is almost always tender to the touch. It doesn’t pop too often.
Fatigue: This has been a doozy for a while now. My last two IV’s, we’ve gone without the glutathione and done Iron and nutrients but it’s not kicking the fatigue like the glutathione. OY.
Weight Loss: I was doing good on this for about a month and then…I stopped working out and more lax on what I would eat. I’ve started working out again though so I’m hopeful I can start losing some again!
Mood: Overall, this has been good- even- calm. A few times a month (?) it goes more wacky than it normally would.
Bladder: since May, I haven’t had any other …strange behaviors in this quarter.
I follow Aubrey on Instagram and just had to share this bit of humor.
If you want more frequent updates on my health journey – as well as Abby adventures, crochet projects and whatnot – follow me on Instagram!
*Disclaimer: I will say though, that I tend to share more…. real-life photos there than I do here. I only share a portion of them here on SGL. I have gotten some comments on my ‘death/zombie’ photos and such – if you don’t want to see pictures of someone in chronic, debilitating pain, I suggest you don’t follow me on IG. or Facebook, heh. I know it can be hard to see and read about, but this is my life and the life that so very many people are living. We didn’t ask for this. If you don’t like it, and there’s nothing wrong with that, please don’t make critical comments about our hard days – even if you mean them in jest. They still wound us. I appreciate each one of you that follows my blog, IG or Facebook.
I’m sharing this post – a Letter to Lyme Disease – that is especially fitting for me lately. I hope you’ll take the time to click over and read it as it speaks to what those of us with chronic pain go through emotionally as well as physically.
Once again, I am so glad I do these updates! It helps so much in keeping track of where I’ve been – and where I am. While I have been frustrated lately on just how expensive all my treatment is – how come insurance just won’t cover lyme treatments?! – I have to admit that it is all worth it. Out of curiosity, I brought up last year’s update and the difference is striking. I don’t take melatonin or theanine to sleep anymore – ever! While my fibromyalgia is still painful, I can crochet pretty much as long as I want and it doesn’t get to the point of making me cry/scream. I no longer have disassociation. I am able to keep up with housework better overall. The things that I started taking/increased are all some of my favorites now – St. John’s Wort, Butterbur/Petadolex, iron supplement, etc. I have decreased the ceanothus to once a week though because I react to it so strongly.
Mar 22- fatigue and migraine today. Crashing in evening with fibropain and migraine. Two or three clonidine.
Mar 24 – fuzzy brain and fatigue. Migraine hard to calm down throughout the day.
April 8th- a little fuzzy brained all weekend. Fatigue too. Some cramping.
April 9- took one drop clonidine am. Mega fatigue hit late morning. Bad migraine early afternoon and most of rest of day. Started SAT.
Have mostly forgotten to take daily liver the past week. Haven’t noticed any difference? Fatigue has eased although it is still present. Brain fog is the same. Was busier this past week odd than have been in a while and have not CRASHED like I thought I would. Sensitive to smells and loud noises.
April 23rd- started Mineral complex again. Migraine off and on all day. Energy even though I’ve been tired and took two naps. Was a productive day.
April 28 – woke up feeling pretty good, fatigue eased. Front of neck still hurt but eased as day progressed. Took Abby to the park with start of migraine but eased by evening. Went to movie, took 3 clonidine before and during. Didn’t crash like I expected to afterward.
Migraines: While I haven’t had any level 10’s (and just a few times of a hint of my vision going), these have been bad. And have often not responded to anything I do to get them down. And then other days, one clonidine is all I need. Very back and forth.
Sleep: I am able to sleep longer than normal – up to 8 hours some nights! It’s been so nice. But. I have been waking up more often to use the bathroom.
Memory/Brain Fog: this has increased, frustratingly. Quite often, I won’t realize how bad it is until I leave the house.
Vision: Like I mentioned above, I had a few times of vision loss. But it was very minimal – the sparklers in my left eye that is the precursor to it, and then nothing else.
Fibromyalgia: This is just bad enough to be obnoxious but not debilitating. My left calf is always tense/hurting. My joints ache frequently and have had some random stabbing pain in my palms or base of feet.
TMJ: The front of my neck has HURT so much these past weeks. Even going to the bodywork doctor didn’t help it like it normally does. My jaw isn’t popping quite as much but my teeth still ache frequently.
Fatigue: This has eased….most days, thank goodness. I do think the H2PLX has helped a lot. I tried going off my iron supplement and while I didn’t think at first there was any difference, there was. (it got to the point that I’d fall asleep mid-project…or almost fall asleep in the checkout line at the grocery store.) I now am taking it most every day again.
Weight Loss: I have been able to lose a tiny bit!
Mood: This has calmed back down again and I am so very thankful for that.
Bladder: Ahhhh, this one. This one has me a bit baffled. All of a sudden last week, I was needing to use the bathroom about every 10 minutes. And I’d wake up about 5 times a night. GAH. I don’t know why either. Thankfully it’s calmed down but it’s still more…active than it should be.
~ Check out It’s the Lyme Life – may 2017 and Encouragement for living with Chronic Illness (the start of a 4- part series) for more!
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Little Rock, AR (9/9/18) - Making its return to Arkansas this September, the Shades of Beauty Expo seeks to celebrate the beauty and strength of women of color through exhibits and demonstrations that embody health and wellness from the inside out while also connecting them with businesses and organizations that acknowledge and appreciate their beauty.
The day begins with the Ambassadors of Beauty Awards which will honor those who motivate women to love themselves from the inside out, fight to eliminate health disparities and work hard to make sure that every woman understands her worth. This year's honorees are Rhonda Aaron, Akissi Brooks Hill, Veronica Neal, and Devyani Shekhawat. The awards ceremony will also feature talented local female artists of color.
After recognizing the exceptional women who have been named 2018 Ambassadors of Beauty Finalists, the day continues with an opportunity for attendees to learn hair tips from industry professionals, enjoy relaxing massages, receive free health screenings, and interact with a diverse group of health, beauty, and fashion vendors.
Kimberly Key-Bell, Co-Owner Collaborative Counseling Associates, LLC.
The Shades of Beauty Expo is also accepting applications for exhibitors with innovative products for hair, nails, makeup, skincare, healthcare, nutrition, fashion, or fitness that would like to showcase in a way that empowers women of color to recognize and embrace their beauty inside and out.
Saturday, September 29, 2018 from Noon-6 p.m.
Minneapolis, MN (7/10/18) - Making its return on Saturday, August 11, 2018, the Shades of Beauty Expo seeks to celebrate the beauty and strength of all women of color through exhibits, workshops, and demonstrations that embody health and wellness from the inside out while also connecting them with businesses and organizations that acknowledge and appreciate their beauty.
The Shades of Beauty Expo will begin the day with the Ambassadors of Beauty Brunch which will honor those who motivate women to love themselves from the inside out, fight to eliminate health disparities and work hard to make sure that every woman understands her worth.
We are proud to announce that the 2018 keynote speaker will be Dr. Reatha Clark King. Dr. King is an African American administrator, educator, scientist, and philanthropist. She has transcended significant barriers to becoming one of the nation's first African-American women to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago. Her early work in thermochemistry aided NASA's space program. Her many public accomplishments include serving as president of Metropolitan State University where she had a significant impact and as president and executive director of the General Mills Foundation, where she oversaw its philanthropy and citizen programs. She served on numerous boards of several Fortune 500 Companies where she provided leadership in ethics and business. She has served on the board of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and as a trustee of Clark Atlanta University. She is a life trustee of the University of Chicago and the recipient of 14 honorary degrees in addition to many other awards. She was one of the Humphrey School's Hill Fellows in 2004 and continues to participate in the School's Leadership and Management area and on the Humphrey School of Public Affairs Advisory Council.
After hearing from our phenomenal speaker we will recognize our 2018 Ambassadors of Beauty Award finalists: Stefanie G. Asante-Totimeh, Jasmine Boudah, Nicole Foster, Monica Habia, and TraNeicia Sylvester. These women were selected from numerous nominations that were submitted by members of the community and have proven to go above and beyond to empower women and girls of color throughout the Twin Cities. Join us as we hear Dr. King's empowering message and honor these exceptional women.
Brunch at 10 a.m.; Expo Noon-6 p.m.
$10 for expo only; $50 for brunch and expo.
The Shades of Beauty Expo (SOBE) is the freshest and boldest health and beauty event to hit the Twin Cities and Central Arkansas! For 2018, SOBE will feature two events. The first will take place on Saturday, August 11 at the St. Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minnesota and the second will take place on Saturday, September 29 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Shades of Beauty Expo will be a gathering of sisters sharing, discovering, and celebrating their total beauty!
SOBE'18 will begin the day with the "Ambassadors of Beauty Brunch". The brunch will celebrate exceptional people who encourage and empower women while striving to change society's definition of "beauty" for women. We will honor individuals and organizations who have worked to foster beauty by improving self-esteem, reducing health disparities among women of color, promoting self-awareness, and motivating "Every Woman to be Totally Beautiful." The Ambassadors of Beauty Brunch is sure to uplift and inspire all who attend!
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For exhibitor and sponsorship information, please email [email protected].
Little Rock, AR (8/23/17) - Making its Arkansas debut this September, the Shades of Beauty Expo seeks to celebrate the beauty and strength of women of color through exhibits and demonstrations that embody health and wellness from the inside out while also connecting them with businesses and organizations that acknowledge and appreciate their beauty.
The day begins with the Ambassadors of Beauty Awards which will honor those who motivate women to love themselves from the inside out, fight to eliminate health disparities and work hard to make sure that every woman understands her worth. The awards ceremony will also feature talented local female artists of color.
After recognizing the exceptional women who have been named 2017 Ambassadors of Beauty Finalists, the day continues with an opportunity for attendees to learn hair and makeup tips from industry professionals, enjoy relaxing massages, receive free health screenings, and interact with a diverse group of health, beauty, and fashion companies.
Saturday, September 30, 2017 from Noon-6 p.m.
$10 for advance purchase expo only; $20 for brunch and expo.
Minneapolis, MN (7/10/17) - Making its return this August, the Shades of Beauty Expo seeks to celebrate the beauty and strength of all women of color through exhibits, workshops, and demonstrations that embody health and wellness from the inside out while also connecting them with businesses and organizations that acknowledge and appreciate their beauty.
The Shades of Beauty Expo will begin the day with the Ambassadors of Beauty brunch which will honor those who motivate women to love themselves from the inside out, fight to eliminate health disparities and work hard to make sure that every woman understands her worth. We are proud to announce that the 2017 keynote speaker will be Miss USA 2016, Deshauna Barber. Deshauna was crowned the first Miss USA to currently serve in the United States military. She is a survivor of child sexual abuse and wants to inspire other survivors to fight through the fears of their past. Deshauna has also overcome extreme bullying from a young age but after the recent loss of her mother to cancer, she wants to encourage people to focus on loving yourself and the people around you.
After hearing from our phenomenal speaker we will recognize our 2017 Ambassadors of Beauty Award finalists: De’Vonna Bentley-Pitman, Taquisha Brown, Princess Nelson, Neda Renee, and Angela Winston Hebert. These women were selected from numerous nominations that were submitted by members of the community and have proven to go above and beyond to empower women and girls of color throughout the Twin Cities. Join us as we hear Deshauna’s inspiring story of triumph and honor these exceptional women.
Miss USA 2016, Deshauna Barber, to be the 2017 Ambassadors of Beauty brunch keynote speaker.
Minneapolis, MN (5/1/17) - Making its return this August, the Shades of Beauty Expo seeks to celebrate the beauty and strength of all women of color through exhibits, workshops, and demonstrations that embody health and wellness from the inside out while also connecting them with businesses and organizations that acknowledge and appreciate their beauty.
The Shades of Beauty Expo will begin the day with the Ambassadors of Beauty brunch which will honor those who motivate women to love themselves from the inside out, fight to eliminate health disparities and work hard to make sure that every woman understands her worth. We are proud to announce that the 2017 keynote speaker will be Miss USA 2016, Deshauna Barber. Deshauna was crowned the first Miss USA to currently serve in the United States military. She is a survivor of child sexual abuse and wants to inspire other survivors to fight through the fears of their past. Deshauna has also overcome extreme bullying from a young age but after the recent loss of her mother to cancer, she wants to encourage people to focus on loving yourself and the people around you. Join us as we hear the inspirational story of survival and triumph which led to her eventually becoming a history making national symbol of strength and beauty.
The Shades of Beauty Expo is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Ambassadors of Beauty Award. Ambassadors of Beauty nominees are an exceptional group of people who uplift, encourage and empower women while striving to change society’s definition of "beautiful" for women of color. While some honorees foster beauty by improving self-esteem through esthetics and some work to eliminate health disparities among women of color, others promote awareness or motivate. If you know of a woman or organization that embodies the Shades of Beauty motto, Every Woman . . . Totally Beautiful, nominate them at shadesofbeautyexpo.com/ambassadors. Nominations are due on June 2nd.
Making its debut this August, the Shades of Beauty Expo seeks to celebrate the beauty and strength of women of color through exhibits and demonstrations that embody health and wellness from the inside out while also connecting them with businesses and organizations that acknowledge and appreciate their beauty.
The day begins with the Ambassadors of Beauty Brunch which will honor those who motivate women to love themselves from the inside out, fight to eliminate health disparities and work hard to make sure that every woman understands her worth. Dr. Nekima Levy-Pounds, a civil rights attorney and president of the Minneapolis NAACP will give the keynote address. Levy-Pounds has been at the forefront of the struggle for equal rights for people of color in the Twin Cities and beyond. Through her empowering words, Levy-Pounds will encourage women to change society’s definition of beauty for women of color and break barriers in their lives.
The day continues with the Shades Of Beauty Expo, where attendees can connect with top healthcare organizations, learn hair and makeup tips from industry professionals, get mini makeovers, enjoy relaxing massages, and interact with a diverse group of health and beauty companies.
The Shades of Beauty Expo is still accepting applications for exhibitors with innovative products for hair, nails, makeup, skincare, healthcare, nutrition, or fitness that would like to showcase in a way that empowers women of color to recognize and embrace their beauty inside and out.
$10 for expo only; $35 for brunch and expo.
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Some have pointed out that he qualified his statements on the constitution with the statement that this is a personal suggestion.
Furthermore, it is widely believed in Taiwan that some of these gestures were essentially forced on him again by pressure from the United States and the PRC.
The PRC has stated many times that it cares little about what Chen says, but will watch closely in the next few months to see what he does, a standard sentence that Communist China continues to quote.
In that declaration, China accused Chen of continuing with a creep toward independence, having merely paid lip service to his commitments in his first term of office, and reiterated that there would be consequences if Chen did not halt policies toward Taiwan independence , but at the same time offered major concessions if Chen would accept the One China Principle.
Criticism has been made of this, citing contradictory arguments used, such as that the weapons were not what Taiwan needed, or that the weapons were a good idea but too expensive.
By late , the KMT had signalled it would support some of the arms sale being approved, but failed to pass a revised arms bill by the end of the legislative session in early , despite promises by then KMT chairman, Ma Ying-jeou , to do that.
Chen announced on December 5 that state-owned or private enterprises and foreign offices bearing the name "China", such as China Airlines , the China Steel Corporation , and Chinese Petroleum Corporation , would be renamed to bear the name "Taiwan.
In this religious ceremony where U. Bush greeted Iranian President Khatami, Chen did not seem to attempt making a high profile of himself by reaching out to other heads of states such as Bush or British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Chen was named one of the Time for Later in the year, Chen traveled to Miami in stopover for a forum in the Caribbean. He met with members of the U.
Congress through video conference and was invited to visit Washington, D. On his way back, he was originally scheduled to fly through San Francisco.
However, former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui was granted a visit to Cornell University eleven years ago. Laura Bush was also present to represent U.
During the same period of time, from onward, the Democratic Progressive Party has also seen seven different chairmen. In May , his approval rating, as determined by the TSU , fell to 5.
On May 24, , his son-in-law, Chao Chien-ming , was taken into custody by the Taipei police on charges of insider trading and embezzlement by the opposition party.
The indictment filed by prosecutors states that the indicted persons obtained government funds earmarked for secret foreign affairs, yet of six supposed secret diplomatic missions, there was sufficient evidence presented for only two.
In a press conference November 5, , Chen rebutted the charges against his wife and members of his Presidential office. He said that Taiwan government offices advised him to prepare the receipts in such a fashion, and that after six years of doing so, it is strange that they would never mention an irregularity if it was not the right way to do it.
He promised that all of the money actually went to diplomatic missions and did not go into any private pockets. Furthermore, he mentioned that when he took office, he thought his salary was so excessive that he cut his own salary in half, and that reduction is more than the amount he is accused of embezzling, so there is no need for him to take that money.
Pan-Green legislators from the allied TSU cast abstaining ballots. No legislator voted against the recall motion. After Wu was indicted, the Pan-Blue parties renewed calls to recall Chen, and TSU at first indicated that it would support the recall this time, but then said it would only support the new recall motion if "concrete evidence concerning corruption is presented.
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Chen had been admitted to hospital after public protest and support. He suffers serious health problems and refuses to eat. He suffers from paranoia of food poisoning, but he was diagnosed with serious sleep apnea.
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March is National Reading Month. Reading has always been a joy for me and I love being able to share it with my kids now.
We have many physical books and use our library often, but we are in a new era of technology. As much as I love the feel of a “real” book in my hands, I know that my kids love to use the technology and E-readers are able to hold a lot more books than any bag I can carry!
Amazon is having a special for the month of March. Their Kindle E-reader is $20 off! For only $59 (at the time of this posting) you are able to get a great E-reader that is lighter than a paperweight and has a screen that looks like a real page from a book.
Speaking of books…there are so many e-books available now! And Kindle Unlimited lets you borrow from over 700,000 of those books! With that many books, you will never run out of options! I want to share some of our favorite books with you.
Although Moe Man is 14 now, he still really enjoys the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Collection. He has read every one of them more than once. However, I made him find a book that was more at his reading level and he decided to start reading Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back . He is really loving this book and keeps telling me I have to read it after him. After his finishes that one, he is planning on reading Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America: A Companion Book for Young Readers to the Steven Spielberg Film (How Abraham Lincoln Ended Salvery in America) while watching the film.
Ray Ray is my Minecraft child. Any book that has to do with Minecraft, he is all about. We have read The Quest for the Diamond Sword: An Unofficial Gamers Adventure, Book One , which was an awesome easy read before bed! We are starting book two in this series, which is The Mystery of the Griefers Mark: An Unofficial Gamers Adventure, Book Two . These books are wonderful for his imagination and give him something to build in Minecraft…since he is remaking the story.
Little Miss…well what book doesn’t she like?! She is my puppy girl and any book, like National Geographic Little Kids Look and Learn: Dogs (Look & Learn) , are the ones she grabs from the library. However, she really enjoyed when I read aloud Mr. Popper's Penguins . And daddy made her a book when he was on the road before and she loves to listen to him read it to her, even when he isn’t home. The Counting Kisses: A Kiss & Read Book book we have is one of those where daddy recorded himself reading it. We really love these kinds and being able to have daddy read a book even when he isn’t home to read it!
My favorite books that I am reading right now are the NIV Once-A-Day Bible for Women for Women. This is perfect for my personal quiet time each day. Since Moe Man will be in High School…I have been reading How to How to Homeschool 9th and 10th Grades: Simple Steps for Starting Strong (The HomeScholar's Coffee Break Book series 28) (perfect resource). And during all this mommy madness, I find some time to read In Between (A Katie Parker Production) (Volume 1) for my own personal free reading time.
What books are you reading during this National Reading Month?
I wasn't aware of the National Reading Month (plus I'm in a different country, I think), but I love books and I read all the time. It's interesting to see how my children are all different when it comes to books. Even though I've read to them since they were babies, my oldest one only really warmed up to books when he became a fluent reader, my middle has wanted nothing to do with them even when she was little and my 2-year-old doesn't go anywhere without packing a bunch of books to take with her.
I didn't realize it was national reading month. Every month is reading month for me. 🙂 Years ago I fought the urge to get an e-reader. These days, I haven't read a "real" book in ages. I like the convenience of having all my books in one place.
I've never had an e-reader (certain I would break it!) but perhaps I should – I've got so many books taking up all the space, and I can't bear to get rid of any more! You're reading list sounds great – I'm reading the travel book 'Dark Star Safari', as well continuing my Biblie-in-a-year. Hooray for reading!
I read so much at work that reading is the last thing on my agenda when home. When I do read, I like self-help type books.
Those are all great reading selections. I love my Kindle but still prefer holding a book in my hand for some reason. I have way too many books as a result! I really love the idea of Daddy recorded himself reading to your children. That is really special for them. I love to read and usually have about 4 books I am reading at once. I will read a chapter from each throughout the week. It keeps it interesting that way.
I have been reading a book with my 9 year old that was listed on the Common Sense Media list–I am Malala, young readers's edition. I am so glad we are sharing the read, and so glad I picked it up on the CSM recommendation. I would have thought it was no appropriate for someone her age, but in fact, it's ideal. In this case, we got the hardcover book, and I am glad, but I do like to read on the kindle more than I had first thought I would.
I did not realize March was national reading month or if I did I forgot! I love how you can find so many free ebooks for the kindle!! I have one that I used but not tons but the battery seems to no longer hold but use my ipad mini now. That is a great deal though for the kindle and you can get so many books for it!
Since getting a Kindle, I've found it harder and harder to choose books. There are so many of them and I enjoy supporting other indie authors, so I'm constantly bombarded with titles. Thank you for the suggestions.
I am really behind on my reading right now because of several projects I am working on, so the books are really piling up. Well, they're piling up figuratively since they are all on my iPad. As soon as life gets back to normal (?), I have some serious catching up to do!
I didn't know that it was National Reading Month. Right now I am reading If I Stay hoping to get to the second book, Where She Went.
I didn't know it was reading month but I love to read! I'm reading No Drama Discipline right now it's a book by two doctor's who study brain functioning. They explain how to discipline your children so that their higher brain functions are activated and they are able to remember the lessons you teach them even in your absence.
We also love reading books. I fear we buy more than we read. 🙂 I need to start going to the library.
I read every chance I get, usually all day long on blogs, but when away from computer I pick up the news or a magazine or something on my phone. I dont have the time to read a book anymore, I used to love to read Nora Roberts books, I got hooked, but now Im hooked on blogging!! Maybe someday it will be books again.
Reading is magical! I've loved to read a good book as far back as I can remember. Being a retired homeschool mom, I always tried to instill a love of reading in my children. We did a lot of reading out loud and the library was a trusted friend.
I never liked the idea of reading electronic books, but then I tried one. Although I do not like e-books as much as a "real" book, they are so convenient. There's less clutter without so many new books to have to shelf and there are so many free books we can borrow from our library without even leaving our home. I do still like to hold a book with paper pages, though.
At this time, I'm doing most of my reading on time; however, I do have a book in my purse that I take along and read when I have to wait around. The book is called Tortured for Christ by Rev. Richard Wurbrand. It documents his captivity and torture for being a Christian.
Good luck on your homeschooling endeavors and keep on reading.
Loved all the tips in this post. Especially the part about the cheap Kindle. I tend to be on Facebook more than I read, but I really do like to read. Currently, I'm trying to get into the Divergent series.
Natioanl Reading Month was my favorite when I was a teacher. I loved teaching children how to read and passing my love of books on to them. With my own children, we have been reading a lot of Dr. Seuss lately.
Great list of books! I don't have a Kindle, but I do use the Kindle app on my phone. It makes it so convenient to read here and there when I have extra moments. Right now I'm reading Hidden Treasures by Leslie Householder and The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks.
My two oldest children have e-readers and they love them. My youngest will get one when she is a bit older. They are great for car trips and travelling, and you can borrow from your local library even if you are in a different part of the country, which is very convenient.
The most recent book I've read (though on an e-reader) is Instructions for a Heatwave. by Maggie O'Farrell. A really good read about family relations and all the complications.
I do also love a book in my hands but find myself wanting to minimalize and get rid of clutter so Bye Bye books and hello Kindle!
How did I not know it was National Reading Month?! I'm currently reading Dale Carnegie's How to win friends and influence people. It's been on my reading list for years and I finally got it and am really liking it!
Books we love them as a family and if you don't have a book 'on the go' you are crazy!! It's a way to escape, a way to learn; and both as real books and ebooks that knowledge broadens your world in lots of directions. You learn about the world, about nature, about geography, people's lives, and then escape into a dozen other worlds from the imagination of someone else. However you read whatever you use – reading is miraculous!
This is a great post! Happy National Reading Month!
Right now, I am reading a book about introverts called The Quiet, and a star trek book, and a memoir of the son of an immigrant.
I love that reading in your family is truly a family activity–that there are books for all!
Thanks for the information. I didn't realize that it was National Reading Month. I have some reading to do. I still haven't crossed over to the electronic reading devices. I still love a book that I can turn the pages and either fold in a corner of a page or stuff my favorite homemade by my kids book marks inside just to save my spot.
Your kids are great readers. Eventually they can be writers too sharing their imagination and dreams in life. I am currently reading A Better Life by Shawn Anderson. You can check it at Amazon as well. It's a great book of inspiration. Have a nice day!
I am a preschool educator and a mother of 4. My oldest, 19 reads military books, he has loved those since he could start reading. My 17 year old is mostly reading facebook and texts. When she was younger she wouldn't put books down for anything. I know in time she will get back into reading. My 13 year old also loves the Diary of a Whimpy Kid books. They are so funny and easy to read. My 3 year old loves all kinds of books. She loves the library. I hope it continues. Since this is Read Across America month and Dr Suess B-day we have been reading lots of Dr Suess books at preschool. There are so many different books to give the kids many different funny stories.
I tell my boyfriend all the time that the best gift he gave me was my Kindle. I used it daily for nearly 3 years before it died on me and Amazon sent me a new one. I love it.
Considering my advanced years, I like to think I fully embrace technology on most all levels. I blog, I have a pretty fair Klout score, and I work a mean iphone app. BUT, I just can't make the crossover to ebooks. You make salient points, of course. Since I am running out of room in my library, perhaps now is finally the time to grow up!
I notice my kids prefer hard back books to e books but the ebooks are such a good deal (sometimes free!) We also hit the library pretty hard. Even my three year old likes to "read" the Minecraft books!
I tend to read a lot of cookbooks, so have the actual book in hand is a must for me. I do have a few books on my ipad I have to get to soon!
My 9-year-old has just started reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Think he's finished two of them now, and he really loves them. I'll be considering an e-book for his next birthday.
I won a Kindle Paperwhite a couple years ago and love it! I have a ton of books on it and also on my Cloud waiting to be read. I'm currently reading a fun mystery called Murderous Muffins by Lois Lavrisa.
For Nation Reading Month my kids are reading Where The Side Walk Ends. I on the other hand, am reading my 5th V.C. Andrews book this month, lol.
I haven't been reading as much as usual or as much as I should. I am reading (to my baby bump and husband) Stay! Keeper's Story. I have also been reading and purusing several birth books.
There are so many books that I have been meaning to read. Unfortunately, with two children ages 1 and 3, I never seem to be able to find the time!
I am reading a book from Kathi Lipp about stepmothers. I am not a stepmother but everthing she writes is soo amazing and insightful and a bit of humor.
I don't have a kindle, but I have read a few ebooks on my laptop. I am so used to reading stuff online, that I like it just fine.
I feel that same way…I don’t always remember that I have such a wonderful selection of books when they are on the Kindle and I get upset that I forget about them! I always seem to zoom through a “real” book and the digital books seem to take twice as long!
Great book suggestions, thank you for sharing. I don't have a Kindle, but my daughter does and she loves it. I love reading and I hope to find time to get back to it soon.
I love the Kindle. We actually own about six of them as a family! I have all kinds from the original to Kindle Fires to Kindle HDs to the Paperwhite. 🙂 I wouldn't trade them for a thing!
My older kids also still enjoy the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. They'll pick them up and read through every so often.
Thank you for linking up with Read Aloud Wednesdays!
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After finishing high school, Margaret attended the University of Saskatchewan and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nutrition. While attending University, she began working at Marquis Hall in Food Services, at the University of Saskatchewan. She has worked in every area of the kitchen, the front office and became Catering Operations Manager in 2008. She has also worked in the Health District, at Parkridge Centre for 8 years.
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In 2012, the University Food Service Department became known as the Culinary Service Department and major renovations were completed in Marquis Hall. Margaret enjoyed being part of the planning team for these renovations, and has enjoyed the transition from Food Services to the new Culinary Service experience in Marquis Hall.
Margaret is always eager to share her insight and knowledge with employees new and old. She looks forward to a bright future with Culinary Services, with many more exceptional events and delighted clients.
Sarah is originally from Regina but fell in love with Saskatoon when she moved to the city in 2009. Raised by a farmer and heavily involved in sports Sarah learnt the importance of food at a young age. A life-long academic at heart, Sarah attended the University of Saskatchewan and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nutrition. Sarah has pursued many opportunities to expand her learning and understanding of those passions she holds dear as a Registered Dietitian. One such experience was living in Uganda, Africa for 3 months to increase her cultural competency and to work as a member of an inter-disciplinary healthcare team in rural Health Clinics and at the Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. This is not the only travel she has done and is frequently planning a trip that involves eating a lot of different foods unique to that area or some thrill-seeking adventure!
Sarah has always had a passion to work with immigrants and refugees and did just that for several years as a research assistant before starting with Culinary Services at the University of Saskatchewan. She also has an interest in working with those who are living with allergies/intolerances and hopes to bring this knowledge to those who frequent Marquis for meals and events.
Through her 10+ years of experience in the food service industry Sarah is eager to meet and work with customers of Marquis to make this a truly unique dining experience. In her new position of Dining Coordinator Sarah is hoping to be a support for students, faculty, and staff who eat at Marquis. Next time you see her wandering through Marquis don’t be shy and say hello!
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Welcome to Farmgirl and Farm Friend Friday blog hop #5! Your happy hosts are your's truly and Amy of Verde Farm.
I got the biggest kick out of Leslie's entry over at Farm Fresh Fun. Her son really has a special way of grooming his pony that you should see if you didn't make it by. I also really enjoyed my visit at Lilac Lane Cottage . Maura has a beautiful way of sharing her daily family farm life.
It's time to link up for your weekly dose of farmgirl soul food and go visit your creative, farm lovin' blogging friends!
Thanks again for linking up and don't forget to leave a note on the barn door on your way out!
I came across this little red book at my mother in law's house a while back and couldn't put it down.I love vintage books and ideas too! Just look at that Table of Contents list! Printed in 1951 by Walsworth Bros., this book contains 1001 helpful household hints which were selected from several hundred Walsworth Bros. Home Recipe books throughout the nation.
Since it's planting season, I thought it would be fun to share ten old school garden tips from the Garden Section! I know I have some savvy readers so do leave a comment and let me know if you have tried any of these and how it turned out!
Plant sunflowers with your pole beans. Saves time spent in cutting poles and also protects beans from frost.
Turn fruit jars over earliest planted vegetables. They will come up quicker.
Plant radishes and cucumber seeds together to keep bugs off cucumbers.
Paper egg case fillers make excellent containers in which to sow seeds in the house. Placed in flats and filled with light loam, seedlings will soon appear and may easily be transplanted without removing earth around them.
Build a trellis for your cucumber vines, it makes them easier to pick and saves space in your garden.
When Planting pea seed in the spring, sow zinnia seed in the same row at the same time. Your flowers will bloom long after the peas are gone. This saves space and beautifies your garden at the same time.
To keep worms off cabbage- 1 pint saltpeter and 3 pints of salt. Dissolve in 6 gallons of water. Sprinkle on cabbage as needed. A never failing proof against cabbage vermin.
Two tablespoons Epsom Salts and 1 table spoon soda to each gallon of water makes a spray for bean beetle.
Before working in the garden or doing other rough work, rub your finger nails with a piece of soap. This will prevent the earth from getting under the nails, and when you wash your hands the soap comes out easily.
I can't wait to hear which of these old ways have made their way into your Garden!
I'm linking up to the Homestead Barn Hop with this post today! Come by and meet more fun homesteaders in blog land!
" Waiting on the Tide "
Thanks for looking and Happy Easter!
Welcome to Farmgirl Friday and Farm Friends Friday blog hop # 4!
Once again I was blown away with so many fun and imaginative entries last week. I'm so enjoying this blog hop. I love seeing the birth of new farm babes and chicks, new growth in your gardens, and delicous wholesome food coming out of your farm kitchens. How am I supposed to slim down for summer when Sherry of Barnhouse News is baking yummy whole wheat loaves of bread by the bakers dozen and Lori of Skoog Farm Journal is cooking up delicious looking farmgirl soul food for the last of these cool spring days? You girls know how to wrap up a day on the farm in style!
Now it's your turn to entery this weeks Farm Girl and Farm Friends Friendzy!
Once again, thanks to everyone who participates in this hop! It's great because of you and all you share.
Image from Wiltsi Bridge Country Store " New " vintage inspired wire baskets.
It won't be long and our basket will be over flowing with more eggs than we can handle! I've been collecting our eggs in a bright red bucket for a few years now, but lately I've had my eye on what you might call the " real deal " for collecting eggs properly and safely.
Wire egg baskets were designed in such a way that you can stack many fresh eggs inside with out the worry of breaking them before you get them inside and into your next delicious egg dish. The blue one above is a new model from Lehmans. It mimics antique wire baskets in shape but it has has plastic coating to prevent rusting.
These are primitive wire egg baskets I found at an online antique store.. I rather like these. They are so cute you could collect and store them in one container!
This one is adorable and available through amazon with faux eggs inside for decorative purposes, but I think you could ditch the fake eggs and use it for collecting.
This fellow is handsome and would make a nice addition to your farmhouse kitchen! You're sure to run across some antique wire egg baskets in your local antique mall, antique stores, and online at Ebay and Etsy too!
What do you collect your farm fresh eggs in?
Homemade Living Book Series ~ a Give Away!
With so many folks working hard at living a more sustainable lifestyle we can use all the help we can get learning the basics and how too's of Keeping Chickens, Bees, Canning and raising animals that provide us with our daily dairy needs too.
Today I'm sharing an exciting give away that Amy of Homestead Revival is doing. She's giving away the book series titled Homemade Living! Visit her blog to learn more and enter the give away.
These books would be right at home on my book shelves and I have a hunch many of you would enjoy them too!
Have a wonderful day and good luck!
" Road to Heaven "
As always, thanks so much for looking.
Welcome to the third Farmgirl /Farm Friend Friendzy blog hop hosted by Amy of Verde Farm and yours truly!
Springtime on the farm is a busy time of year whether you are a small back yard farmer, a rancher or homesteader staking out your plot of land and getting back to basics. Speaking of getting back to basics, have you ever tried making your own laundry soap? Kristin, of Sweet Country Life entered a terrific tutorial as did Carrie of Farming on Faith. I haven't tried it yet, but after reading both recipes, I think it's definitely doable!!! A big THANK YOU to everyone who entered, followed and left a howdy on the way out! This is just a great blog hop all because of YOU!!!
Sometimes a farm girl just needs to head out on the open road and see what she can see! We did just that a while back and look what we found! Here's a few shots of an old farm from the Farm Coast area in southern MA.
Seeing these old stone buildings really made us feel as though we had stepped back in time.
Almost as if we had gone to another country.
There was a bit of mist in the air which added to the mystery of this old place.
It was old, but not abandoned! The gal in the archway is leading a horse out for a young rider who is not pictured here but was waiting their arrival.
Now it's your turn to link up for your weekly dose of farmgirl soul food!
One look at these early spring Forsythia blossoms and we can be certain there's no turning back the weather clock now. That being said, April is a mix of weather along the South Coast of Massachusetts. One day it will be warm and clear and the next we'll be in mist and cooler temps. I feel like a chameleon this time of year. My mood tends to match the weather. If it's warm and sunny, there's no stopping me! Cool and cloudy days make me feel fuzzy headed and unsure of what to tackle next. Today, we are under dark clouds, pouring rain and rumbling skies. The air outside is electrifying, charging the plants with the energy they need to grow! I swear I can see the grass turning greener with each passing hour. While the storm carries on, I'll share some early Spring Garden snippets!
The crocus were covered in a dusting of snow on the first day of spring, but that didn't stop them from making a show stopping appearance of bright purple blossoms a week later. I'm happy to see the Hollyhock's made it along with the Autumn Sedum Joy. The Bird and Butterfly Garden is waking up from it's long winters nap too but no photos this time as there is nothing noteworthy to see just yet.
Garden planters now bare, wait to be filled. The Stone man has been hard at work ( on his knees in the cold ) on our stone wall and patio made from reclaimed granite slab pieces scavenged from stone yard dumpsters ( with permission of course ). Who's idea WAS THIS anyway? He's doing a wonderful job! I can hardly wait for our first evening fire in the council ring and gazing out my kitchen window at bright red potted Geraniums and Herbs!
He keeps warm by the fire during coffee breaks!
I'm always amazed at the live plants and shrubs inside the box when I order by mail! This Lady Banks rose bush already has some small buds... I hardened it outside in a protected shady area before planting it near the hen house. She'll need a trellis to climb on but for now she's fine and looking very healthy!
That's it for " Garden Snippets " this time...! What's happening in your early Spring garden?
Michelle Rayburn's Trash to Treasure Friend Friday link up!
Wow! What a farm friendzy we had last week! THANK YOU to all the farmgirls and farm friends who linked up, linked back and also added the Farmgirl Friday and Verde Farm Farm Friend Friday buttons to your blogs!
If it weren't for you spreading the word we might not have topped the week with 94 amazing entries!
I visited as many new farm friends as time allowed. What fun I had! I so enjoyed all of your comments and watching folks click that follow button both here and along the way while visiting other farmsteads!
Did anyone else notice a definite theme last week? There was an abundance of the cutest baby farm animal pictures I have ever seen in one place! Spring on the farm is a re-birthing if I ever saw one!
But I have never seen a Pig in Boots!Thanks to Lynn of Happier than a Pig in Mud now we all have.
I think this sums it up for how we all feel about farm life, and FARM FRIENDS!
Now it's time to link up for your weekly dose of Farmgirl and Farm Friend soul food!
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The year is 2030. Its 7 a.m. on Interstate 75 as the people of Collin County make their way to work and school. They sit in the driver’s seat of their cars, but they are not the drivers—the cars drive themselves. Overhead, flying objects buzz across the sunrise. They, too, are carrying individuals headed to work, to school, and perhaps—for the lucky ones—to the airport for vacation.
Back on the ground in Plano, Dianne wakes up her 10-year-old son, Braxton, and finally manages to get him dressed and out the door. Braxton hops into the back seat of the four-door sedan and fastens his seatbelt while Dianne slides into the driver’s seat and pulls out a book. They read together every morning on their way to Braxton’s elementary school. Dianne’s hands are free to turn the pages as their car drives itself in autonomous mode. She and Braxton laugh at The Diary of a Wimpy Kid while the car tires spin. When they arrive at school, Braxton bounces out, slings on his backpack and waves goodbye to his mom.
Dianne is off to work now. Her car knows the route to her downtown Dallas office and gets her there safely and at a consistent time every day. It is now 8 a.m., and Dianne has a morning meeting in Fort Worth. After preparing some notes and gathering her things, she meets her coworkers on the roof of the parking garage.
There are no parking spaces at the top of the garage. Instead, there are three Vertiports—helicopter pad-like areas reserved for electronic vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs). These are the same vehicles that carried commuters through the sky to their desired destinations earlier in the morning. After boarding the eVTOL that’s waiting for them, they touch down in Fort Worth less than 10 minutes later. They meet with clients in a nearby office building before heading back to Dallas via the same eVTOL. The entire journey takes less than an hour.
At 5 p.m., Dianne gets back into her car and heads home. Because eVTOLs have taken many road commuters into the sky, rush hour traffic is a thing of the past. Dianne arrives home in about 20 minutes. In autonomous mode, her sedan pulls into her driveway and parks itself.
Though this story is fiction, it’s based on the vision of companies like Uber and Toyota. These transportation experts are preparing for the future of transit in the Dallas/Fort Worth region, and according to them, Dianne’s day could very closely resemble the average workday in just 10 or 20 years. There are a bevy of new technologies being developed and tested right now that will change the way we get around in the near future—autonomous vehicles, eVTOLs, and high speed trains are just a few.
There is much hype about autonomous vehicles, but there are many phases of vehicle autonomy to work through before you’ll see any cars rolling by without humans sitting in what is currently referred to as the driver’s seat. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are six levels of vehicle autonomy. These levels range from no automation (Level 0) and driver assistance (Level 1) with functions like cruise control and lane guidance, to high automation (Level 4) and full automation (Level 5) with the vehicle performing all driving functions and monitoring surroundings on its own.
The development of vehicle autonomy technologies has forced many long-standing companies to think outside of their normal business scope. Toyota is joining the hype, though Corporate Communications Manager Victor Vanov says the company is still “many years” away from full vehicle autonomy. The company is still in the beginning stages and is currently working on Level 2 vehicle autonomy in their Michigan Research and Development Center.
Since human safety is a concern, there are many areas of development to be considered. What if some cars on the road are autonomous and others are not? How will they interact? Vanov says that there needs to be a greater discussion among automakers to determine one set of standards on how autonomous vehicles communicate with each other, with human drivers, and with infrastructure.
Uber is another company leading the charge in transportation innovation. External Affairs Manager for Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma Leandre Johns says the company is excited about new technologies that will change the way we travel.
“We know that autonomous vehicles are coming and that they are the future of transportation,” Johns said.
In 2016, Uber began testing their autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh and then in Phoenix soon after. These vehicles have a human driver behind the wheel as a safeguard, but they’re just back up. The cars drive themselves on state roads alongside vehicles driven by actual humans. Uber’s Toronto-based cyber-research and engineering facility and their San Francisco-based advanced technology center are highly focused on experimenting and producing autonomous vehicles, with the plan to bring these vehicles to all markets, including Collin County and the rest of DFW.
In Phoenix and Pittsburgh, hailing yourself an autonomous ride from Uber currently looks like this: Open your Uber app and choose the self-driving Uber option. One of Uber’s autonomous vehicles will pull up with a driver who has the ability to take over at any time. In the backseat is an iPad that shows you what the car is actually seeing. Your trip proceeds as usual and the car rolls to a stop when you have reached your destination.
In 10 years, riders in Collin County and greater DFW will likely have the choice of taking an autonomous Uber or an Uber with a human driver. Johns says those who are most concerned with safety could opt for the autonomous vehicle, as they will be programmed to be top-notch defensive drivers with safety as an unwavering first priority. Someone who is running late to catch a flight may opt for a human driver who can get them there more quickly.
There are many challenges around autonomous vehicles that need to be overcome, however, before these robot cars will be considered as the norm, and Uber says that we won’t see an overnight switch to autonomous vehicles rolling around on every street. With any new piece of technology—especially something as forward-thinking as self-driving vehicles—comes a period of trial and error and of warming people up to it. This was evidenced by the fatal accident involving a pedestrian and one of Uber’s autonomous vehicles in March of this year. Since the accident, Uber has pulled all of its self-driving cars off of the roads until an investigation is complete.
Perhaps one of the most innovative forms of transportation technology hits close to home as Uber named Dallas the pilot city for their new venture, Uber Elevate. Uber Elevate is an extension of the Uber we know, but these rides will fly. Uber Elevate will use eVTOLs to carry passengers from one place to the next. These vehicles will be a hybrid of an airplane and a helicopter, taking on an appearance similar to the latter. Using Distributed Electric Propulsion technology, these vehicles can take off from a set position, like a helicopter, without requiring an overhead rotor.
Though this new method of transportation seems to be straight out of a futuristic sci-fi movie, its arrival is just under five years away. Dallas will see the launch of commercial flights on Uber Elevate that are available for anyone to take in 2023, with test flights beginning in the region as early as 2020.
Sometime in the next decade, what is now an inconvenient 45 minute haul from Dallas to Fort Worth or Dallas to Frisco will be completed via Uber Elevate in around 10 to 15 minutes. The idea is that flying vehicles can increase efficiency and a person’s productivity while decreasing congestion on our roads.
The introduction of Uber Elevate brings forward the necessity for multi-modal trips—these eVTOLs won’t land in your backyard. Instead, they will land on Vertiports scattered throughout each city. Picture this: You open your Uber app and select Uber Elevate, which then plots your course to the nearest Vertiport. If you’re downtown and you can walk, your app will direct you to walk in the right direction. If the nearest Vertiport is not within walking distance, an Uber car will be sent to pick you up and drive you to it. When you’ve completed your eVTOL trip and landed at your destination, an Uber vehicle will be waiting to take you to your front door (or wherever your final destination may be).
“We are so excited about what it means for the future of transportation, because now we are talking about the third dimension—we are going up a level,” Johns said.
The Texas Bullet Train, developed by Texas Central, will bring yet another option to travelers in DFW and Collin County. This high-speed rail service connecting North Texas, the Brazos Valley and Houston could be running as early as 2024. With nearly 50,000 Texans traveling back and forth more than once a week between the two regions, the 240-mile train line will offer a total travel time of less than 90 minutes.
Each of these transportation methods are communicating with each other and looking at different ways that their respective technologies can integrate. In 20 years, a businessman from Plano may jump into an autonomous Uber vehicle and head to the Texas Bullet Train station to catch a train to Houston for a week of work, or even for an afternoon meeting. There could be various points of integration within apps that help to sync these modes of transportation to make multi-modal trips easier for those taking them.
Uber’s Leandre Johns thinks that in 10 years we will see a mix of many new types of transportation in DFW and Collin County, including the high speed rail. He also thinks that Dallas may become more walker- and biker-friendly as we see an increase in the number of people opting for bikes as a method of transportation.
He also envisions eVTOLS flying around the city as people opt to take this new third vector of transportation as an option for getting from point A to point B.
Originally published in Plano Profile‘s May 2018 issue under the title “Tomorrowland – Navigating the Future of transportation in DFW”.
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Butler House and Trading Station (Former), Mangonui.
Copyright: Heritage New Zealand. Taken By: Martin Jones. Date: 21/09/2018.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former), Mangonui. 1847 or earlier portion of Butler House, with pre-1852 rear lean-to and harbour beyond – looking northeast.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former), Mangonui. Pre-1858 rear addition to Butler House, looking northwest.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former), Mangonui. Butler Drying Rack.
Extent includes the land described as Allot 1 Sec 2 Vill of Mangonui (RT NA509/128), Allots 2, 4-8, and 10 Sec 2 Vill of Mangonui (RT NA509/127), and Allot 9 Sec 2 Vill of Mangonui (RT NA509/129), North Auckland Land District and the building and structures known as Butler House and Trading Station (Former) thereon including the main residence and the burial ground. It also includes trees including the pohutukawa, the magnolia, and the olive. (Refer to map in Appendix 1 of the List entry report for further information).
Butler House and Trading Station (Former), at the mouth of Mangonui Harbour, has special significance as an early colonial trading post connected with Māori, Pākehā and overseas commercial networks. Established in circa 1847 by Captain William Butler (1814-1875), a former whaler, the trading station is particularly important for the strength of its links with the American-based South Pacific whaling fleet, which increasingly used Mangonui after the Northern War (1845-6). Whaling was an important global industry at this time due to the demand for whale oil as lighting. Retaining a wide variety of remains dating to an early period in the country’s post-1840 history, Butler House and Trading Station (Former) includes a well-preserved residence initially built in 1847 or earlier; extensive in-ground archaeological remains linked with use as a trading station; a burial ground; and notable early trees. As well as having special value for its potential to provide public education about early colonial commerce and domestic life, it forms a key part of a notable historical and cultural landscape at the mouth of the Mangonui Harbour that demonstrates shifts from pre-1840 Māori control of the landscape to the emergence of colonial Mangonui as the administrative centre of the Far North.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) is situated at the southern end of Waikeke peninsula, within the rohe of Ngati Kahu. Widely settled in pre-European times, lands bordering the Mangonui Harbour formed a significant food production area for Māori communities. From the early nineteenth century, these communities traded produce and goods directly with visiting whaling ships, which sought supplies on their way to and from nearby hunting grounds. In 1840, whaling captain William Butler set himself up as an intermediary in this process, establishing an initial trading post at Paewhenua Island in the south-eastern part of the Mangonui Harbour.
In circa 1847, Butler moved his home and business to Waikeke, closer to deep-water anchorage at the inner entrance to the harbour. This coincided with an increase in port activity at Mangonui with large numbers of whaling vessels visiting the harbour over the next decade, and colonial infrastructure emerging on the opposite side of the entrance to regulate trade. Butler’s new complex was well established by 1852, when a station that included a bonded store and other facilities, as well as his home, formed a major focal point for buying and selling goods with Māori, settlers and whalers. As the business expanded through the decade, Butler extended his residence - Butler House - from a small two-up, two-down timber cottage of Georgian influence into a more rambling, ten room structure. As well as being as a place of reception and entertainment for visiting whaling captains and others, the dwelling was the focus of family life for Butler, his wife Eliza and an increasingly large number of children. Associated trees were planted and a family cemetery established by 1856.
Butler’s commercial activities shifted to Mangonui, on the opposite side of the harbour entrance, after a European township was formally established there in the 1860s. Following his death and burial in the family cemetery in 1875, the property was rented to tenants. Occupants included Hubert Dacre, a former sportsman of note from Auckland, who subsequently purchased the property in 1921 and made limited alterations to the house. In 1970, the property was bought by Lindo and Laetitia Ferguson and their family who fully restored the residence, supported archaeological investigations, and established a whaling museum at the property.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has high historical significance for the strength of its connections with the activities of the nineteenth-century whaling trade in the South Pacific, and as a notable point of contact between this global enterprise, early colonial entrepreneurship and Māori engagement in support and supply. It directly reflects immediate post-1840 relations between Māori and Pākehā, in which the supply of whaling ships shifted from direct provisioning by Māori to those mediated by early settler businesses.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has importance as a place that reflects the shifting power structures at Mangonui. The location of the place is linked to the growing importance of the colonial government at Mangonui before the township was formally established and the increased Pākehā dominance over commerce that developed during the period when Mangonui was a significant whaling port.
The place also has historical significance through its links to William Butler as an early settler and important local figure in the development of Mangonui and to later owners such as Hubert Dacer and Lindo Ferguson, a former Auckland politician, who was important in the restoration and conservation of the place.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has aesthetic significance for its secluded nature, which allow feelings of proximity and connection with the past. Its location immediately beside the Mangonui Harbour - integral to its historic functioning as a trading station - enhances these aesthetic qualities through the immediate connection of the place to the harbour and the entrance as well as the township. The place also has aesthetic value for the visual appeal of its main residence and the extent to which its interiors, in particular, demonstrate the patina of age.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has high archaeological significance for the extent, nature and quality of surviving material within the place that particularly relates to its use as a trading station servicing the Pacific whaling fleet in the 1840s and 1850s. Especially notable elements include an unusually well-preserved residence dating from 1847 or earlier; in-ground archaeological deposits that encompass the remains of buildings related to the trading station; and a burial ground that includes headstones and other nineteenth-century material. Artefactual evidence retrieved from excavations from the place has included buttons, clay pipes, and glass bottles.
The place also has archaeological value for containing sites linked with pre-European Māori occupation; and as a key part of a much wider archaeological landscape of importance which includes adjacent pā sites, ovens, midden, and terraces.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has architectural significance as well-preserved example of an early colonial homestead of Georgian influence. It directly reflects successive expansion of early colonial residences as circumstances and affluence change and the place has a well-preserved interior layout.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special significance for the extent which it reflects New Zealand’s connections with the international whaling trade in the mid-nineteenth century, and especially Mangonui’s emergence as a centre for the supply of the South Pacific whaling fleet as a direct consequence of the Northern War (1845-6). Commercial activity associated with the exploitation of New Zealand’s natural resources by overseas enterprises was an important feature of the early colonial period.
The place is more generally significant for the extent to which it reflects the importance of maritime commerce in early, post-1840 New Zealand, and particularly that linked with the development of initial settler communities; local trade between Māori and Pākehā; and connections to global products. The place was a meeting point for multiple groups who were reliant on trade networks.
The place also has high value for the extent to which one of its major components, Butler House, reflects the importance of domestic life within this commercial context, being a major and highly visible component of the trading station and its use.
The place reflects an early stage in development of Mangonui as a European centre, which by the 1860s had become the administrative centre for the far north.
The place is significant for the closeness and length of its connections with Captain William Butler, a Pākehā whaler and trader who was a notable figure in the development of early colonial commerce in the far north of New Zealand, especially in relation to the whaling trade. Butler was a particularly significant figure in the development of Mangonui from the early 1840s onwards, acting as a magistrate, pilot and harbourmaster in addition to his trading activities, and in the 1860s becoming Mangonui’s first elected member of the House of Representatives.
The place also has some significance for its connections with Lindo Ferguson, a deputy mayor of Auckland City Council, who undertook major restoration work of Butler House and its wide site in the 1980s and 90s. It also has an association with Hubert Dacre, a local dentist who had been a prominent sportsman in his youth, and who lived in the place with his family between 1912 and 1939.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special value for the extent of its potential to provide information about a variety of matters of importance in the study of early colonial New Zealand, including the activities of the South Pacific whaling fleet; local and global commerce; early entrepreneurship involving both Māori and Pākehā; and the operation and layout of 1840s and 1850s trading stations. Its value in this regard is enhanced by the variety, well-preserved nature and comparative rarity of the remains at the place that may reveal significant further information, which include an extremely well-preserved mid-nineteenth century residence; extensive in-ground archaeological remains and associated artefacts; and other elements such as early trees and a burial ground.
Systematic investigation of Butler House, in particular, can additionally provide knowledge about early colonial construction and materials; appearance including décor; and domestic layout and activity. The surviving early fabric includes rare or unusual remaining features such as a hinged louvred window in its front verandah and a smoke-blackened ceiling in its back kitchen. Catalogued wallpaper samples collected during renovation works have considerable potential to provide information about the nature and evolution of interior decoration.
The place has strong potential to provide further information about ancestral Maori use of the peninsula and harbour before and during the use of the place as a trading station through the use of archaeological assessment and investigation.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special or outstanding significance for its potential to provide information about early colonial trade and commercial enterprise during this period, which connected local Māori communities and international business networks. It especially has potential for public education about the activities and reach of the South Pacific whale trade, an early example of a globalised business activity affecting New Zealand. The special or outstanding ability of the place to provide education about these matters is particularly conveyed through its extensive, well-preserved and varied remains, including Butler House; the visual and other aesthetic appeal of the place; and its use as a museum that is open and promoted to the public.
Having been established within a few years of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi (1840), Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special significance for its connections with a very early period in New Zealand’s colonial history. The house dates to 1847 or earlier with 1850s additions, and its associated trading station - of which extensive archaeological remains survive - was used from at least the late 1840s onwards. The place also contains widespread evidence of Māori use prior to European settlement.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special significance for forming a key part of a notable historical and cultural landscape at the entrance to the Mangonui Harbour, which contains a large number of ancestral Māori archaeological sites connected to the strategic importance of the peninsula including a major pa immediately to the west of the place; a number of notable colonial and later buildings at Mangonui township, a very short distance to the south of Butler Point; and the Mangonui Harbour itself. Part of the key importance of Butler House and Trading Station (Former) is its articulation of activity that connects occupation of the wider Māori landscape with the emergence and development of Mangonui township as a major centre for whaling supply and also government administration for the Far North of New Zealand.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special significance for forming a key part of a notable historical and cultural landscape at the entrance to the Mangonui Harbour, and for the extent which it reflects New Zealand’s connections with the international whaling trade in the mid-nineteenth century, and especially Mangonui’s emergence as a centre for the supply of the South Pacific whaling fleet as a direct consequence of the Northern War (1845-6). Having been established within a few years of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi (1840), Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special significance for its connections with a very early period in New Zealand’s colonial history.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special value for the extent of its potential to provide information about a variety of matters of importance in the study of early colonial New Zealand, including the activities of the South Pacific whaling fleet; local and global commerce; early entrepreneurship involving both Māori and Pākehā; and the operation and layout of 1840s and 1850s trading stations.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) has special or outstanding significance for its potential to provide information about early colonial trade and commercial enterprise during this period, which connected local Māori communities and international business networks.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) is located on the tip of the peninsula previously known as Waikeke at the north side of the Mangonui Harbour within the rohe of Ngati Kahu. Stories connected with the eastern section of Muriwhenua of Doubtless Bay and Mangonui uncover a complex history for the tribe known as Ngati Kahu. A number of ancestral waka are associated with this area including: Ruakaramea, Mamari (Mamaru), Takitimu and Tinana. Ruakaramea was said to have landed at Mangonui. Mangonui was a strategically important place in the history of Ngati Kahu, being near the traditional pathway that linked the Mangonui Harbour to Whangaroa and inland travel networks.
Of the recorded Pā sites around Mangonui two are located at the tip of Waikeke, one of these is Rangitoto, on the north side and the other is located adjacent to the subject property overlooking the inner harbour. This is a reflection of the site’s location at the harbour mouth and the importance of controlling access from the coast. Excavations of well-preserved Pā at Waikeke have found evidence of Māori occupation from the fourteenth to the late eighteenth century during which period Mangonui was a satellite centre of commerce in the north with a wide range of abundant resources which were exploited by local Māori. There are a number of recorded midden and oven sites reflecting the extensive occupation at and around the subject property.
The area was once clothed in native trees used for utilitarian construction purposes by ancestral Māori. A number of local specimens retain immense cultural significance including a giant coastal Pohutukawa reputed to be over 500yo.
Coinciding with the arrival of increasing numbers of Europeans from around the turn of the 19th century, the local population declined due to the introduction of new diseases and the continued northward expansion of Ngapuhi who were equipped with firearms. Disputes also broke out between Ngapuhi and Te Rarawa from the south in the Ngati Kahu rohe. Local Māori developed highly successful direct trading relationships with the European settlers and whalers who came to Mangonui. In the early decades of the nineteenth century trade at Mangonui was primarily a barter system through which Māori exchanged a range of produce including firewood, pork, potatoes, kumara, pumpkin, corn, and fruit for goods such as gunpowder, flints, fishhooks, knives and metal tools, blankets, tobacco pipes, beads and mirrors with settlers and whalers. In 1840 it was noted that Māori settled at Oruru ‘supplied dozens of vessels, chiefly whalers, with potatoes and corn, besides all the settled white population’ and that they had sold more than 200 tons of potatoes specifically.
The Bay of Islands and Mangonui were an important connection in the international whaling trade. Whale products were in high demand with a wide range of uses including for lighting in which the oil was an essential component. In 1812 New Zealand’s waters were considered to be the best in the South Pacific for whaling and, while early ships came for short periods of a few weeks, by 1827 whaling stations were being established around the country by men from Australia and Europe. By the 1830s American whalers were visiting New Zealand in larger numbers than British whalers. The main port frequented by whalers in these years was Kororareka until it was sacked in 1845 during the conflict between Hone Heke and the colonial government. Mangonui became favoured as an alternative port as it was a sheltered deep water harbour that was less affected by the fighting than Kororareka and also didn’t have a customs collector until later in the decade. During this period the shore whaling industry was in decline having peaked in the 1830s and Mangonui was the one of the closest ports to ongoing whaling activity at Three Kings whaling grounds. Mangonui was also an important centre for other trading industries during the nineteenth century with flax as well as kauri timber and gum being processed, traded and exported from there.
In 1840 Captain William Butler (1814-1875), the master of the whaling barque Nimrod, settled permanently at Mangonui. Butler had obtained a number of properties around Mangonui after his first visits to the area in 1838. These properties included a farm at Oruru and Paewhenua Island in the southern part of the harbour where he established his home which contained two dwelling houses, outhouses, sawpits, stock and 40 acres of ground fenced in and in part cultivated.
A trading relationship developed between local Māori and Butler, who set up a trading station on the island in the early 1840s dealing in timber, cattle, and general trading between whalers, settlers and Māori. Butler sourced some goods including firewood, kauri gum, flax, pork, vegetables and fruit from Māori and supplemented these with goods that he was able to produce at Paewhenua.
Butler was also becoming an important figure in the growing settler community. Butler married Elizabeth (Eliza) Merritt in April 1840 and was authorised to act as Magistrate mainly to ‘control the behaviour of whaling crews in port and organising the apprehension of deserters’ in which he coordinated efforts with local Māori. He was also appointed as Surveyor General and Chaplain by Hobson, and represented Mangonui in the forming of the New Zealand Banking Company, which closed in 1845. Butler and his family were among the few settler families to return to Mangonui following the Oruru war in 1843 during which time they temporarily evacuated to Kororareka and two of their buildings on Paewhenua were burnt down.
The first European land purchase at Mangonui was by Ranulph Dacre, a timber trader and merchant, in 1831. Thomas Ryan, one of Dacre’s crewmen, settled at Mangonui on Dacre’s land working as a sawyer. In 1838 Ryan obtained Waikeke and sold part of the peninsula to Butler in 1845. Butler moved to his new property shortly afterwards in c.1847 and was advertising his re-established trading station to whaling ships in 1848. The move to the peninsula coincides with the beginning of an active colonial government presence at the settlement following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Most importantly for trade was the 1848 appointment of a magistrate, William White, with responsibilities which included the collection of customs and other duties.
By 1850 Butler was firmly established on the peninsula while White investigated the overlapping land claims of settlers at Mangonui which had been unresolved since they were first investigated in 1843. Butler formally purchased his house site from the Crown and then purchased most of the land now known Butler Point in 1852 at public auction. Butler had established a complex of buildings at the point by this year which included Butler House and four other timber buildings which were likely associated with his trading activities, notably one of these buildings was probably a bonded store which Butler had been authorised to build in 1851. Three of the commercial buildings were located south of Butler House and one was north. Also north of the House was a fenced area possibly used for keeping stock. Butler House is reported to have been brought to the Point from Paewhenua Island on rollers and floated across the harbour. In 1852 the house was a two-up, two-down one and a half storey building with an eastern verandah overlooking the harbour. The interior was comprised of a parlour, ground floor bedroom with stairs to the upper level and two small rooms.
The trading station at the Point was well placed to take advantage of the increased port activity at Mangonui in the late 1840s through the 1850s. Records of whaling boats visiting the harbour indicate that there was a significant increase in American whalers visiting during this period which subsequently decreased from the 1860s. The station was located closer to the entrance of the harbour than Paewhenua Island and, as one of the main landing places, had deep water anchorage for visiting ships. The station was also near the new customhouse established in the late 1840s on the opposite side of the harbour entrance. Butler was still reliant on produce and goods traded from Māori who evidently transported goods to the Point on waka and camped on the foreshore when whaling boats came into port.
The trading station was very successful through the 1850s and the Butler family prospered. In 1852 Butler was reported to be the only merchant at the port and he expanded his enterprise over the decade including constructing additional buildings at the southern tip of the Point. An archaeological excavation of these buildings found a range of artefacts including clay pipes, bottles, and buttons that date usage of this part of the station to the 1850s and mid to late 1860s. The excavation also found copper nails that were associated with boat building and repairs. Mangonui was noted for being a good anchorage to have whaling boats repaired and refitted during the period when the trading station was operating. The station supplied provisions to whaling ships in exchange for oil and whale bone and provided storage facilities where whalers could leave barrels of oil temporarily. Butler also grew his business through importing and exporting goods on his own boats. He imported goods including tobacco, spirits, and other merchandise and exported flax, kauri gum, timber, and produce to the Bay of Islands, Auckland, and Sydney. Butler also attempted to diversify his operation into whaling. He invested in a whaling venture from 1859 with a number of other investors however the enterprise lost money with only a small number of barrels of oil being obtained each voyage and the desertion of the Māori and Pākehā crew. In 1863 Butler’s trading station was described as consisting of several buildings namely a “shop, stores, including Bonded Store, Stockyard, [and a] Bowling Alley”. Butler’s operation dominated trade in Mangonui which resulted in Maori finding it difficult to compete and profit in commercial ventures. In addition to his business interests Butler was appointed Pilot for Mangonui Harbour in 1851 and Harbour Master in 1857 and was involved in the construction of a new multi-denominational place of worship in 1860.
Along with the trading station, Butler House was integral to the functioning of Butler Point. William and Eliza had nine of their thirteen children after the family moved to the Point and the house was expanded significantly by 1858. The expansion was completed in multiple phases. First was a narrow single storey lean-to extension at the rear of the 1847 house that is likely associated with a layout reorganisation of the house as the staircase replaced the earlier access arrangement from the downstairs bedroom. This extension may have been completed before 1852 and a further room was also added between this extension and the front bedroom. The next phase of development added a second one and a half storey building behind the lean-to. This building also had a stair that is accessed from the lean-to and incorporated a large living room on the ground floor. A further structure with a pentice roof was built onto the back of the main extension that includes the kitchen and an additional room. The family also planted a number of plants and trees around the house including a magnolia on the south side of the house and an olive tree on the north side.
Eliza provided support for whalers’ wives when they came into port including providing accommodation when required and assisting with childbirth. The Butler’s also hosted many visitors to Mangonui and the house was the social centre in the district. A burial ground was created at the property by the family where they buried William and Eliza’s sons Richard (1852-1856) and George (1850-1869) and grandson Francis (1870-1870). The burial ground was not only used for family burials. It is reported that Mary Ann Williard, the wife of a whaling captain, who died in childbirth was buried in an unmarked grave at the point and there are unverified stories that unnamed sailors were also buried at the Point in early years.
In the 1860s Mangonui was formally laid out and established as a town. It was the administrative centre of the far north with government buildings and businesses being established around the customhouse opposite Butler Point. Butler was granted an allotment of land at the new township where he built a large building and likely shifted some of his trading interests to during the 1860s while he expanded his land holdings at the point. The trading station at the point continued operation through the 1860s and 70s. William Butler was elected as the first representative for Mangonui in the House of Representatives between 1861 and 1866. While representing Mangonui Butler may have stepped down from running the trading station day to day and temporarily left the settlement between 1863 and 1864. Butler advertised the business and house for lease while he was in Auckland but it is unknown if a tenant was found. Butler declined to stand again represent Mangonui after parliament was relocated to Wellington, returning instead to Butler Point until his death in 1875 following complications related to an accident. He was buried at Butler Point in the family cemetery beside his sons and grandson. William Butler’s will stipulated that his property should be undivided and, after attempts to sell part of the land to raise money for his widow were refused by the courts, Eliza rented out the house and grounds and moved to Grafton, Auckland with her younger daughters. The trading station at the point was likely closed around the time of Butler’s death and the buildings were demolished as none of the Butler’s sons were in a position to continue the business.
The first known tenant of Butler House was Captain John Leslie Chapman. Chapman had been appointed to replace Butler as Pilot of the Port of Mangonui after the former’s death and lived at the house in the years before his own death in 1884. In 1895 Edward James Holmes, a farmer who had previously had a farm east of Butler Point, and his family rented the home for a number of years. At this time the house was falling into disrepair and the upstairs floors were ‘in a dangerous state’. Holmes youngest son, Edward Cheselden Holmes, died in 1900 and was also interred at the cemetery on the grounds. In 1905 the Theophilius Wake and his wife reportedly occupied Butler point with plans to improve the property and adapt it for viticulture. Wake left Mangonui shortly after unsuccessfully contesting the 1905 parliamentary election and Mogford suggests that Butler House may have been temporarily occupied by a Māori family before it was rented in 1912 to Hubert Henry Dacre, a dentist previously from Auckland.
Hubert Dacre was the grandson of Ranulph Dacre who had given up his early land purchase at Mangonui in the late 1830s.. Hubert was a prominent sportsman who represented both Auckland and Wellington in rugby and helped found the reformed North Shore Football Club in 1891. Also secretary of the Auckland Swimming Club, he won competitions such as the Amateur Swimming Championship of Wellington in 1894 and was later remembered as ‘one of the best and most powerful swimmers in New Zealand’. Dacre established himself as a dentist in Mangonui district in 1908 and for a time had his practice rooms at the Mangonui Store (List No. 2584, Category 2) opposite Butler Point. Following the death of Eliza Butler in 1919, Butler Point was able to be sold and Dacre purchased the land in 1921. Dacre made a number of changes to the place including replacing the shingle roof with corrugated iron for weather proofing and an extension that was built onto the kitchen to hold a gas plant for a new cooker. Dacre planted an orchard in the grounds, landscaped the garden with shell paths and cared for the original plantings of the Butler family. Butler House continued to be a family home during the period it was owned by the Dacre family. The youngest son of Hubert and his wife Florence was born in Mangonui in 1916 and grew up at the Point. After Hubert Dacre died in 1939, Butler Point was purchased by Robert and Mary Marchant who had been employed as caretakers by Dacre. The house and grounds fell into disrepair over the next decades and stock roamed over the former store site. In 1964 there were three buildings at the property, the House, an old shed and a wool shed which was located at the southern end. Parts of the house were rotted and requiring repairs.
The Marchants sold the property in 1970 to Dr Lindo Ferguson and his wife Laetitia. The Marchants and their daughter continued living at Butler House after the sale and following Mary’s death a memorial stone was placed for her in the burial grounds. Lindo Ferguson, a former deputy mayor of Auckland City Council, had a long involvement in heritage issues in the city and along with his family was keen to repair and restore Butler House and the wider property. The repairs included rebuilding the chimneys with bricks from the recently demolished bakery at Mangonui, replacement of the battens and the corrugated iron was replaced with shingles as had been originally used. The house was also reblocked and the floors levelled including the kitchen which was replaced with a kauri floor above a concrete apron. The outside privy was restored while an updated internal bathroom was installed inside the house. The other internal rooms were also restored. Wallpaper samples were collected and catalogued during the restoration of the house. Lindo and Laetitia retired to a new house they built at the property and established a whaling museum alongside the restored homestead.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) is located on the peninsula at the east side of the Mangonui Harbour mouth. The place is approximately 300m across the water from Mangonui township on the south side of the harbour mouth and overlooks the harbour. The place is part of a large pre-European archaeological landscape including a kaianga that was later fortified as a Pa immediately to the west of the place (O04/56) and another Pa in the northern part of the peninsula (O04/16). Other sites on the peninsula include midden (O04/447, O04/651, O04/652, O03/653) and terraces (O04/58, O04/466, O04/472). At Mangonui a large concentration of colonial buildings associated with the early township have been identified including Penny Cottage (pre-1856, List Number 3895, Category 2), St Andrew’s Church (1875, List Number 452, Category 2), Old Oak Hotel (1861, List Number 451, Category 2), Barrett Cottage (1875, List Number 3894, Category 2).
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) is comprised of a large site that includes a number of buildings such as Butler House, a 1980s house designed by Miles Warren, a museum building and some recent outbuildings associated with the museum, macadamia processing, and the restoration of the Butler House in the 1980s-90s. The site also includes recorded and unrecorded archaeological sites. The recorded sites include midden (O04/469), terraces (O04/471), ovens (O04/578), and a historic store (O04/470) which was part Butler’s trading station. The unrecorded sites were observed along the shoreline and included midden, hangi stones, and brass objects which potentially date to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. The site also includes a burial ground. There are a large number of native and introduced trees at the site with particularly notable trees being a magnolia beside Butler House and a olive tree north of the house that were planted by the Butlers and the large pohutukawa which is believed to be over 500 years old.
Butler House is a timber building that was constructed in multiple phases. The exterior is mainly clad with pit sawn kauri beaded weatherboards with a shingle roof. The earliest part of the building is the eastern section which was mainly constructed c.1847 and a series of extensions were added on the west side of the building. These were constructed during the 1850s. The house has a mixture of sash, casement windows with two horizontal pivot windows in the upper level of the 1847 part of the house. The fabric is mostly original with a small amount being replaced during the restoration of the house in the 1980s and 90s. The house has three chimneys which were re-built with bricks from the old Mangonui bakery which was demolished during the 1980s.
This section of Butler House is comprised of a one and a half storey two-up, two down cottage with a full width verandah at the front and two small lean-tos, behind. The cottage has a gable roof which extends over the front and back at a shallower angle. There is a hinged louvre window in the south verandah wall. The interior of the structure is laid out with the front door opening onto the parlour with a bedroom on the north side. The earliest lean-to is accessed from the parlour and contains a passage with stairs leading to the upstairs bedrooms and joins the early part of the house to the rear structure. The later of these lean-tos contains a modernised bathroom which is accessed from the passage and from the bedroom. Evidence of changes as part of this series of extensions is evident in this part of the house with external doors and doorsteps into the bathroom, a covered four pane window from the passage wall beside the bathroom, marks in the floor and skirting board in the bedroom indicating the original location of stairs to the upper floor, and exterior weatherboards enclosed in passage. The weatherboards show little wear suggesting the lean-to and stairs could have been added fairly soon after construction. There are a number of fittings that appear to have replaced earlier arrangements. The interior lining boards appear to be pit sawn kauri. The arrangement of the rafters is an early technique that in which they are lapped over at the apex. The battens in the roof space appear to have been reused from a fire damaged building.
The later part of the house is joined to the front of the house through the passage. This section also has a one and a half storey structure with a gabled roof that is a shallower pitch than the 1847 section. Cuts visible in the eastern exterior wall suggest an earlier window arrangement that has been removed. The on the west side of the main 1850s structure is another addition with a pentice roof. This addition, unlike the rest of the building is clad with vertical weatherboards. Internally this part of the house is primarily comprised of a large dining room downstairs, kitchen in the rear addition and two further rooms, one of which opens onto the garden through French doors known as ‘the flat’. The kitchen still has a fireplace and blackened ceiling. The interior is generally also primarily pit sawn kauri with some boards showing evidence of being circular sawn which are potentially associated with further changes to the internal structure. The stairs to the upper floor are also accessed from the lean-to passage and part of the stairwell contains circular sawn kauri boards. There are two rooms upstairs which are lined with mainly pit sawn boards and some circular sawn board that are associated with rosehead nails. Some furniture which belonged to the Butlers and Dacres is present in the house, notably remaining is a wooden table in the dining room and a drying rack in the kitchen which were owned by the Butlers.
Butler House and Trading Station (Former) had close links to the international whaling trade through the 1840s and 1850s during a time when shore based whaling had declined and was an important place of local trade between Maori and Pakeha settlers in this period.
Fyffe House was first constructed in the 1840s and expanded in the 1850s and 60s. The house was initially built as a small cottage. The owner was Fyffe House was actively whaling while living at the property and the place is the first shore based whaling station in Kaikoura. Fyffe House was later a farming property after the decline of shore whaling.
Matanaka Farm is the oldest farm in Otago established c.1840. The place was started by John Jones who had interests in whaling vessels working in New Zealand from the 1830s. As whaling declined the farm became a supplier of produce for the developing settlements of Waikouaiti and Dunedin. John Jones also had a shop which was located in Dunedin (not listed).
There are also a number of whaling stations around the country that were involved in the global whale trade around the country. These include Whalers Cottage (List No. 5386, Category 2) an 1860s house intended to provide on-shore accommodation for whalers visiting Pitt Island, and Kakapo Bay (not listed) where a whaling station was founded in 1929 by John Guard who has been credited with founding on-shore whaling in New Zealand.
One of the earliest remaining commercial buildings in the centre of Auckland is this bonded warehouse which opened in 1864 and was in operation until the business collapsed in the 1880s.
The oldest remaining building related to commerce in Tauranga. The bond store was built and opened in 1883.
Many early residential buildings were linked to the activities of the CMS including: Kerikeri Mission House, 1821, (List No. 2, Category 1); Te Waimate Mission House, 1831 (List No. 3, Category 1); and The Retreat, 1850-2 (List No. 70, Category 1). Other early houses include Howell’s Cottage, 1837-8 (List No. 2540, Category 1) a timber house which was built by Captain John Howell; Subritzky-Wagener House, 1860-2, (List No. 80, Category 1) built for the Subritzky brother in mud and stud construction. The oldest surviving residential building in Auckland is Acacia Cottage, 1841, (List No. 525, Category 1) which was relocated in 1920, the oldest Auckland residential building still on its original site is Hulme Court, 1843 (List No. 19, Category 1).
Construction or relocation of Butler House. Magnolia planted.
More trading station buildings constructed. Butler House extended to largest extent.
Shingle roof replaced with corrugated iron.
Restoration of house, some replacing of timber, chimneys rebuilt.
Construction of Museum and associated buildings.
Excavation of Store site at Butler Point.
Butler House is constructed from Kauri timber with a shingle roof and brick fireplaces and chimneys.
Janice Mogford, The Butler House, Mangonui 1847-1990, Mangonui, 1992.
A fully referenced New Zealand Heritage List report is available on request from the Northland Office of Heritage New Zealand.
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minuteKEY Introduction video from minuteKEY on Vimeo.
New machine is being released to the world that might make key duplication a simpler experience for consumers.
The minuteKEY self service machine is specifically designed to be simple and easy to operate, offering a limited array of home and office keys in standard brass or designer keyblanks.
This revolution in the key duplication market will change the face of the hardware/key duplication market, speed up consumer wait times and in all likelihood reduce costs as well.
It is my understanding that Walmart is soon to be trialling these in select stores.
Time for the updated search results that led searchers to this site. February 2011 Top Ten search terms across multiple search engines.
Schlage Securekey Problems takes the lead this time but it was a close race with Kwikset Smart Key Problems not so far behind.
These indices might also indicate that more consumers are experiencing problems with Schlage Securekey products than Kwikset Smartket Products, but that is not a given.
Koowy, our article about a small piece of software that we have been involved with as a beta tester has taken third this time.
Pocket Door Locks, continue to be an often sought for term, that also lead people here. Sales are through the roof for the product and no wonder. We are expecting replenishing supplies through in a few months, but there will likely be a price rise due to all worldwide costs having increased significantly.
Meroni, the highly respected European lock manufacturer gets a mention too. We are expecting hard copy samples very soon. One of the last remaining independent lock manufacturers left in Italy, Meroni is well known across the continent for it's quality and consistency.
The above video shows a clear example of how and why window security film is a necessary and wise investment. Protecting property is one of the principle intentions that locksmiths provide. In many neighborhoods across America, residence's front doors are the primary entry point that burglars attack. Secondly, windows are another entry point that burglars attack.
Doors that include glass in them or in the sidelights, next to the door, are often only single pane light windows, that can be easily smashed by a would-be intruder and the front door deadbolt turnbutton can be easily unlocked.
In most towns across America, the local AHJ (Authority Having Jurisdiction) is usually the local fire marshal or building inspector. These AHJ's base their decisions on the policies and provisions tabled in the International Building Code and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), Life Safety Codes and insurance company requirements.
Many consumers think that it is okay for them to install double cylinder deadbolts to their primary entrance doors. In most cases this is a fallacy. The law, as determined and judged by the local AHJ, requires all primary entrances in dwellings to use single cylinder deadbolts.
The fire departments frown heavily on the use of double cylinder deadbolts because they are a severe impediment to residents easily escaping a fire or emergency.
I am asked often and repeatedly by customers to install double cylinder locks. Most often I will refuse and explain in detail why, according to the above.
Once explained, the customer usually agrees that complying with the law is far more beneficial and life sustaining than having an insurance claim denied for failing to comply, or worse still facing a possible negligent homicide charge from authorities, simply by having double cylinder door locks installed.
So, how do we find a solution that will keep everyone happy?
Window security film is definitely the answer. Applying window security film to your vulnerable glass windows can prevent the incidence of smashing entry. It makes your residence comply with the building code, life safety codes, ADA and also sometimes insurance companies may offer a percentage discount on your premium.
The security of our families, colleagues, properties is of ultimate importance to us all. Alarm systems cannot protect, they can only inform. How can we feel secure and protected?
Shattergard is a product that is especially designed to be installed on windows to prevent the windows from shattering. A new package is being developed to provide this product through the locksmith channel, effectively reducing the price for this ultimate security protection product and providing homeowners, residents and shopkeepers with increased security while still complying with all local rules, laws and ordinances.
Door closers have been around for a great many years, providing the ability to automatically return a door to the closed position. Door closers are a very intelligent piece of technology that are often quite expensive.
Spring loaded hinges have been around for a little while, but are starting to find their feet in an already crowded door closer market.
The intelligence of using a spring loaded hinge makes complete sense, doesn't it? Replaces the existing hinges on doors. Is hidden. Gives the self closing ability without the extra expense and hardware of a door closer. Works on all types of swinging doors including commercial, industrial, residential, hotels, dormitories, gates etc. anywhere a need arises for a self closing door. It is advised to always use at least 2 spring loaded hinges on a door to minimize the strain on just one hinge.
Many of the newer types of hinges are tension adjustable, to modify the closing speed and latching action. They are easily installed, usually directly in place of existing hinges. They come in multiple sizes and finishes. They comply with ANSI codes and some are even fire rated to UL listings.
There are all sorts of hinges for different applications and with the ability to not have a purpose door closer, can greatly enhance the aesthetic appearance of an entry. Not surprisingly, they are significantly less expensive than purpose built door closers.
Service and parts are minimized because they are a very low tech idea. There are very few moving parts meaning replacing worn or broken springs are significantly cheaper than purchasing a new door closer when the fluid leaks or the arm breaks or the adjustment screws cannot be loosened or tightened anymore.
I know what I'll be recommending in future.
A very interesting and unique security product recently released is making the instances of home invasion virtually impossible.
The OnGuard product is a combination of solid materials that when installed correctly virtually renders your door impenetrable.
Installed simply and easily by anyone, it is one of the more cost effective security protection devices you will find today.
A Madison WI judge has seen fit to convict a dual citizen of both Israel and the USA, for felony ID theft and other related charges.
The defendant was also denied a last minute request to leave the USA to return to Israel to care for his ailing father.
The charges against Burlin were detailed in May 2009 Wisconsin State Journal articles that tracked his company’s use of phony addresses to attract lockout victims to expensive emergency service, using false names to file negative comments about competitors and putting Capitol Lock and Security, a competitor, up for sale on the Internet.
In interviews, Burlin explained that the use of multiple addresses and business names was part of his marketing strategy.
The pending civil charges seek unspecified restitution, forfeitures and costs.
Koowy, the new version of the classic video web communication system Mebeam, is back in use.
Now with improvements to the back end and an additional HD quality P2P GUI, allowing high-quality one on one video web conferencing via desktop/laptop.
It is suggested that you maintain a fast connection.
I tested it this morning using my Samsung Epic 4G connected to wifi. While it still is waiting for the Android 2.2 update (Froyo), it still works reasonably well. You still cannot transmit video from the mobile though.
We'll see what happens when and if the 2.2 update ever gets released.
The picture below shows it in action.
On your desktop, the HD p2p connection quality is superb. Being flash based, allows less demand on RAM, although does require broadband for best results.
Once the mobile version is perfected, an app will be developed to take care of the backend. This will show the world, the true purpose of mobile video communication and make it accessible to absolutely everyone with a smartphone.
You can choose to send chat messages to your network, with the included chat function.
As the largest Bilock Extreme Security dealer in the mid-west, we are now producing limited numbers of our Hybrid Cal-Royal/BilockGrade 3 deadbolt. By replacing the standard cylinder that comes with the LSD-01, with a Bilock Extreme Security Cylinder and 2 keys, we can offer a totally bump proof and virtually pick proof lock with keys that cannot be duplicated for about $140.00 (depending on the color).
Yes, it is comparably expensive, but your property is worth it is it not?
Dont be fooled by other advertisers claims that their comparison product is pick proof or bump proof or copy proof. There is tons of media out there that proves they are not, but Bilock is the real deal.
Pictured here is a map of the Creve Coeur, MO municipality and the statistics of crime reported in the source below. from the Creve Coeur Police Department.
The Creve Coeur Police Department is well known in the west county region for it's effectiveness on reigning in crime. They are a credit to their funding.
In February 2011, according to the picture here, there were 265 incidents reported to police.
These incidents include at least 200 alarm responses that police attended.
Police attended to 5 incidents where they wrote Breaking & Entering as the incident.
Police attended to 16 incidents where they wrote Property Crime as the incident.
Police attended to 39 incidents where they wrote Theft as the incident.
There are many reasons that crimes occur. Many of the incidents can be prevented by increasing your security preparedness.
An alarm system is one method, but prone to many false alarms. Police attend to monitored alarm calls, but there is usually a cost, borne by the homeowner or resident. Often police will allow 1 or 2 a year free, but regular false alarms add up to significant manpower hours, that are billed to residents.
Cost effective security products like door frame strengtheners and quality deadbolt locks are essential to improving the security of your properties. Often these small purchases can protect you and prevent crimes like break and enter.
Equally as important are key control systems. Key control systems, restrict the ability of authorized key holders to duplicate keys. Many incidents are happening because owners or managers are unaware of who may have a copy of their key. Preventing unauthorized access to your property significantly reduces crime of opportunity.
Choosing the suitable key lock for your door is a process that doesnt really require much thought however, sometimes it can be rather daunting to sort through the literally thousands of options in the marketplace.
Many customers choose to source their information online these days and there are many and varied opinions out there offering personal, sometimes biased opinions on what to choose.
For these reasons, I decided to write an article about the key points to consider when choosing the suitable lock for your chosen door.
Is the door a front or rear primary entrance?
- Many AHJ's (authorities having jurisdiction) require dwellings to comply to the international building code, when considering the form and function of a desired key locking product.
- A primary entrance is usually considered the feature point of entry into a dwelling.
- Authorities having jurisdiction are usually the local fire marshal or local government building inspector.
Is the door construction, metal, wood or another material?
- Different entrances can be built from different materials, sometimes due to fire regulations or distances to or from another entry point or due to the types of materials or objects stored within that entrance.
- There are different grades of hardware measured by ANSI (American National Standards Institute), that are designed to guide people to choosing the suitable quality product that meets or exceeds the customers desires, the building code bylaws, life safety codes or ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) bylaws. The three common grades are Grade 1 (high quality commercial use), Grade 2 (medium quality commercial and residential use) and Grade 3 (low quality residential use).
- Matching the unique style, color or ambience of a doorway is sometimes an important consideration to customers, intent on maintaining a certain status quo of their chosen entrance/s. There are many differing options available to choose from and many hundreds of different manufacturers that make similar or slightly different variations of the same product.
Is the ability to limit who can duplicate keys of importance?
- Many customers are unaware who has a copy of their keys. Restricting or controlling who can be authorized to duplicate your keys can protect you from potential loss. A key that can be duplicated at any hardware or key cutter means that you cannot control access to your doors.
-Locksmiths have been producing key control products for many years that provide the consumer with a level of protection that other hardware suppliers cannot.
- There are different functions provided by different models of locks, tailored to many discerning requests. Sometimes it is vital and important for a key lock to only be operated on the outside. Sometimes it is important to be operated from inside too. Sometimes a push or turn button is desired inside, that locks the outside handle. Sometimes a lock is requested that the key can only be withdrawn when locked.
- With so many variables, it is important that you explain your desire to the locksmith to allow them to offer suitable solutions.
- Securing double doors requires making the inactive leaf (one door) to be closed and secured prior to the active leaf being able to be locked. There are many choices of product designed to secure the inactive leaf, like surface mounted bolts, flush mounted bolts etc.
- Securing a door with a key lock is often only half the battle against would be unauthorized users. In many cases, the actual door frame and jamb (where the door closes into) are constructed from light grade, thin materials that offer very little to no protection from kicking or ramming.
- Securing the hinge side of a door is sometimes of value too. Installing hinge bolts can prevent a door from being removed when locked after having the loose pin in the hinges withdrawn.
- The increasing discussion online about the truth behind the perceived security of key locking systems has led many well known manufacturers to attempt to offer products tailored to combat these known covert entry techniques. Truth be told, there are very few products that can be considered bump or pick proof or even resistant.
- Whether or not lock bumping or lock picking is a consideration for the average customer, depends sometimes on the statistics of crime, measured by statisticians. It is very difficult, even for a trained forensic investigator to determine if a key lock has been bumped or picked, with absolute accuracy.
- Many authorities, who measure the statistics of crime, often find that instances of lock bumping or lock picking are far too few to measure accurately. Moreover, crime statistics tend to indicate that entrances being defeated are often the result of door frame failure (kicked or pried open), windows smashed or pried or doors being left unlocked.
In most places your trained local locksmith is often the best person to consult about suitable options tailored to your individual needs or desires. Most often a locksmith that is affiliated with a known professional organization, has proven credentials supporting their training.
Weeding the professionals from the wannabe's is sometimes a difficult task. Choosing your professional is accompanied by risks, but often the best recommendations are those of your neighbor or friend. Checkable references/testimonials from third party online agencies are often considered a worthwile guide to helping you choose your preferred vendor.
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It is the primary goal of the Florida Conference to encourage, help foster and equip local congregations to become vital and faithful communities.
This is our time as the United Church of Christ in Florida. We who are members of the Florida Conference of the United Church of Christ have been called to be good stewards of the considerable resources that God has entrusted to us. We are inheritors of a long and faithful history. Those who have gone before us have faithfully proclaimed the Gospel and lived out the call to mission and ministry. Like our forebears we face opportunities and challenges. Like our forebears we are called to be both tradition bearers and trailblazers. We find ourselves in a time of enormous change. The concerns over membership decline, dwindling resources and the pace of change in our culture can at times be overwhelming. Yet we are a people of hope and faith. We are a people who are disciples of Jesus Christ. We are a people who know the power of prayer and the power of action. We are a people who believe that the Spirit of God continues to move in real and powerful ways. We are a people who are called to rise up and sing, “Should the threats of dire predictions cause us to withdraw in pain, may your blazing phoenix spirit resurrect the church again. God of rainbow, fiery pillar, leading where the eagles soar, we your people, ours the journey now and ever, now and ever, now and evermore.” (Julian Rush “In the Midst of New Dimensions”, NCH #391).
It is clear that our churches are our greatest asset. Both our authorized ministers and our lay leaders carry out the mission and ministry of their churches day in and day out. As our congregations transform lives and reach out in their communities with God’s love and compassion, a real and significant difference is made through our congregations. Another asset is our identity as members of the United Church of Christ. The core values of the United Church of Christ: Changing Lives, Extravagant Welcome and Continuing Testament help to clarify who we are and what we value. We are called to speak with a clear voice and to find ways to welcome those who are searching for a church like ours.
Our Conference leadership demonstrates a strong commitment to the mission and ministry of the Conference. The volunteers who make up our Boards and Committees exercise their considerable gifts on behalf of the wider church. The Conference staff is seen as an asset to helping equip the mission of the Conference.
We have been blessed with material assets. The Endowment Fund, the Invested Reserve Funds and Real Properties are a part of our life together and help equip us in fulfilling our mission and ministry.
The easiest challenge to identify is the diminishment of financial resources that the Conference continues to face. We must no longer rely on two income streams (OCWM and Per Capita) as the sole financial support for the mission and ministry of the Conference. The decline in giving has been dramatic in the last decade. In 2000 our Basic Support OCWM giving from our churches was $921,000. In 2011 the OCWM support was $527,000 a ten year decline of $394,000. We need to continue to develop financial strategies which include: Planned Giving Initiatives, Directed Giving Opportunities for Individuals and Congregations, Friends of the Conference appeals, Fundraising Initiatives and exploration of Grant Income.
Membership decline is another challenge. From 2000 to 2010 membership in our churches went from 32,734 in 2000 to 25,006 in 2010 – a drop of 7728 members in a 10 year period of time – a 23% loss of members in this time period. In the past two years three of our churches have closed. Currently 24 of our 96 churches are served by part time leadership.
Seasonality is a challenge for many of our churches. The impact of the influx of people during the winter is significant for a good number of our churches. The negative impact of decision making and finances are a real challenge to those most significantly impacted by the changes that this reality brings to our churches.
Embracing change is a significant challenge for most of our churches. The fear of loss causes pain and anxiety as we head into the unknown future. We have yet to utilize technology in a real substantial way. Many of our churches are concerned that there aren’t any (or very few) young people present in the life of the church. The models of church life seem outdated yet the resistance to change is present. Our churches are predominately Euro American in background. We have not found ways to date of attracting or starting churches which reach the considerable Hispanic population of our state or other immigrant communities in our midst.
In 2011, for the first time in recent history the population of Florida decreased. The economic downturn has manifested itself most dramatically in the housing markets as foreclosures abound and people find themselves “upside down” in their mortgages. Funding for public education continues to be cut in dramatic ways; lawmakers have considered enacting harsher anti-immigration laws and the issues of homeless and poverty get little consideration in the public sphere. The accounts of modern day slavery taking place in Florida’s fields sends chills down our spines. We live with a heightened state of anxiety about when the next “big storm” might hit one of our coasts. In the midst of this context, in this time we are moving towards establishing a “culture of experimentation” where we can find ways to share our best practices with one another and to build a community of interdependence across the Conference that reaffirms the notion that we need one another to equip vitality and to provide needed mutual support.
This is not the first time we have had to be flexible and adapt to the changing times. Every generation finds itself facing new challenges and opportunities. When the Conference was born there were very few congregations in place. As Florida began to grow in size and population the establishment of new churches became the priority. Planting new churches became the priority and so we developed a singular focus in establishing new congregations. As the demographics of our state shift we must ask ourselves how we can best be responsive to the needs of the communities in which we find ourselves at this moment in time.
Transformed Lives – Jesus calls us to a new way of living and viewing the world. Once we have been changed by his radical love we must work with others to change the world.
Continuing Testament – We proclaim that “God is Still Speaking” and that this ongoing story is ours to live and ours to incarnate in our communities, state, nation and world.
We believe these values offer life giving messages for our members – and for those who have yet to come to know us as a church.
Love God, love neighbor. What would that look like for us to organize our Conference and our churches around the “great commandment”?
Our congregations are the base of the Florida Conference. They are called to be the local centers of ministry and mission. They are the places where the “great commandment” can be lived out in real and tangible ways.
Therefore it is the primary goal of the Florida Conference to encourage, help foster and equip local congregations to become vital and faithful communities.
Invest in technologies and social media to build connections among the churches.
Provide a variety of resources to local churches around specific areas of need eg.: worship, evangelism, leadership development, stewardship, financial development, youth and young adults, communication strategies, interfaith resources and promotion of core values.
Build an infrastructure of relationships between and among churches to foster sharing of best practices, learning from mistakes and failures and networking around congregational needs.
Encourage local congregations to multiply as congregations. Develop ways to nurture and train leadership for new church starts or multi-site congregations with an emphasis on Hispanic and immigrant communities.
It is our hope and prayer that this vision will set the course and direction for the Florida Conference for the next five years as we seek to be God’s faithful people in this time and place. Thanks be to God!
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Australia is one of the favourite holiday destinations of many people. Australia attracts a large chunk of tourists every year. If you are planning to head off to travel around Australia, then you must select the best type of car to make your holiday a memorable one. Choose the type of car depending on the places you want to travel in Australia because the landscape of Australia is very large and beautiful. In this guide, you will go through some important information that includes Nissan X-trail review. Here is a list of steps to how to choose best car for your family to tour within Australia.
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First you go to different websites like Kmart and Sears or Walmart . The second thing you do is to search for the item that you want to purchase . Then you click on the one that you want to purchase. There will be a bunch of stuff come up under that category then you click on the one that you want to purchase. Then it will ask you to create an account first before counting purchasing your best family tent. Then you will have created an account with one of their website in order to pay for your item so they can have the right shipping address on file and also so they can have the right credit or debit card into on file . With account on a website you will have to be sign in and order to be able to pay for you item. Some websites will let you checkout as a guess and not make you to have account with the website. When setting up account online to purchase a item online you first have to enter your first and last name and put your state and zip code , city ‘ a course your shipping address , your credit card or debit card info . First thing you will have to do is click on the tent you want and add it to the shopping cart then click on the purchase tab on the website and then before you checkout and pay with a debit card or a credit card .
Relax and have fun in the Yarra Valley!
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All of you do some exercise or the other, for instance running, jogging, cycling, walking etc. to keep yourselves agile and active. LED vest for running, as the name suggests, is meant for usage while one is running under poor visibility conditions, be it day or night. These vests provide safety for motorcycle riders too. Easy to wear and visible up to half a mile distance, this gadget is the most preferred among men and woman all over the world. There are several points worth considering while you purchase this item. The LED vest with light transmission fiber optics provides 360 degree ultra-high visibility in your dusk and night time activities. There are two LED wristbands and 5 bright LED lights which will increase visibility in night time sports. You could be seen by cars when running, bicycling or walking. It increases the safety under low light conditions. They are light in weight, weighing only 4.8 oz. They run on rechargeable battery. Once charged it can last up to 12 hours. There are three modes of operation and this is possible at the touch of a button. Slow, bright steady lighting and fast flashing gives greater visibility. They are available with highly adjustable sizes. They are unisex with all comforts meant for simple use. Its snug fit helps the gadget stay with the body while you are in motion. You could use it on a t-shirt or jacket. The wristband can be worn on wrist, ankle or arm. The vest has 4 x CR2032 3V and wristband has 2 x CR2016 3V lithium coin batteries. Buy LED Light Reflective Safety Vest and 2 LED Slap-On Wristbands on Amazon.com They provide greater visibility while running, walking or cycling without wearing a bulky reflective jacket. They are extremely simple in design. You are easily spotted by the motorists any time during day or night. Even a head lamp or running light cannot provide this type of eye catching visibility. They are made of light weight material; as a result your exercise activity is never hampered while using them. The fabric and buckle are made of high quality material and the stitching is very professional with a view to provide the user years of free use. The wristband is very tight and does not fade with distance, as it has 5 LED lights. This gadget is also very durable.
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The long boards are termed as the sidewalk surfing. These types of boards are similar to that of skateboarding. However if in case you are new to the long boarding there are so many different things that you need to keep in mind. One of the most common difference is the length of the boarding, with the majority of boards are come with the decks that can be measuring between 64 cm and 190 cm. This size of long boards makes it comfort to reach higher speedway less efforts and also these boards are ideal for slalom and downhill racing. Generally these types of boards are fitted with softer, larger wheels that can able to offer much smoother ride. Even it is also possible to buy and assemble the longer board individual parts, it would be highly advisable for the new comers to begin with complete long board rather than assembling the parts of the board. You can find plenty of manufacturers who can offer high quality complete long boards. One of the best sources to buy your long boards is the online shops where you can buy the boards at affordable prices. The online shops also allow you to avail discounts and offers on long board purchasing. Things to about longboards After you purchase the longboards from the reliable service provider, take it out for the first time to try it and select quiet regions with flat surfaces as possible. In addition this you need to consider the safety gears such as gloves, pads and helmets. When it comes to longboards for beginners, it is very important to learn its basic and also fundamentals of the board controls prior to progressing onto the board dancing or complicated maneuvers, The most important techniques to master all the carving.
How do you start your career as a bartender?
Have you decided to be a professional barman or bartender, and have been searching good schools for that purpose? So, firstly, the role of a bartender should be known well. Basically, bartenders are those professionals who are engaged in making, serving and also delivering beverages in legal bars. Other terms used for bartenders are barman, mixologist, barkeep or even barmaid. Their job also includes the maintenance of a bar. The most important thing is that this is a very simple task that can be done by everybody. No higher qualification or degree is required for this job. The income is not also little. Some training is required. Many schools or institutes are providing this training in the different countries of the world. However, a good institution and skilled faculty can train and make someone well capable for this job. Such type of helpful agency is BartenderTraining.ca which supplies important information like a full list of excellent bartender training centers in the different areas of Canada, valuable advices and tips for this purpose and also some fundamentals aspects of beverages. Therefore, it can surely be helpful to interested students.
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Do you have a dream of having a posh car? Have you ever wondered how nice it would be if you come out of your home and find a swanky car waiting for you? Well what if your dream was to come true? Yes! Your dream can come true. You can now hire a limousine anywhere in Melbourne. It would be a sheer bliss if you take your loved ones for a show in a posh hotel in a luxurious limo. You might be thinking it would too expensive. Well it might be definitely costly if you have to pay for security payment, insurance check and accidental cover. But, if you choose the limo hire services provided in Melbourne you can save on a lot of money. Limo Hire Melbourne is your one stop solution for the premium limo services in the city. You can hire whichever limo you dream of. It may be a white limo or even a fleet of black limos for a couple of days. You can also hire limos for parties, anniversaries, casino trips, concerts, dining events, day trips, wine tours, bachelorette parties, weddings and so on.
Just as this device gets the power back up, it immediately detects where on the golf course is a person, and what golf course he/she is playing the game.
The screen is huge, wide, and the digital marks and numbers are easy to read.
There is no presence of any bells or whistles, which can distract the player’s attention.
It is quick in registering the exact and accurate distance on all the parts of the golf course.
This device is really inexpensive in the way that it uses the GPS system, and yet it is cheap and affordable.
Why should a person use golf rangefinder? What are the facilities provided by this device?
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Golf is an exceptionally popular sporting event in Florida. This is the reason numerous people look for golf packages. There are more than one thousand people and as well individual greens in Florida State. Many vacation visitors worry experience more than a few of the best golfing all over the globe on the superbly preserved environment friendliest. When finding a great way to spend your vacation, the first option could be finding the best places for Florida golf vacations. This article will help you find the top notch place you can enjoy a great holiday. Golfing is an enormous activity and pastime for a lot of individuals these days. People are taking pleasure in on the golf course. A few of them are part of a group, when others simply play with family or friends for fun and perform. Unluckily, a lot of would be keen on playing golf through the whole year, but the typical Do not wait months for the summer. It is better to plan golf to your next holiday. Many people are opting golf vacation destinations for their upcoming vacations. There are plentiful choices offered for vacationers in spite of their liking or financial plan. Many of the state’s courses are connected to resorts therefore offering such package deals.
Are you a Chicago-based investor? Do you want a good investment company for maximum profits? Do you want some good investment advice from someone who has vast knowledge in the field? Then you can seek the help of Matthew Goldhaber. He has a large amount of experience in the field of investing. If you seek his help, you’ll surely be able to understand the job more and will reap large profits at once. Who is Matthew Goldhaber? Matthew Goldhaber is the senior vice president (SVP) of the greater Chicago area of the famous investment company called Fisher Investments. He has been serving the company in the area of greater Chicago since 2007. He is a very successful investor too and has a lot of experience in the field. He even helps newbies in the field by reassessing the investment strategy of the investor, and then he checks if Fisher Investment can help the investor gain their goal in the market with relative ease. He is presently living in the Lake Forest region of Chicago with his family. He studied business at the Indiana University and got his MBA degree from University of Chicago.
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So, you’re having an upcoming event and all stressed out on looking for the right persons to manage the show. Well don’t stress and leave the rest to the best event hire Sydney company . These people specialize in providing hiring of tables and chairs, table linen and glassware, audio equipment and party lighting, staging and dance floorings, marquees and stalls, chocolate fountains, fairy floss and popcorn machines, just a few to mention. Moreover, whatever the event may be such as an engagement party, a wedding, a fair, a huge magnitude event, a festival or a small house gathering, the range of paraphernalia can be hired. Even expenses spent on delivery are saved. A one stop event hire shop is required in saving precious time and irritations of going from one supplier to the next. Well, in preparing a successful event, a lot of steps are involved. Begin with the number of guest’s invitations and most importantly a budget allocated on each guest. Knowing how to meet the expenses, allows one to go ahead with further plans. Depending on the occasion, a location point is very much important too. If it’s a birthday party with a small gathering, the home is best considered. If it’s an outdoor or work event in a public area, the company workplace, a community hall or a function centre is feasible. If the occasion is an outdoor event one needs a marquee organised to keep safe from the rain and the weather depending on the season of the year. Moreover, guests don’t like travelling to far off places, so choosing one nearby helps in commuting properly.
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We pride ourselves to be the very first clinic to introduce the revolutionary HALO Hybrid fractional Laser into the UK and Europe by Dr Ayham Al-Ayoubi in 2015.
HALO Hybrid Fractional laser new resurfacing technology has completely revolutionised the theory that better results require either more downtime or more treatments, by combining the best attributes of both non-ablative and ablative fractional lasers.
This cutting-edge, none-invasive laser treatment stretches the skin’s natural thickness for a smoother, firmer, more youthful look and patients can get ablative-like results with non-ablative-like downtime.
Now with Halo laser, patients can get ablative-like results with non-ablative-like downtime. The cutting-edge, minimally-invasive laser treatment stretches the skin’s natural thickness for a smoother, firmer, more youthful look.
Over time, the skin can lose its youthful glow due to sun exposure and the body’s natural aging process. As a result, the body may develop sun spots, fine lines, and lose that natural healthy glow.
HALO laser eliminates years of damage by precisely targeting the right depth and restores the luminous glow skin by treating discoloration sun damage, uneven skin tone, enlarged pores, poor texture, fine lines and scar revision.
The benefits of a Halo treatment include both epidermal and deeper dermal pigmentation and tone and texture in the skin.
HALO laser offers the flexibility of completely turning off ablation for users that are not qualified to use an ablative laser or for those looking for the simplest laser treatments.
Both the ablative and non-ablative laser wavelengths can be delivered in the same pass, and many different permutations of depths and coverage are possible.
Anyone unhappy with the early signs of aging, areas of dark pigmentation and uneven skin texture may benefit from the Halo Laser.
The ideal patient is in generally good health, understands the laser treatment process, and holds reasonable expectation for results. The Halo laser can be combines with other invasive and nonsurgical treatments to provide optimal skin rejuvenating results.
HAlO laser treatment is quick, lasting only 20 to 45 minutes and full-face treatment takes up to one hour. The doctor may treat wrinkles around the eyes, mouth, or forehead individually or treat the entire face.
Laser skin rejuvenation and resurfacing is a gentle laser treatment for wrinkles and sun damage. This no-downtime procedure is appropriate for the face but also for the chest, neck and hands – anywhere that sun damage shows. Depending on the degree of damage to the skin and desired results, most patients require 1-2 Halo laser treatments, spaced 3-4 weeks apart.
Local anesthetic is applied prior to HALO laser treatment and protective eye shields must be worn.
There is slight discomfort during the procedure and rarely, a mild burning sensation may occur. Patients can expect the tissue to be red and slightly swollen after a Halo Laser treatment. It is also common for the skin to be tender for several days.
A few days after the procedure, the skin may begin to look dry or flaky. This occurs as the body sheds the old tissue and new, fresh skin is regenerated.
We have found that the Halo, in most patients, has no downtime. They can wear makeup the next day and go to work. They only need to use a moisturizer, no messy balm. On the second or third day after treatment, patients will begin to notice tiny dark spots and a bronzed appearance to the treated skin.
This is part of the healing process where treated tissue is working its way out of the body as new fresh skin is regenerated. During this time, the skin will be very dry and have a sandpaper texture. It will begin to flake and peel. For the face, this can last 2-5 days. If the neck, chest or anywhere else on the body was treated, this process could take up to two weeks.
After the peeling process is complete, the skin will have a rosy, pink glow that will gradually resolve. Sunscreen is a MUST throughout the entire healing process. It should be applied daily beginning the day of treatment and used vigilantly for up to three months post procedure. A post treatment kit will be provided to patients for cleansing and exfoliating the skin. Any post treatment discomfort may be relieved by over the counter oral pain relievers.
The design goal was to build a better non ablative fractional laser for doctors looking for an alternative to Contour TRL and Pro-Fractional with less downtime.
HALO laser delivers both ablative and non-ablative wavelengths to the same area at the same time using two different laser frequencies. This allows us to dial in the amount of energy we want to use on the surface layer of the skin and, at the same time, to dial in a different amount and depth of energy to the deeper tissues.
In testing, investigators found something remarkable. Patients treated with Halo had much better appearance related to texture and pigment improvement than expected.
Patients had amazing results in 1-2 treatments while older non-hybrid technology needed 5-6 treatments to have similar texture changes but did not approach Halo in terms of pigment correction. In addition, there was remarkable, unexpected improvement in pore size and number.
Adding tuneable ablation to a non-ablative treatment creates varying effects when different levels are used. Using low levels of ablation causes faster clearance of microscopic epidermal necrotic debris. Heavier levels of ablation seem to create a synergistic wound healing response. The clinical effect is ablative-like results with nearly non-ablative like healing.
During a non-ablative treatment, a column of the skin is heated to a temperature that necroses the epidermis and denatures dermal collagen. In the first 24 hours, the basal cell layer regenerates across the skin, under the necrosed epidermis and then proliferates upwards, expelling the necrosed tissue. This necrosed tissue becomes small packets of debris that are trapped under the stratum corneum, taking between 2 to 7 to days to clear.
Sciton, a leading manufacturer of high-quality laser and light systems in the aesthetic medical market launched Halo, the world’s first and only hybrid fractional laser, applying tuneable non-ablative and ablative wavelengths in a single pass to maximize results and reduce downtime.
“Halo is not an incremental product. It is the culmination of an extensive 4 year investigation involving new understanding of laser tissue physics combined with state-of-the-art implementation of all new technology,” said Dan Negus, President of Sciton.
In the past, patients had to choose between a laser procedure that offered really great results but required a lengthy recovery, and a laser procedure with a fast recovery but marginal results. HALO laser is an exciting new laser technology which combines the benefits of 3 separate laser treatments into one, giving amazing results within the no downtime.
Previous lasers couldn’t effectively remove the sun skin damage or skin pigmentation , because the treatment was either too shallow or too deep.
With HALO laser, we can finally have the best of both non-ablative and ablative wavelengths., which can precisely dial in the exact treatment patients need for amazing results within the desired downtime.
HALO laser delivers both ablative and non-ablative wavelengths to the same area at the same time using two different laser frequencies, this gives Halo the unique ability to provide separate treatments for the epidermis, which heals quickly, and dermis which remodels more slowly over time. The operator may choose one of three coverage-base treatment levels, and Halo calculates the exact amount of energy necessary to complete a safe and effective treatment. Intelligent energy delivery, combined with Dynamic Thermal Optimization, ensures precise and even treatments, each and every time.
We now can address sun damage, surface texture, and fine lines and wrinkles in a combined treatment with a much easier and quicker healing experience than any other laser on the market today. In addition, it is the only laser that effectively targets large pores.
Dr Ayoubi uses HALO laser as alone standing treatment or combining it with other treatments such as Collagen Stimulation , Chemical Peels to treat wrinkles, pigmentation, sun damage, acne scarring, and overall skin rejuvenation.
We are excited to start providing this new laser technology treatment to patients at our London Medical and Aesthetic Clinic, which is the only clinic in the UK to have the new HALO laser – The world’s first and only hybrid fractional laser for laser resurfacing.
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Elephant Bedroom Camp, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.
Set on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River in Samburu National Reserve surrounded by Doum palms and other beautiful indigenous trees and shrubs.
Elephant Bull, Jao Concession, Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Jao offers an excellent all round Okavango experience, with game drives, mokoro excursions, short guided walks and boating available.
Chongwe River House wins The Good Safari Award for the Best Safari House in Africa AGAIN!
Game viewing is done from a vehicle in either the Lower Zambezi National Park or from a boat on the Zambezi. Canoeing, walking and fishing are also offered.
African Lion - The predator everybody wants to see on Safari!
The lodge is surrounded on all sides by water, but for a 100 yard wide section where the river has not quite joined up, to become a true island.
Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa.
Cape Town is a city of culture, built on a history that reflects in the architecture, cuisine, music and dance. An ideal holiday destination throughout the year.
Lake Kariba | Matusadona N.P.
We ONLY Market REASONABLY Priced Botswana Safaris!!
With the ever increasing rates of certain camps and lodges in Botswana, (making such camps only affordabe for super wealthy), we have decided to stop marketing such camps, and in future focus on marketing only reasonably priced safari camps. Some camps have now become so expensive, that there is no reciprocity between value given and value received, which will now be the deciding factor in marketing Botswana Safaris!
Visit www.theadventuretravel.company and see our wide range of adventure travel vacations offered worldwide! From Snow Leopards in India to Jaguars in the Pantanal of Brazil to Polar Bears in the Arctic to Culinary Tours in Greece and Vietnam! A wonderful combination of wildlife and culture as part of lovely adventure travel vacations!
This is an exciting and affordable Safari we put together! Accommdation in Cape Town is at the renowned 5-Star Table Bay Hotel, and the itinerary includes tours of Cape Town, an excursion up Table Mountain, a tour to Cape Point, seeing the penguins at Boulder Bay as well as a full day winelands tour, which entails 3 wine tastings. The safari properties are located in two different areas, with open boundaries to the Greater Kruger Park, ensuring the best game viewing opportunities!
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If there’s one thing we love about working with Natural Selection, it’s sharing Africa’s wildlife and wilderness. They also understand, however, that there’s no such thing as a ‘one size fits all’ safari. Different people have different tastes and interests, schedules and budgets, and that’s exactly where their Custom Safaris fit in. A Natural Selection Custom Namibia Safari puts you in control of where you want to go and what you want to see – We work closely with thyem to help you plan the safari of your dreams.
You choose your route, camps and lodges, and we’ll put the pieces of the puzzle together to make the journey work. The best part of planning a Custom Namibia Safari is selecting the camps and lodges to stay in. All of their camps and lodges are characterful and just the right amount of quirky, but they also have a myriad of different wildlife and things to do and see!
Namibia is one of the planet's most scenic, and undoubtedly its most eclectic, countries. From the apricot dunes of the Namib; to the sweeping, ancient and lonely vistas of the Skeleton Coast; to the bronzed valleys of its interior, Namibia is a photographer's dream. And, with but 1.5 million people sharing 315,000 square miles, Namibia is a good place to be alone. Etosha National Park is both rich and diverse in wildlife-from its famous lion to the healthiest remaining black rhino population in Africa.
Below are a selection of customized safari itineraries. None are set in stone, and can be tweaked to meet your exact requirements! We do all of the research and planning. We cover every detail. All you need to do is pack your bag and enjoy the special wonders of Africa!
We’re very excited about the launch of our new itinerary, ‘A Skeleton Coast and Hoanib Adventure.’ Before the grand reveal, we’ve got a few tweaks to make and a couple of prices to finalise but if you’re interested in travelling in 2018, please contact us for more details. See you in Namibia!
Namibia is awe-inspiringly impressive from all angles, but from a small plane, high up in the skies, it’s even more extraordinary. And that’s exactly why we’ve come up with this ultimate Namibian fly-in safari. For seven days, you’ll swap four wheels (almost) for two wings, and travel across Namibia on a series of short flights, so all that’s left to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy the scenery sweeping below you.
Your Namibian Flying Adventure begins in Windhoek. From here, you’ll fly over the vast desert-scapes of northern Namibia to the private Etosha Heights Reserve on the edge of Etosha National Park for some serious wildlife watching. You’ll then fly west towards the Atlantic Coastline over the remote Kaokoland area, touching down for a few days to explore on ground-level – and it’s just as spectacular, we promise – before soaring back down south to Swakopmund.
If you like your Namibia safaris with an added dose of adventure and a few extra thrills and spills, then we may have found the perfect itinerary for you. This 12-day guided safari combines the iconic highlights of northern Namibia, with three nights under the watchful eyes of the towering dunes and crystal-clear skies at Sossusvlei, before ending at the coastal town of Swakopmund.
Indredible value for money! Your choice of dates!
Just about every visitor to South Africa wants to see and experience what Cape Town has to offer, as it is said to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world! This safari does it all! - Starting in Cape Town, with a tour to the winelands, followed by a safari in the Greater Kruger Park area. The accommodation in the safari areas is unique - A combination of the luxurious King's Camp in the Timbavati - a luxury lodge within the Kruger Park as well as at Mala Mala Game Reserve - where game viewing is unsurpassed!
This safari will leave you with everlasting pleasant memories, and truly a great choice for honeymooners!
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Situated on the northern edge of the Maasai Mara reserve, Elephant Pepper Camp is an 8-tented camp, hidden away in a prime wildlife area.
Elephant Pepper Camp is an original safari camp situated in one of the world’s greatest wildlife reserves, the Maasai Mara. This fascinating eco-system is home to enormous herds of plains game, big cats and elephant as well as colorful birds, small game, riverine wildlife and stunning scenery.
Located on the Koiyaki Community Group Ranch in the northern part of the Mara, this semi-permanent camp is nestled in the shade of a natural forest with all the comforts and none of the stress of the modern world.
There are eight canvas tents with en-suite dressing rooms, flush toilets and safari showers filled with hot water. The main lounge/dining tent offers family style dining and a help-yourself bar.
Activities include day and night game drives in 4-wheel drive Land Rovers, guided walks and bush picnics. The homely atmosphere of the camp is part of its unique charm and the staff are friendly and welcoming.
Each day brings a surprise, whether it is a bush breakfast prepared by our camp staff, a night drive or interaction between wildlife. The wildlife is unequalled in all the world. herds roam at will and graze seemingly content, but always on the lookout for predators - Lion, leopard, Cheetah an Hyaena... This is Eden!
Sometime between July and October the Mara is host to the great wildebeest and zebra migration, when following the grazing, wildebeest and zebra converge on the lush Mara grasslands in their millions.... Guided walks, night game drives & bush breakfasts are just two of the surprises waiting for you!
Saturdays, Sundays and Federal Holidays please leave a message. A safari consultant will contact you the next business day.
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http://www.africansafaris.travel/camps_lodges/elephantpepper.htm
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Fluidity was released on December 6, 2010 in North America through Nintendo's WiiWare service. Fluidity was developed by Curve Studios and published by Nintendo. The game is available for download through the WiiWare service for 1200 Wii Points, which is $12.
A portion of the game's description reads, "Tilt or twist your Wii Remote controller to use the various forms and properties of water on your free-flowing journey through Aquaticus, where every page has multiple panels and illustrations that have come to life. ...additional powers, such as sticking to objects as a block of ice or shooting bolts of lightning as a steam cloud, will be needed to win the day and destroy the Influence and its minions."
The ESRB rating for Fluidity is "E for Everyone", with "Comic Mischief" being the only content listed for parents to be aware of.
How many hours have Wii owners spent sloshing and sliding their way through Fluidity, in the 64 days reported? Let's take a look!
Fluidity has 5,961 Wii owners reporting game-play data through the Wii's Nintendo Channel for its debut, just 64 days after it released.
Fluidity has 53,108 Total Hours of game-play reported on its debut, with an average "sloshing" play-time of 8 Hours 54 Minutes "Per person" reporting data.
Fluidity's average play-time per session is just over 1 Hour 36 Minutes.
Fluidity is currently in the top 20 on the WiiWare's "Popular Titles" section, sitting at the #11 spot.
Based on the approximate number of players reporting data, and the $12 price point of Fluidity, Curve Studios' net sales on Fluidity would be about $71,532 in the United States, before profit sharing with Nintendo.
Fluidity has been received well by the "professional" reviewers, and its current "professional" review score average is 86.78%, based on 9 reviews on GameRankings.com.
I thought it was interesting that Fluidity allows you to take on the different states of water: solid(ice), liquid(water) and gas(steam).
With H2O in each of those states, you could use the water to brew regular coffee, use the ice to make iced coffee, or use the steam to make an espresso drink...how fitting!
Second, if you think you might be interested in the game, but aren't sure; I highly suggest going to the Wii's Shop Channel and downloading the free demo for Fluidity and giving it a try.
I just completed the demo, and found it to be rather fun and interesting. If you like puzzle-platform type games, I really suggest you give it a try!
Considering that Fluidity is a brand new IP, and a WiiWare title, I think the fact that it debuted in just 64 days is really awesome for the game. With the game's price tag being $12 compared to a lot of other WiiWare titles with lower price points, I think it's a good sign for Curve Studios and Nintendo that the game is still in the top 20 right now.
The one bit of game-play data that I'm really surprised by is the average hours "Per person" being 8 Hours 54 Minutes...especially for a $12 game! There are many full retail games that release at $50 or more, that have about the same number of hours for a single-player campaign.
Being that I haven't played the full WiiWare version of Fluidity, I don't know how many hours it takes to complete just the main campaign, but I do know there are items players can go back to find in levels to unlock another mode in the game; so the 8 Hours 54 Minutes could be reflecting more of the "completionist" players that are going back to collect everything.
If you have played and beaten Fluidity, about how many hours did it take you to complete? From your experience with Fluidity is it a WiiWare game you would recommend to other Wii owners looking for a good puzzle-platforming type game?
I've actually enjoyed the demo quite a lot, but apart from me being a bit turned off from buying Wiiware I've still got way too many games to play and finish. If anything I should play more Super Meat Boy again.
Still, I'd recommend anyone to try this demo as it's a really nice looking and feeling game and I'm sure it only gets better after the demo ended. Although I heard the spike in difficulty in the last levels is awfully demotivating.
"...but apart from me being a bit turned off from buying Wiiware..."
Why are you turned off from buying WiiWare?
I really liked the demo, but I have about 5 wiiware games to finish still. Lost Winds 2, Cave Story, Master Blaster, Rage the Gladiator, And Yet it moves. Plus the 12 dollars price tag gave me pause as well. 8-10 bucks seems better to me. Maybe they would sell more copies if they fixed there freakin shop channel.
Only have the demo, at this point. It's something I knew would go on my "To Buy" list when they first showed it off. I have heard that it has a lot to do, though there are some complaints about how some levels ask you to travel back through portions of previous levels to get to the new parts and the goal of those other levels.
Man, these demos have completely filled my SD card, so me being OCD, I've got to spend some buck on a bigger SD card instead of a WiiWare game or two (or three).
Rage of the Gladiator is calling your name I think! How far did you make it in Rage of the Gladiator?
I haven't played your other WiiWare games, other than the And Yet It Moves demo...which I thought was interesting, but as you probably know, I really enjoyed Rage of the Gladiator.
You can find 4GB SD cards for under $10 on Amazon...I use a 4GB, and have a good amount of room left for demos and actual games still.
As for Fluidity, I did read about the back-tracking in some levels, but it seems that it's a minor issue, and most of the people enjoy the game...especially with an average play-time of almost 9 hours.
Thank you both for the comments and feedback!
I forgot to check and reply here it seems. Turned off from Wiiware with the whole buying points and not having an account but bound to the console thing. Even more now that the bit.trip games end up being ported to Steam. Same for Nyxquest and such.
Apart from beat I'd get any bit.trip game on the PC, for better visuals and sound quality and since only the controls for beat and soon flux with the Wiimote are what I can get only on Wii without some trickery.
I'm spoiled from Steam and a nice account system, updates, great sales and ease of use, friendlists and infos and easy pairing up with multiplayer games and all that. Let alone I buy a game and that's that. No dumb points to pre-buy and then spend half of them or another awkward amount on a game, leaving me with too few to buy anything else without adding yet another amount of points.
So if fluidity was on Steam for example, I'd just have it on my wishlist and might simply pick it up if they have it in a crazy sale for 50% or less, even if I don't immediately play it or "want it that bad".
On the Wii there's a lot more steps and if I don't want a game specifically and really bad and it offers something Wii-centric, I'm just not likely to get it anymore now.
I played the demo a few weeks ago and had a great time with it. And puns aside it was 'refreshing' to do something different with the mote which didn't seem like a gimmick at the time. It also seemed like a quality title and not just some casual wiiware slop.
It's certainly on my 'to be considered later' list, but not crucial at this time.
As gLitterBug mentioned the shopping experience is just poor and does make it more cumbersome to purchase than it should be. (perhaps we're just spoiled by Steam?) I honestly never see sales on WiiWare titles which is also part of my decision process.
But that's not to say that WiiWare titles don't have merit on their own. I own World Of Goo on PC and Wii and it's difficult to compete [fun factor] with 4-player party mode on the wii.
"Turned off from Wiiware with the whole buying points and not having an account but bound to the console thing."
I think Nintendo is trying to fix this with the 3DS, by getting rid of the "Wii/DSi Points" system, and using a straight dollar/money ratio.
Also, it's interesting you mentioned Steam, as it's a service I don't use...just because I really don't game on my PC anymore, but I've heard a lot of great things about the service.
"And puns aside it was 'refreshing' to do something different with the mote which didn't seem like a gimmick at the time." Haha! The developers could probably use that in marketing the game more!
"I honestly never see sales on WiiWare titles which is also part of my decision process."
I do think this is an issue Nintendo should address somehow. If WiiWare developers release a game, and aren't getting good sales on it, I would think dropping the price in some instances would help the game sell more, but Nintendo doesn't allow price drops on the WiiWare service. So, even if a game is out for 1-2 years on the WiiWare service, it won't see a price drop because of Nintendo's policy.
Thank you both for the comments/feedback! I appreciate it!
A gamer that's not on steam? I didn't think such things existed. There is something to be said for a console experience, but still hard to beat steam. Great stuff for travel and a quick few minutes at lunch too.
That's interesting about N's policy of not lowering prices on WiiWare or VC titles. I had no idea.
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2019-04-20T09:31:31Z
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http://www.coffeewithgames.com/2011/02/water-ice-and-steam-forecast-fluiditys.html
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My cup is always more than half full! Guess what happens when I am sick? I learn about all kinds of new TV programs that I might never have discovered! I think I told you one time before about how I had been binge watching Ramen Noodle cooking shows on Netflix (food GEEK!) and that has metamorphosed into chef shows on Netflix (more food GEEK!). I am IN LOVE with this 6 part series called Chef’s Table! I am IN LOVE! So – since I am still recovering, I started watching the series AGAIN because I felt I didn’t catch everything the first time. Now, you see, since I have filled my time watching and rewatching Netflix shows while I recover, I am having to save some time somewhere and that is how you find crockpot Cheeseburger Soup for your recipe today! And, my dear friend, unless I find myself with a WHOPPING cold again, I promise to not show you two crockpot soup recipes in a row anymore!
I’ll get to the recipe express lane in a moment, but first I have to tell my REALLY EXCELLENT NEWS!! When I checked to see if Chef’s Table had been renewed for a second season – I found that it HAS!! WHOOOPEEE!!! Even better, it has been renewed for FOUR MORE SEASONS!!! So excited. I’m planning my next sickness for after May when it starts again! Lol. OK – not really – but you can bet, I’ll be making time to watch it! Now – on with the recipe!! If you would like to join me for some chit chat and recipe tips and tricks – please please meet me after the recipe and the photos and we will do just that.
This is the best I've ever had. What sets it apart? Cream Cheese. Don't skip that part.
1 large can diced tomatoes about 15oz size - I use a quart of my home canned tomatoes (if using the soup size cans - use two).
Break/pinch the ground beef into small pea sized pieces and place in the crockpot. Put everything else into the crockpot except the american cheese food and mozzarella. Place lid on crockpot and set on low. Cook for 6-8 hours. (Can do 4 hours on high if desired).
When ready to eat, stir in the cheeses and replace the lid and let sit for about 10 mins to allow cheese time to melt. Stir well and serve. Can serve with garnish such as basil. Can even wilt in some fresh spinach leaves if a little green is desired. Doesn’t affect the taste and adds some healthy yumminess. I like to serve this with a garlic toast and a yummy green salad! In fact, keep your eyes on my site, I’m gonna share that salad soon!
You could substitute ground pork or sausage for the ground beef.
In my mind, and perhaps it is only in my mind, this soup tastes JUST LIKE a big ol meaty hamburger with ketchup, tomatoes and onion on top. YUM! Now, my favorite hamburger topping is mustard, pickle and mayo – but I haven’t quite figured out how to put that in a soup yet – although, I am thinking at little mustard might be just right at home in this soup.
I think some hamburger bun croutons would be PERFECT with this soup- but didn’t include those in the instructions. HERE are the instructions for making your own croutons – so EASY!! Go check it out. So much more tasty than a store bought crouton!
THIS is an IMPORTANT TIP. Do NOT. I MEAN DO NOT just dump your whole pound of ground beef into the crockpot and let it cook. You will end up with a huge lump of cooked ground beef – that is quite difficult to break up into bite sized pieces. That is why the instructions say to break/pinch it up into tiny pieces. I know this to be fact.
If you wanted this recipe to taste even better – you could brown your meat before putting it in the crockpot and that would ensure that it wouldn’t clump – and would add that yummy crusty burnt edge flavor – but it isn’t necessary. If you are going to go to that trouble – do the onions too. But as I said before, I belong to the tribe of “dump it in” crockpot lovers. You still end up with a good dinner this way and no hassle and no extra dishes to wash. Thank you grandmother crockpot who lovingly cooks for my family all day – especially when I have a cold and am not cooking too much for myself!
Well, I was zooming around Pinterest one day and saw a cheeseburger soup. I read the recipe which started out with browning celery and carrots in butter in the bottom of a stock pot. Which, I admit, is the way I too start most soups too. However, I needed a crockpot recipe and I wanted mine to taste like one of my cheeseburgers – and I definitely don’t put carrots or celery in my cheeseburgers. I am a weird kind of sick at the moment in which I am STARVING hungry but am having some trouble swallowing – so, I want something to EAT that will FILL ME UP without taxing my throat too much! That started me in on my own creation.
I ended up with my own basic hamburgers ready for the grill recipe mixed with some of the cheeseburger toppings in soup form (tomatoes, onions, A-1, etc). I learned a long time ago that virtually anything you can bake in the oven or that you can cook on the stovetop, you can cook in a crockpot. It just takes a little finagling.
OK – Let’s get back to the whole Netflix thing. I am stuck on this Chef’s Table series and that is really saying something, because I never watch TV. I am usually too busy perusing my cookbooks, planning my garden or canning something to worry with TV watching in the evening. I think I have maybe even been a little “Holier than thou” about it at times – which is wrong – because I LOVE the people I live with who DO enjoy watching TV! What about you? Do you have a favorite show? Do you despise TV? Do you binge watch anything? I would love to chit chat about it! I wish the comment section would start RIGHT HERE, but alas – they are down at the bottom of the page – I hope you will scroll down there and leave me a comment. I LOVE To hear from you!
This recipe is for a slow cooker soup that is so thick it is like a chowder or stew. Rich with hamburger and cheese and slow cooked all day! PERFECT!
I love Psalm 27. This is one of my favorite verses. I appreciate you sharing this recipe. I always believed you could cook ground beef in a crockpot. Thanks again. I enjoyed this blog about binge watching. Mine would be Law & Order also Criminal Minds and another I like is First 48. When I’m not watching any cooking shows, my hobbies include reading recipes not to follow them but to look at the pictures and duplicate them.
Hi Maronda! Thanks so much for visiting! I love to look at blogs too! What kind of recipes are your favorite? We should have a binge watch of law and order. Love it!!
I love Psalm 27. This is one of my favorite verses. I appreciate you sharing this recipe. I always believed you could cook ground beef in a crockpot. Thanks again. I enjoyed this blog about binge watching. Mine would be Law & Order also Criminal Minds and another I like is First 48. When I’m not watching any cooking shows, my hobbies include reading recipes not to follow them but to look at the pictures.
I love Psalm 27. This is one of my favorite verses. I appreciate you sharing this recipe. I always believed you could cook ground beef in a crockpot. Thanks again. I enjoyed this blog about binge watching. Mine would be Law & Order also Criminal Minds and another I like is First 48bwhen I’mean not watching any cooking shows. My hobbies include reading recipes not to follow them but to look at the pictures.
I love Psalm 27. This is one of my favorite verses. I appreciate you sharing this recipe. I always believed you could cook ground beef in a crockpot. Thanks again. I enjoyed this blog about binge watching. My would be Law & Order also Criminal Minds another I like is First 48bwhen I’mean not watching any cooking shows. My hobbies include reading recipes not to follow them but to look at the pictures.
This soup looks so tasty. It looks perfect for a good bowl of comfort when you’re feeling under the weather or just want a delicious meal. Thanks for sharing. Hope you’re feeling better and glad your favorite show is returning.
This soup looks like comfort in a bowl……needed when you feel puny! I used to watch a lot of food network but not anymore. Give me a good mystery novel and I’m a happy girl! Pinned. Hope you feel better soon. It would be great if we could plan our sickness to suit us! Thanks for sharing. Have a good week!
Hi Mary!! Thank you! I’m feeling much better now and have some fun recipes planned for this week. I enjoy a good read as well! What has been your favorite novel so far?
Mmmm what a great, creamy, cheesy crockpot recipe! Does it freeze well? I love mini soup containers for lunches. Definitely need to add Chef’s Table to my Netflix list ~ along with this recipe. Thanks for sharing Wendi and Happy Easter to you and your family!
Hi Bernie!! I don’t know if it freezes because we have never had any left past day 3. Lol. I don’t know why it wouldn’t though. Let me know what you think of Chefs Table. Can’t wait to do a Netflix compare!!
Ha! The sign of a good soup! Sometimes I’ll make a pot specifically for freezing in individual containers ~ makes it really easy for lunches. This would also be a great recipe for our Soup Swap. The girls would love it. Okay – Chefs Table — I’m hooked. I’ve only had time for the first episode but loved it. I want to go back to Italy and Massimo is adorable! What a charming story about him story about “hiding” under his grandmother’s kitchen table as she worked and tasting the food!
I KNOW RIGHT!??!!! I particularly love the episode about Dan … Can’t remember his last name – but I heard him on a TED talk yesterday. He is totally on the right path about sustainable practices and delicious food that is good for us. Glad I’m not the only one hooked!!
Happy Easter! Hope you’re feeling better and you can go out and welcome the Easter bunny :-).The crockpot soup certainly looks comforting and hearty!! I don’t watch much TV — my hubby and I use to watch the Food Channel all the time but they changed the format so we don’t watch. I love to read so if I’m feeling down that’s what I do. Have a good day.
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2019-04-22T22:11:06Z
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https://www.loavesanddishes.net/crockpot-cheeseburger-soup/
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Hey guys. Currently in Singapore feeling very tired and red-eyed. I had about 3 hours sleep before the flight (which is enough to JUST last me until landing) and I fell asleep again in the hotel for a grand total of... 2 hours.
Everytime I get a Singapore flight, I always promise myself to go to either the Jurong Bird Park, or the Botanical Gardens. But somehow I always manage to wind up at Orchard Rd, spending way too much money, or at Zouk getting sloshed because it's the only decent place to drink on a SIN-CMB trip. But now I'm wrecked, and I know for sure that in a few days when I land it'll be the same. So maybe it's just Xmas shopping on the cards.
The Xmas tree that's shining a bright green light into my hotel room. Will get a better photo of it tomorrow morning when I go out for breakfast.
Meanwhile, Ash's gone a little Xmas crazy. Since I got back she's been playing Xmas carols by Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and Leanna Rimes. She's even got Alvin and the Chipmunks singing carols. There's a wreath made out of Lifco plastic bags in our living room. There's an angel on top of the TV. And she's bought a Christmas tree, and stockings for all of us to chuck presents in. It's not even December yet. I'm scared. Carols and joy and goodwill just don't come naturally to me.
Downing a Chip Roll from Geroge's Kebabs, smothered with garlic sauce with a light sprinkle of chicken salt, all washed down with post-mix Coke-Cola.
Dinner at Pancho's - Tula's the best!
Buy lunch from Supa Valu, grab a 4-pack of Jesters' Spud Delux, and eat it finding out that the outside is hot enough to scorch the tongue, but the inside still has icicles in it.
Realise that I'm not even 50% of the way through the floors when Dad & Peter get home.
Hey guys, just wastig time at the airport at the moment. I still have another 2 hours to kill. Free wireless here is starting to annoy me as it keeps transferring back to the airport website which is a pain, but if it's free then you shouldn't complain too much.
About 50% of the passengers that walk past has luggage that is waaay too big. Sometimes I wish that they banned wheels on hand luggage so that when pax realise how heavy it is then they won't bring it on board, instead opting for a backpack/laptop bag or slim briefcase.
Those buggies in the airport - a heap have gone past, but I've only seen one person who actualy needed it (elderly pax). Aside from stopping you moving around your legs before hopping onto a plane in economy with minimal legroom, it's bloody annoying having the buggy ram into your shins.
Seen one woman who enjoyed the Dubai sun a little too much. Turned out red raw and wore coral lipstick to boot!
Who on earth buys washing powder at duty free!?!
Why do people who are in transit sleep on the floor and block 4 seats in the process? There's heaps of ideal floor sleeping locations, and a hotel for goodness sakes.
I don't know. Maybe because I deal with these sort of people every week that even when I'm not working they seem to grate on me.
Hey there guys. Just came back from Manila this morning. Loved it there, felt quite popular with my phone ringing all the time. "Hey Mel, do you want to catch up for breakfast?" "Hey Mel, where's Makati? Can I come shopping too?" "Do you have so-and-so's number?" "Whatcha doing for Lunch? Dinner?" So yeah because I had a lot planned unexpectedly I didn't get a lot of rest, and after a little cat nap this morning I'm still quite tired.
Had to run around today getting off jobs done, like exchanging money, and buying dates for Dad (He loves them to bits.) Haven't even packed my suitcase yet! I'm also struggling to eat the Luxembrugli I bought when I flew to Zurich.
Yes, after visiting Zurich, and stocking up on Max Brenner products in Manila, I have enough chocolate to open up my own store.
Well, while putting out the garbage tonight, I came across a box that one of my neighbours had dumped on the floor of the chute. (nice work whoever that was :-/) The box was from Brownbag.ae, an online store unheard of in the UAE. I checked out the site, and it looked pretty funky.
They guarrentee that they would deliver within the hour at any hour of the day or night. Very handy for all those late night piss-ups we seem to get every now and again, and they deliver anything from soft drink, to magazines, to rental videos, to chocolate, to phone cards, and condoms (But I think to most guys having to wait an hour for condoms is a bit of an effort).
So I decided I had to try it out, to see if they really would dispatch it, and on time, and that I didn't have to give out my precious credit card to anyone. And whaddya know! It came! So cool!
Hey guys, I know I haven't updated in a while. It's also as if I haven't had any excuse - when I'm not flying I pretty much sit at home on the computer anyway chatting to friends.
Yesterday morning I came back from Glasgow, and there was one incident which put me in a crappy mood for the entire flight. It was after the meal service and these engineering guys from our airline were travelling back after their training or exams or whatever. The group of them were drinking hard liqour, and one of them wanted more ice for his Jack Daniels + Coke.
"Wait a sec, I'll get some more ice tongs, the ones here have been put away"
"Oh no, that's alright, it's okay."
After this, the guy STICKS HIS HAND IN THE ICE BUCKET! Disgusting! Other people have to use the ice! Haven't you heard of cross contamination?
Of course we had to dump the ice, with 3 hours of the flight to go. A flight full of Scots who love their liquor. And Diet Coke. I could have smacked the guy.
As some of you know, I'm not originally from Perth. I moved to Perth at the ripe old age of 7, having come from Newcastle in NSW. But the place I was born, and that is branded on my passport and birth certificate and al other document fodder for the rest of my life, is Werribee, Victoria.
Thanks to my Dad, who was with the RAAF at the time, I no longer have to live there. To any Victorian, or even any clued up Aussie, Werribee is known for only a couple of things.
It has a sewage plant. "Ah, you're poo farm girl!"
So naturally, someone has made a blog of it now. It's only got a month's worth of photos/posts, but some of the pictures in there are definately worth a look. My favorite is the shopping trolly pyramid.
Hey guys, hope all is well and good in Dubai.
Yesterday I got really bored of staying at my apartment moping about, I actually called work and said I wanted to work on my day off. This month they gave me flights which didn't accumulate a lot of hours, and I hate days off anyway. So I called them up, and they said they didn't need crew! I couldn't believe it, especially on a Friday morning.
Then they called me, and offered me four flights. London, Dusseldorf, Paris and Zurich. I won't say which one, but hopefully I'll catch a glimpse of Pierro and the Music Stars while I'm here. And hopefully I'll have some cool photos too.
Well, it's breakfast time, and the further I can stay away from this computer the better. It's running on Windows 95 still and the keys are muddled about on the keyboard.
Woke up this morning eager for some Starbucks, and took a step outside and couldn't believe the amount of fog in the air.
It's kinda hard to describe what it was like to walk outside, because it felt like it was raining on your skin, but the droplets are so fine that you didn't get wet. You could see the droplets move with the wind, so you know it wasn't smog. Very strange.
Hello! I hope you're all doing well over in Oz, esp. those of you who are completing the final touches to their thesis/final assignment/lab/bribe for the lecturer. I know it's a little stressful but it's worth it in the end.
From this end, I'm not doing anything constructive, just trying to get my hands and nails in tip-top shape. It doesn't require any heavy thinking on my part that's for sure. But the job...from the amount of soft drink cans we open up, the nails are ruined after every flight.
So to get myself enthused, I went to Emirates Mall today. I had the biggest craving for a steak - and surely there are other places other than the Butchershop that offer steak on the menu. So I tried St Moritz cafe at Ski Dubai.
I took one look at the menu and immediately decided on the Char-Grilled Rib Eye steak served with sauteed mushrooms and Dauphined Potatos.
When I first tucked in, I thought I'd finally found my Butchershop replacement. But alas, working my way through it, I realised how inferior it was. How much salt it had. How much better it could have been with some hot chips. And peppercorn sauce. And I then realised how good Aussie steak is.
On a lot of Australian sectors I do, I've heard some of the crew get excited about the KFC in Australia, and how it's so much better than in Dubai, and how fresh it is, how it's made from chicken breast instead of the thigh, all of which is true of course. But then you tuck into a good steak, or a nice lamb salad, or fish and chips from Cicerello's, and wish that they weren't so sheltered.
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2019-04-26T01:55:50Z
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In version 2.0, we have made 30+ enhancements to AffiliateWP and resolved 8 different bugs. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights of this new version.
Also please see the bottom of this post for instructions on how to install and test the beta.
Stripe.com is continually proving that they are one of the premier merchant processors. Since version 1.0 of AffiliateWP, many of our customers have requested support for referral tracking through Stripe Checkout. In version 2.0 we’re thrilled to announce support for Stripe Checkout through the popular WP Simple Pay plugin.
WP Simple Pay (Lite and Pro) allows you to easily embed Stripe Checkout payment forms on your website and now, with our new integration, you can also permit your affiliates to refer customers to your product or service and AffiliateWP will track referral commissions for sales that are processed through Stripe with WP Simple Pay.
WPForms is one of the more recent contact form builder plugins available for WordPress and they’ve certainly made a splash. Version 2.0 of AffiliateWP now includes an integration with WPForms that allows you to track referrals for payments submitted through WPForms.
Give is a great plugin that makes accepting donations easy. Whether you are raising money for a charity, a business expansion, medical bills, or any other cause, Give can help make it easy. AffiliateWP now supports tracking referral commissions for donations made through Give, providing you a great way to help grow your donations.
Paid Member Subscriptions, a plugin from Cozmoslabs, offers a complete membership solution, allowing you to accept member payments, manage members, create subscription plans and restrict access to premium content. In AffiliateWP 2.0, we have introduced a new integration that allows you to track affiliate referrals for membership and subscription purchases made through Paid Member Subscriptions.
Caldera Forms is a powerful form builder plugin. In version 2.0 of AffiliateWP we have introduced an integration that allows you to track referral commissions for payments submitted through Caldera Forms.
We have introduced a new batch processing system that allows AffiliateWP to easily handle much larger data sets than previously possible. This improvement will greatly benefit large sites that have experienced problems with timeouts and other issues when attempting to generate payout files or export CSVs of the affiliate databases. It will also benefit smaller sites by giving site admins a smoother, less disruptive experience.
In 2.0 we’ve introduced additional meta capabilities that allow site admins to more greatly fine-tune what privileges user roles have. This includes capabilities for determining not only if a user can “manage” an affiliate object (affiliate, referral, visit, payout, REST consumer) but also if they have permission to view, add, edit, and delete. Each of these meta capabilities are separate so it’s now possible to have user roles that can add / edit objects but not delete them, or a role that can view objects but not manipulate them in any way.
With 2.0 we have included new settings that allow site admins to choose which forms (login, registration or none) should be shown on the Affiliate Area to non-registered affiliates and we have introduced options that permit site admins to control which fields in the registration form are required and optional.
If you have version 1.9.8 of AffiliateWP or later installed, you may opt into beta update notifications by navigating to Affiliates → Settings → Misc and checking the box for Opt into beta versions?.
Once opted-in, an update notification for the 2.0 beta will be shown in your Plugins page after the next plugins update check is run by WordPress.
At this time we anticipate the final release of 2.0 to land on January 24, 2017.
If you have any questions or issues with the beta, please let us know by leaving a comment below or submitting a support ticket.
One feature we DESPERATELY need.
I need more control of how I pay the affiliate. I need to be able to go in and adjust the balance they are owed manually or something. I need to be able to add a ledger entry.
For example I sell big ticket products via a launch style webinar. I pay out 50% of the commissions earned to the affiliate and shoot them a check 7 days after the promotion and the rest I pay out after the 30 day refund period. this keeps the affiliate motivated but there is no way for me to record this early payment so I have to do a lot of manual figuring out. Just a simple line item entry saying… pay this guy $5,000 it it would reflect in the reporting.
Also on that note… occasionally we will get a chargeback and I’d like to go back an take this out of any future payments to that affiliate so again another line item reflecting this.
Anyway we could get this in your next version? I bet you would be surprised how many affiliate need it.
I’m pumped you are introducing the payout file per affiliate.
Thank you for the feedback! We have several future improvements planned that should help you take care of those pain points.
There’s so much awesome packed into version 2. Wow. Congrats! I’m looking forward to taking our affiliate programs to the next level with some of these additions.
You guys do some incredible work, thanks for being awesome!
We’re looking for a way to create affiliates via the plugin’s API (via an external form source). Meaning, if we have a customer fill out a wufoo or typeform form, we’d like to use Zapier.com to create a new affiliate on our site. Currently AffiliateWP is a trigger on Zapier, but not available as an action.
The benefit of this is, whenever we have a customer fill out a survey, a promotional offer, or whatever (via these third party form tools), we’d be able to have them check a box that says “Sign Me Up As An Affiliate” and then have their contact info (that they typed in the entry form) automatically be used to create them as an affiliate…versus making them fill out an entirely separate affiliate registration form.
Thoughts on when this will be available or if the new update has addressed this?
AWESOME! I’m SO excited for this!!!
This looks great, however I was really hoping to see that you fixed the ability to pay our affiliates through Stripe after the Stripe API change removed recipient objects. Even though this is causing trouble for us it seems like the new Stripe API provides even better options for AffiliateWP to integrate affiliate payouts with Stripe. There must be many AffiliateWP users here who are eagerly awaiting the return of this very useful feature as well. If not I really wonder how those who can’t use Paypal are paying their affiliates. Exporting for mass pay seems like a headache and our affiliates are really wanting to get paid to their debit cards!
We would love to re-introduce it and, hopefully, in the future it will be. At this time, however, the Stripe API has a limitation that makes it not possible for us to do. Sadly it’s a system-level limitation right now, so it’s not even a choice for us to make.
I see, what is the limitation? Does Stripe know about it? If all AffiliateWP users knew what the limitation is we could all contact Stripe and ask them to do something about it. Otherwise Stripe may just go on thinking there is no issue. They would probably take note if they received several inquiries from several people about it in a small amount of time.
i would be great if you have something like sending emails with invitation.
like most professional referral systems, theres an option from where i can send invitation to all or selective contacts from my gmail/yahoo etc with my own referral link. like, dropbox or digitalocean for an example.
it will help us to get contribution of those people who usually dont have any site or blog but they have a vast amount of contacts through their mail or social media.
That’s a great idea. The closest thing we currently we have Affiliate Dashboard Sharing (https://affiliatewp.com/add-ons/pro/affiliate-dashboard-sharing/). The affiliate (who may not have a website) can log in to their Affiliate Area on your website, general a referral URL, and then share it via social media or email. However they would need to manually type in the email addresses they’d like to share with.
yes but that same can be done manually even without Affiliate Dashboard isnt it? for example, i can get my affilaite link and make a email template in mailchimp having that affiiliate link for invitation. but i was hoping to have that inside my affiliate dashboard so that my affiliates dont have to take the hassle.
Please consider adding this feature, its really very usefull and i think this will make your product more unique then other affiliate programs available in the market.
After upgrading to the beta (and I’ve run through this a few times), I get a permanently stuck ‘Upgrade Database’ message. Now, the first time I got it, I ran it, it seemed to work, but I checked the error logs when it showed back up. The error logs showed that i’d forgotten the ALTER permission on one table of this server, so maybe that caused it to fail in some way? Of course, I changed the permission set so no errors, but still it refuses to go away (though reports success). Anyway, since then I can not upgrade to 2.0 w/o this ‘Upgrade Database’ perpetually showing up. Any ideas? I think it has worked fine but the first error threw it off? Is there a database value I should check?
We’re aware of the issue and have fixed it. Beta 2 will be released later today or tomorrow and will resolve it. Once you update to beta 2 (or the final 2.0 release), simply run the upgrade routine again and the notice will go away.
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You also need to decide what equipment you will use and then start choosing streaming services. There is a lot involved in the process, especially if you don't understand how streaming works. We want to take a look at your options, specifically Sling TV and Roku. As you will find, we cannot do a direct comparison of these two because they are very different in function and purpose. However, we will look at them as they relate to streaming experience and compare what they offer to you. First, though, we will discuss some streaming basics so you can understand more about the functions of Sling TV and Roku.
The idea of streaming boils down to getting watchable content via the internet instead of through a cable line or from a satellite service. When people started the movement to cut the cord, they were doing so to save money. However, that is probably the biggest misunderstanding about streaming. It is not free in most cases. Sure, you can find free content and watch only that, but for most people, paid services are needed. So, streaming may or may not save you money.
The better reason to choose streaming over cable or satellite is because it is more flexible and offers customization. You get a lot of choices and can really define your own experience based upon your viewing habits. You do have more control over the cost as well, but this can also be a downside because it is possible to spend more than if you subscribed to cable or satellite.
To stream, you will need internet access. It is important that you have a good internet connection. You need high-speed access, and it has to be a strong, consistent signal. If you lose your connection, you lose your access to content.
You also need a device with a platform and services or apps to provide content. Roku is a streaming device and platform found on other devices. Sling TV is a streaming service or app. To use a streaming service or app, you have to have a device. The device is what connects to the internet and allows you to stream content. To get any service or app, you need to have a device to give you that internet access and a platform that will allow you access to the service or app.
Let's use a basic setup to explain. You have your television which has a Roku device attached to it. Usually, this is done through an HDMI port. When you turn on your television, the Roku will power up and present you with a home screen. On this screen you may have a few pre-installed apps, such as Sling TV. You also have the option to download more apps and services. You use the Roku platform to open the apps. Once an app is open, you use that app to find the content you want to watch.
Most apps or services require a subscription. This means you have to pay a monthly fee to use them. There are some free apps that you can use, but those generally offer dated content, whereas the paid options provide more current content and a larger selection of content.
Now that you understand the basics of streaming and have an idea of how different Sling TV and Roku are, we can look a little more at each of them. Keep in mind that you do not have to have both of these. There are other options you can use in both devices or platforms and apps or services, which we will talk more about in the comparison section.
Sling TV is a streaming service. It is usually downloaded as an app onto a streaming device. You will have to have a subscription in order to use this service. This is very similar to the setup you have with a cable or satellite TV service. In fact, Sling TV, while a stand-alone service, is part of Dish Network. You will choose a base package that is composed of specific channels. You can then add on smaller packages to customize your channel lineup to your tastes.
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With the Orange package and any Orange-specific channels, you can only watch them on one device at a time. So, if you have the Orange package and want to watch TV in the living room, your son cannot watch it in his bedroom at the same time. The Blue package allows streaming on up to three devices at one time.
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Sling TV does not offer local broadcast channels except in some markets where ABC can be added for an additional cost. This service does provide live viewing options, along with some programming that can be watched whenever you want.
There are many things to love about a Sling TV subscription, but at the same time, there are some things that customers are not completely happy with. Let's take a look at the pros and cons of this service.
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When you start up the service, you will see that it comes with some pre-installed apps. These include the most popular streaming options, Hulu, Netflix, Sling TV and Amazon Prime. Roku also has its own channel that offers some movies and television shows, but do keep in mind these are older.
The costs to use Roku are variable. You will have to pay for the device, which retails for $54.99. You can buy this directly from the Roku website or from retailers that sell electronics online and in stores. You can also buy a television with Roku built in, which will cost significantly more. The cost to get a Roku device is just a one-time fee.
However, once you have Roku, you will probably need to spend money to get content. There are many free options. If you don't care about seeing the latest releases in movies and television or don't really have shows that you have to watch, then you could get by with just free apps. Most people, though, will use paid services, such as Netflix and Sling TV, to get more recent content and to have access to more content options. Do keep in mind that some of the apps offered by Roku do require a cable or satellite subscription to access their content.
When you first use Roku, you have to sign up for an account. This is free. You can do it on the device or online. This allows you to personalize your Roku setup and saves the apps you have downloaded, so you can use your Roku service on any device.
To make use of Roku, you will turn it on and turn on your computer or television. The Roku screen comes up, and you simply choose the app you want to use and begin watching.
We want to look at what is good and what is not so good about Roku to give you a better overall idea about this device option.
When it comes to comparing Sling TV vs. Roku, it is impossible to do a direct comparison because they are so different in function. As you know, Sling TV is a service whereas Roku is a device. You can use them together, or you can use just one without the other.
So, you do not need Roku to get it. However, Roku is a very popular streaming device. It is quite user friendly and has far fewer issues than some of the other options.
Roku also offers access to a range of other streaming services that you could use instead of Sling TV. One of the downsides with Sling TV is that it requires a monthly cost that is a little more than some other popular options, such as Hulu and Netflix. However, when looking at the app options for streaming, you will notice that you often get what you pay for. For example, Sling TV offers content from many channels that are not offered on either Hulu or Netflix. Plus, you can watch live TV, which is not available with Netflix. It is available with Hulu, but for added costs, which are more than Sling TV.
For a more structured look at the comparison between the two, it helps to just break them down by specifications.
If you decide that you are ready to forgo cable or satellite and jump on the streaming bandwagon, then you can do so using Roku and Sling TV. The first thing you will need to do is get a Roku device. Remember this will cost around $55.
Once you have your Roku device, you need to sign up for an account. This requires choosing a username and password, along with entering some personal information. During signup, if you do it online, you can also choose some apps to download automatically and sign into services that you already have subscriptions to, such as Sling TV.
If you have not yet subscribed to Sling TV, you should do that now, too. You can do this online at the Sling TV website. Remember a subscription will cost you at least $25 a month. Signup is similar to Roku, except you also have to enter your payment method.
Sometimes Sling TV runs specials where you can get a Roku device during sign up for a discounted price. If you are going to use both of them, then this could help you save money and get a great deal.
Once you have both the Roku and your Sling TV subscription set up, all you need to do is turn on your television or computer, choose the Sling TV app icon, sign in and start watching content. It is that simple to get started with streaming content.
Also, keep in mind that you can adjust your Sling TV subscription as you want. This allows you to try out different packages and add-ons without a long-term commitment. You can easily find what options suit your viewing style the best to get the most value from the service.
We also encourage you to try out other streaming services as well. Sling TV may offer a great lineup, but other providers also offer different options, including original programming. Just be cautious. If you are cutting the cord to save money, you need to watch how much you are spending on streaming services. It is very easy for you to get out of control and end up spending more on streaming than you would with cable or satellite.
While we cannot do a normal comparison of Sling TV vs. Roku, we do hope that we helped iron out the details about both of these streaming options. It is important if you want to start streaming content that you understand the basics of how things work. Knowing that Roku is a device that is needed to use a streaming service, such as Sling TV, will make it easier for you to get started.
Keep in mind that prices are always changing. In addition, the options and channel lineups can also change. The pricing given here is accurate as of the publication date. Always check pricing before you make your final decision.
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2019-04-24T17:49:54Z
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https://thetvexpert.com/sling-tv-vs-roku/
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Physical Fitness – Going Presidential.
It has been extremely challenging to get in the runs that I have wanted to lately. When you are on call for work all the time, and work 7 days a week, you don’t really have a good schedule for getting into a rhythm in order to get back into shape. Lately I have been experiencing that guilt you feel when you know you should be out running/going to the gym, but just can’t summon the energy to remove yourself from your living room. Couple the lack of motivation with working in a hot dog/cocktail place and having a girlfriend who is in culinary school for pastry, and you have a generally soft to the touch guy. I don’t weigh anymore than I ever have, but the whole “not quite firm” thing is discomforting. I may still be skinny, but my fitness is pathetic.
So in-spite of my unruly schedule and extremely odd sleep patterns I am going to try and carve out a ritual of routine fitness. In the city this is a little more challenging than it was in ABQ, due to (this sounds absurd) I can’t drive to the gym, and I always have to run from home. While the running isn’t awful, it is also not diverse. There are not 100’s of miles of accessible and radically different trails beckoning me to run them everyday, there are only streets. There is something to be said for the foot pounding repetitiveness of concrete block after concrete block in the way it is great to check off a day on your training schedule. It is that sense of daily accomplishment. I do miss actually being somewhat mentally engaged on a run through the mountains. Odd how when I had the mountains and rivers at my disposal back home I was only focused on how I didn’t want to run at all. On the same note, I really miss working at the running store… I am actually, and I never ever thought I would ever say this, going to have to purchase some new running shoes and running gear. I think at some point over the next month I may actually burn through the pile of running shoes I have crammed under my bed, and I am down to my last few pair of ragged short shorts. Who would have ever thought that this day might come.
So here is goes one more time, a push to gain the routine and discipline to actually establish a real fitness regimen. So watch out for me in my neon green safety vest flying through the streets.
The Answer – I wandered out to the local running path on the East River with the cam the other day.
Hello All. I hope you are enjoying the updated look for the time being, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it changed again in a few weeks; why not keep everything looking fresh? I am sitting at home on the third very rainy day in a row contemplating heading to the gym in order to get a quick workout in and then bask in the glory of the Sauna and Steam Room, which have become one of my new obsessions. It is amazing how relaxing it can be to submerse yourself in a boiling hot room, let all of your muscles relax, and clear everything out of your head. I am truly starting to relish my time time in those small tile rooms.
Lately my mind has been a complete roller coaster of emotions. I do not envy Shannon for having to put up with me. I am so fixated on figuring out exactly where I am headed along a career path. I have felt so derailed lately, and I need to sort out what my goal is. For all of high school, and college, I have been driving straight at one career choice: Foreign Service. Since leaping off the train towards that path and having to do other things with my life I have began to question what exactly I want to do. Do I want to be a chef, open a restaurant, entrepreneur? Do I want to continue to pursue foreign service? What do these two lifestyles hold for me? How do I get to where I want to go? What do I need to do to jump start these paths?
What really gets to me in this whole process is what I am supposed to be doing in the meantime. I want to be making constant forward progress towards something. I want to be gaining the necessary experience towards ultimate career goals versus working just to work. I have yet to sort out what that is, and at least I have a good job that pays well and is enjoyable, but is that enough? This whole struggle has been going on in my head for the last month and has become extremely detrimental to my sleep… it always seems that at night everything kind of blares in your mind. I really need to sort out a clear cut path to where I want to be, and then pursue it to its fullest. Yikes, this has turned into a rant. I have been so cooped up in my own head I think that as soon as I turned myself loose onto the page it just poured out. Sorry about that, but I guess this is my only journal. Partly this is here to inform people at home about the happening of the Shannon Tristan Duo, but I guess I also get to use the audience as a forum for my thoughts! Apologies.
In order to get back to lighter and typical topics here are some pictures from inside work. Next time I will try and wrangle up some pictures of the bar attached to this.
It's a small place, I have about 4 inches of head room haha.
Just a normal old day here. Did some stuff around the house. Pulled ourselves together and went to the gym, which always helps to rev us up a little, especially muscles magee (Shannon). Had a great fresh lunch from Whole Foods, and then got Shannon a new Blackberry. With the addition of the second Blackberry to the house, I do believe that we will cease to interact anymore. Essentially our necks will permanently have a downward kink in them, and all conversation will be in the form off texts. We have already come to the realization that if we want to see the sun again we may have to defenestrate our phones. (I have been waiting to use that word for awhile) Anyways, beyond our technological leash, it was a stunningly beautiful day here in NYC (finally) and we were able to walk to all of our destinations. Here are some frozen moments from our very normal journey.
Shannon in front of some incredible tree with enormous flowers.
Sand Art. I always have the urge to run and jumps right over the top of things like this. I don't want to trample through it, I just want the wind off my speed to whoosh it up in a cloud of colorful dust.
The view from the bench where we drank our coffees and learned Shannon on the ways of the Blackberry.
Day 3 of rain and wind here in NYC. I do enjoy how it makes curling up with a good book and a beer the best option for your day, but I am getting a little tired of having a good excuse not to go out and run or go to the gym. The weather here has really had a grip on controlling my schedule. When you have to walk everywhere, and the weather is harsh, it makes your destination seem a lot less attractive. I would say that it also made life cheaper, but with so many delivery options available that isn’t even the truth.
Shannon and I were escorted around the French Culinary Institute yesterday for a lovely afternoon. We went down to Soho and met up with one of their tour guides who walked us through all of there kitchens, showcasing the culinary arts, pastry, and bread making classes, and as we walked introduced first hand to all of the wonderful dishes that were being concocted at the time. I do not actually have the time to write down everything we ate, but all of it was amazing. They also sent us home with an armful of different breads from the master bakers which turned into our lunch after a stop off at Dean & Deluca’s for some artisan cheeses. I would highly recommend to anyone scheduling a visit to your local culinary schools simply for a tour, it is free, and delicious. While we were at the French Culinary Institute we wandered through a final test for some of the students, and proctoring the final exam was one of our favorite chefs, Cesare! As we trounced through the middle of a panel of judges scrutinizing a student we caught sight of our favorite portly Italian, who surprisingly immediately recognized us. Dan, we definitely need to stop back in to see him when you return. After our brief run in with the chef I am positive our tour guide thought we were bored millionaires with nothing better to do with our time then to harass him. Verdict: French Culinary Institute = Incredible.
Today Shannon and I are actually going to make it to the gym in spite of sheeting rain. We are going to sand down the top of our kitchen island, and refinish it. We are going to cook some soup, and not quick soup, but the kind that sits on the stove top all day. We are going to continue our streak of really bad movies, last night New Moon, tonight….?
Anyways, Hope all is well out there where you are!
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2019-04-26T09:02:42Z
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https://tristanwilley.wordpress.com/tag/gym/
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Today* is the morning after. The rather foggy morning after the opening weekend of ‘Décembre en Fête 2014’ the local Christmas Market plus entertainment. For the moment, everything is still at the festive venue across the river. While I gaze at the fuzzy scene, movement diverts my attention. A group of cormorants has come in for breakfast.
But this story is about Père Noël, not early birds. For several weeks now the opposite bank of the Charente river, la rive droite, has been a beehive of activity. The municipality began setting up Place Bassompierre for our local Christmas Market, on Thursday, November 27. Thanksgiving Day in the US, just a regular workday here in France.
Workers in their bright orange safety jackets first laid down tarps, before the city-owned huts for the vendors were forklifted into position. These booths then framed a permanent, central water feature called “L’Arc et O”, which was installed a few years ago during the general prettification of the plaza, a former parking lot.
I fancy, the n ame for this contemporary installation, meaning the Arch and O, is a clever wordplay, as it combines the neighboring Roman antiquity, our dearly beloved Arch of Germanicus, with both the symbol for oxygen and the French word for water, ‘eau’, pronounced ‘o’. The basin is 37.2 m or 122 ft long and 7 m or 23 ft wide. There are 64 jets integrated into a low, slightly wavy surface, which are programmed to perform a variety of soothing water ballets. The contemplative nature of the water feature, designed to evoke the spirit of ‘Las Ramblas’, the Catalan cultural synonym for an esplanade, is enhanced by a surround of integrated wooden platforms, on which one may sit or lay and meditate. These benches of sorts alternate with funky planter boxes made of chicken wire and filled with gravel, alright, alright, river pebbles and normally planted with papyrus (cyperus papyrus). As it happens, my favorite plants in our jungle garden in Costa Rica are those crazy clumps of papyrus, so I enjoy seeing it around here also. In preparation for the December festival, of course, the planters were cleaned to receive appropriate seasonal, northern European vegetation.
Naked edge of the ‘Arc et O’ fountain on the left, with the old-style carousel, also a permanent feature, forming the endpoint of the Christmas market.
The white cloth covering the roofs of the booths is meant to resemble snow while the long, loose overhang will later be trimmed in the shape of icicles.
By early December, while the landscape crews of the city of Saintes were putting the finishing touches on the Christmas village, les animations, the entertainment moved in as well. All that hustle and bustle prompted me to quickly walked across the little footbridge near our house to investigate the heightened activity levels on the opposite bank.
Stepping off the pedestrian bridge, I turned left, thus walking past the old abattoir on my right, which now houses an immense number of artifacts administered by the archeological museum & society. Looking across the river, I can see our home as part of a nearly continuous row of residences and businesses along Quai de la République.
Approaching the carnival rides on the near flank of the Arch of Germanicus, I am now able to identify a still folded giant slide vehicle and a, well, I don’t really know the proper name for this carousel type ride, where two-seater baskets spin at high speed around a central column. The French call them pousse-pousse (rickshaw), but by any name I hate the things, because I nearly lost my baby brother spinning helplessly on such a carnival ride. He was about kindergarten age and the centrifugal forces generated by the high-speed rotation pulled him inch by inch underneath the safety bar. God, was I desperately holding on to his little form! That was an utterly horrible experience and I never rode another one of those death contraptions. Okay, I’m done shuddering now, let’s move on.
A few steps further we find a newly landscaped bed outside the archeological museum and the office of tourism. If you have visited France going back almost 50 years, as I have, you’ll be well familiar with the institution of the ‘Syndicat d’Initiatives’. Every single village beyond the designation of hameau (hamlet) used to have a syndicat d’initiatives, a centralized office for information regarding town or region. These offices were staffed by locals, often volunteers or town clerks, who explained local offerings to passing strangers. Before the advent of the Internet, these guys would find you hotel beds, rental apartments, make dinner reservations, outline routes to attractions on multi-colored maps, or have brochures and discount coupons available for the intrepid traveller. Ultimately this system developed into the ‘Office de Tourisme’, professional organizations promoting tourism at large, and they’re still doing a splendid job!
Walking on past these future attractions, I soon reached the object of my curiosity, which had prompted this investigatory excursion.
The HDPE boards before me, which still needed to be clipped together tongue-in-groove fashion, were not a dance floor, as I had envisioned, but an ice-skating rink. I am apparently quite weltfremd and had no idea such things existed while any Canadian with hockey-playing children has a garage or barn outfitted with these (High-Density PolyEthylene) boards, to afford their kids wholesome entertainment and additional practice time. Here in France the ice rinks are very popular, I learned, and part of the Carnaval Circuit, traveling far and wide through the rural landscape. Mystery solved!
we come to “L’Arc et O”, now seasonally decorated as well. Obviously our weather forecast is favorable since the water is still running. In Chicago, no fountain was ever left alive passed Halloween!
I really can’t praise our landscaping crews highly enough. They work tirelessly throughout the year to keep all the flower beds, green spaces and the city parks in top shape, all without the use of chemicals. Grassy areas sprout dandelions and violets among which worms, bugs, snails, and mice live happily, until they become fodder for birds, cats and each other, naturally. For the Christmas market, crews brought in dirt, landscaping it with groupings of living trees and bundles of painted sticks. They used pine chips to cover the dirt to retain moisture and each little hill-scape was then decorated with logs and moss. Nearly white beach sand took on the role of snow, providing a lively contrast to the dark bark.
The pine chips come from the Landes department to our South. Landes, part of the ancient Gascogne region of Three Musketeer fame, is a largely flat area near the Atlantic ocean sporting the world’s largest, entirely man-made, maritime pine (Pinus pinaster) forest, La Forêt des Landes. This industrial use mega-plantation began on June 19, 1857, when a law enacted that the Bordeaux moors should be reforested to combat erosion. Until then, this swampland was only populated by a few shepherds and smallholders, who were in the habit of crossing the soggy land on stilts, as this painting by a pre-forest painter shows.
Earlier in the afternoon an ever increasing crowd assembled in Place Bassompierre.
but human & animal animateurs (entertainers) carried on undeterred, as did their audience.
We, on the other hand, endured no hardship, sitting dry & comfy right in the middle of the action.
On a slightly less moist evening, we walked across the pedestrian bridge to enjoy the Christmas Market up close. Not even halfway across, we were already engulfed by the joyous (or possibly horrified) shrieks of the pousse-pousse riders. Yes, it was carnival time on rive droite!
Darn it. We left a table lamp on in the living room.
… while lonely Père Noël can only wish for attention. The ‘Snow-Slide’ clearly had the edge!!
We abandoned poor Santa Claus as well, crossing back to rive gauche and the beautifully illuminated pedestrian zone behind our house to buy some bread for dinner.
* Owing to my own technical carelessness, combined with an automated text saving feature of this site, which is neither automatic nor does it save anything, the ‘morning after’ turned into a ‘week after’, for which I beg your forgiveness. As my clever husband just said, the question ‘have you been saved?’ has taken on a whole new meaning! And, as long as I have your undivided attention I’d like to mention Bertrand to you. Bertrand runs a fabulous food booth at the Christmas Market.
He serves raclette sandwiches, possibly the best sandwich you’ve had in a long time! Raclette is a savory cheese from the Savoy region of France and Switzerland. Traditionally a layer of melted cheese is scraped off the remaining wheel and served over potatoes and smoked meats. Bertrand serves his artisanal sandwiches by scraping the melted cheese over ham from the Auvergne, caramelized onions and crème fraîche. Absolutely delicious! I wish you had a chance to taste this enticing flavor amalgam.
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2019-04-22T18:22:40Z
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https://photoleraclaudinha.com/2014/12/19/pere-noel-anticipated/
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Homeworld Description: Sanctuary was built as a deep-space battlestation, to protect the massive titanium deposits on the 04C asteroid field. During the Alarei-Human war, it was refitted to serve as a ballistic missile silo, refueling station for warships, and shipyard. The station itself spans over two hundred kilometers in length, with the capacity to house hundreds of fighter squadrons and the facilities necessary to repair battleship-size vessels. Its thick armor and advanced point defenses were built to spec to protect it from the asteroid field, but in time, they were modified to serve as effective defensive systems against ships. Numerous kinetic batteries and missile silos cover the exterior of the station, and a set of reaction control thrusters allow it to remain in sync with the rest of the asteroid field. It is the home of the fleet, and houses over fifty million people; one eighth of the population. Its primary power source are the six Helium-3 fusion reactors, two on the main superstructure and one on each extension. Hydroponics facilities produce food and oxygen, but the station relies on the three hundred million plus people living in ships nearby to supply it with anything more than the essentials.
Political System: The government of the United Systems is divided into the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary branches with a clear separation of powers. The Executive branch is the President of the United Systems, who is elected into office through a complex voting process; each of the 51 fleet divisions (Asteroid Miners, US Navy, US Marines, Hydroponics, Medical, etc.) votes for a set number of representatives in Congress, and for the President through Electoral College. Each President can serve two consecutive four-year terms. He holds supreme executive authority, is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, can authorize the use of strategic nuclear weapons, can declare states of emergency, and oversees meetings of the Council of Commanders. The Council of Commanders is a weekly (or more frequent if needed) meeting of ship captains and commanding officers, military and civilian, which works in cooperation with Congress to act as a legislative power. Judiciary power is usually left at the discretion of ship captains and security forces for minor crimes, but crimes such as felonies are handled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the US Navy Military Police, and judged by the Supreme Court. The government is housed on Sanctuary, the heart of the fleet.
Economic System: Social Capitalism with a single currency, the US Dollar, available in both electronic, card and (polymer) paper bills. Ship captains have supreme authority to regulate the economies of their ships if needed, and are encouraged to take measures such as rationing food, water and medication. Free healthcare is provided by dedicated ship doctors in each vessel's infirmary, but various hospital ships provide access to advanced equipment and medications otherwise unavailable. Jobs are handled like in any other capitalist nation, although unemployment is at very low levels. Simply put, there is dire need for more labour: even the advanced USC robotics aren't enough to deal with all the tasks that need doing in the fleet. Education is free, and all children must attend higher education to ensure they can be productive fleet citizens. The largest field of work is, unsurprisingly, engineers, with the military, mining and science sectors falling closely behind.
Culture: Naturally for a people that is born, lives and dies in ships, the Captain undoubtedly holds the position with the most prestige. A Captain has supreme authority in his ship, although he does have superiors, and handles all day-to-day operations. The method for picking captains is different; military captains are appointed by the Council of Admirals, while civilian captains rise through the ranks of their ship. More often than not, however, military captains are simply XOs who were promoted to the position and given their own ship as their command.
Large part of USC culture is enclosed spaces. After centuries of living in cramped ships, and with overpopulation being a major issue, each person can have a very small space dedicated to themselves. Military crews exercise hot-bunking, while civilians get small accommodations for them and their family. Public messhalls, store districts and showers on each ship make the inhabitants of the fleet very outgoing and sociable, as there is simply no way to avoid one's fellow shipmates.
History: What once was the United States of America became the United Systems Coalition in 2100, a union of the sovereign nations of the USA, Canada, various countries of South America and Israel, along with their colonies and stations. The new superpower was the single biggest contributor to world defense, and officially owned half of the United Nation's vessels, the Albert Einstein Shipyards and numerous smaller launch facilities on various planets. The United Systems Military was the first military of Sol to construct the beast known as a Titan, officially the U.S.S. Enterprise SCVN-01. It was also the first to veto the Alarei Treaty, and the first to commence attacks on Alarei territory. What had begun as a devastating loss with the destruction of the Einstein Shipyards had turned into an unquestionable victory; the Alarei homeworld was in ruins, and the remaining council races had signed the armstice.
Unfortunately, the victory did not last for long; during Black Wednesday, Alarei ships penetrated Sol defense and launched a ruthless attack on human major cities. The USS Enterprise and much of the fleet was annihilated along with the Ronald Reagan Shipyards in orbit of Jupiter, where it had docked to rearm and resupply. Naturally, the USC retaliated, turning its nuclear weapons on the rest of the Alarei colonies. While it had succeeded in wiping out its adversary, it had done so with considerable loss. So when the Human Civil War came, it was left unable to defend its major holdings in Sol. With much of the mainland destroyed, the government fled to the secretive base known as 'Sanctuary', taking most of the remaining fleet with it. While a small contingent of troops and vehicles was left to guard major cities such as Vancouver and New York, or what was left of them, the USC fled.
For the next few hundred years, a large civilian fleet gathered in orbit of Sanctuary: survivors of the holocaust of Sol who had ships with jump drives, freighters, refinery ships. The vast asteroid field was exploited to its fullest, with its materials going towards the repair of damaged vessels, extensions to the station, or the construction of new warships. The original goal was to retake Sol, but after centuries of barely surviving, the goal became to protect the future of the human race and American civilization.
Officer Service Uniform A comfortable BDU for use by officers of all departments of the United Systems Military. Comes in Navy Blue, Army Green and Air Force Olive Drab.
Battle Dress Uniform A uniform for use by enlisted personnel or officers when needed. Comes in all available camouflage patterns.
Marine Honors Uniform Ceremonial uniform worn exclusively by the US Marines.
Service Dress Uniform Ceremonial and formal uniforms worn by the USM.
Deck Work Uniform Worn by service crews, engineers and deckhands.
Colt 2311 Service Pistol 11.43×23mm Caseless Semi-Automatic Railgun 22rnd Magazine Powerful sidearm that can accept a variety of attachments. Standard issue for the US Army.
IMI Black Kite 12.7x33mm Caseless Semi-Automatic Railgun 12rnd Magazine Destructive weapon that can pierce even the thickest of conventional body armor. Extremely accurate.
G12 Battle Rifle 7.62x51mm Caseless Semi-Automatic Gauss Gun 30rnd Magazine Destructive battle rifle with scope. Standard issue in the United States Army.
G17 Battle Rifle 7.62x51mm Caseless Automatic Railgun 60rnd Magazine Standard issue Marine rifle, accepts a variety of attachments.
G22 Battle Rifle 12.7x99mm Fusion Automatic Gauss Gun 20rnd Magazine Destructive .50 caliber battle rifle, used against personnel.
Barrett G82 AMR 12.7x99mm HEIAP Semi-Automatic Gauss Gun 10rnd Magazine Destructive .50 caliber anti-materiel rifle.
Colt S12 AMR 12.7x113mm HEIAP Semi-Automatic Gauss Gun 5rnd Magazine Ultimate instrument of destruction.
G44 DMR 7.62x51mm Caseless Burst Gauss Gun 30rnd Magazine Designated marksman rifle with 1, 2 or 3 round bursts.
M263 Squad Automatic Weapon 7.62x51mm Caseless Automatic Gauss Gun 200rnd Belt Outdated belt-fed machinegun, usually fit with reflex sight.
R278 Relativistic SAW 0.7x5.2mm RKP Automatic Gauss Gun 300rnd Block State-of-the-art kinetic energy weapon, with muzzle velocities of 0.2c and light projectiles.
M222 Heavy Machinegun 12.7x99mm Caseless Automatic Gauss Gun 1000rnd Block Destructive minigun.
D14 Recoiless Rifle 20x46mm HEIAP Automatic Gauss Gun 10rnd Block Anti-tank weapon.
D18 Missile Launcher D1-Class Missile Automatic ML 6-pack Pod Ultimate anti-tank, anti-aircraft and anti-infantry weapon.
General Motors G110 'Tomcat' Jeep Built with mobility in mind, the 'Tomcat' excells at transporting small amounts of personnel and equipment throughout the battlefield, or ferrying heavier vehicles and weapons. Its fusion reactor and electrical motors give it as much speed as the heavier M44, or even more if pushed past normal operating limits, and the vehicle is so modular that it can be mounted with virtually any weapon. Anti-Infantry, Anti-Tank and Artillery units, along with Anti-Aircraft and minelayer varients make daily apperances throughout the Confederation; in fact, the G4c, pronounced Geforce, is a civilian version very popular with the rich and vehicle enthusiasts.
General Motors G115 ATV The G5 was designed to provide a fast response vehicle which could also protect its occupants from both environmental hazards and hostile forces. Each of these units is airtight and contains a compartment shielding system, allowing one or more seats to be quarantined or decontaminated while the vehicle is in move. Powerful electroreactive armor and a weapon mount make it a deadly foe in the battlefield, and with a powerful electrical engine running on fusion, it can ferry vehicles as heavy as tanks behind it when needed. Often, these jeeps are used to carry artillery out to the field.
GDLS M27 IFV Recongising the need for a light infantry fighting vehicle to support orbital drops in areas that tanks could not reach, the DoD picked the M27 for the Advanced Infantry Fighting Vehicle Competition a decade ago. Many of the fast, hydrogen-powered units have been built since then, complete with their 40mm Gauss Cannon, .50 Caliber Railgun and missile pods.
GDLS M29 'Stinger' The Stinger is one of the most modular vehicles in existance. While its primary purpose is to provide fast transport for marine and army units, tank destroyer, missile launcher, anti-aircraft, mortar and howitzer varieties have been designed and produced.
GDLS M44 'Hornet' The Hornet was specifically designed for high-risk extraction and insertion missions, having a significant advantage in speed over most Army vehicles; a hydrogen combustion engine. Whereas electrical motors and fusion reactors are more reliable and can run for years without recharge, Hydrogen Combustion Engines are capable of delivering enormous engine power to the vehicle, easily allowing the Hornet to outrun even the fastest of military-grade interceptors. It has a set of jet boosters on its back for emergency acceleration and decceleration, an inertial dampener, decceleration boosters underneath it to ease leaps and is armed with two rocket launchers and a 4.7mm Gauss minigun. Its last feature is a dynamic camouflage system.
M51A1 'Badger' APC Where the M29 Stinger was designed to offer a balance between speed, armor and weapons, the Badger focuses on obliterating anything that gets between its crew and their objective. Its armor plates were taken directly from the M100 'Mammoth' and sized down for optimal anti-tank defense, and its 12.7x99mm Gauss Gatling can cover entire areas in a solid wall of lead within a matter of microseconds. A powerful 40mm Gauss Cannon on its main turret provides 360-degree coverage with heavy weapons, and a missile and grenade launcher pod can offer fire and artillery support.
M51A2 'Superbadger' IFV Built on the versatile M51 chassis, the Superbadger excells at fast attack and guerilla tactics. It can support infantry on the field, suppress enemy combatants or patrol large areas while remaining largely undetected, thanks to dynamic camouflage and a heatsink system.
M100 'Mammoth' MBT The M10 'Mammoth' is the main battle tank unit of the United Systems Military, sporting an impressive arsenal of weapons and armor. Albeit slower than most tanks of its size, it can withstand several direct hits from anti-armor weaponry and missiles, and its energised hull plating easily shrugs off anything under a 40mm round. Its primary weapon is made out of two complimentary 120mm Gauss Cannons, two under-barrel 12.7mm Rail Chainguns, two eight-pod rocket launchers, a deployable 12.7mm Rail Autocannon and a missile launcher pod. Inertial dampeners allow the unit to accelerate and deccelerate with ease, and its powerful plasma fusion reactors give it the energy required to fire its weapons non-stop, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Each unit is capable of replicating ammunition on-site if required, although this process drains the reactor, and the vehicle can store enough ammunition for weeks of fighting.
M110 'Prowler' MBT The M110 is a newer advancement of the M100, with a reduced size and weapons arsennal serving to make room for its oversized Plasma Fusion Reactor. The reactor was originally taken from one of the abandoned jump drive projects of the Navy, and gives the tank its main advantage; two devastating rail cannons which can not only penetrate any obstacle before them, but can also reach orbit and damage enemy spaceships. This gives the M11 an anti-aerial and artillery role as well, but leaves it at the disadvantage of being slow, unmanueverable and vulnerable; its only defense is a 5.56x45mm rail machinegun, other than the rail cannons that is.
X120 Series MBT Part of the Modular Main Battle Tank contest, the X120 was designed to be the absolute pinnacle of modular weapons. Its armament can be changed in less than two minutes, giving it its infamous 'Shapeshifter' nickname.
M88 'Stingray' The Stingray is a modular chassis that has been used in mobile command center, ISBM carrier, tank destroyer, artillery, hospital and vehicle recovery platforms.
M93 'Shelly' MLRS A modular missile launcher system that is in use as both an artillery, anti-aircraft and direct combat unit.
M180 'Sherman' MBT The Sherman is a middleground between the Mammoth and the Superbadger. Fast enough to outrun other tanks, strong enough to take them down. It uses a single cannon of the same type as the Mammoth, together with the same coaxial machinegun, but has an increased amount of rocket pods and an additional remote autocannon.
M190 'Hammer' MBT An upgrade of the Sherman, the Hammer has an oversized power core to be able to use its 400mm Siege Cannon. In addition, a pair of smaller 40mm anti-materiel railguns can devastate enemy combatants and vehicles alike. The M195 is an artillery variant of the same chassis.
M200 'Panther' HBT The Panther Heavy Battle Tank is a device of nightmares. Its massive 500mm Supersiege Cannon can take down buildings in a single shot, and numerous rocket launcher, grenade launcher, machinegun and autocannon systems, along with impressive armor, make it a true fortress. Its downside is its speed, as the unit can not both fire its main weapon and keep up with vehicle convoys at the same time.
AM-06 'Minuteman' Light Attack Mech Although the AM-06 is not the newest or greatest combat machine ever built by the United Systems, it serves its purpose expertly: with a proprietary General Dynamics Higgs Field Manipulation Drive, it can lower its mass sufficiently to re-enter planets and land with the assistance of only a few minor solid rocket boosters, which are detached from the vehicle after their burn has been completed. It comes armed with a 20mm Gauss Chaingun on one arm, a plasma torch right above the barrel, two missile-launcher ports on either side of the canopy and a heavy lifting arm capable of crushing small vehicles into tincans. It is small enough to fit inside a large corridor, which makes it an excellent choice for urban environments.
AM-08 'Hourman' Light Attack Mech The AM-08 uses a very strange and meaningless name, but it can beat respect into anyone who mocks it. Although it is not designed for planetary re-entry, it wields heavy firepower, including a 20mm Tri-Rail Gatling, a heavier 60mm Gauss Cannon, a plasma fusion torch, two multi-ordinance launch pods that can fire grenades, rockets and missiles, and of course, heavy armor. It is slightly larger than the AM-06, but it can still participate in urban combat with ease.
BM-11 'Rifleman' Main Battle Mech The classic, ever-present mech warrior of the United Systems Army and Marine Corps. The BM-11's operating principle is simple: cram as big of a cannon into as small a mech as possible. The result is a mech twice the size of the AM-08 with two gigantic 120mm Gauss Cannons, with two underslung Hybrid Railguns (railguns that supercharge their projectile to give it an outer shell of plasma as it leaves the barrel, and that can melt through armor.) Not one, not two, not three but four missile and grenade pods are located in a rectangle formation around the canopy, while a set of plasma fusion torches provides close-range defense.
LM-07 'Longbow' Artillery Mech The Longbow exceeds at one thing, and one thing only: long-range artillery support. A single 240mm Rail Artillery Cannon attached to its back can be deployed, using the ground as a means to dissipate recoil, and a series of high-capacity long-range missile tubes ensure that any friendly forces can receive instant artillery support from afar. A gigantic antenna on the top of the vehicle can generate an intense electromagnetic field around it, jamming any missiles that approach and scrambling targeting systems.
HM-18 'Titan' Heavy Battle Mech The Titan is the King of Mechs. Its 30mm Gatling Railguns can tear apart enemy infantry, aircraft and light armor, while the two fusion plasma torches can incinerate anything within a fifty meter range with a cloud of ionized gas. Aside from the numerous rocket and grenade launchers throughout the vehicle, its 120mm Cyclic Railgun can destroy heavy tanks with just a few shots, and the weapon can be converted into a 360mm Octo-Rail Artillery Cannon for the purposes of destroying enemy entrenchments and mechs.
Lockheed Martin F-36 'Cobra' MKVI The Cobra has been in service since before the Alarei wars, and is one of the most adaptable fighter platforms in USAF. It is powered by several hydrogen combustion reactors and has a thermal radiation battery as a reserve, and uses a trio of General Electric CG-103 Magnetoplasmadynamic Engines combined with a General Dynamics X-2b Inertial Dampener as its main form of propulsion. The fighters have two built-in 12.7x99mm Rail Machineguns on their wings and two fuselage-mounted 40mm Gauss Cannons, and can be fit with numerous missiles, drones and weaponry. The wings are usually folded until their firepower is needed, or the fighter is in atmospheric flight mode.
Boeing FA-12 'Falcon' MKI Built as a replacement for the Cobra, only a single squadron of FA-12 fighters has been built so far, housed aboard the USS Carentan. The fighter could not beat the modular nature of the Cobra, but proved to be superior in space fighter duties when faced against multiple hostiles thanks to its heavy armor and turret-mount weapons. Due to operational and manufacturing costs, the Cobra Mark VII has been given the funding that would go to FA-12 construction. Regardless, the squadron "White Falcons" aboard the Carentan claim they would never change their fighter for any other.
Lockheed Martin FA-36 'Cobra' MKVII The Cobra VII is an experimental fighter based on the Cobra series, featuring the latest advanced technologies in the modular Cobra design. The hull has been redesigned to have a more aerodynamic, compact and stealthy shape, and advanced RADAR-absorbing materials have been used to render the craft invisible to low-strength scanners. The weapons philosophy has been changed. Up until the Mark VI, Cobras had to deploy a set of vulnurable wings to launch missiles. In the VII, missiles are housed inside the spacecraft.
Lockheed Martin B-1 'Talon' MKIII Talons are built for speed and stealth. The fighters rely on complex sensor-jamming systems and radiation-absorbant materials to get to the target undetected and release their payload, tactical or strategic, followed promptly by leaving. They are more often than not used to bombard enemy capital ships with anti-subsystem torpedoes, but can carry nuclear ordinance if needed. Some editions are built with jump drives.
Lockheed Martin B-2 'Supertalon' The Supertalon is a jump-capable strategic bomber designed specifically for the deployment of nuclear weapons on enemy territory. It includes stealth systems, much like the Talon, and can carry up to twenty MXV-082 MIRVed nuclear warheads or fourty MXV-112 non-MIRV continent-buster weapons.
Lockheed Martin S-14 'Raven' Ravens are stealth strike fighters designed to be deployed from supercarriers, go under enemy RADAR and cripple military installations or attack important gunships while remaining covert.
SR-77 'Blackbird' Blackbirds are the ultimate stealth recon fighters. They can jump deep behind enemy lines, and using the proprietary General Dynamics Reactionless Motion Drive (TM) can move without producing any emissions. Their advanced heatsinks allow them to not only cover their jump signature, but to remain in stealth mode for days without having to vent the heat.
CH-48 'Chetco' VTOL The Boeing CH-48 is named after the people of Chetco, a native Oregon tribe, and is the Space capable offspring of the CH-47 Chinook. It is an ancient vehicle, having served in both the Civil War and the Alarei War, and most of them are used as civilian cargo transports within the fleet, but military versions still exist for the transport of sensitive materiel because of the ship's heavy armor and huge cargo hold. Up to two main battle tanks, or fourty troops, can fit comfortably inside the hold of a CH-48. It is powered by microfission batteries, and uses a Buzzard scoop to use as reaction mass, giving it an almost unlimited range. Sometimes, the transports are refitted with an FTL drive to ferry cargo between Sanctuary and Earth.
UH-101 'Raptor' Gunship The Raptor is an agile utility craft that serves as a jack of all trades. Cargo and troop transport, ECM, ECCM, sensor tracking, force insertion, recon, drone carrier, planetary and asteroid surveys and combat craft; there is no role that the Raptor can't do with the right tools in its arsenal. They are hybrid craft, using both hydrogen fuel cells for short bursts of fighter-level agility, and a fusion reactor for long-distance travel and recon. It is fitted with an FTL drive and military-grade heatsink, and can be armed with railguns, missiles and nuclear torpedoes, amongst a range of equipment.
UH-77 'Inuit' Lander The UH-77 is named after the Canadian Inuit, part of Canadian heritage in the USC, and is built as a force insertion craft. Its missile pods can clear the path for ground forces to land in, and its railgun can devastate other dropships in dogfights. It is faster and more agile than the Chetco, and can be fitted with an FTL drive to allow it to travel faster than light. It also supports cloaking modules, heavier weapons, mech compartments and weapons of mass destruction.
AH-12 'Slingshot' Gunship The Slingshot is the exact opposite of the Chetco. Agile and armed, it is meant to provide cover for ground troops with a huge arsenal of weaponry, such as rail cannons, missiles and artillery turrets. It can carry a small squad of marines inside it, for rapid deployments, and is fueled by hydrogen fuel cells to give it unpararelled agility when it comes to assault gunships.
The Hastings-class started as a battleship-sized carrier, but after an extensive refit, both of the class's vessels were converted into capital ships. Supercarriers are the basis of the Coalition's combat doctrine, and serve as mobile command centers for the battlegroups they command. They are almost always refered to as "the Flagship", as they house a battlegroup's Admiralty Board. The vessels also house many families, and have services such as an extensive hospital, a playground and a school.
It is interesting to note that half of the hangar bays on the pods are inverted in relation to the ship's artificial gravity. A smaller gravity generator serves to ensure the fighters land properly and remain attached to the landing corridor while the deck crews move them into the elevators, where they are reversed and moved to the hangar deck.
The Hastings-class's most important weapon, aside from its flight wing, is the nuclear ship-to-ship torpedoes it is capable of launching.
Aside from a carrier and a warship, the Hastings-class is also a mobile fighter factory.
The USS Dauntless was once an experimental battleship, focusing on gathering as much firepower as possible on a single vessel. Following a refit, the Dauntless was moved up to Capital Ship size and given the designation of Dreadnought. Almost as big as a Hastings supercarrier, the Dauntless-class has a much smaller crew thanks to increased automation proceedures.
It would be negligent to not mention the 'Aries' Artillery Battery, a device that spans the entire length of the ship. When aligned and charged, it can devastate any vessel in two shots.
Much smaller than the Hastings-class, Freedom-class carriers are nevertheless capable of hosting almost as many fighters as their larger brothers. Their role is that of a carrier and support ship, and they barely have any weapons. Those they do have are more often than not used to suppress enemy fighter squadrons or missile barrages. They excel at remotely repairing other ships thanks to their dedicated drone bays, which they have in a much larger quantity than any other battleship or capital in the fleet.
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Looking for a summer job that takes you out of the ordinary and lands you in the middle of South Dakota’s natural resources? Consider a seasonal job with Game, Fish, and Parks. There are a variety of opportunities that offer life experiences working hand-in-hand with parks and wildlife.
The normal summer season is mid-May through Labor Day. Some employees may work earlier or later. Most positions involve outdoor work and physical labor.
GFP Supervisors will contact those applicants they wish to interview. Interviews will begin in February. Not all applicants will receive an interview, but all applicants will be notified in writing of the outcome of their application.
These popular positions fill quickly, so please check out the following instructions and get your application submitted as soon as you can. Come and enjoy South Dakota’s great outdoors with us!
Housing is the responsibility of the employee, unless otherwise noted.
Transportation to and from work and associated costs is the responsibility of the employee.
Positions may require employees to work holidays, weekends and irregular or rotating shifts.
Some positions require specific licenses or certification as listed on the job description.
Use a State of South Dakota Seasonal Application form.
MAC Users:Please complete the form using Adobe Reader.
Save the blank application to your computer.
Open the application (file ->Open).
Applications are also available at any SD Department of Labor and Regulation Job Service Office and any job site listed. Photocopies are acceptable.
All applications must be sent to the address or e-mail address listed on that announcement.
Only one application is needed to be considered for the positions listed below. You must include the requisition number for your application to be processed. Please list on the application the position you are applying for.
Be specific in completing the application form. List any relevant licenses or certificates (e.g. driver’s license, CDL, CPR, pesticide/herbicide applicator certification, etc.) as well as any equipment or office equipment you are able to operate. Please include both the beginning and ending dates you are available for employment. It is essential that your mailing address is complete including apartment number, box number, lot number, as well as street, lane, avenue, etc. if applicable.
Applicants requiring application materials in an alternate format or assistance with the application process may contact the Bureau of Human Resources at 605.773.3148 (VOICE/TYY).
Position Description: Under the direct supervision of a Regional or District Park Manager and the guidance of an assigned Park Ranger as mentor, the seasonal Park Ranger enforces park regulations, boating laws, conservation laws, and criminal laws to ensure compliance, protect public resources and promote public safety. Maintains public relations with the general public, park visitors, landowners, concessionaires, business owners and other agencies to ensure departmental activities are implemented and understood and to provide comprehensive customer service. The incumbent will also perform a variety of administrative support functions to assist the park managers with park operations and performs other duties as assigned. This position involves boating-safety duties and monitoring aquatic recreation to promote safety on the water.
Qualifications: Applicants must be 21 years of age by the date of employment and meet all requirements for a law enforcement officer for South Dakota. All applicants must be certified as a law enforcement officer in South Dakota. The incumbent will be required to pass firearms and PPCT (defensive tactics) proficiency tests and meet department minimum qualification standards. Background investigations will be conducted on all successful applicants prior to employment and pre-employment drug testing is required. First aid, CPR, EMT, or first responder certificates are desirable. A valid driver’s license is required. Housing is provided at some locations. Uniforms and law enforcement equipment are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress. This position requires employees to work holidays, weekends, and irregular or rotating shifts. The normal summer season is mid-May through Labor Day. All applicants must attend the Park Ranger Training held in Pierre in May. Some employees may work earlier or later. Seasonal employees are paid only for hours worked; no paid time off or benefits.
Minimum salary: $17.00 per hour (S05).
Locations: Department of Game, Fish, and Parks – Numerous positions available statewide; requires one application. Indicate on the application form above the position title, your location choices.
Applications must be submitted on the Seasonal Parks Law Enforcement application form.
*Campground/Gate Attendant: Assists in the overall operation and maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to, cleaning comfort stations and cabins/lodge, collecting camping fees, selling park passes, cleaning fire grates, managing the reservation system and providing information to the public.
Requirements: Money handling experience is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
Minimum salary: $9.92 per hour (S02).
*Parks/Ground Maintenance: Assists with maintenance of buildings and grounds within the park including but not limited to, mowing campgrounds and day use areas, shoreline clean-up and tree removal and operating equipment such as chain saws, tractors, skid loaders, mowers, weed eaters, and trucks.
Requirements: Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Naturalist/Program Coordinator: Develops, promotes, and presents programs on natural and cultural resources, and environmental education. Duties may include staffing the visitor centers, selling publications, developing and presenting day and evening programs, coordinating special events, and presenting living history demonstrations.
Requirements: Experience and interest in teaching, public speaking, and working with children and adults is desirable. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
Minimum salary: $10.62 per hour (S03).
*Crew Leader: Job site supervisor for seasonal work crews and inmates performing general maintenance and project work. Duties may include working directly with seasonal employees performing building and grounds maintenance work and operating a variety of equipment including trucks, mowers, and tractors.
Requirements: Supervisory experience is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Seasonal housing available (trailer house).
*Lead Maintenance/Campground Worker: Primary responsibilities include being the lead worker in the Park Manager’s absence. Constant contact with the public will be maintained throughout the performance of duties. A lead worker must maintain a professional image by actions and appearance. Other duties include collection and recording of monies from self-sell license stations, and maintenance of grounds, buildings, and facilities. Other duties as assigned.
ONLY ONE APPLICATION IS NEEDED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE POSITIONS LISTED BELOW. YOU MUST INCLUDE THE REQUISITION NUMBER FOR YOUR APPLICATION TO BE PROCESSED. PLEASE LIST ON THE APPLICATION THE POSITION* YOU ARE APPLYING FOR.
*Gate Attendant: Assist in customer service duties along with the maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to selling park entrance licenses, cleaning comfort stations, collecting camping fees, managing the reservation system, and providing information to the public.
*Campground Attendant: Assist in the overall operation and maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to cleaning comfort stations, collecting camping fees, cleaning fire grates, managing the reservation system and providing information to the public.
*Parks/Ground Maintenance Worker: Assists with maintenance of buildings and grounds within the park and access areas, including mowing, weed whipping, spraying, watering, and operating equipment such as mowers, tractors, skid loaders, weed sprayers and trucks.
Requirements: Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required. Minimum salary: $9.92 per hour (S02).
*Campground Security: Work directly with the general public and department rangers to provide nighttime security of the park area for all visitors. Duties may include assisting department managers and rangers in the enforcement of park rules and regulations. Assist in the selling of entrance licenses and camping permits. Monitoring entrance license and camping permits for compliance.
Requirements: Interest in park management, public safety, and law enforcement is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Campground Attendant: Assist in the overall operation and maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to cleaning comfort stations, collecting camping fees, cleaning fire grates, managing the reservation system and providing information to the public. Other duties as assigned.
Requirements: Money handling experience is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Parks/Ground Maintenance Worker: Assists with maintenance of buildings and grounds within the park, including mowing, weed whipping, spraying, watering, and operating equipment such as mowers, tractors, skid loaders, weed sprayers and trucks. Other duties as assigned.
Requirements: Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required. Minimum salary: $9.92 per hour (S02).
*Campground Supervisor: Primary responsibilities include being the working supervisor of Gate Attendants and Park Maintenance workers in the Park Manager’s absence. Constant contact with the public will be maintained throughout the performance of duties. A supervisor must maintain a professional image by actions and appearance. Other duties include supervision, training, and assistance to gate attendants and park workers, collection and recording of monies from self-sell license stations, campground security, and maintenance of grounds, buildings, and facilities. Other duties as assigned.
Requirements: Supervisory experience is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Program Coordinator: Develops, promotes, and presents programs on natural and cultural resources, and environmental education. Duties may include developing and presenting day and evening programs for all ages, coordinating special events, and presenting living history demonstrations. Programs are held at Palisades State Park, Big Sioux Recreation Area, Beaver Creek Nature Area, and Lake Vermillion Recreation Area. Other duties as assigned.
*Parks/Ground Maintenance Worker: Assists with maintenance of buildings and grounds within the park, including mowing, weed whipping, spraying, watering, and operating equipment such as mowers, tractors, skid loaders, weed sprayers and trucks.
*Program Coordinator: Develops, promotes, and presents programs on natural and cultural resources, and environmental education. Duties may include staffing the visitor centers, selling publications, developing and presenting day and evening programs, coordinating special events, and presenting living history demonstrations.
*Park Attendant: Responsibilities include alternating between Front Desk Attendant and Campground Attendant. While working as Front Desk, the primary responsibility is to be the initial contact person for park visitors and to provide a positive image of the park and the State Park System through actions and appearance. Campground Attendants primary responsibility is assisting in the overall operation and maintenance of the campgrounds. Duties of both attendants include: collecting entrance license revenues and camping permit fees, registering campers, answering visitors questions, firewood sales, keeping of records on park attendance, custodial and maintenance of park grounds, buildings, and facilities. Also may include office duties such as answering the phone, assisting the secretary, etc. and other duties as assigned.
Requirements: Money handling and customer service experience is helpful. Ability to deal with the public and unpleasant situations, work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions. Skills in carpentry, plumbing, and vehicle/equipment maintenance are helpful.
Schedule: 32-40 hours a week. Mostly nights, weekends, and holidays. May thru Labor Day, weekends until October 30.
Requirements: Skills in operating, maintaining, and repairing equipment such as mowers, grass trimmers, tractors, weed sprayers, and trucks. Skills in carpentry, plumbing, small engine repair, and vehicle and equipment maintenance are preferred. Ability to perform strenuous physical labor, work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions.
Schedule: 32-40 hours a week. Mostly weekday hours, however weekend/evening/holiday hours may be necessary.
*Campground Supervisor: Primary responsibilities include being the working supervisor of Gate Attendants and Park Maintenance workers in the Park Manager’s absence. Constant contact with the public will be maintained throughout the performance of duties. A supervisor must maintain a professional image by actions and appearance. Other duties include supervision, training, and assistance to gate attendants and park workers, collection and recording of monies from self-sell license stations, and maintenance of grounds, buildings, and facilities. Other duties as assigned.
Requirements: Supervisory experience is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code.
*Naturalist/Program Coordinator: Develops, promotes, and presents programs on natural and cultural resources, and environmental education. Duties may include developing and presenting day and evening programs for children as well as adults (i.e. Arts and Crafts activities, movies at amphitheater, programs for scout groups, etc.), as well as coordinating special events. Along with those duties, fill needed shifts in the office or campground, and assist with various duties as needed during times of high use.
Requirements: Experience and interest in teaching, public speaking, and working with children and adults is desirable.
All seasonal employees report to work at Newton Hills. The Lake Alvin, Union Grove and Good Earth State Park shifts will have some time spent at Newton Hills before leaving and after returning.
Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Campground Attendant: Assist in the overall operation and maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to managing the reservation system, collecting camping fees, providing information to the public, cleaning comfort stations, and, cleaning fire grates.
*Campground Supervisor: Primary responsibilities include being the working supervisor of Campground Attendants and Park Maintenance Workers in the Park Manager’s absence. Constant contact with the public will be maintained throughout the performance of duties. A supervisor must maintain a professional image by actions and appearance. Other duties include supervision, training, and assistance to campground attendants and park workers, collection and recording of monies from self-sell license stations, and maintenance of grounds, buildings, and facilities. Other duties as assigned.
*Seasonal housing is available. The charge is $4.50 a day for dorms and cabins. Campsites are available for $4.00 a day.
*Entrance Station Attendant; Meet and greet visitors coming into Custer State Park and provide information on the Park and the surrounding Black Hills. Sell entrance licenses and collect associated fees. Open, close, and keep facilities clean and orderly.
Requirements: Ability to work with park visitors and associated staff. Work independently standing for long periods of time and in a variety of weather conditions. Ability to work with money, balance books, and operate a computer POS system.
*Entrance Station Crew Leader: Oversee the day to day operations of one Entrance Station in Custer State Park. Maintain needed supplies, materials, and literature at the entrance station. Provide support to staff by answering their questions, providing direction, and acting as liaison between staff and supervisor. Meet and greet visitors coming into the Park and sell park entrance licenses.
Requirements: Ability to provide direction to co-workers and maintain a positive work environment, oversee the trading of entrance licenses with staff. Work in a variety of weather conditions, standing for long periods of time. Operate POS program.
*Campground Attendant: Assist in the overall operations and maintenance of one or more campgrounds and day use areas in Custer State Park. Clean comfort stations, day use area facilities and fire grate. Interact with park guests, providing them information on the Park and surrounding area.
Requirements: Ability to work independently. Operate the POS system, collect revenues, and interact with park visitors and staff/volunteers.
*Campground Supervisor: Lead seasonal campground team and/or volunteers. Assist with campground maintenance tasks. Assist with cleaning one or more campgrounds and day use areas. Interact with park guests, providing them information on the Park and surrounding area.
Requirements: Supervisory experience is preferred. Ability to work independently, provide work direction to co-workers and maintain a positive work environment. Operate the POS system, collect revenues, and interact with park visitors and staff/volunteers.
*Naturalist: Develop, promote, and present programs on the natural and cultural resources of Custer State Park. Duties may include staffing visitor centers, sell publications, develop and present day and evening interpretative programs, coordinate special events, living history demonstrations, and cleaning and maintaining facilities.
Requirements: Appropriate educational background. Experience in teaching, public speaking, and with adults and children in an outdoor setting to enhance the educational goals of Custer State Park.
*Naturalist Crew Leader: Develop, promote, and present programs on the natural and cultural resources of Custer State Park. Duties may include staffing visitor centers, sell publications, develop and present day and evening interpretative programs, coordinate special events, living history demonstrations, and cleaning and maintaining facilities The lead position is also responsible for additional administrative duties that may include; posting information on park bulletin boards, functioning as “on-call” during certain days of the week, coordinating guest speakers for Speaker Series under guidance of a Park Naturalist, and circulating information to various locations.
Requirements: Ability to provide direction to co-workers and maintain a positive work environment. Appropriate educational background. Experience in teaching, public speaking, and with adults and children in an outdoor setting to enhance the educational goals of Custer State Park.
*Visitor Center Conservation Technician- Assist in the overall daily operations and maintenance of the parks two visitor centers, and education center. Clean bathrooms, floors, and main areas of each facility. Assist with maintenance of the buildings and the grounds which includes but it not limited to mowing, weed whipping, watering and operation of equipment such as mowers, tractors, and trucks.
*Resource Technician: Assist with controlling and monitoring noxious weeds by chemical, biological, cultural, and mechanical means according to Integrated Weed Control Plan. Use of pickup mounted sprayer, ATV mounted sprayers, and backpack sprayers. Use of hand-held GPS units to map weed infestations and bio-control sites. Assist in collection of rangeland data, plant identification skills helpful.
Requirements: Experience or knowledge of Range Management preferred. Weed applicator certification required, may be obtained after beginning of employment.
*Resource Technician Crew Leader: Lead seasonal crews and inmates performing work to control and monitor noxious weeds. Assist in collection of rangeland data, plant identification skill required.
Requirements: Experience or knowledge of Range Management preferred. Weed applicator certification required, may be obtained after beginning of employment. Supervisory experience is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Ground Maintenance Team: Assist with maintenance of buildings and grounds within the Park including mowing, weed whipping, spraying, watering, and operating equipment such as mowers, tractors, skid loaders, weed sprayers, and trucks.
Requirements: Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Valid driver’s license.
*Technician for Water and Wastewater Systems: Assist with the daily operation, maintenance and record keeping for the six waste water systems throughout the park. Collect water samples for testing. Chlorinate water systems as needed to specifications.
Requirements: Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Valid driver’s license. Appropriate background in equipment operation, ability to take and maintain accurate records for all work completed.
*Mickelson Trail Crew: Perform general trail maintenance of the 111 mile Mickelson Trail. Have appropriate knowledge of equipment operation to perform tasks along the trail. Clean and maintain facilities along the trail.
Requirements: Ability to work out doors in all kinds of weather.
*CSP Trail Crew: Perform general trail maintenance of the 50 miles of trails in Custer State Park. Have appropriate knowledge of equipment operation to perform tasks along the trails. Clean and maintain facilities along the trails.
*Custer State Park Fire Tower/Radio Dispatch Operator – Maintain watch over Custer State Park in Mt. Coolidge Fire Tower while also serving as Custer State Park radio dispatch operator. Operate radio, telephone, and computer equipment and receive reports from park employees on issues, fires, medical and law enforcement emergencies and non-emergencies. Work with campgrounds to look up reservations on POS system.
*Seasonal housing may be available (camper).
*Crew Leader: Job site supervisor for seasonal work crews performing general maintenance and project work. Duties may include working directly with seasonal employees performing building and grounds maintenance work and operating a variety of equipment including trucks, mowers, and tractors. Other duties as assigned.
*Campground/Grounds Attendant: Assist in the overall operation and maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to cleaning comfort stations, collecting camping fees, cleaning fire grates, managing the reservation system and providing information to the public.
*Seasonal housing available (trailer house at Angostura and camper at Sheps Canyon near shop).
*Facility Maintenance Worker: Assist with cleaning of buildings and grounds within the park including modern and basic restroom facilities, picnic shelters, fish cleaning stations, camping cabins, lodge and litter.
Requirements: Utilization of modern cleaning products and tools, power washers and sprayers, and how to stock supplies.
*Parks/Ground Maintenance Crew Leader: Job site supervisor responsible for the general park grounds, building and campground upkeep. Responsibilities include but are not limited to building cleaning, mowing, spraying, and operating equipment such as mowers, tractors, skid loaders, weed sprayers and trucks. Responsible for assigning and directing personnel and equipment and for completing and inspecting projects.
Requirements: Supervisory experience is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required. Minimum salary: $10.62 per hour (S03).
*Visitor Center/Campground Attendant: Assist in the overall operation and maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to cleaning comfort stations, collecting camping fees, cleaning fire grates, managing the reservation system and providing information to the public.
*Visitor Center/Campground Crew Leader: Job site supervisor for the Visitor Services at Fort Sisseton Historic State Park. Duties may include but are not limited to working directly with seasonal staff and volunteers conducting tours, maintaining the visitor center and museum, cleaning, managing the reservation system, planning and coordinating special events, and running the gift shop. Will be responsible for assigning and directing personnel and volunteers for completing these tasks.
Requirements: Supervisory experience is helpful. Effective communication skills experience and or interest in history or public relations, and be enthusiastic about working with a wide range of people is desired. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
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*Seasonal housing available at West Bend (trailer house).
*General Maintenance Worker: Work outdoors at area parks, maintenance duties include: maintenance buildings, trails, grounds that will include mowing, cultivating, weeding, refuse collection, cleaning, janitorial duties, fencing, painting, cutting trees, and firewood splitting.
Requirements: Ability to work in a variety of weather conditions. Day shifts and some weekend work and holidays. Uniform shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Gate Attendant: Work primarily at park entrance office greeting customers, selling entrance licenses, camping permits, answering questions, and entry into computer sales system. This position will also be utilized for some general maintenance duties.
Requirements: Position requires the ability to enthusiastically greet people and deal with problems in a positive way. Alternating day and night hours, as well as weekend and holidays. Money handling experience is helpful. Uniform shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Campground Supervisor: Work outdoors within area parks. Fee collection, campgrounds, and park maintenance are the primary areas of work. Employees will need to complete work in all areas of the park. Duties include but not limited to selling entrance licenses, camping permits, meeting and greeting the public, janitorial work, pickup garbage, clean fire grate ashes, and assisting in the education of the public relating to park rules and behavior.
Requirements: Ability to work on your own late into the evening. Ability to interact with campers and other visitors during evening shift informing them of park rules and hours of operation. Evening hours primarily and weekends. Money handling experience would be helpful. Uniform shirts and provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
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Minimum salary: $10.62 per hour (SO3).
*General Maintenance Worker: Work outdoors at area parks. Maintenance duties include: maintenance of buildings, trails, & grounds: to include mowing, weeding, refuse collection, cleaning, janitorial duties, fencing, painting, tree trimming, and preparing firewood.
Requirements: Ability to work in a variety of weather conditions. Day shifts and some weekend work and holidays. Uniforms shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Campground Supervisor: Work either at park entrance (Gate) office greeting customers, selling entrance licenses & camping reservations, answering questions, with product entry into computer sales system. Other CG Supervisors, work outdoors within area parks. Fee collection in campgrounds and some general park maintenance are the primary areas of work. Employees will need to complete work in all areas of the park. Duties include but not limited to selling entrance licenses, camping reservations, meeting and greeting the public, janitorial work, pickup garbage, clean fire grate ashes, and assisting in the education of the public relating to park rules and behavior.
Requirements: Position requires the ability to enthusiastically greet people and deal with problems in a positive way. Positions can work both, day and evening shifts, as well as weekend and holidays. Money handling experience is helpful. Uniform shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Crew Leader: Job site team-leader for seasonal work crews performing general maintenance work. Duties include building and grounds maintenance, janitorial duties, planting, weeding, mowing, fencing, and operating a variety of equipment including trucks, mowers, and tractors.
Requirements: Team-leader for personnel and equipment as to accomplish assigned tasks. Completion and inspection of various district projects required. Day shifts and some weekend work and holidays. Uniform shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Program Coordinator: Specific duties include: organizing and facilitating scheduled park programs and events; ability to attend a state-wide coordinator training that is conducted early summer after Memorial Day; ability to work under limited supervision developing and conducting new or established programs within your district’s park settings; ability to maintain a flexible schedule to meet the needs of scheduled events; a task oriented, well organized individual capable of networking with local businesses to conduct a variety of programs throughout the park.
Requirements: Interest in recreational programming, or education or a combination of education and experience. Work outdoors in a variety of weather. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Campground Attendant: Work primarily at park entrance office greeting customers, selling entrance licenses, camping reservations, answering questions, and entry into computer sales system. This position will also be utilized for general maintenance and custodial duties.
Requirements: Position requires the ability to enthusiastically greet people and deal with problems in a positive way. Alternating day and night hours, as well as weekend and holidays. Customer Service and money handling experience is helpful. Uniform shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*General Maintenance Worker: Work outdoors at area parks. Maintenance duties include: maintenance of buildings, trails and grounds. Tasks will include mowing, planting, weeding, cleaning, janitorial duties, fencing, painting, cutting trees, and firewood splitting.
Custodial Maintenance Worker: Assist with cleaning of buildings and grounds of our area parks, including modern and basic restroom facilities, picnic shelters, fish cleaning stations and camping cabins.
Requirements: Knowledge and utilization of modern cleaning products and tools, power washers and sprayers, and how to stock supplies. Alternating between weekday and weekend shifts while working with a crew. Valid driver’s license required.
*Crew Leader: Job site supervisor for seasonal work crews performing general maintenance work. Duties include building and grounds maintenance, janitorial duties, planting, weeding, mowing, fencing, and operating a variety of equipment including trucks, mowers, and tractors.
Requirements: Responsible for directing personnel, quality control and equipment to accomplish assigned tasks to parks standards. Day shifts and some weekend work and holidays. Uniform shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Naturalist/Program Coordinator: Specific duties include: organizing and facilitating scheduled park programs and events; ability to attend a state-wide coordinator training that is conducted early summer after Memorial Day; ability to work under limited supervision developing and conducting new or established programs within your district’s park settings; Mostly Weekend and Holidays shifts to meet the needs of scheduled events; a task oriented, well organized individual capable of networking with local businesses to conduct a variety of programs throughout the park.
Requirements: Interest in recreational programming, or education or a combination of education and experience. Work outdoors in a variety of weather. Uniform shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
Schedule: 32-40 hours a week. Mostly weekday hours, however weekend, evening, and holiday hours may be necessary.
Requirements: Responsible for directing personnel and equipment to accomplish assigned tasks. Completion and inspection of various district projects required. Day shifts and some weekend work and holidays. Uniform shirts are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Trail Attendant: This position is primarily out on the trail checking on users, help people that need assistance for any reason, and perform minor maintenance functions. Maintenance is conducted on foot equipped with small tools to be able to fix things such as broken boards, washouts, signs, etc.
Requirements: Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors, have good customer service skills and willing to work the Education Center. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Campground Attendant: Assist in the overall operation and maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to collecting camping fees, managing the reservation system, providing information to the public, cleaning comfort stations, cleaning fire grates, mowing, and weed whipping.
*Crew Leader: Job site supervisor for seasonal work crews performing Campground Attendant and general maintenance work. Duties may include, but not limited to managing the reservation system, collecting camping fees, providing information to the public, cleaning comfort stations, cleaning fire grates, and working directly with seasonal employees performing building and grounds maintenance work including operating a variety of equipment including trucks, mowers, and tractors.
*Seasonal housing available at Pelican Lake (camper).
*Campground Supervisor: Primary responsibilities include being the working supervisor of Campground Attendants in the Park Manager’s absence. Constant contact with the public will be maintained throughout the performance of duties. Duties may include, but not limited to managing the reservation system, collecting camping fees, providing information to the public, cleaning comfort stations, cleaning fire grates, and working directly with seasonal employees performing building and grounds maintenance work including operating a variety of equipment including trucks, mowers, and tractors.
Requirements: Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required. Must be at least 18 years of age.
*Program Coordinator: Develops, promotes, and presents programs on natural and cultural resources and environmental education. Duties may include staffing the visitor centers, selling publications, developing and presenting day and evening programs, coordinating special events, and presenting living history demonstrations.
*Public Water Access (PWA) Ground Maintenance Worker: Assists with maintenance of public water access areas throughout northeastern South Dakota, including mowing, weed whipping, spraying, tree trimming and operating equipment such as mowers, tractors, skid loaders, weed sprayers, road groomers, trucks and pulling trailers w/heavy loads. Overnight travel throughout the region is required occasionally up to three nights a week.
*Front Desk Attendant: Assist in customer service duties along with the maintenance of assigned campgrounds and day use facilities including but not limited to selling park entrance licenses, cleaning restrooms, collecting camping fees, managing the reservation system, and providing information to the public.
*Custodial Maintenance Worker: Assist with cleaning of buildings and grounds within the park including modern and basic restroom facilities, picnic shelters, fish cleaning stations and camping cabins.
*Custodial Maintenance Crew Leader: Job site supervisor for seasonal custodial work crews and inmates performing facility and grounds cleaning. Duties may include working directly with seasonal employees performing building and grounds cleaning. Perform minor facility repairs.
*Maintenance Crew Leader: Job site supervisor for seasonal work crews and inmates performing general maintenance and project work. Duties may include working directly with seasonal employees performing building and grounds maintenance work and operating a variety of equipment including trucks, mowers, and tractors.
*Campground Ranger: Work directly with the general public and department Rangers to provide nighttime security of the park area for all visitors. Duties may include assisting department managers and rangers in the enforcement of park rules and regulations. Assist in the selling of entrance licenses and camping permits. Monitoring entrance license and camping permits for compliance. Assist with the cleaning of buildings and grounds.
Requirements: Interest in park management, public safety and law enforcement is helpful. Ability to work independently, manage time well, and work in a variety of weather conditions out of doors. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license required.
*Naturalist/Program Coordinator: Specific duties include: organizing and facilitating scheduled park programs and events; ability to attend a state-wide coordinator training that is conducted early summer after Memorial Day; ability to work under limited supervision developing and conducting new or established programs within your district’s park settings; ability to maintain a flexible schedule to meet the needs of scheduled events; a task oriented, well organized individual capable of networking with local businesses to conduct a variety of programs throughout the park.
Position purpose: Assist fisheries managers and biologists with management and research activities on Missouri River reservoirs.
Primary duties: Assist in fish spawning and stocking operations, fish population sampling using gill nets, trap nets, seines and electrofishing, and angler use and harvest surveys. Assist with data entry and equipment maintenance.
Essential requirements: Valid driver’s license, the ability to perform strenuous physical labor, and the ability to work nights and weekends. Ability to communicate effectively with the public.
Beneficial abilities: Operation and maintenance of boats, motors, and trailers, basic vehicle and equipment maintenance, knowledge of fisheries management principles and techniques, fish identification and basic computer operation.
Habitat Technician: Provides technical assistance to habitat managers in tree planting, cultivation, fence construction, weed control, prescribed burning, and habitat plantings. May serve as lead worker on projects. This position may assist Fisheries Managers with capture surveys and Wildlife Damage Managers with various projects.
Requirements: Knowledge of and experience in land management techniques and equipment, fencing equipment, and spraying equipment. Must be able to perform strenuous physical labor. Ability to work out of doors in a variety of weather. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Valid driver’s license.
Provide technical assistance to habitat managers in tree planting, cultivation, fence construction, weed control, prescribed burning, and habitat plantings. May serve as crew leader or lead worker on projects.
Requirements: Knowledge of and experience in land management techniques and equipment, fencing equipment, and spraying equipment. Technician must be able to perform strenuous physical labor. Technician must be able to work out of doors in a variety of weather. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Technician must have a valid driver’s license. Ability to obtain a SD Commercial Applicators License.
Position to start approximately April 8th and end around October 15th.
Position purpose: Assist fisheries managers and biologists conducting a variety of fisheries management and research activities on waters in Management Region II and on Missouri River reservoirs. Technician will work with fisheries staff during normal scheduled activities conducting fish population surveys, fish spawning, trap and transfer of fish, fish stocking, sampling fish utilizing netting and electrofishing equipment, analyzing age and growth, data entry, and equipment maintenance. In addition, technician will be assigned to occasionally assist with game management surveys and wildlife habitat work.
Requirements: Technician must be able to complete strenuous activities in an outdoor environment in al weather conditions and be able to work in and operate boats and outboard motors. Technician will be overtime eligible, but the normal work schedule will be 40 hours per week. Technician must be available to complete night and weekend work when requested and to accompany fisheries crew on overnight trips. Technician will receive pay for hours worked and be eligible for travel reimbursement when working away from home workstation, but not eligible for other compensation or benefits.
Requirements: Knowledge of and experience in land management techniques and equipment, fencing equipment, and spraying equipment. Technician must be able to perform strenuous physical labor. Technician must be able to work out of doors in a variety of weather. Uniforms are provided and employees must comply with uniform dress code. Technician must have a valid driver’s license and ability to obtain a SD commercial applicator license.
Position to start: Approximately April 9th and end around October 15th.
Habitat Technician: Provides technical assistance to habitat managers in food plot planting, tree planting and cultivation, native grass seeding, fence construction, weed control, and posting property boundaries. May serve as lead worker on projects.
Position purpose: Assist the GFP southeast area fisheries management team with fisheries management, fisheries research, aquatic habitat, aquatic access and aquatic invasive species activities on southeastern South Dakota waters.
Primary duties: Fish spawning and stocking operations, fish population sampling using gill nets, trap nets, seines and electrofishing, aquatic habitat improvement, fishing access improvement, data entry, lab work, creel surveys, Aquatic Invasive Species outreach, and equipment maintenance.
Essential requirements: Valid driver’s license, the ability to perform strenuous physical labor, and the ability to work nights and weekends.
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Check the calendar please for our next meeting date, which be promptly at 9:30am at Temple Avodah.
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Check the website calendar for all Sunday and Special meetings for 2017-2018 year / 5778.
On Wednesday, October 26, 2016, Temple Avodah's Networking Group, TANG, presented a program called Preparing For The College Years. This educational seminar was for teens ages 12-18 and their parents, providing vital information what to think about and how to plan for college. The panel addressed the mindset, attitude, aptitude, and personal and financial organization needed to prepare for these precious years.
Paul Engel LCSW spoke about strategies to alleviate and cope with mental stressors. He discussed helping teens and parents to prepare and cope with the decisions and challenges when selecting a college and planning to live away from home. Audrey Quick, Personal Trainer, Nutrition Educator and Health Coach, discussed making healthy choices and involving your teen in food decisions now, to impact their choices for their future. Rochelle Sanchez, Educator, discussed management of test-taking anxiety and the importance of teaching teens how to take a test. Alan Winter, Financial Representative, spoke about the sequence of savings and plans to save for college. Dr. Rachelle Wolosoff, College Search Expert LLC, discussed what colleges look for in admissions and how you can best prepare for college. She expressed the importance of knowing what you want from a college and how choosing the right school initially can save you valuable time, effort and money. Jordan Kaplan, Financial Representative, focused on the importance of having a savings plan and coordinating with experts who can help you. He discussed how college is one component of the lifestyle you are living today and having the right plan with the right people helping you will help avoid the stress of the process.
A question and answer session followed the panel's presentation and questions were asked by parents and the teenagers about healthy eating, high school courses and types to take, what colleges really look for and how to make themselves stand out when applying for college.
At Temple Avodah, sharing is our business! We encourage our congregation members to contact other congregation members for business, goods and services.
Our Temple Avodah Networking Group, TANG, current membership is listed below.
To find out how you can become a member of TANG, please email us.
"We are a law firm concentrating on Traffic Tickets all over NY and NJ and vehicular related crimes such as DWI and suspended license."
"I pride myself on providing a high level of personalized service to all of my clients, in all boros of NYC, and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. I handle all Estates- Probate, Administration, Contested, and all phases of Estate Planning and Advanced Directives. I am practicing now over 30 years and as a solo practicioner with my own firm for over 20 years. As I say, "Referrals are the life of my business and the best compliment that I can ever receive.""
"I pride myself on providing a high level of personalized service to all of my clients, in all boros of NYC, and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. I handle all forms of real estate matters for Purchasers and Sellers of one, two, multiple and mixed use dwellings, as well as, condo's and co-operative apartments, refinancing and short sale transactions. I handle all Estates- Probate, Administration, Contested, and all phases of Estate Planning and Advanced Directives. I also handle all forms of personal injury cases, all on a contingency fee basis. I am practicing now over 30 years and as a solo practicioner with my own firm for over 20 years. As I say, "Referrals are the life of my business and the best compliment that I can ever receive.""
"I represent: Anyone who is contemplating separating from their spouse or who has been served with divorce papers; non-married parents who have issues regarding children such as: custody, visitation, child support, orders of protection for family members; divorced people looking to modify items regarding children, or enforce divorce provisions."
"We represent those individuals seriously injured and/or killed in accidents and as a result of physician's departures from good and accepted medical practice. All consultations are free. See our website and check us out on "YELP.""
"I represent medical providers who have treated patients under NYS No-Fault Law, assisting medical providers with the Collection, Arbitration and Litigation of their unpaid medical bills / no-fault claims against the insurance carriers. Representation includes neurologists, radiologists, physical therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, osteopaths, internal medical physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists, orthopedists, dentists, outpatient facilities, hospitals, medical centers, spinal surgeons, DME and CPM supply companies, and more."
"I pride myself on providing a high level of personalized service to all of my clients, in all boros of NYC, and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. I handle all forms of personal injury cases, all on a contingency fee basis. I am practicing now over 30 years and as a solo practicioner with my own firm for over 20 years. As I say, "Referrals are the life of my business and the best compliment that I can ever receive."
"I have been an attorney for thirty years providing top quality legal services at cost effective rates. My firm focuses on representing individual and business in real estate transactions including purchases, sales, financing leasing and management. We handle residential and commercial landlord tenant proceedings and commercial litigation."
"I pride myself on providing a high level of personalized service to all of my clients, in all boros of NYC, and Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. I handle all forms of real estate matters for Purchasers and Sellers of one, two, multiple and mixed use dwellings, as well as, condo's and co-operative apartments, refinancing and short sale transactions. I am practicing now over 30 years and as a solo practicioner with my own firm for over 20 years. As I say, "Referrals are the life of my business and the best compliment that I can ever receive.""
"We handle Real Estate Tax Reduction for commercial and residential tax payers on Long Island and the Metropolitan area."
"I handle all types of Traffic tickets that are of a non-criminal nature, such as speeding tickets or other moving violations."
"I am the Head of Inside Sales for ACT, Applied Computer Technologies. Since 1997, we have provided services to individuals and businesses including IT, cyber security, tech support and help desk, network infrastructure, web & app development, data protection and municipal services. If you have a computer question or issue, or would like an evaluation of your systems to make them more secure and reliable, we can help."
"Online Defensive Driving program, up to 4 points off driving records and 10% disount on your Auto Liability Insurance."
"General dentist providing routine dental service including: exam, x-rays, cleaning, non-surgical periodontal care, fillings, crowns, dentures and implant restorations. Simple to complex treatment. Special interests as an author and lecturer: TMJ Disorders and Facial Pain Diagnosis."
"I provide options to reduce utility costs. This includes Solar Power, Savings on Gas Bill, Electric Bill, and Commerical Gas and Electric for Nassau and Suffolk County, and other options to reduce utility costs. Amy home, business or institution who wants to reduce or elminate their Electric bill, and save money on their gas bill, should contact me."
"We provide live music for private and public events throughout Long Island, NYC and its surrounding areas. Specializing in top 40 popular covers from all decades, we bring over 30 years of experience and provide professional, courteous service custom made for your special event. Our Band, Giftbox, creates an exciting and enjoyable atmosphere where your guests will dance and sing along with the music. From soloist piano or guitar with vocals, and up to nine pieces or more, we perform regularly at restaurants, weddings, ceremonies, cocktail hours, private parties, bars, catering halls, anniversaries birthday parties and all places where live music will add to your special occasion."
"As a Financial Representative at Forest Hills Financial Group I help my clients see their overall financial picture. I help individuals, professionals, families and businesses organize, protect and grow their financial world by helping to identify their goals and create custom tailored strategies to achieve these goals."
"My goal is to enrich the lives of my clients and the communities in which they reside. I work with my clients to align their financial actions with their intentions in order to achieve their goals."
"Agency quality photography with retouching for the small business person at affordable prices. My clients are designers (graphic and space), small manufacturers, any business that manufactures products, store, interior and exteriors for website or print."
"I have been an Insurance Agent for over 25 years and grew up on Long Island. I enjoy working with our community in a variety of activites. Insurance is a business of trust and every referral I receive shows that trust. Everyone has a story and by being a part of that conversation I can develope a protection plan designed to help their specific needs."
"Jillian's Circus is a full service online marketing company that uses traditional marketing values and new-age technology to successfully present your company's brand online. Our mission is to improve the local neighborhood by creating an online community with friendly posts, individualized attention and networking."
"I provide quality, professional pictures for Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Weddings, any social or company event, Head Shots, Beach Portraits, Pictures for web sites, or for commerical purposes. I specialize in photographing children with special needs. Milch Photography and Video is fully insured and can provider any venue with its certificate."
"I am available for piano or keyboard lessons for all ages in your home. Play by ear method allows you to play complete songs after just a single lesson! Avoid hours of tedious studying and memorization — learn from a professional and impress your friends and family. Regardless of ability or talent you can easily learn to play piano."
"Keeping a keen eye on local real estate trends-Marsha will guide through through a purchase or sale with ease-ensuring a successful result. Full time, full service with available resources to meet all needs. Specializing in first time homebuyers, downsizing, and estates. Call Marsha because you deserve the best service and results!"
"We are a community based interfaith mental health service agency offering individual, couple, family and group counseling, while presenting educational workshops and seminars."
"I tutor English, Spanish, Global Studies, US History and Reading for regular education and special education students of all ages. I specialize in test taking strategies, helping students cope with test taking anxieties teaching test taking strategies that help students perform better on tests. I also specialize in Regents preparation for ELA, Global Studies and US History, as well as a Reading Teacher for elementary students. I am Reading Specialist certified for all ages and hold certification as a Special Education Teacher and Regular Education teacher grades K-12. Please call me with your concerns and questions about your child/teenager and we can discuss what tutoring services would be best for your child or teenager."
It's early on a Sunday, and TANG - Temple Avodah Networking Group continues to grow. Photo courtesy of Milch Photography.
TANG holds meetings in the evenings to expand its availability to more Temple Avodah members. Check the Temple Calendar for Tang at Night meetings. The next scheduled meeting is Wednesday, September 28th at 7:30 pm.
TANG, the Temple Avodah Networking Group continues to grow as our Fifth meeting was held on April 3rd, 2016.
The Temple Avodah Networking Group, TANG, held its first meeting in December, 2015. This is a group, where Temple Avodah Members network together, helping each other grow our businesses, making for a stronger Temple Avodah! Starting with 22 we have already grown to 38 Temple Avodah members who meet and learn about not only each other’s businesses and careers, but also more about our personal Temple Family.
The TANG motto is “Sharing is our business.” Networking is an outstanding and simple way to build your business. Referred business is the best business. We all like to do business with the people we know and trust, and you never know who knows who.
If you have a business, practice or customer or client-based career, and you want to learn the benefits of networking or learning how to market yourself, attending a TANG meeting will be time well spent.
There is no cost to attend, however, this networking event is ONLY for Temple Avodah members in good standing.
TANG meets the first Sunday of the month in the morning. Check the website calendar for all scheduled dates. RSVP required by sending an email.
We encourage our Temple family to utilize and help recommend the services of other Temple members. A listing of our TANG membership is on this page.
PHOTO CREDIT and many thanks to Mark Milch, Milch Photography & Video.
On Sunday, June 26th, 2016, TANG (Temple Avodah Networking Group) and Temple Avodah presented a free community seminar: Preparing for the Senior Years. A panel of experts addressed matters of vital importance to those who are retired, thinking about retirement or who are or may be caring for aged parents or relatives in the future. TANG members who organized and presented were: Paul Engel, Lisa Goldberg, Audrey Quick, Alan Winter, Jordan Kaplan, Ruben Quintero, Herb Pitkowsky and Marian Keilson.
TANG (Temple Avodah Networking Group) members who would like to share their web pages with other Temple members may request to add a website link. This may be done under the terms and conditions of the disclaimer of Temple Avodah. Please select the hyperlink request form, print and return to the Temple Office marked attn: Avodah Webmaster, to make a request.
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The academic evaluation of graduate students in counseling education programs is straightforward: Their ability to master the material becomes apparent in grades assigned and credits earned.
“However, evaluating trainee competency in the domains of interpersonal behavior, intrapersonal functioning and professional conduct to determine readiness to practice is much more subjective,” write Alicia M. Homrich and Kathryn L. Henderson in the preface to their book Gatekeeping in the Mental Health Professions, published by the American Counseling Association.
An important issue that is sometimes avoided, gatekeeping is of growing interest in the counseling profession and an often-discussed topic at professional conferences, Homrich notes.
Homrich, a professor in the graduate studies in counseling program at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and Henderson, an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Applied Behavioral Studies at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut, became friends through their mutual interest in the topic. Counseling Today sent the duo some questions to find out more.
You are both counselor educators. How did you become confident and comfortable with the gatekeeping aspect of the job?
Alicia M. Homrich: I don’t think gatekeeping is ever easy or comfortable. Every step of working with a student who is struggling with intrapersonal issues, interpersonal behavior and/or professional conduct concerns needs to be handled delicately and respectfully.
There are criteria that have made the difference in the graduate program where I work: All faculty are in agreement about our ethical and legal obligation to gatekeep to protect future clients and the reputation of our profession. The second is the intentional formulation of strategies that include very clear standards for student behavior and published policies and procedures [which] students are informed of when they enter the program and throughout their enrollment. This ensures that remediation efforts are not a surprise, if they occur, and are intended to help get the student on the right track.
Other than these two important tactics, we work as a team to make decisions on how to go forward. Group consensus and support for each other increase our comfort level so no one faculty member or supervisor is acting alone. We do the same by educating our site supervisors.
Kathryn L. Henderson: Yes, never easy or comfortable. I find it so important and vital that it is a duty and not a choice. That’s what draws me to this topic. Especially when harm to a client is possible or there’s the concern a student might not be successful in the field after graduation. To me, that’s tantamount to lying by omission or false representation if we ignore serious concerns. It also does a great disservice to our students.
Consulting with colleagues and mentors has been central to the development of my gatekeeping abilities. I find not being alone and having support to be essential.
Do you believe that the counseling profession, as a whole, does a good job with gatekeeping?
AMH: I believe the counseling profession does more than our allied professions to educate and inform gatekeepers of their roles, remediation strategies, and ethical and legal mandates. However, in terms of actual implementation of gatekeeping strategies, a lot of variation exists across counseling education programs nationwide.
Some programs are diligent about their obligation to gatekeep — implementing policies, engaging in procedures and remediating or dismissing students or supervisees with personal or professional conduct [that is] inconsistent with profession standards. Other programs avoid the gatekeeping process altogether in order to retain students, avoid potential legal action or sidestep the uncomfortable emotional and time-consuming nature of the gatekeeping process.
Despite this range of engagement, the counseling profession is one of two clinical training tracts that consistently takes gatekeeping seriously. Psychologists have paid the most attention to the responsibility of gatekeeping, as evidenced by task force work and literature. Social work comes third in the lineup, and marriage and family therapy appears to be the least attentive of the clinical professions in examining this issue and providing strategies as measured by their professional literature.
Despite this variation, each profession acknowledges the need for a gatekeeping process in their ethics and standards. A continuum exists across professions that includes very conscientious educators and supervisors versus programs that don’t prioritize or are avoidant of the gatekeeping mandate described by their ethical codes.
What resources would you recommend for counselor educators or supervisors who aren’t comfortable with gatekeeping and having tough conversations with counselors-in-training?
AMH: Work with your colleagues to design and implement policies and procedures, and don’t go it alone, especially for serious conversations with trainees. Obtain support for decision-making and action-taking from your professional colleagues, including department chairs, deans and administrators, as well as human resources, some of whom you may have to educate about our ethics and licensure obligations. I have also increased my comfort level by going to workshops hosted by ACA and the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), as well as reading every professional article I can find on the topic.
The goal of this book [Gatekeeping in the Mental Health Professions] has been to bring all of the knowledge and wisdom generated by the four allied mental health professions, along with strategies that work, together in one resource.
KLH: One thing that helps me when I’m struggling with gatekeeping is to reflect on my own personal process and try to hunt for the source of the discomfort. Is it fear of hurting the student or supervisee? Second-guessing myself? Fear of confrontation or conflict? I find that dealing with my own discomfort head-on helps me to process through it more effectively.
As for those tough conversations, I find empathy goes a long way. It does not mean agreeing with a trainee’s choices or actions, but it helps create a connection at times.
Are there any misconceptions on this topic — particularly, ones held by counselors — that you want to clear up?
KLH: One misconception, or perhaps a common fear, is that gatekeeping is always a negative experience — and it can be. However, I’ve had many constructive and positive outcomes from gatekeeping. Students sometimes will express gratitude in that no one has ever been that honest with them or they have not felt as if they mattered in the program but do now.
AMH: I agree with Kathryn. The assumption that engaging in gatekeeping is overwhelming and conflictual is inconsistent with my experience. There are plenty of supervisees and students, whether they are the individuals engaged in remediation or not, who are appreciative that there are standards that protect future clients and the reputation of the profession. They also witness experienced members of the profession engaging in the process of protecting current students and supervisees, vulnerable clients and the reputation of the profession for which they are training. They appreciate the action of supervisors and faculty in gatekeeping efforts and go on to value and fulfill this ethical mandate after graduation.
In the book’s preface, you write that evaluating a counselor trainee’s personal and professional conduct is subjective, not clearly defined, and “lacks common agreement within and across the mental health professions.” How can this be remedied, in your opinion? Or is it a concept that can’t be standardized?
AMH: I believe it is a concept that can be standardized, at least in the counseling profession. I would love to see ACES initiate a task force that identifies standards for interpersonal, intrapersonal and professional qualities critical for professional counselors and [then] publish a set of best practice standards or a procedural list for the gatekeeping process that is supported by the division and ACA. This would provide a steppingstone or source of support for counselor educators and supervisors.
I have conducted and published a few research projects on this topic in an effort to get the ball rolling. These studies and resulting lists of suggested standards and procedures are covered in the book.
KLH: Yes, I agree totally. The field of psychology has done much more work through the American Psychological Association and its official task forces than [has] the counseling field, which we discuss in the book. Research is emerging that is promising and could inform any potential professional association task forces.
I would love to see ACES or ACA initiate an effort as well to create best practice norms. A set of official best practice standards could also be a tool to advocate to university or agency administrators who may be wary of provoking unhappy students, similar to how the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) standards serve an important advocacy tool for school counselors.
What inspired you to collaborate and create this book?
KLH: Our main goal was to create a sort of one-stop shop for tools and resources on gatekeeping and remediation, which Alicia mentioned earlier. Instead of needing to do extensive research on the many aspects of gatekeeping, which can be overwhelming, the book serves as a thorough resource on how to implement gatekeeping.
We hope, in particular, that it serves as a catalyst for new supervisors and doctoral students to undertake this important ethical task. The opportunity for us to collaborate happened at first by chance: We only know each other through meeting at professional conferences. We both would present on the topic and then attend other presentations on the topic, so we got to know one another over the years. And then we became friends.
AMH: The development of our professional collaboration and resulting friendship has been based on our shared passion to improve our profession, demystify the gatekeeping process and encourage counselor educators and supervisors to engage in this vital professional responsibility. We wanted to provide information, strategies and skills that support the implementation of gatekeeping in training. Our friendship developed as we worked together to achieve these goals and came to know each other better.
Why do you feel the book is relevant and needed now?
KLH: The literature in the field has developed to a level where compiling the findings in the form of a book to encourage application of the information was logical. This is something that clinical educators and supervisors are actively trying to understand and implement.
For instance, the topic of gatekeeping is growing in popularity. It was scarcely on the map about a decade ago, and then it exploded and continues to be a common topic at conferences. Because of the many ethical and legal issues attached to gatekeeping, it is important that counselor educators and supervisors practice in an informed and progressive way, for the protection of the field and to strive in the best interests of our students and supervisees.
Gatekeeping in the Mental Health Professions is available both in print and as an e-book from the American Counseling Association bookstore at counseling.org/publications/bookstore or by calling 800-347-6647 ext. 222.
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Maybe my world has been a little too messy in the past year and a half.
Full of compartmentalizing, fear, prayer, stardust.
All has been just as it was supposed to be. Still, I haven’t felt ok telling the stories. It hasn’t felt safe.
Didn’t want to hurt anyone.
Didn’t want to bore anyone.
Didn’t want to expose anyone.
Didn’t want to expose myself.
Didn’t want to live my life online.
Didn’t feel like defending my thoughts, actions and explorations to a critical world.
Why would I drag anyone through the details of hedonistically dating around, striving to stand on my own financially for the first time, coddling my children through the unfairness and pain of so much huge transition, figuring out how to work full-time after years of stay-at-home-mom-ness, falling in love, blending families, starting a completely new life?
I knew in my heart none of those statements was true. But, out of fear, I kept all the deliciousness of my unfolding relationship with C to myself, my sister and my closest friends.
I wanted to share, though.
I wanted to marvel about how we conversed about God in similar ways. That we actually shared parenting ideals. That his executive mind magically contrasted with his dreamy inner life. That he challenged me and pushed me to grow in all manner of pleasant and less-fun ways across all manner of themes.
I wanted to tell about that time we played tag in New York and I couldn’t catch him, even when I was sprinting my fastest—both of us breathless with laughter—until I almost got him and instead tripped over his heel, did an endo, smashed my face into a patch of grass, threw my neck out, grass-stained my white jeans and he was sick to his stomach for hours fretting that he’d hurt me bad. (I was fine. We all know I’m not dainty.) But the way he cared for me in those moments after my embarrassing fall…so tender and wonderful. Now we laugh about it. I do so love his laugh.
I wanted to rave about how much fun we had sharing a giant plate of cheese fries and dancing to 80s music with my friend, Amin, at a summer street fest. That, as a former tennis pro, he’s teaching me how to play the game I’ve always wanted to learn—and loves doing it. How he declares I’m “majestic” even first thing in the morning and pauses everything to look in my eyes to make sure I really am fine when I say I am. I want to tell the world we talk and laugh into the wee hours because we don’t want to waste time sleeping.
And then there was that day he told me he wanted to learn how to meditate, so he’d signed up for the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) lessons. (Sidenote: In my 10 years of being a devotee of Paramahansa Yogananda, not one person has ever signed up for the SRF lessons as a result of knowing me—until C.) I wanted to write about how it felt when I walked in on him reading the first meditation lesson to find his giant smile thanking me for the introduction and knowing we truly shared our path to God.
And, of course, the vision of him sitting criss-cross-applesauce on the wood floor outside his bathroom in Lincoln Park when I emerged and informed him I wasn’t pregnant and, smiling his sweet half-smile, he said, “You know, it would’ve been OK if you were.” And then, four days later, how elated he was when I took another test, and then two more, that told us I was, in fact, very unexpectedly pregnant.
I may or may not be disproportionately this much larger than my family of origin and my children in real life, but they all love me regardless. Also, it turned out they, and my sis and her family, were all as elated as C when they heard the unexpected news.
As good as it was, I couldn’t shake the fear. How would it look once everyone knew I got pregnant within a month of dating a new guy, my first committed relationship since marriage? How irresponsible of me!
Almost as bad, how would the outside world respond if I actually admitted that I wrestled—so painstakingly—with whether to stay pregnant?
On discovering the news, I cried with fear and dwelled in permanent nausea every day for two months. Despite being wildly and yet groundedly in love with an all-around wonderful man who wanted our baby and a life with me and my boys more than anything in the world, I was so scared. Scared to find I was not in control of my life. Scared I’d worked so hard for freedom and now I was committing both to a baby and to a new partner all at once. Scared my sons would feel abandoned if I had another baby. Scared of the pain of childbirth. Scared of the postpartum reality. Scared the allure of our relationship would fade with my growing belly. Scared of the sleep deprivation that comes with an infant. Scared of derailing the professional life I’d fought so hard to start. Scared of reversing the liberation for which I’d given up almost everything I knew.
None of this felt like a story worth sharing. I could hurt people, hurt myself.
Eventually I did something to this point I hadn’t done much in my life.
Something compelled me. I knew I needed her. I expected her to tell me to march myself to Planned Parenthood. Instead, she burst into tears.
Decisively and lovingly, she said something huge, not in these exact words, but the gist was: Don’t just think of this as a baby. Soon that baby will be a child. Then that baby will be a big kid. And then he or she will be a teenager. And eventually you’ll be talking with him or her on the phone like I’m talking to you right now. You need to have this baby. I know it seems crazy, and I don’t know why I’m feeling this way right now, but I just have the strongest feeling God wants you to have this baby.
I had that feeling, too. And, yet, through tears and nose blows, I debated her.
She told me that when a baby is born, everyone is flooded with love, and so it would be with my boys and everyone else who counted. She told me it didn’t matter what other people thought, that she and my dad loved me. She told me families could look a lot of different ways, and I could do whatever I wanted. She told me I’d worked hard enough for long enough in enough different ways and it was ok to enjoy and embrace C’s love and all that came with it. She told me I was not crazy.
Worrying about what people think of me? That ends here.
It’s more than a little creepy to think people in my community might be talking about me, about my sons. I’m still working on letting this stuff roll off and living my life without fear of external perceptions. Without fear of being a curiosity, or an outcast.
And it’s true. My world is too messy to write about. Messy, messy, messy. But if I don’t tell the stories, how will others experiencing similar situations know they’re not alone?
We’ve all got messes. And if I’ve learned anything at all so far, like finger painting, brownie sundaes, moves into bigger spaces to accommodate bigger love and dances in the rain, if done sincerely and with love, a messy life is a rich life.
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Beautiful Emily! So proud to call you my friend. You’re amazing!
Mandy, the friend pride goes two ways. YOU are amazing!
Ah, from one of the bravest women I know…thank you, Elaine! I love you, too.
I’m so, so happy for you Emily! New love and a new baby. It couldn’t have happened to a more lovely person.
Erin! Thank you so much!!!
Messiness is the stuff live is made of. Love you, beautiful soul.
Oh, girl, makes it all feel a little less messy/a little more wonderful having you in this life with me.
So brave and generous Em! Embrace this messy patch. Seems like it’s leading you to good places.
I believe you’re absolutely right, Hector. Thank you so much, wonderful friend!
Congrats Emily! My motto is ‘ what other people think of me is none of my business ‘. Live your life. Love your people. Be happy.
Thank you so much, Jobeth. You are so, so right–I’ll get there! Really appreciate you writing and hope your awesome self, Steve and all your kids are doing great!
Of course, I cried! So beautiful – and most importantly, honest. We’re all a mess, but your life is the most perfect kind of imperfect, because it’s a life filled with love. You deserve it, and I’m glad you’re fully embracing it!
Mercedes, thank you. I’m so glad to have your friendship. Your support both on the day-to-day-life front and on the writing front is massively wonderful. A blessing of blessings.
You love big, girlie. You write bigger. You are as beautiful as you are brave, and I’m proud of you. Congratulation. For all of it.
Oh, Andy, you know how much this all means to me, right? One of the smartest, most compelling writers I know, you. Also one of the bravest human beings I know. Thank you.
I find your bravery inspiring, and what a tremendous writer you are. Congrats to you and your growing family.
Love is all that matters. Having the courage to love allows you to be complete. Wonderful message of hope that others need to hear. Thanks for walking through the fear to share this with the world.
Life indeed is messy, and even messier when the layers are removed, sometimes torn apart, other times gently peeled away. As I continue to learn my path of authentic living, to love, to be true, especially to my dearest, I take inspiration from you, dear Emily. You shine brightly, a soul of light and love, and I am grateful to you for sharing your messiness, your raw human experiences and growth. Be happy, be healthy, love large. My heart to yours.
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Just before lunch on Friday, July 30th, 2010, I left my three monkeys with my friend Courtney. I was running to the OB for my ultrasound appointment. I was supposed to be back by two-ish.
Courtney was a friend from church. She was employed part time and we had an empty apartment in our garage. We figured it was a win-win for us all. Courtney lives in the garage & hangs out with us, helping mama in her off hours. It became an especially great plan when I got pregnant and became completely miserable most of the time. Because Courtney worked her real job in the mornings, she could hang out with the babies in the afternoon, when my "morning sickness" was at its worst. Mama got to sleep through the nausea, the babies didn't burn the house down or play with knives. Win-win. So, Courtney was already worth her weight in gold around this home on that fateful day.
I remember texting her from the doctor's office. The baby had no heartbeat. We were on the way to the hospital. She replied that I shouldn't worry about the kids--she'd take care of everything.
And she did until we got home sometime the next day. The kids were in her wonderfully loving care, entirely unaware of what was happening.
Over the next few months, Courtney continued to come over each afternoon to be with the kids. But now, instead of persistent nausea, it was debilitating grief that kept mama in her bed. I remember just trying to hold it together through the morning until she arrived at the back door and I could go collapse in anguish and tears on my pillow.
Day after day, this angel came and played Hi Ho Cherry-O and gave baths and changed diapers and made macaroni and cheese. She pushed swings and read stories and listened to the sound of the Wonder Pets on TV while she washed our dishes. Day after day she listened to me cry and question and say, "I just can't do this."
Somehow we made it through that terrible season and I managed to be able to mother a little bit more, and the economy let up a little and Courtney's part time job became a full time job and we knew the days of her living with us were drawing to a close.
She moved up the street into her own place and we saw her pretty regularly. And then one day, she got her dream job in NYC. It was such an amazing opportunity and I knew she had to do it and I couldn't imagine how I was going to make it without her here. She moved away and tackled NYC with courage and charm. That was a little over two years ago.
We kept in touch as best we could with Facebook and phone calls and her visits home. The kids missed her terribly and we were always thrilled to hear from her.
A few weeks ago, I got a text. She had an interview back in NC. I prayed and crossed my fingers.
Today, she texted me. "I'm home."
D and I drove straight over to her condo. When he realized where we were, I cannot even explain the noises of glee that came out of that child. Here is what it looked like when he saw his Courtney for the first time in a long while.
Even though I tried to explain she was home for good, my boy would not let go of her for a full five minutes. I understand.
I realized as I watched him hold her that, in so many ways, she was as much a mama to him as I was. She was there to rock him to sleep, to count his little toes, to kiss the boo-boos from when he learned to walk. He was 13 months old when Matthew was conceived and 18 months old when we lost him. I distinctly remember the sound of him waking from his nap and calling from his crib, not "mama" but "Cot-nee!"
Over the past three and a half years, I have many times been filled with thanks for having her in our lives during that difficult and painful season. I've thanked God for having her here, even as I've apologized to her that He asked her to be. I recognize how difficult it must have been for her to continue to come to our house day after day all those months. But I am ever grateful she did because I don't know how we would have lived without her.
Today my guy wrapped his arms around his Courtney like he was never letting her go. I was filled again with gratitude for her presence in our past and filled with joyful anticipation for having her back in NC and in our lives again.
There will never be enough words to express all my gratitude to this amazing woman for her selfless service to me and my family during our darkest days. But I hope somehow that the hug she got today communicated something our enduring love for her and reminded her of the way she brought heaven to the midst of hell on earth for us.
We love you, Court. Welcome home.
I've been wearing the same clothes for a week and a day.
It's not that I don't have more clothes, but a friend invited me into a Lenten exercise to wear just 6 articles of clothing for the period of Lent leading up to Easter (inspired by Labour Behind the Label, an advocacy group for garment workers).
Lent traditionally encourages folks to take on a fast of their choosing to create an awareness and open space for more reflection and prayer in preparation for Easter. Often people choose to fast from a certain food or drink, like sugar, chocolate or coffee. Several people I know are fasting from social media (great idea!).
When Steph invited me to this exercise, it sounded awful. And hard. And boring.
So I knew I should definitely do it.
Because Lent isn't supposed to be easy. It is supposed to remind is of the suffering and sacrifice of Jesus and God. It's supposed to remind us that the world doesn't revolve around us.
So, I'm a week and a day in and I'm starting to get bored of my clothes. But I will tell you what.
I'm becoming more aware of my privilege as I look at the rows and piles of unused clothing that hang in my closet and sit in my drawers. I'm thanking God for the people who made my shirt, those who made my jeans as I put them on day after day. I'm becoming more aware of all the people who support my cushy lifestyle...the farm workers who picked my organic spinach, my Fuji apple, the miner who drilled the oil for the gas in my car, the people who clean the restroom at the YMCA where I work. I am thinking of those who are homeless every time I feel a little chilly and reach for the same sweater.
I'm starting to "see" people, even if I am not actually laying eyes on them. This Lenten exercise is giving me a broader perspective.
some religious exercise for making a person feel miserable and woeful?
and where you sit (in a bed of ashes)?
Is this what you call a fast, a day the Eternal One finds good and proper?
to free the oppressed and shatter every type of oppression.
Giving clothes to those who need them, and not neglecting your own family.
I'm so grateful that I follow a God who isn't interested in empty, religious ritual. Instead, He is interested in opening my eyes to the things that He sees, interested in opening my heart to the things that His heart beats for.
There are many more weeks of Lent and I am sure this journey will have it's ups and downs. But for today, I'm grateful for this fast and what I'm learning.
Here are my items. I cheated. I picked 7. Because I am a "P" on the Myers-Briggs and narrowing down anything is a near impossibility. Also because between March and April, temperatures can vary between 30 and 80. Which is exactly what it did between Tuesday and today. I'm giving myself grace.
Oh, hey, Word of the Year 2014.
But, anyway, I take writing classes with the ever-so-lovely Maureen Ryan Griffin and she has an exercise called The Gather that she has us do every so often. The idea of The Gather is that you listen to a piece of writing (usually a poem), then listen to it a second time as you listen for words and phrases that capture your attention. As you gather these words and phrases, you write them on a piece of paper in no particular order. In the center of your paper, you've reserved a square for your working title. You then take the words and phrases and use them to construct a new piece of writing in 5-7 minutes.
This Thursday, Maureen read us a poem called At Gettysburg by Linda Pastan. Here's what came out of this gather for me.
She spends her summer mornings within the borders of her yard while mountains peek over her shoulder. Green pines stand side by side on the western edge. She stares at the tiny, tender white flowers with pink stamens and wonders how something so delicate can push up through the hard earth. While listening to the bubbling creek to her left--she mustn't go there alone--she is learning about the points of a small, domed cactus--what they know themselves, a sharp prick, likely to draw blood, can never be avoided. Under the impartial blue sky, she is grown here, finding her form.
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A BILL to amend and reenact §18-7A-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend and reenact §18-7B-2 of said code, all relating to permitting employees of educational services cooperatives to participate in the State Teachers Retirement System; and permitting persons employed for instructional services by educational services cooperatives to participate in the State Teachers’ Defined Contribution Retirement System.
(1) “Accumulated contributions” means all deposits and all deductions from the gross salary of a contributor plus regular interest.
(2) “Accumulated net benefit” means the aggregate amount of all benefits paid to or on behalf of a retired member.
(3) “Actuarially equivalent” or “of equal actuarial value” means a benefit of equal value computed upon the basis of the mortality table and interest rates as set and adopted by the retirement board in accordance with the provisions of this article: Provided, That when used in the context of compliance with the federal maximum benefit requirements of Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code, “actuarially equivalent” shall be computed using the mortality tables and interest rates required to comply with those requirements.
(4) “Annuities” means the annual retirement payments for life granted beneficiaries in accordance with this article.
(5) “Average final salary” means the average of the five highest fiscal year salaries earned as a member within the last fifteen fiscal years of total service credit, including military service as provided in this article, or if total service is less than fifteen years, the average annual salary for the period on which contributions were made: Provided, That salaries for determining benefits during any determination period may not exceed the maximum compensation allowed as adjusted for cost of living in accordance with §5-10D-7 of this code and Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code.
(6) “Beneficiary” means the recipient of annuity payments made under the retirement system.
(7) “Contributor” means a member of the retirement system who has an account in the Teachers Accumulation Fund.
(8) “Deposit” means a voluntary payment to his or her account by a member.
(9) “Employer” means the agency of and within the state which has employed or employs a member.
(10) “Employer error” means an omission, misrepresentation or violation of relevant provisions of the West Virginia Code or of the West Virginia Code of State Regulations or the relevant provisions of both the West Virginia Code and of the West Virginia Code of State Regulations by the participating public employer that has resulted in an underpayment or overpayment of contributions required. A deliberate act contrary to the provisions of this section by a participating public employer does not constitute employer error.
(11) “Employment term” means employment for at least ten months, a month being defined as twenty employment days.
(12) “Gross salary” means the fixed annual or periodic cash wages paid by a participating public employer to a member for performing duties for the participating public employer for which the member was hired. Gross salary shall be allocated and reported in the fiscal year in which the work was done. Gross salary also includes retroactive payments made to a member to correct a clerical error, or made pursuant to a court order or final order of an administrative agency charged with enforcing federal or state law pertaining to the member's rights to employment or wages, with all retroactive salary payments to be allocated to and considered paid in the periods in which the work was or would have been done. Gross salary does not include lump sum payments for bonuses, early retirement incentives, severance pay or any other fringe benefit of any kind including, but not limited to, transportation allowances, automobiles or automobile allowances, or lump sum payments for unused, accrued leave of any type or character.
(13) “Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it has been amended.
(14) “Member” means any person who has accumulated contributions standing to his or her credit in the State Teachers Retirement System. A member shall remain a member until the benefits to which he or she is entitled under this article are paid or forfeited, or until cessation of membership pursuant to §18-7A-13 of this code.
(15) “Members of the administrative staff of the public schools” means deans of instruction, deans of men, deans of women, and financial and administrative secretaries.
(16) “Members of the extension staff of the public schools” means every agricultural agent, boys' and girls' club agent and every member of the agricultural extension staff whose work is not primarily stenographic, clerical or secretarial.
(17) “New entrant” means a teacher who is not a present teacher.
(18) “Nonteaching member” means any person, except a teacher member, who is regularly employed for full-time service by: (A) Any county board of education or educational services cooperative; (B) the State Board of Education; (C) the Higher Education Policy Commission; (D) the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education; or (E) a governing board, as defined in §18B-1-2 of this code: Provided, That any person whose employment with the Higher Education Policy Commission, the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education or a governing board commences on or after July 1, 1991, is not considered a nonteaching member.
(19) “Plan year” means the twelve-month period commencing on July 1 and ending the following June 30 of any designated year.
(20) “Present member” means a present teacher or nonteacher who is a member of the retirement system.
(21) “Present teacher” means any person who was a teacher within the thirty-five years beginning July 1, 1934, and whose membership in the retirement system is currently active.
(22) “Prior service” means all service as a teacher completed prior to July 1, 1941, and all service of a present member who was employed as a teacher, and did not contribute to a retirement account because he or she was legally ineligible for membership during the service.
(23) “Public schools” means all publicly supported schools, including colleges and universities in this state.
(24) “Refund beneficiary” means the estate of a deceased contributor or a person he or she has nominated as beneficiary of his or her contributions by written designation duly executed and filed with the retirement board.
(25) “Regular interest” means interest at four percent compounded annually, or a higher earnable rate if set forth in the formula established in legislative rules, series seven of the Consolidated Public Retirement Board, 162 CSR 7.
(26) “Regularly employed for full-time service” means employment in a regular position or job throughout the employment term regardless of the number of hours worked or the method of pay.
(27) “Required beginning date” means April 1 of the calendar year following the later of: (A) The calendar year in which the member attains age seventy and one-half years; or (B) the calendar year in which the member retires or ceases covered employment under the system after having attained the age of seventy and one-half years.
(28) “Retirant” means any member who commences an annuity payable by the retirement system.
(29) “Retirement board” means the Consolidated Public Retirement Board created pursuant to §5-10D-1 et seq. of this code.
(30) “Retirement system” means the State Teachers Retirement System established by this article.
(31) “Teacher member” means the following persons, if regularly employed for full-time service: (A) Any person employed for instructional service in the public schools of West Virginia; (B) principals; (C) public school librarians; (D) superintendents of schools and assistant county superintendents of schools; (E) any county school attendance director holding a West Virginia teacher's certificate; (F) members of the research, extension, administrative or library staffs of the public schools; (G) the State Superintendent of Schools, heads and assistant heads of the divisions under his or her supervision, or any other employee under the state superintendent performing services of an educational nature;(H) employees of the State Board of Education who are performing services of an educational nature;(I) any person employed in a nonteaching capacity by the State Board of Education, any county board of education, the State Department of Education or the State Teachers Retirement Board, if that person was formerly employed as a teacher in the public schools;(J) all classroom teachers, principals and educational administrators in schools under the supervision of the Division of Corrections, the Division of Health or the Division of Human Services;(K) an employee of the State Board of School Finance, if that person was formerly employed as a teacher in the public schools; (L) employees of an educational services cooperative who are performing services of an educational nature; and (L) (M) any person designated as a 21st Century Learner Fellow pursuant to §18A-3-11 of this code who elects to remain a member of the State Teachers Retirement System provided in this article.
(32) “Total service” means all service as a teacher or nonteacher while a member of the retirement system since last becoming a member and, in addition thereto, credit for prior service, if any.
Age in excess of seventy years shall be considered to be seventy years.
ARTICLE 7B. TEACHERS' DEFINED CONTRIBUTION RETIREMENT SYSTEM.
(3) “Compensation” means the full compensation actually received by members for service whether or not a part of the compensation is received from other funds, federal or otherwise, than those provided by the state or its subdivisions: Provided, That annual compensation for determining contributions during any determination period may not exceed the maximum compensation allowed as adjusted for cost of living in accordance with §5-10D-7 of this code and Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code: Provided, however, That solely for purposes of applying the limitations of Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code to any annual addition, “compensation” has the meaning given it in §18-7B-13d of this code.
(20) “Year of employment service” means employment for at least ten months, with a month being defined as twenty employment days: Provided, That no more than one year of service may be accumulated in any twelve-month period.
NOTE: This purpose of this bill is to permit employees of educational services cooperatives to participate in the State Teachers Retirement System. The bill permits persons employed for instructional services by educational services cooperatives to participate in the State Teachers’ Defined Contribution Retirement System.
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Imorgon kommer troligtvis Sara över, kommer bli väldigt kul! Vi har inte varit på ett tag eftersom vi båda haft mycket att göra.
Fick reda på idag att vi ska ha ett engelska nattionella muntligt imorgon, vi får hoppas på det bästa!
Btw så var det väldigt kul att ni gillade inlägget om rökning, gläder mig!
Nu är det Mars och ja jag ska göra en Februari favoriter, vet bara inte riktigt när än men det kommer! Något annat som händer denna månad är… Kan ni gissa? Jo, jag fyller ju år! Hanna (storasyrran) kommer komma och har inte sett henne sedan jul så jag saknar henne mycket!
Hur hög är Boppan? Kan du inte göra ett riktigt hästigt inlägg med en massa info om Boppan? Hur hög hon är och så.
Du & din familj kam ju vara med i familjen annorlunda, för ni är väldigt många i eran familj, 8 st.
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När kommer du göra room touren?
vi undrar vilket redigerings program du använder till dina videos?
Aa måndag har aldrig vart en bra dag i mitt liv för det är ganska tråkiga ämmnen i skolan å jag fyller 13 i år så det blir tråkigare tråkigare så ja .
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All our overseas alumni and friends are invited to contribute to our 2015 Social Contribution Award. Our goal is to raise 10,000 RMB (~ 1,613 USD) For every donor who participate in the process, we will recognize your name in the award ceremony in Fudan Fuzhong, and you can choose to receive updates about the award winners and their projects.
Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation would like to recognize up to two current students and/or teams of students at the High School Affiliated to Fudan University, who have made special contributions to a community outside of the school and family. The award recipient(s) should have demonstrated sensitivity in identifying unmet needs in a community, taken significant initiative in mobilizing resources and in designing solutions, and made meaningful steps towards the betterment of the community. The specific contributions can be delivered in a variety of forms including but not limited to labor, time, skill, financial support and physiological care. It is important, however, that the recipient(s) regard the process as a transformation in shaping his/her/their understanding of the self as well as the “real world” at large. The award would represent a token of appreciation and encouragement from the overseas Fudan Fuzhong alumni, and would allow the individual or the group to serve as a role model in inspiring fellow students in their civic life.
The executive committee of the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation will review all the submissions, conduct fact checking / due diligence on the reported accomplishments, and contact references and the school if needed. Based on the qualification of the candidate(s), up to two (2) applicants or applicant groups will be chosen to receive the award on or around May 17, 2015, and will be notified in person via email and letter. The results will be announced on the Foundation website and through alumni newsletter. An awards ceremony will be held by the high school around June 1, 2015.
Q1: Who is eligible to apply for this award?
All current full-time students with good standing at Fudan Fuzhong are eligible.
Q2: Does the contribution have to be current or can it be from the past as well?
The contribution can be accomplished either in the past or at present. However, the effort has to be sustainable in the present time in one way or another. In other words, the award should serve as an impetus for the recipient(s) to continue the effort and to inspire contributions of similar spirit to the community.
Q3: If a team wins, how will the money be distributed among the members?
The Overseas Foundation does not arbitrate the manner in which the award money is distributed among the group of recipients. It is subject to the group’s discretion to allocate the money and put it into use.
No, it doesn’t. Your submission will be directly made to the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation ([email protected]) with your personal pledge of accuracy. However, the Foundation reserves the right to verify facts with your references, and potentially with the School if the School happens to have direct knowledge of the described contribution.
The executive committee of the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation will collect and aggregate all applications by May 10, 2015. The members of the committee will independently review all the applications and make their respective nominations of 2-3 candidates to the committee. The committee will then get together to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the nominees and establish the pro- and con-cases for each candidate. A round of voting will then take place to narrow down the number of final nominees to no more than five (5). If necessary, another round of discussion will ensue followed by yes-or-no voting on each nominee. Each committee member can cast no more than two (2) yes-votes in that round. The two (2) nominees with the highest number of votes will be awarded the prize. If there is a tie or a vote-concentration on one nominee, the committee reserves the right to break the tie or to reduce the number of awardees to one (1) through a final round of discussion and consensus voting.
Q6: If I submit the application but do not receive the award, will that negatively impact my career at Fuzhong and/or my future chance of winning awards from the Overseas Foundation?
No, absolutely not. The decision on your application is made solely for the purpose of this particular award, this time around. It has zero implication on your qualification in any other academic or social setting, nor will it affect, positively or negatively, your candidacy for any future awards given by the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation. In fact, we will keep all comments made during the decision process confidential -- no one outside of the current executive committee will have access to the record.
Q7: What is the required format of the essay?
The essay should be composed in Chinese, typed and submitted electronically as an email attachment in either MS Word (.doc) or PDF (.pdf) format, with no more than 1,500 characters. Shorter essays will not negatively impact your candidacy as long as they convey all the main points described in the first item of the Application section in the Award Description file.
Yes, as long as it is financially viable, the Foundation intends to give out the Social Contribution Award on an annual basis.
Q9: Who were the recipients of last year’s award?
Time Bank founder: Ms. Xiaotong Chen the Class of 2015, and HOTS founder: Ms. Zhenyang He from the Class of 2015.
Q10: What is your relation with the school?
Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation was founded in New York City by a group of Fuzhong alumni graduated between 1984 and 2000. It is a not-for-profit charitable organization registered in the State of Connecticut with a US 501(3)(c) tax-exemption status. While the Overseas Foundation remains fully operationally autonomous from the High School Affiliated to Fudan University, it maintains close working relationship with the high school and enjoys full support from the school.
Q11: Can I apply as both an individual applicant and a member of an applicant group?
Yes, but only if the contributions in the respective applications are mutually unrelated. Otherwise, it is limited to one application per person.
Q12: What is the currency of the cash award?
The cash award will be given in RMB ¥5,000. The Foundation will be responsible for exchanging the currency from USD (the current holding of the fund) to RMB at a competitive market rate at or close to the awards day, and delivering it to the award winner via the school.
Q13: Why do you give out merit based scholarship? Can you give money to under-privileged students first?
We made over US$5,000 donations to current Fudan Fuzhong students over the course of the past year solely based on the students’ financial need. We are planning to donate a substantial amount of our fund this year for the same cause. On the other hand, the “Social Contribution Award” is the first ever merit based scholarship the foundation has launched, at a relatively small size (~US$1,600) compared to our need-based contributions. This award is a step toward the eventual goal of awarding both need-based and merit-based scholarships to Fuzhong students. For now, the need-based scholarship is still our top priority and accounts for the overwhelming majority of our fund deployment.
Q14: Where is the scholarship money from? Is the scholarship based on the will of a single donor?
The scholarship is drawn from a pool of funds raised by the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation from the overseas alumni and friends of Fudan Fuzhong. It is not specifically based on any individual or group of donors’ personal wish. Rather, the executive committee of the Foundation designed the scholarship in order to express and recognize the specific traits and personal values that we believe will benefit the student and the society at large during and after the student’s study at Fuzhong.
Q15: If I have questions not answered by the Q & A, how can I get them clarified?
You can either check back on the awards section of the Foundation website http://www.fdfzalumni.org/social-contribution-award/ to find the updated Q&A, or you can email us at [email protected] to expect a response within 48 hours.
Description and Qualification: Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation would like to recognize up to two current students and/or teams of students at the High School Affiliated to Fudan University, who have made special contributions to a community outside of the school and family. The award recipient(s) should have demonstrated sensitivity in identifying unmet needs in a community, taken significant initiative in mobilizing resources and in designing solutions, and made meaningful steps towards the betterment of the community. The specific contributions can be delivered in a variety of forms including but not limited to labor, time, skill, financial support and physiological care. It is important, however, that the recipient(s) regard the process as a transformation in shaping his/her/their understanding of the self as well as the "real world" at large. The award would represent a token of appreciation and encouragement from the overseas Fudan Fuzhong alumni, and would allow the individual or the group to serve as a role model in inspiring fellow students in their civic life.
Selection Process: The executive committee of the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation will review all the submissions, conduct fact checking / due diligence on the reported accomplishments, and contact references and the school if needed. Based on the qualification of the candidate(s), up to two (2) applicants or applicant groups will be chosen to receive the award on or around May 18, 2014, and will be notified in person via email and letter. The results will be announced on the Foundation website and through alumni newsletter. An awards ceremony will be held by the high school around June 2, 2014.
The Overseas Foundation does not arbitrate the manner in which the award money is distributed among the group of recipients. It is subject to the group's discretion to allocate the money and put it into use.
No, it doesn't. Your submission will be directly made to the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation ([email protected]) with your personal pledge of accuracy. However, the Foundation reserves the right to verify facts with your references, and potentially with the School if the School happens to have direct knowledge of the described contribution.
The executive committee of the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation will collect and aggregate all applications by May 11, 2014. The members of the committee will independently review all the applications and make their respective nominations of 2-3 candidates to the committee. The committee will then get together to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the nominees and establish the pro- and con-cases for each candidate. A round of voting will then take place to narrow down the number of final nominees to no more than five (5). If necessary, another round of discussion will ensue followed by yes-or-no voting on each nominee. Each committee member can cast no more than two (2) yes-votes in that round. The two (2) nominees with the highest number of votes will be awarded the prize. If there is a tie or a vote-concentration on one nominee, the committee reserves the right to break the tie or to reduce the number of awardees to one (1) through a final round of discussion and consensus voting.
Q9: Who were the recipients of last year's award?
AND Club founders: Ms. Kechun Zhang & Ms. Yiting Yang from the Class of 2014, and Ms. Zi Wang from the Class of 2014.
We made over US$5,000 donations to current Fudan Fuzhong students over the course of the past year solely based on the students' financial need. We are planning to donate a substantial amount of our fund this year for the same cause. On the other hand, the "Social Contribution Award" is the first ever merit based scholarship the foundation has launched, at a relatively small size (~US$1,600) compared to our need-based contributions. This award is a step toward the eventual goal of awarding both need-based and merit-based scholarships to Fuzhong students. For now, the need-based scholarship is still our top priority and accounts for the overwhelming majority of our fund deployment.
The scholarship is drawn from a pool of funds raised by the Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation from the overseas alumni and friends of Fudan Fuzhong. It is not specifically based on any individual or group of donors' personal wish. Rather, the executive committee of the Foundation designed the scholarship in order to express and recognize the specific traits and personal values that we believe will benefit the student and the society at large during and after the student's study at Fuzhong.
Q15: If I have questions not answered by the Q & A, how can I get it clarified?
You can either check back on the awards section of the Foundation websitehttp://www.fdfzalumni.org/social_contrib_award.htm to find the updated Q&A, or you can email us [email protected] to expect a response within 48 hours.
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LERMA, EVERARDO CARLOS [E. C.] (1915–1998). Everardo Carlos “E. C.” Lerma, distinguished Mexican American high school coach, educator, and school administrator, son of Mauro Lerma and Carlota (Gonzales) Lerma, was born in Kleberg County, Texas, on June 2, 1915. Lerma’s parents, who were migrant workers from Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico, lived in Bishop, Texas, at the time of his birth, but later relocated to Kingsville in 1918. E.C., as he was best known, lost both of his parents before the age of ten and was raised by his older siblings in a house near the E. M. King High School football field. Lerma, who attended segregated, Mexican-only public schools as a child, became enamored with football in his youth and dreamed of becoming one of the first Mexican American football players to play on the King High School field.
In 1930 Lerma was allowed to enroll at E. M. King High School, where he was the only Hispanic student. He made the school’s football team but was not initially welcomed by his teammates. Lerma, feeling alienated, quit the team at one point during his freshman year only to return later. During his sophomore year his high level of play as both an offensive and defensive end earned him the respect and friendship of his teammates. In Lerma’s senior year he was the only player from Kingsville named to the all-district team, and he subsequently received a scholarship offer from Texas Christian University (TCU). At the time, TCU was a football powerhouse that would go on to win the inaugural Cotton Bowl in 1937 and the national championship in 1938. However, Lerma declined the scholarship and chose instead to play for the Texas College of Arts and Industries in Kingsville (now Texas A&M University–Kingsville) so that he could stay home and support his family.
In 1934 Lerma began college, where he was likely the first Mexican American to ever play football for Texas A&I. As a member of the freshman squad, he again had to prove himself worthy of playing on the varsity football team and was subjected to frequent hazing by the varsity team members, who questioned why he was given a scholarship. Throughout his college football career Lerma endured verbal abuse on the field from teammates during practice and from opposition players, as well as heckling from the fans during games. However, his ability on the field eventually won over his teammates, who began to protect him from the abuse of players and fans alike. Lerma lettered at Texas A&I from 1935 through 1937, and his team won multiple Alamo Conference championships. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history and education in 1938, and would later return to Texas A&I to earn a master’s degree in education.
In 1938 Lerma began his forty-two-year career in education as an assistant coach for Benavides High School in Duval County, Texas. In 1940 he received a controversial promotion to head coach, which made him just the second Mexican American, after William Carson “Nemo” Herrera, to be named head coach of a Texas high school sports program. Like Herrera, Lerma’s coaching style was strict and paternalistic. It also brought the Benavides football team an undefeated regular season and a district championship in 1942. This unexpected success convinced the school board to build a modern football stadium for the team and to retain Lerma as head coach. Lerma remained at Benavides until 1955 and won seven district football titles and four bi-district titles, as well as two regional titles in 1943 and 1949. At that time, there were no state-level championships for Class A and Class B high school football programs in Texas, so this was the highest level of play available to Benavides High School. Lerma’s success was not just limited to the football team. He also coached the baseball and track teams to individual district titles and led the basketball team to one regional title as well.
After 1955 Lerma left Benavides to coach at Rio Grande City High School—another majority-Mexican American community whose underfunded and understaffed football program had only managed eighteen wins in the previous fourteen seasons. Although he did not experience the same level of success at Rio Grande City as he did in Benavides, Lerma turned a struggling football program into a perennial playoff contender. Coincidentally, after his departure from Benavides High School in 1955, the Benavides football team failed to return to the Texas state football playoffs until 1984. At Rio Grande City Lerma also continued to coach multiple sports and was a director of several state and regional track tournaments, as well as a leading member of the Texas High School Coaches Association.
In 1966 Lerma left coaching to become a school administrator. From 1966 to 1969 he served as the coordinator of physical education as well as the director of migrant education, adult basic education, and the summer Head Start program for the McAllen Independent School District. Following that, Lerma was an elementary school principal in the McAllen, Edinburg, and Dallas independent school districts. He then served as principal of Robstown High School from 1974 to 1975 and as superintendent of the Benavides Independent School District after 1975. Lerma retired in 1980 and he lived the remainder of his life in McAllen, Texas.
In the years since Lerma’s retirement, historians and social commentators have characterized his athletic and coaching career as indicative of a turning point in the history of Texas sports. At the beginning of Lerma’s career, prevailing social attitudes held that Mexican Americans were intellectually and physically inferior to Anglo student athletes. As a result, Mexican Americans were largely excluded from participation in high school and collegiate sports—especially football. This same social bias prevented Mexican Americans from attaining head coaching positions. Moreover, coaches throughout the state considered head coaching positions in the majority Mexican American communities of South Texas and the Nueces Strip as undesirable, given the perceived lack of available talent. Lerma, however, proved that Mexican Americans were capable of high-level athletic competition. In turn, he opened doors that were previously closed to Mexican American athletes. In fact, within three years of his graduating from King High School as the only Mexican American player on the football team, there were four Mexican Americans on the varsity squad. Additionally, the number of Mexican American head coaches in Texas grew substantially after 1955, along with the number of collegiate football players—several of them coached by Lerma while in high school.
Outside of his career as a coach and school administrator, Lerma was actively involved in a number of community and scholastic organizations. He was a fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus and a founding organizer of the Knights of Columbus council in Benavides as well as an organizer of several Columbian Squires circles in Benavides, Corpus Christi, and Alice, Texas. Lerma was also a member of the El Cid Caravan No. 106 of the International Order of the Alhambra, a Catholic organization in Rio Grande City. Additionally, he was a one-time president of the Benavides Rotary Club, a delegate to the Rotary International Convention in Mexico City in 1952, and was an active member of the Parent-Teacher Association, the National Education Association, the Texas Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principals, and the American Association of School Administrators.
In recognition of his achievements as a coach and educator, Lerma was inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor in 1968. He was again just the second Hispanic, after William Carson “Nemo” Herrera, to receive this award. In addition, he was inducted into the Sports Trail Century Club in 1957, the International Platform Association in 1972, the Latin American International Hall of Fame in 1973, the Texas A&M—Kingsville Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977, the Rio Grande Valley Sports Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Coastal Bend Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1998. Finally, in 1991, the Benavides ISD football stadium was renamed in his honor.
E. C. Lerma married Lydia Olga Campbell in 1941. His wife shared a similar experience with discrimination while in high school, as she was the first Mexican American member of the Corpus Christi drill team. The couple had three children: Patricia, Everardo Carlos Jr., and John. E.C. Jr., who was born with severe mental and physical disabilities in 1945 and died of pneumonia at the Austin State School in 1953. John Lerma, who was coached by his father as a quarterback at Rio Grande City High School, earned a scholarship to play for Baylor University in the 1960s. He later followed in his father’s footsteps and became a well-known and successful Texas high school coach.
Everardo Carlos Lerma died from cancer-related complications on April 11, 1998, in McAllen, Texas, and was buried at Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Brownsville Herald, January 22, 1976; April 12, 1998. Joel Huerta, “Friday Night Rights: South Texas High School Football and the Struggle for Equality,” The International Journal of the History of Sport 26 (May 2009). Jorge Iber, “Mexican Americans of South Texas Football: The Athletic and Coaching Careers of E. C. Lerma and Bobby Cavazos, 1932–1965,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 105 (April 2002). Rio Grande Herald, April 23, 1998.
Handbook of Texas Online, William A. Brkich and R. Matt Abigail, "LERMA, EVERARDO CARLOS [E. C.] ," accessed April 23, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/flean.
Uploaded on October 20, 2016. Modified on April 11, 2017. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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Click on the image to open a slideshow of the soft top MX-5.
Okay, that may be an exaggeration about the old British sports cars, but I've owned three MGB's (in various states of repair from "on its last legs" to "brand new") and they all left me on the side of the road - so much so that I look back now, decades later, and find it hard to believe I could have been so stupid as to get kicked by that particular mule three times. What can I say? I was a kid.
On the other hand, if it weren't for my brand new, 1975.5 B I wouldn't have discovered the Honda Civic hatchback I swapped straight across for the MG. That was the last European car I owned until I got my current one about four years ago. Ah, the circle of life!
A while back Mazda decided to start calling the MX-5 Miata the MX-5 (as an old fart, I still think of it as the Miata, though) but the car continues to delight in this, its fourth generation. This version has been out for a couple of years now but Mazda Canada's sample MX-5 RF in which I just spent a week is the first time I've had a chance to try it. And I was very nervous.
The angst came from the fact that this generation is down on power compared to the last one: 155 horsepower from the current two litre Skyactiv four banger compared with 167 in the last Mia-er, MX-5 I drove. Thank the Obama/Gore/Suzuki clan and its sycophants for forcing carmakers to focus on upping the fuel mileage for such things, which causes carmakers to try making their vehicles lighter while they also have to contend with airbags and sundry other safety features they're forced to install, all of which add weight and complexity.
Can you tell I love this car?
New for this year is a retractable hard top (well, partially retractable) that makes the MX-5 a truly great all season ride instead of merely a fair weather friend. And as with the previous retractable hardtop, it doesn't rob you of any trunk space - not that there's any to spare anyway. This top, which is more like a Targa top than a truly retracting roof (resulting in more of a "big sunroof" than a true drop top), adds weight and complexity, but it works beautifully.
Alas, unlike the old retractable hard top, doffing the hat doesn't give you a wide open driving experience because most of the roof is still there - it's just the part over your head that opens. This brought me to another soul searching moment: I'm not a convertible guy so would tend to prefer the hard top anyway, but this new one leaves you with all the blind spots to the side and back that the raised top (hard or soft) has. So in this instance I preferred the old retractable top, even though I liked practically everything else about this new version better.
Proving, once again, that some people are never happy.
Operating the roof is easy, thanks to its clever design and the easy to reach switch at the bottom of the centre stack. The switch operates backwards to what I'd thought would be logical (you press up to open the roof and down to close it) but it's easy, and you don't even need to unlatch anything beforehand. It's cool enough that my three year old grandson cackled with delight when he saw Grandpa's "Transformer" in action. Indeed, that cool roof, besides explaining the "RF" terminology, makes the little critter well, optimally prime.
I think Mazda has lost a bit of the car's cuteness with the new exterior, but it's modern and attractive anyway. The front features slit-like headlights that make the car's nose look like a squinty (but cute) face. The body work is relatively voluptuous, ending with a bum that's reminiscent of Jaguar's gorgeous F-Type.
The interior is a tad Spartan, but this is supposed to be a classic sports car so I'll cut it some slack. Mazda's sample didn't have automatic climate control and Mazda's currently typical console-mounted volume control turns out to be a tad far back to reach easily in the tiny cabin (fortunately it's duplicated on the steering wheel) - and the cup holders mounted at the back of the console are very impractical unless you're a contortionist.
I didn't measure dimensions, but this current MX-5 seems a little more roomy than the previous ones - and I'm pretty sure my buttocks and shoulders haven't shrunk over the past few years. This is very welcome because the older ones were quite cramped - and I'm only five foot six (height and width).
The MX-5's fuel mileage amazed me. I have a lead foot and usually go through gas in an MX-5 like it's a pickup truck. With this new one, however, the gauge stayed stuck on full so long I started to wonder if it was broken. It wasn't, and after my week of driving the car as hard as I could want to, it only cost me $17 (at $1.04/litre for premium) to fill it up.
The seats (Recaro in Mazda's sample, thanks to its $4400 optional Sport package) are very comfortable and hold you nicely when you hit the curves you're sure to seek out with a car such as this. Pedal placement and feel is wonderful and the six speed manual transmission (you can get an automatic with paddles for the same price, but don't) is the smoothest I can remember in a Mazda. I love Mazda's manuals, but usually find it challenging to shift them smoothly; there was no such issue in this MX-5.
Besides the roof, there isn't a lot that's new for 2017 and that's okay. The $31,900 base GX is unchanged, but for that price you still get such stuff as push-button start (no proximity lock/unlock, though), auto leveling LED headlights with light signature, LED rear combination lights, air conditioning, Bluetooth, and cruise control. The audio system features six speakers, including ones in the driver's headrest that makes it sound as if God is singing to you - or would sound like that if the speakers were better. But if you buy this car for its audio systems you're nuts, especially if you plan to drive with the roof down.
Better to groove to the tunes emanating from under the hood and out of the exhaust pipe.
The mid-level GS, which starts at $35,800 CAD, ups the suspension's sportiness ante (double wishbone up front and a multilink rear) via Bilstein shocks, limited slip differential, strut tower bar, and induction sound enhancer (manual transmission only). It also gets blind spot monitoring and rear cross traffic alert, which are handy, as well as rain-sensing wipers, a seven inch touchscreen display perched atop the centre stack and automatic headlights.
Besides the heated leather/Alcantara trimmed Recaros, the abovementioned Sport package also gets you handsome 17 inch forged BBS wheels and Brembo front brakes. Mazda's sample also featured a really great Soul Red paint job that costs an extra $300. I'd spend that, as well as the four grand for the Sport package.
The problem then is that you're getting into some serious coin for what's mostly a toy. Mazda's sample tipped the fiscal scale, sans taxes and other gobs of flesh, at $43,500 CAD. And that's not even the top-line GT livery!
The GT starts at $39,200 and gives you all the GS' goodness, with such luxury touches added as heated leather seats, a Bose premium audio system with nine speakers, automatic climate control, lane departure warning, adaptive front lighting system and high beam control.
These prices, by the way, are for the soft top version. If you want the Retractable Fellow (Mazda says RF actually means "retractable fastback" even though it isn't really a fastback), its base price is $38,800. It's only available on the GS and GT trim levels, too, with the GT adding about four grand to that total. You can spend another $4500 on options, too, if you choose.
I'd love to drive a Toyota 86 and the MX-5 back to back (I last drove the 86, then the FR-S, in 2012) because I think I'd have a heckuva time deciding between them. Both are rear wheel drive, front engine cars but the Mazda's more of a pure sports car while the 86 is a great little 2+2 GT car. The Toyota is cheaper, too, though you can't get a convertible version.
All 2017 MX-5s come with Mazda's Unlimited Mileage Warranty, which covers all parts found to be factory defective for three years, regardless of the number of kilometers driven. It also covers the powertrain components for five years, unlimited mileage, body sheet metal perforation for seven years, and tosses in roadside assistance for three years, unlimited mileage.
Price angst aside, I truly love the Mazda MX-5 and still haven't stopped smiling about the driving experience. It's a wonderful car.
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Ruconest is a C1 esterase inhibitor [recombinant] indicated for the treatment of acute attacks in adult and adolescent patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE).
Limitation of Use: Effectiveness was not established in HAE patients with laryngeal attacks.
Initiate treatment with Ruconest under the supervision of a qualified healthcare professional experienced in the treatment of HAE.
Appropriately trained patients may self-administer upon recognition of an HAE attack.
The recommended dose of Ruconest is 50 U per kg with a maximum of 4200 U to be administered as a slow intravenous injection over approximately 5 minutes.
If the attack symptoms persist, an additional (second) dose can be administered at the recommended dose level. Do not exceed 4200 U per dose. No more than two doses should be administered within a 24 hour period.
Store Ruconest in the original carton and protect from light prior to reconstitution.
Do not use after expiration date on the product vial label.
Water for Injection is not included in the Ruconest package.
Use aseptic technique to reconstitute, mix the solution, and to combine the reconstituted solution from more than one vial ( see Reconstitution [ 2.3] and Administration [ 2.4]).
Do not mix or administer Ruconest with other medicinal products or solutions.
Discard all partially used vials after treatment.
Sterile Water for Injection (diluent) - At least 14 mL per vial of Ruconest requiring reconstitution.
Commercially available vial adapter and syringe luer lock or large bore needle. If using a syringe with vial adapter, use a new vial adapter for each vial of Ruconest and diluent.
The procedures below are provided as general guidelines for the reconstitution and administration of Ruconest.
Ensure that the Ruconest vial and diluent vial are at room temperature.
Remove the flip caps from the Ruconest and diluent vials. Treat the vial stoppers with the antiseptic wipe and allow to dry.
Using the syringe/needle or syringe/vial adapter, withdraw 14 mL of sterile water for injection from the diluent vial.
Remove the syringe and transfer the diluent to the Ruconest vial. Add the diluent slowly to avoid forceful impact on the powder. Swirl the vial slowly to mix and avoid foaming.
Repeat this procedure using another 14 mL of diluent and a second vial of Ruconest.
If the same patient is to receive more than one vial, the contents of multiple vials may be pooled into a single administration device (i.e., syringe).
Inspect Ruconest visually for particulate matter and discoloration after reconstitution and prior to administration. The reconstituted solution should be colorless, clear, and free from visible particles. Do not use if the solution is cloudy, colored, or contains particulates.
Ruconest vial is for single-use only.
Use the reconstituted product immediately, or within 8 hours stored at 36ºF - 46ºF (2º - 8ºC). Discard partially used vials.
Do not mix Ruconest with other medicinal products. Administer Ruconest by a separate infusion line.
Use aseptic technique when administering Ruconest.
Follow recommended venipuncture guidelines for initiating intravenous therapy.
Administer Ruconest by slow intravenous injection over approximately 5 minutes.
For self-administration, provide the patient with instructions and training for intravenous injection outside of a clinic setting so patients may self-administer Ruconest upon recognition of symptoms of an HAE attack ( see Patient Counseling Information [ 17]).
After administration, immediately discard any unused product and all used disposable supplies in accordance with local requirements.
Ruconest is available as a lyophilized powder for reconstitution for injection in a single-use 25 mL glass vial. Each vial contains 2100 U of rhC1INH.
Ruconest is contraindicated in patients with a history of allergy to rabbits or rabbit-derived products.
Ruconest is contraindicated in patients with a history of life-threatening immediate hypersensitivity reactions to C1 esterase inhibitor preparations, including anaphylaxis.
Severe hypersensitivity reactions may occur [see Patient Counseling Information (17)]. The signs and symptoms of hypersensitivity reactions may include hives, generalized urticaria, tightness of the chest, wheezing, hypotension, and/or anaphylaxis during or after injection of Ruconest. Should symptoms occur, discontinue Ruconest and institute appropriate treatment. Because hypersensitivity reactions may have symptoms similar to HAE attacks, treatment methods should be carefully considered.
The serious adverse reaction in clinical studies of Ruconest was anaphylaxis.
The most common adverse reactions (≥ 2%) reported in all clinical trials were headache, nausea, and diarrhea.
The Ruconest clinical development program evaluated a combined total of 940 administrations in 236 subjects (symptomatic and non-symptomatic). In clinical studies, a total of 205 symptomatic HAE patients received treatment with Ruconest for a combined total of 650 acute angioedema attacks. Among these HAE patients, 83 were treated for a single HAE attack and 122 were treated for multiple attacks.
Three randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials (RCTs) were conducted in which 137 patients experiencing acute HAE attacks received Ruconest (either an initial 50 U/kg or 100 U/kg body weight dose) or placebo (saline solution).
Table 2 shows all adverse reactions (ARs) in the RCTs, compared with the placebo group.
MedDRA: Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities, version 15.0.
** Events only occurring in placebo patients are not listed.
In a total of seven RCT and OLE studies, 205 patients experiencing acute HAE attacks were treated with Ruconest for a total of 650 HAE attacks. Included in this population were 124 patients who were treated at the 50 U/kg dosage strength for one or more attacks.
Table 3 shows adverse reactions in ≥ 2% of patients in any Ruconest group for the integrated dataset combining all seven RCT and OLE studies in patients experiencing acute HAE attacks.
As with all therapeutic proteins, there is potential for immunogenicity. Pre- and post-exposure samples from 205 HAE patients treated for 650 acute attacks with Ruconest were tested for the antibodies against plasma-derived C1INH or rhC1INH and for antibodies against host-related impurities (HRI). Testing was performed prior to and after treatment of a first attack and subsequent repeated attacks at 7, 22 or 28, and 90 days after Ruconest treatment.
Prior to the first exposure to Ruconest, the frequency of anti-C1INH antibodies varied from 1.2% to 1.6% of samples. After the first exposure, the frequency of anti-C1INH antibodies varied from 0.6% to 1.0% of samples tested. After repeated exposures, the frequency of anti-C1INH antibodies varied from 0.5 to 2.2% of samples tested. The frequency of anti-HRI antibodies was 1.0% in pre-exposure samples, and after the first exposure varied from 3.5% to 4.6%. After repeated exposure, the frequency of anti-HRI antibodies varied from 5.7% to 17% of samples. At least 10% of subjects formed a specific antibody response to Ruconest after five treated HAE attacks. No anti-C1INH neutralizing antibodies were detected. Observed anti-C1INH and anti-HRI antibodies were not associated with adverse clinical findings.
The detection of antibody formation is highly dependent on the sensitivity and specificity of the assay. Additionally, the observed incidence of antibody (including neutralizing antibody) positivity in an assay may be influenced by several factors including assay methodology, sample handling, timing of sample collection, concomitant medications, and underlying disease. For these reasons, comparison of the incidence of antibodies to Ruconest with the incidence of antibodies to other products may be misleading.
Pregnancy Category B. Studies performed in rats and rabbits at doses up to 12.5 times the human dose of 50 U/kg could not exclude an effect on embryofetal development. There are, however, no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Because animal reproduction studies are not always predictive of human response, Ruconest should only be used during pregnancy if clearly needed.
The safety and efficacy of Ruconest administration prior to or during labor and delivery have not been established. Use only if clearly needed.
It is not known if Ruconest is excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when Ruconest is administered to a nursing woman.
The safety and efficacy of Ruconest were evaluated in 17 adolescent patients (13-17 years of age) treated for 52 HAE attacks. Eight out of 17 (47%) adolescent patients experienced adverse reactions. No serious adverse reactions were reported in these patients. The most common reactions (occurring in at least 2 patients) were: abdominal pain, headache, and oropharyngeal pain.
The clinical studies of Ruconest included seven patients older than 65 years. The clinical studies included an insufficient number of patients in this age group to determine if they respond differently from younger patients.
Ruconest is a recombinant analogue of human complement component 1 esterase inhibitor for intravenous injection. Ruconest is purified from the milk of transgenic rabbits, and supplied as a sterile, preservative-free, white/off-white lyophilized powder for reconstitution for injection. One U of rhC1INH activity is defined as the equivalent of C1 esterase inhibiting activity present in 1 mL of pooled normal plasma.
Ruconest is a soluble, single-chain glycoprotein containing 478 amino acids, with a molecular mass of 68 kDa, of which approximately 22% comprises oligosaccharide structures. The primary and secondary structures of the molecule and target protease selectivity are consistent with those of plasma-derived C1 esterase inhibitor.
Each vial of Ruconest contains 2100 U of rhC1INH, 937 mg of sucrose, 83.3 mg of sodium citrate dihydrate and 1.0 mg of citric acid monohydrate. After reconstitution with 14 mL of sterile Water for Injection, each vial of Ruconest contains 150 U of rhC1INH per 1 mL in a 20 mM sodium citrate buffer with a pH of 6.8. Ruconest does not contain preservatives and each vial is for single use only.
Ruconest is purified from the milk of transgenic rabbits. The rabbits are maintained in a closed colony that is controlled and routinely monitored for specific pathogens. The skimmed milk is screened for adventitious contaminants prior to further manufacture. The manufacturing process has been validated to demonstrate adequate capacity for removal and/or inactivation of viruses ( Table 4). Ruconest contains less than 0.002% of host-related impurities.
e Not tested because SD chemicals are present in the starting material.
C1 esterase inhibitor (C1INH) is a normal constituent of human blood and is one of the serine protease inhibitors (serpins). The primary function of C1INH is to regulate the activation of the complement and contact system pathways. Regulation of these systems is performed through the formation of complexes between the protease and the inhibitor, resulting in inactivation of both and consumption of the C1INH.
C1INH exerts its inhibitory effect by irreversibly binding several proteases (target proteases) of the contact and complement systems. The effect of Ruconest on the following target proteases was assessed in vitro: activated C1s, kallikrein, factor XIIa and factor XIa. Inhibition kinetics were found to be comparable with those observed for plasma-derived human C1INH.
Administration of Ruconest increases plasma levels of functional C1INH activity.
The complement component (protein) C4 is a substrate for activated C1. Patients with HAE have low levels of C4 in the circulation; Ruconest shows a dose-dependent restoration of complement homeostasis of C4 in HAE patients. A dose of 50 U/kg of Ruconest increases plasma C1INH activity levels to greater than 0.7 U/mL (the lower limit of normal) in HAE patients.
The pharmacokinetics of Ruconest was evaluated in a study of 12 asymptomatic HAE patients (dose ranged from 6.25 U/kg to 100 U/kg). Pharmacokinetics evaluation was performed by non-compartmental analysis, using functional C1INH levels. Following administration of Ruconest (50 U/kg) in asymptomatic HAE patients ( Table 5), the mean Cmax was 1.2 U/mL, and the elimination half-life was approximately 2.5 hours. The clearance of Ruconest was nonlinear (clearance decreased with increasing dose) over the dose range of 25-100 U/kg.
Studies have not been conducted to evaluate the PK of Ruconest in special patient populations, identified by race, age (pediatric or geriatric), or the presence of renal or hepatic impairment.
No animal studies have been conducted to evaluate the effects of Ruconest on carcinogenesis and mutagenesis. Fertility was not evaluated in animal studies.
Single- and repeat-dose studies of up to 14 days in rats, dogs, and cynomolgus monkeys with daily doses of Ruconest up to 80 times the human dose (50 U/kg) were conducted. In a 14-day monkey toxicology study of intravenous doses up to 2000 U/kg twice daily, increases in AST and ALP were observed at doses of 500 U/kg and higher. No histopathological correlates were observed in the liver and the increases in liver enzymes were reversible. Histologic findings included changes in the size of thymic cortex and medulla, and microvacuoles in the epithelial cells lining the renal tubules. The renal tubular vacuolation was dose dependent, but was not accompanied by other histological changes in the kidney. This finding was only partially reversible at the highest dose level of 2000 U/kg twice daily. It was concluded that the NOAEL of Ruconest was 1000 U/kg twice daily in this species. There were no adverse findings in a safety pharmacology study in dogs and a local tolerance study in rabbits. It is concluded that preclinical toxicology data for daily doses up to 40 times the proposed human dose of Ruconest (50 U/kg) do not indicate a safety concern for the use of Ruconest in humans.
Embryo-fetal studies have been conducted in rabbits and rats at a dose of Ruconest 12.5 times the human dose of 50 U/kg. In rats, no malformed fetuses were observed. In rabbits, an increase in the incidence of fetal cardiac vessel defects was observed (1.12% [2 cases] in the treatment group compared to 0.03% in historical controls). These defects are considered to be a chance finding, but a Ruconest-related effect cannot be excluded.
The safety and efficacy of Ruconest for treatment of acute angioedema attacks in patients with HAE was established in Study 1, a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial (RCT) which included an open-label extension (OLE) phase; and supported by the results of 2 additional RCTs and 2 additional OLE studies.
The safety and efficacy of Ruconest in the treatment of acute attacks in patients with hereditary angioedema were demonstrated in a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized study (Study 1). Supportive evidence of effectiveness is provided by two double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled studies (Studies 2 and 3). Evidence for the efficacy of repeat treatment of HAE attacks is provided from the open-label extensions (OLE) of each of the three randomized studies.
Study 1 was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that included an open-label extension (OLE) phase to assess the efficacy and safety of Ruconest 50 U/kg in the treatment of acute attacks in patients with HAE. Seventy-five (75) adults and adolescent patients were randomized (3:2) to receive Ruconest 50 U/kg (N = 44) or placebo (N = 31). Patients ranged in age from 17 to 69 years of age; 63% were female and 37% were male; 96% were Caucasian.
The primary efficacy endpoint was the time to beginning of relief of symptoms, assessed using patient-reported responses to two questions from a Treatment Effect Questionnaire (TEQ). The TEQ required patients to assess the severity of their attack symptoms at each affected anatomic location, using a seven-point scale (“much worse” to “much better” [TEQ Question 1]), and whether their symptoms had begun to decrease notably since receiving the study medication (“yes” or “no” [TEQ Question 2]). To achieve the primary endpoint, a patient had to have a positive response to both questions along with persistence of improvement at the next assessment time (i.e., the same or better response).
Rescue treatment with Ruconest was available for patients who did not experience the beginning of relief at 4 hours after study drug administration, or earlier to patients who experienced life-threatening oropharyngeal-laryngeal angioedema symptoms. If a patient received a medication which could have impacted the efficacy evaluation or open-label Ruconest as rescue medication, prior to achieving beginning of relief of symptoms, the time to beginning of relief of symptoms was censored at the last assessed time prior to medication use.
In the RCT phase, the median time to beginning of relief of symptoms was statistically significantly shorter in patients treated with Ruconest 50 U/kg compared with patients treated with placebo as assessed by the TEQ; ( Table 6, Figure 1).
Values that are not estimable are displayed as ‘- ’.
Among several planned subgroup analyses, descriptive statistics showed that in US patients a median time to beginning of relief of symptoms with persistence at the primary attack location (based on TEQ) was 98 minutes [95% CI:(45, 240); n=22] for those receiving Ruconest and 90 minutes [95% CI: (50, -); n=16] for those receiving placebo. The hazard ratio for time to the beginning of relief of symptoms in this subpopulation was 1.20 [95% CI: 0.48 to 3.01] for patient receiving Ruconest as compared with patient receiving placebo. Non-US patients receiving Ruconest had a median time to beginning of relief of 90 minutes [95% CI: (63, 120); n=22] and non-US patients receiving placebo had a median time to beginning of relief of 334 minutes [95% CI: (150, -); n=15]. The hazard ratio for the non-US subgroup was 4.82 [95% CI: 1.58 to 14.72] for patients receiving Ruconest compared to placebo.
Examination of gender subgroups suggested a larger treatment effect in men than women. For women receiving Ruconest, the median time to beginning of relief was 113 minutes [95% CI: (63, 151); n=28], and for women receiving placebo, the median time to beginning of relief was 105 minutes [95% CI: (60, 334); n=19]. The hazard ratio for women receiving Ruconest versus placebo was 1.22 [95% CI: 0.60 to 2.48]. For men receiving Ruconest, the median time to beginning of relief was 75 minutes [95% CI: (45, 210); n=16], and for men receiving placebo, the median time to beginning of relief was 480 minutes [95% CI: (150, -) n=12]. The hazard ratio for men receiving Ruconest versus placebo was 3.94 [95% CI: 1.23 to 12.68].
No plausible biological explanations for the regional or gender subgroup effects were found. One possible explanation is a larger-than-expected placebo response among US women. None of the subgroup confidence intervals were adjusted for multiplicity.
Because almost all of the patients were Caucasian and were between 18 and 65 years of age, race and age subgroup analyses were not considered meaningful.
Among patients who achieved relief within 4 hours, there were 4 (27%) patients in the placebo group who had a relapse of their symptoms within 24 hours as compared with 1 (3%) in the Ruconest group. The proportion of patients who received Ruconest as rescue medication was greater in patients randomized to placebo (13 of 31 patients; 42%) than in patients randomized to Ruconest (5 of 44 patients; 11%).
The efficacy of Ruconest 50 U/kg for different anatomical locations of HAE attacks is summarized in Table 7.
In the OLE phase of Study 1, patients were treated with open-label Ruconest 50 U/kg for repeated attacks of HAE. Forty-four patients who completed the RCT phase were enrolled into the OLE phase where they were treated for a total of 170 attacks. In this phase, the median time to beginning of relief of symptoms was 75 minutes (95% CI: 64, 90), consistent with the results of the RCT phase of the study ( Table 6). Results were also comparable across attacks, suggesting that the efficacy of Ruconest 50 U/kg was maintained over repeated attacks of HAE. In the OLE phase of Study 1, 5/170 (3%) attacks received a second dose of Ruconest 50 U/kg.
In Study 2 (North American RCT), patients were randomized to receive a single administration of either Ruconest 50 U/kg (N=12), Ruconest 100 U/kg (N=13) or placebo (N=13). Patients ranged in age from 17 to 66 years of age; 74% were female and 26% were male; and 92% were Caucasian.
In Study 3 (European RCT), patients were randomized to receive a single administration of either Ruconest 100 U/kg (N=16) or placebo (N=16). Patients ranged in age from 17 to 71 years of age: 53% were female and 47% were male; and 100% were Caucasian.
Patients scored their symptoms using a visual analog scale (VAS) ranging from 0-100 mm. A VAS decrease of > 20 mm compared with baseline with persistence of the improvement at two consecutive time points was considered the onset of relief in Studies 2 and 3.
In both Study 2 and 3, the efficacy of Ruconest in the treatment of acute angioedema attacks was demonstrated by significantly shorter times to beginning of relief of symptoms based on the VAS (Figure 2).
In open-label extension studies of Study 2 and 3, 119 patients were treated with Ruconest for a total of 362 acute angioedema attacks. As observed in Study 1, the efficacy of Ruconest was maintained for repeat attacks.
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Ruconest is supplied in single-use 25 mL glass vials with a stopper (siliconized chlorobutyl rubber) and a flip-off seal (aluminum and colored plastic).
Each carton contains one single-use vial.
Each vial contains 2100 U rhC1INH lyophilized powder for reconstitution for injection.
Shelf life: 48 months when stored at 36ºF - 77ºF (2ºC - 25ºC).
Each vial of Ruconest should be reconstituted with 14 mL Water for Injection (not supplied). The reconstituted solution contains 150 U/mL rhC1INH and is clear and colorless.
Each vial of Ruconest is for single use only. Ruconest contains no preservative. Any product that has been reconstituted should be used immediately, or within 8 hours stored at 36ºF - 46ºF (2ºC - 8ºC). Discard partially used vials after treatment.
Advise the patient to read the FDA-Approved patient labeling (Product Information and Instructions for Use).
Patients being treated with Ruconest should receive the following information and instructions. This information is intended to aid the patient in the safe and effective use of Ruconest.
Advise female patients to notify their physician if they are pregnant or intend to become pregnant during the treatment of acute attacks of HAE with Ruconest.
Advise patients to notify their physician if they are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed.
Inform patients of the risks and benefits of Ruconest before prescribing or administering it to the patient.
Signs and symptoms of allergic hypersensitivity reactions, such as hives, urticaria, tightness of the chest, wheezing, hypotension and/or anaphylaxis experienced during or after injection of Ruconest ( see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS/Hypersensitivity [ 5] ).
Ruconest ® is a registered trademark of Pharming Intellectual Property B.V.
Product protected by U.S patent Nos. 7,067,713 and RE43691.
Please see www.Ruconest.com for patent information.
This leaflet summarizes important information about Ruconest. Please read it carefully each time before using Ruconest. There may be new information provided. This information does not take the place of talking with your healthcare provider, and it does not include all of the important information about Ruconest. If you have any questions after reading this, ask your healthcare provider.
Ruconest is an injectable medicine that is used to treat acute angioedema attacks in adult and adolescent patients with Hereditary Angioedema (HAE). HAE is caused by a shortage of a protein called C1 esterase inhibitor, that is present in your blood and helps control inflammation (swelling) and parts of the immune system. A shortage of C1 esterase inhibitor can lead to repeated attacks of swelling, pain in the abdomen, difficulty breathing and other symptoms. Ruconest contains C1 esterase inhibitor.
Who should not use Ruconest?
You should not use Ruconest if you have a known or suspected allergy (hypersensitivity) to rabbits or rabbit-derived products.
You should not use Ruconest if you have experienced life-threatening immediate hypersensitivity reactions, including anaphylaxis, to Ruconest or to any other C1 esterase inhibitor product.
Ruconest is not indicated for use in children under the age of 13 years.
What should I tell my healthcare provider before using Ruconest?
have an allergy to rabbits since this can put you at high risk of a serious allergic reaction with Ruconest. These allergy symptoms could include runny nose, itchy nose, sneezing, coughing, wheezing, difficulty breathing or watery eyes when you are near rabbits.
are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. It is not known if Ruconest can harm your unborn baby.
are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known if Ruconest passes to your milk and if it can harm your baby.
Tell your healthcare provider and pharmacist about all of the medicines you take, including all prescription and non-prescription medicines such as over-the-counter medicines, supplements, or herbal remedies.
Ruconest will be slowly injected into your vein (intravenous injection). Before injection, the Ruconest powder must be dissolved using sterile Water for Injection. The dose will be determined based on your weight.
Most of the time a single dose of Ruconest is enough to treat an attack, but a second dose may be needed.
What are the possible side effects of Ruconest?
Like all medicines, Ruconest can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
In clinical studies, the most severe side effect reported in a person who received Ruconest was a severe allergic reaction in a subject who was allergic to rabbits.
If any of the side effects get serious, or if you notice any side effects not listed in the leaflet, please inform your healthcare provider or pharmacist. You can also report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch or contact Pharming Healthcare Inc. at 1-800-930-5221.
You can ask your healthcare provider for information about Ruconest that is written for healthcare providers.
Do not use Ruconest for a condition for which it is not prescribed.
If you would like more information, talk to your healthcare provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about Ruconest that was written for healthcare professionals.
For more information go to www.Ruconest.com or call 1-800-930-5221.
Use aseptic (sterile) technique when preparing and administering Ruconest.
Step 1: Assemble supplies from medication box on a clean flat surface.
Sterile Water for Injection (diluent), 14mL per vial of Ruconest to be reconstituted.
Needle-free, vented or non-vented vial adapters (or large bore needle). Use a new vial adapter for each vial of Ruconest and diluent.
Discuss this section with your healthcare provider to ensure that the correct dose of Ruconest is administered.
The dose of Ruconest and volume (mL) of reconstituted solution to be administered is based on body weight show in the chart below. No more than 2 vials may be combined for a single dose.
The procedures below are provided as general guidelines for the reconstitution of Ruconest.
Step 1: Ensure that the Ruconest vials and the diluent vial are at room temperature (range of 68°F - 77°F or 20°C - 25°C).
Wipe the vial stoppers with the antiseptic wipes provided and allow to dry for 30 seconds.
Do not blow on the stoppers after wiping.
Do not touch the stopper with your hands, or allow it to touch any surface.
Step 3: Peel back the covers from the clear plastic vial adapter packages.
Leave the adapters in their packages.
Step 4: While holding the adapter in its package, place the first adapter over the diluent vial and press down until the device snaps into place.
Leave the package on the adapter until you are ready to attach the syringe.
Step 5: Now, place a 2nd adapter over a Ruconest vial and press down until it snaps into place.
Repeat if your dose requires a 2nd Ruconest vial.
Step 6: Lift the package away from the diluent adapter.
Step 7: Remove syringe from package and withdraw sterile water for injection from the diluent vial.
With vial on a flat surface, attach syringe to adapter on diluent vial by rotating syringe clockwise.
Turn diluent vial upside down and slowly withdraw either 14 mL (if using 1 Ruconest vial) or 28 mL (if using 2 Ruconest vials) of diluent into syringe by gently pulling back on the plunger.
There will still be some diluent left in the vial.
Place the diluent vial back on a flat surface and detach syringe by gently pulling the syringe and rotating counterclockwise.
Step 8: Transfer the diluent to the Ruconest vial.
Remove the package from the adapter connected to one of the Ruconest vials.
Attach the syringe holding the diluent to the adapter on the Ruconest vial by inserting the tip into the adapter opening while firmly pushing and rotating the syringe clockwise.
Slowly press 14 mL of diluent into the Ruconest vial.
Add the diluent slowly to avoid forceful impact on the powder.
Note: Leave the syringe attached to the vial after adding the diluent.
Step 9: Swirl the vial to mix. Do this slowly to avoid foaming.
Repeat Steps 8 and 9 if you are using a second Ruconest vial. Remove syringe from the first Ruconest vial prior to attaching to the second vial.
Step 10: Inspect Ruconest vial(s) visually.
After reconstitution and prior to administration, inspect the Ruconest vials visually for particulate matter and discoloration.
The reconstituted solution should be colorless, clear, and free from visible particles.
Do not use the vial if it looks cloudy, contains particles, or has changed color.
Step 11: With the syringe still connected to the Ruconest vial, turn the vial upside down.
Slowly withdraw your dose of Ruconest by gently pulling back on the plunger.
Once you have withdrawn your dose, turn the vial right side up and place on a flat surface. Disconnect the syringe by gently pulling and rotating counterclockwise.
Step 12: Repeat Step 11 and withdraw additional reconstituted Ruconest from the second Ruconest vial (if needed).
Withdraw only as much as is needed based on your body weight.
Disconnect the syringe, for use as described in the next section.
Your healthcare provider will teach you how to safely administer Ruconest. It is important that you inject Ruconest directly into a visible vein. Do not inject into surrounding tissues or an artery. Once you learn how to self-administer, follow the instructions provided below. The reconstituted solution should be used within 8 hours and should be cooled but not be frozen.
Thoroughly clean a table or other flat surface using one or more of the antiseptic wipes.
Step 3: Prime the infusion set.
To prime (fill) the infusion tubing, connect the syringe filled with Ruconest to the infusion set tubing and gently push on the syringe plunger to fill the tubing with Ruconest.
Step 4: Prepare the approved IV injection site.
Apply a tourniquet above the site of the infusion.
Prepare the injection site by wiping the skin well with an antiseptic wipe, beginning at the center and working outward in a circular motion.
Allow the site to dry.
Follow the instructions provided by your healthcare provider.
Take off the needle sheath.
Hold both wings of the butterfly between the thumb and the index finger with the obliquely cut (slanted) opening of the butterfly needle pointing upward.
Insert the butterfly needle of the infusion set into your vein (insert as flat to skin surface as possible).
Use sterile gauze and tape or transparent dressing to hold the needle in place.
Gently pull back on the syringe plunger and check to see if blood is in the tubing.
If there is blood present, then the needle is in a vein.
If there is no blood, remove the needle and repeat this step using a new needle, new administration tubing, and a different injection site.
Note: Inject Ruconest slowly over approximately 5 minutes.
Step 6: Cover the injection site and clean up.
Withdraw the butterfly needle along the line that it was inserted.
Cover the injection site with a bandage, holding pressure on the site for a few minutes.
Dispose of all unused solution, empty vials, and used needles and syringe in an appropriate container used for medical waste.
The procedures below are provided as general guidelines for after the infusion of Ruconest.
Record each injection into treatment journal.
Record the lot number from the Ruconest vial label.
Enter the date and time of your injection.
This Patient Package Insert has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Product protected by U.S. patent Nos. 7,067,713 and RE43691.
See prescribing information for directions for use.
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“Screw the revolution,” said Ben.
“Should have said that to their faces,” said Camry.
I stood in the basement, several hours after Sally and Jerome had left. They had been too fast for the rest of us to stop them. It was almost daytime but the curfew was still in place, so there would be no crowd to mingle with, but there would be a lot of light to help the patrolling guards see us.
“Should we try to follow them?” I asked Elenor. Both the finders were with us, so tracking them would be a simple matter. Whether we could catch up to them, was a different question.
That was true. I felt close to Jerome and Sally, they were some of my closest friends in this world, and I was sure the feeling was mutual. We’d gone through a lot together, so their decision to leave us behind while they went to Bendeck alone must have been a tough one.
Besides, they’d left behind Ben.
I glanced at the red-haired boy. He was sulking in the corner, without his usual thoughtful demeanor. He’d been unwilling to leave Sett with us at first, but now he was objecting to being left behind. He wasn’t just friends with Jerome, he was Jerome’s apprentice, entrusted to him by Ben’s previous master and foster father, Postick. Even if Elenor and I couldn’t be considered part of their team, they should have at least taken Ben with them.
Then again, that just proved how serious the situation was. From what I could make out of their cryptic conversation, Sally and Jerome were going to throw themselves into the middle of the conflict. I also finally knew why Jerome knew so much about Project Poppy: he was a former member. Or at least, that’s what their conversation implied.
They weren’t going to be working together, although they were probably on the same side. I didn’t know what Sally was going to do, but it seemed like Jerome was going to work with the Orange Hats – the guilds’ militia – who Camry had said had been rounded up by Inline.
I felt the cold mask on my face. Going to Bendeck with this on would be suicidal. The government would pounce on me, and if they saw I didn’t have any signs, they might think I was Epilian or a rebel Header trying to run away.
But I had to go. I was too close to give up.
“How far is the capital?” I asked no one in particular.
“Around five days by road, a little less if you go off the road,” answered Elenor.
“Why is it faster to go off-road?” I asked.
“It’ll be harder to track us, though. Alright, let’s go through the mountains.” I faced the door.
“Sally and Jerome were right, it’s too dangerous. The situation should be resolved in a few days. This isn’t the first time the Project has tried to stir up trouble. Things always settle down quickly,” said Ben.
“I can’t afford to wait,” I said as I stood up.
“Why not? The guy you’re chasing wouldn’t be stupid enough to go to the capital in the middle of this mess,” said Ben.
But I wasn’t looking for him in the capital, I was chasing a lead to a Wonder. Demetrius could afford to wait, but I couldn’t. Besides, I felt like Demetrius wasn’t going to let a civil war interfere in his plans.
According to Static, Demetrius was being guided by Bit. He already had a head start and the gap between us was only widening.
The thought made me frown. I hadn’t given much thought to what Demetrius was doing while I chased him. He couldn’t know about Henry, the guy Moxy told me to meet in Bendeck, but Demetrius could have found another lead to the Wonders.
In fact, the whole reason I was searching for the other Wonders was so they could lead me back to the House of Wisdom, so Demetrius was probably using the House to track the other Wonders. He might even be after the same Wonder I was!
I looked around. Sally and Jerome had left most of the supplies and gear here, wanting to travel light and to help the kids deal with the next few days. All the stores and markets were closed, so I couldn’t take the kids’ food.
I’d just have to make do with whatever I found outside.
“How will we avoid the guards?” asked Elenor.
“Sounds foolproof,” said Ben, dryly.
“Got any better ideas?” I said.
“You’re going to throw pebbles?” asked Camry.
“How’s that going to help us leave the city?” I asked.
We went upstairs. Only Camry came with us, while Idel made sure Betsy and Olive didn’t follow. Elenor tapped on the back door and signaled that the coast was clear. I peeked out.
The dusty roads were empty but the sun was shining brightly. The air was dense with silence, suffocating silence. There were no guards on the walls, but one would probably appear soon.
Ben stepped out, picked up a pebble, and juggled it with one hand.
“You should stay inside, Camry,” he said as he clenched the pebble in his fist and pulled his hand behind his shoulder.
Camry peeked out like I had.
Ben chucked the pebble then waved hurriedly for us to run. I grabbed Elenor’s hand and followed him, hugging the wall and crouching to stay as hidden as I could. There was a loud crash in the distance, one that couldn’t have come from a tiny pebble.
I heard footsteps above us as guards raced towards the sound.
“What did you do?” I asked in a hushed voice as we continued to run.
“The outer walls aren’t very well kept. All you have to do is apply the right amount of force in the right places, and whole chunks of it will collapse,” he said.
I looked over my shoulder. There was a sizeable hole in the wall near the edge of my vision. I saw tiny figures running towards the hole, leaning out over the edge to judge how much damage had been done. They were probably scouring the area for the culprit. They’d end up blaming the Project, just another senseless act of terror by Project Poppy.
We stopped. Ben bent down and dug into the earth. The soil gave way and the tunnel appeared. I was the last one to step inside. I cast a glance at the city behind me.
The air was still quiet. I couldn’t see the guards from here, but they were probably raising a ruckus near the hole. Camry and the other kids were underground like most of the other Cheeks in the city. Was it different in the Headers district? Most Collars couldn’t afford basements, so was their district full of life or were the people more subdued because of what was happening in the country?
I crouched down and crawled through the hole.
I shook the dirt off my clothes as I came out the other side. The skull was still standing on the pillar of earth Jerome had left for it when we first came through.
“Won’t they see us running across this open field?” asked Elenor as she tapped her baton on the ground.
“What else can we do?” asked Ben.
“The Collars district is outside the city. Can’t we walk onto the road from there?” I asked.
“They’ll be guarding the Collars district and the road too,” said Elenor.
“Then should we wait for nightfall?” I asked, biting my lower lip. We should have stayed with Camry for the day.
“Well, there is one thing we could do,” said Elenor, slowly.
“The river’s that way, right Ben?” she said.
I grew up in Fenbay. They taught us how to swim almost as soon as we learned how to walk.
“That’ll have to do,” said Elenor as she shuffled along the perimeter of the wall.
The river appeared a few minutes later. I could barely make out the Collar’s district in the distance. The river itself was murky, probably full of waste and human refuse. Clumps of dirt appeared sometimes, pulled away by the powerful current.
“There’re people above,” whispered Elenor while she tapped her finger on the wall.
The guards didn’t move. They were probably told to keep a watch on the river. Although we could hide ourselves underwater, they would notice us splashing into the water. We needed a distraction.
“Got any more pebble tricks, Ben?” I asked.
“None that could help us in this situation,” he said.
I frowned. My books wouldn’t be much help either.
“There is something I could try, but if it fails, we’ll be found out for sure,” she said.
Elenor stopped tapping the wall. She grabbed the top of her baton and brought it to her lips. Her fingers grabbed it like a flute and she took a deep breath, then blew.
A familiar tune began to play. It was an old song, one I’d heard on Earth. Back when my grandpa was still alive, he used to play it on one of his ancient machines, something called a CD Player. I remembered sitting next to him on a rainy afternoon, listening to his squeaking rocking chair while lamenting my inability to play with the neighborhood kids because of the weather. He’d tried to talk to me but I’d ignored him. In the end, he pushed a button and listen to the song.
I was never particularly close to my grandpa, nor to any of my family, for that matter. Yet, hearing this song made a layer of sadness drape over my shoulders. I couldn’t shrug it off.
The song promised that the world was a beautiful place, full of trees of green and clouds of white, red roses too under skies of blue. It was a whimsical song, naïve and hopeful. I couldn’t take it seriously, not when it talked about rainbows and laughing children. It was corny. It was cringeworthy. And it was old as all hell.
Worst of all, it was a lie. A sweet, sweet lie, but a lie nonetheless. The world wasn’t wonderful. It was full of sadness, pain, and loneliness.
My shoulder shook and I blinked.
I heard a splash. I didn’t move.
Ben cursed and grabbed me by the arm. I rushed into the cold water, smooth Jazz still playing in my head. There were no cries of alarm from above. Ben pulled me forward underwater but I slipped from his grip. I swam forward, squinting my eyes in the murky depths. I could barely make out Ben’s figure in front of me, but I could see that he was struggling.
This time, I grabbed his arm and pulled him forward. He began struggling, so I helped him surface. Peeking from the surface of the river, I filled my lungs and glanced back at Bass.
We’d surfaced in the shade of a tree, so I wasn’t worried about the guards spotting us. The walls were far away, and I could only barely see the Collar’s district in the distance.
Elenor surfaced beside us. Muddy water dripped down her glasses, and her brown hair stuck to her head.
“How far does this river go?” I asked, between breaths.
“To the ocean,” replied Elenor.
I thought for a moment then nodded. I took a deep breath and prepared to go underwater again. We should put some distance between us and the city.
“Wait!” cried Ben, who was still gulping for air.
“Oh, my bad,” I said.
We waited for Ben to catch his breath before diving back in. I kept close to the surface and surfaced once I thought we were far enough away.
I dragged my soaking wet body out of the river and caught my breath. It was only then that I noticed I was wearing my mask. I’d gotten so used to wearing it, I hadn’t questioned the lack of water splashing onto my face.
Ben lay sprawled on the ground, breathing furiously. Elenor pulled herself out of the river and tapped her baton on the ground. I shook my clothes, then took off my robe. Elenor did the same. We went off to the side behind a tree and began to dry off as best we could.
“Where’d you learn that song?” I asked, as I scrunched up my robe.
“It’s one of the books I read. The second one, to be precise,” Elenor said, wringing the water from her hair.
An interesting way to work around unburnt magic’s inability to affect the outside world. The music definitely effected my state of mind, and it lulled the guards into not noticing us.
“Epil must be a wonderful place.” Elenor laid most of her clothes on a rock under the sun.
We stood in silence, waiting for our clothes to dry. My skin was still wet and the chilly breeze made me shiver.
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Over the course of a decade, Marvel Studios managed to accomplish a feat that no other movie franchise had even attempted before it: assembling a cohesive cinematic universe featuring multiple branch series, major crossover events, and a maintained continuity. What's been created has become one of the biggest phenomenons in the history of pop culture... and it's far from wrapping things up. There are still many years ahead for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it begins with what's being built over the next few years as Phase Four.
Unlike what Marvel did for the beginning of Phase Three, when they held a big press event announcing their future plans, the company has yet to officially announce the majority of their upcoming slate. That being said, through various official releases, news items, and quotes we have been able to piece together at least some of what's going on behind-the-scenes. What do we know right now? Read on and find out.
The first Marvel Cinematic Universe feature to be released after the events of Avengers 4 is actually the only Phase Four project that currently has an official release date. After earning rave reviews for his work on Spider-Man: Homecoming, director Jon Watts is back at the helm, and it's been confirmed that the story will pick up literally minutes after the end of the big Joe and Anthony Russo-directed blockbuster bonanza that is coming out in May 2019.
Peter Parker (Tom Holland) will somehow be alive again at the start of the movie - a reversal of the events that took place at the end of Avengers: Infinity War - and as the title suggests he won't be hanging around Queens, New York all that much. Instead, the story featured in Spider-Man: Far From Home will have the wall-crawling hero swinging his webs around various locations throughout Europe. He, apparently, won't have the assistance of Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) in this one, but he will have some notable Marvel Cinematic Universe veterans as allies: Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), who were also dusted by the end of Infinity War.
On the villain front, Spider-Man: Far From Home will take a page out of Spider-Man: Homecoming's playbook and introduce a villain that audiences have not yet seen depicted in live-action. Specifically, Jake Gyllenhaal is on-board to play the special effects-loving antagonist Quentin Beck a.k.a. Mysterio. It's not yet been revealed exactly how he will fit into the plot regarding Peter Parker's European vacation, but we're excited to find out.
For a more in-depth look at what to expect from Spider-Man: Far From Home, be sure to check out our What We Know So Far guide.
While Marvel Studios has had no trouble breaking box office records, Ryan Coogler's Black Panther went far beyond anything experts were expecting. Released in early 2018 and expected to serve as an appetizer for Avengers: Infinity War, the film instead managed to out-gross the massive team-up movie domestically, and is not only the biggest Marvel movie ever released in the United States, but is also the third highest grosser the country has ever seen.
We pretty much always expected that Black Panther 2 was going to be in the cards for Phase Four, long before any of the box office numbers, but Marvel Studios made it official in mid-October 2018. It was at that time that it was officially announced that Marvel Studios had made a deal with Ryan Coogler to return to the helm - presumably making him an offer that would have been just impossible to refuse.
Right now we don't actually know where Black Panther 2 is going to fall among the various upcoming Marvel Studios movies, and as a result we really don't know anything about what to expect plot-wise. It certainly doesn't help that we have no idea where Avengers 4 is going to leave things, and that the titular hero turned to dust the last time we saw him on the big screen.
That being said, the expectation is not only that Black Panther 2 will bring back Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther, but also the bulk of the original's ensemble - if not just because of how immensely popular they were. This is a list that includes Danai Gurira (Okoye), Lupita Nyong'o (Nakia), Letitia Wright (Shuri), Winston Duke (M'Baku), Daniel Kaluuya (W'Kabi), and Angela Bassett (Ramonda).
For a more in-depth look at what to expect from Black Panther 2, be sure to check out our What We Know So Far guide.
It's kind of surprising to think about, but Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow was one of the earliest heroes introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the third member of the Avengers to make an appearance in live-action (behind Iron Man and Hulk). That being said, her action has been entirely limited to supporting roles. She got her start in Iron Man 2; followed that up with The Avengers; paired with Steve Rogers for Captain America: The Winter Solider; did the team-up thing again in Avengers: Age of Ultron; was one of many key parts of Captain America: Civil War; and then fought against Thanos' forces in Avengers: Infinity War.
That's a lot of history, and now it's being rewarded with a special solo film.
Fans have been clamoring for years, demanding a Black Widow movie, and it looks like they will all get their wish as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Four plans. Of course, when exactly it will be hitting theaters is currently one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the feature. One thing we do know for sure is who is taking the helm of the blockbuster, as the studio has hired filmmaker Cate Shortland as director. The Australian filmmaker doesn't exactly have a long history of blockbusters on her resume, but the reality is that that's basically the description of everyone that makes an MCU movie nowadays.
There have been rumors about Black Widow being a period piece, but they have yet to be substantiated. The truth is that we don't know much about the project right now, but you can be sure that you'll be able to find all of the latest updates here on CinemaBlend.
Because it doesn't look like Marvel Studios is going to start releasing four movies a year any time soon, part of the challenge of Phase Four is going to be balancing sequels and original creations. Fans love to see continuing adventures of their favorite characters, but the only way to prevent things from ever feeling stale is to constantly inject key doses of new. We expect that there will ultimately be a nice split between the two kinds of projects on the upcoming slate, and while most of the non-follow-ups are being kept a secret for now, one we definitely know is happening is The Eternals.
In the same way that nobody expected Marvel to release Guardians of the Galaxy back in 2014, this is a project that is kind of coming together out of left field - though it should do a nice job further solidifying the cosmic side of the cinematic universe. The Eternals were creations of writer/artist Jack Kirby, who established them as a fictional race of alien super beings that were evolved from protohumanity.
The reason why we know this project is coming together is because Marvel Studios has already hired a filmmaker to make it. According to a September 2018 report, Chloe Zhao - another blockbuster novice - has been hired to make the Eternals movie. The feature will be the third that Zhao's has made, following the 2015 drama Songs My Brothers Taught Me, and the 2018 western The Rider.
Continuing the Marvel Cinematic Universe tradition of matching comic book movie action with different genres, it's been said that there will be a bit of romance involved in the narrative, particularly the relationship between the heroes Ikaris and Sersi. That being said, it's worth mentioning that the franchise has already introduced an Eternals character, as Thanos is actually a member of that powerful alien race.
Will The Eternals be one of the first features developed as Phase Four, or will be be held for the back half? Time will tell.
Like Black Panther 2, the idea of doing a Doctor Strange 2 in Phase Four is kind of a no-brainer - and a future development that most fans could have predicted far before the first movie came out in late 2016. Still, it didn't hurt that the Scott Derrickson-directed blockbuster made $677.7 million globally when it was released, and surely solidified any plans that Marvel was thinking about. Now we can say for certain that there are plans for a follow-up that are definitely in the mix.
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige himself confirmed that Doctor Strange 2 is in the works during the press tour for Ant-Man And The Wasp. While speaking with CinemaBlend during the Los Angeles press junket, the executive/producer noted that there definitely will be a sequel for Benedict Cumberbatch's would-be Master Of The Mystic Arts, but explained that it would be a few years before it got made. Of course, that was before the whole situation with James Gunn and Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3 - which we'll get into in a minute.
Unlike Black Panther 2, which doesn't currently have a super obvious story to tell, there are certain things that we can probably assume will be included in Doctor Strange 2 (including the titular character, again, in spite of events from Avengers: Infinity War). Namely there is the potential return of Karl Mordo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who we last saw swearing that he was going to basically put an end to the art of sorcery by killing all sorcerers. That was a pretty big cliffhanger in the post-credits of the original Doctor Strange, and it would be really disappointing if it didn't wind up having any kind of satisfying conclusion (which Marvel surely knows).
At this time we aren't entirely sure who is going to take the helm of Doctor Strange 2, as we have not yet heard an official announcement from Marvel Studios, but the smart money is on Scott Derrickson. The first Doctor Strange not only earned a ton of money, but also rave reviews from critics, and those kinds of results are typically rewarded with the job of helming the sequel.
There has been some suggestion that Doctor Strange 2 could wind up getting fast-tracked, so be on the lookout for a lot more updates about the project, particularly in the coming months.
Prior to summer 2018, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 seemed like a perfect slam dunk. Both the first and second Guardians of the Galaxy features were absolutely massive successes in their respective years of release, and few Marvel filmmakers earned as much respect as James Gunn for his vision constructing the series. Gunn had completed a screenplay for the film, and there were plans in place to start filming in early 2019 for release in 2020. Then, however, The Tweets were dug up.
Taking issue with James Gunn's political opinions, conservative outlets dug up old posts that the writer/director had written on Twitter that featured inappropriate humor, and as a result Marvel Studios fired him. This action resulted in a great deal of consternation, including an open letter from the Guardians of the Galaxy cast requesting Gunn's reinstatement, but the firing was finalized in early fall 2018.
As a result of the situation with James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a project that now remains in limbo and without a director. Individuals who had been hired to do early work for the production were let go and told to pursue other work in late August 2018, and it no longer appears that the film will be hitting the 2020 release date that the writer/director had initially promised. That being said, it doesn't appear that Marvel Studios is just canning the project, and there has been talk that whoever winds up taking the helm will be using the script that Gunn already finished.
When will Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 be able to get back on its feet? What director is going to be willing to take the job? How will the cast ultimately handle the big shakeups? These are all questions that currently have no answers, but we're constantly on the lookout for them.
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Wellness Coaches: How’s the Free Toolkit Working?
– Are you using the Calendar’s action steps to plan your year?
– What business changes did you make after taking the Success Quiz?
– Anything else you’d like added to the calendar itself or included in the whole toolkit?
– How are YOU using any of the components of the Toolkit?
Let us all hear your feedback and jot a comment below.
P.S. Since assembling the 2012 Calendar, I discovered another great resource I’ll be adding to my own reading list! Join me in reading the newest, just-released book by Wellcoaches CEO Margaret Moore: Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life:Train Your Brain to Get More Done in Less Time.
What a gift for us personally, for our businesses, and for our clients! Thanks for this one, Margaret!
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Yes, the end of the year is an important time for reviewing the “hard” data of your business results. Yes, you do need to check out the P&L, look at goals met, goals unmet, market trends, social media results, and other hard numbers that measure overall business success. You know this and you do this. So how about taking time for a “soft” review of your business as well?
Each year at this time, you’ll find me spending quiet time with a mug of tea, a notebook and a pen, and a smile of delight on my face. You would have found me this way this morning, sitting in my favorite overstuffed chair, wearing my favorite old jeans and doing a “soft” review of 2011 for WellnessCoach.com I used a process for this review that I adore.
The process I used for a “soft” end-of-year review was presented to me many years ago in a Four-Fold-Way® workshop by cultural anthropologist and author Angeles Arrien, Ph.D. I am grateful for such a powerful tool and honored to use it to review my personal and professional life each year.
It is with great respect for Dr. Arrien’s work that I present her “Year-End Journal Questions” process below. I invite you to join me in this wonderful way of looking at your own life and business at this time of the year.
Where have (you, your relationships, your business, your community) been strengthened this year?
What has softened in _____this year?
What has deepened (integrated or fallen into place) this year within me, my relationships, my work, or my community?
What has opened (what’s new, what have I learned, where am I being stretched) this year within the nature of my relationships, my work, my community and myself?
What’s CALLING to be strengthened in (me, my relationships, my business, my community) in the upcoming year?
What’s CALLING to be softened in_____in the upcoming year?
What’s CALLING to be deepened (integrated) this upcoming year within myself, my relationships, my work, and my community this upcoming year?
What’s CALLING to be opened (learned, started, acquired, stretched) within my nature this upcoming year with regard to me, my relationships my work and my community?
I believe we decide to become entrepreneurs not only for the great contributions our businesses can make to the world – and not only to generate profit, but also for the way our businesses will in fact deepen us and help us grow on every level.
Doing this exercise for myself and my business, I see that I have grown stronger, been softened, deepened and learned so much this last year as a result of my entrepreneurial journey that my heart is singing. My business is calling me forth to do even more meaningful work in the year ahead.
May you also enjoy doing a “soft” review of your business this season and see how much you have grown personally as a result. Please stop by and let me know how it goes.
*Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., as a cultural anthropologist, researched, created, and synthesized the Four-Fold Way® program. It’s currently used in medical, academic, and corporate environments. Angeles is also an award-winning author, educator, and consultant to many organizations and businesses. Her Four-Fold Way book has been translated worldwide into ten languages. Angeles lectures and conducts workshops internationally, bridging cultural anthropology, psychology, and comparative religions. Her work reveals how perennial wisdoms are relevant to our families, professions, and our relationship to the Earth. She is the President of the Foundation for Cross-Cultural Education and Research. You can learn more about Angeles and her work at: http://www.AngelesArrien.com Her seminal work is also presented in her book, The Four-Fold Way.
Thank you for joining us and “sitting down” to the “WellnessCoach.com table” for our annual post of Thanks, Appreciation and Gratitude. Our 2011 Cornucopia contains a list of and links to the inspirational quotes, books, music, DVDs and resources that we appreciate for having touched our lives this year. We hope they’ll touch yours. Please enjoy the feast.
A Handbook for Living We featured this in our free Toolkit’s 2011 Wellness Coach’s eCalendar this last year because of the beauty of the Dalai Lama’s message – “…happiness is the purpose of life.” Re-reading it again this year, we appreciated it even more…we think you’ll appreciate it also.
• Music: Never Be Daunted is a fabulous song by Jaymay (from her album Long Walk to Never). We first discovered it in the soundtrack of the movie HappyThankYouMorePlease (listed above) and then went out and bought the single from itunes. We love the lyrics that ask, “…what are you so afraid of?” and appreciate Jaymay’s reminder to “never be daunted.” You can find the entire album in the itunes store.
Did Lucy Ricardo Stop to Ask?
Remember the “I Love Lucy” episode where Lucy worked in the candy factory wrapping chocolates? Remember how the conveyor belt shot so many chocolate candies out that Lucy couldn’t keep up and so she popped handfuls of them into her mouth? Even if you’re too young to have seen the original episode or never saw the rerun, can’t you just picture that scene in your mind’s eye?
Well, I remind you of this image not just for a trip down memory lane but to draw a comparison to our busy lives. With To Do lists a mile long, email messages and in-boxes filled to overflowing, we too struggle to keep up. And as we do we can lose sight of what’s important.
Maybe it’s been awhile since you’ve taken time to clarify your values. Maybe it’s been awhile since you put together or revised your life plan, business plan, or marketing strategy. Maybe you’ve never put them together at all. Why not schedule an appointment with yourself to do so or at least to begin?
The appointment doesn’t have to be formal. It could even be an hour at a coffee shop or a few hours in the garden, where you spend time mulling over and identifying what’s important. Time for you to stop the chocolate conveyor-belt of life and regroup. The plans don’t have to be formal either, if that’s what’s stopping you. Just start somewhere.
I think it’s important to begin and end each day with regroup time. “Bookends” I call it. “Bookends” are comprised of two daily segments. First is a brief time in the morning where you name what is most important for the day—not just the Doing, but the Being. Second is a break before retiring for the night to check in and ask yourself: Was I able to focus on what’s important? What did I do that helped me do so? What got in the way? How can I change that in the future? What will I have to say “Yes” to and what will I have to say “No” to, so that I can keep on track?
So I ask, are you willing to become a disciple of what is important to you? Beyond naming what’s important, are you acting on it? And if not now, then when?
Try this: Try my Bookend exercise tomorrow. It only takes 10 minutes in the morning and another 10 minutes before bed.
To prepare, put a pen and pad of paper on your nightstand or elsewhere beside your bed tonight, so it is waiting for you tomorrow morning. Set your alarm so that you awaken 10 minutes before your usual wake-up time.
Take a moment to sit up, stretch and greet the day. Now think about the attitude or state of Being that you want to bring forward into your day today. Examples: Appreciation, Confidence, Self-Compassion.
Write down that state of Being you want to focus on today.
Now think about the area of your life and/or business that is of most importance to you right now. Of all the To Do’s that are before you today, which action is going to further your progress in that area or deepen your learning? Example: writing or drafting a business plan.
Write that action on your notepad.
Take another moment to contemplate how you will integrate the Being and Doing focus that you have listed. Imagine that you are placing that value or state of Being right into your heart and will carry it with you as you take the important action(s) you need to take today.
Example of how this could look: Writing a business plan while Being in a state of Self-Compassion could mean I pour myself a cup of tea and sip it while I write the plan, extend self-compassion by not insisting the plan be perfect, and turn off the ringer on my phone so I am not disturbed.
Reminder: It is more important that you remember you can always return to that state of Being throughout the day, than it is that you give yourself a new mandate to try and stay in that state. Being mindful that you have let your focus slip from, say Self-Compassion, you can apply the 4-step centering process I use and teach my clients: Stop, Breathe, Notice, Choose ™ and gently bring yourself back to your desired state of Being as you Do the next important task in your day.
Write a few sentences about the exercise for the day. How did it go? What worked well? Where were you able to stay in the state of Being you selected and/or return to that state when you veered off the path? What did you learn? What will you do differently if faced with similar circumstances?
Extend appreciation to yourself for your commitment to What’s Important.
Once you put this exercise into action, leave a comment and let me know how it went.
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What Can Wellness Coaches Learn From Black Widow Spiders?
I had big plans for getting you out a post this week to help you grow your wellness coaching business. Life had other plans it seemed.
My husband was bitten by a black widow spider this week…in more than one place on his ankle. It’s not pretty. It’s not been an easy week. Initially, I struggled against the change in plans. Then I surrendered. Now, my commitment to making the most of what’s presented to me brings me here to the page. So here’s a post after all.
Those of you who’ve read my blog for ages, know that I’m a big fan of using metaphor. Those of you who are new here will see that trend soon enough. Today, I’m using the blessed black widow spider to help you thrive in and grow your business as a Wellness Coach. It’s not a long post, and it’s certainly not complicated. It’s simple really. It’s meant to spark your thinking, to invite you to consider…to stop just for a moment and take stock.
1. Sometimes you just can’t plan it all. Surrender. Be flexible and open. Often what’s presented to you turns out better than what you’d planned.
2. Deal with what’s right in front of you.
4. You are much more creative and resourceful than you realize. You can trust this.
How will you put these “lessons from spiders” to work in your business? Let us know!
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We’re big fans of doing whatever you can to protect your business. One of the ways you can do this is to form a legal structure or entity. Now before you click off the page, run away, or give in to the voice of well-meaning but uninformed friends and even misinformed professionals who’ve mistakenly said, “Corporate structures and other entities are not for you”, please take a breath and keep reading.
Since going into business for yourself was one of the most important decisions you’ve ever made, and assuming you want your Wellness Coaching Business to be a profitable, growing asset and not just a hobby, then it makes sense you’ll want to protect it.
As business owners ourselves, we know first-hand that having a properly formed corporation (or limited-liability company or partnership) is the foundation of a healthy enterprise. We’ve seen our business grow and thrive because we took the time to protect it. We hope you’ll consider doing the same.
Here in the U.S., an entity will help your business take advantage of the government’s intention to support entrepreneurship. Without such a structure, you’ll pay more in taxes and expose your well-earned assets to the IRS, to creditor attacks, and frankly anybody who’s adamant about slapping you with a fat and unfounded lawsuit. Most importantly, setting up an entity will help your business do what a business is intended to do – retain more income so that it can further serve its purpose in the world.
You can go to your state government’s website and find the filing papers and instructions for setting up all types of partnerships, corporations or limited liability companies (LLC’s). But before you go that route, we strongly encourage you to get professional advice and help with this vital step in establishing your Wellness Coaching Business. Deciding when to set up an entity, which type of entity to establish given your services and products, which state your entity should be in, and sorting through the paperwork all by yourself can be a recipe for disaster or at the least, a good deal of confusion.
The right advice and direction will save you tons of time, get you going in the right direction, prevent headaches and set a solid foundation for your business. We’ve got great advisors for our business, and we’d like to open our roll-a-dex to you. We’re not saying there aren’t other entity specialists out there, but we’ve been around the block and couldn’t be happier with our advisors.
We use Sage International, Inc.*, located in Reno, Nevada. They’ve been a part of our business life for more than 12 years and know their stuff. They can set up entities in all 50 states (plus Guam, I hear). You can visit their website at http://www.sageintl.com and read about the various advantages and disadvantages of each entity type or visit their store and pick up a copy of their best-selling book Incorporate and Get Rich. And the coolest thing is you can call Sage to schedule a FREE 30 minute consultation at 1-800-254-5779.
Deciding to form your Wellness Coaching Business was a giant step. Now take the next step and call an entity expert. It’s time to protect and assure the wellness of your business.
Growing a strong, healthy Wellness Coaching business is not all that different from growing a strong healthy crop. A good farmer knows to prepare the soil, choose the right seeds, provide the best fertilizer, manage the irrigation, and harvest when it’s time. A good farmer also knows to avoid mistakes that will compromise a good harvest. Do you know the mistakes to avoid as you grow your Wellness Coaching Business?
Most of the Wellness Coaches we’ve worked with through the years make one or more of the following mistakes and wonder why they have trouble growing their businesses. Do you need to correct any of these mistakes in your own business? First identify which mistakes you’ve made, then find out how to correct those mistakes in Part II.
1. Failure to define market or niche: This mistake is made by the Wellness Coach who’s trying to be all things to all people and fears choosing a specialty or target market. No target market means no one knows who to send your way.
2. No vision, mission, goals or revenue model: The coach making this error has no direction or business plan and hasn’t defined success in personal terms…there’s been no decision as to whether to grow a business that can run itself when you’re away (a “B” as Robert Kiyosaki describes in his book Cash Flow Quadrant) or to stay as a self-employed solo-preneur (an “S” in the Kiyosaki model).
3. Guilty of the “Lone Ranger” syndrome: In this case, the Wellness Coach tries to do everything without help. There is no team – no bookkeeper, attorney, CPA, assistant, and no business coach. Feel stretched in too many directions wearing too many hats? Yup, that’d be this mistake.
4. No wellness plan for the Wellness Coach: This mistake finds you consistently not walking your talk, overworking, not living in “wellness” as you define it and thinking that you’ll get to it for yourself “someday”. What does this have to do with growing a business? Everything! Watch how long Wellness Coaching (and all) businesses last when owners fail here!
5. Fear and avoid the competition: Wellness Coaches making this mistake stay far away from the competition, wouldn’t consider partnering with others and have no clue how to pursue joint ventures.
6. Failure to leverage content: Wellness Coaches making this error work “hard” not “smart” and keep reinventing the wheel. (i.e. give presentations but fail to record them with audio or visual to “repurpose” later on.) They forget to think continuously about leveraging all content provided to clients.
7. Non-effective website or blog: This mistake includes websites or blogs that are “brochures” only, non-interactive sites, and sites not converting traffic to leads or sales. It also includes the error of simply not having a website or blog at all.
8. No social media presence: Wellness Coaches not visible in the social media world are making a giant mistake. The error includes not having a Twitter, Facebook, and/or Linkedin account and/or having only inactive accounts and not regularly participating.
9. Not providing your market what it wants: Assuming you have targeted a market, this mistake finds Wellness Coaches providing services and products that they want to produce and provide, rather than offering what the market wants. There’s been no market research or interaction, and focus is more on getting clients than it is on giving.
10. Undervalued services and products: This mistake stems from a fundamental lack of belief in what you offer. It includes viewing yourself as a “starving artist”, being afraid to ask for money, fearing clients will jump ship if you ever raise prices and not charging top dollar for your products and services.
Inherent in any error, mistake or oversight is an opportunity waiting to be taken. This premise underlies our belief that it’s a good idea to take a quarterly S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) inventory of your Wellness Coaching Business. Consider any of the 10 mistakes above as a current weakness in your business AND a key to a future opportunity as described below.
Which of the following opportunities await your business right now?
2. Get clear on your business strategy. Write an overall business plan. Read Robert Kiyosaki’s book, Cash Flow Quadrant and decide which business direction you want to go…a solo-preneur Wellness Coach practice, a Business that can run itself, something in between. Spend time writing your mission, vision, values and goals. Use our FREE planning and action calendar to help guide you in your Wellness Coaching business success.
3. Get a team…now! Even if you choose the self-employed solo-preneur business model and don’t hire other coaches to work for you, you do need a team. Rally your colleagues and get a mastermind group together, making them your Board of Directors. Immediately hire a business coach, preferably one who knows the Wellness Coach business well. Hire a part-time bookkeeper, virtual assistant for a few hours a week, and a CPA to do your taxes. If you think you can’t take this opportunity yet, think again. It is critical to your business success.
6. Leverage your content. Repurpose something you have already produced. Transcribe an audi0-taped talk you gave and turn it into a pdf document you give away for free on your website. Have a friend do a video of your next presentation and put it up on YouTube. Write an article and submit it to an association and also post it on your blog. Pull together your past blog posts into an e-book. Make everything count. Haven’t produced anything to leverage? Hmm…when would now be a good time to start?
7. Update that website or blog. Be sure your website has a client-capturing element…a place where visitors give you a name and email in exchange for a free article or other product. (In the spirit of transparency, this is an opportunity we have missed and will need to address right away!) Hire a great web wizard to help you do this. Update your content, clear out irrelevant links, update your profile, add an audio welcome. Remember the goal of the site is not just to look great – it needs to work for you…it needs to welcome clients, give them many resources and reasons to return, and many reasons for them to tell others about the community you have created. Make your website sing. Make it interactive. Make it effective.
8. Develop a social media presence. We won’t go into the how to’s here. We think the bigger picture and important stuff’s covered in The New Relationship Marketing book by Mari Smith. Read it. Do your homework and take a step. Get a Twitter account. Join Linkedin. Step into the Facebook world. Overwhelmed? Take baby steps. Start small and be consistent. If it’s too much for your plate, hire someone for a few hours to begin the journey for you. Give us a shout and we’ll give you some names of social media rockstars who can help.
9. Give ‘em what they want. Time to do some market research. Start giving those in your market what they want and need, not what you think they should want or assume that they need. Put a poll on your website. Make calls. Engage in conversations and ask questions. Listen more than talk during your next interaction with a potential client. Give free content in exchange for someone taking a short survey. It’s all in the giving…and you need to give away the right stuff.
10. Step up and charge what you’re worth. Are you undercharging for the incredible Wellness Coaching and results you know you deliver? Are you afraid to ask for what you want? Are you trading your time for money but haven’t a clue how to put together an information product? There are wonderful resources out there to help you with all of this. You can work with someone who’s skilled at helping you do the inner work that has you getting in your own way. You can read a book, take a class, take a teleclass or attend a retreat to help you create your first product. Browse the web, check out your favorite on-line or live bookstore or give us a call and we’ll get you referrals for any or all of it. Just take the first step today!
Okay, we’ll stop here so you can get started! Opportunity awaits!
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While I don’t blog a lot personally, I tend to write posts about major life transitions (like this one and this one). So here’s one more. One that I’m very excited for.
From 2010-2012 my commute took almost 3 hours round trip. Every day. So when I started looking to leave that job, one of my criteria was ideally to find a job with a shorter commute. Of course the most important things are the job itself and the company, but finding something where I could spend more time at work and with my family was also important.
When I connected with the team at Ektron, I knew it was a good fit. It got me back to a horizontal technology, and helping people build great websites. It also fit my product marketing sweet spot, providing lots of opportunities to work on the things I love to do. Plus it was a much shorter commute in terms of time. I’d cut my commute time in almost half. It was a long drive from home to the office in my opinion but well worth it. I’ve racked up more than 21,000 miles over the past year plus making the commute.
Shortly after I started at Ektron, I had the opportunity to expand my scope and skills by taking on responsibility for both product and inbound/content marketing. Now I’ve been creating content to drive marketing results for a long time, (longer than I’m going to share here), but having the chance to build my skills and our team to use content to help prospects find us, engage and convert was extremely exciting.
Over the past year, I’ve seen the power of content, and found religion – great content, in my opinion, is the foundation of almost all marketing today. Without that content, your marketing efforts are less impactful and more expensive. And who wants that?
Content marketing has become one of, if not the hottest concepts in marketing today. The Google Trends below support that.
At the same time, content management (Ektron’s core business) is a much tougher business proposition. Content management is from dead, as everyone needs it, and most people already have it, but it can be a long, tough sell.
While I was building my content marketing skills and having become truly convinced that this was the way forward, I had the opportunity to meet and work with the world’s leading content marketing evangelist, Joe Pulizzi, from the Content Marketing Institute (CMI). If you know anything about Joe, or CMI, you know that orange is their official color. And content marketing is taking off. So the way I see it, orange is the new black. Sorry, just had to get that in there.
Joe and I chatted about ways I could help CMI grow. It was pretty exciting to me. The job built on what I loved to do and would also give me an opportunity to develop new skills. In a super hot space. And I wouldn’t have to commute. At all.
As much as I loved the people at Ektron, and was excited about some of the cool stuff the company was working on, I knew that all these journeys happen for a reason. 21,000 miles later, I knew that joining the CMI team was the next stop on this roadtrip.
Today’s my first day at CMI. The 5 steps and 3 seconds it took to walk from my kitchen to the office was the best commute I’ve seen in well, ever. The daily journey will be much shorter, but extremely exciting. I can’t wait to get behind the wheel.
As I wrote about in my last post, I’ve been working on finding my next career destination that allowed me to follow my passion. This post answers the question of where that is going to be for me.
Way back in the days before the Internet, if you can even imagine that, before big box retailers put the squeeze on small, local shopkeepers and made price the driving decision factor in many sales, customer experience mattered.
It mattered because those experiences in a local retailer were based on relationships. The retailer frequently lived in the same town as they buyers and knew them personally, by name. The retailer knew that repeat business, from loyal customers, was the key to a long term, thriving business. So they took pride in building and keeping that relationship strong.
Over the past 20-30 years as new technology and market forces have emerged, some would argue that the personalized buying experience of old has disappeared. I don’t think it’s disappeared entirely, but as more consumers have more buying choices, and the ability to find sellers without regard to geography, size or other factors, finding the lowest price drives a significant number of purchasing decisions.
However, a great experience can still be a major differentiator, and allow a seller to maintain a premium price, or simply win and keep more business. Many of the great brands today do that. Starbucks, who can sell a commodity, coffee, at significantly higher prices than many of its competitors is a classic example. Yes, some of the products cost more to produce, but Starbucks places a premium on delivering a great buying experience, from the music in the store to how you pay. Premium hotels like the Ritz Carlton help justify their price points because of exceptional customer service, doing everything in their power to make guests happy and keep them coming back. I’m sure anyone reading this can think of at least one exceptional customer experience in their past that helped them either choose a vendor or stay loyal to one.
About 10 years ago, while working at Macromedia, and had been working on things like content management, personalization, and Rich Internet Applications. The web was still really in it’s infancy at that point, but the company tagline was “Experience Matters.” We believed that rich, quality, customer-focused web experiences allowed companies to differentiate themselves so they could win and keep more business. Some of you may remember that – here’s a white paper about what a great online experience was like back then.
However, that was only the tip of the iceberg when it came to online customer experience. The ability to truly connect all your digital customer touchpoints, measure return, and quickly and easily make changes that have impact just wasn’t there in 2003. Marketo and Hubspot didn’t even exist, smartphones (and the app revolution) were only used by a sliver of the population. Tablets were either pills or pads of paper.
Fast forward to the end of 2012, and here we are, in my opinion, at a seminal point in online experiences. In the past few years, almost everything in marketing has become measurable and you are truly able to connect the front end of a website (where those experiences matter) with your CRM system, your marketing automation system, your social networks, your content management system, and just about anything else you can think.
There has never been a more exciting time to be a marketer. Because of the interconnected nature of all the systems that empower online marketing, you can now fulfill that vision that Macromedia put forth at the beginning of the century. Now more than ever, can you not only have a great customer experience online, but you can measure and adjust to optimize your results. Those results aren’t just about acquiring more customers, but they are about building loyalty and keeping customers. Tying that all together now has it’s own category – Digital Experience Management.
And the foundation of it all? Content. Content fuels great experiences on a website or in a mobile app. Content empowers your email campaign. Content provides the way you will get found by a prospect, and how that prospect will learn about your goods and services. Content helps your customers make the most of your products and boosts loyalty. Content helps those customers share your brand and your products with their social connections.
Now back in the day, when I worked on content management, personalization and helping companies create great online experiences I was extremely passionate about the technologies I marketed and who my customers were. Add in all the new amazing things that are now possible that stem from a content management system, and that only will increase my level of excitement and focus. So that’s where this path is leading me. I’m going to help Ektron grow and acquire customers for Web Content Management and Digital Experience Management. I’ll be helping companies create great online experiences – experiences that matter. I can’t wait to get started.
A few months back, I woke up with an odd feeling. Something wasn’t right. Ok, it wasn’t just one morning, it had been coming on for a while. But I finally figured out what it was.
I was missing my passion. Now I’m passionate about a bunch of things. My family, music and photography to name a few. I’ve always been lucky enough to work for companies where I’ve been passionate about my customers and the products I marketed. As much as I enjoyed working at Bullhorn, I knew I no longer had that passion.
Now don’t get me wrong, working at Bullhorn has been great. I’ve enjoyed learning about and marketing cloud computing, applicant tracking, CRM, helping the company grow 40%, and get acquired by a private equity firm. I’ve enjoyed learning about the complexities and nuances of recruitment firms and this niche industry. Agency recruiters can sometimes have a bad rep, but I’ve met many of them over the past 3 years that are truly invested in helping companies find great people and people find great jobs. In my time at Bullhorn, the recruiters using the Bullhorn platform have placed ~2.4 million people in jobs. That’s amazing, and I’m thrilled to have been a part of it.
But when I woke up and realized that the passion for recruitment wasn’t there, the fire had gone out, I knew exactly why I woke up with an odd feeling. It was my gut instinct. It was reaching up from inside, and socking me in the stomach. There it was. It was telling it me that it was time to find something new, something that would rekindle that fire, something where I’d jump out of bed in the morning and couldn’t wait to get to work.
So I set out on the path. I realized that I’ve had that passion in the past, working for companies that provide technologies 1 or 2 layers down in the stack, something that helps an organization build or deliver an app or experience, as opposed to a technology that is used almost exclusively by business users. Working for companies like that was where I learned about how software works. Selling and marketing to customers that fit that profile was where I had that passion. My end goal was clear. Find a great opportunity at a company that provides software to that enables their customers to build something awesome.
Now that that journey is coming to a close, I want to reflect for a bit. I had the pleasure of getting reconnected with some of the great folks I’ve worked with in the past, to share the advice and guidance. I was able to learn about a bunch of exciting companies that I didn’t know a lot about before, and meet some great people working at those companies. That has been a wonderful part of the past few months. I was also able to meet and work some great recruiters both on the corporate and agency side of things. That also has been a great part of the past few months.
Now I did go through a few odd interviews, where it was very clear that the organization culture didn’t align with what I was looking for or that the company had no idea how to manage a hiring process. I also had a number of candidate experiences that, if you are a recruiter reading this, let me digress from the point of this post for a bit, to give you one piece of advice as someone who has been engaged in a job search for a bit – invest in candidate experience.
If you aren’t a recruiter, you can skip the next two paragraphs — It doesn’t matter if you work in corporate HR or for a firm, I really think that those that have jobs to fill need to do a much better job following up with people that apply to work at your company. Take the time to let them know that you did in fact, receive your resume, that you did in fact at least scan it, and what the status of that person’s candidacy was. I would say that a great majority of the jobs I applied for, even when a recruiter sought me out, simply went dark. Even if the role has been filled, or if the applicant is not a fit, find a way to follow up.
No response at all is not a way to respect a potential future employee, as well as someone who could someday become a customer. If I’m presented with an opportunity to buy some of the software for firms that couldn’t take the time to actually follow up with me, I’ll certainly apply that experience to how I think about the company, and assume that same lack of consideration might apply elsewhere, perhaps in the sales or suppor process.
But back to the point of this post – passion. As I went down this path, to find that passion again, I found a number of opportunities where I knew I could be passionate about the company, the team, the products and the customers. All of these opportunities had a few common threads – they are technologies that are adopted across industries and make the creation of online experiences faster and/or better. I’m very pleased that I’ve found one opportunity that connects what I’ve been passionate about in the past with some new areas that I know I’ll be passionate about going forward. I can’t wait to get started. I’ll be jumping out of bed to start my first day, and I fully expect every morning after that. I’ll tell you a bit more about it in my next post.
I’ll end this post with a sincere thank you to everyone at Bullhorn and all the customers that I interacted with over the past 3 years. I learned a ton from you, and I hope you learned even just a fraction as much from me. It was a pleasure and honor. I’ll be rooting for all of you, just from a far.
I was recently chatting with David Mendels, who works at Brightcove. David mentioned that he thought it would be interesting to create a map of all the startups that have been fueled by people who worked at Allaire. I agreed that this would be interesting too, so I took at a stab at it in the picture below.
My general guidelines were that someone at one of the companies on this map had to work at Allaire before the Macromedia acquisition. Those individuals could have stayed on at Macromedia, or even through to the Adobe acquisition, but if they left and wendtto a startup, I tried to capture it here. I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of companies. If you have some updates I should make let me know in the comments, via email, linkedin, facebook, smoke signals, whatever. And if we’re not already connected, feel free to drop me a line on twitter @jwall. You can see the full size version of the map here.
Update: April 24, 2012 – Jeff Tapper and Rob Rusher mentioned that a few folks left Allaire, Macromedia, Adobe to go work at consulting startups like Digital Primates and Universal Mind. I’ll add those in as soon as I can.
In the last days Verizon completed their work to bring FIOS to our street. All of a sudden we go from basically no choice for Internet tv and phone to having a choice. Woo hoo! This seems to be a hot topic in the neighborhood, so I can only assume that its a hot topic in places where you are lucky enough to have these options.
One of my neighbors asked me for my thoughts and I figured it makes sense to share those here too. Now I’ve had Comcast in a few different locations and Verizon FIOS for about 6 months before we lived where we do now. I’ve also done a bunch with FIOS at my in laws house in the past few months. So intend to think I’m pretty well informed.
The differences in each service are subtle in my opinionand in general they are very very similar. My overall recommendation is go with whomever will give you the best deal.
That said here are the pros of switching to FIOS that I can see.
1) Multi-room DVR – For us having one DVR to set and being able to watch from any room is a nice feature to have. We tend to watch most things on DVR and starting downstairs and continuing upstairs is something we like. However, if you currently have multiple DVRs and are taping multiple shows on different DVRs at the same time, then switching to the FIOS multi-room DVR may be a limit and not a pro.
2) Speed. Download speeds are, as far as I can tell, comparable on both services, but my perception is that FIOS may be just a bit faster on download. If you are ever uploading large files, comcast maxes out at 5 MB and FIOS can give you 25 MB. But this is really only a difference if you are uploading large files (like a movie). That said, FIOS is much newer technology and I’d imagine that over time the speed advantage will improve with FIOS.
3) Price – If you have cell phones on verizon, you can bundle this with your FIOS plan and save 10/month. its not a lot, but its something that Comcast can’t match.
4) Network access. Both companies give you a router to connect your computers to their network. FIOS includes a wireless router as part of that and Comcast doesn’t. Depending on your home setup, this may be useful, or may be a hassle. I do a bunch of stuff to keep my network locked down, so the FIOS router is a bit of hassle, but once I have it all setup its not an issue.
Comcast has a few small advantages when it comes to mobile apps.
1) If you have an ipad or iphone the comcast mobile apps I think are a bit better as you can get your home voice mail easily on an iphone with comcast and you can watch a number of shows on demand on iphone and ipad with comcast. I don’t believe you can do that with FIOS.
2) No digging. FIOS requires that they run a line from the street to your house. They do this by digging a trench in your yard and it may also need to go under your driveway or walkway. They are pros at this but I am a bit skeptical that they can run that line under my walkway without some issues around leveling. I haven’t ever had FIOS when they had to do this, but its something you should be aware of.
3) No big box in your basement or side of your house. FIOS requires a large box (probably 1 foot wide by 2-3 feet high by 3-6 inches deep) that centralizes the services to be installed. Its basically like a brain for your system, and comcast doesn’t have this. The FIOS install is long and complicated as a result. But that box is what makes the multiroom dvr possible for example.
– that there are definitely some differences in on demand, specifically which shows are on which services. But I don’t have a lot of detail here.
– Signal quality overall is a good one to explore more. the FIOS rep said that FIOS is higher quality at 1080i. But I haven’t noticed a significant difference. Again though because FIOS is newer technology, I would expect them to have the advantage over time.
– Last thing to mention is to look at the difference in HD channels. there are a few differences, but nothing major in my opinion.
Did I miss anything? Did I get anything wrong? If so let me know.
Google Calendar of events via RSS?
My job is very close to the major convention center in Boston. I’ve noticed that when I leave work and get on public transportation that if there is a major event at the convention center, that the public transportation line I take, the silver line, is extraordinarily jammed. Now you’d think that the MBTA, who runs the system here, would figure this out and add some more buses so people like me didn’t have to cram on top of other folks to make sure we can catch our train home on time.
But that’s not what this is about. Because of this, I realized that I need to be more aware of big events at the convention center, so I can give myself a bit more time to catch my train on those days. It turns out the convention center has a good schedule of events online, but that isn’t something is easily viewable in a calendar format. Luckily they have a RSS feed too.
So then I thought to myself, “Self, wouldn’t it be great if you could see this as a dedicated calendar, perhaps via Google Calendar.” That’s where I manage the rest of my non work events, so it just seemed logical. I wanted to simply create a new calendar, add the RSS feed of events, and have Google figure it out. But Google Calendar doesn’t enable that. I searched for a while to figure out if I was missing something, but I wasn’t. It seems there are a lot of people that want to do this though, so I figured I’d document my solution here.
I learned that you can create a Google Calendar via an iCal URL. So then all I needed to do was figure out how to convert the RSS Feed to iCal. Here’s what I did.
1) I found this useful site to convert the RSS Feed to iCal.
4) I pasted the URL of the iCal feed into the “Add Feed” window that popped up.
5) That’s pretty much it. I had to make a few other tweaks to Google Calendar, like changing the name of the calendar. But if you want to see it, or use it, it’s here for all.
Now I wish that Google would let me control permissions on the calendar like it does for native Google Calendars but that’s a pretty minor request. Overall, I’m happy I solved my problem quickly, and hope that others will benefit too.
Like many people, I’ve been thinking about the year to come, especially since I’m kicking off the new decade with a new job, and a new place to live. I’m also looking back at all the amazing things that have happened over the past 10 years, and a lot of people are doing that at well. But I haven’t seen a list of the top technologies of the past decade that have gone mainstream and changed how people live or work.
– Technology could be created or available in the 1990’s, or earlier, but didn’t go mainstream until the 2000’s.
– Mainstream means that people that aren’t technology geeks first and foremost are using it. If you parents use it, grandparents use it, then I consider it mainstream. If you have a friend or acquaintance that doesn’t work in technology, or spend their waking hours playing technical support for friends and family, and they are using the technology then I categorize it as mainstream.
– Changing how people live or work. Well that’s kinda obvious. But for the purpose of this post, I’ll include it if it changed how I live or work.
And without further ado, here’s the list, in no particular order.
Some of the commentary may be a bit obvious, but I’m trying to document how my life has changed, and perhaps in 10 years, look back on this post with fond memories.
– Broadband. In the late 1990’s, I still had to dial up to get connected to the internet. But at the dawn of the new decade, broadband started hitting the streets and always on fast connections became a way of life.
– Wifi – Huge. Absolutely changes the way I work and live. Increases the impact of broadband significantly. I don’t have to worry about where I put my computer in my house. I can use it anywhere. I can take my laptop with me anywhere I work and not have to worry about finding a connection. I can take my computer with me to a coffee shop, a library, and be productive. And how do I know its mainstream, again that’s obvious, but my litmus test is my parents now have it in there house. Now that’s not for them to use just yet, but its there if I want it. If we only had wireless battery recharging, that would be awesome.
-Bluetooth – Like wifi, a very big deal. Wireless headsets and mice help free us from the cords. I don’t have bluetooth integrated from my phone to my car, but thats a high impact technology right there.
– DVR – A game changer. I think you could get a Tivo in the 1990’s, but this definitely went mainstream in 2000’s. I’ll record shows even if I’m home when they are on, just so I don’t have to watch commercial. I can now watch 3 hours of network/cable TV with commercials in 2 hours. Pause a show and return in a few mins – that’s just huge, especially when you have a 4 year old who can interrupt whatever you are watching at any time. Needless to say, this also has massive implications for the advertising market.
– On demand television- this was more or less available in the 90’s as pay per view, but its changed how consume television. With the combo of on demand and DVR I can pretty much watch what I want when I want. Now the question of is there anything good on is another story entirely.
– Netflix – Its like an extension to on demand. This game changer has rendered the video store obsolete.
– MP3’s and digital music – In 1997, on my cross country trip we had a mix of tapes and CDs. But we needed a special adapter for the tape player in the car to be able to connect to a portable CD player. Turns out that didn’t work, but that’s another story. As the early 2000’s rolled around digital music became prevalent, and for me, by the mid 2000’s, my historic tape and CD collection was gone. It was all digital. (Man, burning 400+ CDs took a long time). On a related note, in the mid 1990’s I had my car broken into and some of my favorite tapes and CDs were stolen. I was pretty upset as some the mixed tapes I made in college were really hard to replace. But fast forward to today, and now its all backed up, so the likelihood of losing any of my music is very low. Makes me think that in addition to in home backup, I really should get an online backup service like Carbonite.
What’s also interesting here is that in the 1990’s most people had VCRs and the DVD was starting to come into people’s lives. Like any media for music or video, it seems to have about a 10 year lifespan. Records were around for a long time, but then we cruised through 8-track, tapes, CDs. Video went from VHS, to DVD and now to blu-ray, but I’m sure that will all be gone in 10 more years for a completely digital on demand world.
– GPS – You could get a GPS in a rental car in the early/mid 1990’s. But it didn’t become mainstream, with many car’s having it as an option or standard, and included on smartphones until the 2000’s. Printed maps – gone. AAA Triptiks (which I used extensively in my 1997 trip across the united states), done.
– Smartphones – These were around in the mid/late 1990’s. And in the 1990’s Palm had a major market of 3rd party apps. So what we have today is nothing new in my opinion, except that the phones are faster, smarter, better and include wifi and GPS. . But the smartphone didn’t go mainstream until the mid late 2000’s. Its mainstream in my book because my mother is considering getting an iPhone so she can play games.
– Online banking – This was around in the early/mid 1990’s. Today, I assume most people pay their bills online, but I know a number of folks that prefer to write and mail checks. Online banking took a chore of managing bills that took people a chunk of time each week or month, down to a few seconds and clicks. I think many people will say that this isn’t as impactful as some of the technologies above, but its definitely mainstream and definitely a game changer. I’m hoping that in the next 10 years, I won’t ever need to get a bill or statement by mail.
– Digital photography and video – This is a late breaking addition after I originally published the post. Thanks to Peter Conrad for helping me realize I overlooked a huge one. This has completely changed how we take pictures, how we develop film (we don’t) and how we store our memories. The biggest change for me at the end of this decade though is video. When my son was born in 2005, I had a digital camera for taking still photographs and a tape based recorder for video. I took a few early videos, but the conversion to digital was a major hassle, so I took mostly still photos. Now I take videos first and pictures 2nd, mostly on my phone. I wish I had better quality on my phone but that will happen over time.
Wow, that is just an amazing list. In spite of all the crazy things that happened to us over the past 10 years, it was simply a mindblowing decade for technology.
Technology to watch for in the 2010’s.
These are things that I see as major life changers in the next 10 years, and I expect them to all go mainstream.
– Person to person payments – You can do this today a bit, but its hard and costly. I know banks have dabbled in this, Paypal is working on it and with new payment systems like Square, I think this will be a reality very soon. The big question is, will you carry cash at all in 10 years?
– Wireless battery recharging – I’m not talking about the ability to charge a device by placing it on a special mat. That’s very cool don’t get me wrong. It cuts the wires for the most part. I’m talking about a device to charge, or maintain power without any cords and without being on a special pad. Its wifi for charging. I want it and expect to see it in the next 10 years.
So what did I forget? What are you looking forward to in the next decade?
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What networking trends will shape 2015? From Layer 1 switching to Puppet and Chef, OpenStack to public cloud, Teren Bryson makes some predictions.
2015 is well under way, and while I have always eschewed writing anything that even smells predictive, I’ve made an exception this year. Perhaps it’s because the networking industry has been changing so rapidly that I can’t help but be wrong, so what do I have to lose? Or perhaps it’s just for an excuse to work Niels Bohr into an article, making me feel better about myself as a person.
Layer-1 (or Crosspoint) switching is less a new technology and more a repurposing of very old technology. Think the old telephone networks’ switchboards, where electrical connections were manipulated by humans based on the needs of the network. The cabling largely stayed the same on the backend. Layer-1 switches allow for the permanent connection of all layer-1 (wiring) connections across the datacenter, while certain manipulators like OpenFlow and Python can “move” those physical connections logically to allow for a re-cabling of the network without actually having to re-cable anything.
While not deployed by many networks yet, look for this technology to emerge as one of the must-haves in the next year. Even if still not widely deployed by the end of the year, a lot of enterprises have started to take note of the myriad possibilities made real by the flexibility of cabling datacenters using Layer-1 switching and orchestration products by vendors such as Qualisystems and Metamako.
Lab virtualization is a huge and growing application for this technology, as are flexible and large-scale datacenters. This isn’t a cheap or easy technology to deploy correctly, so I don’t expect to see this in any but the largest of enterprise networks and labs. Still, as knowledge around this builds, prices and the overall barriers to entry will drop. By the end of the year, look for more companies to be doing proof-of-concept testing with some of this gear.
This will continue to be the dominant developing story in the SDN world this year, at least in the enterprise space. Both vendors have invested heavily in their respective technologies, and neither has shown any sign of slowing down in 2015. VMware has come out of the gate close to a year ahead of Cisco, and while they have had some success, a large portion of the enterprise space is waiting for hands-on with ACI—something just now happening—before committing to any solution.
The Geneve spec, currently in a draft proposal status in the IETF, is interesting in that it combines elements from VXLAN, STT, and NVGRE as well as being backed by Microsoft, VMware, Redhat, Intel, Broadcom, Brocade, Arista, and Cumulus. Notably absent are Cisco, Juniper, and Avaya, but with such a group of heavyweights backing the draft already, adoption may be a foregone conclusion. We’ll continue to see development in overlay technologies like this, much like the VLAN and MPLS technologies which came before them. It remains to be seen where we’ll finish the year, but this emerging technology has the smell of inevitability about it. It feels like it is going to put pressure on vendors like Cisco to eventually support it, especially as the latter makes moves towards a more cozy relationship with Microsoft.
The OpenDaylight project will continue to be an important driver in the mindshare of the open source and SDN worlds, while at the same time not necessarily putting vanilla product into the hands of customers. By that, I mean that many companies are releasing technology based on the ODL project, but with proprietary twists to suit the particulars of that vendor. The ODL is much like Linux itself—it drives a lot of other products that use it, but nobody does it the same way. Purists bemoan this, but purists don’t have mindshare in the office of the CFO, where pragmatism tends to trump ideology.
With all of the emerging standards, methodologies, and technological shifts in the industry, it should surprise no one that existing allegiances will be tested, strained, and outright broken. Cisco and VMware are moving from “frenemies” to full-blown competitors; Microsoft and Cisco are moving closer together, VCE bought back a lot of its stock, and VCE and EMC continue to experience channel conflict behind the scenes. Rumor has it that Cisco and NetApp are working toward releasing a FlexPod based on Microsoft. OpenStack is challenging VMware on the private cloud front and AWS and Azure on the public cloud front. Cisco’s foray into storage—despite claiming otherwise—looks to be an attempt to lock-up more of the stack, while more and more storage vendors are making serious pushes into compute. HDS has been gaining mindshare with their compute platform, despite misgivings from a lot of corners of the industry.
OpenStack continues to evolve, and as it does a greater number of companies are casting weary eyes at their existing vendor bills and wondering if this isn’t a better route. The number of consulting engagements I’ve had where OpenStack proof-of-concepts are being deployed is huge, and I expect this to continue to grow significantly. As it does, look for amended pricing models to come from the more established players in this market.
Public cloud vendors are not cheap, and the more the C-level executives get eyes on the bills from these services, expect the use cases for full-blown private clouds using OpenStack to gain momentum. Running an OpenStack private cloud, especially with automation technologies for both backend provisioning of storage and virtual machines coupled with catalog services for applications, is going to become even more popular than it is today. As with other cutting-edge technologies, as more and more people become familiar with the ins and outs of deployment and management, the knowledge base will grow linearly, with adoption rates following closely behind.
On that vein, public clouds are going to continue to be a popular option for capacity bursting, but I see a contraction coming. The prices as they are today are not tenable for anything but development work, short-term testing, and the very largest enterprises with no good visibility into IT OpEx. Prices are going to have to come down to maintain market share, but with OpenStack nibbling around the edges, I still don’t see long-term viability for this model in the capacities we’re seeing today.
IT automation is a hot topic these days, and for good reason. The driver behind many of today’s hottest technologies, from virtualization and private cloud, to overlay networks and software-defined abstraction of all types, is primarily flexibility and speed to deployment. As automation and abstraction have changed compute and storage significantly in recent years, the network has lagged behind in several key areas. As a result, expect to see the serious disruption in this space continue to accelerate and bring uncomfortable changes to the status quo. While I see the possibility for industry heavyweights to be put back on their heels a bit, I don’t think the trend will last, as they either come back hard through R&D monies or through outright acquisitions of key technologies.
The all-flash array market is heating up something fierce, and many of the established vendors in the storage market aren’t necessarily the ones on top today. Upstarts like Pure Storage are disrupting the big-boys. I see that trend continuing in 2015. Meanwhile, don’t count out the established enterprise players like EMC, NetApp, and HDS as they make aggressive moves to take back what they haven’t had to fight for in a while. I don’t see the overall tier structure between storage vendors like HP and Dell changing this year as they stay in the mid-market space and don’t seriously disrupt the enterprise players much at all.
I could easily write a few more pages of predictions, if for no other reason than that there’s a heck of a lot going on in the IT world these days. So let’s just leave off where we are, and if feel I’ve missed something major, or you’d just like to point out places where you disagree, feel free to leave your comments below. I look forward to reading them and to seeing how much of this pans out over the upcoming year.
Teren Bryson has been working in, on, around, or in the depths of computer networks professionally for over 22 years. These days, he spends most of his professional time in a strategic role, translating between the business needs of my company and the incredible IT Team he manages. He can be found online in a variety of places, scribbling whatever nonsense comes to mind, but the two most likely places are his personal blog and Twitter.
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2019-04-18T18:30:50Z
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http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/enterprise-networking-trends-for-2015.html
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Write short methods, typically a few lines.
Use names that are specific.
You’ll be the judge whether I come through to you with my coding style. Comments are encouraged – to this blog, not in the code!. Also, bear with me if you think that the clock problem has been solved too many times. This is about code philosophy in the context of JavaFX.
That is the complete logic for the program! Well, in a sense. We create a root group that has the children enumerated. There are the expected ones such as the hands and the tick marks. Then we set up so the user can change size of the clock and move it. This is necessary since we wish to do without window decorations. Finally it is all put on a scene and staged.
Fine. But how about the details? Let’s start with the outer rim. That took me quite awhile, I can tell you. I had no understanding of the RadialGradient that I wished to use.
Notice the “unit” constant, it is a reference stick that I use to size everything, set to 100. Having such helps me from thinking in pixels and instead thinking in terms of resizeability. By using 100 and not 1 avoids the confusion when the parameters really are proportional, as for the RadialGradiantBuilder above.
I think readability suffers, especially the RadialGradient constructor is cryptic. Compare with the builder style earlier, not only are the parameters named, the structure becomes more clear as well.
Looking at the next thing, the minute and hour hands, we will see that these were made using a Path. They are so similar that I extracted to a general method, “hand”, which contains the design. The Color parameter is a tell-tale about me considering them in different colours.
I imagine several other designs of the hands of an analog clock! So let’s head on to the seconds hand, a simple line.
The seconds are indicated by a simple line that starts of 10% before the midpoint and crosses it to stop 20% before the edge. As you can see for all three hands, we add a transformation that rotates the hand around the midpoint.
On to the tick marks then. Simple, we use short lines that are slightly longer at 3, 6, 9 and 12 o’clock. Note that I am explicit on how the angle should be calculated when using the constant expression 360 / 12. Readability, again, everyone understands that 360 is the degrees of the full circle and we are dividing it into 12 parts. We rely on the compiler for such easy optimizations as calculating a constant expression.
The last graphical component is the midpoint. It is just a small circle.
What remains then? We have a round, analog clock with hands and so on. It has the look of it! Well, we would like our users to be able to resize and move it to their liking at the same time as we wish to have an undecorated window, as you saw in the first image of this post. Window decorations are ugly on a little gadget like this one.
The mouse handling is shown below. When the user scrolls, typically with the mouse wheel, the clock scales. When the user drags, typically using a left-click-move mouse gesture, the clock moves accordingly. Now, right away, I admit being lazy, the move code positions the clock at the midpoint of the cursor.
You see how easy it is to have your JavaFX application move its top window across the screen. Just change the X and Y of the stage.
We still have a few things left before we can finish, the Scene and the Stage.
Ok, fine, a static clock that misses a crucial thing to make it a real clock – the clockwork! We create a Clockwork class that has some properties that we can bind to. The properties will be hour, minute and second.
The Timeline feature makes a ticking clock a breeze. Simply put, we just want our updateTime method to be called once a second. It will set the three mentioned properties which the clock will be bound to.
As you can see, the rotation transformation has been refactored to an extracted method. Note how we bind to a calculated value. For example, the minute hand will be rotated 360 / 60 degrees times the number of minutes.
In summary, I tried to show a style that favours readability. I also showed how the domain object – the java.util.Calendar can be encapsulated and have selected properties exposed by an adapter, Clockwork, so that presentation objects can bind to them. It is easy to imagine a digital clock using the same clockwork.
JavaFX is, starting from Java 7, part of the standard Java SE and becoming a serious contender when it comes to solving presentation problems. Not only can we do classical forms with a limited set of interactive gadgets, like the ones provided in HTML, we can also go further and create completely new ways of doing GUI.
As a test of the readability of the code and exercise to the reader, find how to change the behaviour of the hour hand. Currently it is digital, it hops between the ticks which is not very analogue behaviour. Make it move gradually instead.
Interesting post Per. Clock is an interesting application to compare styles on as it is one of the few applications which is implemented multiple times by different people. Here is my implementation for example, which follows the JavaFX demo “tradition” of placing most code in a single method. In my own experience I have found the single method style works best for small demos, but as programs get larger and more complex, multiple small methods and classes are clearly better. I think a couple of important topics with respect to JavaFX style are use of css and/or fxml vs coding directly in the Java API as well as procedural vs builder java code and would appreciate your thoughts on those topics.
Yes there are other ways of doing it. Right after the clock project, I started a small game project where I use FXML to set up scenes. It sort of puts all the static graphics in one bucket and have hooks for the rest. I am not convinced that it is good yet. A traditional interface with complex forms should lend itself more to it.
When it comes to CSS, I feel that it comes with some problems that are really from the web world. If I’d like to have a way of changing appearance in a single spot, it is easily done in Java but with HTML, you need CSS. With that said, their is of course the possibility of user customization that perhaps in some case could relay on CSS, but I think it remains to be seen.
As for how many lines of code a method should have, the rules for clean code applies always. Your code should always be readable. If it is a demo, will you not let your reader in and understand?
A typical sign of not doing it right is when you write comments. Don’t write comments in your code, write code that reads well without comments!
I read you code and I think it is virtually unreadable, with all respect. It is a long method sprinkled with constants that carries little or no meaning. If I am given such a code to change, be it fix a small bug only, I start to extract method ’til I drop. It is the fastest way of understanding code.
Let’s start a new tradition with well written code – hope you agree with me!
I created a refactored sample of the clock code I published earlier. The refactored sample follows some of the ideas demonstrated in this blog (though not using builders).
Well done, IMHO. That was some readable piece of code. Also, interesting to see the use of CSS for styling..
Late to the party, but I’m following the jewelsea’s request at the bottom of his gist.
I’m doing my first program with FX, but I’m not new to GUI programming, and personally prefer the Per’s style of using many small methods all returning Nodes like outerRim() minuteHand() and so on. Plus, I find the FX API a great improvement over Swing because of Builders, which save typing and makes the code easier to read.
However what I find difficult in GUI programming is finding names. There’s a famous joke that there are three hard things in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation and off-by-one errors. Naming things is at the first place, and with no surprise. Maybe this was thought in another context and doesn’t originally refers to method names (or local variables names like in jewelsea’s code), but I think the concept still applies. When the program grows and time passes by, there too many names not meaningful anymore. I really like the FXML approach of declaring handlers with strings like “#handleFoo” and I’d really appreciate a similar binding scheme but 100% Java, because writing (and reading) XML is frustrating.
However there are cases (think of tables with custom factories) where you eventually end up with not-so-small methods (like 50 lines or so), because real world applications always need to show tabular data (in either TableView’s or ListView’s), and I’d really like the JavaFX engineers to come up with solutions to this to allow concise and expressive code.
No problem you being late. I am happy that people still find old posts and comment on them.
Yes, it is true that naming is one of the hardest problem in computer science. I observed that it is worth the while as not only becomes the code more readable, it also make me think about what I am actually trying to accomplish.
Nowadays, renaming is not such a hassle as it used to be so that takes away some of the pain. I find that when my idea is blurry, the naming suffers but I can live with it since I know that I will have the discipline to rename things later on.
Thanks for commenting. Don’t miss my colleague’s Oscar Lantz revisit of this problem! See pingback above.
Ross! Thanks for reading my old post and comment.
Among the JavaFX code examples is a new version with the clock split up so that the clockwork is in a separate class. The logic for a gadget that is always on top is in a utility class. The logics for the hands etc is rewritten for Java 8.
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2019-04-18T23:25:49Z
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https://blog.crisp.se/2012/08/09/perlundholm/an-analog-clock-in-javafx
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The Duck is a USB thumb-drive lookalike with a secret — the hardware is really a micro-controller with a microSD Card interface. The device can act as any kind of USB slave, with a program or script fed to it via the SD card. The default personality for the Rubber Duck is a a USB keyboard. Plug it in, and it will type keystrokes generated via a script file.
The Duck is one of those hacking tools with both good and evil uses. On the ‘good’ side, it can be used for automatic entry of complex commands in an environment where centralized computer management is difficult.
On the evil side, it can be used to immediately pop up a command shell and type malicious commands, execute scripts (e.g. powershell scripts) and install and execute software (bypassing UELA on Windows). There are lots of scripts available on the net, so using them is quite simple. It’s even possible to add a few lines to your script to “see” if the new “keyboard” is detected by the OS and keyboard input (actually next script lines) are accepted by the OS.
Keystrokes themselves can be pretty dangerous, beyond just using built-in commands. I’m finding the Duck particularly interesting because it bypasses many kinds of protection: USB Mass Storage can be disabled, Autorun can be disabled, and the Duck will still work. Who locks their machine down enough to prevent a new keyboard from being plugged in? I’m also becoming curious about Host OS fingerprinting: could a USB Slave device such as the Rubber Duck determine what kind of host it’s plugged into, based on the USB setup and queries it receives? If so, the Duck could be programmed to be a universal system hacker, with separate payloads for Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc, running the script based on the system it was plugged into.
Last but not least there are dozens of pages describing how to build your own “Rubber Ducky” USB device if you have a USB stick with the right NAND chipset.
Smart TV or media streamer?
All smart TVs have streaming apps, like Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Youtube, and so on. Media streamers are nothing but streaming apps. Sure it’s convenient to use your TV’s built-in services, but are they the best experience?
Behold, the pros and cons of TV apps and media streamers.
What is a smart TV ?
A smart TV, sometimes referred to as connected TV or hybrid TV, is a television set or set-top box with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 features, and is an example of technological convergence between computers and television sets and set-top boxes. Besides the traditional functions of television sets and set-top boxes provided through traditional broadcasting media, these devices can also provide Internet TV, online interactive media, over-the-top content, as well as on-demand streaming media, and home networking access.
Smart TV should not to be confused with Internet TV, IPTV or with Web TV. Internet TV refers to the receiving television content over internet instead of traditional systems (terrestrial, cable and satellite) (although internet itself is received by these methods). Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is one of the emerging Internet television technology standards for use by television broadcasters. Web television is a term used for programs created by a wide variety of companies and individuals for broadcast on Internet TV.
In smart TVs, the operating system is preloaded or is available through set-top box. The software applications or apps can be preloaded into the device, or updated or installed on demand via an app store or app marketplace, in a similar manner to how the apps are integrated in modern smartphones.
The technology that enables smart TVs is also incorporated in external devices such as set-top boxes, Blu-ray players, game consoles, digital media players, hotel television systems, and other network connected interactive devices that utilize television type display outputs. These devices allow viewers to search, find and play videos, movies, photos and other content from the Web, on a cable TV channel, on a satellite TV channel, or on a local storage drive.
What is a media streamer ?
Digital media players (DMP) are home entertainment consumer electronics devices that can connect to a home network to stream digital media (such as music, pictures, or video). They can stream files from a personal computer and network-attached storage or other networked media server to play back the media on a television or video projector for home cinema. Most digital media players utilize a 10-foot user interface, and many are navigated via a remote control.
Some digital media players also have Smart TV features, like allowing you to stream media from the internet or popular streaming services and online media sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and Amazon.com. Some other digital media players also allow you to playback locally stored content from a direct attached USB hard disk or even direct connect a Hard disk drive externally, or even internally in the digital media player via a Serial ATA (SATA) port, therefore these types of digital media player are sometimes referred to as HD Media Player or HDD Media Player if they can support to have a Hard Disk Drive installed inside.
Digital media players are also commonly referred to as a digital media extender, digital media streamer, digital media hub, digital media adapter, or digital media receiver (which should not be confused with AV Receiver that are also called Digital Media Renderer). Today the main difference between most modern “digital media players” and many modern set-top boxes (also known a set-top units) is that the set-top boxes generally contain at least one TV-tuner and are as such capable of receiving broadcasting signal (cable television, satellite television, and over-the-air television, or IPTV).
Here’s a breakdown of the strengths and weaknesses of each.
If all you want is Netflix, everything streams Netflix. I think I’ve seen a toaster that did it. But beyond that, it’s a lot less certain. A vital component to any streaming device (TV or dedicated), is the ability to buy and rent current TV shows and movies. The two services with the most content in that regard are Amazon and Apple. No TV has iTunes (and please don’t mention the Apple Television vaporware), and not all of them have Amazon Instant Video. Google Play is a reasonable runner-up, but it still doesn’t have the breadth of content of Apple and Amazon. Vudu is cool, but primarily movies, and US-only. Sony’s Video Unlimited service is decent too, but not widely available either. The better media streamers, like Roku and Apple TV, have Amazon Instant Video (or iTunes), along with a lot of other content like HBO Go in the US or Sky’s Now TV in the UK. HBO Go is available on numerous streaming boxes, but the only smart TVs that have it are from Samsung. The Apple TV also has the added ability to easily stream music from your computer, which I use all the time. Other TVs and streamers can do this, but it’s not as smooth an experience. To me, just that fact is enough to justify the cost of a media streamer. If the point is to watch content, media streamers offer more content providers than any single television.
It’s hard to compare all TVs against all media streamers. The better streamers, like the Roku 3 and Apple TV, but also a whole lot of android based media streamers, are fast and easy to use. Everything is laid out well, and you can get to what you want quickly and simply. Even the Fire TV, despite its other issues, is easy to navigate and fast to use. Some TVs have decent menus for their streaming content… but most don’t. Worse, they’re often slow and clunky to use. So on that level, the better media streamers win. There is the added simplicity, however, of only having one remote with a smart TV. Most people don’t like an Ottoman of Remotes, and using just the TV’s apps could save you from having to buy a universal remote. Comparing the best media streamers against the worst smart TVs, it’s an easy win for the streamers. The lesser streamers against the better TVs, it’s more of a wash. Since the better streamers are barely any more expensive than the worst, generally I’d say this category is a win for streamers. But overall, I guess I have to concede a tie.
This one goes to streamers in a landslide. Over the years Roku and Apple TV have undergone numerous software updates to improve available apps and tweak the interface. Chromecast is another streaming platform that has evolved significantly since launch, improving mirroring, adding app compatibility and promising even more improvements as developers dig in. Amazon Fire TV promises more updates of its own, including adding more catalogs to its voice search, but remains stubbornly US-only for now. Then there’s the TVs. If you bought a smart TV a couple years ago chances are its interface, apps and capabilities, not to mention its response time, seem dated by comparison to a $99 box. Most smart TV platforms are updated only during the year they were launched, if then, and afterward age as quickly as any technology. One exception is Samsung’s Evolution Kit, but it costs twice as much as a Roku 3.
Generally, picture quality shouldn’t be an issue. If your TV’s internal scaler isn’t great, however, it’s possible the scaler inside a media streamer is better. This could mean Netflix et al will be sharper than when streamed internally from your TV. This is because, for the foreseeable future, most streaming content will be 720p. There are some 1080p and even 4K exceptions, but they’re still fairly rare. What has to happen is the TV or streaming box must upconvert the 720p to your TV’s 1080p (or 4K). How well this is done determines how detailed the image can look. If you do have a 4K TV, you will have to use your TV’s built-in Netflix app (above) to see 4K content from them. Remember, just because your TV’s Info button says “1080p” doesn’t mean that’s what the signal is from Netflix, that’s just what your TV is receiving from the media box. Check out What is upconverting? and Ultra HD 4K TV Cheat Sheet for more info.
Generally speaking, a smart TV costs about $100, or around £80, more than a “dumb” TV. The better media streamers cost about the same. So technically it’s a wash. It’s not that simple, however. If you want to get a good, top-of-the-line TV, it’s going to have smart features built in, whether you want them or not. So if you want to add a media streamer, you’re going to be paying for the same apps (mostly, as mentioned above) twice.
That last part is the kicker. Most people are going to be faced with adding a media streamer to a TV that already has most of the streaming services. Looking at it that way, this becomes more complex than a simple tally of ties, wins, and losses.
The question really is whether a media streamer is worth $100, when you already have a smart TV? Personally, I’d say yes, and I hate recommending people spend more money than they need to. It comes down to Amazon and iTunes. Being able to watch just about any show or movie whenever you want is huge, and most smart TVs just don’t offer that ability. Many also have clunky, annoying interfaces, and they’re not updated frequently. Sure there are some exceptions, but having a good media streamer means you can ignore a smart TV’s apps, both when you’re shopping, and when you’ve got it home. That’s worth $100 to me, easily.
When you have a large text file (e.g. logfile) that is to large to handle or to large to open in a text editor like notepad++, this is a way to split the file in smaller chunks.
Download GNU CoreUtils and install them.
Use the " split.exe" tool to split up the textfile in smaller chunks.
this will split the file lagrefile.txt in chunks of 1 MegaByte and name the files smallchunk0001 and so on.
Check the manual for all options.
Ever read one of the privacy policies that you have to agree with, before you can install software or use a (online) service ?
Also interesting is the recent lawsuit (class act) against some of the most used apps on iOS. If you read the class act document, you will notice that Apple makes life easy for app programmers to access personal data (like your address book) on your iOS device (ipad, ipod etc). Apple offers standard code plus description for accessing your address book.
So what privacy do they respect ?
At 9:26:53 on Pi Day 2015, the date will be 3/14/15 at 9:26:53, corresponding to 3.141592653.
Keep this date in mind and put it in your agenda !
Who said geeks are not funny ??
Think twice before you say that geeks and engineers are not funny !
Note that the latest LEDs are not so environmentally friendly as they seem !
So the LEDs found in current household applications are blue diodes daubed with a powdered coating called a phosphor, which includes rare-earth elements that filter blue light.
Amazing, 343 hot air balloons filling the sky.
With the VMware ESXi free edition it’s not possible to configure the ESXi server using vSphere CLI commands. However there is another way to edit the SNMP settings.
This is a universal, non-commital answer to every question ever posed. Its the answer that doesn’t actually give any answer.
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2019-04-26T08:15:22Z
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https://www.monlore.nl/blog/category/other/
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As a business owner or marketing executive, you know that SEO is important. If your company’s website is not found multiple times in the first page of search results on Google, Yahoo and Bing, you’re losing business to your competitors – guaranteed. Reputable SEO consultants are famous for telling prospective clients that no SEO consultant can guarantee a #1 ranking (or even a first page ranking). Part of the explanation for this is the two dozen or so variables uncontrollable by the SEO consultant – i.e. your competitors investing more in SEO, other websites choosing to (or not to) link to your website, and changes to Google’s algorithm.
Well, this week marks the introduction of the third major addition to Google’s search experience (not counting the many small changes) in the last two months – first there was Google Instant, adding a new level of speed to searches, then Google Places, taking local search to a new dimension, and now a new one that might just change the SEO game and revolutionize web design forever: Google Instant Preview.
A few months ago, a select few Google users (were you one of them!?) began noticing a little magnifying glass icon next to their search results. Now, we’ve all learned what it means: Google users can now preview the site they want before they click on it. Previews appear in the right sidebar of the search engine results page (SERP) and, somehow, do not bog down internet connection speeds.
Even users testing the new feature on dial up connections experienced fast website previews (which is actually really good news for those users, for whom each and every click onto an irrelevant page wastes potentially minutes of their day). Better yet, once you click the first preview, Google automatically loads the rest of the previews in the background so that they load instantly when you hover over each individual search result.
This is not the first site preview feature the world has seen. Ask.com used to have a thumbnail preview before it changed into more of a question-and-answer style search engine. Bing has a feature where users can get a text summary of the site they want right from the SERP. Google’s is unique in that it marries these two concepts into a preview image that not only graphically displays the on-page content, but also pulls out snippets of text that it thinks are relevant. In an effort to display as much on page content as possible, the Google previews utilize “tearing” (as shown above) to break up the page logically.
Google has stated that they don’t believe their Instant Preview will affect PPC campaigns all that much. The preview appears in the right sidebar and totally blocks the ads usually placed there, but the company says that people who are searching through the main organic listings probably don’t look at sidebar ads anyway (a thought that is disconcerting in and of itself).
Wait, wait, wait… back up. Let’s hear that again – Google doesn’t think people searching through the main organic listings look at the right sidebar ads!
Let the bidding war for those top 1-3 ads begin! If you thought you were paying a lot per click today, hold onto your bootstraps ’cause you’re in for a wild on the PPC bidding rollercoaster.
In addition to discussing the potential impact Google Instant Preview will have on PPC, they’ve also weighed in on the potential implications for web designers. The Google Webmaster Central blog warns designers to “Try and avoid interstitial pages, ad pop-ups, or other elements that interfere with your content. In some cases, these distracting elements may be picked up in the preview of your page, making the screenshots less attractive.” To be clear – Google Instant Preview will not have any effect on Google’s master algorithm or on search rankings already in place. However, it is a very safe assumption that clicks will be dramatically affected.
There are three main legs to the SEO stool – site code and structure (the foundation), on-page content (content is king) and off-page factors (off-site content and links). Large companies can get high quality links with little effort. There’s typically a sea of people paying attention to their company. Getting links is just a matter of reaching out to the masses in a tasteful and consistent manner.
The SEO process is different from small medium sized local businesses. For local companies, assuming a proper site structure, content really is king. There’s no (ethical) way to get high-quality links quickly except through the creation and promotion of remarkable content. Adding high volumes of on-page content can junk of the page or take away from the visitor experience. Many website designers specializing in small business web design handle this by placing most of the calls-to-action in the upper right area of the page. This way, large volumes of content can get the site ranked high organically, but will not be too distracting to the visitor once the click has been captured.
Google Instant Preview makes all of these calls-to-action much, much smaller! The size, quality and call-to-action on your homepage banner suddenly became much more important! Sites with on-page videos might pique a searcher’s interest and capture the click vs. a homepage with 750 words of content and a boring banner (“hmmm…this looks like every other website I’ve been to – NEXT”).
And it looks like they’re succeeding. With Instant Preview, Google is hoping to accomplish several things. Their biggest goal is to encourage webmasters to develop sites that are as useful as possible to their audience, both aesthetically and pragmatically. This will enable visitors to choose the sites they want based on design and information, and will make it harder for spammy sites to get visits. The previews also benefit anyone searching for a specific design element, such as a chart, picture, map or list, allowing them to quickly go directly to the site with the content they want. In addition, the site helps people who want to revisit a site they visited in the past but who can’t remember the specific URL or keywords of the site – only the basic layout. Now, they can search visually and find it with much less hassle than if they had to click through every result of their search.
Instant Preview represents an interesting shift in Google’s strategy – where features like Google Instant aim to make search as fast as a user can type, Instant Preview moves to speed up the process of deciding which page to view.
All told, Google Instant Preview is a pretty nifty tool for web users – instead of browsing through site after site, going back to the SERP time and time again (a process known as “pogo sticking”), but it’s a much niftier tool for Google itself. The one thing sites like Facebook do that Google doesn’t is encourage people to stay on their site for long periods of time. While Google receives billions of hits per day, most of those visits only last a few seconds at the most (and Google seems compelled to drive that down even further!). With Instant Preview, the search engine will change this, owning more of their searcher’s time as they decide specifically which website they want to visit.
Of course, there are some limitations to the technology. For one thing, Google Instant Preview cannot render Flash objects (can anything these days?), meaning that sites with Flash intros will show up with a “missing piece” icon.
This might make it difficult for sites like these to get visitors, no matter how cool the Flash intro is or how much interesting and relevant content the site itself has. Other than that, the tech is impressive – Google says that the site previews will dynamically update as the sites update, meaning they will always display an accurate, up to date preview of the site you are looking at.
iPads aren’t supporting Flash, Google Instant Preview won’t display it. Anyone with a Flash-based website needs to be seriously rethinking their online marketing strategy right about now (if you have a website with a Flash banner, our web designers can turn it into a JQuery banner, contact us).
So what do users think of Google Instant Preview? So far, statistics are showing that people using Instant Preview are a whopping 5% more satisfied with their search experience – doesn’t sound like many, until you consider that Google gets about 10 billion hits every day.
To learn more about Google Instant Preview and how to get more qualified visitors to your website and convert more visitors iinto leads and sales, sign-up for our email newsletter – there’s a sign-up box on the right-hand side of your screen!
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2019-04-24T18:15:45Z
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https://www.bluecorona.com/blog/how-google-instant-preview-affects-seo-web-design
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My crowd source campaign is edging nearer. I’m in the midst of preparing email lists, editing the prelaunch 30″ video, doing motion graphics for the pitch piece, and making sure the message is consistent and uniform. When I started imaging what to provide on the accompanying Blu-ray disc, I knew that I would have to include a bunch of my high-resolution audio tracks. That’s easy. But what else would draw curious audio enthusiasts to the disc accompanying “Music and Audio: A User Guide To Better Sound”? That’s when I thought that including a few comparisons would be compelling.
I find it difficult to accept that a listener would be able to clearly perceive a difference in fidelity between two different cables, formats, sample rates, word length, power cords, or whatever if they were not able to instantly switch between the things being compared. Does anyone really believe that having a 30-60″ (optimally…it could be a lot more) gap between the playback of configuration 1 and configuration 2 is tenable? There are just too many variables to consider in doing a comparison this way. Is your head in exactly the same place, are you in the same spot in the song, and is your frame of mind the same?
Having a completely equipped professional studio makes doing comparisons much easier. I can stream digital data from a single source or two identical digital players and route them to a couple of inputs on my control room monitor system or a couple of input channels. Then it’s very simple to hit a noiseless button to choose one or the other source. This is how I do my comparisons. I’m listening along and simply switch back and forth between the options. Depending on what’s being compared…sometimes I hear a change and sometimes I don’t.
Under most circumstances this ability to switch quickly and without any noise or level drop is difficult. I remember assisting with the research study just before the Christmas holiday last year. I had everything set up in my laptop DAW to switch between the lo-res and high-res files…instantly and on command. But they organization balked at compensating me for the project so they reverted to playing the files in sequence. It contributed to the results being meaningless…the participants rated the MP3s as the best sounding as often as the actual high-res files.
The Blu-ray disc format provides a unique capability. It is possible to have high-resolution PCM files on multiple audio “tracks” and then switch between them by pressing the AUDIO button the remote. I use this capability to allow customers to switch between the three different mixes available on my Blu-ray discs. As most of you know, my releases have a traditional 2.0 stereo mix and two different 5.1 surround mixes called “stage” and “audience”.
What if instead of different mixes, I place different formats on each of the available audio tracks. Users could use the AUDIO button and instantly compare a 256 kbps MP3 file against a CD res file, and a true high-resolution file. I’m planning on using the same technique to compare a heavily mastered file vs. an unmastered file. Don’t take my word for it. Listen for yourself and see if you and your system can hear any differences between these comparisons.
Then Frank from an audiophile society back east wrote to say that the members of his group wouldn’t be interested in a Blu-ray disc because they don’t have a Blu-ray player in their main music room. He mentioned maybe 5 out of 60 members might be properly equipped to take advantage of the “Music and Audio” A User Guide to Better Sound” Blu-ray disc. I don’t want my target audience to miss out on this opportunity. What can I do? I’m happy to allow customers or supporters to download the files but they wouldn’t have the ability to do an instant comparison.
So I’m curious how many of you would be able to play a Blu-ray disc in the proper environment?
I keep trying to improve the landing page for the approaching Kickstarter campaign at “Music and Audio: A User Guide To Better Sound“. There are a few videos of me giving the keynote address at the recent Newport Show. Please add your name to the list. So far I’m just shy of 200…I’d love to get to 500 or more by the end of the weekend. Thanks.
Mark, I would definitely be interested in a blu-ray disc if it allowed the comparisons you mention.
Why wouldn’t you have an Oppo or similar device as part of your system?
I certainly find a large number of audiophiles have an Oppo in their setup.
A blu ray disc would work fine for me. Looking forward to your launch.
I’ve been able to play Blu-ray discs in both my home theater and 2 channel setups for a couple of years now. The audiophile society dudes are behind the times!
My OPPO 93 will handle the Blu-Ray disk!!
That crowd is a lost cause. The rest of us, who consider our theaters places to bask in great music – as well as films, would welcome your disk.
I wouldn’t let one audiophile organization determine your direction. There are those of us who have embraced the Blu-ray format and I’m sure the other audiophiles will too when they feel the content is compelling enough. The cost of entry for Blu-ray is very low these days. And what is your focus? Sell to the finicky audiophile crowd or provide the only Blu-ray disk on the market that accurately educates the average listener to what Hi-res audio really can do and what ripped mp3 files are not?
I have everything needed to play just about any file on my main system with HD Video so for me it wouldn’t be a problem. Many audiphiphiles have only a dedicated two channel setup so for them it would be a issue.
My setup can do up to 7.1 if I bother to run a few more cables and speakers but I doubt any of the analog guys would be interested even in the 2 channel digital version on the disk. Some will be able to play a CD version I spoke but it is a interesting problem.
I think most of the folks interested in your disk should be able to play it or they probably wouldn’t be checking and reading your posts here.
Good luck with it and I’m looking forward to what you release.
Foobar2000, a free music player, can do ABX test for two files. You don’t have to worry about it.
That said, sadly Blu-ray is not what people want these days…. Most of computers (especially laptops) these days do not have any optical media drive installed at all.
Microsoft also stopped support on DVD playback on their newest OS, Windows 10. Blu-ray playback support is completely out of question.
People just do not want to buy Blu-ray, Mark… I am such a extreme exception who actually buys a Blu-ray ‘audio’ disc, but I am the only one…. none of my friends, family members and colleagues buy Blu-ray media.
See the leftmost example? You make a nice usb card for kickstarter supporters.
I like this idea…thanks for the suggestion.
That’s why you should run Linux. Time to stop letting big brother Wiindoz control your computer options.
Sorry for double post… But like this one would be great for ‘reward’ for the kickstarter campaign.
Count me in for the USB card.
I have an OPPO BDP-93 connected to a 5.1 sound system. The front speakers cover the full frequency range, but the center and rear speakers don’t (down to about 140 Hz is all). I do not use LFE.
I for one would like a Blue-Ray disc !
If you’re keeping track Mark, I have a Linn stereo system at home set up in the only space it will fit. No room for a speaker system that would show off the abilities of what your recordings offer.
I can play a blu-ray disk in my home theater/music system.
I am interested & setup to test, some aspects. I have some limitations. My BluRay player is limited to 24 bit 48000hz. My speakers are capable of 18-30000hz [Including Sub]. Unfortunately my preamp cuts out @ 20000hz.. In theory, I shouldn’t notice much difference above CD quality, but your recordings are more alive than most recordings. I also enjoy ” Chris Botti Live in Boston” on BluRay. It stands out, as do your recordings. I agree that quick switching is the most effective comparison. I often wonder how a purchaser can determine which components are better, when they often test in varying environments. I wonder how much age affects our appreciation of High Resolution music. I can still hear 14000hz, but that will decline.
Hi Mark. On the subjective side, if a listener cannot discern the differences between speaker cable, interconnects and mains cables then their powers of perception are IMV void having a high class front end source such as your hires music productions. Synergy exists when everything comes together in a 2+2 =4 world, something the magazines fuel to constantly change items of hardware to achieve. I would argue strongly that joining equipment up with basic stranded copper (read mains flex) is not optimal and it appears you are not convinced that by swapping out the throw away interconnects that come with low end gear is worthwhile? There are other items such as equipment stands that also influence (IMO) the musical outcome and once experienced, there really is no going back, just like your recordings, they stand out. As you are mates with Ray Kimber, get him to sort you for some studio feeds, you may be in for some pleasant surprises!
Stick with the Blu-Ray disc, if folk don’t have a Blu-Ray player then surely if they’re interested enough they could borrow one perhaps ? That’s what I’ll be doing, plus I’ll get someone else to do the switching to approximate a blind test of the different formats. It’s not ABX double blind testing etc but it’ll suffice for me with my modest setup. But keep the files available for download as an option for anyone unable to beg, borrow or steal a Blu-Ray player.
I have purchased my second blu-ray player, an Oppo 103D (from Shelley’s in Santa Monica), and find it to be an astonishing player. It also plays files from thumb drives. I downloaded some SACD demo files from 2L in Norway and was treated to the best sound I have ever heard on my system. I think most audiophiles have never heard a good 5.1 or 7.1 etc. system. Any blue ray player will be a very good CD player and cost no more (or much less) than an “audiophile quality” CD player. If you want music to break in speakers, cables, etc, just play the soundtrack from “Avatar” twice. It will make quite a difference on new gear. Regular DVD sound is very good also. Keep smiling, Boomer Bill BTW you can buy used CDs and DVDs from Amazon and save a ton of moola.
Maybe these ‘audiophiles’ aren’t interested in comparing different files at all.
It might reveal something, that they don’t want to know.
I appreciated Frank sharing his perspective on the Blu-ray issue.
You may recall my reply last week, in which I said I could appreciate the difference between 16/44.1 and 24/92 material with my great system in my great listening room. As you alluded to in your response, I should have mentioned that this only applies to material with a high res provenance.
But yes, I do have a Blu-ray player in that room (its the Oppo 103D that I stream all my high res music through). So i would be able to play your Blu-ray disc in my serious listening environment. And I would think that any ‘serious’ audiophile who spends the sort of cash on their gear that such people usually spend, would have a Blu-ray player somewhere in the house and should be willing to at least temporarily relocate it to their serious listening room in order to facilitate the instant switch comparison that you are considering providing on the Blu-ray disc. I certainly would be, and I urge you to include this functionality!
I’ll make sure to include these items on the BLu-ray. Maybe there are other things that readers would like to see on the disc.
I’ll put my hand up, I have a Bluray player in my main listening room, which is also my home cinema, it is getting on a bit in age now and cannot do this new fangled 3D stuff but it still pleases me.
In my main media room I have an OPPO-103D connected by HDMI to an Anthem Statement D2v a/v processor. With this configuration switching between different audio formats works, but it is not instantaneous, there is about 1 second of silence whenever the audio is switched. For music, it is much easier to switch formats/mixes with Pure Audio discs since a video monitor is not required.
As a download file option, you could create a high-resolution file that is a mix of switching between the different formats converted back to the high-resolution bit depth and sampling rate. This wouldn’t allow the end user to select when the switching happens, but it would provide instant switching.
I’ve done this in the past…it’s less than ideal but does work. The use of Foobar with the building A|B switching was suggested. I think that’s a good idea.
>how many of you would be able to play a Blu-ray disc in the proper environment?
I would, and I think this would be very interesting to try!
Yes, I have a 5.1 multichannel system with a Samsung Bluray player so I could enjoy the BluRay disc. Think I’d prefer the Mixes over the Format configuration although both are mainly novelty configs and how many times are you going to play with it? So a hard call really.
Although I don’t consider this system to be my high res system, my Computer Server-Emotiva DC-1 DAC and Senn HD 650 phones serve that purpose, I am surprised that so few have a BluRay 5.1 system in their media room. I would have guessed that more home setups would have swung over to a combined Audio/Video system in todays world?
Blu-ray would work for me.
Perhaps some direction on blue ray players is in order. I’m sure many have HT setups that from an audio perspective are “low Fi “. I believe Frank is correct, that fewer than 20% of audio enthusiasts use BR.
I really appreciate your efforts.Sound is so objective. Without the ability to compare audio files quickly and seamlessly, we can’t possibly hear these subtle differences. I have a Blu-ray player and I’m in!
The answer at our house is that in our music room we play all our CDs through a Blu-ray player (to which I’ve attached a tiny monitor that allows me to see the track numbers). We run both our computer files and our disks through a Peachtree DAC.
I do have some Blu-ray audio-only disks, including the recently reissued Solti “Ring,” but I still prefer HD downloads because to me the sound seems more transparent and airier, with more venue space around the instruments and singers. Even though I have the Solti both on Blu-ray disk and on the equivalent download, it’s the download that I almost always play.
If the files come from the same master, there shouldn’t be any sonic differences between the disc and downloads. Have you compared any of my tunes or albums this way?
James – If you are using a direct coax connection to your Blu-Ray player, the output will be downsampled to 48/16. You can use a device such as the KanexPro HDMI Audio Extractor to extract the audio stream without the downsampling.
This is a real issue, Mark.
It appears to be widely accepted that the Oppo units downsample material from SACDs, Blu-ray etc discs for digital output via coax or optical. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/oppo-bdp-95-issue-bluray-audio-disc-12781/ Apparently, its a licencing issue, rather than technical, so I guess all of the Blu-ray players will do the same – perhaps this is a fatal flaw in your otherwise great idea.
They don’t downsample the digital output for streamed high res material, or when reading from an attached drive. But how to achieve the instant switch with these?
All Blu-ray players are mandated to downconvert the S/P DIF output. The best way to do the tests would be to use the internal DACs or get the Kanex Pro deembedder.
Me and my Oppo BDP-105 can hardly wait to get our hands on your BluRay. Is it not possible to simply change the resolution of a music file by including different resolutions within a single file? I’m envisioning a single file with cut and paste of differing resolutions. If, for instance, I wanted to compare MP3 with CD, could I not edit the CD rip by replacing parts of the song with the MP3 version? Wouldn’t this allow for seamless playback without any breaks in the soundtrack?
I discovered this training program called ‘The Golden Ears Challenge’ designed to train audio product engineers at Philips to recognize various flaws in audio reproduction. It includes the ability to instantly switch between audio samples. You may be able to ‘borrow’ some ideas for your BluRay project.
I wrote about the Phillips program a week or so ago…it’s very telling.
In my opinion this should not be an issue. The top rated consumer grade Blu-Ray players for the past two years, new retail cost, are less than $150 and you can get them refurbished online for under $75.00. The digital outputs of the device drive a good quality DAC, which then feeds the appropriate analog inputs on the amp or preamp. Should be quite a simple upgrade. The DAC also might not be needed should any of the groups are using a preamp or receiver with a free optical input.
Upgrading to something like the Oppo with a fine analog output stage is a choice as well and those can be had for under $1,000. Based on the cost of what many of these folks spend for interconnects and other components this also should be an insignificant cost.
There are a few BD players in the consumer grade end that have analog outputs as well, but, I always consider those to be sub-quality sound-wise; digital output to a nice DAC is preferred.
Bring on the BD, I am anxious to hear the end results of your project.
For me it is a great new hearing from you on the Blu-Ray disc track options that will accompany the book. Now I will be able to do immediate comparisons using my OPPO 105D. If you intend to attend the RMAF in Denver, next October, I will have the opportunity to buy the book.
I’m a serious audiophile with 3 systems in the 3 locations my wife & I spend parts of the year. They range in value from $7K – $30K. All have quality CD playback and the main one also has vinyl. As a member of two audio clubs I have heard several higher bit rate digital playback formats. Many times, but not all, I am impressed with the incremental realism. But I have not migrated to any of these formats because the improvement is not great enough to justify spending money better spent on new CD’s & new/used vinyl when there is too much variety offered & disturbing variability in these higher bit formats. I don’t own a Blu ray player, just 3 old fashion DVD players mostly used when my granddaughter visits, so will not be able to experiment at home auditioning your apparently well designed presentation.
Hopefully media producers will eventually migrate to one format (or multiple formats) that one simple box (preferred), or box + external DAC, will allow those like myself to migrate toward improved sonics when enough media is available. I didn’t address downloads or streaming because at this point I have no need for them in addition to what I’m quite satisfied with.
Hopefully your pioneering work along with others will help get us to the next level.
I, and some of my friends, are able to afford only one room for audio-visual: so our home-cinema is also our music listening room. And since some A/V processors are nowadays of audiophile quality, we have a music environment that is good enough for cinema. Therefore, we have a Blu-ray player in our listening room.
After reading through the comments, I have 2 more comments on the Blu-Ray disc.
Blu-Ray coax audio output is downsampled. To hear a difference in the formats you must be using either the output of the DVD player DAC or the HDMI output connected to either an A/V processor or to an Audio Extractor.
DVD discs support up to 96/24 PCM, so audio switching from 44.1/16 up to 96/24 should be possible with a DVD disc on a standard DVD player.
This is an important item to consider. Thanks for bringing it up. I wrote a couple of posts about the Kanex Pro.
I recently bought a blu-ray player but I don’t use its disk spinning capabilities. I prefer to plug in a USB hard drive of either ripped BD material or ripped/downloaded audio. The blu-ray player is plugged into a Naim DAC via coax.
The cool thing about Blu-ray disc players is their ability to play multiple audio streams and seamlessly switch.
I have an Oppo 105D at the heart of my system. Would love the Blu-Ray!
Please do go forward with your project ! I for one would love to compare through my Oppo 103 into my Meridian system that is 96/24 it would really be an interesting listen and challenge for my aged ears.
Another +1 vote here from a reader with a high-quality multi-channel system and an Oppo universal player. I bought the Oppo mostly for SACD and DVD-A, but would acquire your proposed test disk in a New York minute.
As you know, a lot of the Stereophile (etc. etc.) crowd don’t believe in any sort of A/B testing anyway, and wouldn’t be interested in your project regardless. Don’t let Luddite rejection of Blu-Ray decks ruin it for the rest of us.
I’m definitely going to be authoring a Blu-ray disc…and I like the idea of a USB card.
I currently also am preparing a listening session to finally decide what is more adequate for increasing the sound resolution: upsampling or oversampling. Although I don’t giva what you’re all set to do, well, good luck as well.
I have an Oppo 103 & think your idea about Blu-Ray is excellent.
I could do the Blu-Ray…..
I would love to hear your comparison Blue-ray disk as I am equipped with a Blue-ray player attached to my system. It would be interesting for sure.
My system is a combined music listening/home theatre setup. So yes, I’d love a Blu-Ray with the functionality you describe. Having said that, I see mention of a USB card in the comments. That would be even better for me, since it should work great with a HTPC.
The Usb idea is great. For those of us without great internet access its a fantastic option not just for the book but for all albums.
I’m open to the USB on anything AIX releases…just let me know.
I am I guess one of them ‘audiophiles’ but quite a grounded one! I also have quite modest funds and mostly buy gear second hand. I do though have a Panasonic DMO-BD80 blu-ray player that I can connect to my hi-fi (part of which is a 1980’s Krell KSA-100).
Q1 – surely the built in DAC’s (and associated circuitry) of bluray players are of varying quality and a poor one would negate any benefit of the recorded material?
Q2 – I have an external DAC capable of handling files up to 32bit and 193khz which accepts optical and coaxial inputs (my bluray has both of these). Could I use this with bluray?
As a recent discoverer of this website I realise I have a lot to re-learn after years of mis-information spouted from the audio press!!
The quality of the DACs will matter but as audiophiles I don’t think we’re dealing with complete garbage with our gear. The DACs on the Oppo BDP-105 are really great and would work for these comparisons.
As for the other question, the S/P DIF outputs are downconverted in all Blu-ray players…you’ll need to use the HDMI output with an audio deembedder.
“Going to be a terrific package, Mark…assuming the audiophiles you are targeting have either a Blu-ray equipped surround system or, less likely, a BD player as a source in their dedicated 2-channel systems assuming they have the luxury.
First I would like to say that, as you can see, I made no disparaging comments on the use of BD in either an audio or video context. Perhaps my using the word “listeners” would have been better than “audiophiles”, a word which unfortunately has acquired the connotation of “snobbery” in some minds. We ARE in fact an “audio” society with a greater interest in listening to recorded music in almost every conceivable format (including Edison wax cylinders!) than the equipment used which is, more often than not, modest in cost. My goal was to provide Mark with market feedback on the use of BD for audio playback from a large group of potential purchasers of Mark’s upcoming BD and book.
“The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it’s right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.” Robert M Pirsig.
Frank, thanks for clarifying. I certainly didn’t mean to cast any negative aspersions on you or your group. I was glad you wrote with you take on the whole Blu-ray issue. As a result, I will be presenting the tracks on USB stick. And thanks for the quote from one of my favorite books…cheers.
No offense taken. Not sure what percentage of your total readership the “+1’s” for BD represent but I congratulate you on the wide acceptance of your BD/book release represented here and hope it is a success both aurally and financially.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a huge impact on this music loving, guitar playing, motorcycle riding, young man. The left and right brain need to cooperate.
I have an OPPO 105D. Would enjoy the Blu Ray disk to use for a A/B comparison test. Great idea.
Another here with an OPPO 105 that would be interested in this disc.
On another note, I only recently read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and was struck by how dated the motorcycle technology was at the time it was written. I say this as a motorcycle enthusiast who started riding during the era described in the book, and have witnessed and marveled at the technology progression of both motorcycles and audio over these many years.
I owned 6 Hondas in my youth…from a lowly Honda 50 to a 750. Loved riding along the coast of Lake Michigan in the summer.
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Kenya safari is an unforgettable experience. Wherever you go in Kenya, you will find the spectacle of wild nature. Kenya’s treasures are the relevant part of National Parks, National Reserves, and Private Reserves. Kenya is a country with 43 tribes. This is at the same time an added value and an issue. It is an added value because great cultural differences create a society, where many opportunities are available. It is a problem because the rivalry sometimes creates some issues.
Are you ready to discover Kenya with us? Kenya safari is waiting for you.
Neighboring countries: Ethiopia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia.
Kenya territory is divided in counties for the administration but for to understand better the geography we need to considerate the provinces. In total the provinces are eight: Central, Coast, Eastern, Nairobi 5. North Eastern, Nyanza, Rift Valley, Western.
I will illustrate the major attractions imagining a safari, so will start now from the top of Rift Valley we will go down in the south direction up to meet Tanzania border. Then we will do another imaginary itinerary up to cover all the Parks and reserves.
One of most important is the Rift Valley, at the top, there is the Lake Turkana, fascinating place in the desert. Famous because of his blue waters, and for to a site where was discovered some important hominin fossils. Like the famous Turkana boy, the oldest is the Australopithecus Anamensis, discovered by Meave Leakey and has been dated 4 million years ago.
In the lake, there are many Nile crocodile and quantity of fishes. Fauna includes zebras, gazelles, topis and reticulated giraffe. It is the biggest salted water lake in the world, and the world biggest desert permanent lake.
If you desire to visit Lake Turkana, we suggest using a flight service. So you don’t need to stay days in travel in the desert.
However, if you like the adventure, it is a good idea to go by road, but using a trustable agency.
In case, if you want to go alone or with a car driving you, take information about the security of the road.
Up to Lake Baringo usually, there is no problem. Beyond, up to Turkana sometimes can be tribal troubles. So is better to ask at the authority, KWS is good for this.
Your Kenya safari can now move in the south direction looking for places more civilized. The first place you will find is Lake Baringo. Beautifull place, the lake as Lake Turkana don’t have any emissary, so the level is floating between decades.
It is inhabited by the tribes of Pokots, Tugens, Endorois, and Ilchamus but there are even more other tribes in the urban centers. Presents in the lake are the crocodiles and hippopotamus. More than four hundreds birds species are recognized and in the lake, there is fish abundance.
The watercolor is depended on the season but never is transparent. activity suggested is the visit of Pokot traditional village, one of the smallest tribes in Kenya. Another activity is to explore the lake by boat, it is a very nice experience. Finally is one of the only two lakes of fresh water in Rift Valley.
A good reason for to visit Lake Baringo is the low numbers of tourists presents.
Can follow your Kenya safari with a short journey, in around 40 km by road you will meet Lake Bogoria.
Lake Bogoria is a traditional tourist destination, it is saline and alkaline water and is alimented by two rivers and quantities of hot springs. Characteristics of the lake are the Geiser presence, to see the Bogoria Gaisers is related to the water level. But the main attraction is the seasonal arriving of millions of flamingoes, creating a spectacular landscape.
In Lake Nakuru National Park there are white and Black rhinoceros.
We arrive now in the highlands of Kenya. The Lake Nakuru National Park is the more important lake of Kenya.
The alkaline lake guesses pelicans and the flamingoes, and around the lake, there is the National Park. Here you can meet, for the first time on your safari, some of the important wild animal species present in Kenya.
There are the white rhinoceros, followed by the black rhinoceros, Hyppoes, buffaloes, Giraffes, hyenas, waterback, leopards, cheetahs, baboons and so on.
This is one of the two premium parks in Kenya, the other is Amboseli. It is even like a sanctuary, it has fenced for to prevent poaching.
After just around 20 kilometers on the Nakuru-Nairobi road, we meet the Lake Elmenteita. It is a beautiful place but it pay the nearly with Lake Nakuru so tourism is small here. Fauna is limited to the zebra, gazelles, warthogs, and elan. It is very nice to stay and rest in the peaceful lodges around the lake, in a serenity atmosphere looking the Lake landscape.
Lake Naivasha, on Crescent Island, is possible to do a safe walking safari.
Other some kilometers and your Kenya safari will meet the last lake on the road, the Lake Naivasha. It is the second Lake of the two with fresh water. This is the reason because the farmers have started to produce here cut flowers, one of the major resources of the country.
The Lake guess 400 species of birds and the relative distance from Nairobi make Naivasha a bird watching sanctuary. It is present even a great population of Hyppoes.
From July to October in Masai Mara, there is the great migration of wildebeests.
Now your Kenya safari requires a long and uncomfortable trip up to Masai Mara. Especially the last part of the trip is in real African offroad.
So if you don’t like this be patient and look outside the beautiful landscape of the African nature. Or, if you prefer, from Naivasha you can take a flight for Masai Mara.
Masai Mara is not a park, Is National Reserve. It is a very nice reserve and is famous because of the great migration of the wildebeests. It is part of the Serengeti transnational ecosystem.
Characteristic are the lions which the males with has a large mane. Present in the park all the big five, elephant, rhinoceros, buffaloes, lions and leopards.
So now we go back to Nairobi, from where we can start for another imaginary itinerary.
Provinces of Nairobi, Central, North Eastern.
This new itinerary, start discovering the beauty of Samburu. For a long time this reserve it was considered secondary from the tourism. Now in the area, there are a lot of conservancy and reserves. Many of these were been instituted in recent years, for to protect flora and fauna from poachers and uncontrolled grazing.
The reserve is very nice and is seated at around 1000 mt of altitude. The reserve guesses elephants, buffaloes, hippos, gazelles, impalas, waterbuck, giraffes, lions, leopards, cheetahs and many more.
Your Kenya safari maybe can pass now to visit the Mount Kenya National Park. It is a nice park and is visited by thousands of tourists any year. The main attraction is the mountain.
Mount Kenya has 3 main peaks, the Batian 5199 mt, the Nelion, 5189 mt, the Lenana Point 4985. Batian and Nelion can be summited by climbers whit experience. The point Lenana is the more visited because don’t require specific climbing attitude, but just energy in the legs and good acclimatization.
Undervalued acclimatization is a common mistake, and probably you can’t arrive at the summit.
Now we want to introduce you another park visited by a smaller number of tourists. The reason probably is in the nature of the park.
The park is set in the Aberdare Mountain Range in an altitude variable between 2.100 and 4.300 mt. It is a mountain park and so it is different from the open savannah.
Looking for wildlife is not very easy but any encounter is a joy and surprise. To see the elephants in the forest on the slopes of the mountain is a unique emotion. In the Aberdare National Park, there are elephants, leopards, wild dogs, rhinoceros, elan, bongos, African golden cats.
Your Kenya safari starts now for a new itinerary, and it starts from Nairobi, the capital city, which offers many opportunities for to approach wildlife.
The main attraction is the Nairobi City Park. The only park in the world where is possible to see the lions from the city. Another opportunity if have free time is the giraffe center. If you can please visit the David Sheldrick Orphanage, you can see and meet the baby elephants who lost the mother to the poachers or shepherds.
An elephant takes soil shower in Amboseli National Park.
Amboseli is the symbol of Kenya safari, it is the second of two premium parks in Kenya. Is an iconic park, is seated at the foot of the Kilimanjaro. To be honest is not possible to see the Kilimanjaro every day or for the whole day. Anyway, when you can see it the landscape is wonderful. In Amboseli, you can sight elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards, cheetahs, impala, gazelles, giraffes, hyenas, wildebeests and many more.
Tsavo ecosystem is the largest park in Kenya. It is split into two parts called Tsavo West and Tsavo East and they are separated by the Mombasa Nairobi Highway.
Tsavo West is beautiful especially for the scenery absolutely amazing. It suffers a little bit the same problem of Aberdare, to watch the wildlife is not easy like in Tsavo East, because of the vegetation. But we remarked the absolute beauty of the Park. is possible to sight elephants, hippos, hyenas, buffaloes, cheetah, lions, leopards and so on.
An elephant in Tsavo East whit the typical red skin because of the red soil of Tsavo.
Your Kenya safari arrives the last spectacular park in Kenya. Is the largest and the oldest of the Kenya parks. it is a semi-arid area and is extended up to 100 km from the ocean. Characteristics are the elephants red colored because they use the red soil of Tsavo for to take shower.
In the park over the large elephant’s population the are buffalos, caracal, African wildcat, cheetah, dik-dik, eland, gazelle, genet, giraffe, spotted hyena, striped hyena, rock hyrax, impala, black-backed jackal, side-striped jackal, kudu, leopard, lion, banded mongoose, oryx, black rhinoceros, serval, warthog, waterbuck, zebra.
When you finish your Kenya safari is possible and suggested to have some days in the Indian Ocean banks. Spectaculars white sands beaches waiting for you for relaxing under Africa’s sun.
The main Attraction on the cost bank is Diani Beach, Mombasa, Watamu, Malindi, Lamu. In the recent years, Diani and Watamu have increased their popularity. The offer is various, from the simple room in villa to the five stars boutique resorts. All the requests can be satisfied.
Requests are increasing for Lamu, the oldest Swahili town in Kenya. Lamu every year present two festivals, in March between 14 to 18 there is the Lamu Yoga Festival. Dedicated to the yoga lovers in a unique scenery. In November the Lamu Cultural Festival.
Five are the Marine Parks: Kisite-Mpunguti Kiunga Malindi Mombasa Watamu where you can do your Kenya safari blue. Safari blue is an excursion organized with the boats in the marine parks. You can do snorkeling and depend on the season, to watch the dolphins. Usually, the organization will serve the dinner sea fish based and you can have a very nice experience.
An indo-pacific sailfish caught in Watamu Kenya.
Another activity popular in the Kenya coast is the deep sea fishing. There are available more agencies that organize this with different level of boats. The main fishes caught are the tuna and the Indo-Pacific sailfish.
Two the events in Kenya about the fishing game: 27 -28 January Delamere fishing competition Kilifi, 3 – 4 March Marlin Championship Watamu.
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Like for Tanzania, we suggest you three itineraries that cover a large percentage of the requests.
Breakfast early in the morning and start from Nairobi to Lake Nakuru National Park. Entry in the park and start game drive. Lake Nakuru is Premium Park in Kenya, is possible to see flamingos and even many other of the 400 species studied.
You can sight buffalo, rhinoceros white and black, lions, cheetah, leopards, giraffes and many other not listed here. During the game drive, at lunchtime, you will take lunch box in a picnic area.
After lunch, last game drives up late afternoon. We’ll exit from the Park and go to Lake Elmenteita for dinner and overnight.
Breakfast very early in the morning, and start for Masai Mara National Reserve. We’ll arrive in around 5 hours at your Lodge. Check in, lunch and small rest. Around 15.30 starting for afternoon game drive.
Masai Mara is one of the more important natural reserves in the world. It is possible to sight the famous big five: Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo, Lion, and Leopard. But many other are the species of mammal presents, you can see Cheetah, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelles, impala, Caracal, Genet, Zebra, Masai Giraffe, Serval, Hippo and so on.
The quantity of species is great but the characteristic, present only in Masai Mara, is the concentration of this animals in a relatively small area. It is not enough, from July up to October Masai Mara is a theater of the Great Migration of the wildebeests. A large heard of Wildebeests, Zebras and Gazelles migrate from Serengeti to Masai Mara every year. At the end, they will go back to Serengeti.
In this migration, they need to cross the Mara River inside Masai Mara. It is the dramatic moment of their trip, crocodile, lions, and cheetah waiting for their lunch.
In the evening you will go back to the Lodge where you will stay for dinner and overnight.
In the morning, breakfast at 7 and then, start the morning game drive. The game drive can be up to lunch time when you go back to the Lodge. After Lunch, small resting and then afternoon game drive up the evening. At the exit time, you’ll go back to the lodge, for dinner and overnight.
Early in the morning breakfast and start for the last game drive. You’ll go back to the lodge at 12. After lunch start for Nairobi where you’ll arrive in around 5 hours.
The safari will finish at your hotel or at the airport according to your program. In case of your flight is starting early the program can be changed according to the organizer.
Starting in the morning from Mombasa airport or from your hotel. Drive to Tsavo East National Park where you’ll arrive at lunchtime. Check in at the Camp you chose. Lunch and small rest in the afternoon.
Around 15.30 you will start the afternoon game drive, up to the evening. According to the exit time, you’ll go back to the camp.
Tsavo East is the biggest National Park in Kenya. It is even, one of the more important natural reserves of the African continent. Is possible to see the majestic elephant of Tsavo with his red skin. The skin is red because the soil of Tsavo is red. The elephants use the soil, for to protect they self from parasites, and African sun.
After breakfast start for Amboseli National Park, where you’ll arrive lunch time. Check in at the Camp chosen, and lunch at the camp. After lunch afternoon resting.
Around 16 starts for the afternoon game drive. At the exit time will go back to the camp, for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast starts the full day game drive. Amboseli is famous in the world because is the park of Kilimanjaro mountain. It is the highest peak of Africa, so is even one fo the seven summits, the highest mountains of the seven continents.
Amboseli is premium Park like Nakuru. It is possible to see all the big five and many other mammals. There is even a seasonal lake, so in some moments of the year, is possible to see the elephant bathing.
During the game drive at lunchtime, lunch box will be in a special area. It is for to permit safe picnic with a spectacular view.
In the evening you’ll go back to the camp, for dinner and overnight.
Breakfast very early and start for Tsavo West National Park. You will cross the majestic lava flow of Shetani.
In Tsavo West is possible to sight mostly of the wild African wild animals: elephants, buffalos, zebras, impala, gazelles, hyena, rhino, leopard, cheetah, and lions.
One important attraction in Tsavo East is Mzima Springs. A spring very big, with very clean transparent water. It is very nice to watch the hippos swimming in this water. At the Mzima Springs, you’ll take the lunch box.
In the afternoon second game drive in the park. According to the exit time will go to the Lodge where you will stay for dinner and overnight.
In conclusion, early in the morning, after breakfast starts for the last game drive in Tsavo East National Park. At lunchtime, you’ll go to take lunch in Voi.
After lunch start for your final destination, Diani Malindi, Watamu or Mombasa if you need to take flight for your country.
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Thales, according to gossipy Plato, was walking abstractedly, watching the stars, when he fell into a well. I did that a few weeks ago, being preoccupied with the most elevated thoughts when I suddenly found myself lying at the bottom of the well of the NHS. This made me think about several things which no doubt have long been blindingly obvious to fellow citizens who keep their eyes closer to the ground.
In late January I developed a condition called colitis. This is an inflammation of the colon, which shows up as diarrhoea and wind. It can be treated, but since the symptoms could indicate other (and maybe more serious) diseases, the doctors like to get a clear diagnosis before they start. It would be flattering to suppose that it was stress-induced, and the consequences of my selfless labours for peace: all those times I’ve trundled back from Paddington to Worcester station, arriving after midnight having eaten nothing all day but a BR sandwich and an END cup of tea. Unfortunately the boot might have been on a more swollen hoof. For in mid-January I had just flown out as a guest of the Indian Government to an exalted international conference in New Delhi in memory of Indira Gandhi. A little group of us flew out together, Air India, first class: Michael Foot, Jean Floud, William Radice, with Sir Richard Attenborough in pursuit. It was my pleasure to travel with my old friend and newly-minted Dame, Iris Murdoch. I’ve never travelled first before, and well! Cocktails, champagne, caviar, lobster ... Young Dame Iris, by the way, took all as her customary due – no gastronomic problems for her. However fast asleep she seemed to be, she had a preternatural seventh sense to catch the wine waiter passing by.
That was just the start. Imagine the fare in New Delhi for a global conference of amazingly good and wise persons discussing ‘Towards New Beginnings’ at the highest universal level. Generous hospitality, with ministerial banquets night after night. Lunch with the Prime Minister. Exotic foods on every side. And then Air India, first class, back home! Maybe my condition was self-inflicted.
Or it could have been that conference. Colitis can be set off by an allergy. Just think of all those exotic and not always compatible intellectual spices thrown together: Bella Akhmadulina and Chinua Achebe, Régis Debray and Mulk Raj Anand, President Bok of Harvard and Mr Yuri Zhukov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, Simone Veil and Germaine Greer. Interesting and able people all ... well, some. But thrown together without preparation and in pompous session we did worse than a good graduate seminar. Very large rhetoric about universal human ends tends to leave wind in the bowels.
Why did I go? Partly because I admire India’s non-alignment, and because of my father’s friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru. (According to family tradition, Indira, when at Oxford before the war, was married in a private civil ceremony in a sari borrowed from my mother.) And partly to give the British Council one in the eye.
The Council has always struck my name off invitation lists and refused any help to me, sometimes with gratuitous rudeness. In 1985 my wife and I were invited to teach for a few weeks at the University of Nanjing, whose history faculty specialises in British studies. The Council not only refused any help with our fares (which we had to pay in full ourselves) but saw fit to pass on a message from their adviser, the Cultural Attaché in Beijing, to tell the Thompsons that their visit was unnecessary as enough British historians were already visiting China. When we got to Nanjing we found that this same adviser was writing to the history faculty, urging it to invite a scholar much junior to us in our own field, whose visit (it seems) was necessary.
However, through some extraordinary slip (perhaps mistaken identity), the Council had for the first time invited me, last autumn, to lecture in India. I accepted with pleasure, since I was working on my father’s Tagore papers and needed to consult Bengali scholars and Indian libraries. A few weeks later my invitation was rudely cancelled, in a letter from a clerk saying they had run out of money. A number of distinguished Indian historians were kind enough to make public their protest to the Council. It was a pleasure to fly into New Delhi, just at that moment, without benefit of the British Council’s permission. My offer to help organise a jumble sale for the Council has not yet been taken up.
I contributed my own bit of wind to the conference, which brings me back to my interesting post-Delhi condition, which I didn’t get around to taking to my GP until the end of the first week in February, soon after my 63rd birthday.
The GP had to make tests. A week for that. And when these proved negative, a week for other tests. My not unusual condition (as yet undiagnosed) was confused by the false trail of its onset on return from India, which suggested possible amoeba or tropical disease. After two weeks I was referred to the Worcester Royal Infirmary for an appointment with a consultant surgeon who had patched me up for other things before.
I sat down to wait. And lay down. Work was difficult for more than an hour or two a day. Most foods gave me nausea and I was digesting none. I started vomiting and my GP gave me anti-nausea pills. In just over two weeks (11 March) my appointment came through. I was examined, and referred for a barium meal and X-ray as well as more tests. A further nine days for that, and on 20 March I presented myself for the results.
The consultant told me, kindly, that I had acute ulcerating colitis and should come into hospital at once. It seems that I was quite ill (a ‘very severe’ case). I had lost three stone and was dehydrated. It had taken six weeks to gain admission to hospital and I felt as if I was going down like the westering sun.
I went into the surgical ward and waited on a drip for 72 hours for an operation. It seems that Nature has provided us with more entrails than we need, and quite a lot can be taken away and the system still be put back together. No doubt the consultant, a very skilful surgeon, would have pulled it off, but in view of my weak condition he might have found things against him. He called in the consultant physician to try a medical remedy. This consultant, highly-regarded for his skill and concern for his patients, with a steep dosage of steroids and watchful monitoring by his team brought me round the corner, and in four days I was transferred from the surgical to the medical ward. I was put into some order in less than a fortnight, and tipped out on my own home lawn on April Fool’s Day, like a rather weak Easter bunny. The prognosis seems good, and I can count myself a most fortunate person and one of the successes of the NHS.
I like the National Health Service. I think it’s a fine organisation and that British medicine is in good shape. Of course there are awful problems, perhaps in Greater London most of all, where the Thatcherite corrosion of societal bonds is worst. But we must do justice to what is still there.
Over the decades my family has passed through the usual hazards and occasions of life by courtesy of the NHS: the death of parents, the ailments and accidents of children and grandchildren, our own problems. My wife has had rougher experiences than I, but, over all, in four decades of living in industrial West Yorkshire and the West Midlands, we’ve found the NHS to be a humane and professional service. GPs have been attentive and sometimes much more; emergencies efficiently handled; resources improved.
Provincial hospitals have been getting better. (They needed to.) Small events have brought me into them from time to time. Gone are the stale airs of discipline and Poor Law that still lurked in the old Halifax General thirty years ago – and the accompanying religiosity which could victimise those who replied on an admission card that their religion was ‘none’. My wife was once admitted in misery with a baby in double pneumonia: the shocked admissions officer thought she had answered ‘nun’. After that the baby’s oxygen-tent was haunted by ghouls demanding that the infant be christened lest he escape this world without an immortal soul.
Hospital doctors are becoming more courteous. This was commented on by fellow patients of my own age: ‘It’s not like the old days – they talk to you now as if you was an equal.’ ‘You know that consultant? He really listens to what you says.’ There were also, in one of my wards, more women doctors than men – a distinct humanisation and a lessening of the oppressive sense of male professional hierarchy of the old days. I can’t talk about medical expertise and technologies. But from the moment that I entered hospital I never felt that I was not getting the best treatment available. One was aware of path labs and microbiology and X-ray and every kind of scanner humming away.
Most of the private health schemes are cons and parasites on the technologies and resources of the NHS. Most of them tip their patients obligatorily into the NHS for their first six or twelve weeks’ treatment. Except for the clinics of the exceedingly rich, the NHS has far greater resources than a private service could compete with.
The National Health Service is a decent way of dealing with health, and an effective one also. It’s a good deal better than my casual experiences of what happens in the United States. Ten years ago I got a bad boil on my bottom in Pittsburgh. I asked my colleagues to recommend a GP but was told that there wasn’t such an animal – I must decide first if I wanted antibiotics or a surgeon. Well, I couldn’t see my own bottom to diagnose it, but I decided it would be quickest to get the boil lanced. The surgeon charged $1500 (a night in a nursing-home and his own attentions) plus an anaesthetist’s fee. The next day he stood over me, trying to persuade me into other unneeded operations. He even complained because he could not make out a medical case for removing my prostate. That is what I mean by an indecent system.
Of course, sick people can be utterly self-absorbed. When I was quite ill I was sometimes infuriated beyond measure by some error in nursing or foible in hospital routine. But these grumps are trivial beside the real exercises in care and skill. Perhaps because I did come through OK, and am back on my own lawn, I am disposed to give the NHS the best possible of references.
There remains, however, that small problem. There was the six weeks’ delay between presenting myself and getting into hospital, and that little blip of crisis when I awaited surgery and lay in the cold air of the well.
In my second week in hospital a retired foundryman a little older than myself was admitted to the next bed. He had a complaint which had been troubling him for two weeks and which the GP could not diagnose. On the previous Saturday he had become concerned that his condition was worsening and he asked his GP to arrange a consultation ‘on the private’. This was done, at the physician’s house in the evening, and, as a result, he was admitted to hospital on Monday morning.
The consultant’s fee was reasonable: £30. ‘No problem,’ the patient said. In effect, this £30 paid for a private latchkey into hospital. If in other respects his history had been similar to mine he would, by the use of this latchkey, have cut out three to four weeks of waiting around and getting weak. But, from the moment of admission, the treatment would be NHS, public, nothing private at all. This puzzles me. I don’t think it’s dreadful that a conscientious consultant should also have some private practice. And why shouldn’t people spend a little extra on their own health?
Indeed, if it came to the push, I suppose I could have bought a latchkey myself. I was browsing in a bookshop the other day and came across a book by one Roger Scruton about Thinkers of the New Left. It included biographical notes on these Thinkers, of whom I turned out to be one. To my excitement, I found myself described as a man of ‘considerable wealth’.
This was welcome news, and I must write to this Scruton to find out where this wealth is and how I can get hold of it. Perhaps he knows of some fortune about to come to me? Because all that I know is that my net income from all sources – that is, literary and some lecture fees (and I have no other sources) – in 1985-6 was £8,653.62 before tax. That is not poverty, but it is not, I think, what is normally regarded as ‘considerable wealth’ by characteristic figures in Mrs Thatcher’s Britain, such as directors of Guinness and the like. Perhaps even Mr Scruton does a little better? But I find on scanning the dust-jacket that this Scruton is a philosopher, who need not pay regard to inconvenient things like facts. He is engaged in loftier heuristic exercises.
In fact, I know why some in the academic community have for years been telling each other that I am stinking rich. It has this much to it: fifteen years ago a legacy enabled us to buy a large old house in Worcestershire, with room for two studies, all our books and papers, and mortgage-free. We are lucky and we know it.
But the other part is this: the fury of certain academics, including some historians at the venomously ideological history faculty of my old university, Cambridge, that I should be able to go on writing history without a job and without their permission. They thought that when I found that I must leave Warwick that would shut me up. Even friendly academics resent anyone who drops out of the profession to become a writer. Again and again I’ve been told, in envious tones: ‘I’d love to write full-time like you, but ... ’ The ‘but’ implies that they are both more deserving and less fortunate than I. They do not have my ‘considerable wealth’. Some of them may have an odd notion of what being a working writer involves. They imagine it as being one continuous sabbatical, with all expenses paid from some inexhaustible source and with leisure to research and write all the books one had ever imagined – while, of course, drawing the equivalent of a professional salary as reward.
In fact, they could be writers like me if they were ready to risk it. What it required in my case was a good start – a house and an earning book (The Making of the English Working Class); the cashing of my superannuation; my wife’s salary as a university lecturer – and her contribution to our income has been larger than mine; and, every three or four years, generously-paid and rewarding spells teaching at different American universities. In those years our income has shot up and we have dug ourselves out of the red.
I do not know that writing is harder work than university teaching. Both can be hard, but they run according to different rhythms. One is only irritated when one’s acquaintance show that they suppose that a writer’s life is a soft option, a sort of half-employ, by busting in at any time of day, supposing one can always lay work aside. And the world more widely assumes one is a kind of public service, to be granted expenses at the most, and to be turned on on demand like a water-faucet in the public street.
I do not know that the trade of writers is soft. It is a nervously taut, self-driven kind of life. How often, in these past fifteen years, have I looked up and seen the dawn against my study windows?
Sit making marks on paper through the night?
Writing is not spacy sabbaticals strung end to end but cobbling a patchwork livelihood from reviews, articles, royalties, lectures. It can mean lying at the bottom of a well, with no sick-pay and with no superannuation to come, and wondering if Karl Miller would take a piece on all that?
I’m not moaning, just repelling envious scrutoneers. But even if I can’t lay hands on that ‘considerable wealth’ I dare say I could scrape together £30 for a consultant’s fee. Of course I could. The trouble is that, in honour and in principle, I couldn’t and I can’t.
The notion that Edward Thompson is dedicated to avoiding fuss will surprise my old acquaintance, not least any survivors of the leadership of the British Communist Party of 1956 or Lord (‘Flash Harry’) Butterworth, late of Warwick University. I have made one or two public fusses in my day. But a fuss about one’s private convenience – a claim to privilege – is different. There entered here a taboo. And any claim to priority in matters affecting the chances of life was taboo most of all. It was not just the discipline of war, whether active service or being bombed and rationed, when the young, above all, gave priority to the injured, the sick, the children and the old. It was far wider than that. In that almost-democratic, half-anti-Fascist time, the chances of life were shared; in 1941-45 this island was fanned by strange airs of égalité, when the pursuit of private privilege seemed contemptible. And this most of all for the socialist young, who went to the polls in 1945 to vote Labour, Commonwealth, Communist, ILP.
The Health Service, even more than the nationalisation of the pits, expressed the spirit of that time and extended it forward into the future in institutional form. It was designed by the ablest and most socialist minister in Labour’s post-war government. And it expresses in transparent form the first of socialist egalitarian principles: to each according to his or her needs. Of course things are never as simple as that. But the lay person supposes that, in the chances of health and life, medical science is able to determine priorities according to criteria of need, and that no other consideration need enter. In this way the NHS replaced the vocabulary of class with that of citizenship.
I’ve sometimes been surprised to find out how much I care about this. A few years ago I was at a small Manhattan party. It was a time when everyone was being some sort of ‘Marxist’, and most of them were also into ethnic health and food fads and shrinks. Somehow their conversation got around to the British Health Service, which they were running down. They supposed I would join in.
Horror stories were exchanged – one young woman knew this man whose uncle had had to wait EIGHT MONTHS for a simple operation to remove a really painful bunyon and ... I suddenly found myself to be shaking with anger. Wasn’t it right, I asked incoherently, that this uncle should wait in a queue if resources wouldn’t go round and if his need was less than other needs? They looked at me aghast. For them the criterion for judging a service could only be its capacity to satisfy the demands of the consumer. They could scarcely understand that there could be other criteria. Between the assertion of the individual’s right to ego-fulfilment and the notion of the pursuit of the common good, American and British ‘radicalism’ derive from very different sources.
The NHS is also, in a different professional tradition, a service. You go in, you get the best treatment they can give, and at the end of it there is no bill! Of course, your NI contributions and taxes have paid for that. But it is really nice that it is free. No one makes you feel guilty if your share of the service has been greater than others.
One might think up much grander socialist structures, although one might be advised to find out if they worked before exchanging them for what we have. Two or three years ago a friend of mine, a lifelong socialist, slipped and broke her ankle in socialist Budapest. To get it X-rayed and excellently set, as an out-patient in a leading hospital, required influence at a High Party Level. Even odder, the translator who accompanied her through the corridors took her through a series of imposts: the tip was so much at admissions, so much to the nurse, so much to the porter who wheeled her chair. Can one imagine tipping a nurse or a porter in our NHS?
One is not supposed to say anything good about British things these days, and writing all this down makes me feel old. I have to say that I find the NHS to be both decent and humanely socialist, but I dare say it won’t last much longer. Every tree we planted in those almost-democratic years is coming under the axe.
What makes me feel old, also, is the realisation that what I had thought to be widely-held principles are now little more than quaint survivals among the least flexible of my generation. We had supposed, quite fiercely, that one didn’t try to bend the rules. If people wanted to pay for convenience or for extras – good spectacles or special dentures or nursing-home deliveries or convalescent comfort – we could go along with that. But access to the essential resources of the service must be ruled by égalité. And we believed that professional people (those who were socialists) should be loyal to this most of all. For if they started buying private latchkeys, then the whole system would start to get fouled up with the double standards and hierarchies of class.
Times and manners have changed. The generation which fought for the NHS, and which now has come to that stage of life where they need it most, must jostle with the assertive anti-moralistic young. Everyone is into latchkeys, technicians and skilled workers as well. If my wife and I and a few friends want to hold out for old ‘principles’ no one is going to stop us. But I have to recognise now that such a stiff-backed sense of honour could cost even risk to one’s life. And if we still choose to be like that, can one possibly make the same choice for another – a child or a grandchild? And by what right?
One is left with a ‘principle’ that the young can’t even understand, which is ineffectual (unless self-damaging), and which is really a private notion of honour. Or a stuffy habit of the old. And I suddenly can see the survivors of that socialist age-cohort as historical reliques, like the old Covenanter in The Heart of Midlothian. Those of us who stay loyal to the old imperatives and taboos – the oaths of égalité – are a goldmine for the oral historian, and Raphael Samuel will collect us as specimens in a nostalgic book.
Not many did stay loyal, though, to the oaths of 1942 or 1945. Most proved adaptable. We’ve all adapted a bit. Which reminds me that I neglected to congratulate the young Dame on the new handle added to her name. The neglect was studied. One had supposed, in those old Covenanting days, that serious writers did not accept that kind of handle from the state – and least of all from a mean and malevolently philistine government like this. How could Iris Murdoch have forgotten the oaths of yesteryear? I would be glad to see her honoured by the public or by her peers. But is it an honour to carry a warrant of approval from Mrs Thatcher?
Oh well, never mind, Dame Iris. I’ve blurted it out because no one else would dare. Or perhaps no one else notices these metamorphoses of cultures and moralities any more? The times I was remembering have long been wrapped up. Today they snigger at égalité and the whole business of state is to conspire against the common good. But for a few more years, since my generation needs it for its terminal episodes, let the National Health Service survive.
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2019-04-20T00:34:37Z
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/v09/n09/ep-thompson/diary
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2019-04-24T23:55:49Z
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https://www.lulubbeauty.co/testimonials
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A separation agreement is used to record any agreement between a separating couple.
A typical separation agreement will record what is to happen to money and property after a couple separate.
It can also be used to record arrangements for children.
A separation agreement drafted by a solicitor or barrister is often also known as a deed of separation.
Deeds are different from an ordinary agreement and are intended to be legally binding documents.
Do you need help with a separation agreement? Fees from £180.
When do you need a separation agreement?
You need a separation agreement when you want to be able to prove the terms of an agreement after separation.
This is typically a financial agreement, but can also include arrangements for children.
A separation agreement or deed of separation can help protect you from future financial claims on divorce.
Proving you are actually separated.
There are also times when you will need a separation agreement simply to prove that you are separated.
If you claim child benefit and your spouse or partner earns more than £50,000 per year. You may need to prove you no longer live together as a couple. This is more likely if you are still under one roof.
When buying a property separately from your spouse or partner if stamp duty is payable.
Some mortgage lenders like evidence of an agreement to pay maintenance to prove your income.
Separation agreements are useful for both married and unmarried couples.
Use the contact form below to get in touch. I’ll take some more details to be able to provide you with a quote.
A straightforward, clean break separation agreement, where there are limited or no assets is £180.
If you need to change the way a property is owned or pay a lump sum, this is usually £225.
Please note that pension sharing can only be done by court order on divorce.
There is no charge for routine correspondence and communication, taking your details for preparation of the documents.
Telephone consultations and bespoke advice can be arranged.
Consultations are charged for separately. These fees will always be agreed beforehand. There are no hidden charges.
Contact us to make an enquiry. It won’t cost you anything.
We can go over the details and confirm the fee before undertaking any work.
Writing your own separation agreement – is it legally binding?
It is useful to write down what you have agreed between you. Do this when you are having a conversation or meeting about it.
If it is clear and unambiguous it may be upheld by a court, but there is no guarantee.
You should ask a solicitor to put it into a more formal legal document. A solicitor drafted separation agreement makes it clear that it is intended to be legally binding.
Mistakes in a home-made separation agreement.
It’s possible that homemade separation agreement will includes terms you don’t want or understand.
This is more likely if you use an off the peg or free separation agreement template from the internet.
Often these use terms that seem more appropriate for use in another country.
They usually contain jargon that may seem to mean one thing, but in fact means another.
If upheld, these may make the situation worse than no agreement at all, if it says something you didn’t intend.
Recent rulings all point towards people being bound to separation agreements, even if they didn’t take advice beforehand.
Think carefully before downloading a free sample.
Mistakes are easily made and often impossible to fix later.
If something is worth protecting, we recommend that you don’t use a free template.
Free separation agreement templates can be a bit hit and miss.
Think of them as a bit like a voice recognition on a phone or a translation tool.
If you’re asking it to do something really simple, it can perform quite well. But you wouldn’t want to rely on it in court.
On the subject of court, what happens if that’s where you end up anyway?
Can the terms of a separation agreement be challenged in court?
A separation agreement is usually intended to be a final financial settlement.
Where the terms of the separation agreement are fair, it is very likely to be upheld. A properly drafted separation agreement need to be signed and witnessed without pressure. It is very likely to be binding even if one of you changes your mind afterwards.
If the terms of the agreement aren’t fair this is entirely different. Those sorts of agreements may well be challenged.
If I think that the terms of your agreement don’t look fair, I can help you alter it.
A separation agreement is intended to be legally binding and can usually be used as evidence in court proceedings.
it isn’t likely to be upheld in the family court.
Remember what looks clear to you may be not be clear to someone else.
Let’s say there is a disagreement over what was agreed. The separation agreement needs to be unambiguous to be of any real use at all.
The worst type of separation agreement is one which you thought said one thing and in fact said another.
If you want to be sure that your agreement says what you intend, the safest way is to ask a solicitor to draft it for you.
If you’re buying a property following a separation from your spouse or partner, you need to know about stamp duty.
You need to show evidence that you and your spouse or partner are separated. The government has guidance on its website.
therefore in writing and properly executed.
to show HMRC that you are no longer living together as a couple and you intend this to be permanent.
Your marriage or civil partnership must have broken down in order to claim the exemption for stamp duty.
If you have an agreement in relation to property it is imperative that this is recorded in writing. This is especially if it’s anything other than is exactly on the title deeds themselves.
If you don’t know, check.
I’ve represented many people over the years in relation to property claims. I can’t stress enough how important it is to record any agreement about rights in or over property.
You may need to prove it many years down the line, possibly even after one of you has died.
If you can’t prove what you agreed, you may lose everything.
When your home is everything that is particularly distressing. A separation agreement or deed of separation may prevent that.
Property law in England and Wales is very strictly interpreted.
Married couples have some protection in relation to each other whilst they are both alive. But it’s very different once one person has died – and there are no special rules at all for unmarried couples.
If you want to be sure your agreement in relation to property is enforceable it must be in a deed. And it must be properly drawn up and witnessed.
Finally, any form of document which creates a legal charge over a property must be a deed. It must be drawn up by a regulated business such as a solicitor as it is a reserved legal instrument.
You can independently verify the training and competence of the solicitor doing work for you.
Do I need an official stamp to show that I am separated?
Unlike a consent order on divorce, a separation agreement does not have an official seal or stamp.
Usually a formal deed of separation/separation agreement will be accepted at face value by government and local authorities. For example, HMRC and council tax offices when you apply for council tax relief and tax credits etc.
You will not have a sealed document as such until there is a decree nisi or absolute of divorce/decree of dissolution.
If you want to apply for a mortgage some mortgage lenders may accept a separation/maintenance agreement to prove receipt of maintenance. However you should check this with the individual lender as some may require a consent order.
If you want to change your name after separation you can use a change of name deed to do so.
Who decides what happens to our property when we have a separation agreement?
You do is the simple answer.
You can talk it through between you or with the help of family or friends. Or, you can choose professional help from a solicitor or mediator.
You need to consider your rights and responsibilities carefully. If you need help, you should discuss your options with a mediator. One option is to start divorce proceedings to enable you to apply for a financial order (for example maintenance and property adjustment).
What is a judicial separation as opposed to separation?
Judicial separation is a formal legal process very similar to divorce, with one important distinction – there is no decree absolute. Therefore you remain married although legally recognised as judicially separated.
The court has the power on pronouncement of a decree of judicial separation, to make financial orders such as maintenance and property adjustment in much the same way as it does on divorce.
By contrast, separation without going through formal judicial separation proceedings does not alter your legal status as husband and wife/civil partners. You remain each other’s next of kin and will automatically inherit each other’s estate on death under the rules of intestacy if there is no will and be able to challenge a will if one exists and makes no provision for the survivor.
Whilst you are married/civil partners (even if separated) there remain important rights and responsibilities to maintain each other, occupy the family home and share the assets of the marriage/civil partnership.
If you agree arrangements touching on any of these issues it is advisable to write this agreement down in a way which would be considered legally binding. This is known as a separation agreement.
Who would use judicial separation proceedings?
In reality they are rare. People who hold strong religious or moral views may choose to be judicially separated rather than divorced.
Occasionally, where people have been married less than a year when they separate and cannot divorce, they may use the procedure to claim financial relief. However, if they later wish to be divorced they will have to start all over again to finally receive a decree absolute.
Most people who are intending to divorce after being separated wait for two years before commencing divorce proceedings based on the fact that they both consent to a divorce. It is very rare for these people to judicially separate first.
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2019-04-26T12:17:01Z
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https://nicolawilliams.co.uk/separation-agreement-factsheet/
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The LA office market has been hot lately, posting its best quarter since the financial crisis. Two of the biggest drivers of this growth have been entertainment companies and tech firms, which continue to expand at an impressive rate.
Veteran developers who have been building in the area for decades find themselves working extensively on office projects, citing the growth and opportunity they are providing. Buoyed by large office leases from companies such as City National Bank, Warner Music Group, and Kite Pharma, 2.1 million square feet of office space was absorbed in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties during one quarter, the most in one quarter since 2000.
The 2.1 million square feet figure comes from the change in occupied office space between the amounts of space leased compared to vacated, and is a measure often used to determine how well the real estate market is doing in a particular area. This change has increased the development of office spaces, as developers see the potential for markets. For example, the developer of projects such as the Water Garden in Santa Monica is currently working on three separate projects which are worth $500 million altogether.
One interesting dynamic is that the increased demand could mean that landlords will wield more power when the time comes to negotiate leases with tenants who are in particularly popular areas and neighborhoods. All of this activity in Los Angeles comes in contrast to many major cities through the country which have seen office markets slow.
Because Los Angeles was a little slower to recover from the recession, a bevy of new local businesses or either being formed or expanded, causing this high level of demand and activity. This growth mode means many are preparing for a strong year both in leasing and sales.
The biggest driver of the office market boom in recent months has come from the entertainment sector, with web-based companies such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon entering the market to create new shows and productions. They are joined by other media companies like Youtube, Snapchat, and BuzzFeed who all seek to create news and entertainment for their users. These types of companies have been especially drawn to area in Hollywood, Playa Vista, Santa Monica, and Venice.
What has resulted is a mix of Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, with these tech companies seek to start and expand the media content of their businesses. Included in new tenants in the area are companies such as Broad Green Pictures and Formosa Group, both of which are in the entertainment sector.
Another area that has seen a big boom is in Santa Monica, which has traditionall been a major hub for tech in Los Angelees. It is one of the most expensive areas in the city with landlords asking for $5.61 per square foot per month, but still accounted for a quarter of all of the absorption in Los Angeles. This $5.61 figure is up from $5.43 last quarter, an 18 cent growth.
As a whole, the vacancy rate in Los Angeles dropped to 13.3%, nearly 2 percentage points lower than a year before. Meanwhile, average asking prices for rents increased by 5 cents over that time, up to an average of $2.94 a square foot per month. In Downtown Los Angeles, vacancy rates sit at 16.8%, which is down almost 1 percent from the year before, while asking price for rents increased by 3 cents per square foot.
The areas that experienced the great activity for both leases and increases in rent were in western Los Angeles County, with cities such as Playa Vista, El Segundo, and Culver City.
Many experts are projecting a strong 2017 but a relative lull in 2018 and 2019. This is due to it being a full decade since the financial crisis, which slowed the market down. It is common for large leases to last for ten years, which means that fewer leases than normal will be hitting the market during 2018 and 2019, because less leases were being signed a decade ago.
However, that hasn’t slowed developers down, as there is about 2.2 million square feet of office space under construction across Los Angeles. The biggest area of growth is in Hollywood, which is seeing almost 600,000 square feet of office space being built. Developers are eager to cash in on the strong demand and increased rents being charged across the city.
Some US firms are choosing Mexico over China for manufacturing and assembly production, particularly Northern Baja, and we’ve assembled corporate and real estate experts, government and EDC officials to share their insight at Bisnow‘s first Future of the Cali-Baja Megaregion event April 7 at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina in Downtown San Diego.
Northern Baja is particularly attractive since it is adjacent to its largest trading partner and conveniently located near large US distribution centers and the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. The area offers a highly skilled labor force, with wages on average $2.50/hour in Mexico vs. $2.30/hour in China—one-fourth the minimum wage this side of the border, Synergy Real Estate Group Corporate Advisory president/CEO John Galaxidas tells us. John, one of our event speakers, specializes in corporate tenant representation on both sides of the border. His firm has five California offices and one in Tijuana.
China has long championed its position as the world’s lowest-cost manufacturing location, but in recent years has lagged behind other countries, particularly Mexico, he says. A survey by AlixPartners of 142 senior manufacturing and distribution executives found 86% plan to increase their foreign manufacturing presence closer to the US over the next two to three years. Data from Boston Consulting Group revealed manufacturing in Mexico is now 4% cheaper than in China.
Another of our speakers, USD Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate director Stath Karras, tells us the Cali-Baja Megaregion, which encompasses Tijuana, Tecate, Mexicali and Imperial and San Diego counties, is particularly attractive because of its intellectual resources. Stath is snapped here with his son James.
Among advantages provided by NAFTA is speedy, cost-efficient movement of products from Latin America to US markets, John says. Comparatively, the cost to ship goods to US East Coast markets from Mexico is less than half of products coming from China. Due to distance, customs and importation the difference in transit time from Mexico vs. China is as much as three weeks.
Stath tells us Northern Baja is attracting firms engaged in medical device assembly, which requires clean-room facilities, the most expensive type of assembly facility to build. John says locating in the Cali-Baja Megaregion provides US firms greater control over production and access to highly skilled labor, which is why Rochester, NH-based Phase 2 Medical Device Manufacturing chose to build a 30k SF manufacturing facility in Tijuana, rather than in China or Costa Rica.
He says electronic manufacturers like Mexico. There’s also a strong presence of military contractors, including Boeing, manufacturing military equipment there.
Cross-border economic activity is having a positive impact on the economy and real estate on both sides of the Cali-Baja Megaregion. The benefits of bi-national economic activity has opened dialogue between the mayors of San Diego and Tijuana, as well as the business communities on both sides of the border.
Speaking at a NAIOP event, SD Mayor Kevin Faulconer, above, said strengthening San Diego’s vital relationship with Tijuana is among his highest priorities. “Organizations on both sides of the international border are collectively working to ensure country lines don’t act as economic barriers,” he said.
A major milestone in this direction was the opening of the Cross Border Xpress (CBX) terminal at Tijuana International Airport in December 2015. The terminal, and its 390-foot Sky Bridge, provides a gateway to destinations in the Caribbean and Central and South America.
Major US business operations in the Cali-Baja MegaRegion include Sempra Energy (above), which is developing energy infrastructure in Mexicali and plans to supply all of Mexico with natural gas. As a result, new homes are rising alongside a huge natural gas plant under construction between Ensenada and San Diego.
Kyocera has established a solar module manufacturing plant in Tijuana, and Trimco, a former LA-based company that manufacturers brass moldings for medical equipment, recently moved its production facility, Builders Brass de Mexico—the firm’s Mexican counterpart—to Tijuana. Trimco purchased a building in Oceanside for the firm’s HQ, which employs 250 people.
LA-based Millennium Partners is under way on a 210-acre mixed-use development in the Otay Ranch area which was master planned by Stratford Land. Called Millenia (pictured is a rendering of the town center), it includes 3,000 residential units and 3.5M SF of commercial space (hospitality, retail, office and civic uses).
This Cali-Baja gateway project will focus on attracting tenants that work on both sides of the border, work for companies with headquarters in San Diego County and manufacturing facilities in Mexico, or are involved in the logistics of moving products to market. Construction on Phase 1 began in August 2013.
“Tijuana’s economy is booming, and there is very little industrial space available,” John continues, noting vacancy, which was 15% a couple of years ago, is now just 3%. As a result, lots of new industrial REITs are being formed in Mexico to build new product to keep up with demand for additional warehouse space in the region.
That includes a partnership of Deutsche Bank and FIBRA Macquarie-Mexico (FIBRAMQ), a major Mexico-based commercial real estate developer of 274 industrial properties across that country.
JLL is putting together partnerships with US investors and Mexican REITs to build facilities all over Mexico, John says. Irvine-based SENTRE Partners has formed a partnership with Mexican industrial developer VESTA.
There is lots of inexpensive land available in Baja (above is an industrial site for sale in Tijuana), John says. “The overall lower cost and efficiency of locating industrial facilities close to where labor lives makes perfect sense,“ he adds, citing the economics of warehousing goods in Tijuana vs. Otay Mesa, which offers the most competitive industrial rates in the region. While Otay Mesa industrial space rents for 60 to 70 cents/SF Gross, it is substantially less on the other side of the border at 40 to 50 cents.
Hear more from John and Stath at Bisnow’s The Future of the Cali-Baja Megaregion event on April 7, beginning at 7am with breakfast and networking at the Sheraton Hotel & Marina, 590 Harbor Island Dr, in Downtown San Diego.
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1) Doink (Matt Osborne) beat Jim Powers (Robert Mooneyham) in 5:57.
Fun Fact: A big debut here as the much-heralded brothers from Michigan make their debuts. Scott Steiner and his brother Rick started in WCW in 1989 and quickly moved up the tag team ranks, winning their first of 3 WCW Tag Team titles in November of that year over the Freebirds. Even though both men were talented grapplers, promoters seemed to think Scott had what it took to be a solo star, but he was hesitant to leave his brother behind, something that would happen more than once during his career. Scott won the WCW Television Title in late-1992, but vacated it when both he and Rick left for the WWF.
Fun Fact: Jannetty made his big surprise return on the October 31, 1992 edition of Superstars when he jumped out of the crowd, grabbed Michaels’ mirror from Sherri and lined up to whack HBK with it, however, when Michaels turned around and pulled Sherri in front as Marty swung the mirror, crushing Sherri in the face and knocking her out cold. Sherri would be off TV for a month and a half, and her return was teased for the Rumble with the question of whose side she would be on. Sherri stayed neutral for most of the match, but eventually turned on Shawn by slapping him. At the end of the match, she went to hit Michaels with her shoe, but hit Marty instead, giving HBK the win. Jannetty would leave again right after the match, not returning until later in the year, and Sherri would jump and manage whoever feuded with Michaels until she left in the summer of 1993.
Fun Fact: This was a real transition match, as Bigelow makes his first PPV appearance since Wrestlemania IV and Boss Man makes his last for almost 6 years. The funny thing is, these two man criss-crossed career paths from 1988 on. Bigelow left WWF in the summer of 1988, right when Boss Man made his debut. Bigelow then returned to the WWF in 1993 right as the Boss Man was leaving for WCW. Then, when Boss Man left WCW for WWF in 1998, Bigelow was getting ready to return in late-1998. Weird stuff. Anyway, this is Boss Man’s last PPV, as he would be gone just weeks after this match. His final match was on Superstars against Doink in late January. The match was Boss Man’s final one, but was Doink’s first official TV match. The match happened because a few weeks earlier, Doink set up a trip wire in the aisle sending Boss Man flying into the aisle. Needless to say, Boss Man was pissed and the match was made. At the end of the match, Doink sprayed ink in the Boss Man’s eyes, causing him to be sidelined. After a few weeks, the health updates stopped coming, Doink started feuding with Crush and Boss Man was headed to Atlanta.
Fun Fact: Right before this match, Razor Ramon ambushed Owen Hart on one of the first episodes of WWF Mania. The shot of Razor clotheslining Owen out of his chair was replayed numerous times heading into the match, and was even put into the opening credits of Mania.
Fun Fact: This is the first Royal Rumble where the winner got a World Title shot at Wrestlemania, adding some excitement and meaning to the match that had been lacking from 1988-1991.
Fun Fact II: Yokozuna tied the record for latest entry in the Rumble to win (#27). He tied Big John Studd, who entered #27 and won the 1989 Rumble.
Fun Fact III: It took just one year for Ric Flair’s longevity record of 59:26 to be broken. Bob Backlund outlasted Flair, starting at number 2 and lasting 61:10. The record has since been broken twice (Chris Benoit in 2004 and Rey Mysterio in 2006).
Fun Fact IV: This show marks the first WWF PPV match for Jerry Lawler, otherwise known as “The King.” Lawler cut his wrestling teeth in Memphis in the early 1970s, training with the great Jackie Fargo. By the late 70s Lawler was the man in Memphis, winning its top title numerous times. He also wrestled Ric Flair for the NWA World Title, and in fact won the AWA World Title from Curt Hennig in 1987. He was involved in a convoluted merger of titles involving the USWA, World Class and the AWA in 1988, which included Lawler holding all 3 of those world titles at once. His most high-profile feud was with comedian Andy Kaufman in 1982, which also included a memorable profanity-laced episode of “Late Night with David Letterman.” It was revealed in Kaufman’s bio-pic “Man on the Moon” that Lawler and Kaufman had pre-planned the entire feud. Lawler debuted on Prime Time Wrestling as Bobby Heenan’s replacement anchor for Mr. Perfect. Lawler would take up commentary duties on Superstars and also dabble in the ring from time to time. He also continued to book and wrestle in the Memphis-based USWA, which he owned.
Fun Fact V: Let’s just take a moment to mention some other new faces in this match. Max Moon debuted on Superstars in October of 1992 and was basically supposed to be some sort of outer space type guy. He had a funky blue suit and wore a jet pack on his back. He was actually on the first episode of Monday Night Raw, as he battled Shawn Michaels for the Intercontinental Title. The role was originally supposed to be played by Konnan, who was part of the Mexican AAA promotion, but he bailed on the gimmick before he ever wore the costume. Instead, perennial jobber Paul Diamond donned the costume and played Max Moon until he disappeared back to outer space in late March. Also back on the scene is Terry Taylor, who we last saw clucking his way into the 1990 Royal Rumble as the Red Rooster. This time he is back under his real name, with the “Terrific” moniker. He wouldn’t make much progress as an active competitor, and would be relegated to interviewing duties by the summer while still popping up on house shows through August. One more debut is Carlos Colon, the Puerto Rican legend who was brought in as a one time shot to participate in the Rumble. He was a big deal in his home land, but doesn’t get to much of a pop here, and is actually called “youngster” by Gorilla Monsoon. A final debut is the insane Damien Demento, who makes his one and only PPV appearance here. He, like Max Moon, also wrestled on the first Monday Night Raw, as he battled the Undertaker in the Main Event of that show. Demento was best known as Mondo Kleen in Memphis, and would stick around as a jobber to the stars until September.
Fun Fact VI: Well, we had some debuts, but we also have some farewells. This would be the last time we see Ric Flair on a WWF PPV for the next 9 years, as he would lose a Loser Leaves Town to Mr. Perfect match the next night on Raw. He would return home to WCW and stay there until they closed up shop in 2001. This also marks the end of Papa Shango’s run. He had been around for a year or so, but this is the first, and only, time he appears on PPV. Don’t fret, however, for he would be back soon under a whole new persona. This is also the end of the road for Skinner who put on some solid performances over the past year, with his best bout coming at Tuesday in Texas against Bret Hart. Also making a quiet exit into the night is Koko B. Ware. Koko debuted in 1987 and has been a PPV mainstay throughout his career. We mentioned his record in our last review, but I thought he warranted a mention here. Another mid-carder who debuted in late 1991 will make his final appearance in this Rumble as well, and that is the Berzerker. Best known for his brief feud with the Undertaker, where he tried to impale him with a sword, the Berzerker would disappear back to the Indies and wouldn’t be seen until the late 1990s, when he popped back up in WCW as a jobber under his real name, John Nord. Also, on a more high profile level, this the final PPV appearance of Knobbs and Sags, the Nasty Boys. The Nasties debuted in late 1990 and had a pretty damn good run with the WWF, picking up a Tag Title reign along the way. Their final record was 3-5 with wins coming at Wrestlemania VII, Survivor Series 1991 and 1992. Finally, also making his final PPV appearance is the Repo Man, otherwise known as Barry Darsow or Smash of Demolition. Repo would hang on a little bit longer and actually have a brief feud with Randy Savage, culminating with a match on the 1/25 Raw. His final appearance was on March 28 and he would be in WCW by the end of the year, where he would spend the rest of career under a variety of gimmicks.
Justin: A fun, yet bland Rumble. Heading in there were 4 possibilities who could win: Perfect, Yokozuna, Undertaker and Macho Man. You couldn’t add Flair really because his leaving for WCW just weeks later was common knowledge. In fact, they are pumping up the Perfect-Flair Loser Leaves Town Match for the next night through the whole Rumble. Add that to Heenan’s calm nature when Flair is number 1 and is eliminated, and you know Flair didn’t have the juice he had just one year ago. Then, when Taker is tossed halfway through by Gonzalez and Perfect goes out early by Lawler, you are left with two REAL possibilities out of the last 15 guys. I remember a lot of people (myself included) thinking Hulk Hogan was going to make his triumphant return as a mystery guy and win the thing, but he did not, thus providing us with the most predictable winner ever. The crowd, as we keep saying stays alive through the match and as they realize history was being made, really start rallying behind the recently returned Bob Backlund, as he attempts to break Ric Flair’s longevity record that had been set one year earlier. The Rumble is good, but not spectacular, but gets the major points and feud story plots across just fine. Everyone puts out a good effort and the crowd seemed to enjoy it, so you can’t ask for too much more, really.
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How Much Revenue from Limiting Deductibility?
One unattractive aspect of having certain expenditures be deductible in the U.S. tax code is that any deduction is worth more to someone in a higher tax bracket. Thus, when it comes to typical deductions like the mortgage interest deduction, the deduction for state and local taxes, the deduction for charitable contributions, or the deduction for large out-of-pocket health care expenditures, someone in a 35% tax bracket saves 35 cents off their tax bill for each $1 of deductible expense, while someone in a 15% tax bracket saves only 15 cents off their tax bill for each $1 of deductible expense. Of course, the two-third of taxpayers who don't have enough of these specific expenses to make it worthwhile to itemize their deductions just take the standard deduction, and get nothing extra off their tax bill for these expenses.
Proposals are always kicking around to reduce deductibility, by limiting the tax savings from a deductible expense to say, 28% or even 15%. How much revenue might such proposals raise?
What about limiting deductibility to 28%?
[A] proposal from the Obama Administration ... would limit the benefit of itemized deductions to 28 percent. .. Thus, for example, an additional $100 of itemized deductions would save a taxpayer in the 35 percent bracket only $28 rather than $35. The 28 percent limitation on itemized deductions would raise an estimated $288 billion over the next ten years compared with current law ... Relative to current policy, the proposal would raise $164 billion.
The 5.3 million affected households in the top quintile would see their taxes go up by an average of about $2,900. The average tax increase for the 697,000 affected households in the top 1 percent would be about $13,300. Almost all of the tax increase—99.8 percent—would fall on households in the top quintile of the income distribution—those with cash incomes greater than $111,000. ... The top 1 percent would bear 61 percent and the top 0.1 percent would pay a little more than one-third."
What about limiting deductibility to 15%?
The Congressional Budget Office does a regular report called "Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options." In the March 2011 report, Revenues--Option 7 is ""Limit the Tax Benefit of Itemized Deductions to 15 Percent." CBO estimates that this change could raise $1,180 billion over the next 10 years relative to current law, which is roughly four times as much as the 28% limitation would raise. The CBO doesn't do a distributional analysis, but this change would only affect those who already itemize deductions, and would have by far its largest effect on those with higher incomes.
Of course, there are justifications for the existing tax deductions, and reasons and history behind the justifications, and interest groups behind it all. But in a situation where all the meaningful options for long-term deficit reduction are going to be painful in one way or another, limiting deductibility has some advantages. It would raise revenue from those with higher incomes without increasing the marginal income tax rates, or part of the revenue could even be used to reduce the top marginal rates. Limiting deductibility also reduces the role of the federal government in certain aspects of the economy like providing incentives for greater mortgage borrowing. It should be in the mix of possibilities.
For a related post several weeks ago, see "Tax Expenditures: One Way Out of the Budget Morass."
dollar didn’t have reserve status, it would have collapsed a long time ago."
"In China today, half of GDP is in the form of fixed investment, while consumption is only 35 percent – and falling. That is not sustainable because no country can productively invest half its GDP for very long. Historically, every case of over-investment – the Soviet Union, East Asia in the 90s – has ended in a hard landing."
The recovery in the Asian emerging markets has been a “V” [rather than a “U”] because their financial fundamentals were much sounder and they don’t have balance sheet problems comparable to the U.S. and Europe. In some countries, though, that recovery’s now leading to overheating.
therefore Asia is in danger of both goods and asset inflation."
"Tim Geithner and others say they’re in favor of a strong dollar. But we actually need a weaker dollar, maybe 15 percent on a trade-weighted basis. Think about it rationally. Because of the asset bubble collapse, domestic demand is going to be anemic. So in order to maintain growth even close to potential, we need to reduce our trade deficit. How do you reduce this trade deficit? We have to have more private and public savings – but that’s going to slow down domestic demand even more. Therefore we need a weaker exchange rate to gradually improve the trade balance."
capacity is currently not used. Why would you want to do a lot of investment where there is excess capacity?"
A standard pattern in economic growth is that a rise in per capita GDP is accompanied by a larger share of the population living in urban areas. Thomas Nechyba and Randall Walsh describe the U.S. experience in a Fall 2004 article on "Urban Sprawl" in my own Journal of Economic Perspectives: "Only slightly more than 5 percent of the U.S. population lived in urban areas in 1790, a figure that had tripled by 1850 and surpassed 50 percent by 1920. By the 2000 Census, 79 percent of all Americans lived in areas designated as “urban” by the Census Bureau.
But the trend toward urbanization is international, as the UNFPA noted in its 2007 State of World Population report on the theme: "Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth." "In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas."
The McKinsey Global Institute has published a couple of interesting reports on global urbanization recent months. "Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities," came out in March 2011.
the same. ... Today, major urban areas in developed regions are, without doubt, economic giants.
Here are predictions from McKinsey on the world's top 25 cities in 2025, ranked by GDP, per capita GDP, GDP growth, and Total population. Cities in blue are in the developing world, and they dominate the last two columns.
Cities in economic terms are bundles of economies of scale and agglomeration. For example, cities can act as a hub for economies of scale in production and lower transportation costs. They can provide a density of potential workers, employers, and customers, in a way that reduces risk for all parties and enables a greater division of labor. They can facilitate spillovers of information and skills, and serve as a breeding ground for entrepreneurship. However, the power of scale and agglomeration have a negative side, as well. The cost of living and especially housing is typically higher in cities. Agglomeration can lead to pollution and stress on infrastructure, including congested transportation facilities and issues in providing water and electricity. Urban networking can can also facilitate criminal activity. Cities often create extremes of wealth and poverty rubbing shoulders, which can create political and social stresses. (For an exposition of cities along these lines, see Edward L. Glaeser's article "Are Cities Dying" in the Spring 1998 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, which is too far back to be freely available on-line, but can be downloaded if you have access to JSTOR).
The McKinsey Global Institute makes this point as well: "As urban centers grow, they benefit from agglomeration—or economies of scale—that enable many industries and service sectors to have higher productivity than they do in a rural setting. It is also much less expensive to provide goods and services in concentrated population centers. Our research indicates that the cost of delivering basic services such as water, housing, and education is 30 to 50 percent cheaper in concentrated population centers than it is in sparsely populated areas. Very large cities attract the most talent and inward investment, and they are often at the center of a cluster of smaller cities, which creates network effects that spur economic growth and productivity."
But as McKinsey also argues that while huge cities are engines of economic growth, they can become so large that their diseconomies begin to slow them down. The largest future growth may not be in the largest cities: "Contrary to common perception, megacities have not been driving global growth for the past 15 years. In fact, many have not grown faster than their host economies, and we expect this trend to continue. We estimate that today’s 23 megacities will contribute just over 10 percent of global growth to 2025, below their 14 percent share of global GDP today. Instead, we see the 577 fast-growing middleweights in the City 600 contributing half of global growth to 2025, gaining share from today’s megacities."
The McKinsey Global Institute has takes up these issues of how the cities can contribute to growth, but also how the size of cities can limit their growth, in a series of reports, including a February 2009 report on cities in China, and an April 2010 report on urbanization in India.
"Cities are critical to Latin America’s overall economy. The region’s 198 large cities—defined as having populations of 200,000 or more—together contribute over 60 percent of GDP today. The ten largest cities alone generate half of that output. Such a concentration of urban economic activity among the largest cities is comparable with the picture in the United States and Western Europe today but is much more concentrated than in any other emerging region. China’s top ten cities, for instance, contribute around 20 percent of the nation’s GDP."
"Yet Latin America has already won a large share of the easy gains that come from expanding urban populations. Today, many of Latin America’s largest cities are grappling with traffic gridlock, housing shortages, and pollution, all symptoms of diseconomies of scale. For the region’s largest cities to sustain their growth, they need to be able to address challenges not only to their economic performance but also to the quality of life experienced by their citizens, sustainable resource use, and the strength of their finances and governance."
"Between 2007 and 2025, we expect the region’s top ten cities to display below-average growth in both population and GDP, while the rest of Latin America’s large cities are likely to expand their populations at an above-average rate. These cities are projected to generate almost 40 percent of the region’s overall growth between 2007 and 2025, almost 1.5 times the growth the top ten cities are expected to generate. What accounts for this shift in the balance of economic power? In Latin America’s largest cities, signs of diseconomies of scale such as congestion and pollution have started to outweigh scale benefits, diminishing the quality of life they can offer citizens and sapping their economic dynamism. At the same time, economic liberalization across the region has reversed the centralizing bias that concentrated economic activity in the largest cities. The more decentralized economic approach has given middleweight cities a boost. These medium-sized urban centers lag behind larger cities in their per capita GDP today, but many have not yet run into the diseconomies of scale faced by larger cities."
High textbook prices are modest problem in the context of soaring costs of higher education, but many of the costs of tuition and room and board are more-or-less concealed from many students, while textbook costs are in their faces and their pocketbooks. According to a recent short story in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 in 10 Students Have Skipped Buying a Textbook Because of Its Cost, Survey Finds." The article refers to a survey done by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group of 1,905 students at a range of 13 campuses. "Separate analyses from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group have found that textbook costs are typically comparable to 26 percent of tuition at state universities and 72 percent of tuition at community colleges."
“Annual per student expenditures on textbooks can easily approach $700 to $1,000 today."
“Increasing at an average of 6 percent per year, textbook prices nearly tripled from December 1986 to December 2004, while tuition and fees increased by 240 percent and overall inflation was 72 percent."
"While many factors affect textbook pricing, the increasing costs associated with developing products designed to accompany textbooks, such as CD-ROMs and other instructional supplements, best explain price increases in recent years."
"U.S. college textbook prices may exceed prices in other countries because prices reflect market conditions found in each country, such as the willingness and ability of students to purchase the textbook."
Economics textbooks are not exempt from these trends, of course. Take a look at prices for the best-selling and best-known introductory economics textbooks. A copy of the full-year, micro and macro version will typically list at more than $200, although students can often get discounted copies at sellers like Amazon.com for about $170-$180.
My solution is my own introductory textbook, "Principles of Economics." The second edition of this text is out this fall through Textbook Media, Inc. The pricing works this way: $17 for access to an online e-textbook which has search, notes, and chat options, but that can't be printed; $22 for the e-textbook along with the ability to print out PDF files of the chapters; and $33 for the e-textbook along with a black-and-white printed softcover version of the book. Textbook Media is a small company. It has no sales force to knock on the doors of professors and take them to lunch. It sponsors no junkets. The book is printed in black and white. But it does have e-textbook functionality, a workbook of problems and answers, a test bank, and some other add-ons. If you want a micro or a macro split, they are available. Of course, I think the content and exposition of the book is excellent on its own merits. But given the issue of soaring textbook prices, the price alone should make it worth a look.
ADDED: Arnold Kling at Econlog responds with a tough-minded comment about college faculty in a post titled "But Why Would Greg Mankiw Adopt?": "I can see why students would have an incentive to adopt a cheaper textbook. But professors, and particularly professors who author competing textbooks, have no such incentive. And they are the ones who drive adoption."
Unrequited Economic Optimism from the Congressional Budget Office?
The Congressional Budget Office has just published its August 2011 "The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update." Although the language of the report is concise and unemotional, many elements of the report seem to me to carry a message that the worst of our economic travails are over. However, the report also points out that its economic forecasting and analysis was completed in early July, and the economy has had some worse-than-expected news since then. Here, I'll start with optimism, and then finish with the more grim recent economic news.
The CBO believes that the bursting bubble of housing prices has just about run its course. This figure shows two housing price series: Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index. As CBO explains: "The FHFA index covers only homes financed using mortgages that have been purchased or securitized by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. TheS&P/Case-Shiller index also includes sales financed with mortgages that do not conform to the size or credit criteria for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac." But the CBO is predicting that for the country as a whole, housing prices are soon going to start rising again.
The good news here is that the bad news is diminishing. The first figure shows the ratio of unemployed people to job openings. After the 2001 recession, the ratio of unemployed to job openings rose to almost 3:1, before falling back to 1.5:1 in about 2007. Then during the recession, the ratio took off and reached almost 7:1, before now falling to about 4.5:1. The second figure shows net job gains in recent months, which aren't large, but are better than a sharp stick in the eye. The third figure shows that the unemployment rate peaked at 10.1% in November 2009, but was down to 9.1% by July 2011. The CBO projections are for the unemployment rate to fall modestly to 8.5% by fourth quarter 2012, and then to fall more rapidly.
Much of business investment just replaces worn-out capital. Net investment takes total investment and subtracts out the depreciation of existing capital, so that it is only looking at the addition to the capital stock. During the recession, many firms were postponing this new investment, but the CBO predicts that a bounceback is near.
potential output) by 2017." As with the unemployment rate, the forecast here is for modestly good news in 2012, followed by much better news in 2013 and after.
Is all this too optimistic?
The CBO makes a point of emphasizing that its economic forecasts were completed in early July. Since then, the European debt crisis has exploded, the federal government seemed unable to grapple seriously with debt issues and raising the debt ceiling, the stock market fell, economic statistics were released suggesting that the recession was deeper than previously believed, and more. Some of the figures above have little break in the line between present data and the forecast: the forecasts are based on the earlier uncorrected data, which after revision was worse than previously known.
At least for me, it's a natural reaction to look at these CBO forecasts that economic turnaround and catch-up are around the corner and roll my eyes in disbelief. Pessimism seems so worldly-wise; optimism seems so naive. But if the CBO is correct, whoever is elected president in 2012 is going to look like a miracle worker for the economy--mainly because by 2013 the U.S. economy will finally be escaping the sluggishness of the Long Slump and experiencing a robust economic recovery.
a distinguishing characteristic of the U.S. economy."
Molloy, Smith and Wozniak offer evidence that the decline in U.S. mobility is a very broad-based--and not a trend that has been made notably worse by the recent woes in the U.S. economy and housing market. They write: "By most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low. Migration rates have fallen for most distances, demographic and socioeconomic groups, and geographic areas. The widespread nature of the decrease suggests that the drop in mobility is not related to demographics, income, employment, labor force participation, or homeownership. Moreover, three consecutive decades of declining migration rates is historically unprecedented in the available data series. The downward trend appears to have begun around the 1980s, pointing to explanations that should be relevant to the entire period, rather than specific to the current recession and recovery—that is, the decline in migration is not a particular feature of the past five years, but has been relatively steady since the 1980s."
In an article by Jens Ludwig, Jeffrey R. Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan in the Summer 2011 issue of my own Journal of Economic Perspectives, called "Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations," they introduced me to the "metallic rules" of the eminent sociologist Peter H. Rossi. The rules come from Rossi's 1987 article,“The Iron Law of Evaluation and Other Metallic Rules,” Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, vol. 4, pp. 3–20. The article is pre-web, and the publication is not easily available, but David Roodman at the Center for Global Development tracked down the article a couple of years ago, and posted an excerpt summarizing the rules on his Microfinance Open Book Blog. Rossi died in 2006; a brief obituary and some remembrances from colleagues are available at the website of the American Sociological Association.
A dramatic but slightly overdrawn view of two decades of evaluation efforts can be stated as a set of “laws,” each summarizing some strong tendency that can be discerned in that body of materials. Following a 19th Century practice that has fallen into disuse in social science, these laws are named after substances of varying durability, roughly indexing each law’s robustness.
This law means that the more technically rigorous the net impact assessment, the more likely are its results to be zero—or no effect. Specifically, this law implies that estimating net impacts through randomized controlled experiments, the avowedly best approach to estimating net impacts, is more likely to show zero effects than other less rigorous approaches.
In the late 1950s, epidemiologists believed that a fetus was a “perfect parasite” that was “afforded protection from nutritional damage that might be inflicted on the mother.” The placenta was regarded as a “perfect filter, protecting the fetus from harmful substances in the mother’s body and letting through helpful ones.” Nonchalance existed with regard to prenatal nutrition. During the 1950s and 1960s, women were strongly advised against gaining too much weight during pregnancy. During the baby boom, “pregnant women were told it was fine to light up a cigarette and knock back a few drinks.” Roughly half of U.S. mothers reported smoking in pregnancy in 1960.
But what if the nine months in utero are one of the most critical periods in a person’s life, shaping future abilities and health trajectories—and thereby the likely path of earnings? This paper reviews the growing literature on the so-called “fetal origins” hypothesis. The most famous proponent of this hypothesis is David J. Barker, a British physician and epidemiologist, who has argued that the intrauterine environment—and nutrition in particular—“programs” the fetus to have particular metabolic characteristics, which can lead to future disease."
1) There's a long-standing argument in the social sciences about nature vs. nurture, but arguments over genetic influence are getting a lot more complex these days than what I learned back in grade-school about Gregor Mendel and his pea plants. The current subject of epigenetics explores how the same genes can lead to different characteristics. As Almond and Currie write in this context about fetal effects: "[T]he hypothesized effects reflfl ect a specific biological mechanism, fetal “programming,” possibly through effects of the environment on the epigenome, which are just beginning to be understood. The epigenome can be conceived of as a series of switches that cause various parts of the genome to be expressed—or not. The period in utero may be particularly important for setting these switches."
2) While this literature is still young and growing, it could turn out to be true that one of the most important ways to help children is to help their pregnant mothers. Almond and Currie write: "[O]ne of the most radical implications of the fetal origins hypothesis may be that one can best help children (throughout their life course) by helping their mothers. That is, we should be focusing on pregnant women or perhaps even women of child-bearing age if the key period turns out to be so early in pregnancy that many women are unaware of the pregnancy. Such pre-emptive targeting would constitute a radical departure from current policies that steer nearly all healthcare resources to the sick, i.e., the “pound of cure” approach. That said, the existing evidence is not sufficient to allow us to rank the cost-effectiveness of interventions targeted at women against more traditional interventions targeted at children, adolescents, or adults."
"Divide the world into a “rich” region, where one billion people earn $30,000 per year, and a “poor” region, where six billion earn $5,000 per year. Suppose emigrants from the poor region have lower productivity, so each gains just 60 percent of the simple earnings gap upon emigrating—that is, $15,000 per year. This marginal gain shrinks as emigration proceeds, so suppose that the average gain is just $7,500 per year. If half the population of the poor region emigrates, migrants would gain $23 trillion—which is 38 percent of global GDP. For nonmigrants, the outcome of such a wave of migration would have complicated effects: presumably, average wages would rise in the poor region and fall in the rich region, while returns to capital rise in the rich region and fall in the poor region. The net effect of these other changes could theoretically be negative, zero, or positive. But when combining these factors with the gains to migrants, we might plausibly imagine overall gains of 20–60 percent of global GDP."
Of course, Clemens goes into considerably more depth in the article, and argues that gains of this magnitude are plausible given the studies that have been done and the current state of knowledge of this area. I would emphasize further that many studies of migration look either at effects on those in the receiving country, or on those in the sending country, but somehow seem to leave out the gains to the migrants themselves--which may well be the dominant part of a broad social welfare calculation.
2) Remittances sent back to their country of origin by migrants now top$300 billion per year. Dean Yang discusses this point in "Migrant Remittances," along with going into more detail on why remittances are sent and how they are used. Yang offers this striking figure comparing the level of remittances over time to official development assistance, foreign direct investment, and portfolio investment. He writes: "But since the late 1990s, remittances sent home by international migrants have exceeded offifi cial development assistance and portfolio investment, and in several years have approached the magnitudes of foreign direct investment flows."
Yang also provides a table showing which countries depend most heavily on remittances, including 22 countries where remittances are more than 10% of GDP.
investment and expertise from the global Indian diaspora. The problem of ‘brain drain’ has been converted happily into the opportunity of ‘brain gain’ ..."
and Canada in the 1950s and 1960s."
I'm the managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, published by the American Economic Association. It's an academic journal, but it's meant to be a journal that's readable by those who have some background in economics--like those who took several undergraduate courses in college in the subject. The AEA makes all of the articles the journal freely available on-line to all, and the Summer 2011 issue is now available.
I'll comment on the specifics of some of these articles over the next week or so, but here's the table of contents for the issue. Again, all of these articles are available on-line at the JEP website.
The Strategy, Policy, and Review Department of the IMF published a paper on "Changing Patterns of Global Trade" on June 15. I think students of economics often get a good sense of how international trade can benefit all nations participating, but at least at the intro level, they often get a less good sense of the actual patterns of international trade. One emphasis of the report is on longer global supply chains. Here are a few patterns and facts.
1) The share of foreign content embedded in gross exports is rising.
A country can import certain goods or services, use them in production, and then export them again. The share of foreign value-added in exports measures this process, and it has been steadily rising since the 1970s. Here's a table combining several studies, showing a rise in foreign value-added in exports from 18% in 1970 to 24% in 1990, 27% in 1995, and 33% by 2005. This is a sign of longer global supply chains and rising global interconnectedness.
2) For some countries, gross exports can be less useful as a measure of what the country produces for export than the domestic value-added content of exports.
This figure shows gross exports as the dark line for each country, and domestic value added as the shaded line--the difference between the two is foreign value-added that is re-exported. For a number of countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, there's a big gap between the two.
3) The rise in foreign value-added in exports varies across countries and across industries.
Here's a table I compiled out of statistics in the report. In China and Japan, the share of foreign-value added almost doubled from 1995 to 2005--which is a signal of the Asian regional economy becoming much more integrated, with inputs often crossing borders several times at different stages of production. The rise in foreign value-added as a share of total exports is noticeable but lower in the U.S. and Germany. If one looks just at the rise in foreign value-added as a share of exports in the high technology sector, these patterns are even more pronounced.
4) World trade has tripled since the 1950s.
trade rising to more than 20 percent of global GDP in 2008."
Although the growth in world trade over time looks bumpy but more-or-less continual, the type of trade is changing. The growth in trade in the 1950s and 1960s was often a result of lower tariffs, for example. But in recent years, the growth in trade stems from an increasingly interconnected web of countries, who often are producing increasingly similar products.
5) Trade in higher technology goods has led the rise in international trade.
intensive export structures generally offer better prospects for future economic growth. Trade in high-technology products tends to grow faster than average, and has larger spillover effects on skills and knowledge-intensive activities. The process of technological absorption is not passive but rather “capability” driven and depends more on the national ability to harness and adapt technologies rather than on factor endowments."
Marco Lagi, Karla Z. Bertrand and Yaneer Bar-Yam of the New England Complex Systems Institute have a working paper up about "The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East." This figure tells the heart of the story. The black line shows the two recent spikes in global food prices, one in 2008 and one in 2011. The vertical red lines show the dates of various food riots and/or civil disruptions, with the number of deaths shown in parentheses.Of course, food prices aren't the only factor in causing such disruptions, but the fact that such riots and disruptions essentially vanished in 2009 and 2010, in the time period between the two price spikes, is nonetheless striking.
Thanks to the Instapundit website for the pointer to this study. I've posted a couple of times recently on the subject of the global spike in food prices in 2008 and again in 2011 (see here and here). I've also posted a couple of times in the last few months on how unemployment and poor economic conditions have contributed to political unrest in the Middle East (for example, here and here).
"However, a major change in the relationship between the credit rating agencies and the U.S. bond markets occurred in the 1930s. Bank regulators were eager to encourage banks to invest only in safe bonds. They issued a set of regulations that culminated in a 1936 decree that prohibited banks from investing in “speculative investment securities” as determined by “recognized rating manuals.” “Speculative” securities (which nowadays would be called “ junk bonds”) were below “investment grade.” Thus, banks were restricted to holding only bonds that were “investment grade”—in modern ratings, this would be equivalent to bonds that were rated BBB– or better on the Standard & Poor’s scale. With these regulations in place, banks were no longer free to act on information about bonds from any source that they deemed reliable (albeit within oversight by bank regulators). They were instead forced to use the judgments of the publishers of the “recognized rating manuals”—which were only Moody’s, Poor’s, Standard, and Fitch. Essentially, the creditworthiness judgments of these third-party raters had attained the force of law."
"In the following decades, the insurance regulators of the 48 (and eventually 50) states followed a similar path. State insurance regulators established minimum capital requirements that were geared to the ratings on the bonds in which the insurance companies invested—the ratings, of course, coming from the same small group of rating agencies. Once again, an important set of regulators had delegated their safety decisions to the credit rating agencies. In the 1970s, federal pension regulators pursued a similar strategy."
"The Securities and Exchange Commission crystallized the centrality of the three rating agencies in 1975, when it decided to modify its minimum capital requirements for broker-dealers, who include major investment banks and securities firms. Following the pattern of the other financial regulators, the SEC wanted those capital requirements to be sensitive to the riskiness of the broker-dealers’ asset portfolios and hence wanted to use bond ratings as the indicators of risk. But it worried that references to “recognized rating manuals” were too vague and that a bogus rating fifi rm might arise that would promise AAA ratings to those companies that would suitably reward it and “DDD” ratings to those that would not."
valid for the determination of the broker-dealers’ capital requirements. Other financial regulators soon adopted the NRSRO category and the rating agencies within it. In the early 1990s, the SEC again made use of the NRSROs’ ratings when it established safety requirements for the commercial paper (short-term debt) held by money market mutual funds."
"Taken together, these regulatory rules meant that the judgments of credit rating agencies became of central importance in bond markets. Banks and many other financial institutions could satisfy the safety requirements of their regulators by just heeding the ratings, rather than their own evaluations of the risks of the bonds."
White goes on to discuss how the NRSRO category has evolved over time, and how Congress more-or-less bludgeoned the Securities and Exchange Commission into allowing some additional NRSROs in the last decade. His article, written in 2010, also points out that one reason why the housing bubble spread through mortgage-backed securities and into the banking system was that the NRSRO's like Standard & Poor's gave some of that debt a tremendously misguided AAA rating. Far too many banks and bank regulators just accepted that rating, although S&P and the other credit rating agencies had no particular history or expertise in evaluating these somewhat complex financial instruments based on subprime mortgage debts. White and others have long argued that while it's perfectly fine to have firms which sell their expertise and opinions about the riskiness of bonds, there's no reason to anoint some of them in such a way that banks and bank regulators legally outsource judgment and prudence to them.
Maybe S&P is wrong to downgrade the U.S. credit rating. But after it whiffed so spectacularly and totally missed the riskiness of the subprime-related mortgage backed securities, it's seems a bit unsporting to turn around and criticize them for being too vigilant now. And if the U.S. government doesn't like the power wielded by S&P--well, it has only itself to blame for bestowing so much of that power in the first place.
Can Bernanke Unwind the Fed's Policies?
The Federal Reserve has taken five main policy steps since the financial crisis started to become apparent in late 2007. I supported each of those five steps when they were taken, given the economic situation at the time. But the recession and financial crisis were largely over in June 2009, even if what followed has been an unpleasantly stagnant recovery. The Fed needs to be clear that as conditions warrant, it will be willing to unwind its earlier policies. Thus, when the Fed Open Market Committee announced last week on a 7-3 vote that it would extend its near-zero federal funds interest rates for the next two years, it seemed to me a misstep. Narayana Kocherlakota, who moved from a position as professor of economics at the University of Minnesota to become President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, took the unusual step of explaining publicly why he dissented, and even recording a short video clip of his explanation, which is posted at the Minneapolis Fed website.
But I'm getting ahead of the story. Here are the Fed's five main policy steps since 2007.
1) From May 2006 through September 2007, the federal funds interest rate was about 5%. As the financial crisis began to become apparent in fall 2007 and as the recession started in December 2007, the Fed cut the federal funds rate to 2% by April 2008, where it remained until September 2008. This change can be thought of as the standard Fed reaction to a recession. As Rick Mishkin, who was a member of the Fed Board of Governors at the time, notes an article in the Winter 2011 issue of my own Journal of Economic Perspectives, even in late summer 2008 mainstream forecasters like the Congressional Budget Office were predicting only a short, shallow recession. Rick wrote: " In summer of 2008, when I was serving on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, there was even talk that the Fed might need to raise interest rates to keep inflation under control."
2) When the financial crisis hit with hurricane force in September 2008, the Fed then took the federal funds target rate down to near-zero. As noted earlier, at its August 9 meeting last week, the Open Market Committee voted to keep this interest rate target for two more years, at which time the policy of a near-zero federal funds rate would have lasted about five years.
the Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF); the Money Market Investor Funding Facility (MMIFF); the and Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). For a readable overview of these efforts aimed at teachers of economics, this is a good starting point. From my point of view, the key fact about all these agencies is that they have all been closed down. Thus, I consider them a success. They helped to assure that short-term credit was available during a financial crisis, and then they went away.
4) The Fed started buying mortgage-backed securities early in 2009. At this time, in the depths of the financial crisis, the high level of uncertainty over what these securities were truly worth was in danger of making the market for these securities illiquid, which in turn could have made the financial crisis even worse. As the New York Fed explains: "The FOMC directed the Desk to purchase $1.25 trillion of agency MBS [mortgage-backed securities]. Actual purchases by the program effectively reached this target. The purchase activity began on January 5, 2009 and continued through March 31, 2010. ... On August 10, 2010, the FOMC directed the Desk to keep constant the Federal Reserve’s holdings of securities at their current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency MBS in longer-term Treasury securities. As a result, agency MBS holdings will decline over time."
5) The Fed started buying and holding new Treasury debt. The Fed has always held some Treasury debt as part of its normal operations, and in particular as part of carrying out its open market operations and buying and selling bonds. But that amount swelled from about $480 billion back in summer 2008 to about $1.6 trillion now. The Federal Reserve now holds more in U.S. Treasury debt than the China and Japan combined. While the plan to purchase more Treasury debt known as QE2 (that is, "quantitative easing part 2") officially stopped at the end of June, as noted a moment ago, the Fed is now moving from holding mortgage-backed securities to holding Treasury debt, in such a way that its overall holdings of financial securities does not decline.
Overall, here's where the Fed stands in unwinding the crisis-driven policies enacted since 2007. The many short-term lending facilities have been phased out. The ownership of mortgage-backed securities is being phased down. What is not yet being phased down are the ultra-low interest rates and buying Treasury securities. I'm not brash enough to say just when these policies should be reversed, but I do know this: A central bank can't just keep pumping out money and credit until unemployment is back to normal levels and hearty growth has resumed. At that point, the central bank has overreacted, potentially by a lot. When the Fed decides that it is time to change these policies, the U.S. probably won't be at full employment and resurgent growth--and so its decision is certain to be controversial.
Here's a graph showing the effective federal funds interest rate since the 1950s, using the ever-helpful FRED website at the St. Louis Fed. Notice that when recessions (the shaded bars) occur, the Fed typically cuts this interest rate, but then when recovery has begun, it raises the rate again. But now the federal funds rate has been at a rock-bottom near zero for more than two years, and in its August 9 meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee voted to leave the rate near-zero until summer 2013. Kocherlakota of the Minneapolis Fed explained his dissent from the policy this way: "I believe that in November , the Committee judiciously chose a level of accommodation that was well calibrated for the prevailing economic conditions. Since November, inflation has risen and unemployment has fallen. I do not believe that providing more accommodation—easing monetary policy—is the appropriate response to these changes in the economy."
From an outsider's point of view, it sure looks as if the Federal Reserve action at its August 9 meeting was a response to headlines from the week before: headlines about the difficulties in hashing out an agreement to raise the federal borrowing ceiling, headlines about Standard & Poor's downgrading the credit rating of the federal government, headlines about the stock market falling. But monetary policy decisions setting expectations for the next couple of years shouldn't be responding to yesterday's headlines.
As one looks at the federal funds interest rate over time, other troubling issues become apparent. One is that the federal funds interest rate has been gradually moving downward, a step at a time, since it was raised sky-high to stop the inflation of the 1970s. With the federal funds rate at near-zero, this process of stepping interest rates lower and lower has now stopped. Another concern is that the Bank of Japan has run a near-zero interest rate for more than a decade, while failing to stimulate its economy. There is a possible theoretical argument--far from proven, but still a concern--that an economy can get stuck in a situation with near-zero interest rates and stagnant growth. In this kind of model, explained for example by James Bullard of the St. Louis Fed, "Seven Faces of `The Peril'", a central bank can't wait for a full recovery before raising interest rates, because the hyper-low near-zero interest rates are part of what's blocking the economy from resuming growth.
I wouldn't advocate a sharp or immediate rise in the federal funds interest rate. But I would have voted with Kocherlakota against committing to two more years of near-zero rates. After all, part of what encouraged so much overborrowing in the years leading up to the financial crisis was that the Fed kept interest rates so low for a couple of years after the end of the 2001 recession. The answer to a financial crisis rooted in overborrowing is not to encourage the next wave of overborrowing! The Fed should be thinking about when and how it could get the federal funds target rate up into the 1-2% range--which after all seemed a reasonable interest rate when the economy was in an actual recession back in 2008.
Having the Fed buy Treasury debt starting in 2009 during the worst of the financial crisis and its aftermath was a fully defensible decision. I sometimes say that it's generally a bad idea to shoot torrents of water at high speed through an office building--but if there's a fire, it's a policy that can make sense. During an emergency, steps that wouldn't make sense at other times sometimes need to be taken. But the recession has now been over for a couple of years. If the U.S. government wishes to run continuing large deficits, it needs to start facing the economic consequences of doing so. The Fed is already helping the federal government to borrow this money by holding interest rates so low, and in time will probably help the federal government further by creating some inflation to reduce the real value of what has been borrowed. It's time for the Fed to back away from being the actual default buyer for new federal debt. This step doesn't require any big announcement, only that the Fed refrain for now from announcing a QE3 program for buying more Treasury debt. If another financial crisis surfaces, after all, the Fed should try to hold something in reserve.
Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney put together a background paper for a Hamilton Project conference called "A Dozen Economic Facts About Innovation."
Why is innovation and increased productivity important? Two of the main measurable reasons are how it increases incomes and life expectancy. It may be that the worst economic event to befall the U.S. economy in the last 40 years is not relatively recent shock of the Great Recession, terrible though that has been, but the productivity slowdown that hit in the early 1970s. Greenstone and Looney write: "If TFP [total factor productivity] had continued growing at the pre-1973 trend and that productivity gain were reflected in workers’ compensation, compensation could be 51 percent higher, or about $18 per hour more than today’s average of $35.44 per hour. This calculation highlights that small changes in innovation and annual TFP growth lead to large differences in long-run standards of living."
Economic growth and innovation have also helped to generate longer life expectancies, partly through reductions in infectious disease, but also through better diets and cleaner water and sanitation. The gains in health have huge value. Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel estimated the long-term value of gains in health in a 2006 article in the Journal of Political Economy (pp. 871-904).From their abstract: "Cumulative gains in life expectancy after 1900 were worth over $1.2 million to the representative American in 2000, whereas post-1970 gains added about $3.2 trillion per year to national wealth, equal to about half of GDP. Potential gains from future health improvements are also large; for example, a 1 percent reduction in cancer mortality would be worth $500 billion." Here's a Greenstone-Looney figure on gains in life expectancy and reductions in infectious disease.
One of the most striking areas of innovation in recent years, of course, is the electronics industry. Here's a graph showing what it would have cost to buy the computing power of an iPad 2 over recent decades. Notice that the vertical scale is a logarithmic graph: that is, it is descending by powers of ten as the price of computing power halves and halves and halves over and over again.
What's to be done to improve the prospects for innovation and economic growth for the future? There is a broad productivity agenda of improving human capital, investing in plant and equipment, and getting America's financial and budgetary problems under control. But there is also a more narrow technology-focused agenda. For example, every politician in the U.S. talks has been talking about the importance of technology for decades--but government spending on research and development has actually been sinking. Corporate spending on R&D has taken up some of the slack, but government R&D is far more likely to be focused on the basic research that generates new industries, not the tightly-focused process companies often use to update their products.
Another issue is to have America's higher education system focus more heavily on the so-called STEM fields: that is, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The share of total U.S. degrees being granted in these fields has fallen since the mid-1980s, and compared to other countries, the U.S. higher education system grants a lower proportion of its degrees in STEM fields.
A final issue is to improve the U.S. patent system. There are lots of subtle issues about what kind of innovation deserves a patent, or what doesn't, and how much a patent is really worth in an intellectual property showdown. But at a more basic level, a slow patent system is less useful for everyone--and the time to get a decision from the U.S. Patent Office has been rising.
"Not that many years ago, a lot of middle-class Americans felt as if they had built a close and personal relationship with Mr. or Ms. Economy (depending on your gender preference).
The rules of the relationship were clear: Get skills and training, and after spending young adulthood sampling jobs, buckle down to a long-term career choice. Borrow heavily to buy a house early in life, and then benefit from rising house prices. Save for the long term by putting money in the stock market.
Do these things, the understanding was, and the Economy would reciprocate -- with rising income, reasonable job security and a comfortable retirement.
Of course, no long-term relationship is perfect. The Economy might occasionally lash out: perhaps with a dot-com boom, followed by a stock market crash, a recession and higher unemployment. Many of us misbehaved in this relationship, too. Sometimes we ran bloated credit cards bills and didn't save the way we should have. Yet even in the hard times, this relationship was supposed to be long-term.
But in this grim and prolonged aftermath of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 -- some economists are calling it the Long Slump -- millions of Americans are feeling that they have been dumped by the economy."
Can Later Retirement Ages Save Social Security and Medicare?
Social Security and Medicare have both made promises about future benefits that their current sources of financing won't allow them to keep. If we moved back the retirement age, would it fix these programs? Short answer: moving back the retirement age could have a large effect in addressing the financial problems of Social Security, but would have a much smaller effect in helping Medicare.
For Social Security, the website of the Office of the Chief Actuary has estimates of the cost savings from a wide variety of proposals. Proposal C2.6, for example, reads: "Increase the normal retirement age (NRA) 3 months per year starting in 2017 until reaching 70 for those attaining age 62 in 2032. Then increase the NRA 1 month every 2 years thereafter. Note that the NRA would increase from 66 to 67 faster than under current law. Increase the earliest eligibility age (EEA) from 62 to 64 at the same time the NRA would increase from 67 to 69; that is, for those attaining age 62 in 2021 through 2028. Keep EEA at 64 thereafter."
Those who will be 62 in 2032 are currently about 41 years old. Telling them now that early retirement will be 64 for them, instead of 62, and that normal retirement will be 70 for them, instead of the 67 years for this group in current law, seems to me completely reasonable. This change alone doesn't fix Social Security completely, but it would close about 70% of the projected funding gap for the program over the next 75 years.
For federal spending, the older age of eligibility saves $31.1 billion for Medicare. However, a number 65 and 66 year-olds who were not eligible for Medicare would lack health insurance, and thus would be eligible for either Medicaid or for subsidized insurance under the new "health exchanges" in the health care legislation that President Obama signed into law in 2010. In addition, those 65 and 66 year-olds wouldn't be paying premiums into the Medicare system. After these offsets are taken into account, overall federal spending would be reduced by only $5.7 billion.
"In addition, costs to employers are projected to increase by $4.5 billion in 2014 and costs to states are expected to increase by $0.7 billion. In the aggregate, raising the age of eligibility to 67 in 2014 is projected to result in an estimated net increase of $3.7 billion in out-of-pocket costs for those ages 65 and 66 who would otherwise have been covered by Medicare."
"Medicare Part B premiums would increase by three percent in 2014, as the deferred enrollment of relatively healthy, lower-cost beneficiaries would raise the average cost across remaining beneficiaries."
A key underlying issue here, of course, is that health care spending tends to rise with age. Pushing back the age of Medicare eligibility affects the relatively health group a little above age 65, but it doesn't affect the health care bills of the more aged, and so it offers relatively small cost savings for the Medicare program. In a study from last year, Gerald F. Riley and James D. Lubitz report on ""Long-term trends in Medicare payments in the last year of life" (Health Services Research, April 2010, 45(2):565-76). They point out that Medicare spending on those who die in a given year is much higher than on those who survive the year: in 2006, Medicare spending in 2006 on those who died in that year was $38,975, while Medicare spending in 2006 on those who survived the year was $5,993. Their estimates show that 25-30% of all Medicare spending is on patients in their last year of life, and that this number hasn't changed much over time, and isn't much affected by adjusting for changes in age or gender of the elderly over the last 30 years.
The Dispute over "Core Inflation"
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PURPOSE: To study the incidence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in a neonatal intensive care unit in Croatia and obtain information on risk factors associated with ROP. There have been limited studies on ROP in Croatia where the screening for ROP and its treatment is still insufficient and not introduced in many intensive care units.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: This retrospective study included 247 premature infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of University Hospital Split, over a 5-year period between January 2012, and December 2016. In this paper the relationship between clinical risk factors and the development of ROP was analyzed.
RESULTS: The overall incidence for ROP was 23,9 % (59 infants), for Type 1 ROP was 9,3% (23 infants); for Type 2 ROP was 14,6% (36 infants). Median gestational age (GA) and birthweight (BW) were significantly lower among infants with ROP versus those without ROP (29: 23-34 vs. 31: 23-34,p<0,001 and 1,180:630-2,000 vs. 1485:590-2000, p<0,001 respectively). Multivariate analysis showed that only BW (p=0,029) and small for gestational age (SGA) (p=0,045) predicted the development of ROP.
CONCLUSION: Birth weight and small for gestational age were the most significant risk factors for developing ROP. In comparison with studies from highly developed countries, infants with a much wider range of gestational age and birth weights are developing Type 1 ROP.
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is the most widely recognized cause of visual impairment after preterm birth. It is defined as a proliferative disorder of the developing retinal blood vessels in preterm infants which may lead to poor visual acuity or blindness . Approximately 50 000 children worldwide are blind due to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), and many more have significant visual disturbances . The proportion of blindness as a result of ROP varies greatly among countries, being influenced by level of neonatal care and by the availability of effective screening and treatment programs ,.
Although knowledge about the pathogenesis of ROP has increased considerably, a lot is still unknown concerning the factors that initiate and promote the progression of this disease. The classic risk factors for ROP include low gestational age, low birth weight, and exposure to an oxygen rich environment ,,. Numerous epidemiologic studies have suggested additional risk factors for ROP disease and its severity ,,. These include multiple birth, maternal preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, mechanical ventilation, need for blood transfusion, the presence of patent ductus arteriosus, intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), pulmonary insufficiency and male gender among others ,,,.
Prevalence varies by population, though it is estimated overall between 10–25% and incidence between approximately 50–70% in infants weighing less than 1500 grams at the time of birth ,,,,. In highly developed, industrialized countries (i.e. those ranked highly by the United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] on the basis of their Human Development Index [HDI]), the population of premature infants who are currently at risk for the advanced stages of ROP that requires treatment is extremely premature, with birth weights almost always < 1000 g ,.
However, data from Latin America and the Former Socialist Economies of Eastern Europe showed that infants with much wider range of birth weights are developing severe ROP (ROP type 1), than in highly developed countries. Some of the possible reasons include increasing survival of premature infants, often with suboptimal standards of neonatal care and low implementation of screening and treatment of ROP .
Croatia is a former socialist country of southeastern Europe (i.e. with HDI ranking in the range 31–100). The screening and treatment of ROP are still insufficient and not introduced in many intensive care units in Croatia . Although significant advances have been made in perinatal care, ROP remains a serious complication in prematurely born individuals. Information on the population of infants, who develop treatable ROP in Croatia, is required to develop screening programs that include all premature infants who are at risk.
The aim of the current retrospective study was to identify the incidence of ROP and the associated risk factors of ROP in the second largest Croatian neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in southern Croatia, from January 2012 to December 2016.
This was a retrospective study in which we reviewed the medical records of all infants born from 23- to 36-weeks of gestation who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of University Hospital Split from January 1, 2012 to December 30, 2016, which is a Level III nursery in southern Croatia. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the University Hospital Split Ethics Committee (Nr.2181-147-01/06/M.S.-17-2).
Out of 1025 premature infants admitted during the 5-year study period, 247 (24, 1%) infants who met the criteria to enter screening for ROP by pediatric ophthalmologists were included in the study. Excluded were infants with major congenital malformation, chromosomal anomalies and infants who died before eye examinations could be performed.
Eye examinations were performed on infants who met the following criteria recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): birth weight (BW) ≤ 1500 g or gestational age (GA) ≤ 32 weeks; and BW between 1500 g and 2000 g or GA >32 weeks if there was an unstable clinical course (as defined by the attending neonatologist), or/and need for cardio respiratory support. Infants born with gestational age of 27 weeks or less were first examined at 31 weeks postmenstrual age. Beyond 27 weeks gestational age, the first examination was performed 4 weeks after birth.
The examination was performed under topical anesthesia using 0.5% tetracaine eye drops and supportive oral sucrose. Pupils were dilated using a topical administration of one drop of 0.5% tropicamide (“Mydriacyl”, Alcon Laboratories, U.K limited) at 15 minutes intervals 3 times before examination. Indirect ophthalmoscopy was performed using a binocular indirect ophthalmoscope and 20 diopter lens. An infant speculum and scleral depressor were also used to perform the examination.
If no ROP was detected, eye examinations were continued every 2 weeks until vascularization had reached Zone 3. The follow-up examinations for infants with ROP were carried out every 1 to 2 weeks, but some infants were examined as frequently as twice per week depending on the zone and severity of ROP. ROP status was documented using the International Classification of ROP, including stage, zone, and extent of disease and presence or absence of plus disease . All infants requiring treatment were transferred to Department of Ophthalmology University Hospital Split for the procedure and most were readmitted to our department following treatment. Indication for treatment (type 1 ROP) was determined following the Early Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity Study criteria are: Zone I–any stage ROP with plus disease or Zone I–stage 3 ROP without plus disease, or Zone II–stage 2 or 3 ROP with plus disease .
During NICU care, all infants on supplemental oxygen were carefully monitored by continuous pulse oximetry in order to maintain oxygen saturation between 90% and 95%. No increase or decrease in target pulse oximetry has been performed after identification of any stage of ROP. No eye shields were used except when infants were receiving phototherapy.
For purposes of data analysis, the terms ‘type 1’ and ‘type 2’ ROP were used to differentiate eyes with significant changes of ROP that require treatment (type 1) from eyes with significant changes that do not require treatment but must be carefully monitored (type 2) .
Screened patients were divided into three groups: Group of infants without ROP, group with a mild form of ROP (Type 2 ROP) and group with a severe form of ROP treated with laser (Type 1 ROP). Infants were placed in one of five gestational age and birth weight groups for purposes of comparison. These groups were assigned based on the results of other studies for ease of comparison and to provide an even distribution of data obtained in this study.
The following perinatal-neonatal and demographic variables were extracted from the database for comparison of screened infants who had ROP and those who did not: gestational age (GA), birth weight (BW), small-for-GA (SGA) status, gender, Apgar score, intraventricular hemorrhage ≥ 2, patent ductus arteriosus sepsis and severe apnea and blood transfusion. Respiratory data recorded included the presence of chronic lung disease, days on synchronized intermittent positive pressure mechanical ventilation (SIPPV), days on continuous positive airway pressure ventilation (CPAP) and the duration of oxygen therapy in days (SIPPV, CPAP and administration of supplemental oxygen to the patient in the incubator at the concentration greater than the air). We also analyzed perinatal variables, including presence of multiple gestations, cesarean section delivery, maternal preeclampsia, maternal chorioamnionitis and maternal administration of steroids.
Very low birth weight (VLBW) was defined as infants with birth weight < 1500 g; extremely low birth weight (ELBW) was defined as infants with birth weight < 1000g. GA was ascertained based on last menstrual period and early ultrasonographic data. SGA was defined as a birth weight for GA below the 10th percentile . IVH was graded according to Papile’s classification . Sepsis was diagnosed based on a positive blood culture. Patent ductus arteriosus was diagnosed clinically and confirmed by 2-dimensional echography. Severe apnea was defined as absence of spontaneous breathing >20 seconds, associated with desaturation or bradycardia requiring more intervention than stimulation alone (temporary manual ventilation by Neopuff) . Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) was defined as oxygen dependency beyond 36 weeks corrected age in association with chest radiographic findings of persistent hazy opacification or cyst-like pattern of density and lucency . Chorioamnionitis was confirmed by pathohistological evidence of placental inflammation. Adequate antenatal administration of betamethasone was defined as the completion of 2 doses of betamethasone given 12 hours apart with the second dose administered more than 24 hours prior to delivery.
For each infant who had ROP, the age at which ROP was first detected, the maximum stage of ROP and laser therapy were recorded.
Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS software (version 17.0; SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL). To assess the significance of proposed ROP risk factors univariate analysis was conducted with evaluation of odds ratios and confidence intervals and with appropriate significance of P < 0.05. To control all the variables of interest and estimate the independent risk factors for incidence of ROP, multivariate logistic regression was used.
From July 2006 to July 2010, 247 infants fulfilled the inclusion criteria, having complete clinical data and were included in this analysis.
For the entire cohort, the overall incidence of any ROP was 23.9 % (59 of 247 infants), the incidence of Type 1 ROP was 9.3% (23 of 247 infants); the incidence of Type 2 ROP was 14.6% (36 of 247 infants). Among infants with ROP, type 1 was detected in 39% (23 of 59 infants), type 2 was detected in 61% (36 of 59 infants). In all infants with ROP both eyes were affected.
The median GA for the entire cohort was 31 weeks (range: 23-34 wk). Median GA age for infants without ROP was 31 weeks (range 23-34wk) and for those with any ROP was 29 weeks (range: 23-34 wk) (p < 0.001). The median age for infants with Type 1 ROP was 27 weeks (range 23-34 wk) and for type 2 ROP was 30 weeks (range 25-34) (p=0.002). Forty percent (25 of 62 infants) of extremely premature infants (≤ 28 GW) had any type of ROP. Thirty-two percent (19 of 59 infants) with ≥ 31 weeks of gestation had any type of ROP.
Distribution of incidence of ROP by gestational age is displayed in table 1.
Table 1: Distribtion of ROP by Gestational Age.
The median overall birth weight (BW) was 1460 g (range: 590-2000 g). Median birth weight of infants without ROP was 1485g (range 590-2000) and median BW of infants with any Type of ROP was 1180 g (range: 630-2000 g) (p < 0.001). Median BW with type 1 ROP was 1020 g (range: 630-2000 g) and with type 2 ROP was 1395g (range 700-1920) (p=0.043). Forty-six percent (18 of 39 infants) with extremely low birth weight (≤ 1000 g) had any type of ROP. Twenty-nine percent (17 of 59 infants) with > 1500 grams had any type of ROP. Distribution of incidence of ROP by birth weight is displayed in table 2.
Table 2: Distribtion of ROP by Birth Weight.
The median age at which ROP was detected was 34 weeks post-conception (range, 32 to 37 wk).
Results of univariate analysis of maternal and postnatal factors for ROP are shown in table 3.
Table 3: Univariate analysis of risk factors (no ROP v. any ROP).
The incidence of maternal preeclampsia (p=0.693), multiple births (p=0.906), delivery by cesarean section (p=0.315), chorioamnionitis (p=1.0) and antenatal betamethasone use (p=0.378) were not significantly different between infants who developed any stage of ROP and those who had not developed ROP (Table 3).
Gender (p=0.249), intraventricular haemorrhage (p=0.977), sepsis (p=0.644) and blood transfusion (p=0.907) and BPD (p= 0.073) were not significantly different between infants who developed any stage of ROP and those who had no ROP. Twenty-five percent of the studied infants (62 of 247 infants) were SGA. There was no significant difference in the incidence of ROP between SGA and no SGA infants (p=0.652). The odds of developing ROP decrease by 1.7 times at each increase to a higher birth weight category (p < 0.001). Infants who developed any-stage ROP were more likely to have gestational age < 31 weeks (p < 0.001; OR 2.8), PDA (p=0.034; OR=2.5), severe apnea (p=0.001; OR=2.6) and 1 minute Apgar score < 6 (p < 0.01; OR=2.2) compared with infants without ROP.
Infants with ROP also were more likely to require supplemental oxygen > 14 days (p < 0.001; OR=3.2), > 1.5 days of invasive mechanical ventilation (SIPPV) (p=0.004; OR=2.4), > 2 days of non invasive ventilation (CPAP) (p < 0.001; OR=3) than infants without ROP.
Results of the multiple logistic regression analysis are shown in table 4.
Table 4: Results of multivariate logistic regression analysis (no ROP v any ROP).
*SGA= small for gestational age; ROP = retinopathy of prematurity; OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.
In these analysis birth weight (OR, 1.65; CI, 1.05-2.6) and SGA (OR, 2.45; CI1.02-5.9) were identified as factors associated with ROP. Independent variables were all those which were in univariate analysis significantly associated with ROP and those that were considered as clinically important independent variables (chorioamnionitis, sepsis, SGA and apnea).
Results of univariate analysis of maternal and postnatal factors for infants with type 1 ROP (Type 1, severe ROP requiring surgery) and type 2 ROP (Type 2, ROP not requiring any surgery) are shown in table 3.
Seventy-nine percent (16 of 23) of infants with Type 1 ROP were born to mothers with chorioamnionitis, as opposed to 33% (12 of 36) infants with Type 2 ROP. Type 1 ROP was significantly associated with chorioamnionitis (p=0.008; OR=4.6). The incidences of maternal preeclampsia (p=0.063), multiple births (p=0.097), delivery by cesarean section (p=0.938), and antenatal betamethasone use (p=0.894) were not significantly different between infants who developed type 1 ROP and those who developed Type 2 ROP as is shown in table 5.
Table 5: Univariate analysis of risk factors (Type 1 ROP v. Type 2 ROP).
Infant gender (p=0.347), 1 minute Apgar score (p= 0.225), IVH ≥ gr.2 (p=0.781), birth weight groups (p=0.195), intrauterine growth (p=0.715), blood transfusion (p=0.907) severe apnea (p=0.379), BPD (p=0.130), SIPPV ventilation >3 days (p=0.373) and CPAP ventilation > 3 days (p=0.718), were not significantly associated with increasing the severity of ROP (Table 4). Infants who developed type 1 ROP were more likely to have had gestational age < 29 weeks (p < 0.001; OR=6.8), sepsis (p < 0.001; OR=18), persistent ductus arteriosus (p < 0.018; OR=5.9) and prolonged need for oxygen support > 29 days (p < 0.039; OR=3.2) compared with infants with type 2 ROP.
The odds of ROP 1 compared to non ROP was 4.4 times higher (95% CI: 1.6-12.2) (p=0.005) in infants with sepsis than in infants without sepsis. The odds of ROP 1 compared to non ROP was 2.6 times higher (95% CI: 1.02-6.6) (p=0.045) in infants from mothers with chorioamnionitis than in those without chorioamnionitis.
This is the first population-based study in Croatia that evaluated both the incidence and risk factors of retinopathy of prematurity in a tertiary care unit.
Our results indicate that the overall incidence of any ROP for the entire cohort was 24% with 9% of infants having severe ROP reqiuring surgery. The incidence and severity of ROP increased inversely to gestational age and birth weight. The reported incidence of ROP in the past decade has varied worldwide, ranging from 10% in highly developed countries such as Australia and New Zealand to 45.8% in moderately developed countries such as Taiwan ,. However, the incidence of ROP varies considerably not only in different populations and races but also among countries with similar neonatal intensive care facilities . Thus, in another Croatian study, ROP at any stage was reported in 23.3% and severe ROP in 8.8 % of infants with GA < 32 weeks . Other studies reported a wide variation in the incidence of ROP which might be partly due to differences in the proportions of infants at high risk of ROP who survive when born at an early gestational age ,,.
In our study severe ROP was found in more mature infants with birth weight > 1500 grams and gestational age ≥ 31 weeks. The broader range of birth weight and gestational age make our study results more similar to data from moderately developed than to highly developed countries ,.
The presence of severe ROP in larger, more mature infants in our study can’t be simply explained by the overuse of uncontrolled oxygen delivery. We are aware that neonatal care is compromised as a result of lack of medical resources and skilled personnel mostly due to financial constraints. Croatia is a moderately developed former socialist economy of southeastern Europe, with a recent experience of war. During the war and the postwar period in Croatia, the share of preterm births increased. However, strict implementation of screening for ROP in NICU Split resulted in maximum yield of ROP diagnosis at a median of 34 weeks postmenstrual age (range, 32 to 37). These findings were in accordance with a number of other reports that showed an age of onset of ROP between 32 and 35 weeks post-conception ,.
There have been numerous investigators in the literature who studied the perinatal comorbidity risk factors for ROP. The factors which influenced the development of ROP in these studies have been recognized as connected to ROP in our study as well ,,, . Using the results of univariate analysis, we identified that gestational age, birth weight, patent ductus arteriosus, 1 minute Apgar score lower than 6, severe apnea, and number of days on invasive, non invasive mechanical ventilation and duration of oxygen therapy, were all associated with an increased risk of ROP. However, multivariate analysis identified that only birth weight and SGA were significant independent risk factors for ROP. Both factors are related to the extent of immaturity of retinal neural and vascular development at birth, and therefore the retinal vulnerability to insult . Results of several studies have suggested that being small for gestational age at birth is associated with an increased risk for retinopathy of prematurity ,,. However, some other findings suggest that SGA increases the risk for retinopathy of prematurity only in infants older than 29 weeks gestational age at birth ,,.
We found that severity of respiratory disease, evidenced by prolonged need for oxygen requirement (more than 14 days), need for synchronized intermittent positive pressure ventilation > 1.5 days, and continuous positive pressure ventilation > 2 days had significant impact on developing of any type of ROP (p=0.004; p < 0.001; p < 0.001 respectively). A number of previous reports clearly demonstrated the causal effects of these factors on the development of ROP even in more mature infants ,,,. In our study, infants who developed any ROP also had 1 minute Apgar score lower than 6 (p=0.010) and suffered from significantly more episodes of severe apnea than those without ROP (p=0.002). They also have statistically significantly higher rate of PDA, compared to those without ROP (p=0.034). The first minute Apgar score was detected as a factor that affects the occurrence of ROP among premature infants in study of Khalesi et al.. Multiple episodes of apneas requiring bag and mask ventilation may produce fluctuations in oxygen concentrations, which have previously been recognized as associated with risk of retinopathy of prematurity ,. However, there is paucity of literature regarding the effect of PDA, yielding different results. Higgins et al reported that infants with ROP of stage 2 or more were more likely to have RDS, BPD and PDA while Viejo at al., found that presence of PDA does not increase the risk of developing ROP or its severity ,.
In the second part of the study we have expanded our research in order to identify risk factors associated with the development of type 1 ROP. By using univariate logistic regression analyses between the groups with type 1 (n=23) and type 2 (n=36) ROP, we found that presence of patent ductus arteriosus (p=0,018), gestational age lower than 29 weeks (p=0.001) and duration of oxygen therapy > 29 days (p=0.039) were significantly associated with severe ROP. However, in the multivariate analysis, no significant risk factors were associated with severe ROP, The present results emphasized the association of histologic chorioamnionitis (p=0.008) and infant septicemia (p < 0.001) with development of severe ROP. It is interesting that these factors were not found as important for predicting development of any type of ROP. But, subsequent univariate analysis between the groups with type 1 ROP (n=23) and non-ROP (n=188) revealed that infants with sepsis and histologic chorioamnionitis had a higher chance (4.4 and 2.6 more times respectively) of developing severe ROP than to remain without any type of ROP. Some of the studies investigating histologic chorioamnionitis as a risk factor for ROP also reported an association with ROP only in univariate analyses ,. The increased risk for ROP associated with chorioamnionitis and neonatal infection might be partly due to systemic inflammation, which could act synergistically with hyperoxia to mediate the effects of placenta infection ,.
We acknowledge the limitations of our study. Our screening criteria were more inclusive than the recent American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation for screening at gestational age less than 30 weeks and birth weight less than 1500 g . We are aware that this could have increased the number of unaffected patients and subsequently underestimated the incidence of ROP. However, our study results showed that more mature infants with birth weights > 1500 g and/or GA > 31 weeks developed threshold ROP. These findings confirm that screening criteria for inclusion of patients should be created to suit the specificities of the region in which they are supposed to be implemented.
The infants who were affected by severe ROP in our study showed a mixture of first and second epidemic risk factors (inadequately monitored oxygen, and the extreme prematurity).
We showed that severe ROP has been diagnosed not only in ELBW, but also in more mature infants, who did not fall within widely acceptable criteria for screening in highly developed countries. The clinical implications of these findings indicate that the improvement of strategies for the treatment of premature infants and associated clinical conditions are needed so that the “third epidemic” can be avoided in the future.
Mirjana Vucinovic is the leading researcher who designed and executed this study and wrote the manuscript.
Ljubo Znaor participated in drafting the article and revising it critically.
Vesna Capkun made a substantial contribution to analysis and interpretation of data.
Ana Vucinovic made a substantial contribution in drafting and design of the article.
Julijana Bandic participated in collecting the data and drafting the article.
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Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset in a congressional primary election against one of the most powerful Democrats in the U.S. House has inspired discussion and debate about how this campaign fits into the project of advancing the socialist left. SocialistWorker.org is hosting a dialogue in our Readers’ Views column. This installment has a contribution from Todd Chretien.
What Will Build a Revolutionary Socialist Movement?
Todd Chretien | Like all participants in this debate, I want to thank the Socialist Worker team and all those willing to share their points of view.
I wanted to start my thoughts on the socialist movement today by going back to 2009, when Newsweek ran a cover proclaiming “we’re all socialists now” in the wake of the Great Recession and Barack Obama’s (tepid) economic stimulus package.
Since then, the “we’re all socialists” sentiment has developed — with boosts from the Arab Spring, Occupy, the Chicago teachers’ strike, Black Lives Matter, the rise of independent media like Jacobin magazine and more — from an inchoate rejection of capitalism to a significant growth of organization, most clearly with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) growing from 6,000 to 45,000 members over the last two years since Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign.
I won’t quibble with his characterization as long as we recognize that their radicalization extends beyond a critique of the Democratic National Committee.
Thousands of DSA members are committed to building movements (shutting down ICE, fighting for housing justice, defending reproductive rights, etc.), revitalizing the labor movement (helping organize teachers’ strikes) and taking direct action against the right (mobilizing against fascists from Charlottesville to Boston to Berkeley and hounding Trump’s minions).
Of course, Sanders remains far and away the most influential voice among DSA’s broad membership, and his forthright insistence that socialists must “take back” the Democratic Party holds sway among most. This was the DSA’s historic position, and there are many within it today who remain committed to this goal.
However, there are DSA organizers who forthrightly insist that the Democratic Party is an obstacle that must be overcome. They argue that it is a capitalist institution that cannot be “realigned” or “reformed,” but must be defeated and replaced with a working-class, socialist party.
Here, we come to the nub of the current debate that has been taking place among International Socialist Organization (ISO) members in the pages of Socialist Worker, although the issues clearly overlap with debates inside the DSA and other sections of the new socialist movement.
How can we challenge the two-party system?
This raises an interesting question. Why is the ground not ready?
Hadas references Ralph Nader’s campaign in 2000, which received 2.9 million votes, despite the Democratic Party carrying out the same kind of dirty tricks it used against Sanders in 2016. And I think we can all agree that everything about American capitalism has gotten much worse since 2000.
If Nader, an idiosyncratic figure who was vilified by the Democrats, could win nearly 3 million votes, couldn’t Bernie do as well or better, even while running as an independent? Couldn’t DSA candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jovanka Beckles and Julia Salazar make sustained inroads at the local level running as independents?
Of course they could. But here’s the kicker: They probably couldn’t win in the short term.
So when Hadas says DSA comrades are correct that “the ground is not yet ready,” it seems to me that she also means “not ready” for a radical party outside the Democrats that can rack up electoral victories in the short term.
Empirically, on that count, I believe she is correct in all but exceptional circumstances, like Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant’s successes.
This is exactly what many of our comrades in DSA argue. In fact, the results for DSA-backed candidates Gayle McLaughlin and Jovanka Beckles in California proved this point in stark terms in June. Running as an independent, McLaughlin received 4 percent, while Beckles (in the Democratic Party primary) won 15.8 percent, making it through to the November general election.
What are the consequences of prioritizing electoral viability?
Two years ago, DSA member Seth Ackerman wrote an influential article for Jacobin called “Blueprint for a New Party.” Along with an incisive critique of the capitalist nature of the Democratic Party, Ackerman argued for a “ballot line” strategy, whereby DSA members would attempt to build socialist forces by running in Democratic primaries “more often, at least at first,” although he didn’t exclude independent campaigns.
There is no doubt that Ocasio-Cortez’s victory has spurred interest in socialist ideas, a dynamic we should all welcome for reasons that are obvious. But is Ackerman right that her victory is a victory for “independent” campaigns? If so, how does Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to endorse Kansas Republican-turned-Democrat James Thompson fit in?
The thing that gives a caucus power is that they can operate as a bloc vote to get things done. Even if you can carve out a sub-caucus of the Progressive Caucus, a smaller bloc but one that operates as a bloc, then you can generate real power...I think that if you can even carve out a caucus of ten, thirty people, it does not take a lot if you operate as a bloc vote to really make strong demands on things.
Presumably, Ocasio-Cortez would include Thompson in her bloc (otherwise why endorse him?), as well as other progressive Democrats. But this seems far afield from “independent, left-wing electoral campaigns” and using the ballot line to assemble socialist grassroots organization.
I contend that the idea that you can “generate real power” in Congress is directly connected to a strategy that prioritizes winning races.
At a minimum, this promotes a conception of socialism that is heavily inflected with electoralism, and one that can become easily disarmed in any efforts to build independent campaigns before the far stronger influence of advocates of staying in the Democratic Party, such as Sanders.
DSA comrades are committed to this strategy and are willing to fight to try to make it work. We can recognize their efforts as an experiment from which we will all learn lessons. But we don’t have to join in.
It’s worth saying that I believe there are DSA comrades who are committed to a more, let us say, ruthless attempt to use the “ballot line” strategy to gather forces and prepare for a new socialist party more quickly. At this point, my assessment is that these comrades are a small minority of DSA, and they underestimate the challenges, both immediate and mid-term, of carrying out such a strategy.
For these reasons, I am not convinced of Hadas’ warning that refusing to run or support candidates in the Democratic Party “will leave us a small organization, isolated from a growing left.” Quite the opposite, I think it positions us to play a unique role.
This brings me to related criticisms raised by two other comrades.
As a matter of record, Dorian is mistaken. The revolutionary socialist movement has long acknowledged that the Communist Party of the 1930s grew tremendously during its Popular Front support for Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal administration.
The problem lies in what the CP built as the party dismantled its previous principled opposition to Jim Crow and broke strikes in order to curry favor with the Democrats. This destroyed a working-class vanguard three generations in the making.
What the ISO has said is that we will work whenever possible to build a broad socialist movement (and working-class and social movements in general) while simultaneously insisting that genuine socialism can only come through the self-emancipation of the working class.
Does this mean our answer stops there? I don’t think so. In fact, I’m very optimistic about the development of the new socialist movement and the role the ISO can play in helping strengthen its revolutionary wing, which brings me to my last point.
Electoral strategies can be critical to building a revolutionary socialist organization. In her contribution, Fainan Lakha suggests that “there is something deeply persuasive about a discussion of the “dirty break” from the Democratic Party” — referencing a discussion of a strategy of building up forces with the Democrats with the aim of breaking and forming an independent party.
I don’t rule out the hypothetical potential for something like this happening. However, at a minimum, I think it would require three things: first, a qualitatively higher level of sustained class struggle to create a working-class vanguard of tens of thousands of revolutionary workers and powerful unions; two, a tightly organized core of thousands of revolutionaries inside a future DSA (or DSA-like organization) consciously committed to such a strategy; and three, a significant number of revolutionary socialists who have built up a previously independent base with a strong organization, who did not waste years entangled in Popular Front-type relations.
I submit that none of those conditions exist today. But would the pace of events be compressed if the ISO joined forces with those inside DSA pursuing this line? Fainan invokes French revolutionary socialist Daniel Bensaïd, who once argued that we must be willing to take “leaps, leaps, leaps,” to imply exactly this.
if only its leaders...were revolutionary. In this way, they enter a make-believe world in which pedagogy is substituted for building a new relation of forces. Living as parasites in a foreign apparatus, bit by bit, they lose their own organizational culture, something that is not easily recovered...[And] the new militants who are influenced in this work are won over to a posture of subaltern criticism [within the hostile party] as opposed to a really independent practice.
There are historical moments when revolutionaries have no choice but to run the enormous risk that Bensaïd describes. In my opinion, we are fortunate that we face no such circumstances. Instead, opportunities abound.
We should give serious thought to running or supporting (DSA, ISO or other) independent socialist, labor and social movement candidates, as well as backing referendums around health care, education, taxing the rich and more.
Even as I write, ISO branches are working with DSA comrades in the Bay Area and Washington, D.C., to organize against the Nazis when they plan mobilizations on August 5 and 12 respectively.
The Portland, Maine, ISO and DSA chapters have initiated a coalition to pressure Sen. Susan Collins to vote against confirming Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice. ISO and DSA members organized arm-in-arm to build solidarity for the “red state” teachers’ strikes last spring with the expectation of more to come this fall.
I wholeheartedly agree with Hadas that we should “work alongside [DSA comrades], and attempt to explain and to learn along the way.” I just don’t believe we need to adopt what would either be a short-term tactic or — far more likely, in my view — a long-term trap to do so.
Comrades may argue for changes in the ISO’s program or principles — or for specific strategies or tactics — but we don’t act on these views as individuals. We exchange ideas, when necessary we debate and vote, and when a majority decides on an important issue, we act according to the will of the majority. If the majority view proves to be ineffective, then those with a minority view can argue for a course correction, and try to become the majority.
Thus, this debate is not an abstract dispute for ISO members, but a question of what collective action we take as a national organization.
For the last 50 years, the politics of socialism have largely been severed from the working-class movement...Out of this strike wave and the outrage against all the horrors happening around us, there’s new generation of radicals and socialists being born — and we have an urgent need for more organized socialists.
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The FTC's first “Start With Security” conference is scheduled for September 9, 2015, in San Francisco, and is co-sponsored by the University of California Hastings College of the Law. It is part of a business education initiative designed to provide companies with practical resources to help them implement effective data security strategies.
Aimed at start-ups and developers, this event will bring together experts to provide information on security by design, common security vulnerabilities, strategies for secure development, and vulnerability response. "Start with Security" will run from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public.
The conference series is part of the agency’s longstanding efforts to provide businesses with guidance about how to put effective security in place.
How should startups respond when hackers come calling? From the basics of bug triage to running a full-scale bounty, this panel will examine how startups can successfully manage, address, and — perhaps most importantly — learn from vulnerability reports, harnessing the work of the security community to improve their secure development lifecycle.
How can startups go beyond bug hunting to implementing security features? This panel will consider how startups can overcome development challenges, such as impacts on performance, to embrace security features — like site-wide SSL, Content Security Policy, and multifactor authentication — that can protect consumers from threats proactively and help eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities.
Devdatta Akhawe is a security engineer at Dropbox. Before joining Dropbox, he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley working on application security. At Dropbox, Mr. Akhawe is involved in all aspects of the Secure Development Lifecycle and is part of the team that implemented advanced security features like Content Security Policy, pinning, and HTTP Strict Transport Security. He has published at top academic conferences and spoken at top industry conferences such as Blackhat and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) AppSec Cali. He is also an editor of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Subresource Integrity specification.
Jonathan Carter is an application security professional with over 15 years of security expertise within Canada, the U.S., Australia, and England. As a software engineer, Mr. Carter produced software for online gaming systems, payment gateways, SMS messaging gateways, and other solutions requiring a high degree of application security. Mr. Carter’s technical background in artificial intelligence and static code analysis has led him to a diverse number of security roles: enterprise security architect, web application penetration tester, Fortify security researcher, and security governance lead. He is an active member of the OWASP Mobile Security Group and is project owner of a number of other OWASP security projects.
Frank Kim is the Chief Information Security Officer at SANS Institute where he leads the security risk function for the most trusted source of computer security training, certification, and research in the world. He also helps shape, develop, and support the next generation of security leaders through teaching, developing courseware, and leading the management and software security curricula. Prior to the SANS Institute, Mr. Kim was Executive Director of Cyber Security at Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest not-for-profit health plan and integrated health care provider. In recognition of his work, Mr. Kim is a two-time recipient of the CIO Achievement Award for business enabling thought leadership. Mr. Kim holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and is a SANS certified instructor as well as the author of popular courseware on strategic planning, leadership, and application security.
Window Snyder is Chief Security Officer at Fastly. She previously spent five years at Apple working on security and privacy strategy and features for OS X and iOS. A security industry veteran, Ms. Snyder was the Chief Security Something-or-Other at Mozilla, responsible for security engineering, communication, and strategy. As a senior security strategist at Microsoft, she owned security sign-off for Windows and the outreach strategy for security vendors and security researchers. Ms. Snyder was also a founding team member at Matasano and was Director of Security Architecture at @stake, where she developed application security analysis methodologies and led the Application Security Center of Excellence. Ms. Snyder is co-author of Threat Modeling, a manual for security architecture analysis in software.
Michael Coates is the Trust & Information Security Officer at Twitter and a member of the OWASP board of directors. Mr. Coates has worked in the security industry for over a decade and has experience building risk and security programs to protect fast moving tech companies, such as Twitter and Mozilla. He is also the founder of the OWASP AppSensor project, an initiative to provide applications with real time defense capabilities to identify and repel threats. Featured as one of SC Magazine’s 2012 Influential IT security minds, Mr. Coates is a frequent speaker at security conferences, government security events, and enterprise security sessions. Mr. Coates also provides security strategy to emerging startups. He holds an MS in Computer, Information and Network Security from DePaul University and a B.S in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.
Zane Lackey is the founder and Chief Security Officer at Signal Sciences and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Internet Bug Bounty Program and the U.S. State Department-backed Open Technology Fund. Prior to Signal Sciences, Mr. Lackey was the Director of Security Engineering at Etsy and a Senior Security Consultant at iSEC Partners. He has been featured in notable media outlets such as the BBC, Associated Press, Forbes, Wired, CNET, Network World, and SC Magazine. A frequent speaker at top industry conferences, Mr. Lackey has presented at BlackHat, RSA, USENIX, Velocity, Microsoft BlueHat, SANS, OWASP, QCon, and has given invited lectures at Facebook, Goldman Sachs, New York University, and Reykjavik University.
Jeff Williams is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast Security. Mr. Williams brings more than 20 years of security leadership to his role at Contrast. In 2002, Mr. Williams co-founded and became CEO of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative consulting company focused on application security. Mr. Williams is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as the Chair of the OWASP Board for 8 years and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many other widely adopted free and open projects. Mr. Williams has a BA from Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.
Arun Mathew is from Nashville, TN and joined Accel in 2009. Mr. Mathew is actively involved in Accel's enterprise software, security, big data and consumer internet practices, having led investments in areas like data collection/protection (Qualtrics, Code42), security (Bettercloud, Tenable Network Security), horizonal/vertical SaaS (Squarespace, Yapstone, Dealer.com) and consumer internet (Groupon). He also helps to lead the firm's Big Data and Tech Council initiatives and spends a significant portion of his time in emerging markets, including India, Brazil and Southeast Asia. He is on the board and active with Accel's international investments in Flipkart, BookMyShow, Ola, Freshdesk, MindLab and Portea. Mr. Mathew graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
Raymond Forbes is a security engineer at Mozilla working on browser security. Building fuzzing and other tools, Mr. Forbes spends his time looking for vulnerabilities in the Firefox platform. Mr. Forbes is also part of the team that manages the Mozilla Bug Bounty Program. His previous experience includes work at Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Disney. Mr. Forbes has also been a trainer and speaker for Blackhat, Defcon, and other security conferences.
Paul Moreno is the Security Engineering Lead at Pinterest, a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. At Pinterest, Mr. Moreno has spent his tenure establishing the Security Engineering foundation and assembling a core security team. As a recognized technology generalist with extensive experience working for startups and public companies, Mr. Moreno delivers data-driven solutions for modern cloud security threats. Prior to joining Pinterest, Mr. Moreno was an early employee at ngmoco:), a breakthrough mobile gaming company acquired for $300 million in October 2010. He has been invited to participate on multiple customer advisory boards, including Digicert and OpenDNS.
Katie Moussouris is the Chief Policy Officer for HackerOne, a platform provider for coordinated vulnerability response and structured bounty programs. She is a noted authority on vulnerability disclosure and advises lawmakers, customers, and researchers to legitimize and promote security research and help make the internet safer for everyone. Ms. Moussouris’ earlier work at Microsoft encompassed industry-leading initiatives such as Microsoft's bounty programs and Microsoft Vulnerability Research. She is also a subject matter expert for the U.S. National Body of the International Standards Organization (ISO) in vulnerability disclosure (29147), vulnerability handling processes (30111), and secure development (27034). Ms. Moussouris is a visiting scholar with MIT Sloan School, doing research on the vulnerability economy and exploit market, and a New America Foundation Fellow. She is an ex-hacker, ex-Linux developer, and persistent disruptor.
Pierre Far is a product manager at Google for an upcoming ad product for publishers. Previously, he was part of Google Search as a Webmaster Trends Analyst, helping site owners build better websites that are secure, mobile-optimized, and follow best practices for user- and search-friendliness. Prior to joining Google, Mr. Far held several roles in the technology sector, including community and product management, innovation consulting, and online marketing. He has a PhD in bacterial genetics from the University of Cambridge, U.K.
Jon Oberheide is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duo Security, responsible for leading product vision and the Duo Labs advanced research team. Before starting Duo, Mr. Oberheide was a self-loathing academic, completing his PhD at the University of Michigan in the realm of cloud security. In a prior life, Mr. Oberheide enjoyed offensive security research and generally hacking the planet. Mr. Oberheide was recently named to Forbes "30 under 30" list for his mobile security hijinks.
Yan Zhu is a security engineer at Yahoo, mostly working on end-to-end email encryption and improving TLS usage. She is also a Technology Fellow at EFF and a core developer of Let's Encrypt, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger Firefox, and SecureDrop. She got a BS from MIT in 2012 and is a proud PhD dropout from Stanford. Ms. Zhu has been a speaker at HOPE, DEFCON 22, jQuerySF, Real World Crypto, SXSW, and various other human gatherings.
Alumni Reception Center 200 McAllister St.
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For decades, Virginia has had a state law allowing certain employees to choose Saturday or Sunday as their day of rest. However, this little-known law had numerous exemptions for various types of employers. As of July 1, 2004, an apparent inadvertent legislative change removed those much-relied upon exceptions to Virginia’s day of rest law. When the newspapers brought this to the public’s attention, Virginia employers who employ workers on Saturday and Sunday were besieged by inquiries and requests from employees for weekend days off. Fortunately for Virginia employers, the Richmond Circuit Court entered an order on July 2, 2004 prohibiting enforcement of any changes to the state’s day of rest law for 90 days. Also, Governor Mark Warner quickly called a Special Session of the General Assembly to address the situation. The General Assembly then met on July 13, 2004 and reinstated the various exceptions to Virginia’s day of rest laws.
During this tense period, our K&C Employment Team worked to keep employers informed of the above developments and supported the eventual legislative remedy. We remained in constant contact with the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry (DOLI), which is charged with enforcing this law, in an effort to keep abreast of that agency’s enforcement stance. Throughout this uneasy period, the DOLI refrained from any enforcement efforts and has recognized constitutionality concerns regarding even the pre-July 1, 2004 law. When contacted for this article, the DOLI Director, Ellen Marie Hess, indicated that her agency was taking a common sense approach to the enforcement of the statute. The DOLI continues to monitor potential legislative changes that may result when the General Assembly meets again in January which could provide further latitude for employers whose operations need employees on weekends.
Even though Virginia employers are generally relieved that the exceptions to Virginia’s day of rest law have been restored, care should be taken to address any written requests to have either Saturday or Sunday off for religious reasons. Not only should employers make sure that they are covered by an applicable exception under Virginia law, but federal law prohibiting discrimination due to religion may require an employer to reasonably accommodate an employee’s need for either Saturday or Sunday off in connection with their religion. On the state level, watch for future legislative changes that may facilitate Virginia employers’ needs to employ individuals on Saturday or Sunday.
The Department of Labor (DOL) published final FairPay regulations referred this past Spring modifying rules governing the payment of overtime for the white-collar exemptions (executive, administrative and professional employees). The DOL claims the FairPay rules, which became effective on August 23, 2004, were implemented to provide clear, straight-forward (and stronger) overtime rules. Perhaps the most substantial change was a higher salary requirement of $455.00 per week for most exempt employees.
Required written policies regarding suspending exempt employees without pay is not the only area that the new FairPay rules suggest employer changes to written policies. For example, the DOL created a new Safe Harbor rule to protect employers against inadvertent violations of the salary basis requirement for various overtime exemptions. However, this Safe Harbor protection is only available if the employer has a clearly communicated policy prohibiting improper deductions, has a complaint mechanism in place and has a practice of reimbursing exempt employees for any wrongful deductions. Employers are well-advised to conduct a wage-hour self-audit which should not only include pay practices, but required changes to written policies. For help in this regard, call any member of the K&C Employment Team.
Harris Butler, a lawyer with Butler, Williams & Skilling in Richmond, provided attendees with a valuable perspective at the July 22, 2004 showing of the 20th Annual Employment Law Update. Mr. Butler, who specializes in suing employers, described what he looks for when choosing an employer to sue. He indicated that insensitive supervisors who are unwilling to communicate and do not adequately document employment decisions have led to employer liability in a number of cases he has handled. Among his successes was a record-setting workplace harassment/retaliation verdict that exceeded $1,000,000. Mr. Butler’s comments highlighted a need for employers to use common sense to avoid bad facts to keep lawyers like him from having a sympathetic story to tell a jury.
Of course, the K&C Employment Team, which only represents employers, provided guidance throughout the day to attendees on how to avoid being sued successfully by hired guns like Mr. Butler. Because supervisors may unwittingly provide employees with a basis for legal action, attendees were urged to utilize the new K&C Supervisory Training Clinic to help front-line supervisors avoid legal risks. This Clinic provides focused instruction for supervisors during sessions that last approximately 2 hours. The next Supervisory Clinic will highlight workplace harassment training and will be offered in Richmond on September 22, 2004 and in Norfolk on September 29, 2004. For registration information, contact Kristen Bown at (804) 771-5722.
On May 26, 2004, the Department of Labor issued final rules with respect to notification of continuing health coverage under the provisions of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA). These final rules set out comprehensive guidance concerning the timing and content of applicable notices under COBRA for private health plans. Two new notices are required under the final rules. Plan administrators must now give covered employees and COBRA qualified beneficiaries a notice of COBRA unavailability and a notice of the early termination of COBRA coverage.
The provisions of the final regulations apply to notice obligations arising on or after the first day of the first plan year beginning on or after November 26, 2004; so for calendar year plans, the regulations are applicable to notice obligations beginning January 1, 2005. However, plan administrators may choose to implement the changes required by the final rules immediately.
Click here to view model notice forms for the COBRA General Notice and the COBRA Election Notice on the DOL website. This topic will be also be addressed at Kaufman & Canoles 21st Annual Employment Law Update in Benefits Update: COBRA Changes & Beyond on November 4th at the Chesapeake Conference Center.
The Virginia Court of Appeals recently reversed the Workers’ Compensation Commission when it found that a Northern Virginia bakery route salesman who faked a robbery and planned to kill his supervisor was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits. In Artis v. Ottenberg’s Bakers, Inc., the claimant had been employed as a bakery route salesman who began collecting workers’ comp benefits for post-traumatic stress syndrome. Mr. Artis claimed he began suffering from this disorder following an incident when he struck and killed a pedestrian who darted in front of his truck. Although the driver said he was too distraught to finish his shift, he completed his route that day because his employer had no one available to replace him. He subsequently was unable to drive for a number of weeks due to the emotional distress he suffered as a result of the accident.
When Mr. Artis returned to work, he began to harbor resentment and anger toward his employer. Mr. Artis’ resentment toward his employer allegedly led to his filing a false police report indicating he had been robbed of approximately $250. He later admitted that he had hoped his supervisor would respond to the scene of the reported robbery, at which time Mr. Artis intended to kill the supervisor.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Artis’ employer discharged him for his misconduct and the Workers’ Compensation Commission initially ruled that the termination under these circumstances barred receipt of further benefits. However, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that Mr. Artis’ discharge could have been related to the earlier fatal accident which created the work-related disability. Accordingly, the Court reversed and awarded benefits to Mr. Artis. This bizarre case may end up as a candidate for the K&C Employment Team’s Most Outrageous Cases for 2004.
On November 4th, the K&C Employment Law Team will host the premiere showing of the 21st Annual Employment Law Update at the Chesapeake Conference Center. This year’s program will feature new information and materials designed to help employers deal with risk in the workplace. Topics on deck include Severance & Settlement Strategies, Interviewing & Hiring, and Reducing Worker’s Compensation Liability. Also, you won’t want to miss The K&C Discipline & Discharge Clinic with all new video vignettes. Reserve your seat now! We are expecting a full house. For more information or to register, contact Kristen Bown at (757) 624-3232.
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https://www.kaufcan.com/news/articles/employment-law-update-fall-2004/
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PRESORTED STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE PAIDThe Jewish Press Group of Tampa Bay, Inc.The Jewish Press Group of Tampa Bay, Inc. Jewish Press of Pinellas County P. O. Box 6970 Clearwater, FL 33758-6970KNOW continued on PAGE 15ADVERTISEMENT www.jewishpresspinellas.com VOL. 32, NO. 17 ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA MARCH 23 APRIL 5, 2018 20 PAGES See inside for details. WIN SHOW TICKETS Jewish Press Online Ticket Contest WIN SHOW TICKETS Jewish Press Online Ticket Contest Passover the Festival of FreedomFirst Seder Friday, March 30 Join our page @ www.facebook.com/jfed.pinellas Meet This Guy, Did you know?one of the featured individuals in the Humans of Tel Aviv photography exhibit that will delight at the April 15th Israel Independence Day Celebration. Whats his story? Attend to nd out! Federation Jewish Heritage Funding, matched by the State of Floridas Arts & Culture Division: $48,000. rfntb The Jewish FederationOF PINELLAS & PASCO COUNTIES, FL nntbb fnn fnf DO GOOD EVERYWHERE. FROM ANYWHERE. fIsrael turns 70 this year! A 70th anniversary is traditionally marked with gifts of platinum, known for its strength and rarity, and holding higher esteem than gold or other metals. While a number of Israeli collectible medals are minted in platinum, its not mined in Israel. Tidbits you (probably)dont know about PassoverMy Jewish Learning via JTA news service1. In Gibraltar, theres dust in the charoset. The traditional charoset is a sweet Passover paste whose texture is meant as a reminder of the mortar the enslaved Jews used to build in ancient Egypt. The name itself is related to the Hebrew word for clay. In Ashkenazi tradition, it is traditionally made from crushed nuts, apples and sweet red wine, while the tiny Jewish community of this small Peninsula takes the brick symbolism to another level, using the dust of actual bricks in their recipe. 2. Arizona Is a hub for matzah wheat. increasingly sourcing wheat for their Passover matzah from farmers in Arizona. Excessive moisture in wheat kernels can result in fermentation, rendering the harvest unsuitable for Passover use. allows for a stricter standard of matzah production. Rabbis from New York travel to Arizona in the days leading up to the harvest, where they inspect the grains meticulously to ensure they are cut at the precise moisture levels. 3. At the Seder, Persian Jews whip each other with scallions. Many of the Passover Seder rituals are intended to re-create the sensory experience of Egyptian slavery, from the eating of bitter herbs and matzah to the dipping of greenery in saltwater, which symbolizes the tears shed by the oppressed Israelites. Some Jews from Iran and Afghanistan have the tradition of whipping each other with green onions before the singing of Dayenu. 4. Karaite Jews skip the wine. Karaite Jews reject rabbinic Judaism, observing only laws detailed in the Torah. Thats why they dont drink the traditional four cups of wine at the Seder. Wine is fermented, and fermented foods are prohibited on Passover, so instead they drink fruit juice. (Mainstream Jews hold that only fermented grains are prohibited.) The Karaites also eschew Israels 70th birthday bash offers something for all It will be an afternoon of speeches, food, family fun, photographic art, music and festivities when the Pinellas/ Pasco Jewish community celebrates the 70th anniversary of the birth of Israel on Sunday, April 15 in Largo. Hosted by the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties, the free celebration will be held at the Creative Pinellas/Pinewood Cultural Center, 12211 Walsingham Road, Largo, from 1 to 4 p.m. One of the featured guests will be Israeli photographer Erez Kaganovits, who will talk about an exhibit of his work, ISRAEL continued on PAGE 17 A sampling of the photographic exhibit that will be on display at the event.
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Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Danny Ayalon will be guest speaker at a free Jewish National Fund breakfast for Israel  on Tuesday May 1 from 9-10 a.m. at the Bryan Glazer Family JCC in Tampa. Ayalon was born in Tel Aviv in 1955, viewing himself as the product of the ingather ing of the exiles, the intersection between the Jewish Diasporas of East and West, Sephardic and of Israels reestablishment. His father came to Israel from Algeria before the War of Independence in 1948 and fought in the Golani Brigade. His mother immigrated there in 1937 from Poland, escaping the Holocaust, in which members of her extended family perished. She also fought in the War of Independence in Jerusalem and was wounded in battle. Ayalon served in Israels Foreign Service for more than 20 years, beginning in Panama, and then the UN mission in New York. He was political adviser to three different prime ministers: Ehud Barak, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ariel Sharon. In 2002, he was named Israels ambassador in the U.S., serving in that capacity for four years. During my ambassadorial tenure, Israel-US relations increased and improved, with American support of Israel reaching an all-time high in many areas, Ayalon writes on his website. Upon retirement from the diplomatic service in 2006, he joined Nefesh BNefesh, an organization committed to revitalizing Aliyah, and the Or Movement for settlement in the Negev and the Galilee, both issues he believes should be top national priorities. Thats not but a Zionist imperative and also a moral obligation upon us and future generations, he says. In February 2009, he was elected a member of the Knesset and soon after was named deputy foreign minister, serving in the parliament until 2013. Among his many pursuits since then, Ayalon has served as a visiting professor of foreign policy at Yeshiva University. He recently founded The Truth About Israel, a attempts to delegitimize Israel and strengthen its political status and image. Chair for the breakfast program is Lynne Merriam. RSVPs are requested to jnf.org/ tampabreakfast by April 20. Dietary laws will be observed. The JCC is at 522 N. Howard Ave., Tampa.JNF breakfast to feature former Israeli Ambassador Ayalon Danny Ayalon Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill that prohibits state agencies and local governments from contracting with companies that are boycotting Israel. Scotts bill-signing ceremony Wednesday, March 21, at the Or lando Torah Academy, a Jewish day school, also allowed him to highlight the $2 million that was included in the state budget to allow such schools to harden security against terrorist and other potential attacks. Funding will be used to help provide upgrades such as video cameras, fences, bulletproof glass, alarm systems and other safety equipment.  Last year, the state legislature approved more than $650,000 for security at Jewish day schools. The governor touted the states strong relationship with Israel in signing the anti-BDS legislation. with our ally Israel. In 2016, I was proud to sign legislation that prohibited the state, or administration, from investing in companies that boycott Israel. Today Im proud to sign HB 545, an important piece of legislation that builds on our efforts by prohibiting any state agency and local governments from contracting with companies that boycott Israel, said Scott. In 2016, Gov. Scott signed legislation that prohibits the State Board of Administration from investing in companies that boycott Israel. Gov. Scott also supported the U.S. Embassy moving from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In December, he led a delegation of Florida business and education leaders on a second trade mission to Israel. During the 2011 mission, Scott signed the Florida-Israel Memorandum of Understanding Agreement between Space Florida and Israel, to support research, development and aerospace and technology projects. Floridas total economic development and trading partnership with Israel exceeds $283 million a year.Students from the Orlando Torah Academy look on as Gov. Rick Scott signs a bill that prohibits public entities from dealing with companies that boycott Israel. Scott signs pro-Israel bill; touts $2m in budget for Day School securityCorrectionCongregation Beth Am in Tampa is sending 11 teens and three chaperones to the March for Our Lives in Washington. D.C. on March 24. Temple Bnai in Clear water is sending eight teens and three chaperones; Temple Beth-El in St. Petersburg is sending four teens and two chaperones and Temple Ahavat Shalom in Palm Harbor is sending one teen. A story in the March 9 issue of the Jewish Press contained incorrect numbers for how many people were going to the march from each congregation.
Temple Bnai Israel ClearwaterPassover Yizkor: On Friday, April 6 at 10:30 a.m. there will be a memorial service in the temple chapel in conjunction with Temple Beth-El in St. Petersburg. Tot Shabbat: Bring the little ones for a special Shabbat service that is tailored for the children on Saturday, April 7, from 10-11 a.m. Cinema Caf: Take in a movie on Sunday, April 8 at 1 p.m. at the temple. Turn Left at the End of the World on the Moroccan and Indian communities in Israel through a funny and heartwarming coming of age story, will be shown. Popcorn and non-alcoholic beverages are provided. There is no charge for members and friends. Theater excursion: The Adults at Leisure group will visit the Francis Wilson Playhouse on Sunday April 8 at 2 p.m. to see the comedy Once in a Lifetime Tickets are $26. Call the theater at (727) 446-1360 to reserve your seats. For more information call Linda Goldman at (727) 536-7076. Trivia Night: Tickets are on sale for Trivia Night on Saturday, April 21 at 5:30 p.m. The cost is $36 for adults and $18 for kids. Tickets include dinner and two drinks. Bible study: Explore the Second Book of Samuel and discover a unique period of Jewish history. Rabbi Daniel Treiser leads the classes on Wednesdays from 7-8 p.m. There is no fee for members; $30 for non-members for the year. Adult playtime: Play mah jongg, Mexican Train Dominoes or Bridge on Thursdays at 1 p.m. Join active seniors and play the game of your choice. Coffee and cake is served. For more information, contact Linda White at [email protected] or (727) 688-0626. Sunday funday: Preschoolers and their parents can enjoy playtime on Sunday, April 29 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. when the children can meet one another and engage in fun activities. for full schedule and pricing information at (727) 531-5829.Cong. Beth Shalom ClearwaterUnited Faiths Walk of Peace: Everyone is invited to walk, talk, connect, and strive for peace on Sunday, April 8 at 2 p.m. Meet at John R. Lawrence Pioneer Park, 400 Main St., Dunedin, and walk together for about 2 miles through on peace from a variety of faith leaders. The rabbis from Congregation Beth Shalom will be participating. For more information, go to www. UnitedFaithsWalkofPeace.org. Couple to be honored: A youth scholarship Shabbat honoring Dr. Avery and Claire Stiglitz, will be held on Saturday, April 14 at 9 a.m. Movie time: Join Jews from across the globe When the Smoke Clears, which shows how a group of wounded Israeli solIsraeli organization JerusalemU, will be shown on Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. at the synagogue. Happy Birthday, Israel: A musical Shabbat is planned for Friday, April 20 at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate Israels 70th birthday. The event includes a dinner at $18 for adults and $10 for children 12 Talmud classes: On Mondays and most Wednesdays, explore ancient legal tradition with Dr. Priscilla Nathanson The class is open to all levels of knowledge. The Monday class is held after minyan from 10 11:15 a.m. and the WednesLox & Learn: Led by Rabbi David Weizman, explore the weekly Torah portion every Thursday following minyan. Breakfast begins at 9:45 a.m. and the study session at 10 a.m. Haftarot study: This study will be led by Johanna Bromberg in the synagogue library on Wednesday, April 11 at 10 a.m. Meditation series: Rabbi Danielle Upbin, leads a course that combines guided meditameets next on Thursday, April 5 at 2 p.m. These sessions offer the Jewish tools to nurture selfgrowth and spiritual awareness. New participants Yoga Shacharit: Open to all levels, join in a blend of gentle yoga and chant from the Jewish tradition on Saturday, April 7 at 9:15 a.m. Wear comfortable clothes for movement. Bring your own mat and towel.Chabad of ClearwaterTorah and tea: Rebbetzin Miriam Hodakov leads a Torah and Tea exclusively for women on Wednesdays at 11:15 a.m. There is no charge to attend. RSVP to MiriamHodakov@ gmail.com or (727) 265-2770. Pray, eat, watch video: On Sundays from 9-10 a.m., feed your body and soul with a bagel short video presentation. There is no charge, and everyone is welcome. Study groups: Probe the ideas and issues presented in each weeks Torah portion on Mondays from 7-8 p.m. The Torah studies classes offer timely lessons for living. The class is free. Tanya class: A new weekly Tanya class, A Tale of Two Souls, meets on Saturdays from 10:15-11 a.m. The Tanya offers a roadmap for emotional healthy living. The in-depth study will ask such questions as What is a soul? What is our purpose here on earth? The class is free.Temple Beth-El St. PetersburgBreaking bread: The congregation will celebrate the end of Passover with pizza and beer on Friday, April 6 at 6 p.m. Seniors lunch and learn: The SAGE (Seniors for Arts, Growth and Education) group will meet on Monday, April 16 at 11 a.m. in the all-purpose room at the temple to hear Cantor Pamela Siskin discuss Israel Then and Now. Following lunch, Beth Gelman, the executive director at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, will be the guest presenter. There is no cost for the program. Lunch will be $8 or you can bring your own. RSVP to Cantor Siskin at [email protected]. Daystar lunch making: Help feed the homeless and families at the Daystar Life Center by gathering in the social hall on Sunday, April 8 at 9:30 a.m. to schmooze and make sandwiches for folks at Daystar. Sisterhood to meet: The Sisterhood will hold a general membership meeting on Sunday, April 15 from 10 a.m. to noon in the temple All members and prospective members are welcome. RSVP by April 1 to Pamela Katz-Alston at [email protected] or call (727) 502-7108. Mitzvah Day: The congregation will be distributing toiletries and clothing to the needy, as well as performing other acts of kindness on Mitzvah Day on Sunday, May 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will begin with a light breakfast and an orientation before teams are formed and sent out into the community to do good deeds that include beach or nature park cleanup, painting rooms, light housekeeping, making food and a sing-a-long for the elderly. For more information, call (727) 347-6136.Chabad of St. PetersburgMoshiach meal: Join in a traditional Moshiach meal on the last day of Passover, Saturday, April 7 at 7:15 p.m. The Haftorah reading for this day describes the promised future era of universal peace and divine perfection. A meal will be served, complete with salmon, salads, wine and matzah. All are welcome and there is no charge. RSVP is appreciated at [email protected]. Womens Book Club: Chaya Korf leads a roundtable discussion every Tuesday from 10:3011:30 a.m., about the book for this year, Towards a Meaningful Life, by Simon Jacobson. The group PAGE 6 JEWISH PRESS of PINELLAS COUNTY MARCH 23 APRIL 5, 2018 Congregations PINELLAS COUNTYReformTemple AHAVAT SHALOM 1575 Curlew Rd., Temple BETH CHAI DAVID Temple BETH-EL Congregation BNAI EMMUNAH 57 Read Temple BNAI ISRAEL ConservativeCongregation BETH SHALOM Congregation BETH SHOLOM Congregation BNAI ISRAEL OrthodoxCHABAD of CLEARWATER CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF GREATER ST P ETERSBURG CHABAD of PINELLAS COUNTY Road, Palm Harbor, 34683 PASCO COUNTY ConservativeBETH TEFILLAH/JCC OF WEST PASCO OrthodoxCHABAD OF WEST P ASCO HERNANDO COUNTY Reform Temple BETH DAVID Religious Directory Shabbat and Passover Candle Lighting Times Take a peek into any preschool classroom and you will likely see a crowd of darling little children all gathered in one corner of the room where the dress-ups are kept. Hats, scarves, suits, skirts, shoes, costume jewelry, boas and other articles of clothing, help children to engage in playacting and to escape into a world of make-believe in which they can become anything or anyone they want to be. A recent article in Very Well Family magazine tells us that by using their imagination, preschoolers can gain vocabulary skills ing, especially when it happens with other children, encourages taking turns, cooperation, and socialization. Taking on another persona and dramatically telling a story, brings the event to life in a way we might not otherwise experience through a simple reading. Play acting should not solely be the domain of preschoolers. At this time of year, Jews throughout the world join with family, friends and strangers around tables laden with mostly edible props. Using the Haggadah as our script, we engage in a form of role play by re-telling the story of our miraculous redemption from servitude in Egypt. And although most of us will Give props to the Passover storyBy RABBI LEAH M. HERZ Director of Spriritual Care, Menorah Manor Rabbinically Speaking Rabbinically Speaking Rabbinically Speaking Rabbinically Speaking Rabbinically Speaking Rabbinically Speaking not be costumed during our Seders, we will nevertheless do our best to convey the story of the Exodus according to the commandment that we see ourselves in the narrative. This is not a tale about something that happened thousands of years ago to someone else in a place far, far away. This is a story that we are to experience as if happening in real time, right here and right now. Our props take on mixed with wine becomes mortar for bricks. Salt water morphs into the bitter tears of slavery. We sing. We dip. We lean. We praise. We talk about the types of slavery that still exist in our world today. We do all that we can to transform ourselves into the lead acPeople. We can all learn a lot from preschoolers. This year may we too let down our guard and allow our imaginations to run free so that we might experience yeztiat mitzrayim, the coming out of Egypt, in a deeper and more meaningful way. Wishing all a Siesen Pesach. The Rabbinically Speaking column is provided as a public service by the Jewish Press in cooperation with the Pinellas County Board of Rabbis. Columns are assigned on a rotating basis by the board. The views expressed in the column are those of the rabbi and do not necessarily of the Jewish Press or the Board of Rabbis.
others; those considering adopting Judaism as their faith, and those who are already Jewish who wish to enhance their knowledge of Judaism. New students are welcome anytime. Cost is $100 per person or couple, for non-members; free for temple members. Misfortune and grief: An adult education class is underway on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. with Rabbi Klein focusing on misfortune and grief. He will attempt to provide tools from the social sciences and from our Jewish tradition that will help us cope with our own suffering and help us assist others in dealing with theirs. He will use, as primary text the book, Option B, by Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandburg. 8811 to join.Cong. Bnai Emmunah Tarpon SpringsIntroduction to Judaism: This class is offered at the synagogue on Mondays and Tuesdays from 5-7 p.m. weekly through May, except on April 30. Learn about Israel: A class titled Israels Milestones and Their Meanings will be offered on Mondays April 2, 9, 16, 23 and May 7 and 14 from 7-9 p.m. This class is in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the state of Israel and is a course designed by the Shalom Hartman Institute. The course will include video lectures from the Hartman faculty. JCC of West Pasco Port RicheyUnderstanding prayer: A class focused on the history, meaning, and relevance of Shabbat service prayers meets on Wednesdays through May at 7 p.m. Knowledge of Hebrew is not required. There is no fee, and all are welcome.Chabad of West PascoClasses with the rabbi: Rabbi Yossi Eber will teach classes on Mondays at 7 p.m. The classes alternate between Torah study and the Tanya. Pray, eat, watch video: On Sundays from 9-10 a.m., feed your body and soul with a bagel and will be a short video presentation. There is no charge, and everyone is welcome. Tanya class: A new weekly Tanya class, A Tale of Two Souls, meets on Saturdays from 10:15-11 a.m. The Tanya offers a roadmap for emotional healthy living. The in-depth study will ask such questions as What is a soul? What is our purpose here on earth? The class is free.Temple Beth David Spring HillArt show: Temple Beth David will host its third annual Nature Coast Art Show on Saturday and Sunday, April 7-8. There will be an artists reception from 4:30-8 p.m. Saturday with an evening of refreshments and conversations with the artists. Previewing and pur chasing available art can be done at this time. The show and sale will continue on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free to the public. There will be food, a silent auction, and original artworks by emerging and professional artists from Floridas Nature Coast. For more information, call Barb at (352) 686-7034. Torah study: Rabbi Paul Schreiber conducts Torah study classes on Mondays at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Free for members and $5 per class for non-members. Judaism class: A free Judaism conversion class will be held on Saturdays at 1 p.m., conducted by Rabbi Schreiber. Talmud for beginners: This class, already under way, is held every Wednesday at 8 p.m., except for the third Wednesday of the month. It is free for members and $5 per class for non-members.Chabad of Spring HillTorah studies: The com munity is invited to attend Torah study classes on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. The classes, taught by Rabbi Chaim Lipszyc, are not sequential, so drop-ins are welcome. Bagesl will be served. The For more information, call Ro Kerschner at (352) 746-6258. Some of you who met me probably heard me speaking about my familys heritage my mother was born in Germany and my dad was born in Israel but grew up in Morocco. Given that background, my brothers and I grew up with two different cultures in our household. A lot of the traditions I was accustomed to were so entwined in my life that only when I grew up did I realize which tradition belonged to which background. But one thing I can tell you for sure when it came to food, the Moroccan side was always clearly present and if I had to compare it with the east European food, it almost always won (with the exception of Cremeschnittean amazing European cake). Both of my grandmothers were cooks in their profession at one point of their lives and later on my mom joined the tradition, becoming the kibbutz main chef. Needless to say, I was never the skinniest girl in class. Both my mom and her mother (who was born in Europe), at some point of their lives, decided to adopt the rich, colorful and tasty Moroccan cuisine into their kitchen because once you taste it, all you want to do is just keep on eating it. I can go on and on about the food event which happens every year, when Moroccan food culture stands out all across Israel the Mimouna. Mimouna is the name for a big feast that is celebrated at the end of Passover and the beginning of spring. After eight days of observing Passover, most Jews happily put down their matzot and reach for the leavened breads, pasta, cookies, and other foods that had been forbidden during the holiday. At that time, the Moroccan-Israelis will begin the celebration of Mimouna. They, too, will begin to eat hametz (leavened foods), but unlike others, they make a party out of it with food, music, dancing, and sometimes even costumes. The Mimouna started as a tradition in Morocco that came to symbolize good relations with the Muslim neighbors. Jewish families in Morocco gave or sold their leavened foods to their Muslim neighbors for the duration of the holiday and when Passover ended, they invited their neighbors into their homes for a feast. Moroccan Jews who immigrated to Israel in the states early days brought the celebration with them, and it has grown ever since. Today Mimouna is a national holiday in Israel with big family or public outdoor parties that begin at sundown and often last into the next day. Frequently, politicians attend the celebrations, and it is a badge of honor to have a member tion. One of the traditions that Israelis kept for the celebration of the Mimouna is open doors. People are free to come and join the feast without any invitation or any announcement in advance. Some people make a night out of it going from one Mimouna to the other throughout the whole night. Now, once you go inside a house that is hosting a Mimouna the one thing you go running to is the food table. It is a beautiful sight a colorful table covered with traditional and less traditional jams, marzipans, nut cookies, candied fruit and stuffed dates. The most recognized food and cooked in a greased frying pan until it is yellowbrown in color. It is usually eaten warm and prepared on site, normally spread with butter, honey, syrup, jam, walnut, pistachios or dried fruits. Besides that, there will be dablas (North African fried ribbons of rolled dough in Many traditional Mimouna tables are set with symbols wheat for a full harvest; a hamsa, or hand-shaped amulet, to ward off evil; and honey and dates for sweetness. As a child, I remember loving Pesach just because I knew that by the end of it, my parents are taking my brothers and me for an hour-long drive only to get to my grandparents house and celebrate the Mimouna. The house was always full with people, the table was always colorful and the food was always sweet and comforting. JEWISH PRESS of PINELLAS COUNTY MARCH 23 APRIL 5, 2018 Congregations Mor About Israel Mor About IsraelYAEL MORIsrael Shlicha [Emissary] Yael, in costume, with her aunt, Karin Rauch, from Germany at a Mimouna celebration.Celebrating the end of Passover in an oh so sweet way in Israel Yael Mors yearlong visit to the community is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties. She can be reached at (727) 530-3223 or by email at [email protected] www.sartorialinc.com (727) 290-6783 Affordable Made-to-Measure Dresswear Linen & Silk World Class Shirts, Jeans, Tees, Performance Wear 400 Beach Drive NE Unit 169 Downtown St. Petersburg will share strategies for not only discovering where your true meaning lies, but also in actually making it a part of your daily life. Coffee, fruit and homemade pastries will be served at these free sessions. Walkins are welcome. RSVP to Chaya@ ChabadSP.com. Lunch and Learn: Women are invited to share an hour of camaraderie, inspiration and delicious lunch at a Lunch and Learn session at the Chabad Jewish Center on Tuesday, April 17 at noon. There is no charge for the event. RSVPs are appreciated but not necessary. To RSVP: [email protected] or call (727) 344-4900.Cong. Bnai Israel St. PetersburgPassover BBQ: Leave the Passover cooking to someone else for the night at CBIs annual Passover BBQ hosted by the Mitzvah Mens Club on Wednesday, April 4 at 6p.m. On the menu are hot dogs, hamburgers and chicken or grilled vegetables. Sides include garden salad, potatoes, all the matzoh you can eat, assorted condiments, dessert and beverages. Cost is $20 per adult, $10 per child. RSVP to Alan Gross at (727) 327-0100 by Friday, March 30. Walk-in availability will be limited. Celebrating Israel with food: Join in a Kabbalat Shabbat service on Friday, April 20 at 6 p.m. followed by Got Shabbat? Israeli-style dinner for those with reservations. Then come back Saturday, April 21 at 9 a.m. for Shabbat services, followed by an Israelistyle kiddush. Cost for the dinner is $20 per person and children eat free. RSVP by Friday, April 13 to Pam Askin at (727) 381.4900 or Beatles-themed Shabbat: Come dressed. in your grooviest clothes and celebrate as the Kabbalat Shabbat service is set to Beatles melodies on Friday, April 27 at 6:30 p.m. Arrive at 5:30 p.m. for a Beat Bugs style jam session for families with young children with Maureen prior to the service. Come together after the service for a casual Shabbat dinner and build a Yellow Submarine sandwich (vegan & gluten-free options available). Cost for dinner is $5 per person or $10 per family; RSVP by Friday, April 20 to Liz Sembler at lizsembler@ aol.com or (727) 381-4900. Dinner is open to all ages and hosted by the CBI Jewbilees (the synagogues Baby Boomers social group). Talmud Made Easy: On Tuesdays, March 20 at 5 p.m., Steve Wein will lead a study of Talmudic text and selected commentaries. All materials will be provided. The class involves textual analysis, lively discussion and is open to all. The class is free; no previous knowledge is needed. 381-4900 or [email protected] for details.Temple Ahavat Shalom Palm HarborPoker tourney: The Brotherhood will sponsor the 2nd Annual Texas Hold em Poker Tournament on Saturday, April 7 at 7 p.m. The evening will include food, drinks and prizes for the winners. Buyin is $40. For more information or to RSVP, contact Scott Alalof at (904) 994-3820 or visit http:// ahavatshalom.org/navigation-3/ brotherhood. Toddler time: There will be an hour of activities incorporating music, literacy, Judaics and snacks for children ages 1-4 on Sunday, April 8 at 10 a.m. Tots are invited to bring a special adult with them. 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PAGE 12 JEWISH PRESS of PINELLAS COUNTY MARCH 23 APRIL 5, 2018 Organizations The Jewish Burial Society of Pinellas County, Inc. would like to recognize and send a heartfelt thank you to the Federations, families, Synagogues and Temples that helped fund our Hurricane Irma cleanup. Over the past 6 months, your commitment to Chapel Hill Memorial Park has helped us come a long way with repairing, replacing and replanting. Were still accepting additional Thank You! Thank You! www.chapelhillmemprk.orgThe Jewish Burial Society of Pinellas County Inc. dba Chapel Hill Memorial Park Diane Cohen Congregation Bnai Israel Dr. Mark and Judi Gordon David and Pati Gross Anita Helfand Beverly Helie-Pollack Sam and Sandy Janofsky Jewish Federation of North America Jewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties, FL Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Anne and Robin LaMaire Rabbi Jacob and Joanne Luski Howard Miller Doug and Joan Negretti Dr. Marc and Laurie Reiskind David and Teddi Robbins Maurice A. Rothman and Thelma P. Rothman Family Foundation Sharlene Sakol Dr. Harold and Joyce Seder Greg and Liz Sembler Mel and Betty Sembler Shumaker, Loop, & Kendrick, LLP Dr. Mike and Sandy Slomka Tampa JCCs and Federation Inc. Temple Beth-El Jim and Vicki Trombly UJA-Federation of New York Ralph Wescott The Jewish Burial Society of Pinellas County Inc. dba Chapel Hill Memorial Park your commitment to Chapel Hill Memorial Park has helped us come a long way with repairing, replacing and replanting. Were still accepting additional SUSHI TUESDAY 6 pm close Reservations recommended DRINK SPECIALS 4 pm 6 pm $5 House Wine $5 Single Shot well drinks or martinis Floral Design Studio 6700 Central Ave., St. Petersburg local and worldwide delivery Weddings Events Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Redman Steele 727.343.1020 RedmanSteeleFlorist.net HadassahMah jongg fundraiser: The Lylah Pinellas Chapter of Hadassah will have a fundraising mah jongg event on Wednesday, April 25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Countryside Country Club, 3001 Countryside Blvd., Clearwater. The event will include a salad buffet luncheon and the cost is $25 per person. To make arrangements for payment and to RSVP contact Lynne Brubaker at [email protected] or (727) 782-3086. If you can, bring your card and your game.JWIFor the kids: Jewish Women International North Pinellas will enjoy brunch as they hold a fun draiser for the Childrens Home on Sunday, April 22 at 10:30 a.m. with a Table for Two demonstra tion by Chef Warren Caterson The event will be at East Lake Woodlands Country Club, with valet parking. The cost is $38 per person. For more information, con tact Amy Richman at richman. [email protected] or (727) 5430108. Meet Rabbi Dani: On Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m., learn how a girl from Great Neck, NY, becomes a rabbi of today. JWI will welcome Rabbi Danielle Upbin associate rabbi and prayer leader at Congregation Beth Shalom in Clearwater, as guest speaker. Ordained from Jewish Theo logical Seminary, she holds a BA in political science, and is cur rently president of the Pinellas County Board of Rabbis. She is an educator and trainer of all things Jewish, a professionally trained singer and yoga instructor. She is married to Rabbi David Weizman, senior rabbi at Beth Shalom, and is mother of four children. All are welcome. For more information, contact Lynn Brodsky (727) 787-6154Genealogical SocietyThe Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay will meet on Sunday April 8 at 2 p.m. at Gulf Coast Jewish Family & Community Services, 14041 Icot Blvd., Clearwater, for a hands-on working session for individual research using the Internet and library resources of the organization. Experienced society mentors will be on hand to provide guidance and assistance. Free access to Ancestry.com and to MyHeritage. com (Premium), will be offered on several computers and available for use. Attendees are asked to bring their own research materials and information and their own laptop computer if they have one. A presession social with refreshments and library access begins at 1:30 p.m. For information about the organization or directions to the meeting, call Bruce Hadburg at (727) 796-7981.Young Adults#Gather offers a mix of social and interactive activities designed to help young adults connect. It is open to young adults of all faiths and backgrounds. For more information or to RSVP for any #Gather events, visit: www.bry anglazerfamilyjcc.com/gather or contact Lisa Robbins at lisa.rob [email protected] or (813) 769-4723. Flavor tripping: The #Gather group will meet Monday, April 9 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 81 Bay Brewing Company, 4465 W. Gandy Blvd, Tampa, to experience the miracle berry from West Africa that turns tart and savory foods denly tastes like lemonade. Cheese tastes like frosting. Vinegar tastes like apple juice. The cost is $5 for members and of beer will be available for $5. Spin class: Join in a high-energy spin class with other #Gather members at the Glazer JCC on Monday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. This is free for members and $7 for guests and includes access to the entire JCC for the day. Pedal through hill climbs, sprints and interval training with motivational music to help push you through the challenge. Cool down with a smoothie by the pool together. Reserve your bike today. Job-LinksMonday Morning Links: Free sessions of Monday Morning Links are offered at the Jack Roth Center for Career Development at TampaBay-Job-Links, 4100 W. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 206, Tampa from 9:30 11 a.m. On April 2 the topic is Whats Your Nonverbal Communication Saying? On April 9 the topic is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Job Seekers and on April 16 the topic is How to Work the Room at a Networking Event or Job Fair. Monday Morning Links is supported by the Vinik Family Foundation. Job-search aids: The next Success workshop will be Thurs day, April 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The topic is Steps to Negotiate a Job Offer and on April 12 it is Mastering Change and Transition. The workshops are free for TampaBay Job-Links full program participants and $15 for guests. Reservations required for all programs. T To RSVP, call (813) 344-0200, email [email protected]. Support groupsAlzheimers caregiver group: Menorah Manor offers a support group meeting in the Sam son Nursing Center at Menorah Manor, 255 59th St. N., St. Peters month from 3:30-5 p.m. For more information, call Gwen Kaldenberg at (727) 302-3750.
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JEWISH PRESS of PINELLAS COUNTY PAGE 15 MARCH 23 APRIL 5, 2018 727.789.2000 Obituaries 12905 Wild Acres Rd. Largo, FL 33773 Serving the Pinellas County Jewish Community since 1968The Jewish Burial Society of Pinellas County Inc. dba Chapel Hill Memorial Park is a 501 (c) (3) non-prot corporation licensed by the State of Florida 6366 Central Avenue St. Petersburg Fl 33707DAVI D C. GROSSFUNERAL HOMES727.381.4911Reform Conservative OrthodoxTHE JEWISH FUNERAL HOME OF PINELLAS COUNTY830 N. Belcher Road Clearwater, Fl 33765 Michael, Mandi, David, Pati and Steven Gross Happy Passover! Freedom Deliverance Reflection Freedom Deliverance Reflection EDWARD CLARK, 94, of Gulfport died March 7. Born in Boston, he was a veteran of the United States Army and was stationed in the Philippines as a store manager for Zayre Department Store. Survivors include his wife of 70 years Marilyn; son and daughter-in-law, Larry Clark and Ellen Moss; daughter and son-in-law, Diane and Russell Cantwell; two sisters, Rhoda Silverman and Helen Irving; two grandsons and a great-granddaughter. (David C. Gross Funeral Homes, St. Petersburg Chapel) HAROLD HAFTEL, 92, of Tarpon Springs, died March 13. Born in Brooklyn, his family moved to Flemington, NJ where they had a chicken farm. He studied agriculture in Pennsylvania and worked for the Department of Agriculture. In the 1960s he was sent to Dunedin to be the inspector of HP Hood & Tarpon Springs to build a chicken farm for his father and brought his parents to Florida. The 40 acres eventually became an orange grove. He was one of Shalom in Clearwater, when services took place in a storefront, and he rethe years he also supported Temple kibbutz and discovered the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he learned about drip irrigation being developed in Israel and used the technology in his own orange grove. He became a maInstitute and sat on its board. Active within the community, he was a memthe Jewish Federation. He also volunteered for the Rotary Club and picking up donated eyeglasses at local libraries. He was one of the recipients of the the Jewish and general community. (David C. Gross Funeral Homes, Clearwater Chapel) EARL WALLACE SKIP MOORE JR. Clearwater, died March 16. He was born and raised in Parsons and Elkins, WV, and lived many years in Baltimore and Virginia Beach moving to Clearwater 10 years ago. He served in the United States Navy. Later he became a licensed electrician in Maryland. He worked in corporate sales for many years and then became a business owner with multiple retail locations throughout Virginia. In recent years, he held the position of Fleet Captain for the Clearwater Yacht Club. Survivors include his wife Sharon Nusman Foster; son Earl Chip Moore III (Lisa Guzzardo); step-sons, Samuel Foster (Leigh Ferguson), Richard Yarrow (Debra), Brian Yarrow (Robin); two grandchildren and six step-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to Suncoast Hospice. (David C. Gross Funeral Homes, Clearwater Chapel) MACK MITCHELL SHUMAN of St. Petersburg, died March 13. KNOWother staples of the traditional Seder, including the Seder plate and charoset. Their maror (bitter herbs) is a mixture of lemon peel, bitter lettuce and an assortment of other herbs. Israeli Jews observe only one Passover Seder, unlike everywhere else where traditionally two Seders are held, one on Known as yom tov sheni shel galuyot literally the second festival day of the Diaspora the practice was begun 2,000 years ago when Jews were informed of the start of a new lunar month only after it salem. Because Jewish communities outside of Israel were often delayed in learning the news, they consequently couldnt be sure precisely which day festivals were meant to be observed. As a result, the practice of observing two Seder days was instituted just to be sure. Some progressive Jews have adopted the practice of including an orange on the Seder plate as a symbol of inclusion of gays, lesbians and other groups marginalized in the Jewish community. The story goes that the practice was instituted by the feminist scholar Susannah Heschel after she was told that a woman belongs on the synagogue bimah, or prayer podium, like an orange belongs on a Seder plate. But according to Heschel, that story is false. In that apocryphal version, she said, a womans words are attributed to a man, men is erased. Isnt that precisely whats happened over the centuries to womens ideas? In truth, the idea occured after a visit to a university where some students had been putting bread crusts on the Seder plate as a symbol of protest against the exclusion of women, gays and lesbians. Heschel liked the idea but instead proposed an alternative that did not bring hametz onto the seder table. The orange was to be consumed and the seeds spit out representing the rejection of homophobia. The 16th American president was shot at Fords Theatre on a Friday, April 14, 1865, which coincided with the fourth night of Passover. The next morning, Jews who wouldnt normally have attended services on the holiday were so moved by Lincolns passing they made their way to synagogues, where the normally celebratory Passover services were instead marked by acts of mourning and the singing of Yom Kippur hymns. American Jews were so affected by the presidents death that Congregation Shearith Israel in New York recited the Kaddish usually said only for Jews on Lincolns behalf. For many Seder participants, the highken piece of matzah that the Seder leader hides and the children search for; the pera small reward. Most scholars believe the word for dessert. Others say it refers to a kind of post-meal revelry common among thing eaten at the Seder. Donald Trumps new national security adviser John Bolton is a hawk who has said military strikes may be inevitable as a means of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Naming Bolton suggests that Trump is ready to pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal by May 12, the deadline to waive sanctions. The agreement trades sanctions relief for a rollback of Irans nuclear program. Bolton is a staunch opponent of the deal, as is Mike Pompeo, the CIA chief Trump just nominated to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Bolton has said on multiple occasions that striking Iran to stop it from going nuclear may be inevitable. I dont make any disguise of the idea that ultimately it may take an Israeli strike against Irans nuclear program to stop it, he told the conservative Washington Free Beacon in August. Tillerson and outgoing national security adviser H.R. McMaster both dont like the deal but counseled against pulling out of it because Iran is complying with its narrow strictures, and leaving would remove whatever leverage the United States has with its allies to pressure Iran outside the deals tis, the defense secretary, as the opposes leaving the deal. Bolton has close relations with the pro-Israel community stemming from his success in 1991 in getting the United Nations to rescind its Zionism is racism resolution. Bolton at the time was the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs under nominated Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations in 2005 and named him acting ambassador. Bolton never cleared the Senate nominating process, in part because of his hawkishness on because subordinates at the State Department emerged to describe him as an abusive boss. Bolton under the younger Bush had been the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs. Pro-Israel groups, including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, at the time broke with their protocol against endorsing a nominee and lobbied for Boltons Bolton was forced to step down from the U.N. post. McMaster got along well with his Israeli counterparts, but angered some on the right wing of the pro-Israel community because of reports that he blocked Trumps recognition of Jerusalem as Israels capital. Trump ultimately recognized Jerusalem in December and announced plans to open a temporary embassy there in May. Morton Klein, who heads the hawkish Zionist Organization of America, called Bolton a spectacular choice to lead the NSC. He understands the Arab Islamic war against Israel and the West, Klein tweeted. Bolton is a patriot and an ardent clear thinking Iran Deal. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, was alarmed by Boltons appointment. Its hard to escape the disquieting conclusion that the mass exodus of the adults from this Administration is putting our nations security at risk, he tweeted. Ambassador Boltons hawkish and conspiratorial thinking will only make matters dangerously worse. In February, Bolton wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal urging the United States to use force to solve the nuclear standoff with North Korea.New Trump advisor is Iran hawk, close to pro-Israel groupsHe was born in Baltimore. Survivors daughter and son-in-law Meredith and Paul Leonhirth; stepdaughter, Tanya Tostado; and four grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to Temple Hospice.
JEWISH PRESS of PINELLAS COUNTY PAGE 17 MARCH 23 APRIL 5, 2018 Weekly Kosher Shabbat Dinners Traditional Jewish holiday Celebrations Private Van Service 250 58th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33710 Ad sponsored by Benjamin Tower FoundationStudio and one bedroom apartments are available through rental programs that offer affordable housing to seniors living on a limited income. Daily Activities 24 Hour Front Desk Coverage Reserved Parking Activities, Activities, Activities Weekly Kosher Shabbat Dinners Traditional Jewish holiday Celebrations Private Van Service 250 58th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33710 Ad sponsored by Benjamin Tower FoundationStudio and one bedroom apartments are available through rental programs that offer affordable housing to seniors living on a limited income. Daily Activities 24 Hour Front Desk Coverage Reserved Parking Activities, Activities, Activities Wishing you a Happy Passover! Wishing you a Happy Passover! Wishing you a Happy Passover! Wishing you a Wishing you a Happy Passover! Wishing you a Happy Passover! Wishing you a Humans of Tel Aviv, that will be on display throughout the day. My goal is to give people around the world an inside look into the rich and remarkably diverse lives of Tel Avivians and showcase Israeli multiculturalism and its vibrant civil society, Kaganovits said. Kaganovits photos reach as many as 500,000 people per month including many in the Arab world through his blog, which he began in 2012. Accompanying each photo is a brief story about the person he has captured with his camera. What I love most about this project is that I can reach people in a way that Im not forcing my ideas upon others, but rather simply taking a photo, telling a story, and letting it speak for itself, the photographer said. You can see religious Orthodox Jews, Muslims and Christians alongside gays, lesbians, and transsexuals; you can see refugees sophisticated people from Rothschild Boulevard, Kaganovits explained in an interview with Israel21c.org. A variety of other speakers also will be on hand to remind folks of the importance of the Jewish state and what the nation faces as it continues to grow and bloom. Rabbi Ed Rosenthal of Hillels of the Florida Suncoast will speak about the challenges Jewish students face on college campuses around the Tampa Bay area when speakers and student groups voice positions against Israel. Two authors will discuss their Jewish-themed books. Roslyn Franken of Seminole will talk about her book, Meant To Be: A True Story of Might, Miracles and Triumph of the Human Spirit. It is a love story about how her mom, who survived Nazi concentration camps, and dad, who was in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, met and fell in love. Author Lynda Lippman-Lockhart of St. Petersburg will also speak about her book, The Laundry Room, which is a tale of Israeli resistance in 1946, two years before the state of Israel was created. Both authors will be available for sales and signings of their books. Another speaker, Eric Lynn of St. Petersburg played a large role during the Obama administration in getting approval and funding for Israels Iron Dome rocket defense system. Lynn will discuss his work on the project, which is credited with saving hundreds of civilian lives. For musical entertainment, Rabbi Danielle Upbin of Congregation Beth Shalom of Clearwater will lead a sing-a-long, accompanied on guitar by Blake Lenett, a congregant at Beth Shalom. Food will be complimentary with traditional Israeli and Jewish food, provided by Jo-Els Delicatessen and Marketplace of St. Petersburg. For the kids there will be a bounce house, an archeological dig, face painting, balloon art and Walsingham Rd.SEMINOLE BLVD. 113th St. / Ridge Rd.ULMERTON RD.Starkey Rd.Heritage VillageWalsingham ParkTAMPA Walsingham Rd. E W N SLARGOPINEWOOD CULTURAL PARK Botanical Gardens LARGO MALL BEACHES 12211 Walsingham Rd. Largo, FL 33778More information about the Israel Independence Day celebration can be found on the Federations website, www.jewishpinellas.org or by calling (727) 530-3223.ISRAEL Photographer Erez Kaganovits, creator of the Humans of Tel Aviv exhibit, will be at the Pinellas Israel Independence Day event on Sunday, April 15. the opportunity to make Israeli For all ages, there will be Krav Maga self defense demonstrations and Israeli dancing. A committee of individuals representing synagogues and agencies has worked to create a day of fun and celebration for everyone, said Maxine Kaufman, the Federations director of arts, culture, and education. This is a very special year for Israel, and were bringing together the entire community in recognition of this big event. The venue will offer both indoor and outdoor space, some of it under tents, for the festivals activities, so folks can get out of the heat if needed. The celebration is being sponsored by the Florida Arts and Culture Division.
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Learn more about our five favourite critters found in Bali! These are the five most requested critters that our guests would like to find on our popular Bali Diving Safari trips.
One of the highlights of a scuba diving trip to Bali is the incredible critter life. Photographers and non-photographers alike love to find cryptic creatures. With a large number of critter dives throughout the island, Bali is a world class destination for macro lovers. Dive sites such as the Padang Bai Jetty, Puri Jati near Lovina, and Secret Bay at Gilimanuk are some of the lesser known gems. Tulamben and Amed are home to a variety of black sand sites. There are more than a dozen great macro sites in the area including Melasti, Liberty Slope, Seraya, and many more!
However, it’s not the sites themselves that make a dive unforgettable, it’s the creatures that are the stars of the show. Photographers who visit Bali often have a list of critters they want to find. Over the years we have compiled a short list of the “5 Most Requested Critters in Bali” from guests. Without further ado, and in no particular order we present our 5!
These gaudy crustaceans are highly requested by photographers and non photographers as well. With their bright colors and a “look” like no other shrimp, harlequins are always a hit. Typically found sheltered under large rocks, these beautiful animals feed on starfish. Find harlequin shrimp throughout Bali at sites such as Seraya Secrets, Melasti Amed, and Melasti Seraya.
A nudibranch that looks like no other. When first encountering the donut dorid, many divers can’t tell the difference between the head and the tail! These nudibranchs resemble six donuts that have been laid out side by side. They exclusively live on and eat hydroids. The best site in Bali to find them is Melasti in the Seraya area.
The most sought after octopus in Bali. These long armed octopus are notoriously shy but when feeling confident they can put on quite a show! The incredible flexibility of these charismatic cephalopods means they can take a multitude of shapes. The name “mimic” originates from their ability to take on the form of other marine life in order to confuse predators. Find these beautiful octopus on the black sand slopes of the Amed and Seraya areas as well as Puri Jati in north Bali.
The cutest animal under the sea? These tiny sea slugs with “eyes” are only around the size of a grain of rice. They are found in singles, pairs, and small groups living on certain type of sea grass. Due to their small size, these are extremely frustrating subjects for photographers to shoot. Diopters or tele-converters are a real must when photographing these cute invertebrates. Find these adorable critters at sites in Bali such as Puri Jati and the black sand sites in the Tulamben and Amed areas.
Check out it’s resemblence to the popular Shaun the Sheep cartoon to know how it received it’s nickname.
Perhaps not as famous as it’s cousin the mimic, Coconut Octopus make up for it in the “character” department. Recently classified as the only non vertebrate with the ability to use tools, “coconut” octopus are named that way for a reason. These highly intelligent cephalopods utilize a variety of items to shelter themselves from predators. They use coconuts, clams shells, and even discarded plastic as protection. Find coconut octopus at sites in and around the Puri Jati area.
With it’s location firmly in the Coral Triangle region, Bali is home to countless wonderful critters. These five favourite critters are just the tip of the iceberg of what you can find on a Bali Diving Safari. Frogfish, blue ring octopus, mantis shrimp, seahorses, and an endless variety of nudibranchs are all found regularly by our guides. If you are a critter lover, please Contact Us today to inquire how we can create the perfect dive holiday for you in Bali.
What are your Five Favourite Critters in Bali?
Have you just finished a Bali diving trip? Or will you be joining us on a safari in the future? Why not let us know in the comments what your five favourites are. We will certainly try to show you all of these amazing critters on your dive trip in Bali.
We are happy to announce a Bali Night Dive Special Offer for April, May, and June 2019. Book a trip with us, including a minimum of 8 dives per person, and receive a free night dive. This is for Bali diving only and the night dive will be in the Tulamben/Seraya/Amed areas. Offer not applicable for night diving in Candidasa/Padang Bai/Sanur/Penida. Bali is a wonderful place for night diving and the NE area is the best on the island. Discover the critters that make the Tulamben area famous such as boxer crabs, nudibranchs, octopus and more.
Many of the macro sites in NE Bali are famous for their critters. Sites such as the Liberty Wreck and Seraya boast a whole new level of excitement at night. Our guides are wonderful spotters and their skills really shine during a night dive. The months of April through to June normally have fantastic weather throughout Bali. The rainy season has stopped and it’s what we call the “shoulder season”. This means mostly calm seas and warm weather, perfect for night diving!
This offer is only open for a limited time. Please let us know via email that you would like to take advantage of our Free Bali Night Dive special offer! Please Book Now on our Contact Page or ask us for more details.
If you are a keen night diver we can also offer Bonfire style Black Water dives in the Tulamben area. These are great dives for unique photographic encounters with bizarre animals. Read more about Black Water and Bonfire dives on one of our recent blogs. Ask us about availability for one of these one of a kind diving experiences during your trip to Bali.
We are happy to announce that our latest Podcast is now available. In the studio, for episode #012 of the UWT Diving and Adventure Podcast is Alex Lindbloom. We were on hiatus for a few months as we were busy on other projects during the busy season here in Indonesia.
We had a great chat with Alex about all things underwater. For those who don’t know Alex, he is an underwater photographer and film maker who spent 5 years as the full time photo pro on the Mermaid II liveaboard. Originally from Idaho, USA, Alex escaped the cold to make his way in South East Asia. This talented image maker has an incredible show reel of photos and video from all over Indonesia as well as other exotic locations.
We discuss a variety of topics with Alex including favourite images, award winning imagery, his most memorable dives, and the big ones that got away!
Blackwater dives are all the rage in the underwater photography scene these days. Social media outlets such as Facebook and Instagram host hundreds of photos of bizarre and amazing looking creatures on a daily basis. However, many people get a confused look on their face when the phrase “blackwater diving” is used. There is a bit of confusion about what Blackwater diving is in the general diving public. Here we try to explain a little bit more about it.
What Exactly is Blackwater Diving You Ask?
A blackwater dive is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, diving in the water column surrounded by blackness! There are several ways of doing a black water dive, either on or near a reef or out in the open ocean.
For new participants, the best way to become acquainted with black water diving is to try a “reef” dive first. Colloquially known as a “bonfire” dive, this means setting up a series of strong lights on or near the reef and diving in the water column nearby. Most divers feel more comfortable when there is a bottom in view. This is different than a normal night dive as the divers are not checking out critters on the reef. Instead, the goal of a “bonfire” is to hang around in the water column to spot what sort of creatures are attracted to the lights. Critters found on these dives are usually juveniles of common reef species such as mantis shrimp, octopus, and reef fish.
The “classic” Blackwater dive is done by suspending bright lights on a drop line suspended in the open water column. This is usually done offshore and the divers drift with the line as it’s carried along by the current. The goal of a true Blackwater dive is to attract bizarre and wonderful critters that rise up from the deep during the night. However, this style of dive is not for everyone. Many people don’t like the idea of drifting over hundreds of meters of water in the dark!
One thing to be aware of on open water dives is you ears! As you drift along in the open water following tiny creatures with a camera, it’s easy to lose position. The small fish may be going up or down the water column at random. Pay close attention to your ears and monitor your computer to avoid rapid ascents or going too deep.
The Underwater Tribe offers Blackwater dives in Bali. At the moment we offer these in the Tulamben and Amed areas. Let us know during your next diving trip in Bali with us and we can set up one of these truly unique dives! At the moment we offer “Bonfire” style dives only. These dives are available only during Bali Safaris or stays in the Tulamben area. We don’t offer these on day trips from the south of Bali.
Our friends at NAD Lembeh Resort in the Lembeh Strait also offer incredible Black Water Diving opportunities. If you are booked on our July 2019 Photo Workshop let us know and we can set up one of these dives during the event. If you haven’t booked your space yet, let us know, we do have a few spaces remaining.
The freshly elected Governor of Bali, Wayan Koster, has followed up the pledge of his predecessor in starting banning certain kind of single use plastic.
Effective from January 1st, 2019, shopping bags, styrofoam and plastic straws will be banned and businesses in Bali won’t be allowed to supply those to their customers.
Business will have 6 months to adjust to this new law. After 6 months, local officials will be severely taking action against those business who did not abide to the new rules. One of the penalty could be loosing the operating business license.
This much needed strong action has been taken to rapidly reduce by 70 % the amount of plastic entering the marine environment around the Island of the Gods.
This is definitely a major step forward towards the right direction and hopefully it will be embraced quickly by all business.
In the recent year the amount of plastic found around the coast of Bali at the beginning of each raining season has been dramatically increasing to the point of total disaster.
At the Underwater Tribe we have been witnessing first hand the crisis and we welcome the new rules as the beginning of a new era. We are aware that much more is needed to further tackle this crisis but we also believe that the people of Bali will do more and will set an example for other to follow.
Big shout out to Melati and Isabel founders of the Bye Bye Plastic Bag organization who were the first to effectively raise concern and awareness at the Bali local government and, with their good spirit and positive energy, inspire thousands of people in taking actions to tackle the plastic pollution crisis that is not affecting only Bali, but the entire planet.
Are we going to get a NEW Shipwreck in Bali ?
New Wreck Dive For Bali?
Word has it that there is a new wreck dive coming to Bali! Although not officially confirmed with exact dates or details, it looks like Bali will soon have a great new dive site.
The Kri Slamet Riyadh is a 133 meter long decommissioned frigate and it’s the latest in a long line of ex warships now acting as dive sites. Although Bali is home to two outstanding wreck dives, the Kubu Wreck and the USAT Liberty, there is always room for more! With more than 50 years of life as an artificial reef, the USAT Liberty is world renowned as a premiere wreck dive. A bastion of life, this ship is home to countless species of fish and invertebrates. As an easily accessible shore dive, almost every diver who has visited Bali has dived it at least once.
However, its shallow depth means that this beautiful site has seen deterioration over the years. The Kubu Wreck, just a few miles up the road from the Liberty is a great addition to the Bali dive scene. A properly sunk 133 meter long warship is truly something to look forward to. The sheer size of the vessel means there will be plenty of room for underwater exploration, including tech and penetration diving. It will also help spread divers across more sites, which is never a bad thing!
Of course, it will take many years before this new wreck is covered in spectacular corals like the Liberty is. But this doesn’t mean the wreck won’t be interesting, in a rich environment like Tulamben there are always creatures looking for a place to hide. Fish will make their homes there immediately and fast growing invertebrates such as crinoids will move in quickly.
How does this sound for an interesting trifecta for your next trip to Bali? Already known as one of the best critter dive locations in the world, we will soon be able to offer 3 different wreck dives too! A “Critter and Wrecks” Safari will be just around the corner, a perfect combination for underwater photographers. Combine wide angle photography with the top notch critter finding skills of our amazing guides, all in one fantastic location.
Stay tuned for further updates of this exciting new wreck, hopefully it will be cleaned and ready for sinking in 2019!
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Most online marketers probably know what Fiverr is all about. Fiverr is the $5 marketplace and that’s how it got its name.
Online marketers underestimate how this amazing platform can help grow their business.
They believe you can’t get something worthy by just spending $5.
If Fiverr isn’t that great you will not find service providers earning up to 100,000 reviews on their gig.
Yes, there was a gig that has such massive reviews.
You definitely know that this kind of service is beneficial to people and that’s why they keep coming back to order.
Even recently I’ve ordered a gig with over 1000 active orders, meaning the seller is currently working on these orders.
So before you say Fiverr is a waste of money you need to take a look at the reviews the seller has.
If you find a seller with at least 100 reviews and with at least 4+ star rating, you definitely know it’s a service you want to order if that’s something that will help you as an online marketer.
You can benefit a lot from Fiverr, right from logo design which is an important part of any business, to fixing your website problems or building and setting up a new website, video commercials and much more.
The sky is the limit when it comes to using Fiverr.
There are a lot of services you don’t know exist on Fiverr unless you visit the categories there.
Like I’ve said the key to using Fiverr is to make sure that the seller has some positive reviews.
And not only that you should use a gig once before making conclusions on Fiverr services.
Fiverr has really changed recently because they’ve upgraded their pricing model.
Fiverr is known for their low price services and that’s why everyone loves them.
But as a result of this they ended up with a lot of poor quality services.
Now at Fiverr sellers can set pricing at their own terms.
This means more quality services since a lot of freelancers wanted to work at Fiverr but due to low pricing they couldn’t join or they can’t offer much to buyers.
Now you can find sellers offering services at $50, $100, $200 and much more.
And you know that these services with reasonable rates offer the best solution to businesses and online marketers.
Instead of searching online to find expensive services with fake testimonials why not give Fiverr a try since sellers can’t fake reviews and testimonials.
A seller on Fiverr can’t fake 1000’s of positive reviews.
By now if you’re the type of online marketer that believes Fiverr services are junk you probably understand it might help your online marketing efforts.
The beauty of this website is that you don’t really need to invest a lot from the start.
You just need to start small so that you can figure out whether the quality of the service is actually what you’re looking for or not.
If things are good you can upgrade with extras.
Almost every seller I’ve come across on Fiverr has extras.
Extras are like up-sells or I can say an extension of the service you’re buying.
Let’s demonstrate with an example.
Let’s say you’re ordering logo design for your business.
The seller will offer to design the logo for just $5 or $10 on average.
But at this price he’ll only send you the image file that’s either PNG or any other image format, but it’s not going to be in editable format.
So in order to get the PSD or SVG and other editable file formats you have to order extras.
A seller can offer to give you PSD format for an extra $10, or $20 bucks.
For gig extras also the seller can also offer to make unlimited revisions until you’re satisfied, unlike when you order the basic gig which will only give you one revision.
And we all know that when it comes to graphic design a lot of revisions are needed before the design meet the buyer’s needs.
So basically you now understand that Fiverr isn’t just a poor freelancing website.
If you’re willing to invest more you’ll definitely get the best services like any other freelancing website out there.
This article we’ll be talking about the important Fiverr services which every online marketer need to be using to promote their business online.
So far we’ve just show you the benefits of using Fiverr and why you need to use it for your business.
But before listing the Fiverr services you need as an online marketer, you need to understand more on how this website work and what makes it different from other freelance websites.
We’ll also share some tips that will help you come up with the right Fiverr gig that offer the best services.
On your typical freelance website out there you’re hiring a freelancer to work for you, but at Fiverr you’re buying a service.
But there are sellers on Fiverr too that offer themselves for hire such data entry or virtual assistants.
You’ll find a seller saying “I’ll do data entry for 3 hours for only $10” or “I’ll be your virtual assistant for one hour at $5”.
But basically with Fiverr you’re buying a service not hiring a freelancer.
Just like any other freelance website out there, you can find a lot of low quality providers.
Fiver isn’t an exception; you’ll find a lot of spammers on this website.
You can find a seller that promise to place your advert on his 100,000 fans on social media.
Later on you’ll find that there is no single active user on his fan page.
That’s why it’s important to choose your gigs wisely.
One of the best ways to find good gigs on Fiverr is to take advantage of the tools they offer and also trust your instinct.
So let’s sort out how find these quality gigs for whatever service you’re looking for.
Every time someone orders a gig on Fiverr he is given the option to rate and leave a review for the seller.
Sellers can be rated from 1-5 and also can leave a short sentence review.
Any seller you want to work with you have make sure they have enough reviews that prove they can deliver what their gig is talking about.
You have to be careful though because Fiverr reviews and ratings aren’t standard as other reviews websites like Amazon.
On Amazon even 3 start rating is great but on Fiverr you have look for 4.5 out of 5 star rating.
On Fiverr most buyers won’t bother to leave a negative review on a service seller even if he did a low quality job.
And that’s because $5 or $10 isn’t that much to them.
So I can tell you that buyers have this habit of leaving positive reviews even if a gig didn’t deliver to their expectation.
So with that said you should look for gigs that have 100’s if not thousands of reviews.
But a seller with just 10 reviews even if it’s a 5 star rating all of them, it’s not something you should fall for.
When you see few reviews with perfect rating you know it’s something that has been set up.
As there are a lot of competitions on Fiverr most sellers from the beginning pay people to come and review their services.
One good option that Fiverr offers is sorting reviews by the negative reviews.
This means even if the seller has a lot of positive review you can check all the negative reviews at once.
This will give you an idea of the negative side of the gig.
Whether you’re ordering a logo gig or article writing gig you want to make sure the seller you’re going to choose showcases some samples on the gig page.
This will help you know the skill level and quality of the seller.
You also have to be careful with this because most sellers have the habit of uploading their best samples.
You might see attractive logo or graphic design samples but when you order you get something worse.
That’s why it’s always a good idea to try the service once before placing bulk order.
All in all you just have to make sure that you view some samples especially when ordering content writing services because on Fiverr most of the writers aren’t native while some use content writing spinners.
Imagine someone offering to write 5×500 words articles for just $5.
You know they’re push button generated articles.
Another important point you might consider even though it’s not necessary but I found that most sellers with video promo on their page provide the best services.
With videos you can see this people in action regarding the job they promise to deliver when you order.
And the confidence with which they present themselves will tell you they’re good at what they do.
When you see a seller with good positive reviews and with a good video presentation on the gig page you know they’re trust worthy.
Now we’ve seen how to choose the right gigs on Fiverr, we’ll move on to share some gigs to avoid at all cost, because they won’t help you at all in your online marketing campaigns.
If care isn’t taken they’ll do harm to your business.
When you see a gig says “I’ll do SEO to rank your website on Google” you know it’s a joke.
Even SEO consultants that charge hundreds to thousands of dollars for ranking websites on Google don’t guarantee first page ranking because there are a lot of factors involved like the competition of the keywords and how well your competitor pages are optimized.
How could you possibly imagine someone promising first page ranking for $5 or $10!
But you might ask why do such gigs have hundreds or thousands of reviews?
Nobody orders such gigs for their websites; they’re used on web 2.0 websites.
These websites mostly are authority websites and are well established on Google.
Even spam links can favor their pages.
Online marketers also use such gigs to optimize their YouTube videos and it’s working for them.
But under no circumstances you should order these types of gigs on your personal websites and blogs.
So how do you know the seller is selling automated Backlinks?
When a gig says something like “I’ll build 1000 high PR domain Backlinks” you know that’s definitely auto generated links.
Nothing can ruin your website reputation in eyes of search engines other than this kinds of auto generated Backlinks.
There are some Backlinks sellers on Fiverr that might be worthy of looking and most of them are manually generated.
There are a lot of precautions and factors to consider before buying manual link building on Fiverr.
But for the bulk Backlinks that are only five or ten bucks, you know you’re screwing your website.
These are also very popular gigs on Fiverr and I wonder why they got lots of reviews.
These kinds of gigs are not only deceptive but also spam.
You’ll find a lot of gigs promising to submit your press release or article to 100’s of top directories.
Not knowing that these directories are created by the sellers or the websites are considered as spam by Google bots.
Even the powerful article directories like ezinearticles have lost their shine these days.
You can neither get traffic nor build quality links.
So stay away from such gigs.
This is also another fake service you need to avoid; in fact these services should be banned on Fiverr.
It’s funny you find a lot of people on Fiverr claiming “I’ll add 1000 real Facebook or twitter followers to your account”.
Another interesting part is it will be done in 24 hours!
You know that nothing is real here because he will use a tool consistently to add the same ghost followers to each buyer that orders his gig.
If you however just want the number of followers to increase on your social account you can order such kind of gigs but for real engagement you won’t even get a real click to or views to your posts.
These are some few services online marketer falls for on Fiverr.
There are many funny gigs out there that even your gut can tell you it’s a fake service. So please be aware of them at all cost.
Now let’s go on and share some of the best Fiverr services every online marketer need to be using in order to improve their online marketing campaigns.
As an online marketer you always need more content.
Online marketing is all about content marketing.
Fiverr has more than enough when it comes to content writing.
You can find writers from any part of this world.
For $5 you can have a native writer to put together 200-500 words of unique content for your website.
It can be a blog post or press release and the best part is most sellers can deliver this service fast.
Remember as a rule of thumb always order one article before placing orders in bulk.
Also check reviews first before investing your little $5.
Seller’s writing samples can be deceptive.
They showcase the best content as sample and can later outsource the task to a poor writer.
Mrproofreading is one of the best writers on Fiverr that will give you unique and SEO friendly content for your website or blog.
He’s a native English speaker with thousands of reviews.
He knows how to hook your customers; this means if you want to people something you can rely on this gig.
This is also another great writer that will give you 500 words unique content for your website.
He has lots of repeated clients and will give you full copyright on all the content your order. Content is 100% original and pass copyscape, this gig is great because there is unlimited revisions, this means even if you’re not satisfied you can request for some corrections.
Every business starts with a logo and it plays an important part in any business.
People can forget your business name but hardly forget you logo image.
As an online marketer chances are you’re not a good graphic designer, so you want to outsource this task on Fiverr because there 100’s of sellers that can design awesome logo for just $5.
If you’re looking for a perfect logo design for your business this is one of the gigs you should check on Fiverr.
You’ll get professional logo concepts and you’ll get source files. You’ll get high quality images with transparency.
Not only that you’ll get unlimited revisions and your order will be processed fast.
When you order this gig you’ll get not one but up to three logo designs so that you can choose the right one that fit your business.
And the best part is you get unlimited revisions for all the three logos.
You’ll get unique design just like you’ll get when you order one logo.
Instead of staying all day trying to create a fancy image for your social media accounts why not outsource it on Fiverr.
There are great image editors on Fiverr and also very cheap.
This gig is your one stop for all your social media images.
For $5 this gig will take care of all your motivational, inspirational, and healthy or whatever quotes you want to be designed.
You’ll get high resolution images and your logo or company name can be added all the time.
This is one of the best gigs when it comes to social media images.
This is the second best gig for social media images.
You get designed animated gif banners, backgrounds or any web related website design with this gig. The basic gig also starts at $5.
He can design your Facebook, Twitter or YouTube covers with your logo on it.
Who doesn’t want to monetize their website for more revenue?
The best way to monetize your website traffic is by placing banner ads.
Creating a banner by yourself will consume a lot of your time.
It’s time to use Fiverr and get an expert create that attractive banner for you.
If you want generate clicks and sales from your ads, you should definitely try out this gig.
This gig comes with unique approach and design in order to capture prospect’s attention.
You’ll get beautiful banners for your blogs, landing pages and social media ads.
This is another perfect gig that gives you professional graphic banner ads for use in your online marketing channels.
He’s a top rated seller from UK and has over 10 years of experience when it comes to graphic design.
Check the gig to see what they can deliver to you; I am sure you won’t get disappointed.
This is also one of the popular services offered on Fiverr.
This service has its own sub category.
You’ll find different accents that are willing to create a video on your behalf without spending much.
For as low as $10 you find a spokesperson for up to 1 or 2 minutes.
Whatever product or service you have you can find someone on Fiverr that will speak your message.
Are you looking for the perfect video commercial?
If yes, this gig is for you.
This is a great gig for those that want someone to speak their message out.
You can provide the background you want and the images you want to be added to the video.
Remove any guess work and order this gig now for all your video commercials.
This is another good spokesperson that’s easy to work with.
If you’re looking for someone that’s professionally dressed you should give this gig a try.
Just get your script ready and order this gig, you’ll be glad you did.
We all know that whiteboard videos sell like hot cakes these days.
A lot of online marketers have seen increase in conversion by adding whiteboard videos on their sales and landing pages.
It’s time to take advantage of the cheap services on Fiverr that are offering whiteboard videos.
Get the best whiteboard animation videos for your business.
This guy has a unique gig for video animations and you’ll get a fast turnaround.
You’ll provide a written script and special instructions.
And also the logo or the voice you want for the videos.
This is another excellent gig for creating attention grabbing videos.
You can go ahead and check the samples on his gallery and you’ll understand this is the right gig for video animation.
If you’re not satisfied you can request for revisions, so you have nothing to lose.
This is another time consuming task every online marketer should outsource on Fiverr.
Any repetitive task need to be outsourced if you really want to maximize your online income.
At cheap rates you can find sellers that are willing to upload content with images and whatever instructions you might have.
Instead of staying all day posting content on your wordpress blog why not allow this gig do the job for you!
Not only on wordpress, you can as well order this gig if you want to post content on any website.
He can also proofread and edit your content before publishing so as to ensure error free content on your website or blog.
If you want your content to be submitted on your blog through various online channels you can count on this gig.
Supply your articles or press release and it will be submitted to you desired websites.
Are you having a lot of WordPress problems that take you hours or you have to visit the wordpress forum and wait days before you get answers to your problems.
WordPress problems arise especially if you using a lot of scripts and plug-ins on your blog.
A lot of sellers on Fiverr can fix most of the common wordpress problems for only $5.
If your wordpress start showing you error messages or you failed to install plugins, head over to Fiverr and get it fixed.
With this gig you can fix anything regarding your wordpress, like installing wordpress, data base connection error and internal serve error, just to name a few.
You should contact the seller so that you know what package to order because there multiple packages.
This is also another wordpress pro on Fiverr that can handle all your wordpress problems within short time.
This gig doesn’t stop at fixing wordpress error messages, he can also customize your CSS and PHP files and can also design a new wordpress for you.
You can definitely give this gig a shot for your wordpress customization needs.
As an online marketer you sometimes want to add multiple data on a website or maybe you want to extract the data from another website.
Fiverr has a lot of cheap data entry experts.
You’ll find sellers that are willing to do data entry for up to 3 hours at just $5.
Outsourcing data entry tasks is a real time saver for online marketers.
Think of any data entry job and this gig can do it for you.
This include web research, data entry, data mining, word/excel typing, wordpress data entry and just anything else that comes in your mind can be outsourced with this gig.
The seller has a proven track of record.
So this means there is nothing to be afraid of before ordering this gig.
The basic gig order is for up to 4 hours of data entry work.
Make sure to discuss with the seller on the nature of the job before placing your order.
For online marketers research never ends.
And this is the best gig to handle research and data entry task.
If you want to scrape data from multiple websites you need to try out this gig.
They’re one of the best Fiverr gigs for the job.
At some point you’ll always want to edit your graphics, from your business logo to eBook covers or banners.
There are Photoshop experts on Fiverr and can do whatever Photoshop edits you want.
Instead of wasting a lot of hours trying to make simple edits to your graphics, it’s better to outsource the task for only $5.
With over 10,000 reviews and five star rating you know this is a gig to count on when it comes Photoshop retouching.
Order this gig for any image editing task.
Price starts from only $5 but you do have to contact seller for the appropriate pricing of your edits.
Order this gig for any image retouching you want such as changing background of an image, whitening teeth of pictures, retouching the skin and much more.
This is another great service for retouching images.
If you’re looking to add different materials to your images you should check this gig.
Bob has more than 20 years of experience and he’s on Fiverr to offer his services at affordable rates starting from $5 only.
One of the important components of any video is its thumbnail.
When it comes to YouTube your thumbnail is what separates you from your competitors.
You have to creative to come up with the right YouTube thumbnail.
On Fiverr you’ll find a lot of gigs offering this service and you’ll benefit a lot as an online marketer.
This gig has served a lot of powerful YouTubers when it comes to creating attention grabbing thumbnails.
The success of your videos hugely depends on thumbnails and that’s something you don’t want to mess with.
Order this gig to get the best quality thumbnails for your videos.
You’ll get different formats for your images like Ai, PSD and more.
If you’re looking for the best thumbnail you won’t regret ordering this gig.
This seller took the challenge to create 3 professional and high quality thumbnails for your videos.
He has five star rating and thousands of positive reviews.
With so many years of experience in graphic designs you’ll get the best thumbnails quickly and easily.
Order and you won’t get disappointed.
If you have eBooks or you’re just offering free report on your website you need an eBook cover.
Coming up with the right eBook cover can be time consuming.
You’ll find the best e-cover designers on Fiverr starting at just $5.
Having over 16,000 reviews, this seller has proven to be one of the best eBook cover designers on Fiverr.
Very creative and has access to over 50 million stock photos to design your eBook cover the way you want.
For the basic gig the seller offers, you’ll get a 3d mockup and will get unlimited revisions until you’re satisfied.
You definitely need this gig for your eBook cover designs.
This is also another good seller on Fiverr with a good track of record.
Having over 18 years experience in the field, you know it’s someone that knows what they’re doing.
With this gig you’ll get awesome covers and comes with unlimited revisions in case you’re not satisfied.
Even if you’re going to record all your videos with camera you’ll need professional intro and Outros for your videos and Fiverr is your best friend when it comes to creating these intros and Outros.
As you might already know you only have a few seconds to hook your visitors on your videos.
The first step is having a smart intro to your videos.
This gig is meant to design professional intros and outros for your videos with ease and without spending much out of your pocket.
Whatever ideas you might have, let them out and the seller will design a modern and professional intros and outros for your videos.
This is another full time graphic designer that will design cool and eye-catching intros for your videos.
You have the option to choose your custom colors until you’re 100% satisfied.
You can have your logo or whatever image you want to be added to the videos.
This gig is one of the best animation services on Fiverr.
This is also another time consuming task.
Most people might consider using rev.com, but Fiverr is a lot cheaper.
So if you have hundreds of hours of audio files that need to be transcribed you should head over to fiver to find the best gig in that category.
For only $5 this seller will transcribe up to 8 minutes of your audio or video files.
Order this gig to transcribe YouTube videos, interviews, podcasts and anything you just want to transcribe.
Why spend hours when someone can do it cheap.
The seller has more than 20 years of experience in this field; you don’t need to worry about quality.
This is another good seller on Fiverr when it comes to transcription.
The seller has more than 2000 happy customers and has transcribed thousands of hours of transcription.
This gig can transcribe whatever you have and bring it back to you fast.
And finally we’re closing the list with keyword research.
Keyword research is important for any online campaign.
There are a lot of Fiverr sellers that can do this job perfectly.
You just provide your seed keyword and they’ll give you a list of profitable keywords that will help you drive more traffic to your website.
Want to get the best keywords that are easier to rank? This gig is all you need.
Stop wasting time using keywords that are difficult to rank.
Order this and get the most profitable keywords ideas that will bring in more traffic to your website.
With thousands of positive reviews this seller will give you a list of 200 best keywords for your online marketing campaigns.
You can specify your country or URL you want the keywords ideas to be generated from.
You’ll get in-depth information like traffic estimate, SEO competition, PPC competition and the level of difficulty.
There are a lot of gigs online marketers can benefit from when it comes to using Fiverr.
You just have to be careful and make sure that any gig you choose doesn’t hurt your online marketing campaigns.
If you’re into link-building, then check out 15 Best Link Building services to buy on Fiverr and read about if Guest Posts are safe to buy on Fiverr.
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https://mrwebcapitalist.com/15-best-fiverr-gigs-for-online-marketers/
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The following remarks were read by Dean and Director Dr. John Wells during VIMS' annual Awards Ceremony on May 25, 2006 to honor recipients of the 2005 Service Awards.
The winner of this year's Freeman Award is Candy Campbell.
Candy serves as Chair of the Annual Fund Committee, a group of volunteers who work with the Development Office to raise private funds and promote VIMS in our community. Candy's energy and enthusiasm are contagious. She is such a supporter of VIMS that others naturally follow in her footsteps. When she took on the responsibility of chairing the Annual Fund Committee, she met every Monday with a different faculty member to gain even more knowledge.
During the last six months, Candy has led the way in acquiring items for the VIMS Auction. Due to her leadership, the Auction raised more than $50,000 for the educational needs of the Institute.
The Awards Committee is pleased to present the Outstanding Classified Employee in Facilities/Safety/Trades for 2005 to Ms. Janette Millen.
Janette Millen joined the VIMS community in July 2002. Today, Jan continues her great work in the Housekeeping Department. She maintains Nunnally Hall and the Boat Basin buildings in tip-top condition and is a versatile worker who can be counted on to fill in wherever needed in the department. She is extremely dedicated, and takes great pride in her job. Thanks to her efforts, VIMS can rest assured that our buildings will always sparkle.
Jan always has a kind word or a moment to ask how people are doing as she goes about her duties. She is a team player and can always be counted on, even during her courageous battle with cancer. Even though Jan is dealing with chemotherapy, she still shows up to work and insists on getting her job done with a smile. VIMS would certainly not be as bright without her.
Away from VIMS, Jan spends her time with her two children, wearing a path to Busch Gardens and Wal-Mart. She is an avid gardener and has frequently provided support to the Grounds Department.
Jan is a well-deserving recipient of the Outstanding Classified Employee Award for Facilities, and we are proud to acknowledge the outstanding manner in which Jan has always, and continues to, serve the Institute.
The recipient of the 2005 Outstanding Classified Employee in Research/Advisory Service is Ms. Marcia Berman.
In many ways, Marcia Berman epitomizes the exceptional qualities of VIMS professional staff engaged in research and advisory service. From her beginnings as a coastal geologist, Marcia came to VIMS to direct the Institute's Comprehensive Coastal Inventory Program. This program was one of the first in Virginia to incorporate GIS as a framework for its operations. Under her direction, the Inventory program has become a recognized leader in its field both regionally and nationally. Recognition of Marcia's expertise has resulted in numerous invitations to join advisory committees and provide lectures at the state, regional, national, and international levels. Another indication of her excellence is a grant proposal record that would be the envy of most of the faculty at VIMS.
Her colleagues have nominated her for this award, not only because of her sustained excellence, but because she is a "personality-to-be-reckoned-with." Marcia's enthusiasm for her work, her style in representing VIMS, and her compassion for her coworkers have earned her their continuing respect and admiration. She truly embodies the best VIMS has to offer.
Marcia is valuable resource to VIMS in her professional life as a researcher and as co-worker. She is most deserving of this award.
The winner of the 2005 Outstanding Classified Employee for Technical Support is Mr. Joe Cope.
Joe has worked in the Zooplankton Ecology laboratory at VIMS for the past 5 years and truly provides outstanding technical support and expertise in the laboratory and in the field. He is multi-talented—able to dissect and identify small zooplankton less than 1 millimeter in length, just as expertly as he can take apart a 2 meter-wide, 2-ton electronic plankton net to troubleshoot a faulty connection. Joe is extremely proficient at computer programming and data management too, and his expertise in statistics serves the zooplankton laboratory group and many others at VIMS well. He has traveled around the world these past several years, tirelessly supporting the zooplankton lab's oceanographic research expeditions and making them a success.
Joe is also exceptionally supportive of the graduate students in his lab—he is a boat driver extraordinaire, teaching the students how to drive and dock the boat, and making their plankton collecting trips fun. Joe is simply a remarkably capable, helpful, and dedicated technician that we are lucky to have at VIMS.
Joe's exceptional and selfless contributions in support of VIMS' research, advisory, and educational missions are outstanding. We are proud to honor Joe Cope as the Institute's most Outstanding Classified Staff in Technical Support for 2005.
The winner of the 2005 Outstanding Classified Employee for Administrative Support is Ms. Fonda Powell.
Fonda is exceptional. As the face of the Graduate Dean's office, Fonda serves as Mother Hen, confidant, friend, and occasional taskmaster to most of the graduate students at VIMS, and to the Graduate Dean as well. Our students recognize how much Fonda does for them and how much she cares about their success.
In addition to the help and succor that Fonda provides to graduate students, she also plays an exceptional role in helping to run the Graduate Dean's office. When Graduate Dean Iris Anderson first took the job, Fonda educated her in the ways of the office. Iris would not have survived without Fonda.
Fonda is knowledgeable about all the administrative details of the graduate program and takes responsibility for numerous aspects. These include budgeting for fellowships and courses; tracking students to ensure that stipends, tuition, and insurance benefits are paid in a timely manner; and organizing the many admissions files. In most cases, Fonda is also the initial and continuing contact for applicants during the admissions process. She also, along with Sue Presson, responds to the many requests for statistics regarding the graduate program at VIMS.
Fonda is also actively involved in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program. There are as many applicants to the REU program as to our graduate program, so it is no mean feat for Fonda to communicate with, arrange for travel, track, and "mother" these undergraduates.
The Dean's Prize for the Advancement of Women in Marine Science is awarded for outstanding contributions toward the promotion of women in science. The award for 2005 goes to Dr. Debbie Steinberg.
Dr. Steinberg embodies all of the qualities of a strong role model for other women in marine science as a mentor, teacher, and researcher. As a mentor, Debbie currently advises three female students who all speak very highly of her contagious enthusiasm for her research, which promotes success in her students.
In addition, Debbie is an outstanding teacher who displays an infectious passion for the subject. She teaches the 501 Fundamentals of Marine Science core course and her teaching style is prized by the students. Students comment that her sections of the course are enjoyable and her teaching is not only comprehensible but also exciting! In 2005, Debbie won the College of William & Mary "Term Distinguished Professor of Marine Science" Award for her contributions to the academic program.
She also maintains a strong research program with projects both within and outside Chesapeake Bay. She is known internationally for her outstanding research and was recognized as one of the noteworthy "Women in Oceanography" in the March 2005 issue of Oceanography. She publishes her research in highly respected journals such as Marine Ecology Progress Series, Limnology and Oceanography, and Deep Sea Research (where she serves as associate editor). In addition, it is remarkable that Debbie balances her career with a personal life with two young boys and a husband who is also a professional.
Debbie Steinberg provides an outstanding role model for the many women at VIMS and in the broader Marine Science community. She embodies all the strengths of an effective mentor, an outstanding teacher, and a leading researcher. Because of her support of all women at SMS/VIMS she is highly deserving of the Dean's Prize for the Advancement of Women in Marine Science.
This is an alternating award given every three years to a faculty member who has excelled in teaching, research, or advisory services. This year's winner of the Outstanding Research Award is Dr. Hugh Ducklow.
Dr. Hugh Ducklow has been a member of the VIMS faculty for 12 years, and holds the endowed Glucksman Professor of Marine Science chair. Hugh is a giant in the field of oceanography and has had an enormous impact in the areas of microbial ecology and global carbon cycling. He moves effortlessly from the microscopic scale of bacteria, his specialty, to long-term trends in the global ocean ecosystem, and between mathematical models, experiments, and large-scale, complex observational data sets. Importantly, he has used that broad and deep expertise to great effect in the larger mission of furthering global ocean science, via his leadership of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, and the Palmer Station Long-Term Ecological Research program in Antarctica. The quality of his research is reflected in numerous publications in prestigious journals including two publications in Science and four in Nature, as well as the publication of influential books within his area of expertise.
Hugh has mentored an impressive list of highly successful graduate students who have benefited immensely from his breadth of knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and keen eye for where the field is heading. It is a pleasure to honor Hugh with this award as an expression of our appreciation for the standards and accomplishments he has brought to this institution and its research mission, and for the credit he has brought to all of us.
The following section acknowledges some of the many accolades bestowed on VIMS faculty, students, and staff in 2005. For more details visit the VIMS' Top Stories page at www.vims.edu/topstories.
VIMS alumna Dr. Leigh McCallister won the prestigious Lindeman Award from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, which recognizes the outstanding paper in aquatic sciences by an early-career researcher. With 3,800 members from 58 countries around the world, ASLO is the nation's leading professional organization for aquatic scientists.
Serena Ciparis received the Best Student Publication Award for her paper on flame retardants in biosolids, which appeared in Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry in 2005.
Six VIMS graduate students took home awards during the Estuarine Research Federation's annual meeting in Norfolk in October. Malcolm Scully received third place in the graduate student competition for his talk on turbulent mixing in estuaries. Jessie Campbell won an honorable mention for her talk on the ecological factors affecting the germination of sea-grass seeds. David Gillett, Grace Henderson, Frank Parker, and Adriana Veloza were recognized as among the top 50 student presenters.
Graduate student Grace Browder was one of three recipients of a prestigious Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award during 2005 commencement ceremonies at William and Mary The award recognizes Grace's service to the community.
PhD candidate Chris Long received the prestigious GRO fellowship and Amanda Spivak received the STAR fellowship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2005.
Graduate student Will Tarantino received a NSF doctoral fellowship that will support his modeling and experimental studies of biodiversity in seagrass beds.
Graduate student John Pohlman received the Outstanding Student Paper Award at the Fall 2005 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Graduate student Vince Saba was awarded second place for student oral papers at the annual International Sea Turtle Symposium. This is the largest such meeting in the world with more than 700 attendees.
Susan Stein in the VIMS publications center received the Distinguished Service Award from the United Jewish Community Center in Newport News. The annual award recognizes a volunteer who helps the Center run more efficiently.
Mr. Jon Lucy received the Bob Hutchinson Conservation award from the Portsmouth Anglers Club for his longstanding leadership with the state's game-fish tagging program.
Drs. Emmett Duffy and Rom Lipcius were awarded 2006 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowships. As Leopold Fellows, Duffy and Lipcius will participate in training designed to promote effective communication of science beyond traditional academic audiences.
Dr. Debbie Steinberg received "The Class of 1964 Distinguished Professor of Marine Science" from the College of William and Mary. She also co-chaired the joint AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences meeting in Hawaii.
Graduate student Kurt Gray won the best student poster award during the 85th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Tampa, Florida in early July.
Dr. Elizabeth Canuel won the 2006 Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award, the highest honor given to young faculty members at the College of William and Mary.
Dr. John Olney received the award for Excellence in Fisheries Education from the Tidewater Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.
Dr. Mary Fabrizio received the NOAA Bronze Medal Award for ultrasonic tagging work conducted during her tenure at the National Marine Fisheries Service.
James Kirkley and William Reay each received a prestigious Environmental Hero Award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA presents the award each year to a small number of individuals and organizations from across the United States to honor their efforts to preserve and protect the nation's environment.
A recent analysis of more than 17,000 citations in leading coastal science journals between 1971 and 2003 shows that Bob Diaz, Hugh Ducklow, and John Milliman have authored 3 of the 10 most highly cited works during that span.
Graduate student Todd Gedamke was appointed Associate Editor of the North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Gedamke is the first VIMS student to be appointed to such a position.
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https://www.vims.edu/newsandevents/topstories/archives/2006/vims_awards.php
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This article is about the modern Russian assembly. For the historical body, see State Duma (Russian Empire).
For other uses, see State Duma (disambiguation) and Duma (disambiguation).
The State Duma (Russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма, tr. Gosudárstvennaya dúma), commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma (Russian: Госду́ма), is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper house is the Council of the Federation. The Duma headquarters are located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to as deputies. The State Duma replaced the Supreme Soviet as a result of the new constitution introduced by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, and approved by the Russian public in a referendum.
The State Duma was founded in 1905 after the violence and upheaval in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and was Russia's first elected parliament. The first two attempts by Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918) to make it active were ineffective. Subsequently, each of these Dumas was dissolved after only a few months. The third Duma was the only one to last until the end of its five-year term. After the 1907 electoral reform, the third Duma, elected in November 1907, was largely made up of members of the upper classes, as radical influences in the Duma had almost entirely been removed. The establishment of the Duma after the 1905 Revolution was to herald significant changes to the previous Russian Imperial autocratic system. Furthermore, the Duma was later to have an important effect on Russian history, as it was one of the contributing factors in the February Revolution of 1917, the first of two that year, which led to the abolition of autocracy in Russia and the overthrow of the Tsar.
Several generations and 75 years later after another revolutionary era, in the December 1993 elections pro-Yeltsin parties won 175 seats in the Duma versus 125 seats for the left bloc. The balance of power lay with the sixty-four deputies of the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. Only parties that won more than five percent of the vote were given party-list seats: eight passed the threshold in 1993. In addition to those eight parties, a pool of thirty-five deputies was entitled to form a registered group to reflect regional or sectoral interests. Business was governed by a steering committee, the Duma Council, consisting of one person from each party or group. The most important task was dividing up the chair positions in the Duma's twenty-three committees, which was done as part of a power-sharing "package" deal.
Despite the fact that the 1993 Russian Constitution states that the State Duma is elected for four years, it was decided to elect the first State Duma for two years.
During the second half of the 1990s, the Duma became an important forum for lobbying by regional leaders and businessmen looking for tax breaks and legislative favors. The work of the leading committees, such as those for defense, foreign affairs, or budget, attracted a good deal of media attention and lobbying activity.
In the early 2000s, following the 1999 parliamentary elections, the pro-presidential Unity party and the Communist Party were the leading forces in the State Duma.
After the 2003 elections, a Dominant-party system was established in the State Duma with the pro-presidential United Russia party. In all subsequent elections, United Russia has always received an absolute majority of seats (more than 226). After the 2007 elections, a four-party system was formed with a United Russia, Communist Party, Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia. Other parties could not get enough votes to go to the State Duma. Only in 2016 elections, two other parties, Rodina and the Civic Platform, were able to get one seat.
In 2008, after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution, the term of the State Duma was increased from four to five years.
A 2016 exposé by Dissernet showed that one in nine members of the State Duma had obtained academic degrees with theses that were substantially plagiarized and likely ghostwritten.
In 2018, it became known that the State Duma Building will be reconstructed. In March 2019 it became known that the repair will begin in May 2019 and will end in September 2020. During this period, the State Duma will temporarily be located in the House of Unions. In addition, a draft of a new conference room, which would be an amphitheatre, was presented.
Consent to the appointment of the Prime Minister of Russia.
Hearing annual reports from the Government of the Russian Federation on the results of its work, including on issues raised by the State Duma.
Deciding the issue of confidence in the Government of the Russian Federation.
Appointment and dismissal of the Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia.
Appointment and dismissal of the Chairman and half of the auditors of the Accounts Chamber.
Appointment and dismissal of the Commissioner for Human rights, who shall act according to federal constitutional law.
Bringing charges against the President of the Russian Federation for his impeachment (requires a two-thirds majority).
The State Duma adopts decrees on issues relating to its authority by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Decrees of the State Duma are adopted by a majority of the total number of deputies of the State Duma, unless another procedure is envisaged by the Constitution. All bills are first approved by the State Duma and are further debated and approved (or rejected) by the Federation Council.
Relatively few roll call votes have been published that identify individual deputies' votes. The votes of individuals are recorded only if the voting is open and the electronic method is used. While not all votes are officially roll call votes, every time a deputy electronically votes a computer registers the individual deputy's vote.
Duma Building on Manege square.
The State Duma forms committees and commissions. Committees are the main organs of the House involved in the legislative process. They are formed, as a rule, according to the principle of proportional representation of parliamentary associations. Chairmen of committees and their first deputies and deputies are elected by a majority vote of all deputies of the parliamentary representation of associations.
Implement prior review of bills and preparing them for consideration by the State Duma.
Preparation of draft regulations of the State Duma.
Preparation of opinions on draft laws and draft resolutions brought before the State Duma.
Training in accordance with the decision of the House requests the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
In accordance with the decision of the Council of the State Duma, State Duma Chairman requested preparation of draft regulations of the State Council to send representatives to the State Duma of the Constitutional Court of Russia.
Organization of the parliamentary hearings.
Opinions and proposals on appropriate sections of the draft federal budget.
Analysis of the practice of law.
Any Russian citizen who is age 21 or older is eligible to participate in the election may be elected deputy to the State Duma. However, that same person may not be a deputy to the Federation Council. In addition, a State Duma deputy cannot hold office in any other representative body of state power or bodies of local self-government. The office as deputy of the State Duma is a full-time and professional position. Thus, deputies to the State Duma may not be employed in the civil service or engage in any activities for remuneration other than teaching, research or other creative activities.
Three seats are vacant as of February 2019.
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Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 12 December 1993. They included the last elections to the Federation Council of Russia.
Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin is a Russian politician who has served as the 10th Chairman of the State Duma since 5 October 2016.
The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation the 6th convocation is the former convocation of the legislative branch of the State Duma, Lower House of the Russian Parliament. The 6th convocation meets at the State Duma building in Moscow, having begun its term on December 21, 2011 following the last session of the 5th State Duma. The term of office expired October 5, 2016, when the next parliamentary elections.
The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation the 5th convocation is the former convocation of the legislative branch of the State Duma, Lower House of the Russian Parliament. The 5th convocation meets at the State Duma building in Moscow, worked from December 2, 2007 to December 21, 2011.
The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation the 4th convocation is the former convocation of the legislative branch of the State Duma, Lower House of the Russian Parliament. The 4th convocation meets at the State Duma building in Moscow, worked from December 7, 2003 to December 24, 2007.
Oksana Genrikhovna Dmitriyeva is a Russian politician and economist. One of the leaders of the Party of Growth. Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. Former Deputy of the State Duma and former Minister of Labor and Social Development.
The Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka Krai is the highest permanent and only legislative body of the Kamchatka Krai. Together with the executive and judicial branches, the Krai's legislative assembly is vested with power to control the krai's own affairs with moderate levels of autonomy from Moscow. All members are elected by public vote and are titled as deputies. The tenure of the deputies are currently 5 years long.
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Comment: Thanks so much for all the buttons, loads more than 10! and also for the cute little felt embellishments, did you make them? Also I LOVE the amazing postage stamp on the front of the package I am going to have to frame it. Cheers!
Comment: Thank you so much! This one made it! and thanks for the wonderful chocolate - it was one of those days and it is hitting the spot! LOL!
Comment: Thank you, Miet! Very interesting how Belgian lace is made.
Comment: Dank je wel voor de erg leuke kaart. Ik vind dit zo knap gemaakt, ik zo er helemaal van in de knoop raken. Een fijne zomer en happy swapping!
Comment: Holy Zeus! I wasn't expecting all this at all - now I feel bad for what I sent out - Demeter. Thank you so very very much - wow.
Comment: Thanks for the beautiful postcard with that special stamp on it.
Comment: Hi, thanks for the colourful magnets! I like them very much, they make my fridge brightly!!
Comment: Thank you for brightening my day! I loved the package and will enjoy sharing the chocolates with my family. I especially like the green key ring!
Comment: What a fun bunch of erasers; thanks so much!!!
Comment: What a great package! Love the thimble, tea bags and yummy chocolate. Thank you so much. I wish I could give you more hearts!
Comment: Miet...I love my new 'springtime' pincushion. So cute! and thanks for the yummy chocolate...I must have one now.
Comment: Thank you so much and the chocolate well that is a fav or mine and love the beads! You really are a great swapper - oh yes I love the thimble number 381!
Comment: Thank you so much for the cute pens! :) And I can't wait to try the chocolate!
Comment: what an adorable pincushion - I love the little flower pins too !! especially the chocolate and heart shaped goodies are appreciated - thank you very much !!!
Comment: What a wonderful package, Miet! Thank you so much. I love it all especially the fabric and the chocolates. Many years ago, my borther had a penpal from Belgium and years later when they were in college, he came to visit and he brought Chocolate - mmmm!!! That was the last time I had Belgium chocolate...it's delicious. Many, many thanks!
Comment: Thanks Miet for the really beautiful mapcards!!!! I love them!!!
Comment: I loved the wooden buttons. The hearts are for the chocolate. Unfortunately, it is summer in NZ and it all melted, amazingly, the buttons did not get smudge.
Comment: Thank you for all the buttons and for the Chocolates, those were great!!!
Comment: These teas sound so unique. And I love the coaster!
Comment: Thank you so much :) I received them this morning and have had two already! Thank you for the coaster as well.
Comment: Thank you for the most wonderful angel! She arrived today. The package was totally mangled, but she survived very well! I am going to hang her by my sewing machine in my craft area! Thank you for the extras, too! I love the little star candles and felt pieces! The candy is yummy, too! Thank you for a great package!
Comment: After a month travelling the tea arrived yesterday!!!! Thanks for all dear Miet, especially for the bunch of extra empty teabags... I hate the postal service at Xmas time!!! Happy New Year for you!
Comment: What a beautiful heart, I love it! And the chocolates were an unexpected surprise, you are wonderful!
Comment: I received my beautiful angel today, Christmas Eve. Thank you so very much for doing such a wonderful job and putting so much love into making my little treasure. I was so thrilled to get your package. I enjoyed all the other lovlies too. May your Christmas be heavenly. Smiling sassycat.
Comment: Thank you for the wonderful teas and the coaster. I received the second envelope long before the first one arrived.... love the postal system:-) I can't wait to try the teas!
Comment: Thank you for the AWESOME pencils, they are *perfect*! And thanks for the chocolate too!
Comment: such fun stuff! I love it... thanks and happy holidays!
Comment: Wow, I absolutely love the ornaments. That snowman is adorable. Thank you for sending me a great package and I will enjoy the chocolates!
Comment: Wow oh Wow! Thank you! I love the little beaded angel you made, and all the extra goodies in the box! The pinecone snowman ornie, the gum, candy, tea and cute little buttons. What a terrific box! Thanks!
Comment: Thanks! a lovely selection of teas, so many I haven't tried yet, thank you!
Comment: thanks so much for the great variety of teas! I can't wait to try the love tea. how cute with the hearts all over it! And thanks for the beautiful coaster with the butterflies!!
Comment: Thank you, thank you! I loved the magnets and they are proudly displayed on my fridge. The chocolates were an extra special treat - much appreciated!
Comment: Awesome! It made me crave for chocs! Belgian chocs are very, very expensive in Malaysia. But I have tasted them and they are great! Thanks for the card!
Comment: Nice selection. Love the coaster!
Comment: As usual, a really good tea selection!! Thanks dear Miet!
Comment: What a sweet pincushion. Love the red. Thank you for the chocolates.
Comment: Thanks! I love it!
Comment: Thank you!! The buttons are so lovely! I will be deffintly making things from these and the chocolate is delicious!
Comment: Beautifully made brooches, I love the pink and green one especially...thanks for the beads too!
Comment: Thanks for the tea and for the pretty coaster - I brought it to work, and it makes me smile when I look down!
Comment: Thank you for a great tea selection and the coaster!
Comment: I loved my package! The coaster is so cute, and the tea will be delicious! Thank you!!
Comment: thanks so much for both brooches and the paper. How sweet! Thank you so much!! Your birthday is the same as mine!!
Comment: Thank you very much, Miet, for your teabags and extra. I´m very happy.
Comment: Hi Miet! Thanks for the cute pack, I am really enjoyed! Have a nice day!
Comment: Thanks, love the tea !!
Comment: The chocolates on the postcard looks so yummy I was nearly drooling when i pulled it out of my mailbox. Love that you included a note on the back explaining it as well. Thanks a lot!
Comment: thank you for great tea, hope it is this swap, as there was not the name in swap:).
Comment: As usual i love your selection and your extras!!! Hugs to my belgian tea friend!!!
Comment: Wow, I'm so impressed by huge effort you put into making the plastic bag yarn and crocheting the 3 lovely bags and pouches. Thank you so much!
Comment: As always, a swap with extra - thank you!
Comment: Lovely ancient building, thank you!
Comment: My grandmother was from Germany, so I love getting things from Europe. I really like the elf one!
Comment: beautiful vintage photo...thanks ever so much!
Comment: Thank you for your package! Extra teas and a coaster was nice :) I'm having a flu so I'm going to have some tea right away.
Comment: Awesome! Thanks for the card!
Comment: Thanks for the teas, Miet! They look great! I really appreciate it!
Comment: Miet,Thank you for a wonderful package. I love the teas. The thimble is very special to me since our daughter took the Chunnel to Brugges last winter.
Comment: Beauitful castle pc! Thank you. Next time please be sure to put the swap name on the pc as I m in so many of these swaps it is hard to tell them apart. :) Thanks.
Comment: thank you so much for the yummy smelling teas! and thank you for reading my profile! i love fruity teas! and the felt coaster is so pretty!
Comment: Thank you very much for the tea (including the extra 2 bags!) and the butterfly coaster. It's too pretty to actually use as a coaster, though; I'll probably hang it in my studio. The strawberry tea smells really good! I can't wait to try it! Thank you for such a fun package!
Comment: Thanks for the tea (including the extra 2 bags!) and the cooster. I think the "Love Tea" looks really fun! :-) My husband thinks it is really cool to get teas from other countries, so we really appreciate the tea you sent. And the stamps on the envelope were very pretty, too.
Comment: Thanks a lot for the great selection of tea and also for the coaster.
Comment: Thank you for your postcard, I love it.
Comment: Thank you! The brooch is lovely! And the little treasures you added are wonderful. I like how you made the little purse out of recycling plastic bags. I will enjoy the teas and the pretty seed beads as well! Thank you!
Comment: Miet - Thank you very much for the excellent selection of teas and the beautiful felt tea coaster...I love it!! "Heart" for you!!!
Comment: Thank you so much for the pincushion and all of the fabulous extras!I wish I could give you more than one heart for this! I absolutely adore the colorful pincushion (and making it from a jar lid was a great idea). Thanks again!
Comment: Thank you very much for the lovely rose coaster and all the yummy teas which are new to me. Happy Swapping!
Comment: The envelope arrived this morning a bit damaged but as always i love your selection and the coaster! Thanks my friend and my best wishes from Spain!!!
Comment: Thank you! I'm alwasy glad to have you as a swap partner so I can have more coasters!
Comment: Thanks Lamazon! lovely teas and a super cute coaster- thanks!!
Comment: The funniest pens i have ever seen. Thank you very much!
Comment: Thank you so much for all the teas, this brand is delicious!
Comment: yum! these are all new teas to me. :) i can't wait to try the HOT LOVE (raspberry vanilla) tea. mmm.... and thank you for the pretty pink rose coaster. i'll take it to work with me. it'll help brighten up my work space while i enjoy my yummy teas. thank you so much!
Comment: Thanks for the coaster!
Comment: Wish I could give two hearts!
Comment: What a fantastic package. I love everything you sent but the bag you made from grocery bags is my favorite. I am taking it to work to show off your work. I know they will be as impressed as I am. Thank you!
Comment: Thanks for the great package. I adore the crocheted purse - what a marvelous way to use plastic bags! The extras you sent were also perfect for me, thank-you.
Comment: Thank you for the teas and the pretty rose coaster! They - the teas- smell yummy!
Comment: thank you for a special package with extra teas and the coaster. I love it!!!
Comment: Thank you! They smell so lovely. P.s. Im in love with your name.
Comment: Thanks for the coasters. I reaaly enjoy them.
Comment: Thank you for the yummy teas!
Comment: Thanks for the delicious-looking teas and the lovely coaster- so sweet of you!
Comment: Hello! Thanks for the great teas and for the yellow butterfly cut-out!
Comment: Thanks! If we keep joining the same tea swaps, pretty soon I'll have a complete set of those coasters. :) hehe.
Comment: Thanks for the extras!
Comment: thanks for the beads!!
Comment: I just got your tea bags, thanks a lot!!! I loved to receive yogui teas, I have been wanting to try them for a really long time.and what a thoughtful gift that beaituful coaster was!! i loved it thank you!!!pd awesome stamps!!!
Comment: the teas all sound great, and the coaster is so cute...thanks!
Comment: Thank you for the teas and the coaster was a nice touch, also loved the laarge flower postage stamp. I have saved it in my scrap book.
Comment: What a super-fun package to open! So many things to enjoy and I don't know where to start. First I guess, did you make the purse of recycled bags? It's such a good idea and attractive too; is it knit or crocheted? [I do neither and now wish I did]. It's all a super set of choices -of course the chocolate is just the icing on the cake! Each item, really was so well chosen. A ton of hearts to you.
Response: I'm soooooooo glad you liked it all :o))I made yarn with shoppingbags and crocheted the purse .I love to recycle .
Comment: thanks for the great package and the extra teas!
Comment: I love the coasters you always send along with tea! Thank you.
Comment: Thanks for all the wonderful smelling tea goodness! You were really generous and you also sent that coaster so you're definitely getting a heart :) I can't wait to get tasting!
Comment: The crocheted bag is amazing..I wish I was as talented as you! Thank you for the wonderful items!
Comment: Bedankt voor de lekkere thee en de leuke onderlegger!!
Comment: Hi Miet, thank you very much for all your teas, extra gift and very nice stamps.
Comment: Wow!! This was a lot of tea. Thanks also for the coasters and all the chocolate. Yum!
Comment: What a gorgeous pillow! So well made. And thanks for all the Belgian chocolates-what awesome extras! You're a great swapper!!!
Comment: Thank you so much for the lovely assortment and the pretty coaster too!!!
Comment: Thank you for the teas and the teabag coaster.
Comment: thank you for the hearts package! i love everything you sent. this truly brightened my day!
Comment: thanks, I <3 your selection and the coaster!
Comment: Thanks- very interesting picture!
Comment: Thank you for the beautiful card of lace making. I have Belgium window curtains (my mother bought when I was a child) hanging in my home now.
Comment: Thank you so much for all the great teas!! Also, thank you for the chocolates! They were really good!!!
Comment: Thanks for the nice selection of teas and the cute extra coaster!!!
Comment: Thanks not only for the great selection of teas, but also for the very cute spoons!
Comment: Thanks, this is my first ever swap-bot item I've received.
Comment: I could give you another heart too if i could! Teas are wonderful and you sent me one of my favourite teas :) Thank you!
Comment: Hallo Miet. Hoe klein de wereld is ... Al kwam de kaart uit België, hij verdient absoluut een ster. Echt leuk zo'n oude foto, 'k zou niet weten waar ik zo'n exemplaar zou kunnen vinden. Nog bedankt !
Comment: Thanks a lot for your teabags and chocolate, mňam, mňam.
Comment: thank you for the teas.....and chocolate!!!!
Comment: Thanks a lot for the tea and the extra :) Love it all!
Comment: Bedankt voor de thee, ken er maar 1 of 2 van en de tasonderlegger, die is al in gebruik!
Comment: Miet! Thank you kindly for the delicious-looking tea assortment. I am going to try one of the strawberry teas right now. Thanks for being so sweet to read my profile and send me such a generous number of stamps. (I especially like the farm animal ones). You were so thoughtful and kind to do so! My husband especially appreciated the chocolate :) (and I do too). If I could give you more than one heart, I would!
Comment: Your package arrived today -- you were SO generous with the teas (they look fabulous!) and the extra chocolates. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Comment: You are too sweet the chocolates were a wonderful treat, thank you!!!
Comment: I AM SO SURPRISED!!! I almost drop my eyes when I reseived your package, so much different kind of tea and those absolutely beatyful teaspoons!!Thank you so much! If you ever like to have teaswap with me, please let me know!
Comment: Thanks so much! Cheers!
Comment: Thanks for your wonderful selection of teas and the cute xmas ornament!!!
Comment: What a beautiful castle! Looks like tons of fun! Thank you.
Comment: Thanks for the great Christmas card. I have never received on in a foreign language before. It was so cool!!
Comment: What a cute assortment of items! The magnets are like nothing I've ever seen. Thank you so much!
Comment: Thank you for the magnets, notepads, pen, and gum.
Comment: Oh my gosh, what a wonderful package full of snowman goodness! I absolutely love everything, thank you so very much! I'm covered in snowmen this year and loving every bit of it! Multiply the number of hearts a hundredfold and it might come close to what I want to give you!
Comment: Thanks for the delicious teas and the coaster!
Comment: I was so glad to hear from you again.
Comment: Thanks! Such cute ornaments!
Comment: Wow! Thanks for the yummy teas and the coaster! Now I have matched pair of coasters from you! :) The vanille tea is wonderful! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Comment: Thanks for the great tea and the cute coaster.
Comment: Thanks so much for a great selection of teas,I can't wait to try them! I love the mug coaster,the colors are great.
Comment: Great postcard. Thank you!
Comment: Thanks for the special selection of nice tea bags and the extra stuff!
Comment: I love the package: many new teas, the lovely mug coaster and a scout stamp! THANKS!
Comment: Wow! Double the tea, a tea coaster, and my favorite flavors too--I can't thank you enough!
Comment: Beautiful bookmarks, thank you! And the stamp on the envelope was very fun, too!
Comment: Thanks for your nice selection of teas and for the extras!!
Comment: GREAT swap!!! Fabolous tea and a nice present extra! Thank you a lot!!!
Comment: Thanks for the wonderful cards and chocolates.
Comment: Thanks for all the nice cards and the chocolate was an added bonus! My husband likes it very much. I can only eat a very little of it myself.
Comment: Thanks for your lovely package!
Comment: Thank you so much for all the tea and the coaster, I was so happy to receive on because now I can drink my tea in my bedroom without having to worry about spilling on my furniture!
Comment: Nice generous selection of teas! I love my coaster too! Thanks so much Miet!
Comment: beautiful card, thank you!
Comment: Thank you! I loved the tea and the sweet gift!
Comment: Thanks I loved what you sent!
Comment: what a great surprise!!!!!!! I wish I could give more hearts for the so big collection of napkins and for the wanderful stamps. Thank you so much.
Comment: What a great package! The pen is beautiful, and I'm going to have a lot of fun with those beads, and it was all just great. Thank you very much!
Comment: My friends and I laughed over teas named "Hot Love" and "Sweet Kiss", thanks so much for making our day. Great selection of teas, nice extra gift. This was great.
Comment: Wow! Thanks for the abundance of yummy teas! They smell wonderful! Even the cat was sniffing the envelope! I can't wait to taste them all!
Comment: I got my wonderful package this week and I love everything! Thank you so much for all the cute and wonderful things! You rock!
Comment: Wild I got teas from you in Tea Swap #10 and hwere we are again. :)More great teas, and now I have matching coasters. I hope that one day I end up sending to you.
Comment: I love the coaster! Thanks for the awesome swap!
Comment: You're an amazing swapper, very thoughtful and kind. The extras, as well as the resend were so sweet and the teas were fantastic! (yes, i've sampled them all already! haha) You were the first person to send me a package where the postage was as enthralling as the goodies inside! I loved every bit from the outside in. I'd give you a handful of hearts if i could.
Comment: Thank you! What a great selection.
Comment: I love swapping with you! You always go above and beyond. Thank you so much for not 3, but 6 magnets! Wow! I love the turtle one especially, and the butterflies. They are all very cute. Thank you lots.
Comment: A beautiful collection I'll be adding to my display cabinet soon :) And so much tea! It all looks so lovely, which to choose?
Comment: What a wonderful package! Thank you so much.
Comment: What a wonderful package Miet, you've been very generous, thank you so much. There was so much in it for my scrapbooking and I love the 3D-Knipvel decoupage! A pity I can only give one heart, you deserve more!
Comment: Hi Miet. What a fantastic parcel I received from you this morning! I am just so impressed and I will find the items very useful. Thank you so much. Lindy.
Comment: WOW! THANK YOU so much! Sent a necklace, earrings and a BUNCH of Belgian chocolates! WAY more than required, and right from my desires! Thank you for being an excellent swapper. I hope you receive a wonderful package also!
Comment: Thanks for the postcard with all the pictures. It was great. Thanks for being so thoughtful in picking it out. Have read alot about Belgium but never had a chance to visit there.
Comment: Thanks so much for the neat bookmarks! I love them! Also, thanks for the chocolate. Unfortunately, it got all melty inside my metal mailbox in the hot Florida sun. But they are currently getting firm again in my refrigerator. Thanks again.
Comment: Thank you so much for such a wonderful package!! You sent so many nice things. I wish I could give you many, many more hearts and a big hug!
Comment: thank you so much!! i love the necklaces (yes yes i got two of them) thanks for the chocolate as well!! your great!
Comment: Super sweet to re-send when the first package was lost. The package had many more magnets than were required, and one was super awesome and had moving parts. Thanks!
Comment: Awesome Teas!!! And I love the extra, the coaster!!! Thank you so much!!
Comment: I got it today, thank you very much!so many cool handmade items. I love it!
Comment: yay Miet! the teas are good and the coaster was a nice surprise.
Comment: What a cool mailing! Love the 7 bookmarks from Austria and Belgium.
Comment: Not only did she send a wonderful package but also has sent a couple of lovely postcards a mini surprises after the swap. Thankyou.
Comment: Lots of lovely colored goodies...I couldn't believe my eyes!!!! thanks so much Miet!!!! sooo sweet!
Comment: Miet-- thanks for the wonderful package--the coaster is so lovely, the stickers & extra treats were most welcome. You sent it early--I had it a good week before the swap end date. You're a great swapper!
Comment: She sent fast and more than she was asked to. Thanks a lot!!
Comment: Just beautiful napkins, and extras too!
Comment: Well, I didn´t actually got it - yet - but Miet was very nice sending it again when they got lost in the mail - for the second time =(. Sorry for so much trouble, Miet. Thanks.
Comment: Thanks a lot, they're all adorning my refridgerator.
Comment: Thank you so much Miet for the lovely teacup and the tea's and cookies. -------------------------------------- Today i get a surprise from Miet. She sent me a new teacup because the first one was a little bit broken in the mail. Thank you Miet you are a great swap-partner.
Comment: Wonderful teas that I can't get here. Thanks also for the chocolate...Yum!
Comment: Great package, lovely napkins (incl. extra napkins) and interesting tea.
Comment: Incredible ornaments. A thank you note will be coming your way.
Comment: Thank you so much. I received 2 beautiful brooches instead of just 1 and Miet took the time to check my color preferences!
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In the 1937 edition of the New England Quarterly (vol. 10, no. 2), Thomas H. Johnson provides a background to the newly published works of Edward Taylor. At his death on June 24, 1729 (age 87) the first minister in the town of Westfield, Massachusetts. He had been born in England in 1644 and arrived in New England on July 5, 1668. After completing his time at Harvard in 1671 (being somewhat older than his classmates).
He thereafter went to the frontier to minister. He seems to have had exposure to George Herbert at the very least in terms of a poetical inspiration. He left behind a four hundred page morocco-covered bound quarto volume of carefully copied verse. Taylor left instructions that none of is writing were allowed to be published.
Taylor willed his library to his son-in-law Isaac Stiles. The volume poetry seems to have been included in that disposal. The volume then made it to the Ezra Stiles, president of Yale. From there it came to Stiles’ nephew Henry Taylor who presented the volume to Yale (1883). And finally it was published by Thomas Johnson when he discovered the manuscript in the Yale library.
The poems published in the New England Quarterly were the first poems published from Taylor’s manuscript.
But cannot now unscrew Love’s cabinet.
Say not this is a niggard’s complement.
To send thee th’cabbinet, and pearl together.
Paraphrase: The poet desires to send to God some gift as recompense for great gift (the glorious robes) he has received. But he cannot open himself and find something separate to give: he cannot separate his affection from himself — and so he gives himself with his affection.
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. 31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
A note on “niggard”: unfortunately, some people are confused by the the Middle English nyggard, stingy, miser. It has nothing to do with the racial slur.
That thou hast brought out of thy grave for thine?
They do outshine the sunshine, grace the rose.
I leap for joy to think, shall these be mine?
Clothed with the sun, and crowned with twelve stars.
Paraphrase: The poet who is “naked”(except perhaps a winding sheet) and a “blot”. The poet whose bell should chime the Lord’s praise hears the bell toll his own death. Here he naked looks upon the Lord’s grave (who died for him). The Lord arising from the grave brings glorious robes to clothe the poet –and such robes are for all who wait upon the Lord’s wars.
Biblical and Doctrinal Allusions: This stanza describes perhaps the crown jewel of protestant — particularly evangelical (in its classic since, not in the vague, not terribly Christian sense used in the United States) Christianity: penal substitutionary atonement. Put as plainly as possible: sinful human beings exchange their sin and shame for Christ’s glory. Christ bears their sin into his grave and gives to them the glory he has earned in overcoming death.
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
They are given white robes and are told to waiting until the remaining martyrs (from the wars?) are fulfilled. Such wars are obviously not political wars of any sort.
Allusions in contemporary pastoral work. I cannot say for certain what particular books Taylor had in possession. But, the Puritan ministers of Taylor’s age and before had a tendency to use certain common tropes. This particular trope of receiving a robe is well-attested prior to Taylor and it appears in Jonathan Edwards, in the same location as Taylor and somewhat later than Taylor.
Why then should we be afraid of death? For then there shall be a further degree of glory of the soul, and after that a further degree of body and soul, when our bodies shall be conformable to the glorious body of Christ, when they shall be spiritual, as it is in 1 Cor. 15:44. I beseech you, therefore, let, us learn this to comfort ourselves against those dark times of dissolution, when we shall see an end of all other glory. All worldly glory shall end in the dust, and lie down in the grave; when we must say that ‘rottenness is our father,’ and the ‘worm our mother,’ Job. 17:14. We can claim no other kin in regard of our body, yet then we shall be more glorious in regard of our souls. Christ shall put a robe of glory upon us, and then afterward we shall be more glorious still.
Richard Sibbes, “The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law”, in The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart, vol. 4 (Edinburgh; London; Dublin: James Nichol; James Nisbet and Co.; W. Robertson, 1863), 287. Published originally in 1639.
Richard Sibbes, “The General Resurrection” in The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart, vol. 7 (Edinburgh; London; Dublin: James Nichol; James Nisbet and Co.; W. Robertson, 1864), 326. Published 1629.
This suffering state of the church is in Scripture represented as a state of the church’s travail, John 16:20–21 [“… ye shall weep and lament.… A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come”]. And Rev. 12:1–2 [“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun.… And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered”]. What the church is in travail striving to bring forth during this time, is that glory and prosperity to the church that shall be after the fall of Antichrist, and then shall she bring forth her child.3 This is a long time of the church’s trouble and affliction, and is so spoken of in Scripture, though it be spoken as being but a little season in comparison of the eternal prosperity of the church. Hence the church under the long continuance of this affliction cries out, as in Rev. 6:10, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, [dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth].” And we are told that, “white robes [were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled].”4 So in the twelfth [chapter] of Daniel, sixth verse, “How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
Jonathan Edwards, “Sermon Twenty,” in A History of the Work of Redemption, ed. John F. Wilson and John E. Smith, vol. 9, The Works of Jonathan Edwards (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1989), 373–374.
They do outSHINE the SUNSHINE, GRACE the ROSE. There are three accented syllables in a row bridging the pause. The “outshine” and “sunshine” repetition is interesting: the repetition of vowels and consonants makes it difficult to say the words quickly. The slight variation creates a rhyming effect. The use of a cretic (‘-‘) in the final foot brings the entire movement to a stop (this is underscored by the period at the end of this line). It puts great emphasis upon the glory of the robes given. The robes are brighter than the sun, more beautiful than a rose. Such is the glory which Christ gives His. This is the key movement of Christianity: the merit lies all and solely in Christ. It is all borrowed glory; and once given, the glory acts to transform.
Aches seeing how my thoughts in snick-snarls run.
While I instead of any, am all blot.
Paraphrase: I am taken by many lesser glories, a work of art, beauty in nature (it should be noted there here is an example of nature being seen as beautiful by a man living on the edge of a dangerous wilderness — and before the Romantics), my heart is taken with the glory. My thoughts become overwhelmed with these lesser sights. But all such glory is nothing compared with God’s glory; while I am on who is marked by the utter absence of glory.
Snick-snarl: What a wonderful phrase. An essay entitled, ” The Lincolnshire Dialect in the Eighteenth Century” defines it as follows, “Snick Snarl, a, curling up (particularly burnt leather). [Wright defines as “a tangle in thread etc.”].” http://www.cantab.net/users/michael.behrend/repubs/lincs_dialect_18c/pages/main.html It’s one of the words that sound like its meaning.
Scansion: The third and fourth line have a jerky movement which slows the reading and forces attention on the meaning: The first word “pour” has an uncertain weight. It could be read POUR out or Pour OUT. The phrase “o’reflowing glory: oh!”, while regular o’reFLOWing GLORy, OH, has an interesting effect based upon the assonance the repetition of O, including OR, twice. It is impossible to say the phrase quickly. One must to even say the words. It is made more difficult to pronounce because the scansion is regular, “overflowing glory” would much easier and quicker.
Another interesting movement runs from line 3 to 4, “OH! my HEART/ACHES, the emphasis thus thrown on “aches”.
Which has the idea of effulgence or radiance. If there is an “overflowing glory” and effulgence of glory in the creature, how much more glory in the Creator.
My soul stark naked, rolled all in mire, undone.
Thy Bell may toll my passing peale to Hell.
Nor Dead than I. Hence oh! the Judgment Day.
Paraphrase: It is true, I am completely backward, undone, almost unreal. And I have a sad tale to tell. I was completely without any righteousness of my own (naked, explained below) and on my way to Hell. There has never been a man more ruined, more deserving of judgment than me.
This parallels the language of Revelation 19 where the garments are given (or not as the case may be) to make on fitting to present at the eschatological joy.
22 But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. 23 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.
This usage combines both the picture of clothing the unworthy and the dead being naked (implied of the son, albeit figurative).
Thus, Taylor’s use of being naked (which will be matched in the fourth stanza by Christ providing robes to the naked poet) has deep roots in Christian thought. We are called to a feast, but can only attend if we are properly dressed. If we come without the necessary robes (the righteousness of Christ), we will be rejected. To come to this feast and to be clothed as to be as one who was dead but now is alive. To refuse to understand our need is to be still dead and naked.
The bell: the bell which was to chime the praise of Christ here appears to be toll the death knell of the poet.
Pillard: I cannot find a reference beyond the French which means looter or spoiled. Poor ruined one may be an appropriate gloss.
Scansion: One notable rhythm: NONE in their winding sheet more naked stay. The heavy accent on the first syllable acts like a double underscore. That “none” sounds like a bell toll. As the funeral proceeds, the bell tolls out “NONE, NONE” — this is the chief of sinner.
Their clappers, or their cell-ropes want even now?
Or those that can thy changes sweetly ring?
What is a scar-fire broken out? No, no.
The bells would backward ring if it was so.
This poem will speak to the poet’s inability to rightly praise God, he “cannot unscrew [open] love’s cabinet” (which holds his love and praise). It begins with this strange discussion of bells. (That image of bells will appear later as possibly tolling the poet’s death).
Paraphrased: Why should these bells lack a clapper or rope when they should being playing in praise to you?
The rhythm is regular until the final turn of line three “even now”. That accent on the first syllable of “EVen” forces one to stop and underscores the point: At this moment — when I should be praising — I cannot.
Bread of the Presence. Loaves of bread placed on a special table in the sanctuary or Holy Place of the tabernacle and later in the temple. Two other terms in the OT are used to describe the “bread of the Presence,” which means bread that has been set before the Lord’s face (Ex 25:23, 30; 35:13; 39:36; 1 Kgs 7:48; 2 Chr 4:19). The term “showbread” (kjv shewbread) refers to the arrangement of the bread in rows on the table (1 Chr 9:32; 23:29; 28:16; 2 Chr 2:4; 13:11; 29:18). The term “continual bread” refers to its perpetual offering (Nm 4:7).
David W. Wead, “Bread of the Presence,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 379. By referring to the “shewbread” being on the Lord’s table, it is most likely that Taylor is referring to Lord’s Supper.
Thus, here at the moment where I am contemplating the great gift of God, I find that my praise lacks voice.
Robert Nares Glossary (1859) of idioms and phrases of Shakespeare and contemporaries explains “scar-fire” as “scar-fire or scarefire: an alarm of fire. The cry fire! fire!” It could also refer to the fire itself.
Than by one to hazard all.
Could mean there was a question as to whether a fire had broken out, or an alarm of fire. Either would support the meaning.
Why cannot the poet praise God? Is it because some fire had broken out and destroyed the bells? No, that would be impossible. The “backward” will be picked up in the next stanza.
The poet begins with a seemingly impossible scene: a King of unsurpassed glory who blazes like the sun (whose crown a bunch of sunbeams was). Even his throne is made of life (sat on a cushion all of sunshine clear). The palace itself is a mass of precious stones.
Prize such as in his favor shrine me would.
Now, if there were such a place, he would desire the honor and fellowship of that king (I should prize such as in his favor shrine me would).
Of precious stones; and to this king also.
With brighter beams than e’re the sun let fall.
This stanza continues on with the imagery from the throne room of heaven in Revelation 4 & 5 and the depiction of heaven in chapters 21-22. The Lord gives us access unto this throne. It is interesting in this poem that it is the “words” in particular which are embellished and brighter than the sun.
The words of Christ — whose is the Word of God — are what grants access to this throne. In John 6:48, Peter says that Christ has the words of eternal life. In John 15:3, Jesus says that the disciples are clean because of the word he has spoken. The topic is too big for this discussion, but it is present here.
More blockish than a block, as blockhead, stand.
On toys, they snail-like move to kiss thy hand.
That would above the Milky Way me guide.
Here he notes the common complaint of all who being to realize the astounding grant of God in Christ: What could be more wonderful than access to God? But, the things which most easily excite my affections are bauble, “toys”. What stupidity to treasure toys when endless beauty and glory can be had for the reception?
His despair now turns to God: Why should this even be? What is the aim of God in letting such a fool access to such wonder?
What aim’st at, Lord? [What do you aim at] that I should be so cross.
My mind is leaden in thy golden shine.
Doth touch it with it smutting leaden lines.
What shall an eagle t’catch a fly thus run?
Or angel dive after a mote inth’sun?
My presence, my words, my hand can only make things dirty (smutting). An eagle wouldn’t chase down a fly. An angel wouldn’t chance dust — why this with me?
And thus, he turns the fire of his poem upon himself: I should be wracked with sorrow and tears at my evil. I can see this is true of me, and yet the tears are missing. I have this knowledge: but not the affections. I should attack myself for this foolishness – but I can’t.
I can’t. Mine eyes, Lord, shed no tears but ink.
My hand works, are words, and wordiness.
though from thy glorious self they’re stole away.
His heart is set upon the tokens and marks of the world — which are just, at best stolen glory.
Here he poem makes a turn: repentance.
The genius — if you will — of Christianity is that it both shows human beings our poverty and foolishness — our depravity and then it leads us to desire to be free: but we are not freed by our personal effort, but by the gracious work of God.
To garnish o’re this worthy work of thine.
In sacred flames, I to thee offer would.
Examine what affections we have to God: for it is affection that makes a Christian.
Richard Sibbes, The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart, vol. 6 (Edinburgh; London; Dublin: James Nichol; James Nisbet and Co.; W. Robertson, 1863), 10.
And lead me to thy Father’s house above.
Thy grace’s storehouse make my soul I pray.
Thy praise shall then wear tassels of my love.
I’ll be the golden trumpet of thy praise.
Make a man who can praise you; transform me (lead me) and dress me in love for you and I’ll praise you. The desire to praise Christ — who is worthy of such praise is the hope of the Christian. This is not a servile praise but honest joy. We praise many lesser things — and our greatest moments of joy are in those moments we praise.
The previous post on this poem may be found here.
And shall I be his spouse? How good is this?
But not too good to be believed by me.
This stanza repeats the theme of the previous two stanzas: the wonder that God should love human beings; that Christ should join himself to such as us. There are two movements which must take place to fully appreciate what the poet does here: the first is to fully understand what he does in the poem itself. The second is to move past our natural prejudice in favor of ourselves.
And shall I be his spouse?
The them of this section is the sheer improbability that Christ should love the poet. There are three aspects of this: First, there is the comparison of Christ to a king and the poet to a loathsome creature. Second, the reference to “being tumble all in sin.” Third, that such a one should be brought into intimate relationship.
a MITE, FLY, WORM, ANT, SERpent, DEVil is. The lien can only be read very slowly and then tails off. The idea picks up in the third line OR can be, which comes along as an afterthought. Of these vermin, ants, worms, and serpents appeared in the previous stanza.
We miss the horror here if we don’t stop to realize what life is like without houses which are sealed against the weather, and screens, and traps, and poisons, and medicines and antidotes. Imagine being invested with mites or worms and being unable to rid your body of the beasts infecting you. Imagine ants and flies getting into and spoiling all of the food which you could have. Imagine fearing that a snake would strike unaware and kill. And most moderns could not imagine any sort of devil that did not exist only in horror movies and was capable of being driven off with a crucifix. When you read this line, you must have a sense of disgust, fear and an uncanny horror.
4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
We fail to understand what is happening here as long as we think of sin solely in terms of discrete actions. Yes, sin entails discrete acts of sin. But is also a status offense (as such things are called in the law). It is like being an illegal alien in a country: the status is an offense even without additional bad acts. The Mosaic covenant aims at this concept by the matter of being ritually clean or unclean. Many things which were morally neutral were unclean. Likewise inanimate objects could be “holy” because they were dedicated to God.
To be tumbled in sin is to be subsumed it: to be repulsive, unclean.
We see in this a hint at why “belief” is at the core of receipt of justification, right standing with God. To believe this gift is to receive it with joy and thankfulness. It is not a bare historical opinion that some event took place. It is a joyful reception of something marvelous being offered.
And street pure gold, like to transparent glass.
How saints and angels ravished are in glee.
18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
Meter: Note in the first line there is the standard iamb, followed by a trochee which forces attention upon the I: would GOD I in that GOLden CITy WERE. It is his presence in the place which is emphasized in the meter.
And pave the golden street with greater light.
But I poor snake crawl here, scare mud walled in.
Reference “I poor snake crawl here”. I an ironic reference to Genesis 3:1 where the Serpent (Satan) appears as a snake to tempt Eve. Genesis 3:15 makes reference to the “seed/offspring of the serpent”. Being subjected to the Fall and the Curse, human beings have now been brought low.
Meter: “Story/Glory”, end the first and third lines. The line scan 11 syllables with a feminine rhyme on the 10 & 11th syllables.
Paraphrase: The story of the poet’s salvation (his coming to this city) of such a marvel that if it were known, it would impart a greater glory to the place than is possible in the mere stones and gold. Those things are beautiful, but the story of the poet’s salvation is greater still.
With it in songs, they saint and angels sing.
Meter: In the first line of the phrase “blunt tongue” again creates a pair of accented syllables by running a trochee after an iamb. The effect is jarring, underscoring the bluntness of his tongue.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
Paraphrase: The poet is unable to sing in any manner worthy of God’s glory (much less saints made perfect or the angelic world). Therefore, he will “spell” his story: he will write it out in this poem. His hope is that by spelling it out, an angel may over his story and bring the story back to heaven where the angel’s far greater abilities will make it possible to recount the story (given in this poem) in a song worthy of God’s gory.
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I found this 10-post series entitled “The rise and fall of the ‘salafi dawah’ in the US” on Umar Lee’s blog.
It’s interesting. Check it out.
completely off the topic..whats happened to the forum pages?
His posts were excellent, but he completely ignored the role of Traditional ‘Ulema in the process of the marginalization of the Salafi dawah.
whats up with ur obsession of SALAFIS? man, its high time that u leave them alone..
No obsession, in fact, the 10-post series was written by a salafi.
He’s not bashing salafis, but its a historical insight to the salafi dawah in the US only.
MR, I think you can understand why Al Maghrib chooses not to label itself as Salafi especially from what you saw from those posts. The label, Salafi has such a horrible stigma attached to it these days that it is not wise to use it. + It is most definitely wrong to use labels in Islam when those labels lead to divides.(Using term Ansar and Muhajir were fine until those people started fighting amongst one another.) We should call our Muslim brothers by what they would like to be called.
Al Maghrib bashes Asharis/Maturidis and some Sufis in their classes, its a law of self-defense.
just to reinforce what was said.
so if sufis say go worship their auliya of allah or say thsi scholar is an auliya of allah, i will say to them, how do you worship anyone other than Allah and hwo do you know a scholars relationship with Allah???
I don’t see how disproving the Ashari/Maturdi Opinion is bashing at all. Thats like saying that Sunnipath bashes Al Maghrib when it defends its viewpoints.
Why would Al Maghrib call itself a Salafi institute? That would imply that its only for Salafi’s and people like me would never go there. I would also never go to Zaytuna if it were called a Sufi institute. To ask Al Maghrib to call itself a Salafi institute is stupid. To ask Sunnipath to rename itself to Sufipath would be pretty stupid as well.
Labeling was not accepted in the Prophet’s(Peace Be Upon Him) time when it lead to disunity. If you would like to be called Sufi then I will call you Sufi. But if that will lead to us fighting one another then it should be abandoned.
Almaghrib and Zaytuna are both very dear to me, may Allah SWT reward both institutions for their efforts in struggling for this deen at such a time…may Allah SWT help all of us to unite not as salafis or sufis…but as Muslims.
Al-Maghrib is a Salafi Institute because it teaches the Salafi point of view on Aqeedah.
Sunnipath is a Sunni institute because it teaches what Sunni’s have believed for 1400 years regarding aqidah.
Sunnipath doesn’t teach Tassawuf, so I’m not sue what makes it a Sufi institute. It teaches Madhabi fiqh and the aqeedah of the Sunni majority.
As far as abandoning labels.. sounds GREAT to me.
When will you suggest to the MSA that we can invite a speaker to your college who has learned the subject of Tassawuf?
Or will you stand in the way of that?
Will you work to stop Mawlids when you are in charge of a Musjid?
Which one have you done already or which one is yet to be written in your book of deeds?
You say there is a “Salafi point of view on Aqeedah” as if those proclaiming to be on Salifiyya have their own, anachronistic perspective on the names and attributes of Allah (swt). In truth, the Aqeedah they adopted is the same one accepted by Imams Ahmed and Ibn Taymiyyah, among many other great scholars of Islam. Similarly, turning to more recent years, this is the same Aqeedah that Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen adhered to.
Imam Ahmad and Ibn Taymiyyah weren’t from the Salaf, they were from the Khalaf. Perhaps the movement should be renamed to the Khalafiyyah?
This discussion has proved the point that being made above: Salafis only want unity when they need people to defend them; they aren’t willing to defend other Muslims.
So really, this entire topic of ‘unity’ is idiotic.
If Salafis wanted unity with Asharis/Maturidis and Sufis, then they’d stop referring to them innovators and people of kufr and shirk.
Unity is a two-way street buddy.
First, my statement was only meant as a matter-of-fact refutation of Yursil’s implicit claims that 1) the Salafi perspective on Aqeedah is provincial and 2) that the whole of Sunnidom throughout the past 1400 years has been Ashari. I did not assert anything beyond that.
“Salafiyyah is following the way of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu ‘alayhe wa sallam) and his Sahabah for they are our Salaf (predecessors) who preceded us, so following them is Salafiyyah. As for taking Salafiyyah as a special Manhaj (Methodology) such that everyone who differs with it is considered astray even if he was on the truth; then this is beyond doubt opposite to Salafiyyah.
All the Salaf called to Islaam and to unite upon the Sunnah of Allaah’s Messenger (sal-Allaahu ‘alayhe wa sallam) and they did not declare astray anyone who differs with them (in a certain issue) because of (a different) interpretation (Taweel), except in matters of Aqeedah (beliefs) because they considered him, who differed in Aqeedah as astray.
Now, as for Imams Ahmed and Ibn Taymiyyah (RA), their teachings are emblematic of the Salafi creed and that is why Salafis hold them(along with many other scholars, including the other three great imams of fiqh) in such high esteem.
Last, Unity is all well and good. But, for my part, I’m just aiming to guard and honor my faith and that of my future wife and children, inshAllah, and hope that this contributes in some positive way to the cause of this ummah. This approach is in line with my theory of unity, namely that it will come about through jabs, rather than one knockout blow. W’Allahu Alam.
Wasabi is name calling also.
Also, for 1400 years, the opinions of sufis were not the only one present, they were just the majority of the cases or what the masses were doing.
There were scholars for 1400years with ideas I should say of salafiyyah.
I admit salafees are arrogant and obnoxious(a lot of them) and people of tassawwuf are humble(EXCEPT IF THEY ARE AMERICAN BORN AND RAISED).
So you people are arrogant screwed bunch of american muslims, salafee or sufi.
You guys dont even know how to be a muslim and you are going to be bickering over this and never grow up to be men and fight until your grave and until your kids are eaten alive by shaytaan, your real enemy.
Salafi take upon all 4 school of thoughts ther not ignorant like hanafees who refuse to follow anything but imam hanefees teaching!!! im proud the salafis are voicing the true muslims out there unlike Sufis they water down the religion just to please the Kuffars thank god im not living in the US where the sufi council is in charge!!!!
I think the article was one of the best i’ve read in ages. However, I think almaghrib is smart about this very issue and should not waste time in saudi arabia and whether we should support the government of saudi arabia. Nuh Keller does not talk about whether he supports or is against the Jordanian government in his website even though his institute is in Amman. Why should almaghrib talk about saudi arabia when the “traditionalist” dont talk about the countries that they are free to roam around.
With all due respect quoting islamica as one of your evidence does not really prove anything. I remember when i first went on islamica i was new to the whole sufi-salafi debate. I felt that i was turned away more from traditional islam by the how the so-called “traditionalists” who mocked and laughed at the salafis who obviously were not fit to the challenge. It was basically what TROID/Spubs did but the other side of the coin. That’s why i’m sticking with Al-Maghrib; not because its the best but because anything else outthere is so far from what i feel is the truth. Both TROID/SPUBS/supersalafees and the traditionalists turned me away with their extreme sectarianism. I feel that no group on this planet is perfect. That’s what its best not to stick with any group or personality which is exactly what many of the salafis and sufis do.
each group has their setbacks and the ignorant among them.
What is your email address, I can email you information about educational websites that will benefit you.
And also beware of the chatrooms in any of the groups, totally psychopaths run it.
I just want to let you guys know that…you guys are all extremely “stupid”…ignorant is merely to polite to say so i say it again “STUPID”.
Let face the fact…Sufi is for those who love possesion. Salafi…um its not really considered a sect, but knowing that the 80% of sunni muslim around the globle follow the teachings of the prophet his sompanions and theones after him.
So please stop the debate…USELESS…GOD has already chosn his messengers and commanders and scholars of Islam…so let them play thier purposeful duty so that they can enetr heaven in peace…as for you…?
No one is in denial. In fact I do talk with Umar Lee so that we as Trinidadians can avoid the mistakes that brothers and sisters may have made in America. And Alhamdu Lillah Umar himself is glad of the fact that the Da’wah is spreading in Trinidad.
His series was definitely an eye opener. And I hope that it would be a lesson for brothers in Trinidad who are callers to Allah.
as for the way of the salaf, the chain of narration goes back to the prophet. How do I know this? because there are so many evidences. For instance, from the Quran we have ayah like Ar-Rahman Al-3arsh istawa. From the hadith we have the hadith of the sahabi who freed the slave girl after the prophet vouched for her as believer after she said my Lord is on the 3arsh. Of course we dont know how and why but we believe in it. So there are so many evidences that proves the creed of the salaf to be correct and the way of khalaf to be wrong.
If you are sincere in your quest for the truth, I refer you to the work of a former matrudee, Shaykh Shams as-Salafi al-Afghaanee, The Maturidi Creed. It is free e-book from salafimanhaj.com.
May Allah gather us in Jannah, ameen!
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2019-04-19T21:08:28Z
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http://www.mujahideenryder.net/2007/01/31/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-salafi-dawah-in-the-us/
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The natural gas price in West Texas has plummeted to the extent that drillers in Waha recently began paying customers to take away unwanted supplies. What's behind the negative pricing scenario in the Permian basin, and is there any prospect of the market rebalancing?
The West Texas natural gas price has been better than free in recent weeks, reflecting over-subscribed takeaway capacity and a rise in oil output for which gas is a by-product.
The timing of LNG export expansion projects on the Gulf and infrastructure build-out in Mexico will be critical to alleviating the stranded gas problem on the Permian.
Refinitiv Eikon provides a supply-demand view of West Texas, with real-time data informing our assessments of Waha spot and forward natural gas prices.
The shale oil and gas revolution in the United States has produced after-shocks in many different ways, ranging from the macro-economic to the increased frequency of mini-tremors in Oklahoma.
To this list, we can now add free natural gas — or even one better: a negative natural gas price.
Gas is better than free only in the heart of the Permian basin, which recently overtook Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar as the world’s most productive oil field.
So how does a giant oil field in West Texas become famous for its negative natural gas price?
The major price point in West Texas is Waha, a hub for delivered natural gas which historically has traded at a discount to the Henry Hub national benchmark.
Since the shale-driven Permian production ramped-up in 2013/14, that discount averaged -15 cents/MMBtu (million British thermal units) for several years, but it ballooned to well over -$1/MMBtu in 2018.
Even though the Waha Basis has been negative, the Waha outright price itself had never fallen below zero. That is until March 25, 2019, with Platts reporting a low of ‑$5.79/MMBtu on April 3.
What fundamental trends have led to a situation where drillers have to pay buyers with pipeline capacity to take away their gas?
One clear answer is that the relation of supply and demand of natural gas in West Texas has tilted out of balance, mostly due to the unrelenting growth in associated gas output.
Producers primarily explore and develop Permian acreage targeting crude oil and natural gas liquids, but significant volumes of natural gas are extracted at the same time.
According to EIA data, natural gas production has grown by 266 percent since 2011 to 14 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) – almost 16 percent of total U.S. gas production – with most of it from associated gas production (only about 0.5 Bcf/d originates from primarily gas-directed wells).
Latest data show that on average about 3.5 thousand cubic feet (Mcf) of associated natural gas is produced for every barrel of oil extracted in the Permian.
That means that for every barrel of oil, the cost of selling the associated natural gas at spot prices on April 3 would have reduced producers’ margins by almost $21.
At current WTI crude oil prices above US$60 a barrel, that still leaves producers a healthy profit margin given that reported Permian “break-even” prices are in the $20-25 a barrel range, according to Pioneer Natural Resources.
As a result, we do not see much chance of production shut-ins occurring due to the current spate of negative West Texas natural gas prices.
Gas production growth has accelerated in 2018, with almost 5 Bcf/d higher output since January 2018, nearly matching the prolific growth of the Appalachian region.
The big difference is that several big pipelines have increased takeaway capacity in the Appalachian region, allowing gas to reach markets in the Midwest, Canadian Dawn region, Northeast, and even be back-hauled down south.
In contrast, the Permian’s takeaway capacity has not kept up.
Currently, Kinder Morgan’s El Paso pipeline dominates takeaway capacity in the region as it interconnects eastward with Energy Transfer’s 5.2 Bcf/d capacity intrastate pipeline.
To the west, 3 Bcf/d of capacity limit flows to U.S.-Mexico export points in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as the Southern California market. Another 1.2 Bcf/d of capacity on Northern Natural Gas and NGP pipelines give Permian gas access to the Mid-Con region.
With capacity fully subscribed, even a small drop in available capacity can have an outsized impact on prices. The capacity reductions began on March 15 with an unplanned outage at EP-Ehrenberg at the SoCal/El Paso interconnect.
On 18 March, the El Paso Natural Gas company declared a force majeure at the Florida and Lordsburg compressor stations in SW New Mexico, reducing westbound flows by 0.2 Bcf/d.
Planned maintenance on Transwestern Pipeline was further reducing takeaway capacity by 270 MMcf/d, while another unplanned maintenance (122 MMcf/d) was occurring on EPNG at Roswell and Caprock.
Although the maintenance issues precipitated the decline in Waha prices below $1/MMBtu, it was demand (or the lack thereof) that pushed it below zero.
Our daily econometric natural gas consumption model for the Southwest showed demand dropping more than 2 Bcf/d from March 21-28 and then again on April 3, closely matching the pattern of price dips below zero at Waha.
The two main drivers of the lower demand were a drop in the heating degree day (HDD) measurement (due to moderating temperatures) as well as increases in wind generation over the relevant time period.
According to our modelling, the impact of increased wind generation (above 13 GWs) displaced up to 1,000 MMcf/d more natural gas demand over the March 26-30 and April 2-3 periods compared with the previous week.
Additionally, outages at natural gas-fired power plants increased above 6 GW in early March and have stayed elevated. The confluence of these demand events – lower HDDs, higher wind, and gas-fired power plant outages – further loosened the supply-demand balance in West Texas.
As demonstrated above, long-term trends (production, wind capacity generation growth, and limited takeaway capacity) conspired with short-term drivers (demand dynamics and pipeline outages) to produce a negative natural gas price at Waha in late March to early April.
If the forward markets are right, this was only a temporary blip and prices will recover, but only gradually (current summer Waha fixed-price trades below $1/MMBtu, while next winter is trading above $2/MMBtu).
Increasing takeaway capacity, thus connecting surplus supply to existing demand centres.
Growing natural gas demand from Mexico and LNG export markets.
Environmental/regulatory policies affecting future renewables and gas flaring.
On the increased takeaway capacity front, the market is closely following two big projects.
Pecos Trail Pipeline, a 1.85 Bcf/d capacity project by NAmerico from the Permian to Agua Dulce Hub and Corpus Christi on the Gulf is set for completion in mid-2021.
Meanwhile, Kinder Morgan is working on completing Gulf Coast Express, a 1.9 Bcf/d pipeline that runs a similar path, by Q4 2019.
This will surely alleviate the stranded gas problem in the Permian, but with the caveat that demand must also appear at the tail-end of these pipelines. The timing of LNG export expansion projects on the Gulf and infrastructure buildout in Mexico will be critical.
Finally, the environmental/regulatory policies of the future could impact Waha prices. For example, producers currently flare excess gas using Texas state permits, which allow such activity, within specified limits.
According to Rystad Energy, more than 500 MMcf/d of natural gas (four percent of total Permian production) were flared in Q4-2018, more than doubling the amount from a year ago.
The Texas Railroad Commission states that long-term gas flaring is not allowed unless it is proven that the producer is waiting for upcoming infrastructure.
However, it is uncertain whether large financial penalties are currently associated with increased flaring – whether that policy is strictly enforced could have a material impact on producers’ bottom-line and therefore their decision to continue producing.
The volatility in Waha prices is driven by many of these uncertainties. In 2019, we plan on integrating many of the impact factors covered in this blog into a complete supply-demand view of West Texas with real-time data updates informing our assessments of Waha spot and forward prices. Stay tuned to your Eikon.
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2019-04-20T07:18:46Z
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https://www.refinitiv.com/perspectives/future-of-investing-trading/texas-giveaway-as-natural-gas-price-goes-below-zero/
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In pro football, you play each divisional rival twice. Occasionally you can meet that same team again in the playoffs. People look at it as almost a jinx if you swept them in the regular season; it’s as if the law of averages will catch up to you at some point.
The New Jersey Knockouts had beaten the New York Knights twice during the season, but they were not comfortable victories at all. The matches were pretty similar. The Knights used the same lineup both times. Yaacov Norowitz won on board four for them twice, while we beat Pascal Charbonneau and Matt Herman on two and three in both matches, albeit with different players (Dean Ippolito and Boris Gulko, and Victor Shen and Mac Molnar, respectively).
The Knights stuck to their tried and true lineup. Sean Finn was the only available fourth board for us (the kids were all at the World Youth). We seriously considered going with our star, Boris Gulko, on board two, which would have necessitated using Victor on board three. Victor, however, felt he had too much schoolwork and wouldn’t be able to prepare much, if he could play at all. So we went with Dean and Mac.
As in the first two matches, we had no answer for Norowitz, and his win proved the difference as New York nudged us out of the playoffs by a 2 ½-1 ½ score. Herman was able to neutralize Molnar, who fought back from a big time disadvantage but could do no more than equalize. Charbonneau and Ippolito contested an intriguing game with an unusual material balance for most of the way. Mid game, Dean took time out to do a radio interview with New Jersey Twelve. When he came back, Pascal sacrificed his queen for two pieces and two pawns. Dean wasn’t under any attack, but his position lacked any activity or natural plans. I didn’t think we could bank on more than a draw for that one. So for pretty much the whole game I felt I needed to win for the team. I had a couple of opportunities to win (and I could have lost as well), but in the end Kacheishvili and New York got the draw necessary for advancement. The game has been analyzed in a few places online, but I’d like to give the readers my personal take on it.
Before the game started, I began to suffer a few flu-like symptoms. I'm not a hypochondriac, but my son had been diagnosed with swine flu (he's fine now, thanks). So for much of the game I played with a dread that I was on the verge of imminent physical collapse (it turned out to be a false alarm).
While analyzing a game for my "game of the week" ICC program, I learned that this move is a pretty respectable weapon for White. It's a favorite of a lot of the young Russian grandmasters. Do a ChessBase search on Timofeev vs. Bareev and see how many times the veteran Russian grandmaster has been pounded in this opening.
I couldn't find any games where Giorgi faced the Fantasy Variation, so I didn't know what to expect. Only afterwards did I notice that this move is a favorite of Georgian players.
5.Nxe4 is of course possible 5...Bf5 6.c3 Nd7 7.Bd3 leads to more normal play, but it's not what you play 3.f3 to get.
This was a practical decision, given that I had used a huge chunk of time already in the opening.
The simplest solution, sidestepping a beautiful trap I had set: 12...Ke7 13.0–0–0 Nd7 14.Na5 Rb8 15.Ba6!! Nc5 (15...bxa6 16.Nxc6+ followed by Rxd7 winning) 16.Bxb7 Rxb7 17.b4 with a clear advantage for White. This looks like a computer line but I actually saw it during the game!
I thought it was most important to jump on the f-file quickly, so that's why I went kingside.
The more natural 15...Ke7 16.Rf4 Nf6 17.Raf1 is a step slow, though even 17...Nfd7 18.Bxf7 (I was tempted by 18.Rxf7+ Nxf7 19.Rxf7+ Kd6? 20.e5+ Nxe5 21.Ne4#!, but 19...Kd8 might just favor Black) 18...Rhf8 19.Bb3 Rxf4 20.Rxf4 Nc5 is fairly level.
I think this is a real Giorgi move. He wants to defend his weaknesses and have his king in the center for the endgame. But his rooks aren't connected so there will be some tactics. 17…0-0 is a more cautious alternative.
18...Rd2 is a safer path to equality, as White will have a lot less pressure after a rook swap.
Just about forced. 19...Nd6 20.Ne6 and 19...Ke7 20.Nd3 f6 21.Nxe5 fxe5 22.Rf7+ are both quite bad for Black, while 19...Rd7 20.Ne6 Rh8 21.Nc5 Re7 22.Rd2 gives White a firm initiative.
I played this purely to gain time on the clock. At this point I thought Pascal had completely sufficient compensation for the queen, and so we would need a win here to save the match.
Black is better off with the simple 23...h5 24.Nd3 (24.Rc3!? is a try) 24...Nxd3 25.cxd3 Nd6 which may be a hair better for white.
The computer also offers 25.Nh3, which didn't occur to me at the time.
25...Nxd3? 26.cxd3 Rxd3 27.e5 Nf5 28.g4 is not an option.
I spent a bit of time working out 26.Nxe5 Rxe5 27.Rf6 Kd7 28.Rxg6, but Black can instead play 27...Re1+ 28.Kf2 Ne4+ with equality.
26...Re3 27.Rd1 Ke7 28.h3! b6?
Objectively, Black should go for 28...Ne4 29.Nxb7 Re2. He has no direct threats but it might be tricky for White to untangle.
The Internet was abuzz with the problem-like move 30.Be6! which seems to more or less win the game. After 30...Nd3+ 31.cxd3 Re5 32.Nd7 Rxe6 33.Nxf8 Kxf8 34.Rh8+ White should eventually break down Black's defenses. That leaves 30...bxc5 31.Bxf5 Nc4 32.Bxg6 Re6 33.Bh5 Nxb2 34.Rb1 with an advantage comparable to the one I eventually got later—after big mutual errors.
30.Be6 is not an easy move to see, but my plan had been to exploit the rook on e3, and I considered moving another piece to e6, so I really should have found it! Several moves back I had intended 30.Ne6 here, but realized 30...Rxb3 31.Nxf8 Rxb2 just wins for Black. So I grabbed a "safe" move quickly.
This move came as a great shock--somehow the possibility just didn't register in my brain. I realized immediately that I'm in big trouble, and without any time.
I was much more afraid of 35...Nd4+. Black is still better after Giorgi's move, but I can cause a lot more trouble.
This is another step in the wrong direction. 37...Rfe8 38.h4 Re1 still looks pretty good for Black.
I don't know if Giorgi saw he couldn't save this pawn. Now White is much better.
40...Nd6 41.Bc2 c4 42.Rh6+ Ke7 43.Re2+ Kd7 44.h4 c3?!
It seemed like my opponent was disintegrating, but maybe he felt some immediate action was required.
Black has trouble threatening to take on c3 because of Rhxd6, so this didn't look too difficult to win.
Now Black has a threat, and I struggled to find a simple solution.
This is the position to do something. White has a very promising, straightforward continuation: 53.g5 a4 54.Bd5 Rxc3 55.Rxc3 Rxc3 56.Rf6! (56.Rh7 is not as clear because Black has a good resource beginning with 56...Rc5! 57.Ke5 b4 58.Kd4 b3 59.Kxc5 b2 60.Rxf7+ Nxf7 61.Be4 Nxg5 62.Bc2 Nf7 63.Kb4 Kf6 64.Kxa4 Kg5 65.Kb3 Kxh5 66.Kxb2, and you guys can work out if that pawn gets through or not) 56...b4 57.h6 Rh3 58.Ke5 Re3+ 59.Kd4 Rh3 60.Kc5 Rc3+ 61.Kxb4 with a winning position. Just because you’re ahead in material doesn’t mean you should stop pressing your initiative. I don’t know how many times I’ve told that to students!
It makes no sense not to at least wait for a4 before moving the bishop. I don't know what I was thinking. Instead, 54.Rh8+ Kg7 55.Rd8 a4 56.Bc2 was still quite good for White.
This draws immediately, but Black has even better in 54...Kg7 55.g5 Rf5+ 56.Kg4 Rc4+ 57.Kh3 Ne4 and White's position unravels (I didn’t see that at the time either). I saw now that 55.Kf3 Rxc3 gets the pawn back, though even then White can still play on. With my time about to run out, I blew a fuse.
OMG, what have I done?!? I slumped in my chair and waited for the crushing blow...but half a minute went by without a move.
Of course, 55...R6c5+ wins a rook (56.Kh4 Nf5+) or mates 57.Kf6 Rf4++).
I hadn't come down from the shock of blowing the win and the draw in two moves, and then somehow coming back to life. Admittedly, Black hasn't played the best moves since winning the exchange. But 63.h6 should be played here, with some hopes of swindling a point in the time scramble.
I hope readers can appreciate how difficult chess is, when two strong players can make so many mistakes in one game. The USCL is a lot of fun to watch (and kibitz on), so don’t miss the final, played over the Internet Chess Club (ICC) on Monday Dec 7th at 7 pm Eastern time. The New York Knights and the Miami Sharks did not have great regular seasons, but both teams knocked out the top two seeds in their respective divisions and must be considered worthy finalists.
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2019-04-24T21:01:49Z
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http://www.uschess.org/content/view/9923/565
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How About Some Raspberry Pi?
The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry.
Sold uncased without keyboard or monitor, the Pi has drawn interest from educators and enthusiasts.
The Model B board mounts a CPU, GPU, 256 MB of memory, audio, HDMI, and RCA video outputs. an Ethernet connection, and two USB ports; there is also a slot for an SD memory card. It runs the Linux operating system, and is powered by a USB power supply, similar to those used to charge cell phones.
The Pi is being offered initially through two UK distributors, Premier Farnell and RS Components. The initial stock of Model B units sold out within a few hours; demand was so high that at least one of the distributors’ web sites crashed under the load.
Once the dust settles, I may just have to get one of these.
Schneier points out that we live in a society that could not possibly exist without a great deal of trust.
Security exists to facilitate trust. Trust is the goal, and security is how we enable it. Think of it this way: As members of modern society, we need to trust all sorts of people, institutions and systems. We have to trust that they’ll treat us honestly, won’t take advantage of us and so on – in short, that they’ll behave in a trustworthy manner.
Trust has always been a fundamental part of human society. What is somewhat different today is the extent and complexity of our trust relationships, and the degree to which they are intertwined via technology.
Today we need to trust more people than ever before, further away – whether politically, ethnically or socially – than ever before. We need to trust larger corporations, more diverse institutions and more complicated systems. We need to trust via computer networks. This all makes trust, and inducing trust, harder.
He explains that his chief concerns about privacy and security are not about organized crime or terrorism; societal pressures do a fairly good job of ensuring they exist only at the margins of society. He believes a bigger danger is that we will get the rules wrong when we try to deal with large, legitimate, powerful entities.
The global financial crisis was not a result of criminals, it was perpetrated by legitimate financial institutions pursuing their own self-interest. The major threats against our privacy are not from criminals, they’re from corporations trying to more accurately target advertising. The most significant threat to the freedom of the Internet is from large entertainment companies, in their misguided attempt to stop piracy. And the cyberwar rhetoric is likely to cause more damage to the Internet than criminals could ever dream of.
Getting these trade-offs wrong has the potential to cause serious damage.
The whole interview is well worth a read, and the books he selected sound most interesting, too.
As readers may recall, back in September 2010, the LibreOffice project was created as a fork of the existing OpenOffice project, to continue development of the productivity suite separately from Oracle. The Document Foundation was set up to be the governing body for LibreOffice, much as the Mozilla Foundation oversees the development of Firefox, Thunderbird, and other projects. LibreOffice is free (as in beer) to download, and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License [LGPL], version 3.
The foundation’s site has a more complete overview of new features and fixes, as well as the Release Notes. You can download the new version here.
As with previous versions of LibreOffice and OpenOffice, the software is able to read documents in many proprietary formats, including Microsoft Office formats, and can save documents in many of them. It has also had, for years, the ability to save documents in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (.pdf), making them accessible on many different platforms.
Incidentally, The Document Foundation has now been legally incorporated in Berlin, Germany, as a rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts, a German endowed not-for-profit foundation.
One of the important principles of the scientific method is the full reporting of experimental results: not just the researcher’s conclusions, but also a detailed description of the method and apparatus used, and of the data obtained. The idea is to enable others to replicate the experiment, to help ensure that the results are not a fluke, or just a mistake. Ars Technica reports on a new proposal, published in an editorial in the journal Nature, to provide open source code for the computations that underlie most contemporary scientific papers.
Reproducibility refers to the ability to repeat some work and obtain similar results. … Scientific papers include detailed descriptions of experimental methods—sometimes down to the specific equipment used—so that others can independently verify results and build upon the work.
Reproducibility becomes more difficult when results rely on software. The authors of the editorial argue that, unless research code is open sourced, reproducing results on different software/hardware configurations is impossible.
If one accepts the fundamental idea of full disclosure, it is hard to argue with the basic thrust of this proposal. It is a rare piece of experimental research that does not involve the use of some software to process and analyze the resulting data. At present, there are some journals, such as Science, which expect code to be included as part of a submitted paper. Others, such as Nature itself, only require a detailed written description of the code. In some cases, the authors offer to supply an executable (binary) version of the code on request.
Alternatives to the actual source code are less than entirely satisfactory for a number of reasons. Any experienced software developer can tell you that a major problem with software documentation (that is, a description of the program) is that the description does not match what the program actually does. Executable versions of a program will generally be usable only for others with the same computing platform, and are largely opaque; if someone attempts to replicate the results, but gets different answers, it is hard to know where to look. As I’ve noted before, software for numerical analysis is especially subject to errors resulting from the idiosyncracies of computer arithmetic; to make matters worse, these effects can be platform-dependent. Even with source code available, there can be ambiguities in the order in which arithmetic operations are performed; there is seldom any guaranty that the order will match the conventional order expected from looking at the mathematics.
Of course, there are in some cases obstacles to releasing the source code. But the purpose of the scientific enterprise really requires every effort to make experimental results as transparent as possible.
A couple of days ago, I wrote about some newly-declassified correspondence between the US National Security Agency and John Nash, the mathematician who won a Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on game theory, and was the subject of the book, and movie, A Beautiful Mind.
I’ve subsequently come across a couple of other blog posts on this. At the Turing’s Invisible Hand blog, Noam Nisan reviews the similarity of what Nash was suggesting, and the modern approach to cryptography. He has some additional quotes from Nash’s letters, too.
At the Adventures in Computation blog, Aaron (who in real life is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania) mentions another, slightly later letter that also foreshadows modern ideas about computational complexity. This letter was written in March, 1956, (originally in German) by Kurt Gödel, the Austrian mathematician best known for his Incompleteness Theorem, to John von Neumann, the Hungarian-American mathematician who (among many other things) worked on the Manhattan Project, and in the fields of game theory, quantum mechanics, and computer science. Sadly, not much came of the letter; von Neumann was suffering from cancer, possibly caused by radiation exposure he received while working on the atomic bomb.
That both Nash and Goedel passed through Princeton may imply that these ideas were somehow “in the air” there.
Perhaps the idea of something in the air is too fanciful, but there was quite a confluence of very bright people in Princeton (including Einstein, of course). I guess it would be surprising if nothing of note had come from it.
Just recently, we have seen the Federal Communications Commission [FCC] suspend indefinitely its provisional approval of a new wireless broadband Internet service, proposed by LightSquared, because of concerns about potential interference with the Global Positioning System [GPS]. As I’ve noted before, the GPS is used for much more than those little direction-finding gizmos in your car. Besides the potential problems associated with large new deployments, like the proposed LightSquared system, there is an ongoing problem with deliberate jamming of GPS signals.
Jamming GPS signals is not technically difficult. The signals are coming from satellites ~20,000 km away, and the radiated power is ~ 100 watts, not much more than a typical terrestrial cell phone tower. (By way of comparison, LightSquared’s proposed ground stations would each have radiated ~15,000 watts .) So GPS devices must be able to receive very weak signals, which means that generating enough “static” to mask the desired signal does not take a very large or powerful transmitter.
Some new research, summarized in an article at New Scientist, surveyed the incidence of GPS jamming in the UK since September of last year. The research, carried out by a group organized by the Government’s Technology Strategy Board [TSB]. and led by Chronos Technology, found that jamming is a very real problem.
A secret network of 20 roadside listening stations across the UK has confirmed that criminals are attempting to jam GPS signals on a regular basis, a conference at the National Physical Laboratory, in London, will hear later today. Set up by the government’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and run by Chronos Technology of the Forest of Dean, UK, the Sentinel network has sensed an average of ten jamming incidents per month since September 2011.
The results, which are being presented this week at a conference sponsored by the TSB, indicate that GPS jamming takes place ~10 times per month at the monitored locations. (BBC News also has an article on this research.) In many countries (including, I believe, the UK) the sale or use of GPS jamming equipment is illegal. Nonetheless. it seems to be easily available via the Internet.
Vigilantes could be one source: a major problem with GPS is the way some small villages and towns suffer visits from dangerously outsized trucks – which often get stuck in tiny streets – attempting to follow satnav-advised shortcuts. So it is possible locals are placing jammers to prevent drivers’ antisocial behaviour.
I hope these results will stimulate more work on jamming prevention, from both the technical and legal viewpoints. As I’ve said in the LightSquared case, GPS technology is just too useful, in too many ways, to be compromised because of carelessness.
I’ve mentioned here before the close connection between mathematics and cryptography, especially the public key cryptography that is used, among other things, as the basis for the SSL/TLS protocols that secure Internet commerce. The security of the system depends on the use of a “one way” function; that is, a function that is easy to compute, but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. For example, finding the product of two large prime numbers is relatively easy, but factoring the resulting product to find the original primes is believed to be computationally infeasible, provided the numbers are large: 2048 bits or more. The analysis of the minimum effort required to solve problems like this is the focus of computational complexity theory, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as the merger of ideas from computer science and mathematics.
The New Scientist reports that the US National Security Agency [NSA] has recently declassified some fascinating correspondence [PDF], centering on a letter it received from John Nash in 1955, on the subject of encryption systems. Readers may recognize the name; John Nash was the brilliant mathematician and game theorist, subject of Sylvia Nasar’s 1998 biography, A Beautiful Mind, and the 2001 film of the same name. He made very important contributions to game theory, especially, and was one of the winners of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Economics Prize on the basis of that work. Unfortunately, as related in the biography, he struggled with schizophrenia most of his adult life.
I hope my handwriting, etc. do not give the impression I am just a crank or circle-squarer. My position here is Assist. Prof. of Math. My best known work is in game theory (reprint sent separately).
What is striking about the letter is that Nash anticipates the core of computational complexity, a decade or two before it made a public appearance. He proposes that the security of an encryption system is founded on the difficulty of the computation required to break it.
So a logical way to classify enciphering processes is by the way in which the computation length for the computation of the key increases with increasing length of the key. This is at best exponential and at worst probably at most a relatively small power of r, ar2, or ar3, as in substitution ciphers.
He conjectures that, with a sufficiently complex encryption function, the computation can be made of exponential difficulty. Why does this matter? He explains that, if the computation is difficult enough, the encryption can be made extremely secure as long as the key is long enough.
The significance of this general conjecture, assuming its truth, is easy to see. It means that it is quite feasible to design ciphers that are effectively unbreakable.
He says that he can’t prove the conjecture, and in fact expresses doubt that it is provable. (So far, he’s right about that.) But it seems clear that he grasped the essence of the problem quite a while before it was generally realized. I was very glad when I heard that he had won the Nobel Prize; he did not have an easy life, and his contributions deserved recognition. I’m similarly glad to see this work emerge from the shadows.
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2019-04-21T04:24:23Z
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https://richg74.wordpress.com/2012/02/
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The following words were addressed to the Keep Rebuilding Bridges conference on October 5. The transcript is reproduced with permission from https://ashenden.org/2018/10/05/justice-for-bishop-george-bell/ which should be referred to if any of the web links malfunction.
I am going to suggest to you that not only has the Church of England been partisan, prejudiced and incompetent, but it has sacrificed George Bell on the altar of its capitulation to a growing totalitarian zeitgeist.
It is changing the meaning of language, our hierarchy of ethics and threatening our freedom of speech, and especially our freedom to criticise it. Many of you will immediately sense the resonances and echoes of Germany in the 1930’ amongst other associations.
I will try to persuade you that the rehabilitation of George Bell matters not only as a matter of natural justice, but also because his life, values and witness act as a wake up call to an English Church that has started to capitulate to another wave of political totalitarianism, just as the German Church did in the 1930’s.
To use a dramatic metaphor, George Bell and his close collaborator Dietrich Bonhoeffer acted as a fire alarm, warning that both Church and state and Christian values were in danger of being burnt to the ground by an intolerant aggressive new secularism.
Othello is a masterclass in manipulation. It is an exercise reshaping the images of who people are practicing deceptive distortions of the truth; after which the characters of the play, failing to see each other as they truly are, set about one another in a catastrophe of destruction.
Moral. If you don’t tell the truth about people, chaos will ensue.
‘The Lord,[d] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ (Exodus 3).
But accusation has a spiritual and theological dynamics too.
“And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. Rev 12.
False accusation and the assault on reputation private or public is a symptom of our struggle with evil.
The panoply of contemporary Human Rights.
v. In effect, the Church reversed the burden of proof without taking real steps for the case for Bishop Bell to be developed and investigated.
In the reaction to the knowledge that the Palace at Chichester was inhabited by kindertransport children over the years.
The core group chose to assume that this meant that Bishop Bell had interest to and access to children which he might have misused. Lord Carlisle points out that the proper inference is that since paedophiles are invariably repeat offenders, the lack of any kind of corroborative claim counts powerfully in Bell’s favour.
They chose to ignore the evidence Canon Adrian Carey, his chaplain who worked for Bell, and had th closest opportunity for scrutiny.
But what if this was not just incompetence, but the early waves of incoming tide of progressive repression- a new cultural authoritarianism?
For some years many of us have put down the continues assault on Christian culture to a creeping secularism. And there is no doubt that is accurate. But what we are facing is not simple secularism. It has morphed into something more antagonistic and more organised. It has fed of the twin factors of the increasing sexualisation of our culture and a movement which is driven by a fixation with equality.
It seems best described as Marxism 2.0 – or new Marxism, some call it cultural Marxism.
Marxism has always been dedicated too the enforced totalitarian utopianism of so called ‘equality’. It sought to achieve it through a revolt of the proletariat and the Marxist Leninist economics, but failed. The economic theory proved inadequate to support the ideological edifice of utopian egalitarianism that was built on top.
The Frankfurt school gave to thought to a Marxism 2.0 which would seek the same ends, but by a different route. Not a revolution in the proletariat, but a revolution of cultural values.
What this movement has done is jettison any sense of the presumption of innocence because in its lexicon, there are certain people who are existentially, politically and morally guilty just by their identity.
So in particular, men, white people, older people, Christian people, are guilty already.
It is this background ration of politically correct identity politics that the Church of England has chosen to absorb and adopt in its refusal from Arhcbishop Welby, and Bishop Martin Warner down to the core group, to presume the guilt of George Bell, who must and should be presumed innocent.
Perverse political tolerance means the celebration and promotion of an ethics of rebellion against God, particularly in the area of sexual unholiness and perversity and the exclusion of Christian values.
INCLUSION for Christians is the ambition that there are no places where the mercy of God will not stretch inviting people to turn and be held by the Good Shepherd who will carry them home.
Perverse political inclusion is the overturning of Christ’s teaching by celebrating what he warned us to avoid and detest, in particular the perversions that pour out of the corrupt human heart that defile the soul. And the exclusion of Christian values.
George Bell was not a saint. There is no movement to canonise him. Such mechanisms don’t exist in the Church of England, but there is plenty of evidence that Bell himself was a Christian whose whole life was orientated to the practice of self restraint, self-giving, self sacrifice.
Andrew Chandler, the latest biographer of Bell, opens his book with his delight at having found in Bell’s papers a day-book journal in which Bell wrote his daily prayers and quotes and gathered material.
There Bell copied down Gerald Manley Hopkins aphorism on ‘chastity of mind there’. There we find his own preoccupations for his own ethical integrity.
Pauline, the witness Lord Carlisle found who lived in the Palace at Chichester while Bell was there talked about his integrity and the moral calibre.
Adrian Carey, his chaplain described t the end of his life how Bell’s goodness and affection were strangely apparent” (p.198) Carey was struck by the consistency of his integrity and observed that during all his years in the Bishop’s Palace, he observed not as single lapse.
If George Bell were really guilty of sexually interfering with a young girl behind the scenes in the Palace age Chichester it would require him to have a split in his personality that would verge on the schizophrenic.
But in the absence of any evidence of his guilt, one of the most important features of the George Bell defamation process has been the way in which the Church of England has jettisoned the traditional Christian celebration of virtue and sanctity and replaced it with the politically correct preoccupation of identity politics, the celebration and sanctification of victimhood.
Christian ethics gives way to no other value system in its care and prioritising of the vulnerable and the abused. Christ himself is the ultimate sacrificial victim. Of course it does. But not at the expense of refusing to test truth claims. Nor at the expense of violating the ancient principle of holding innocent until proved guilty; nor at the expense of natural justice.
But as we know, the Church of England investigation into George Bell, inept, myopic and apparently prejudiced as it was, preferences uncorroborated and untestable allegations over the whole range or usual ethical, professional and cultural values Bell exemplified.
At one level it causes deep concern and responses ranging from great distress to outrage that the dead can be so defamed without any restrain or recourse to justice.
Many commentators on this new movement see it as a new fascism. The overlap between Nazism, as National Socialism and totalitarian Marxism has long been caught our attention. Both seek to impose a totalitarian state on alternative value systems, democratic or otherwise; one used the values of race, the other of class. This most recent one uses identity and hierarchies of power.
And he has posthumously fallen victim to a growing movement of totalitarian ambition that is abusing Church and Society.
George Bell is often praised for his ecumencial generosity and his work with refugees. His humanitarianism in the face of the evils of warfare is praiseworthy and wholly commendable. But equally important was his voice that warned of the dangers of Nazism and his support for Dietrich Bonhoeffer active resistance.
Bell points us to Bonhoeffer, and I want to suggest that his rehabilitation today is all the more pressing as we find ourselves needing an English Bonhoeffer as we face this assault on Christian values and witness, and assault on the authority and integrity of the Bible and a closing down of free speech at the hands of this increasingly aggressive Progressive assault.
And the Church seems to have let go of its willingness to act as a prophetic voice in its relation to the state, and develop a role or a persona that is more akin to a benign psychotherapist. It seems to care only to affirm people, and dare not challenge them.
But look at some of the other symptoms of totalitarianism in the 1930s and see if there are any parallels today.
Where are the voices of the bishops of the Church of England holding the Labour Party to account for this dreadful repetition of a hateful creed that the experience of the holocaust should have made impossible in a civilised society?
The signs of the the diminution of freedom of speech stretch from Christian street evangelists begin arrested by the police for hate crimes, and then being either found innocent or released after being held for 24 hours without charge.
Teachers have been sacked for holding bible studies in the schools they taught in in their free time in lunch breaks.
Nurses have been sacked for offering prayers as part of the humanitarian support. The Christian Legal Centre is being overwhelmed with case after case if Christians being discriminated against at work and silenced in the public forum.
But one of Bell’s most formidable contributions to to his area came in an article he wrote in the Fortnightly review in 1939. His main purpose was to hold the State accountable to Christian values and ethics. “The Church is not the State’s spiritual auxiliary with exactly the same ends as the State.” His main concern was with the bombing of civilian populations, and rightly so. But we can look to him as offering us too a prophetic voice that challenges the easy assumptions, particularly found amongst the Church of England’s hierarchy, that the values of the state, political and ethical are or ought to be validated by the Church.
Currently the state we live in is making significant and to many of us serious moves away from Christianity. For many of us the death of 7 million aborted children is a scar on our conscience that unlike biological scars, causes a searing pain, and takes place despite the law on abortion being breached instead of observed.
The Church of England has adopted the secular narrative of inclusion over biblical and universally observed ethics of sexual expression. In a context where the Church has yet again put collaboration before its own integrity Bishop Bell stands as a beacon of prophetic integrity when the need to speak to the State at the point where it determines to adopt ethics that are likely to bring upon it civic and democratic diminution, and even perhaps, divine judgement.
The price of this kind of disastrous conflict, which is not so much about the sexual experiences of two teenagers, but Moore about a clash of cultures, is that few people will feel that it is safe to stand for public office in case some real or fictitious misdemeanour from 30 years before will be alleged, without any mechanism for distinguishing between character assassination and genuine criminal behaviour.
Allowing George Bells’ reputation to remain under what Justin Welby so infelicitously called ‘a cloud’ undermines what the Church and the faith stand for at so many levels and in such serious ways.
George Bell has always represented integrity, duty, compassion, the prophetic voice of the Church raised against injustice and evil. He is an ikon of resistance to the destruction of freedom and faith.
If he is allowed to be sacrificed to pad out the shaky credibility of incompetent archbishops and bishops and a colluding and increasingly corrupted Church, the integrity of faith and those who remain faithful to Christian witness will be tragically and disastrously impaired, and our capacity to contribute to the virtues of democracy and Christian values in the body politic tragically restricted.
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2019-04-25T09:51:52Z
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Do you ever get push-back from your team about doing the things you ask them of them?
Just about every manager has been in this situation so don’t be too hard on yourself. I have personally been there in my time as a manager of a $3-million-dollar retail store, and then again while helping manage my father-in-law’s dental practice for almost a decade, and even now in my work at All-Star Dental Academy. And most dental schools don’t teach enough about “business” (or more importantly “management”) even though you are now responsible for not only owning your dental practice but also being CEO, wearing the management hat, the trainer hat, and the producer hat – all at once. It’s a LOT – we know!
Battling it out with your team doesn’t HAVE to happen. It seems like most dentists take the “Triple F” approach with their team: 1) Fight them, 2) Fear them, or 3) Fire them. All these are reactive – you are merely responding to the team and their reluctance to follow direction – and never really get to the heart of the problem. Team unity is achievable when you set the right expectations for your practice.
I will discuss the 5 biggest mistakes dentists make with their dental teams when it comes to training and managing them.
When you call something “work” or “tasks” you conjure up feelings of drudgery, boredom, stress, and inspire a put-upon attitude in the team.
Instead, why not just rebrand activities to “Team Training Contributions” or “Fun Improvements for the Team, aka (FITT).” While it may seem just to be semantics, as we learned in the All-Star Training Program, communication success lies in using positive language. The specific words you use can make a big difference in how an assignment will be perceived.
Communication success also comes from how you say the words you choose. Explain to your team why the tasks are critical to patient care, keeping the practice running smoothly, and how their efforts make a meaningful contribution to the entire team.
Will this new terminology be the 180-degree turnaround that you need to get your entire team on board with training 100% of the time? We can always dream. However, communicating in this way will send a clear message that their efforts have a huge impact on the success of the practice.
Your team is on to you. If they know that you, the dentist/owner, has an “I’ll take what I can get from my team” attitude towards work and training, they will be sure to work only as “hard” as they need to meet your expectations. In general, people will do the minimum required to live up or down to your expectations. So, if you are communicating (either literally with the way you speak to the team, or unconsciously) that their help is a BONUS rather than a part of their job description, it’s time for a major shift.
In YOUR dental practice, you are a TEAM, and EVERYONE does training and contributes, regardless of their role, how busy, or how much they resist or complain. Think of the most successful hotel with an emphasis on customer service – The Ritz-Carlton. They require a minimum of 250 training hours before assignment to a customer-facing role. And then every single year, each employee, from executives and upper management to the janitors and maids, is required to train and re-certify in the company’s customer service standards and mission.
The Ritz-Carlton not only attracts the best team members that share their vision of service excellence, they keep up momentum and consistency with training a part of the organization’s culture. With high expectations and an “all-in” attitude, team members will enjoy a sense of belonging, purpose, and satisfaction in being a part of what makes your practice amazing – it’s like a family… everyone must pitch in!
This is a challenge in many offices. Dentists/owners may be aware they need to train the team to improve the practice, but taking the time to train often doesn’t happen. A failure to prioritize time for training can happen when you have a new team member, or if you just want to train your existing team.
There are several reasons why training doesn’t get scheduled.
First, offices where the dentist is passive about the team’s training have more difficulty getting the team to do training. Practices where the dentist is involved in training (in any capacity) find it much easier. For example, I know, having spoken with thousands of dentists and team members over the years, that when the dentist is training alongside the team or they are learning the material that the team is working on, there is a much higher rate of success.
Even if the dentist/owner is overseeing the training (in the form of meetings, accountability sessions, or individual or group discussions), there is a much higher likelihood of team compliance than those who entirely hand over responsibility for training to the team or individuals to “just get it done.” The dentist/leader’s actions as the “visionary” for the practice will speak much louder than anything they will say. Dental training for the practice is much like learning a new language. If the leader of the group doesn’t show commitment and doesn’t speak the same language as the team, why will the team members feel it’s important?
Second, I often hear that dentists complain that the team doesn’t complete training when it is assigned. My first question is for the dentist: are you giving the team a task with a specific objective and a deadline for completion? And this applies to all assigned tasks, not only training.
If your desire is for the team to get their training done, it’s highly recommended that you set out a timeline of what to do each week and when it’s due. For example, with All-Star training we recommend just 20 minutes weekly of lecture videos and another 20 minutes for discussion and practice/role playing.
It’s ideal if the dentist and the team can do the training together. The biggest part of making sure the training gets done is blocking off the time you intend to train on your schedule in advance. Keep the training time sacred. Pretend it’s like taking important medicine for your practice (because it is!). If you are unable to train together, then have your team members coordinate to plan how they will schedule their time so that each person has an opportunity to rotate and get their training done in a private room or area where they will not be interrupted.
I do not recommend having the team wait and reactively schedule training during “downtime.” For one, downtime means something different to each person. You might consider a slow day to be downtime, but the team might feel like that day is catch-up time for other duties.
If you want training sessions to be taken seriously, they need to be on the schedule. Also, if you are not training together, set clear expectations on how much they are to do, when it’s due, and what assignments to complete. For example, we hired an admin person and we assigned them to watch a video by the end of the week, making sure the employee understood that it was due by noon the following Friday. We set clear expectations about which videos to watch, and that they were to report back to us with notes reflecting their thoughts on what they watched along with key bullet points highlighting the lessons learned. This approach dramatically increases the likelihood that the team will complete their training assignments and do the training in the manner you want it done!
Training and systems make the world go round (look at how well it works for companies like Chick-fil-A and Disney) – especially in a busy dental practice where there are so many things happening daily. Set the tone for all team members (and especially when on-boarding new hires) that training time is no different than doing typical tasks like calling patients, checking people in and out, treatment diagnosis, filing insurance, scheduling appointments, etc.
Training should be blocked off, planned as far out in advance as possible, and is a part of your regular routine. When the focus is on the routine, training times blocked on the schedule and kept sacred, you leave very little room for debate. The routine of training becomes the “boss,” so you get to relax!
Even the most mundane tasks are easier to complete when you feel appreciated. When your team understands that you not only see them stepping up, but that you also appreciate the effort -that’s priceless. Even more so when you share that their effort has a positive impact on the whole team’s success (better bonuses for all, more fun team events, less stress, higher wages, etc.).
And pointing out the benefits of training goes a long way towards preventing power struggles and promoting team cooperation!
You are invited to attend a free training webinar: Dental Practice Excellence, where we examine some of the most common pitfalls in dental practice success, and how to avoid them.
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https://www.allstardentalacademy.com/top-5-mistakes-dentists-make-with-dental-team-training/
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A graphical user interface is configured to display information related to diagnosis and/or repair of various objects, such as automobiles. The GUI displays relevant reference information, of any type, next to procedure steps of a selected diagnostic or repair procedure. Advantageously, reference information from multiple sources may be automatically selected for display in the GUI according to a current task that is selected by the user. Accordingly, a technician viewing the GUI does not need to access any other reference information, valuable man hours are spared, and efficiency increases. In one embodiment, the layout and immediate availability of relevant reference information may also increase the learning capabilities of the viewing technician. Thus, the layout of information in the GUI as described herein may facilitate increased employee productivity and increased employee learning.
This invention relates generally to management of information useful in diagnosing and repairing various objects, and more particularly to improved user interfaces for viewing and managing information related to vehicles.
In the automotive repair industry, access to information regarding particular specifications of automobiles may be important, and sometimes essential, for properly diagnosing a symptom of an automobile and determining an appropriate repair procedure. Currently, many automobile manufacturers publish specification manuals that include detailed information regarding one or more automobiles. These manuals typically include a table of contents, multiple chapters directed to various portions of the automobiles, and an index. A technician at an automobile repair shop may use these specification manuals extensively in identifying symptoms and performing repair procedures.
In the recent past, many of the automobile specification manuals have been made available in an electronic format, such as in Adobe pdf format, so that users may store the manuals on a computer and view portions of the manual on a display device, as necessary. However, searching of these electronic specification manuals is generally limited, or, in some cases, not possible at all. Thus, the user typically must view the index or table of content portion of a manual on a display device in order to determine which pages of the electronic specification manual contain the desired information. Systems and methods for allowing the information in electronic specification manuals to be more easily and comprehensibly available to a user are desired.
Information that may be relevant to a particular diagnostic or repair procedure may be found in multiple locations within a specification manual. Thus, locating all of the information that may be relevant to a given procedure (including both diagnostic and repair procedures) is often complex and time consuming. Similarly, information that may be relevant to a particular system, or subsystem, of an automobile may be found in multiple locations within a specification manual, in multiple specification manuals, or in other reference materials, including materials that are available on the Internet. Accordingly, improved systems and methods for organizing the information contained in these various reference materials and providing the information to a user, such as via a graphical user interface (GUI), are desired.
A typical automobile repair shop may, for example, use a specification manual for a certain make and model of automobile in order to diagnose symptoms of a subject automobile. During the diagnosis, certain reference information, such as the location of particular electrical components, the manufacturer's suggested torque settings, or instructions for using a particular tool referred to in the diagnosis procedure, may not be located on the same page as the diagnosis procedure. In fact, the reference information may be in another book or another section of the specification manual, for example. In either case, additional effort and time is required for the technician to locate the desired reference information. Accordingly, improved systems and methods for displaying related information, such as in a GUI on a display device, are desired. In addition, improved systems and methods for updating a GUI with information obtained from various sources according to the current task being performed by the technician are desired.
In one embodiment, a computer executable program executing on a computing device is configured to generate a graphical user interface including information related to a vehicle. The graphical user interface may comprise a procedure pane including procedure information, wherein the procedure information comprises a plurality of sub-procedures describing respective steps of the procedure, and the computer executable program is configured to display one of the plurality of sub-procedures in the procedure pane in response to communication with an input device. The graphical user interface further comprises a reference pane including selectable reference information tabs, each of the reference information tabs being related to the displayed one of the plurality of sub-procedures, wherein the reference information tabs are updated in response to changing which of the one of the plurality of sub-procedures is displayed.
In another embodiment, a method of displaying information on a display device of a computing system, wherein the information is related to an object, comprises receiving an input from a user of the computer system indicating a selected object, receiving an input from the user indicating a selected procedure related to the selected object, allocating a total display area of the display device into two non-overlapping panes, namely, a procedure pane and a reference pane, displaying in the procedure pane information related to performing the selected procedure on the selected object, and displaying in the reference pane information related to the selected object and the selected procedure.
In another embodiment, information for display on a portable computing device comprises task information displayed in a task pane and reference information displayed in a reference pane, wherein the task and reference information are concurrently displayed on the portable computing device. A method of selecting information for display comprises selecting a vehicle on which to perform a procedure, wherein the procedure is selected from the group comprising a diagnostic procedure and a repair procedure, receiving one or more symptoms from an input device, and determining the procedure that is to be performed on the vehicle based on the selected vehicle and the one or more symptoms.
In another embodiment, a portable computing device has a display configured to concurrently display a procedure pane including procedure information related to a procedure that may be performed on an automobile, wherein the procedure information comprises a plurality of sub-procedures related to steps of the procedure, and the display is configured to display one of the plurality of sub-procedures in the procedure pane in response to communication with an input device, the procedure pane further comprising one or more selectable items each associated with a respective sub-procedure, and a reference pane including one or more reference information tabs each corresponding to a particular piece of reference information that is related to the displayed one of the plurality of sub-procedures, wherein the one or more reference information tabs are updated in response to changing which of the plurality of sub-procedures is displayed.
In another embodiment, a computer executable program executing on a computing device is configured to generate a graphical user interface including information related to a procedure, wherein the graphical user interface comprises a first pane displaying vehicle information regarding a specific vehicle, a second pane displaying procedure information, wherein the procedure information comprises information for performing a procedure on the specific vehicle and is selected from the group comprising a repair procedure and a diagnostic procedure, and a third pane displaying reference information regarding the specific vehicle, wherein the vehicle information, the procedure information, and the reference information are each related to the procedure and are each concurrently displayed on a display device.
In another embodiment, a method of updating a database with information regarding a plurality of procedures corresponding to a vehicle symptom comprises receiving information from one or more vehicle service centers rating one or more of the plurality of procedures according to the effectiveness of the respective procedures in reducing the vehicle symptom, ranking the plurality of procedures according to the information received from the one or more vehicle service centers, and providing a highest ranked procedure to a vehicle service center in response to a request for a procedure corresponding to the vehicle symptom.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the top-level components used in an exemplary system for converting data from one or more formats into a known useful format.
FIG. 2A is a block diagram illustrating modules that are included in the information management module of FIG. 1.
FIG. 2B is a perspective view of an exemplary computer system.
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram illustrating the movement of data that is received from various information sources in the generation of knowledge streams.
FIG. 4 is block diagram illustrating a data store configured so that labels may be more easily updated according to the rules.
FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating a method of updating an automotive repair and/or diagnosis database with information regarding the usefulness of particular repairs and/or diagnosis procedures.
FIG. 6 is a simplified diagram illustrating an exemplary configuration of information in a graphical user interface (“GUI”).
FIG. 7 is an exemplary GUI including the configuration of panes as discussed above with respect to FIG. 6.
FIG. 8 is a simplified diagram illustrating an exemplary configuration of information in a GUI.
FIG. 9 is a simplified diagram of a GUI including two primary panes, specifically, a repair order/task information pane and a solution/search/reference information pane.
FIG. 10A is an exemplary GUI that is configured similar to the layout of the simplified GUI of FIG. 9.
FIG. 10B is a partial screen shot illustrating the task information pane when the RO list tab is selected.
FIG. 10C is a partial screen shot illustrating the task information pane when the RO in progress tab is selected.
FIG. 10D is a partial screen shot illustrating the task information pane when the Scan/Oscope tab is selected.
FIG. 10E is a partial screen shot illustrating an exemplary display of the reference information pane when the solutions button is selected.
FIG. 10F is a partial screen shot illustrating an exemplary reference information pane when the search button is selected.
FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary method of selecting information for display, and displaying the selected information, on a display device.
The term “module,” as used herein, means, but is not limited to, a software or hardware component, such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which performs certain tasks. A module may advantageously be configured to reside on an addressable storage medium and be configured to execute on one or more processors. Thus, a module may include, by way of example, components, such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components and task components, processes, functions, attributes, procedures, subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables. The functionality provided for in the components and modules may be combined into fewer components and modules or further separated into additional components and modules.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the top-level components used in an exemplary system for converting data from one or more formats into a known useful format. As shown in FIG. 1, multiple reference information sources 102 are each in data communication with an information management module 105. In one embodiment, each of the reference information sources provides information regarding automobile specifications to the information management module 105. For example, Reference Information Source A may contain data regarding a Ford automobile, Reference Information Source B may contain data regarding a Toyota automobile, and Reference Information Source C may contain data regarding a Mitsubishi automobile. In one embodiment, one or more of the reference information sources 102 provides scanned images of specification manuals. In another embodiment, one or more of the reference information sources 102 provides digital character data, such as ASCII text, that corresponds to the text information in a specification manual. In this embodiment the reference information source 102 may also include images, such as may be stored in jpg (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format, that correspond to images included in a specification manual.
The information management module 105 is configured to receive data from multiple reference information sources 102, in various formats, and convert the information into a known format that may be stored in a data store 104 and accessed by a user interface. The information management module 105 is coupled to the data store 104, which is configured to store the converted information in the known format. Because all of the data is stored in a known format, users may more easily search information from multiple specification manuals and access the information with a single interface. As will be described in further detail below, the data stored in the data store 104 is advantageously tagged so that pages of a specification manual that may be relevant to a specific diagnostic procedure, repair procedure, or system of the automobile may be easily located and transmitted to the user.
FIG. 2A is a block diagram illustrating modules that are included in the information management module 105 of FIG. 1. In one embodiment, each of the modules illustrated in FIG. 2A is located at the same location and interface with one another via direct data cable connections or a wired or wireless local area network (“LAN”), for example. In another embodiment, one or more of the modules illustrated in FIG. 2 are located remote from the other modules and communicate with the document manager 115 via a wide area network (“WAN”), such as the Internet. In another embodiment, the modules illustrated in FIG. 2A are each software objects stored on a single computing device.
As shown in FIG. 2A, the exemplary information management module 105 includes a document manager 115 coupled to each of the other illustrated modules. In an advantageous embodiment, the document manager 115 comprises a computing device running an operating system, such as a PC, MAC, or LINUX based operating system. The document manager 115 is advantageously configured to communicate with various devices and receive input in various formats. In addition, the document manager 115 is configured to output information to various devices and in various formats.
FIG. 2B is a perspective view of an exemplary computer system 200. In one embodiment, the document manager 115 comprises a computing device, such as the computer system 200. In addition, each of the users, such as an automobile repair shop, comprises one or more computing devices that are similar to the computer system 200. The exemplary computer system 200 comprises a display 210 coupled to a computer 220. The computer system 210 may be coupled to one or more computing devices via any type of networking connection. A plurality of user input devices may be coupled to the computer 200, such as a keyboard 230 and a mouse 240. The user input devices may also include a touch screen, joystick, trackball, and microphone, for example. The peripheral devices listed above, and any other available peripheral devices, may be coupled to the computer 110 via wired or wireless connections, and the computer 220 may be coupled to a network via a wired or wireless connection. As will be appreciated by those skilled in the technology, the computer system 200 as described herein is not limited to the device illustrated in FIG. 2, but may be, for example, a personal digital assistant (PDA), cellular telephone, pager, or any computing device configured to display text, images or sounds (signs) to a user.
In the embodiment of FIG. 2B, a portable computing device 250 is in communication with the computer 220 via a wireless communication link. In one embodiment, the portable computing device 250 comprises a notebook or tablet computer. In another embodiment, the portable computing device 250 comprises a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cell phone, or any other suitable electronic device comprising a display and an information processor. In an advantageous embodiment, the data generated by the information management module 105 may be accessed by the computer system 200, which may be located at an automobile repair shop, for example.
Returning to FIG. 2A, the Data conversion modules 1 10 are each configured to receive data from one or more different data sources, such as information providers at Mitsubishi, Honda, Ford, General Motors (“GM”). For example, one of the data conversion modules 110 may be configured to receive automobile specification data in XML format from Mitsubishi Motors, while another data conversion module 110 may be configured to receive automobile specification data in PDF format from Ford Motors and yet another data conversion module 110 is configured to receive automobile specification data in another format from GM.
In an advantageous embodiment, the data conversion modules 110 convert the received information into a known format and classify portions of the information into one or more of several views. In one embodiment, these views include a table of contents view, a type view, and an extracted view. The table of contents view indicates the hierarchal organization of pages included in the specification manual. In one embodiment, each of the pages of a specification manual is stored in a database. An identifier for each of the pages may then be stored in a separate page list, and references to the identifiers of these pages may be organized in various manners. Each of these various organizations of pages, or organizations of page identifiers, comprises a page view. For example, a table of contents view may contain section headings included in the specification manual along with a pointer to the identified pages stored in a storage device. Thus, the table of contents view provides a sequential hierarchy of the information contained in a specification manual.
In one embodiment, a type view classifies pages of the specification manual into page types, which may include, for example, component, diagnostic, and special tools pages. The type view may further classify the pages into procedures so that by accessing the type view, a user may determine all pages that relate to a particular procedure category. For example, a type view may classify pages into one of multiple different procedure types, such as DTC trouble shooting procedures, component inspection procedures, or repair procedures. Thus, a user may easily locate all circuit diagrams, for example, by accessing the circuit diagram section within the type view of a manual. In one embodiment, many of the pages in the table of contents view are also referenced in the type view. For example, in one embodiment the table of contents view includes all pages, while the type view includes a subset of the pages in the table of contacts view. Thus, identifiers for many pages may be included in multiple views and the identified pages may be located from different views. For example, a specification manual may be converted by the data conversion module 110 to include a special tools view, including an identifier for a page dealing with the use of an oil filter removal tool. The identifier for this same page may also be listed in the table of contents view as a subtopic of an engine care section of the specification manual, for example.
In another embodiment, identifiers for some pages of the specification manual are included in an extracted view, which further classifies content on the pages. For example, portions of a procedure page in the type view may be classified as (1) steps in the procedure or (2) reference information that is specific to that procedure.
In some instances, the data received from a data source identifies pages that correspond with each of the views used by a particular data conversion module 110. In this embodiment, the pages may be classified into one or more views according to the data received from the data source. In another embodiment, the data received from the data source does not include any information that classifies pages into views. Thus, in this embodiment, the pages are analyzed, by machine and/or human recognition, in order to classify the pages into one or more views.
The information management module 105 also includes a data store 125, which may be any type of storage device, such as a hard drive or optical storage device. The information stored on the data store 125 may be organized and physically stored on data store 125 according to any methods known in the art. When the various views, discussed above, are generated from the data received from one or more data sources, the views are stored in the data store 125. The data store 125 is advantageously electronically coupled to the other modules of the information management module 105 so the views may be accessed by any of these modules and so that additional information may be stored and accessed on the data store 125.
Rule engine 120 is configured to receive the pages that have been accessed by the data conversion modules 110 and to classify the pages into one or more categories. The rule engine assigns tags or labels to each page in the page store. The tags reflect the various categorizations of each page. These tags are later used by the knowledge stream assembly module 130. In one embodiment, pages received from the data conversion modules may be classified into one or more of three groups, namely, global reference information, system reference information, or procedure descriptions.
Global reference information may include, for example, pages including information that a user will want to access no matter what task they are working on. For example, pages including contact information for the vehicle manufacturer and information regarding translation of a VIN number into a model number may be classified as global reference information.
System reference information is information that relates to a particular automobile system, such as the transmission, engine, or brakes, for example. In one embodiment, subsystems, such as fuel injection, heating/cooling, and electrical subsystems related to an engine, for example, may also be included as automobile systems. Thus, the pages from the various specification manuals may be categorized at varying levels according to the systems, or subsystems, to which the information relates.
Procedure descriptions generally describe a diagnostic, maintenance, or repair procedure (referred to herein generally as procedures). Typically, these procedures have specific steps for performing the procedures, and may also have pieces of reference information within them that are specific to each procedure. For example, repair procedures included in many specification manuals are organized into tables that include steps to be taken in performing each procedure. In one embodiment, a procedure description is in the form of a table or a list. In other embodiment, the procedure descriptions are organized in other formats known in the art.
A symptom extraction module 190 is coupled to the document manager 115 and is configured to identify symptoms for which diagnostic procedures may be relevant. The association of symptoms to a specific procedure may be useful in further categorizing those pages into a more granular view of the data.
A knowledge stream assembly module 130 is coupled to the document manager 115. After the data pages have been categorized using the above-described modules, the knowledge stream assembly module compiles the pages into multiple enhanced procedure lists, referred to herein as “knowledge streams.” In one embodiment, the knowledge stream assembly module 130 processes the categorizations of the rules engine 120 in order to generate knowledge streams. For example, all categorized data that is relevant to a specific procedure may be combined into a knowledge stream including the procedure itself with steps of the procedure having links to all of the reference information related to that step, or the entire procedure. Further details regarding the generation and content of knowledge streams are included below with reference to FIG. 3.
An export module 195 is coupled to the document manager 115 and is configured to change the format of the data maintained in the data store 125 according to the various requirements of users. For example, some users request that knowledge streams, or other data, be formatted for viewing on a portable device with specific dimensions, while other users may request knowledge streams in other formats and may also request copies of all specification manual pages referenced in a knowledge stream. In one embodiment, the pages, or other data, requested by users is converted by the export module 195 and stored in a data store 135 until retrieved by the requesting user. For example, the requested data may be formatted for storage as one or more XML documents. In another embodiment, the converted data may be stored in the data store 135 even after the requesting user has retrieved a copy of the data. Thus, the data may be retrieved by other users that request the same data in the same format. This may be advantageous, for example, if a chain of automobile repair shops require data in a particular format. In this example, by storing the converted data in the data store 135, the data may be accessed by any of the chain of repair shops without the need to reconvert the same data.
When a requesting user receives the requested data, such as a knowledge stream (discussed in further detail with respect to FIG. 3), the user may manipulate the data for presentation on one or more display devices. For example, portions of the requested data may be extracted for viewing in separate panes that are presented on a display device.
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram illustrating the movement of data that is received from various information sources in the generation of knowledge streams. As illustrated in FIG. 3, the process has been divided into steps performed by the data conversion module 110, the rule engine 120, the knowledge stream assembly module 130, and the symptom extraction module 190. While methods are described below with respect to specific modules, any of the steps illustrated in FIG. 3 may be performed by any of the other illustrated modules, or any other component of the information management module 105.
In a step 105, data from a data source is received by the data conversion module 10. As described above, the data may be in one of many different formats and may be received from various data sources. In one embodiment, pages of a specification manual are received by the data conversion module 110 in a graphic format, such as in PDF, JPG, or TIF format. For purposes of illustration, the description below often refers to classification of pages, referring to pages of an automobile specification manual. However, any reference herein to a page should be read to cover any other data, such as a portion of a page or electronic data.
Continuing to a step 115, the data conversion module 115 classifies portions of the data into one or more of several views. In one embodiment, each page of a specification manual is included in one or more views. In one embodiment, these views include a table of contents view, a type view, and an extracted view. In another embodiment, additional, or fewer, views may be used in categorizing received data.
Moving to a step 122, the rule engine 120 classifies and labels data, such as pages or portions of pages, into one or more classifications. These classifications may then be stored in the data store 125 for access by other modules of information management module 105. As described above, in one embodiment, pages may be classified into one or more of three classifications, namely, global reference information, system reference information, or procedure descriptions.
In one embodiment, rules are applied to the content of the received data, such as on a per page basis, in order to categorize and label each page, or portion of a page, properly. In one embodiment, automatic rules, manual rules, and inherited rules may each be used to classify data. In an advantageous embodiment, the automatic rules are applied first, followed by inherited rules, and then manual rules. Thus, after application of the automatic rules, data that was not classified automatically may be classified according to manual or inherited rules. Each of these rule types is described further below. In addition, other types of rules may also be applied to the received data.
Automatic rules are typically applied by a computing device without the need for human input. For example, in one embodiment, an automatic rule includes an algorithm that identifies certain features on a page, assigns a score for each of these features, and based upon the total of the scores for the page, determines that the page should be classified into a particular category. Automatic rules may be generated by a human or by artificial intelligence training, for example. In either case, automatic rules are able to automatically take a piece of content, analyze the content, and determine one or more labels that should be applied to the content.
Automatic rules may be defined to identify certain features of a procedure description, for example, so that a procedure description may be automatically identified. For example, if a symptom table, which is basically a table with a list of symptoms, includes a link to a particular page, the automatic rules may score the particular page as including a procedure description. If the word “procedure” appears in bold letters in a heading position, the data may get another score indicating that the data includes a procedure description. Other scores may also be assigned to a page indicating that the page is another category of information, such as a symptom table, for example. After the rules are applied to a page, the scores are summed and the page is categorized based on the various sums. In one embodiment, threshold score totals for categorizing data into a specific category are established. For example, if four scores indicate that data contains a procedure description, and no other category received more than one score, the data may be categorized as containing a procedure description. In a similar manner, other categories may be assigned to data based upon common features that are in each type of information.
In another embodiment, automatic categorization of pages, such as categorization of pages as procedure descriptions, may be performed by the data conversion module 110.
In one embodiment, information that cannot satisfactorily be classified automatically may be classified manually by a person. For example, if a page has not been classified by an automatic rule, a person may view the page on a computer display device and determine the appropriate label, or labels, that should be applied to the page. This process generates a manual rule that the system can reapply in the future. Thus, the manual rule generation effort must be performed only once for a particular data set.
Inherited rules are a collection of manual rules applied to a new data set. In one embodiment, the system automatically determines which rules from the collection are productive within the new data set. The inherited rules look for sections of data that correspond with data that has already been categorized. The section of data, such as a page, a portion of a page, or multiple pages, may then inherent the same classifications as the data that was previously categorized. For example, if a set of classification rules is developed that applies to the specification manual for the 2003 Galant, the system may determine that some of the classification rules are applicable to the specification manual for the 2004 Galant. Thus, portions of the data from the 2004 Galant manual may be categorized using the categorizations that were used for the 2003 Galant manual. In an advantageous embodiment, inherited rules that apply to particular data are determined automatically so that manually generated rules may be used to categorize any portions for which inherited rules are not appropriate. In one embodiment, inherited rules are developed based on the analysis of multiple manuals and the determination of structures that are common across the analyzed manuals. Accordingly, the common structures in multiple manuals may be used to generate a template for inheritable rules.
After the data pages have been categorized using the above-described processes, a knowledge stream assembly module 130 generates multiple enhanced procedure lists, referred to as Knowledge Streams, based on the page categorizations received from the data conversion module 110 and rule engine 120. At this point, all pages are labeled as a complete process description, a step in a process, a piece of reference material related to a particular process, a piece of reference information related to a particular system in the automobile, or a piece of reference information that is generally related to an automobile, for example. The knowledge stream assembly module 130 accesses these categorizations in order to generate knowledge streams.
In a step 135, the knowledge stream assembly module 130 generates global reference information for use in all knowledge streams. In one embodiment, a knowledge stream may be directed specifically to global reference information so that a user may retrieve any global reference information from a single knowledge stream. The global reference information may also be compiled for use in other knowledge streams.
In a step 140, the knowledge stream assembly module 130 generates system reference information for use in one or more knowledge streams. For example, all information regarding a transmission system may be compiled for use in one or more knowledge streams. This exemplary compilation of transmission system information may include links to other similar procedures relating to the transmission system. As described above, a system may be either a broad system of the automobile, such as transmission, engine, or electrical, or system may include a subsystem, such as fuel injection, power seats, or brake pads, for example. Thus, depending on the level of granularity to which the information management module 105 is set, information regarding fewer or more automobile systems may be generated at step 140.
In a step 150, the knowledge stream assembly module 130 collects procedure description information for use in creating knowledge streams. In one embodiment, a procedure description is linked to information regarding a specific system by identifying a procedure as applying to that system.
In one embodiment, the data that has been categorized as a procedure description may be further categorized. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 3, at a step 160, steps of a procedure are processed and at a step 170 reference information included in a procedure description is processed. In one embodiment, steps 160 and 170 categorize the entire procedure description, or portions of the description, as either steps to be performed in a repair or diagnostic procedure, or as reference information. Thus, the data that is categorized as a procedure description in step 150 may be split into more narrow categorizations. For example, one type of reference information may include probable cause information, such as a list of things that might have caused the condition that is being diagnosed. Another type of reference information may be Diagnostic Trouble Codes (“DTC”), which is information read from an automobile's computer.
Continuing to a step 180, data that is categorized and processed by the previous steps, is combined into knowledge streams. As noted above, a knowledge stream may include a procedure itself, along with steps of the procedure, and include links to reference information corresponding to specific steps, or corresponding to the entire procedure or the automobile in general.
In one embodiment, knowledge streams are organized in a hierarchical structure. For example, a top level of the hierarchy may identify the specific knowledge streams, as well as other information that may help to identify the knowledge stream, such as a type of the knowledge stream. In a next level of the hierarchy, a number of folders may be linked to each knowledge stream, where the folders contain the various content items associated with the knowledge stream. For example, a knowledge stream may contain individual steps in a process, pieces of reference information that are specific to a procedure, reference information for a system, and global reference information. Thus, by selecting a particular knowledge stream, various informational items may be easily retrieved by the user.
FIG. 4 is block diagram illustrating a data store 405 configured so that labels may be more easily updated according to the rules. In the past, pages were typically associated directly with one or more labels for that page. However, if one of the rules responsible for applying a label to a page was changed so that a label for a page should be changed, there was no easy way to update labels based on the current rules. As shown in FIG. 4, the data store 405, which may be a data base, for example, stores a page list, rules associated with each page, and labels for each of the pages, as generated by the rules. In one embodiment, the page list includes an identifier for each page, where the actual pages are stored separately. The page references stored in the page index may be viewed according to one or more views, which may also be stored in the data store 405. Advantageously, rules are generated for classification of particular pages (listed in the page index) so that a page may be classified according to the generated rules. Because rules are generated and stored, rather than just the specific classifications for the pages, these rules may be applied to subsequent pages, thus reducing the effort required to classify subsequent pages. For example, related pages, such as pages of a specification manual for a different year of the same model automobile, may be classified using the same rules. Accordingly, rules may be generated once and applied multiple times to a collection of pages if necessary. This approach accommodates the need to regenerate the base data (as changes are made, etc.) without losing the labeling effort that has already been performed.
FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating a method of updating an automotive repair and/or diagnosis database with information regarding the usefulness of particular repairs and/or diagnosis procedures. More generally, the method illustrated in the flow chart of FIG. 5 may be applied to updating a database with information indicating the usefulness of particular informational items by users.
In block 510, a technician inspects an automobile. The technician may inspect various components of the vehicle based upon, for example, information provided by an owner of the vehicle or standard checkup items. The technician typically inspects at least one component of the automobile and records the status of that component. For purposes of illustration, FIG. 5 will be described with specific reference to inspection and diagnosis of automobile brakes. However, the systems and methods described herein are not only applicable to brake systems, but may be applied to any component that may be analyzed, diagnosed, and serviced. With reference to an exemplary automobile brake inspection, a technician may analyze and record brake fluid levels, brake pad thickness, and caliper wear, for example. The technician may then record observations relating to each of these items in various formats. For example, in one embodiment, the technician simply notes whether the item is within allowable specifications or if the item needs further diagnosis and/or repair. In another embodiment, the technician records more exact data for each item, such as an estimate of the brake fluid level and a thickness of the brake pads.
Moving to a block 520, the results of the inspection performed by the technician are entered into a computing device. The computing device may be one of many devices, but advantageously is a mobile device that is configured to communicate with a central computer. For example, in one embodiment a tablet computer or a personal digital assistant (“PDA” ) may be used by a technician to enter the inspection data. With respect to the above example of automobile brake inspection, the technician may enter one or more inspection results for each item inspected. For example, in one embodiment, the technician enters a thickness of brake pads, such as 2 mm. In another embodiment, the technician may simply note that the pads require repair and/or further diagnosis or that the pads are of an acceptable thickness.
After the inspection results are entered into the computing device, the results are advantageously transmitted to a central computer, typically having greater storage and processing capabilities than the computing device. Transmission of the results may be performed either via a wired or a wireless link and may be accomplished using any available communication protocol.
Next, at a block 530, one or more diagnostic and/or repair procedures are selected, based upon the inspection results and the acceptable specifications for the inspected items. In one embodiment, the central computer determines the one or more diagnostic and/or repair procedures that should be performed by the technician. In another embodiment, a mobile computing device that the technician uses to enter the inspection results may be configured to determine the one or more diagnostic and/or repair procedures. In any case, the one or more determined procedures are advantageously displayed to the technician on the computing device. In an advantageous embodiment, the displayed information includes specific steps to be performed in completing the one or more procedures. For example, if the central computer or the technician computing device determines that a brake pad is too thin, the determined procedure may be to replace the brake pad. Thus, the technician is informed of this diagnosis on the technician computing device. In addition, the technician may also be provided with specific steps to be performed in replacing the brake pad.
Moving to a block 540, the recommended procedure is performed by the technician. For example, the brake pad is replaced by following the procedure provided on the technician computing device.
Continuing to a block 550, an effectiveness of the performed procedure is reported. The effectiveness of some procedures may be determined by the technician immediately after performing the procedure, while the effectiveness of other procedures may not be determined until after the automobile has been returned to the owner and the vehicle has operated for a period of time. In either case, an effectiveness determination is entered into either the technician computing device, the central computer, or any other computing device that is in communication with the central computer. For example, if a particular procedure does not remedy the diagnosed symptom, a poor rating may be assigned to the procedure. Likewise, if a particular procedure does remedy the diagnosed symptom, an excellent rating may be assigned to the procedure. These ratings may be numerical, ranging from 1 to 10 or 1 to 100, for example, or composed of alphabetic ratings, such as A-F, for example. Any other rating system may also be used in conjunction with the described systems and methods.
Proceeding to a block 560, the effectiveness of the performed procedure is recorded in a database. In an advantageous embodiment, the diagnosis for which the procedure was recommended is also recorded in the database. The central computer, or other computing device, may then analyze the effectiveness of the recommended procedure with respect to the diagnosis that caused the procedure to be recommended. If multiple procedures have been performed in response to the same or similar symptoms, the central computer may then determine which procedures are the most effective for remedying the symptoms. In this way, the effectiveness of multiple procedures for treating a diagnosed symptom may be rated. Thereafter, the database that stores recommended procedures linked to diagnoses may be updated so that the most effective procedure for each diagnosed symptom is provided to the technician as the most effective procedure. In one embodiment, the technician is provided with multiple choices for procedures to perform in response to a diagnosis. For example, the technician computing device may list up to three procedures that have the highest effectiveness rating for a diagnosed symptom. The technician may then have the opportunity to select one of the procedures and, in response to the selection, may be presented with a knowledge stream for the selected procedure, or a list of steps to perform in completing the procedure.
FIG. 6 is a simplified diagram illustrating an exemplary configuration of information in a graphical user interface (“GUI” ) 600. While the configuration of information illustrated in FIG. 6 may be used for display of information related to any object, the GUI 600 illustrates information related to a vehicle, such as an automobile. The exemplary GUI 600 includes a vehicle information pane 610, task information pane 620, and reference information pane 630. The arrangement of information as illustrated in FIG. 6 advantageously provides a viewer with various types of information that are each related to a particular task. For ease of description, FIG. 6 is described below with specific reference to display of information related to vehicles. However, the display configuration and methods for displays discussed herein are expressly contemplated for use with information related to any object.
The vehicle information pane 610 contains information regarding a particular vehicle that is being diagnosed, repaired, and/or otherwise inspected. For example, the vehicle information pane may contain a make, model, year, and options of an automobile. The vehicle information pane 610 may further include customer information, such as address, phone number, and prior repair orders and invoices. Thus, a user viewing the GUI 600 may view many types of information regarding the vehicle under inspection.
The task information pane 620 contains information regarding a particular task (referred to herein also as a procedure) that may be performed on the vehicle indicated in the vehicle information pane 610. The procedures that may be displayed in the task information pane 620 include, for example, diagnostic and repair procedures. Thus, the task information pane 620 may include multiple steps that may be performed in diagnosing a symptom and may later display multiple steps in repairing a particular diagnosed symptom. For example, if a user is an automobile repair technician, the task information pane 620 may include steps for diagnosing a problem with an automobile's brake system. The steps may be divided into several sub steps, or categories, that may be iteratively displayed in the task information pane 620.
The reference information pane 630 contains various types of reference information, from various reference sources, that is related to the currently displayed task information for the vehicle indicated in the vehicle information pane 610. For example, if the task information pane 620 includes a diagnostic procedure for checking a leaking dump valve of an automobile, the reference information pane 630 may display reference information indicating the proper method for removal and installation of a hydraulic control unit. As another example, if a repair procedure is displayed in the task information pane 620, the reference information pane 630 may display items such as wiring diagram or special tool information that may be useful for completion of the indicated task.
In one embodiment, the task information pane 620 includes one or more buttons or tabs that may be selected in order to display particular reference information in the reference information pane 630. In particular, a button or tab may be labeled to indicate a type of reference information that is available for viewing, such as symptom help, components/tools, system info, and general info. Thus, the user may determine which type of reference information may be most useful in completing the task and may select one or more of the types of reference information available with respect to a particular task. Because every technician has unique training and experience, not every technician requires the same reference information. Accordingly, the buttons and/or tabs located in the task information pane 620 advantageously allow each technician to determine which types of reference information they would like to view in order to more efficiently complete the task.
The configuration of information as shown in exemplary FIG. 6 provides information that typically may only be found in multiple information sources. For example, a typical automobile repair shop may use a specification manual for a certain make and model of automobile in order to diagnose symptoms of a subject automobile. During the diagnosis, certain reference information, such as the location of particular electrical components, the manufacturer's suggested torque settings, or instructions for using a particular tool referred to in the diagnosis procedure, may not be located on the same page as the diagnosis procedure. In fact, the reference information may be in another book or another section of the specification manual. In either case, additional effort and time is required for the technician to locate the proper reference information. As illustrated in FIG. 6, the relevant reference information, of any type, is advantageously displayed next to the procedure steps. In an advantageous embodiment, the reference information is automatically updated as the information in the task information pane 620 is changed. Accordingly, a technician viewing the GUI 600 does not need to access any other reference information, valuable man hours are spared, and efficiency increases.
In addition to reducing effort and time required to locate relevant reference information, the layout and immediate availability of relevant reference information may also increase the learning capabilities of the viewing technician. In particular, because the technician is not required to shift their mental focus from the task indicated in the task information pane 620 to the more menial task of locating reference information that may be helpful or required to complete the task, the technician is more likely to understand and retain the task information and the related reference information. In this way, the layout of information as illustrated in FIG. 6 may increase employee productivity by increasing employee learning capacity.
FIG. 7 is an exemplary GUI 700 including the configuration of panes as discussed above with respect to FIG. 6. In particular, FIG. 7 includes a vehicle information pane 710 a task information pane 720 and a reference information pane 730. In the exemplary GUI 700, the vehicle information pane indicates that the information in the vehicle information pane 710, the task information pane 720, and the reference information pane 730 is related to a Ford E-series 2004 vehicle. The vehicle information pane 710 also includes a customer concerns/request portion 712, wherein a customer's concerns, along with the status of resolving each concern, may be tracked. A technician's symptoms portion 714 is linked to the customer concerns/request portion 712 and includes a technician's notes related to the particular customer concern.
A task type menu 716 lists one or more tasks that may be selected for display in the task information pane 720. In one embodiment, the available tasks listed in the task type menu 716 include DTC troubleshooting; symptom troubleshooting; remove, replace, install, and repair; service, adjust and clean; and test, check and inspect. In other embodiments, additional types of tasks may be included and the task types may be further divided into more task types.
A system menu 717 lists one or more systems, or subsystems, of the vehicle on which the task selected in the task type menu 716 may be performed. For example, if the symptom troubleshooting task is selected in the task type menu 716, the system menu 717 may list vehicle systems on which knowledge streams for symptom troubleshooting are available. These systems may include, for example, exhaust system, support system, engine, steering system, power train, electrical system, coolant system, fuel system, and brake system. In one embodiment, the system menu 717 may also include subsystems, such as, muffler, tailpipe, fuel tank, shock absorbers, coil springs, drum brake, fuel line, accelerator, brake pedal, distributor, differential, master break cylinder, disk brake, transmission, spark plug wires, exhaust manifold, engine, radiator, alternator, coolant reservoir, intake manifold, batteries, break line, and steering wheel.
In one embodiment, the system menu 717 is populated with selectable items in response to the selection of a task type from the task type menu 716. Thus, for each task type there may be different systems that are displayed in the system menu 717. In one embodiment, the systems that are displayed in the system menu 717 are those systems for which task information is available on the currently selected vehicle. For example, in the embodiment of FIG. 7, a Ford E-Series 2004 vehicle is selected. If a remove, replace install and repair task type is selected in the task type menu 716, the system menu 717 may display, among other systems, manual transmission and automatic transmission. However, if another vehicle is selected that is not available with a manual transmission, the system menu 717 may not display manual transmission as a selection option. In another embodiment, the systems displayed in the system menu 717 for a selected task type are the same for any vehicle, but only certain systems are selectable by a user.
In the embodiment of FIG. 7, the task information pane 720 includes information for repairing soft/excessive brake pedal travel. In one embodiment, the specific task display in the task information pane 720, e.g., “soft/excessive brake pedal travel . . . ” is selected from a list of one or more tasks related to the selected task type and the selected system. As illustrated in FIG. 7, a first procedure in this particular task is titled “Check for leaking dump valve.” One of the steps in this procedure includes, “Remove the rubber caps from the two HCU low pressure accumulators.” In an advantageous embodiment, as a result of having selected a specific task, the reference information pane 730 displays relevant reference information. For example, in the illustration of FIG. 7, the reference information pane displays information regarding the removal and installation of a Hydraulic Control Unit.
As shown in FIG. 7, the reference information pane 730 includes multiple tabs 732A-732D, which may be selected in order to change the type of reference information displayed. For example, if the user selects the components/tools tab 732B, the reference information pane 730 will be updated with information regarding special tools that are relevant to the procedure for repairing soft/excessive brake pedal travel. In one embodiment, the reference information tabs 732 may be automatically updated, or added to, based upon the information displayed in the vehicle pane 720 and/or the task information pane 720. For example, various steps of a task that are displayed in the task information pane 720 may have specific reference information that is relevant to the particular step. Accordingly, as the information in the task information pane 720 changes, such as by moving from one step to another in a procedure, the reference information tabs 732 may be automatically updated to include additional tabs corresponding to relevant reference information. The tabs 732 may then be selected in order to display the corresponding reference information in the reference information pane 730.
FIG. 8 is a simplified diagram illustrating an exemplary configuration of information in a GUI 800. While the configuration of information illustrated in FIG. 8 may be used for display of information related to any object, the GUI 800 illustrates information related to a vehicle, such as an automobile. In the embodiment of FIG. 8, a task information pane 810 is located next to a reference information pane 820. The GUI 800 does not include a separate pane for vehicle information. However, in one embodiment, the vehicle information may be displayed in a separate window, or in either the task information pane 810 or reference information pane 820 when selected. For example, the vehicle information may be displayed on a display device as an alternate to display of the task information pane 810 and the reference information pane 820 as shown in FIG. 8.
Similar to the embodiments discussed above, the GUI 800 updates the reference information according to the currently displayed task information. Accordingly, the user is provided with reference information that may otherwise only be found in multiple separate reference manuals. Because the relevant reference information is easily available to the user, the user's focus on the displayed task is maintained and the user's comprehension of the task may be enhanced.
FIG. 9 is a simplified diagram of a GUI 900 including two primary panes, specifically, a repair order/task information pane 910 (also referred to herein as a task information pane) and a solution/search/reference information pane 920 (also referred to herein as a reference information pane). In the embodiment of FIG. 9, the two primary panes are divided by an adjustable divider 930 that may be moved in either direction to change the sizes of the primary panes.
FIG. 10A is an exemplary GUI 1000 that is configured similar to the layout of simplified GUI 900. For ease of illustration, FIGS. 9 and 10A will be described together below. As shown in FIG. 10A, the GUI 1000 includes a task information pane 910, a reference information pane 920, and adjustable divider 930 in the same orientation as FIG. 9.
Referring to both FIGS. 9 and 10A, a repair order/task navigation pane 950 may include one or more tabs, buttons, or other selection indicator, related to repair orders, tasks, and diagnostic information from a scanning device, such as a PicoScope. The navigation pane 950 may include other tabs that may be selected in order to display various types of information in the task information pane 910. With reference to FIG. 10A, the repair order/task navigation pane 950 includes a repair order (“RO” ) list tab 952, an RO in progress tab 954, a task/completion chart tab 956, and a scan/oscilloscope (Oscope) tab 958. In the embodiment of FIG. 10A, each of the tabs 952, 954, 956, and 958 initiate display of different types of information in the task information pane 910. For example, in the specific illustration of FIG. 10A, the task/completion chart tab 956 is selected. Accordingly, task information is displayed in the task information pane 910. However, if RO list tab 952 is selected, the task information pane 910 will display a list of one or more repair orders that have been entered into the database. FIG. 10B is a partial screen shot illustrating the task information pane 910 when the RO list tab 952 is selected. If RO in progress tab 954 is selected, the task information pane 910 will display a list of one or more customer concerns/requests, along with corresponding technician's symptoms for each concern/request. FIG. 10C is a partial screen shot illustrating the task information pane 910 when the RO in progress tab 954 is selected. Finally, if the Scan/Oscope tab 958 is selected, the task information pane 910 displays information regarding available diagnostic tests. FIG. 10D is a partial screen shot illustrating the task information pane 910 when the Scan/Oscope tab 958 is selected. As shown in exemplary FIG. 10D, two diagnostic tests, a car code scan tool application and a PicoScope application, are available for use.
Referring again to FIGS. 9 and 10A, a task information navigation pane 960 includes tabs, buttons, or other navigation indicators, allowing the user to navigate task information displayed in the task information pane 910. As illustrated in FIG. 1OA, the task information navigation pane 960 includes several groups of selectable buttons. Notably, the task information navigation pane 960 includes multiple task step tabs 962. In the embodiment of FIG. 10, task step tabs the labeled 1-11 are illustrated. The task step tab 962A corresponding to a task step tab 3, is selected in the GUI 1000. Accordingly, the task information pane 910 displays information regarding a third step in the selected task. The user may jump to any numbered step in the task by selecting the corresponding task step tab 962.
Referring again to FIGS. 9 and 10A, a solution/search/reference navigation pane 970 includes one or more tabs, buttons, or other selectable indicators that allow the user to select a type of information for display in the solution/search/reference information pane 920. With reference to FIG. 10A, this pane includes a solutions button 972, a search button 974, and a reference button 976. In one embodiment, the solutions button 972 selects for display in the reference information pane 920, a list of possible tasks that may be performed on the selected vehicle for the selected symptoms. FIG. 10E is a partial screen shot illustrating an exemplary display of the reference information pane 920 when the solutions button 972 is selected. In one embodiment, the search button 974 selects for display in the reference information pane 920 one or more search fields that may be used to search the database of procedures. FIG. 10F is a partial screen shot illustrating an exemplary reference information pane 920 when the search button 974 is selected.
Referring again to FIG. 10A, when a reference button 976 is selected, information related to one of multiple types of reference information is displayed in the reference information pane 920. In one embodiment, the reference type navigation pane 980 indicates the type of reference information displayed in the reference information pane 920 when the reference button 976 is selected. With specific reference to exemplary FIG. 10A, reference button 976 is selected and a task is selected for identifying fluid leaks. Accordingly, the software application locates reference information related to the task of identifying fluid leaks, which includes a fuel injection line routing diagram, such as displayed in FIG. 10A. In one embodiment, the diagram displayed in the reference information pane 920 of FIG. 10A may be selected for display by selecting an electrical/diagrams button 984 from the reference type navigation pane 980. If other types of reference information are desired, the other reference type navigation buttons 981 - 987 may be selected. In one embodiment, if no reference information of the type selected in the reference type navigation pane 980 is available, the particular reference type navigation button will not be selectable by the user. Advantageously, the reference information displayed in the reference information pane 920, of any type available, relates to the current task information displayed in the task information pane 910. Accordingly, the user may more easily visualize the procedures necessary to complete a task using all available reference information.
FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary method of selecting information for display, and displaying the selected information, on a display device. In one embodiment, the method of FIG. 11 is performed by a computer system 200 (FIG. 2) located at an automobile repair shop. In an advantageous embodiment, the computer system 200 includes the portable computing device 250 that is wirelessly coupled to the computer 220. In this embodiment, the portable computing device includes a display on which the procedure and reference information is displayed. Alternatively, the method of FIG. 11 may be performed by the document manager 115 or any other computing device that has access to the information generated by the document manager 115. For ease of description, exemplary FIG. 11 is described as performed by a computer system 200 located at an automobile repair shop, wherein the task and reference pane are displayed on a portable computing device 250 that is in communication with the computer 220. In this embodiment, the completion of the various method steps may be performed solely by the portable computing device, the computer 210, or by a combination of the portable computing device 250 and the computer 210. Those of skill in the art will also recognize that the method may be performed by other computing devices or combinations of computing devices.
Starting at a block 1110, an input is received indicating a selected object. As noted above, the object may be any object on which procedures, such as diagnostic or repair procedures, may be performed. In an exemplary embodiment, the object comprises a vehicle. In one embodiment, a user selects a particular make, model, and year of an automobile using an input device, such as a keyboard 230 and/or a mouse 240 that is coupled to the computer 220. In another embodiment, the user enters information into the portable computing device 250 using a stylus, keypad, keyboard, or microphone of the portable computing device. For example, the user may select a 1998 Ford Mustang by navigating one or more pull-down menus displayed on the portable computing device 250. Alternatively, the input device may be an on-board diagnostic (OBD) system scanning tool connected to an OBD connector of an automobile. In this embodiment, the OBD system scanning tool may determine the make, model, and year of the automobile and provide this data to the computer system 200 via the portable computing device 250, for example.
Moving to a block 1120, an input is received at the portable computing device 250 indicating a procedure that has been selected. In one embodiment, the procedure is automatically selected based on information received from an OBD connector of the selected vehicle. In another embodiment, a procedure, such as a diagnostic or repair procedure is selected by the user based on one or more symptoms of the vehicle. In one embodiment, the user of the computer system 200, such as an automobile technician, enters one or more symptoms of the automobile into the portable computing device 250 that is wirelessly coupled to the computer system 200 and the computer system 200 determines one or more procedures that may be performed on the automobile. Alternatively, this determination may be performed entirely by the portable computing device. The user may then select a specific procedure from the recommended procedures that are selected by one or more devices of the computer system 200.
Continuing to a block 1130, a display area of the display device, such as an LCD screen of the portable computing device 250, is allocated for concurrent display of the task pane and the reference pane. For example, the portable computing device 250 that is carried by the automobile technician may be horizontally divided into two panes, such as is illustrated in FIG. 10A. The area of the panes may be automatically adjusted by the computing device that is displaying the panes or, alternatively, may be manually adjusted by the user of the portable computing device 250. In one embodiment, the panes may be displayed on any other computing device, such as the display device 210.
Next, in a block 1140 the portable computing device 250 displays procedure information in the procedure pane (which is synonymous with task pane). For example, FIG. 10A illustrates a task pane 910 that displays a task step and multiple task step tabs 962. As explained above, the task pane 910 displays information regarding a particular procedure that may be performed on the automobile. The user may move from one task step to another by selecting a corresponding task step tab 962. Alternatively, the user may jump to a next step by selecting a next step link 963, such as the next step link 963 labeled “Go to Step 4” in FIG. 10A. In one embodiment, the next step link 963 is included as a portion of the task step information. In one embodiment, a particular task step may include more than one next step link 963 for selection by a user. Using the methods described above, the user may navigate between multiple task steps in various manners.
Proceeding to a block 1150, the portable computing device 250 displays reference information in the reference pane, such as the reference pane 920 of FIG. 10A. As explained above, the reference pane 920 displays information that is related to the information currently displayed in the task pane 910 and the selected vehicle. Thus, the reference information contains information that may be useful to the technician in completing the selected procedure. The reference information may include information regarding symptoms, components, tools, system info, and general info, for example. In one embodiment, the user may select from multiple reference information items that are related to the current procedure and/or task step. Accordingly, the user may determine which type of reference information may be most useful in completing the task and may select one or more of the types of reference information available with respect to a particular task. Because every technician has unique training and experience, not every technician requires the same reference information. Accordingly, the buttons and/or tabs located in the reference pane 920 advantageously allow each technician to determine which types of reference information they would like to view in order to more efficiently complete the task. In one embodiment, the reference pane 920 includes a toolbar 990 that displays reference information tabs 992 that are currently available for selection by the user. Any of these tabs 992 may be selected by the user in order to change the display of reference information in the reference pane 920. In another embodiment, the toolbar 990 also includes a history of the reference information that has previously been displayed. As illustrated in FIG. 10A, for example, reference information related to “FUEL INJECTION LINE” is currently displayed in the reference pane, while reference information tabs 992 correspond to “Component Locations”, “SMU-REVISED FUEL SYSTEM”,” and “TSBs” reference information. These additional reference information tabs 992 may correspond to reference information that has previously been displayed in the reference pane 920 and/or the tabs 992 may correspond to additional reference information that is related to the information currently displayed in the task pane 910. Thus, the user may easily re-display a reference information item that has already been viewed by clicking on the appropriate tab 992 in the toolbar 990.
By displaying task and reference information as described above, the graphical user interface displays information that may reduce the time required to perform a selected procedure. For example, the automatic display of reference information related to the specific procedure or sub-procedure that is currently displayed in the task pane reduces the need for the technician to locate the reference information in another source. In addition, the display of reference information that is related to the information in the task pane reduces the need for the technician to memorize or otherwise become familiar with the reference information. Much of the reference information may be information that is infrequently used by the technician and, thus, requiring the technician to commit the reference information to memory or locate the reference information in one or more reference materials may reduce the efficiency and increase the time required to complete the procedure.
Specific parts, shapes, materials, functions and modules have been set forth, herein. However, a skilled technologist will realize that there are many ways to fabricate the system of the present invention, and that there are many parts, components, modules or functions that may be substituted for those listed above. While the above detailed description has shown, described, and pointed out the fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to various embodiments, it will be understood that various omissions, substitutions, and changes in the form and details of the components illustrated may be made by those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the invention.
a reference pane including selectable reference information tabs, each of the reference information tabs being related to the displayed one of the plurality of sub-procedures, wherein the reference information tabs are updated in response to changing which of the one of the plurality of sub-procedures is displayed.
2. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein the reference information displayed in the reference pane is updated in response to selection of one or the selectable reference information tabs, each of the reference information tabs being associated with different reference information.
3. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface is displayed on a portable computing device wirelessly coupled to a computing system.
4. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein the procedure information is selected from the group comprising: an inspection procedure, a diagnostic procedure, and a repair procedure.
5. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface comprises one or more tabs that, when selected by the input device, initiate change of the sub-procedure displayed in the procedure pane.
6. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein the information displayed in the reference pane is automatically updated in response to a change in the sub-procedure displayed in the procedure pane, wherein the information displayed in the reference pane is related to the sub-procedure displayed in the procedure pane.
7. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein the reference pane comprises a history window including one or more selectable areas corresponding to respective information that has previously bee n displayed in the reference pane.
8. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein the procedure pane and the reference pane are generally rectangular shaped.
9. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein the first procedure and reference panes are horizontally aligned side by side in the graphical user interface.
10. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein a link included in the procedure pane indicates a change in reference information displayed in the reference pane.
11. The computer executable program of claim 1, wherein a link included in the procedure pane indicates a change in the procedure information displayed in the procedure pane.
displaying in the reference pane information related to the selected object and the selected procedure.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the display device is disposed in a portable computing device.
14. The method of claim 12, wherein the selected procedure comprises a plurality of sub-procedures.
updating the information in the reference pane in response to receiving the input indicating the one sub-procedure.
16. The method of claim 12, wherein the object comprises a vehicle.
17. The method of claim 12, wherein the selected procedure comprises a repair procedure that may be performed on the selected object.
18. The method of claim 12, wherein the selected procedure comprises a diagnostic procedure that may be performed on the selected object.
determining the procedure that is to be performed on the vehicle based on the selected vehicle and the one or more symptoms.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein the step of selecting is performed by a user interacting with the portable computing device.
21. The method of claim 19, wherein the step of selecting is performed by the portable computing device in response to information receive from an OBD connector of the vehicle.
a reference pane including one or more reference information tabs each corresponding to a particular piece of reference information that is related to the displayed one of the plurality of sub-procedures, wherein the one or more reference information tabs are updated in response to changing which of the plurality of sub-procedures is displayed.
23. The portable computing device of claim 22, wherein the selectable items are selected from the group comprising tabs, buttons, icons, and menus.
24. The portable computing device of claim 22, wherein the portable computing device is selected from the group comprising a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and a cell phone.
a third pane displaying reference information regarding the specific vehicle, wherein the vehicle information, the procedure information, and the reference information are each related to the procedure and are each concurrently displayed on a display device.
providing a highest ranked procedure to a vehicle service center in response to a request for a procedure corresponding to the vehicle symptom.
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2019-04-24T04:46:44Z
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US20060161313A1/en
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Growing Idaho: How is growth impacting schools and education?
Many school districts across the Treasure Valley are growing - some more rapidly than others. Overcrowding has become a major challenge, causing districts to push bonds and levies, and impacting students and teachers.
TREASURE VALLEY -- Most city planners agree that growth is good, but it can often be painful for those not prepared.
According to the Idaho Department of Labor, the Boise metropolitan area - which includes Ada, Boise, Canyon, Gem and Owyhee counties - is now one of the top 20 fastest growing metro areas in the nation. Population grew by 2.3 percent between 2015 and 2016. Since 2006, the Department of Labor reports the metro area has grown by almost 121,000, or 21 percent.
So KTVB wanted to find out how that is affecting students and education in the Treasure Valley. School district officials say student enrollment growth is related, in some degree, to availability of affordable housing for families. Districts in areas where there's a lot of available land are experiencing notable increases in students.
We compared enrollment growth between 2010 and 2016 in these six districts: Vallivue, Kuna, West Ada, Caldwell, Boise, and Nampa. Vallivue grew the most in those six years, while Nampa's enrollment decreased.
KTVB analyzed data from the Idaho State Department of Education and is highlighting the fastest growing district, Vallivue, and the largest district in the state, West Ada, while looking at how growth is impacting schools and students.
An average day for Eagle High School science teacher Misty Sterk consists of setting up and teaching labs for her honors and college level courses, lecturing, grading papers and building relationships with students.
But in a growing, overcrowded school her day-to-day has changed.
"I feel like I'm not always able to do that with so many kids. And that makes me sad," Sterk said. "It takes me a little bit longer to grade and now since my classes are so large - I have 216 students - I have to edit some of the labs that might not be safe for that many students in a class."
"I feel like when I have that many I don't always get to meet their needs," Sterk added.
Eagle High is one of four high schools in the state's largest school district that are over capacity.
"Growth is the story of West Ada," district spokesperson Eric Exline said.
There are nearly 39,000 students spread across 55 schools - 33 elementary; 10 middle; 12 high schools.
"A couple thousand more and we'll be one of the 100 largest school districts in the country," Exline told KTVB.
Exline says West Ada School District has about 14,000 proposed home sites currently in some phase of construction in its 384 square mile boundary.
"People say, 'so where is growth the highest?' Uh, everywhere," Exline added.
High school is definitely not the only level impacted by a rapidly-growing area. Exline says the issues span all levels and kids come in equal numbers at all grades, but this year was heavier at the secondary level.
Elementary schools are either full or overcrowded on both sides of the freeway; a couple middle schools are over capacity, but the opening of Star Middle School will help alleviate that when it opens next fall; and Centennial, Eagle, Rocky Mountain and Mountain View high schools are all over capacity.
Exline says the 20-year trend shows the district gets 1,000 new kids per year on average. That can make for even more cramped hallways and classrooms at the beginning of the school year.
"When you get a big influx of kids what will happen at a high school is the first two weeks of school you'll discover all these new kids are there and now the master schedule [has] 37 kids in a chemistry class. Well that's not acceptable," Exline said.
So in the past and the future, the solution to deal with that growth is to build new schools regularly.
"So you have to go out to voters ask them to pass bond measures," Exline added. "You get these sort of overcrowding moments where they get way over until you can pass a bond and get a school built."
They also have to hire between 200 to 300 new teaching staff members every year to deal with growth or retirement.
"The in-between issues of how do you deal with overcrowded schools: you move portables in, sometimes you put kids, honestly, in odd teaching locations. On stages - we've done that before, in undersized classrooms - done that before. When you just sort of have run out of space in the building and you've moved in all the portables that you can. Portables are the first sort of line of defense between running bonds," Exline said.
That's something that affects students' school experience, he says.
"You're a ping pong ball in a tin can, right. There is no quiet place, there is no calm," Exline said. "All the common facilities get overrun by too many kids," Exline said.
District officials don't believe the overcrowding issues will get worse, necessarily, unless the rate of development skyrockets. But the issues will continue as more and more farm fields are developed.
"Someday this school district will have somewhere between 75,000 and 90,000 kids. As long as the economy is good, as long as this is a nice place to live, people will keep coming. You will keep getting kids at about that rate until the 50 percent of the remaining open land that can be developed is," Exline said. "When those are all homes - and they will be - all the comprehensive plans tell you that's what's going to happen."
Our strong economy and booming housing market is reflected daily in classrooms across the Treasure Valley.
"I wish it was more controlled growth. Because it's hard to plan after you have the students show up," Sterk added.
Several miles west in Canyon County, the rural Vallivue School District - with a record enrollment of nearly 8,800 students - is struggling to keep up as well.
"We're busting out the seams really," Vallivue School District State and Federal Programs Director Joey Palmer told KTVB.
What was expansive farmland is now becoming land developed. As subdivisions pop up, enrollment is expected to soar in a couple years.
"Over the past ten years we've been growing at three-percent growth. That's about 200-250 kids added each year. Well now with all these new subdivisions coming up and the economy and property values are doing OK, we're now projecting about four- to five-percent growth each year, which is about 450-500 kids per year. So we gotta have a place to put those kiddos as they're building the houses and moving here," Palmer said.
Gearing instruction toward each students' individual needs has become a difficult task.
"There are too many students per teacher. We're having to get creative with the rooms we do have," Palmer added. "The ideal education setting is where there's a teacher that can reach out to all the students in the classroom and differentiate instruction depending on each student's needs... Our students' education is affected when there's too many students per teacher."
Palmer says overcrowding at elementary and high schools has been alleviated by two new schools that opened just in the last two years. But now a new side effect of growth has popped up: while the increase in students is distributed at all grade levels, Palmer says they are inundated at the middle school level.
So they have to build another middle school.
In a district where nine of 13 schools are Title I and have high numbers of children from low-income families and 30 percent of their population is migrant, Vallivue is waiting until March of 2019 to ask voters to help them out in building a new middle school.
"We are worried about voter fatigue," Palmer added.
West Ada is mulling over running a bond in March 2018 to build a new high school. The district is also looking at building a new elementary school in north Meridian and expanding on a couple current schools south of the freeway and in Star in the near future.
To keep up with the rapid growth, many districts across the Valley consistently ask their voters to pass plant facility levies which take care of capital improvement projects, building maintenance and purchasing new school sites, as well as supplemental levies for operational, supplies and curriculum needs.
"They should be called essential levies. We need them, otherwise we're in dire straits," Palmer added.
District officials say the plus side to Vallivue and West Ada growing is the value of property in their boundaries is growing in unison.
"Growth does help pay for itself because you can run bonds without the levy rate going up," Exline added. "We really do rely on our community to be able to operate the kind of school system that we have."
That's part of the reason the West Ada school district isn't planning to split. If they did, the cost of bonds for new schools would be spread over smaller property tax bases she tax levy rate could go up and voters may be less likely to say "yes" to creating a new district.
The West Ada School District says because of their size they're able to offer a range of specialty courses, as is the Boise School District. While growth is a challenge and many districts do struggle to keep up, there are advantages.
Boise School District superintendent Don Coberly published this graph showing a shift in enrollment. In the early 2000's, Boise's enrollment shrank as West Ada's exploded due to families moving out west into the suburbs in search of more affordable housing.
Boise School District spokesman Dan Hollar says some schools in the district are growing at a steady and manageable rate while others have flat to no growth. There is new construction in southeast Boise, so the district is adding onto Timberline High School and will build a new elementary in the Harris Ranch area.
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2019-04-21T08:52:03Z
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https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/education/growing-idaho-how-is-growth-impacting-schools-and-education/491588287
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While engaged with the brahmanas who were too much involved in the performance of Vedic sacrifices, Krishna and Balarama also saw that the cowherd men were preparing a similar sacrifice in order to pacify Indra, the King of heaven, who is responsible for supplying water. As stated in the Caitanya-caritamrita, a devotee of Krishna has strong and firm faith in the understanding that if he is simply engaged in Krishna consciousness and Krishna’s transcendental loving service, then he is freed from all other obligations. A pure devotee of Lord Krishna doesn’t have to perform any of the ritualistic functions enjoined in the Vedas; nor is he required to worship any demigods. Being a devotee of Lord Krishna, one is understood to have performed all kinds of Vedic rituals and all kinds of worship to the demigods. One does not develop devotional service for Krishna by performing the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies or worshiping the demigods, but it should be understood that one who is engaged fully in the service of the Lord has already fulfilled all Vedic injunctions.
In order to stop all such activities by His devotees, Krishna wanted to firmly establish exclusive devotional service during His presence in Vrindavana. Because He is the omniscient Personality of Godhead, Krishna knew that the cowherd men were preparing for the Indra sacrifice, but as a matter of etiquette He began to inquire with great honor and submission from elder personalities like Maharaja Nanda.
After hearing this, Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the presence of His father and all the elder cowherd men of Vrindavana, spoke in such a way as to make heavenly King Indra very angry. He suggested that they forgo the sacrifice. His reasons for discouraging the sacrifice performed to please Indra were twofold. First, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita, there is no need to worship the demigods for any material advancement; all results derived from worshiping the demigods are simply temporary, and only those who are less intelligent are interested in temporary results. Second, whatever temporary result one derives from worshiping the demigods is actually granted by the permission of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is clearly stated in the Bhagavad-gita: mayaiva vihitan hi tan. Whatever benefit is supposed to be derived from the demigods is actually bestowed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Without the permission of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one cannot bestow any benefit upon others. But sometimes the demigods become puffed up by the influence of material nature; thinking themselves all in all, they forget the supremacy of the Personality of Godhead. In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is clearly stated that in this instance Krishna wanted to make King Indra angry. Krishna’s advent was especially meant for the annihilation of the demons and protection of the devotees. King Indra was certainly a devotee, not a demon, but because he was puffed up, Krishna wanted to teach him a lesson. He first made Indra angry by stopping the Indra-puja, which had been arranged by the cowherd men in Vrindavana.
Maharaja Nanda and other elder members argued that without satisfying the predominating god one cannot derive any good result simply by material activities. This is actually the fact. For example, it is sometimes found that in spite of first-class medical help and treatment by a first-class physician, a diseased person dies. It is concluded, therefore, that first-class medical treatment or the attempts of a first-class physician are not in themselves the cause for curing a patient; there must be the hand of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, a father’s and mother’s taking care of their children is not the cause of the children’s comfort. Sometimes it is found that in spite of all care by the parents, the children go bad or succumb to death. Therefore material causes are not sufficient for results. There must be the sanction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nanda Maharaja therefore advocated that in order to get good results for agricultural activities, they must satisfy Indra, the superintending deity of the rain supply. Lord Krishna nullified this argument, saying that the demigods give results only to persons who have executed their prescribed duties. The demigods cannot give any good results to the person who has not executed the prescribed duties; therefore demigods are dependent on the execution of duties and are not absolute in awarding good results to anyone. So why should one care about them?
Krishna identified Himself with the vaisya community because Nanda Maharaja was protecting many cows and Krishna was taking care of them. He enumerated four kinds of business engagements for the vaisya community, namely agriculture, trade, protection of cows and banking. Although the vaisyas can take to any of these occupations, the men of Vrindavana were engaged primarily in the protection of cows.
In this statement, Lord Krishna practically described the whole economy of the vaisya community. In all communities in human society—including the brahmanas, kshatriyas, vaisyas, sudras, candalas, etc.— and in the animal kingdom—including the cows, dogs, goats, etc.—everyone has his part to play. Each is to work in cooperation for the total benefit of all society, which includes not only animate objects but also inanimate objects like hills and land. The vaisya community is specifically responsible for the economic improvement of the society by producing grains, by giving protection to the cows, by transporting food when needed, and by banking and finance.
From this statement we learn also that although the cats and dogs, which have now become so important, are not to be neglected, cow protection is actually more important than protection of cats and dogs. Another hint we get from this statement is that the candalas, or the untouchables, are also not to be neglected by the higher classes and should be given necessary protection. Everyone is important, but some are directly responsible for the advancement of human society and some are only indirectly responsible. However, when Krishna consciousness is there, then everyone’s total benefit is taken care of.
The sacrifice known as Govardhana-puja is observed in the Krishna consciousness movement. Lord Caitanya has recommended that since Krishna is worshipable, so His land—Vrindavana and Govardhana Hill—is also worshipable. To confirm this statement, Lord Krishna said that Govardhana-puja is as good as worship of Him. From that day, Govardhana-puja has been going on and is known as Annakuta. In all the temples of Vrindavana or outside of Vrindavana, huge quantities of food are prepared in this ceremony and are very sumptuously distributed to the general population. Sometimes the food is thrown to the crowds, and they enjoy collecting it off the ground. From this we can understand that prasadam offered to Krishna never becomes polluted or contaminated, even if it is thrown on the ground. The people, therefore, collect it and eat with great satisfaction.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, therefore advised the cowherd men to stop the Indra-yajna and begin the Govardhana-puja in order to chastise Indra, who was very much puffed up at being the supreme controller of the heavenly planets. The honest and simple cowherd men, headed by Nanda Maharaja, accepted Krishna’s proposal and executed in detail everything He advised. They performed Govardhana worship and circumambulation of the hill. (Following the inauguration of Govardhana-puja, people in Vrindavana still dress nicely and assemble near Govardhana Hill to offer worship and circumambulate the hill, leading their cows all around.) According to the instruction of Lord Krishna, Nanda Maharaja and the cowherd men called in learned brahmanas and began to worship Govardhana Hill by chanting Vedic hymns and offering prasadam. The inhabitants of Vrindavana assembled together, decorated their cows and gave them grass. Keeping the cows in front, they began to circumambulate Govardhana Hill. The gopis dressed themselves very luxuriantly and sat in bull-driven carts, chanting the glories of Krishna’s pastimes. Assembled there to act as priests for Govardhana-puja, the brahmanas offered their blessings to the cowherd men and their wives, the gopis.
Thus performing the Govardhana-puja sacrifice, all the inhabitants of Vrindavana followed the instructions of Krishna, the son of Vasudeva, and afterwards they returned to their respective homes.
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Krishna has declared in the Bhagavad-gita that the worshipers of the demigods are not very intelligent. He has also declared that one has to give up all kinds of worship and simply concentrate on Krishna consciousness. Krishna’s invoking the anger of Indra and later on chastising him is a clear indication to His devotees that those who are engaged in Krishna consciousness have no need to worship any demigod, even if it is found that the demigod has become angry. Krishna gives His devotees all protection, and they should completely depend on His mercy.
Indra cursed the action of the inhabitants of Vrindavana and said, “By defying the authority of the demigods, the inhabitants of Vrindavana will suffer in material existence. Having neglected the sacrifice to the demigods, they cannot cross over the impediments of the ocean of material existence.” Indra further declared, “These cowherd men in Vrindavana have neglected my authority on the advice of this talkative boy who is known as Krishna. He is nothing but a child, and by believing this child, they have enraged me.” Thus he ordered the Samvartaka cloud to go and destroy the prosperity of Vrindavana. “The men of Vrindavana,” said Indra, “have become too puffed up over their material opulence and are overconfident due to the presence of their tiny friend, Krishna. He is simply talkative, childish and unaware of the complete cosmic situation, although He is thinking Himself very advanced in knowledge. Because they have taken Krishna so seriously, they must be punished. They should be destroyed with their cows.” In this way Indra ordered the Samvartaka cloud to go to Vrindavana and inundate the place.
Thinking in this way, Lord Krishna immediately picked up Govardhana Hill with one hand, exactly as a child picks up a mushroom from the ground. Thus He exhibited His transcendental pastime of lifting Govardhana Hill. Lord Krishna then addressed His devotees, “My dear brothers, My dear father, My dear inhabitants of Vrindavana, you can now safely enter under the umbrella of Govardhana Hill, which I have just lifted. Do not be afraid of the hill and think that it will fall from My hand. You have been too much afflicted from the heavy rain and strong wind; therefore I have lifted this hill, which will protect you exactly like a huge umbrella. I think this is a proper arrangement to relieve you of your immediate distress. Be happy along with your animals underneath this great umbrella.” Being assured by Lord Krishna, all the inhabitants of Vrindavana entered beneath the great hill along with their property and animals, and they all appeared to be safe.
All the men loaded their valuables on carts and slowly left with their cows and other paraphernalia. After they had cleared out everything, Lord Krishna very slowly replaced Govardhana Hill exactly in the same position as it had been before. When everything was done, all the inhabitants of Vrindavana approached Krishna with feelings of love and embraced Him with great ecstasy. The gopis, being naturally very affectionate to Krishna, began to offer Him yogurt mixed with their tears, and they poured incessant blessings upon Him. Mother Yasoda, mother Rohini, Nanda and Balarama, who is the strongest of the strong, embraced Krishna one after another and, from spontaneous feelings of affection, blessed Him over and over again. In the heavens, different demigods from different planetary systems, such as Siddhaloka, Gandharvaloka and Caranaloka, also began to show their complete satisfaction. They poured showers of flowers on the surface of the earth and sounded different conchshells. There was beating of drums, and being inspired by godly feelings, residents of Gandharvaloka began to play on their tambouras to please the Lord. After this incident, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, surrounded by His dear friends and the animals, returned to His home. As usual, the gopis began to chant the glorious pastimes of Lord Krishna with great feeling, for they were chanting from the heart.
pita-mata—father and mother; mari’—killing; khao—you eat; eba—this; kon—what kind of; dharma—religion; kon bale—on what strength; kara—do; tumi—you; e-mata—such; vikarma—sinful activities.
Everyone can understand that we drink the milk of cows and take the help of bulls in producing agricultural products. Therefore, since our real father gives us food grains and our mother gives us milk with which to live, the cow and bull are considered our father and mother. According to Vedic civilization, there are seven mothers, of which the cow is one. Therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu challenged the Muslim Kazi, “What kind of religious principle do you follow by killing your father and mother to eat them?” In any civilized human society, no one would dare kill his father and mother for the purpose of eating them. Therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu challenged the system of Muslim religion as patricide and matricide. In the Christian religion also, a principal commandment is “Thou shalt not kill.” Nevertheless, Christians violate this rule; they are very expert in killing and in opening slaughterhouses. In our Krishna consciousness movement, our first provision is that no one should be allowed to eat any kind of flesh. It does not matter whether it is cows’ flesh or goats’ flesh, but we especially stress the prohibition against cows’ flesh because according to sastra the cow is our mother. (A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Sri Chaitanya Charitamrta Adi-lila 17:154. text and purport).
“According to the Vedic social system, as soon as one takes birth he becomes indebted to so many persons. We are indebted to the rishis, or great sages, because we derive knowledge from their transcendental writings, such as the Srimad-Bhagavatam, compiled by Srila Vyasadeva. The authors of the scripture know past, present, and future, and we are urged to take advantage of such invaluable knowledge. Thus we are indebted to the sages.
We are also indebted to the demigods, for they manage the affairs of the universe, supplying it with every essential—sunshine from the sun-god, Surya; moonshine from the moon-god, Candra; air from Vayu; and so on. Each element is controlled by a particular demigod.
Actually, Hindu is not a religion. Hindu is a name given by the foreigners. The religion is, of India, varnasrama-dharma, following the institution of four varnas and four asramas. That is varn… Or sanatana-dharma. Sanatana-dharma means eternal, eternal religion. Religion of human being is one. That is called sanatana. A living entity is described as sanatana. Mamaivamso jiva-bhuto jiva-loke sanatanah. In the Bhagavad-gita you’ll find sanatanah, and Krishna is also addressed in the Eleventh Chapter as sanatanas tvam. And there is another place, or spiritual world, which is also called sanatana. In the Bhagavad-gita you’ll find, paras tasmat tu bhavo ’nyo ’vyakto ’vyaktat sanatanah. So this sanatana term is very important. The living entity is sanatana and God is sanatana and the spiritual world is sanatana, and the process by which your lost relationship with God established and you go back to home back to Godhead, that is called sanatana-dharma. Sanatana-dharma. That is our eternal relationship with God.” (A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. 15th January 1974. Srimad Bhagavatam lecture SB 1:16:19. Hawaii).
Govardhana Puja triggered one of the most known and beautiful of Krishna’s pastimes. More information, photos and videos on Govardhana in our Archive.
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2019-04-23T16:05:11Z
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Creativity feels like an inexplicable miracle when it arrives. We may never be able to isolate all the variables that generate it. But there are ways to reliably create the conditions to make creativity a more predictable occurrence. The first thing you should do is think about the problem you’re trying to solve — let it marinade — and then walk away from it. This first round of effort is less about solving the problem than about priming the pump. It is after this step that the unconscious work begins — the work that draws from a fuller complement of mental resources, experiences, and creative connections. While that problem sits in the back of your mind, follow your curiosity. The key is to pay the price to create a rich experience with these sometimes pointless amusements. It’s often tempting to ignore these whimsical thoughts, but you do so at your creative peril. Begin collecting and organizing the experiences and information you’re taking in. Try to do something that doesn’t interest you daily — you never know what will turn out to be useful, including engaging in uncomfortable conversations. Finally, when the creativity hits, stop what you’re doing and work. Honor these moments by writing; don’t ignore these impulses.
Creativity is learnable providence. It feels like an inexplicable miracle when it arrives, and we may never be able to isolate all the variables that generate it. But, in my experience, we can reliably create the conditions to invite it.
Twenty years ago, I was involved in a terrifyingly inspiring project, working with some of Kenya’s poorest citizens in one of Nairobi’s most blighted areas. Our goal was to generate self-help strategies that would enable this group to climb a few rungs up the economic ladder. The audacity of this effort hit me in the middle of a flight from Brussels to Nairobi. I had fallen asleep briefly just long enough to become immersed in a nightmare. I dreamed I had somehow become the president of Kenya, and this filled me with overwhelming despair. When an announcement about approaching turbulence jarred me into consciousness I’ve never been happier. But the dream had hammered home the weight of the task I was heading toward. I was to lead a two-day meeting with hundreds of people for whom the stakes could not be higher. We had a clear goal but no concrete plan. I knew the work was worth pursuing, but I had never done what we were trying to do and felt inadequate to the task. I hoped and prayed that worthwhile ideas would come.And they did. The trip was successful in ways that exceeded my competence. This was a welcome surprise, but one I had done my best make happen.
Here are some of the ways I’ve learned to be more predictably creative.
Frame the problem, then step back. Like a grain of sand in an oyster, cognitive irritation stimulates creativity. When you give yourself a compelling, complex, unsolved problem — and make sure to clearly, concisely, and vividly articulate it — your brain becomes irritated. For months before my trip to Nairobi, I carried around a pad of paper on which I had handwritten the following statement: “How, with no outside resources, will we create 300 middle class jobs for the people in our group?” The problem turned in my mind. One way to further amp up the cognitive irritation, is by slogging through a first, unsatisfying round of generating solutions. This effort is more about priming the pump than solving the problem. Then, walk away for a bit, and allow the unconscious work — that which draws from a fuller complement of mental resources, experiences, and creative connections — to begin.
Obey your curiosity. Steve Jobs claimed that “creativity is just connecting things.” I agree. If you want to be more creative, you need to have more things to connect. The best way to build a rich mental database that will help you solve problems later is to honor passing curiosities. If something tickles your brain, spend a moment with it. Follow paths that have no obvious purpose other than to satisfy a whim. It could be an article or a conference session that intrigues you; a book that you inexplicably notice; a person to whom you are introduced. It’s tempting to let these opportunities pass, but you do so at your creative peril. They become the Lego bricks, tinker toys, and pipe cleaners from which your creative masterpieces emerge. My Kenyan experience was the product of scores of conversations, books, lunches, and papers that seemed to have little immediate value. But I invested in them anyway — and it paid off.
Keep a shoebox. Next, find a way to collect and organize your experiences. For example, when I read, I fanatically highlight. I then go back and re-read the highlighted passages. And then I cut and paste the best of them into a document so I can easily find them later. This three-step process (highlight, review, organize) increases the likelihood that I retain the information and, eventually, am able to conjure fertile connections between all the tidbits. During that same transcontinental flight, I think somewhere over Egypt, a memory of a book on large group decision-making that I had read five years earlier tickled its way to my consciousness. I had not thought of the book since, but I had highlighted, re-read, and tagged it at the time, so I opened my laptop and reviewed key ideas that would inform the agenda our group used to leap forward in coming days.
Do things that don’t interest you. Early in my career, Will Marre, the founding president of Stephen Covey’s training company, admonished me to subscribe to a handful of business journals he listed, then added, “And every time you read one, be sure to read at least one article that holds no interest for you.” I’ve been rewarded time and again for doing so. Many things that end of up in my shoebox have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things “boring” simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.
Invite uncomfortable conversations. Another great creative stimulus is to regularly engage in conversations with people from whom you might normally recoil. Three of the more unexpectedly fruitful conversations of my life were with a racist cabby in London, a drug dealer seatmate on a plane, and an extremist political advocate in Puerto Rico. While I didn’t change teams as a result of these conversations, I gained valuable perspectives from lives I will never live. This discipline helped me find the psychological flexibility I needed in Kenya. At times, a member of our group engaged in the graft so common to their experience. I needed to find a balance between empathy and accountability. Long practice in grappling with others’ realities helped me approach the situation with determination rather than disgust.
Stop and work when it hits.I can tell when something is coalescing inside of me. At an unexpected time, I will feel a rush of clarity. The final discipline of inviting creativity is to honor these moments by writing. If I interrupt whatever is happening at the time to transcribe and organize my thought flow, I accelerate the development of ideas. If I ignore those moments — or try to kick them down the road — I find them impossible to re-conjure. I lose the emerging clarity and slow the process. A couple of hours from Nairobi, I felt a rush of ideas. I was exhausted and drowsy, but I recognized the first symptom of inspiration for what it was. Before the plane landed, I had a powerful opening speech written as though it had been dictated. I simultaneously envisioned the two-day group process that helped the group coalesce around a detailed and hopeful strategy.
Over the next two years, I helped my 300 co-conspirators form a worker-owned cooperative. From their meager but collective efforts, they assembled enough capital to begin an enterprise that employed many of them. These experiences contributed to the founding of a non-profit that has, to date, helped tens of millions around the world to improve their economic circumstances.
Creativity may always be part mystery. But we can all practice disciplines that invite its beneficent arrival.
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2019-04-23T02:01:39Z
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https://hbr.org/2019/01/how-to-be-creative-on-demand
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My mother decided that we sit at the bar, like she always does, She always thinks by sitting at the bar, our service will be faster…. Heather waited on us.
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It turns out that the Gardner Ale House is not only a restaurant, but they are famous for brewing their own beer.
Gardner Ale House is the only full-menu brewpub in both North Central Massachusetts and Worcester County. It is a family style pub and restaurant featuring fresh, bistro style food in an upscale setting. The brewery offers at least 6 distinctive, house made brews at all times and continues to develop new recipes. There is always an interesting, new beer on tap at the Gardner Ale House.
The restaurant distinguishes itself through the use of fresh, unfrozen and unprocessed products. Menu selections are both ordinary and eclectic, but always of a high quality and very interesting. Gardner Ale House is an active member of the community, participating in chamber events, making donations to various local charities and contributing to the local dining and nightlife scene. As the greater Gardner area continues its rapid growth, the Gardner Ale House plans to provide the best food, drink and entertainment in the area, 7 days a week, offering lunch, dinner and famous Live Jazz Sunday Brunch.
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I have frequently highlighted BC’s loser pays system where a losing litigant is typically ordered to pay costs to the opposing side. Reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, demonstrating that this result can be harsh and is typically unyielding to factors such as sympathy and financial hardship.
The plaintiff says that the defendants should be denied their costs on the basis that his life was permanently and catastrophically altered by the event of January 21, 2006 and his future care and financial support are now in jeopardy. Mr. Laktin argues that the costs of a five-week trial will impose an onerous financial burden, which the plaintiff lacks the means to satisfy. I accept that Mr. Laktin is in difficult financial circumstances, and that an order requiring him to pay costs to the defendant will be a real and heavy burden for him. While I have a great deal of sympathy for the plaintiff, the case law clearly establishes that the unfortunate personal circumstances and financial hardship of a litigant are not, standing alone, factors warranting a departure from the general rule that costs follow the event: Morris at para. 36; Chen at para. 11;Vesuna v. British Columbia (Transportation), 2011 BCSC 1618 at para. 8.
In Robinson v. Lakner (1998), 159 D.L.R. (4th) 191, the Court of Appeal, reversing the decision of the trial judge who had limited the costs payable to the successful defendant to $1,500 because the plaintiff was in difficult financial circumstances, held at para. 5, that “financial hardship in itself is not a sound basis for departing from the usual rule with respect to costs”.
In Cowherd v. Fraser Valley Health Region et al, 2004 BCSC 698 at para. 5, Madam Justice Ballance cited Brown v. Blacktop Cabs Ltd. (1997), 43 B.C.L.R. (3d) 76 (C.A.); Zelenski Estate v. Fairway(1998), 60 B.C.L.R. (3d) 76 (C.A.); Churchland v. Gore Mutual Insurance Co. (unreported), September 23, 1999, No. S09912, Vancouver (S.C.); and Robinson for the principle that “in general, the unfortunate personal circumstances and characteristics of a litigant are not to be taken into account by the court in exercising its discretion in making an award of costs”.
In Morris at para. 38, Madam Justice Ker concluded that the court is unable, on any principled basis to take the plaintiff’s financial circumstances into account in determining whether to award costs.
To conclude otherwise would undermine the rationale underlying Rule 14-9 and would likely lead to the promotion of litigation rather than to promote the “winnowing” function described by Hall J.A. in Catalyst Paper. It would lead to a collapse of the general principle discussed in the authorities and result in the unacceptable proposition that costs in each case would be measured not by a party’s success but by the personal financial circumstances of the litigants.
I conclude that there are no special circumstances in this case that would warrant a departure from the general rule that costs should follow the event.
Accordingly, the defendant, City of Vancouver, will have costs of this action at Scale B, together with its reasonable disbursements.
A short but interesting exchange can be found at the end of reasons for judgement recently published by the BC Supreme Court, Chilliwack Registry, discussing loser pays costs and a Plaintiff’s financial circumstances.
MR. KENT-SNOWSELL: Costs, My Lord?
THE COURT: I am not going to order costs because of Ms. Hunstad’s financial situation. If you want to make some submissions on that, I will consider it, but I don’t think they are appropriate in the circumstances.
MR. KENT-SNOWSELL: I will seek instructions.
Earlier this year I highlighted a judgement addressing whether a litigant blogging about witnesses during the course of a trial, and referenceing ‘fat bottomed girls’ in the process, amounted to witness intimidation.
Reasons for judgement were released today (Mainstream Canada v. Staniford) by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, dealing with the costs consequences following the underlying trial.
. . . During the trial, Mr. Staniford relaunched the GAAIA website, this time using a service provider outside of Canada. During his cross-examination, Mr. Staniford proclaimed that he would not be stopped by an injunction pronounced in this action.
Shortly before the trial, and after the witness lists had been exchanged, Mr. Staniford accused the Ahousaht First Nation of accepting “blood money” from Cermaq in one of his Facebook postings.
Mr. Staniford looked on the trial as an opportunity to get his message out, and he did not hold back. For example, in Internet postings during the trial, Mr. Staniford demeaned and mocked the physical appearance of three of Mainstream’s witnesses, Mary Ellen Walling, Leanne Brunt and Dr. Gallo. Mr. Wotherspoon brought the comments concerning Ms. Walling and Ms. Brunt to my attention when court was convened the morning of January 26, 2012. The matter was discussed in court and was framed (appropriately) as an issue of Mr. Staniford victimizing Mainstream’s witnesses by his insulting comments. Mr. Staniford was present during the discussion. Despite that, Mr. Staniford then repeated his comments about Ms. Walling and Ms. Brunt outside court for an interview that was published on YouTube.
During his testimony, Mr. Staniford attempted to justify his comments about Ms. Walling and Ms. Brunt as being “very complimentary,” and said he thought Ms. Walling should be “flattered” at being labelled a “fat-bottomed girl.” The notion that Mr. Staniford would ever pay a sincere compliment to Ms. Walling is, itself, laughable and entirely unbelievable.
In another Facebook posting during the first week of the trial, he compared the trial to a kangaroo court….
By engaging in the conduct I described, Mr. Staniford demonstrated his disrespect for witnesses and his disdain generally for the court and the judicial process.
Although I consider Mr. Staniford’s misconduct in connection with the trial to be serious and clearly deserving of censure, I think that depriving the defendants of all of their costs of the action is too severe, given the dollar amounts likely involved for a 20-day trial. I have concluded that an appropriate order is that the defendants have 25% of their assessed costs and disbursements. (There should be only one set of costs for both defendants.) Depriving the defendants of 75% of their assessed costs and disbursements, in my view, reflects appropriate condemnation of Mr. Staniford’s misconduct.
I’ve written many times about the BC Supreme Court’s “loser pays” system which generally requires a losing litigant to pay for the winner’s costs and disbursements. If a lawsuit is started on a child’s behalf and on reaching adulthood they take over the claim themselves can the former litigation guardian still be exposed to loser pays costs consequences? The answer is yes as was demonstrated in reasons for judgement released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry.
Although Bird J.A.’s comments on the liability of litigation guardians for costs in Miller were dicta, they were considered dicta. Bird J.A. concluded that an infant ratifying the action after attaining the age of majority does not inherit and replace the litigation guardian’s liability for costs. I have seen nothing in the authorities that lends support to the position that a defendant’s possible entitlement to costs from a litigation guardian disappears when the infant reaches majority. I expect that subsequent to Miller, litigation guardians starting actions (and filing affidavits at the time) understood their potential liability for costs and the fact that it continued at least up to the infant’s majority. Rule 20-2(12) and (13) do not suggest that the filing an affidavit upon attaining the age of majority removes any possible past liability of the litigation guardian for costs.
While it is true that a possible adverse costs order may deter a person from suing as a litigation guardian, there are also policy reasons that support awarding costs in favour of successful defendants. In any event, I think the underlying law has been clear for more the 50 years that a litigation guardian assumes potential liability for costs if he or she starts an action as a litigation guardian and is not successful.
Accordingly, my conclusion is that Shawne McIlvenna, the plaintiff’s former litigation guardian, is responsible for the costs that I have already ordered, up to February 27, 2009, when the plaintiff filed his affidavit of majority. ..
As previously discussed, a Plaintiff’s financial circumstances is not relevant when assessing “loser pays” costs consequences following trial in the BC Supreme Court (subject to the different analysis that applies when pre-trial formal settlement offers have been made). Reasons for judgement were released last week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, demonstrating this.
The third basis for his application is that he is unemployed and experiencing difficult financial circumstances.
While no evidence is before the Court to establish precisely what his present situation is, I will accept that it is not good. I have genuine sympathy for this plaintiff. I am sure that the requirement to pay costs to the defendant will be a real burden for him in his circumstances.
Indeed, I expect that it is frequently the case that there are substantial discrepancies between the means of parties to litigation. Unsuccessful litigants are not infrequently in difficult financial straits, and orders for costs can exacerbate that situation.
However, I am unable to conclude that an order requiring him to pay the defendant’s costs, in accordance with the relevant tariff, $11,000, would be so “unfair and inappropriately punitive” to make the order sought. There are no special circumstances in this case which warrant an order for reduced costs or relieving the plaintiff from paying the defendant’s costs.
Tags: Loser pays, Mr. Justice Williams, RUle 14, Rule 14-1, Rule 14-1(9), Staley v. Squirrel Systems of Canada Ltd.
As previously discussed, Section 10 of BC’s Workers Compensation Act operates to generally strip you of your right to sue if you are injured in the course of your employment by someone else in the course of their employment. If this defence is raised and succeeds in a personal injury lawsuit the claim will be dismissed exposing a Plaintiff to ‘loser pays’ costs consequences. Reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Victoria Registry, demonstrating this reality.
In this week’s case (McKay v. Marx) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2005 collision. His vehicle was rear-ended by a Fed Ex vehicle. The Plaintiff sued for damages. There was no dispute that the Defendant was in the course of employment when the crash happened. The defendant argued that the plaintiff was also a ‘worker’ and therefore his right to sue was stripped away. The issue was sent to WCAT for determination who ruled that the Plaintiff was indeed a worker.
The circumstances in which the plaintiff found himself are unfortunate and they garner some sympathy. However, the authorities explicitly prohibit this court from denying costs by exercising discretion out of a sense of fairness or sympathy or a comparison of the relative economic strength of the parties.
In summary, the defendants successfully pled a s. 10 Workers Compensation Act defence and are thus the substantially successful party ?? the winner of the event. The evidence as presented falls short of demonstrating such reprehensible conduct on the part of the defendants that would allow the court, in the exercise of its discretion, to depart from the general rule. Accordingly, the defendants are entitled to costs.
Section 3 of BC’s Negligence Act reduces a Plaintiff’s entitlement to costs recovery to the same proportion as a Plaintiff’s degree of fault following a collision. Reasons for judgement were released last month by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, addressing the factors a Court can consider in deviating from this typical result and further finding that pre-trial borrowing is irrelevant to the Court’s analysis.
In last month’s case (Gowler v. Ngo) the Plaintiff was injured in two motor vehicle collisions. Following a 13 day trial a Jury found the Plaintiff 50% at fault for the first of the collisions. Damages of $250,000 were assessed and these were cut in half to take the Plaintiff’s degree of fault into consideration. The Plaintiff’s costs for proceeding to trial were over $100,000. Neither party beat their pre-trial settlement offer leaving the Court to apply section 3 of the Negligence Act.
The factors to take into account in considering the court’s discretion are discussed in my decision in Moses v. Kim, 2007 BCSC 1820. I will talk about the Court of Appeal decision in a moment, but I will ask that the reasons for judgment, if they are reproduced, will now include paragraph 13 of the Moses v. Kim decision.
In my view, in this case the most important factors are the costs of proving damages for an injury of this type, the fact that there is a very significant claim for disbursements, and the fact that the amount of the award is $125,000 and the costs claimed are about $104,000.
Mr. Mussio asked me to take into account some borrowing that Mr. Gowler did prior to the trial. In my view, that is not a factor I can take into account, nor can I take into account the legal fees, based on the decision of the Court of Appeal in the Moses v. Kim case.
Looking at all the applicable factors, in my view it would be unjust to award the plaintiff only 50 percent of his costs. That is because his award would be so diluted by the need to pay his disbursements that he would not have a sufficient recovery. However, it is not a case where Mr. Gowler’s damages were so significant as in the Moses case.
Looking at the cases and all the applicable factors, in my view, the appropriate award is that the plaintiff should recover 65 percent of his costs.
Reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, confirming that Third Party’s are not immune from BC’s ‘loser pays’ system.
The first issue is whether Lombard should be held liable to the plaintiff Ms. Danicek for the costs of the trial.
The third party, on its own application became a party to and actively defended the action, and by so doing made itself subject to the jurisdiction of this court as to costs. I see no reason why the plaintiff should not have judgment against the third party as well as against the defendants, for its costs computed in the manner aforesaid.
The purpose of an award of costs is to indemnify successful litigants; deter frivolous proceedings and defences; encourage parties to deliver reasonable offers to settle; and discourage improper or unnecessary steps in litigation: see Skidmore v. Blackmore (1995), 122 D.L.R (4th) 330, at para. 37.
My conclusion is that the plaintiff is entitled to her costs in respect to Phase 1 of the trial against Lombard. It was Lombard that decided to contest liability and quantum. Ms. Danicek’s position was upheld on each of these issues. Quantum far exceeded the settlements she had reached with Mr. Poole, Alexander Holburn and the other third parties.
Lombard was not, ultimately, liable for the judgment against Mr. Poole. This was because of the conclusion reached in the second phase of the trial that the Lombard policy did not provide coverage. But that was not the issue in Phase 1 of the trial. (There was evidence relevant to the coverage issue adduced at trial. That is because witnesses were called at the first phase who had evidence to give in respect to the second phase.) The issues decided in Phase 1 were liability of Mr. Poole and quantum of damages.
In my view having in mind the principle of an award of costs, costs should be awarded against Lombard in respect of Phase 1 from the time that it filed a statement of defence. The plaintiff was substantially successful on the issues involving Lombard in that part of the trial.
If a BC Supreme Court Judgement is silent with respect to costs following trial the default Loser Pays system kicks in as a result of Rule 14-1(9). Reasons for judgement were released last week by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver Registry, discussing this default position.
The plaintiff’s res judicata argument has previously been considered and rejected by this court. In Graham v. Great West Life et al., 2004 BCSC 1544, Sinclair Prowse J. considered the argument that silence in earlier reasons for judgment regarding costs is tantamount to an order that there will not be an order for costs. After reviewing the authorities she found that if reasons are silent, by operation of Rule 57(9), there is a presumption that costs will follow the event unless either party objects to the order being framed in that manner, in which case an application for costs should be made to the court. The present Rule 14-1(9) contains the same presumption.
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How do Buriton Logbook Loans work then?
The theory of borrowing against your car is an easy one… use your cars V5 title document as security to borrow against the value of your car. You can lend anything up to 80% of the cars value up to a maximum of £50,000. The logbook loan application process is simple, and this type of v5 loan is popular among Buriton residents as they are often accessible to those with poor credit scores (Due to CCJ’s) as the vehicle is used as security. Once your loan is repaid, you receive your V5 document back and carry on driving the car as normal.
One requirement of taking out Buriton V5 Loans is that you can prove to the lender that you can afford the repayments. Its part of a responsible lending approach, this helps to ensure you do not default on any loan payments. Therefore even if you are unemployed in Buriton, but can still prove you can afford the repayments then you may be eligible for a loan. Complete the online logbook loan form to see if you are eligible.
A HPI check will clearly show a loan present as a Bill of Sale Agreement. A rule was introduced that requires all Buriton V5 lenders to register any current loans against a vehicle with companies such as HPI. If for any reason you find that there is already a loan against your vehicle which was not visible on a HPI chekc then you are entitled to a reimbursement of up to £30,000 under the HPI guarantee.
Youll need to provide several forms of documentation before your loan can be approved. The most important of these are your valid photo identification and your V5 documents, or logbook, as these will prove that you are the rightful owner of the car you want to use as security. You should also provide a current MOT, proof of insurance, and a copy of your most recent utility bill (in your name) to prove your Buriton residency. You will also need to prove your able to afford the repayments. i.e. with payslips or bank statements that show your income.
Taking out a loan when youve bad credit score is tough for many Buriton customers. Because of the bad credit score, major loan lenders like banks are less likely to approve your loan application. Buriton V5 lenders might be able to provide a more feasible option despite the bad credit. Although you will still have to experience a credit check, V5 lenders can be more understanding to bad credit scores; as responsible Buriton V5 lenders, they will have to assess the loan applicants ability to repay the loan, and their vehicles value to ensure that the loan can be guaranteed.
Are Buriton Logbook Loans a good idea for me?
If your circumstances mean that you have been refused a loan elsewhere then applying for this type of V5 loan could help you borrow the money you need. By using your car, van or motorbike as security, V5 loans are more feasible to Buriton residents who have less-than-perfect credit scores, or simply need to release some quick money from the value of their car. If you own your car and can afford the repayments then a V5 loan may be a good idea.
Those who are self employed or have a bad credit history in Buriton can benefit from the V5 loans; they will need to prove that they are able to make the repayments. As part of responsible lending, its important for Buriton V5 loan applicants to prove that they have the ability to make prompt repayments to avoid losing possession of their car. Since different people have different situations, get in contact today to discuss your particular needs.
You could get a loan of £250 – £50,000, with approval on the same day! Petersfield Logbook Loans could be taken on Cars, Vans and Motorbikes. Apply now for a quote, it only take a few minutes. Our V5 lenders accept applications from the majority of the UK mainland, that means your local area is covered.
At Coney Hall, our sole aim is to put you in touch with a leading UK provider of Petersfield logbook loans. Our free service is convenient, and in many cases you can get your loan decision on the same day. Compare our lenders to other market competitors like Petersfield Cash Converter Logbook Loans, Wonga and QuickQuid.
If you would like to find out more information about Petersfield logbook loans, then simply complete the form at the top of the page to hear direct from a leading UK logbook loan provider. They will be able to advise on any queries you may have, and provide a quote direct.
Please also note that as an intermediary website, we are not qualified to offer advice about Petersfield logbook loans or any policies you may have taken out. Please contact the loan provide direct for further information.
Looking for logbook loans in Petersfield on cars over 8 years old? Looking for logbook loans in Petersfield on cars over 10 years old?
Petersfield Logbook loans are secured against your vehicle and are subject to affordability. Missed payments may result in additional fees and/or the repossession of your vehicle. Over 18s only, T&Cs apply.
Why Petersfield Logbook Loans Online?
The age of your car isn’t a concern… if it has value then there’s a good chance you could lend against it! You may find other Petersfield lenders refuse to lend against older cars (typically over 8 years), in fact you may have been refused a loan before for this reason. This isn’t the case when you lend against a car’s value rather than it’s age, and since the loans can vary from £250 right up to £50,000 you’ll find most car models can be borrowed against. Enter your car model online to enquire.
If youre in Petersfield and self-employed then you are probably aware how difficult it can be to get a personal loan of any sort as most money lenders want to see regular guaranteed income to cover payments. Logbook Loans use your vehicle as collateral which means you might still be eligible for a loan as it reduced the risk to a logbook lender. However, its important to remember though that as part of responsible lending you will need to prove to the lender that you can cover the repayments.
Can a Petersfield Businesses Get a V5 Loan?
If youve got any questions about Petersfield logbook loans then you may well find the answer in the list of FAQs we have compiled below. If not then please get in touch via our form and well happily advise further.
How do Petersfield Logbook Loans work then?
The theory of borrowing against your car is an easy one… use your cars V5 title document as security to borrow against the value of your car. You can lend anything up to 80% of the cars value up to a maximum of £50,000. The logbook loan application process is simple, and this type of v5 loan is popular among Petersfield residents as they are often accessible to those with poor credit scores (Due to CCJ’s) as the vehicle is used as security. Once your loan is repaid, you receive your V5 document back and carry on driving the car as normal.
One requirement of taking out Petersfield V5 Loans is that you can prove to the lender that you can afford the repayments. Its part of a responsible lending approach, this helps to ensure you do not default on any loan payments. Therefore even if you are unemployed in Petersfield, but can still prove you can afford the repayments then you may be eligible for a loan. Complete the online logbook loan form to see if you are eligible.
A HPI check will clearly show a loan present as a Bill of Sale Agreement. A rule was introduced that requires all Petersfield V5 lenders to register any current loans against a vehicle with companies such as HPI. If for any reason you find that there is already a loan against your vehicle which was not visible on a HPI chekc then you are entitled to a reimbursement of up to £30,000 under the HPI guarantee.
Youll need to provide several forms of documentation before your loan can be approved. The most important of these are your valid photo identification and your V5 documents, or logbook, as these will prove that you are the rightful owner of the car you want to use as security. You should also provide a current MOT, proof of insurance, and a copy of your most recent utility bill (in your name) to prove your Petersfield residency. You will also need to prove your able to afford the repayments. i.e. with payslips or bank statements that show your income.
Taking out a loan when youve bad credit score is tough for many Petersfield customers. Because of the bad credit score, major loan lenders like banks are less likely to approve your loan application. Petersfield V5 lenders might be able to provide a more feasible option despite the bad credit. Although you will still have to experience a credit check, V5 lenders can be more understanding to bad credit scores; as responsible Petersfield V5 lenders, they will have to assess the loan applicants ability to repay the loan, and their vehicles value to ensure that the loan can be guaranteed.
Are Petersfield Logbook Loans a good idea for me?
If your circumstances mean that you have been refused a loan elsewhere then applying for this type of V5 loan could help you borrow the money you need. By using your car, van or motorbike as security, V5 loans are more feasible to Petersfield residents who have less-than-perfect credit scores, or simply need to release some quick money from the value of their car. If you own your car and can afford the repayments then a V5 loan may be a good idea.
Those who are self employed or have a bad credit history in Petersfield can benefit from the V5 loans; they will need to prove that they are able to make the repayments. As part of responsible lending, its important for Petersfield V5 loan applicants to prove that they have the ability to make prompt repayments to avoid losing possession of their car. Since different people have different situations, get in contact today to discuss your particular needs.
You could get a loan of £250 – £50,000, with approval on the same day! South Harting Logbook Loans could be taken on Cars, Vans and Motorbikes. Apply now for a quote, it only take a few minutes. Our V5 lenders accept applications from the majority of the UK mainland, that means your local area is covered.
At Coney Hall, our sole aim is to put you in touch with a leading UK provider of South Harting logbook loans. Our free service is convenient, and in many cases you can get your loan decision on the same day. Compare our lenders to other market competitors like South Harting Cash Converter Logbook Loans, Wonga and QuickQuid.
If you would like to find out more information about South Harting logbook loans, then simply complete the form at the top of the page to hear direct from a leading UK logbook loan provider. They will be able to advise on any queries you may have, and provide a quote direct.
Please also note that as an intermediary website, we are not qualified to offer advice about South Harting logbook loans or any policies you may have taken out. Please contact the loan provide direct for further information.
Looking for logbook loans in South Harting on cars over 8 years old? Looking for logbook loans in South Harting on cars over 10 years old?
South Harting Logbook loans are secured against your vehicle and are subject to affordability. Missed payments may result in additional fees and/or the repossession of your vehicle. Over 18s only, T&Cs apply.
Why South Harting Logbook Loans Online?
The age of your car isn’t a concern… if it has value then there’s a good chance you could lend against it! You may find other South Harting lenders refuse to lend against older cars (typically over 8 years), in fact you may have been refused a loan before for this reason. This isn’t the case when you lend against a car’s value rather than it’s age, and since the loans can vary from £250 right up to £50,000 you’ll find most car models can be borrowed against. Enter your car model online to enquire.
If youre in South Harting and self-employed then you are probably aware how difficult it can be to get a personal loan of any sort as most money lenders want to see regular guaranteed income to cover payments. Logbook Loans use your vehicle as collateral which means you might still be eligible for a loan as it reduced the risk to a logbook lender. However, its important to remember though that as part of responsible lending you will need to prove to the lender that you can cover the repayments.
Can a South Harting Businesses Get a V5 Loan?
If youve got any questions about South Harting logbook loans then you may well find the answer in the list of FAQs we have compiled below. If not then please get in touch via our form and well happily advise further.
How do South Harting Logbook Loans work then?
The theory of borrowing against your car is an easy one… use your cars V5 title document as security to borrow against the value of your car. You can lend anything up to 80% of the cars value up to a maximum of £50,000. The logbook loan application process is simple, and this type of v5 loan is popular among South Harting residents as they are often accessible to those with poor credit scores (Due to CCJ’s) as the vehicle is used as security. Once your loan is repaid, you receive your V5 document back and carry on driving the car as normal.
One requirement of taking out South Harting V5 Loans is that you can prove to the lender that you can afford the repayments. Its part of a responsible lending approach, this helps to ensure you do not default on any loan payments. Therefore even if you are unemployed in South Harting, but can still prove you can afford the repayments then you may be eligible for a loan. Complete the online logbook loan form to see if you are eligible.
A HPI check will clearly show a loan present as a Bill of Sale Agreement. A rule was introduced that requires all South Harting V5 lenders to register any current loans against a vehicle with companies such as HPI. If for any reason you find that there is already a loan against your vehicle which was not visible on a HPI chekc then you are entitled to a reimbursement of up to £30,000 under the HPI guarantee.
Youll need to provide several forms of documentation before your loan can be approved. The most important of these are your valid photo identification and your V5 documents, or logbook, as these will prove that you are the rightful owner of the car you want to use as security. You should also provide a current MOT, proof of insurance, and a copy of your most recent utility bill (in your name) to prove your South Harting residency. You will also need to prove your able to afford the repayments. i.e. with payslips or bank statements that show your income.
Taking out a loan when youve bad credit score is tough for many South Harting customers. Because of the bad credit score, major loan lenders like banks are less likely to approve your loan application. South Harting V5 lenders might be able to provide a more feasible option despite the bad credit. Although you will still have to experience a credit check, V5 lenders can be more understanding to bad credit scores; as responsible South Harting V5 lenders, they will have to assess the loan applicants ability to repay the loan, and their vehicles value to ensure that the loan can be guaranteed.
Are South Harting Logbook Loans a good idea for me?
If your circumstances mean that you have been refused a loan elsewhere then applying for this type of V5 loan could help you borrow the money you need. By using your car, van or motorbike as security, V5 loans are more feasible to South Harting residents who have less-than-perfect credit scores, or simply need to release some quick money from the value of their car. If you own your car and can afford the repayments then a V5 loan may be a good idea.
Those who are self employed or have a bad credit history in South Harting can benefit from the V5 loans; they will need to prove that they are able to make the repayments. As part of responsible lending, its important for South Harting V5 loan applicants to prove that they have the ability to make prompt repayments to avoid losing possession of their car. Since different people have different situations, get in contact today to discuss your particular needs.
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Montessori is an approach to early education that focuses on the immense capacity of children to absorb information when given the freedom and independence to learn at their own pace and takes into account how children’s thought processes differ from those of adults.
It is now over 100 years since the first Montessori school was established in a slum area of Rome in 1907, and yet we find that the approach fulfills the needs of children in the 21st Century.
• Children learn through exploration through their senses and through movement.
• They need freedom within a structured environment in order to do this.
• They need the opportunity to make constructive choices of activities and to learn through repeated experiences.
• Learning skills for daily living develop independence and self-esteem.
• Self-discipline is developed through the framework of acceptable ground rules for behaviour.
• Close contact with reality and nature is encouraged to allow the child to understand his/her place in the world.
• Diversity is embraced and explored.
When allied to an availability of specially developed materials in a favourable environment, and under the close observation and guidance of a Montessori-trained directress/teacher, this leads to an enormously powerful, confidence-building approach to learning.
The Montessori approach has proved so successful that it has been adopted all over the world and continues to influence ‘mainstream’ educationalists thinking everywhere. Today they are over 300 Montessori pre-schools around South Africa and many thousands more around the globe.
These are the very first activities children take part in, in a Montessori classroom. They develop their ability to look after themselves and their surroundings. They can practice dressing skills on specially made frames, which allow them to try zips, buttons, bows and buckles. They use little jugs filled with beans or rice and then water to practice pouring; they spoon, scoop, or use droppers, tweezers and even chopsticks to transfer from one bowl to another. Other activities use scaled down versions of real equipment: brushes and brooms, wash-up bowls and cloths, show cleaning and polishing kits, even a tiny safe iron and ironing board.
There are also varied opportunities for pairing socks, folding and sorting clothes, setting a table, plaiting and sewing - even packing a tiny suitcase. Children gain confidence and competence through practical life activities. Their added purpose is that children who work on real tasks which involve the hand and the mind together develop a great capacity to concentrate, which is the best possible preparation for the intellectual work to come.
One of the first pieces of sensorial apparatus children use when they come into the nursery is a set of solid geometric forms, which they explore with their hands, matching identical ones and sorting into sets according to their geometric properties. At first they are presented in baskets, each basket having one type of solid: semi-regular solids, curved surface solids and so on. As they get older, children become fascinated with words and are given the names: pyramid, dodecahedron, and ellipsoid. Another piece of material uses flat geometric shapes - circle, square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, which are fitted into spaces on a tray, rather like a jigsaw puzzle.
On the Sensorial shelves there will be specially designed materials to encourage development of the senses, such as a tower of pink blocks; sets of cylinders gradiated in size; cylinders with knobs which have to be fitted into the right holes in a block; rough and smooth tablets in boxes; smelling bottles; fabrics to sort by touch; puzzle blocks called the binomial and trinomial cubes which are interesting in themselves but later turn out to be a physical illustration of mathematical formulae. Each of these is used to stimulate and refine one of the ten sensory areas and each will be presented to the child to be used in an exact way to aid his development.
The sensorial materials also prepare the child for reading and writing. Some materials, like the cylinders of the geometric insets which are held by their little knobs between finger and thumb, prepare the muscles of the hand for writing, others prepare the ear for hearing fine differences in sound (to prepare for, among other things, distinguishing between letter sounds) by listening both to silence and to sounds which are presented as 'noise' with the sound boxes and as musical notes with the bells.
Sorting tablets according to subtle difference in shade and colour sharpens the child's perception of slight difference, another prerequisite for recognising letter and number shapes. If each step is taught by itself, one step at a time, the child will gradually integrate the different skills and will emerge, often seemingly effortlessly, as a competent reader and writer.
Children begin with globes and then study maps using jigsaws. They can trace and colour the shapes of each continent as well as placing them in the right place in the puzzle. They go on to name and put the shapes onto blank maps of the world and to recognise flags. Looking at countries individually they will use picture cards of mothers and babies, families and their daily lives and handle and examine artefacts from other cultures - a Japanese fan, chopsticks, a sari or an African drum.
Many schools have cultural boxes, one for each country, filled with all the exotica teachers can find to bring new places alive. The land forms teach geographical features. They are a set of models showing islands, bays, capes, peninsulas and isthmuses and lakes for children to fill with water and perhaps float a little boat or put an animal on the land. Many classrooms now have wonderful scale models of the planets and the solar system and a take-apart model of the earth, which reveals its layers and core.
Science materials give opportunities to experiment with magnets, light, air, and even build simple circuit boards to light a tiny bulb. In many areas of the cultural curriculum children use classification cards for naming, matching or identifying anything and everything from leaf shapes to different kinds of stone to different stages of a tadpole's metamorphosis into a frog. The breadth of children's knowledge of their world when they leave Montessori school can be quite astounding.
Children aren't born with an innate knowledge of why we shake hands, or kiss, or rub noses depending on our culture and in the Montessori classroom they learn appropriate greetings. As they become aware of other cultures they are encouraged to celebrate differences and value them equally.
During circle time children are shown how to move quietly and carefully around the classroom, push in chairs, wait patiently before politely gaining someone's attention and are reminded how important it is to allow others to work undisturbed. These ground rules in the classroom give every child total security. Children also learn to notice if somebody needs help and that nobody is too small to be useful.
Writing often comes before reading in a Montessori classroom with children building up their first words phonetically using cardboard letters. The reading program progresses through three dog. She takes it out, says the word, listens to the sounds in it and then seeks out the letters, which make those sounds to build the word.
Writing skills are learned by colouring intricate shapes drawn with insets, and sandpaper letters are experienced by touch as well as by sight and sound. A wide range of story and reference picture books are always available in the classroom. Levels: pink, blue and green - reading materials are colour coded for each level. Inside a small pink box a child finds a tiny toy.
Children gain a physical impression of size and quantity long before they begin to manipulate numbers by handling number rods, counting out beads, counting spindles into boxes and arranging coloured counters in patterns - odd and even numbers. Numbers are built up using glass or wooden beads and their sandpaper symbols traced with the fingers. Pie-shaped frames with inset pieces give the concrete grounding in fractions, which the child can refer back to for years to come.
Painting and drawing activities are freely available in the classrooms. The directress includes performing, dancing and singing activities during work time.
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The Magnificence of Middle Grade – why I read these books, why I write these books, and why these kids are awesome.
There are three boys under the bridge that spans the small creek at the end of my dead-end street. It is summer. They are all eight years old. It is a glorious age, eight.
“Our parents don’t know we’re here,” says one boy, not knowing that I am standing on the bridge, directly over his head.
Well, it’s happened again. A bunch of people who don’t read children’s literature with any frequency, passion or enthusiasm asked a bunch of other people who don’t think about children’s literature above the occasional passing interest, to name their “top YA novel”. These conversations always make me crabby. Because – and I must confess this bugs the spit out of me – once again we must wade through well-meaning comments demonstrating the rampant and weird conflation of YA and Middle Grade books.
There is a thing I must make clear: Middle Grade novels and Young Adult novels are not the same novels. To conflate the two is to dampen or derail the discussion. And really, what’s the point of a derailed discussion?
Listen, folks. Caddie Woodlawn is not YA. It’s Middle Grade. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is not YA. It’s Middle Grade. The Giver? Also Middle Grade. And Harry Potter (at least the first four books are MG – number five is squarely in YA territory). A Wrinkle in Time? Yup. That’s Middle Grade too.
This distinction is important because middle grade kids and teenagers are different. Their world views are different. The rules governing their lives are different. Their relationships are different. And while it is incredibly common for middle grade kids to “read up” and for teenage kids to “read down” (I know TONS of fourth graders who are huge fans of the Hunger Games trilogy, and I know TONS of teens who are huge fans of Terry Pratchett‘s The Wee Free Men, and its tie-in novels), just as it is common for lots of kids – both middle grade kids and teens – to read grown-up books and dig the hell out of them, it is important to read and understand each separate genre on its own terms. That’s what we do as readers – we categorize, evaluate, compare and understand. And then we read everything. Wildly.
It is raining. The sky is dark and dumping. Water streams in great gushes from the corners of the roofs. Fifteen kids, aged four to twelve, tear across a mud-soaked yard. The adults huddle in the closest living room, holding paper plates of pasta salads and barbecue and lemon bars in one hand and cans of beer that went warm hours ago in another.
The kids, in mid-step, pause. They stare at their parents as though they have started speaking another language. Sumerian, maybe. Or Elvish. They continue running. No adult can tell what the game is. Only that it is insanely fun.
I read a lot of books. It’s an occupational hazard. I read grownuppy novels and nonfiction and poetry. I read folk tales and fairy tales from around the world. I read science fiction and fantasy. I read YA novels. I read picture books. I read theological texts. I read foundational scriptures of religions that are not my own. And I read Middle Grade novels. Lots and lots and lots and lots of them.
I am listening to “Carmen”. It is magnificent, as usual. The nine year old in my house stops. Listens curiously.
“Did she just say, ‘egg roll’?” he says.
And then he starts dancing. All rhythmic stamping and flying fingers and bony elbows and knobby knees. Bizet would have been amazed.
What fascinates me about these kids is how easily they transport themselves between their selves now and their selves as they will be. Somewhere around third grade, the notion that the lives that they know will one day fall away – that their child selves will cease to be and their adult selves will take their places – really starts to hit home. Ask any third grader what he or she wants to be when they grow up, and they will tell you approximately nine thousand things. Firemen and scientists and astronauts and doctors and presidents and marine biologists and bush pilots and park rangers and spies and cops and professional divers and janitors and teachers and inventors and acrobats and basketball players and actresses and “just famous”. Sometimes, all at once.
This is a thing I know for sure. When a middle grade kid sits down to read a novel, their adult selves are reading, too. The adult that kid imagines him or herself to be. The adult that will, one day, pick up that same book, and read it. And when we, as adults, pick up the books that we read as kids, our kid-selves are reading with us. Across time, across space, across experience and understanding, across universes, across dimensions, across everything boundless and wondrous and strange. Which means that these books, when done well, allow for that sense of concurrency. They allow our selves as kids and our selves as adults to reflect back at one another. I see you, the child says to the adult she will be. I see you too, the adult says the the child that he was. Both narrative lines, both sets of understandings, harmonize with one another. And it is a wonderful thing.
“What do you want to be when you grow up,” the eleven year old asks her seven year old cousin. They love each other, these girls. They are linked souls.
I love the kids of this age. I love everything about them. I love their humor and their silliness. I love their capacity for wonder. I love their bravery and their fears and their litany of worries. I love their valor. I love the boundlessness of their imaginations. I love their willingness to try. I love their willingness to connect. I love them in their big-heartedness and their shriveled soulishness and that both of those things can happen simultaneously. I love their selfishness and their selflessness, and that both of those things can also happen simultaneously. I love their dreams. I love their nightmares. I love their very selves – their effable, ineffable, effa-ineffable, deep and inscrutable singular selves (apologies to Mr. Eliot).
I read Middle Grade novels. I write Middle Grade novels. I love Middle Grade novels. I spend a lot of time thinking about Middle Grade novels. I will never tell you which one was the very best of all. It is a ludicrous idea. I can tell you which books moved me. I could give you a list that is miles long. I could invite you to my house and hand you book after book, and talk each one up for hours. Because that, in the end, is what books do. They do not belong on lists – the belong in peoples’s hands. And in our hearts. And in our lives.
It is negative five degrees. Not including the wind chill factor. They are standing on a frozen hillside. Their faces are red. Their upper lips are white with frozen snot. They are balanced on their snow boards, ready to go screaming into the sky. Speed and light. Black jackets. Bright scarves. A frozen landscape. A shattering white.
But best of all, these novels give us, as grown-ups, an avenue and a tool to connect with middle grade kids – our own children, our neighbor kids, our nieces and nephews, our students, the kids we meet at the library, kids in our church, and, yes, the kids we used to be. These books lay out a blanket in the market square. They call out to all passers by – Come! the books shout Sit! Gather together! This is a story for all of you. Young people! Old people! People of middle age! Come and share and connect and laugh and weep and worry and wonder and live. When I talk to middle grade kids about the books that we have both read, we will talk about characters, and we will talk about amazing feats, and we will talk about jokes and ideas and scary parts and mind-blowing parts, but what we are actually saying is this: I see you. I feel with you. We have hearts and souls. We have compassion and grace. And look! We are so alive.
Next up: Stories Are For Everyone.
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That was brilliant, Kelly. Thank you.
I always find it interesting when people mention The Book Thief in these kinds of lists. It’s a wonderful, important, beautiful book, of course, but it’s not really YA or MG, not IMHO. It was first sold as an adult novel in Australia, and sure, it sits on teen shelves here in the US, but that doesn’t make it a YA novel. With an eleven-year-old protagonist, and an ageless narrator, I think it defies categorization. Those are the best kinds of books.
Yeah, THE BOOK THIEF is an interesting example of a book that defies typical classifications. And maybe we call it children’s literature because of its careful deference to Story, in the grand sense. My fourteen year old often says that she reads adult books for good ideas and kid books for great stories. It makes me sad if such a thing were true – I don’t particularly see it. But perhaps these books like the book thief are part of a grander tradition – in which there are great stories and great ideas AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME.
“So there was a great split that took place. Story retreated, as it were, into genre fiction-into crime fiction, into science fiction, into romantic fiction-whereas the high-art literary people went another way.
I like stories that welcome everybody.
I didn’t really appreciate the fine difference between YA and Middle Grade until our son hit middle school. He’s a voracious reader, but more “adult” novels leave him cold. Out of desperation I made a deal with him, I’d read one of his novels for every one of mine that he read. So I discovered Darren Shan’s Demonata and Cirque du Freak series, and a few other odds and ends. So far he has not finished one of mine. From what I can gather, at 12 he is not quite ready to put up with 30k words of character development to get to the action. Most of the books he’s handed me leave me bored, an occupational hazard at this point as I can no longer read a novel without deconstructing it. They are as formulaic as, well the military action adventure stuff in my “guilty pleasure” reading pile.
Then I started writing a MIddle Grade novel. Holy smokes they’re different. Your description of “wild” is spot on. It’s like getting on top of a spirited horse, and trying to go somewhere. Its also been a lot of fun.
And, as usual, your descriptions are as entertaining as they are accurate. Thank you.
I love this definition and defense of Middle Grade. Your passion is palpable. Thank you for putting it into words.
I was a voracious reader…a gal-pal and I had fun reading contests….who read the most books. It wasn’t serious. I easily ploughed through 200 books within 6 months or so. I was 14 yrs. old. Way past middle grade. She was articulating feminist stuff..which all the other girl classmates –were politely puzzled. I was fascinated and not disagreeing with her! (of course I have a mother who is very stubborn and occasionally cussed in Chinese, like a fisherman).
At middle grade, I felt powerful…a turning point as they say for girls 9-11 yrs. I was having fun biking, playing softball, doing art on my own and read tons of novels. I so remember that golden time in my life. Then it did become difficult.
It’s useful memory ..because it’s helpful to know intuitively what one is naturally gifted/good.
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The Isle of Wight is a small island situated in the English Channel whose coastline is peppered with small coves and secluded bays. One such bay can be found in Freshwater, a small village to the west of the island which became popular as a coastal resort in the 19th century. Well known Victorians such as the Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron both settled in Freshwater and may well have strolled along the promenade overlooking the bay, listening to the gentle roll of waves as heard in this contemporary recording from 2006.
Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight (unknown artist after William Daniell). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
More recordings of waves can be found in the Water collection on British Library Sounds.
Recording of the week: let it snow!
There's nothing quite like the sound of walking through freshly fallen snow. This particular recording was made in the Kentish village of Knockholt, just after midnight on the 3rd February 2009. This signalled the start of a prolonged period of heavy snowfall that was to see most of the British Isles grind to a halt, forcing schools, railway lines and even airports to close because of the treacherous conditions.
Visit British Library Sounds to listen to more recordings of weather from around the world.
On Tuesday 6th December the 2016 British Composer Awards ceremony took place at the British Film Institute in London. This annual event recognises the achievements of composers working in musical fields as diverse as jazz, choral and orchestral composition.
Though each area is fascinating in itself, our eyes were firmly fixed on the category of Sonic Art where composer and artist Claudia Molitor was nominated for her major audio work, Sonorama. Conceived as an audio companion for the train journey between London St Pancras and Margate, Molitor drew extensively on the resources of the British Library's sound archive during both the research and composition process. From cheeky music hall songs to tranquil woodland soundscapes, Molitor skillfully combined archival sound recordings with interviews, readings and original compositions to create a rich soundtrack that vividly brought to life the social history of the otherwise silent landscape experienced by passengers from the train window.
Each track related to a specific point or area along the train line and covered topics including visio-centricity, Roman history and hop-picking. The historian David Hendy helped inform the project and artists such as flautist Jan Hendrickse, poet Lemn Sissay, Saxophonist Evan Parker and writer Charlotte Higgins lent their talents to the mix.
Sonorama was an enjoyable and highly rewarding project to work on. It is a brilliant example of the creative reuse of archival sound recordings by contemporary composers and so we send a huge congratulations to Claudia for this fantastic achievement!
Visit Sonorama.org.uk for more information about the project, including information on how you can access the audio work.
Sonorama was curated and produced by Electra in partnership with Turner Contemporary and the British Library, with funding and support from Arts Council England, Southeastern Rail, Kent County Council Arts Investment Fund, Hornby, University of Kent. The Sonorama catalogue is published by Uniformbooks.
'Honk, Conk and Squacket'... anyone?
Honk Conk and Squacket. Fabulous and Forgotten Sound-words from a Vanished Age of Listening is a compilation of sound-related words by researcher and sound recordist I. M. Rawes.
I. M. Rawes, aka Ian Rawes, is a former British Library Sound Archive colleague. He worked at the Library for years while building The London Sound Survey on the side. This is a unique online sound map documenting the sounds of everyday life in London. It includes urban field recordings made by the author, archival materials, photographs, illustrations and a related blog.
Honk Conk and Squacket explores the sounds of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their surrounding socio-cultural context through what is often - notably in regard to the Victorian, pre-recording, era - the only evidence remaining: written documentation.
For this the author has investigated a myriad of sources including patents, dictionaries, glossaries and out-of-copyright period illustrations from the British Library collections.
The book works as a virtual audio nostalgia trip, laced with charm, humour and insight. On a more melancholy note, it touches on the ephemeral nature of everyday sounds and their eventual disappearance. I would recommend it as playful shared reading for the inevitable procrastination of Christmas and a must-reference volume for accurate historical sound writing.
Honk: was naval slang meaning to drink in an impressive way, echoic of the noise that eventually results. Early 20C.
Conk: is a large conch-shell of the genus Strombus, imported and then fitted with a mouth-piece. In former times it was used by fishermen as a fog-horn, producing as it did a loud and distinctive note on being blown. Late 19C. Cornwall.
Squacket: to quack as a duck; to make any disagreeable sound with the mouth. Late 19C. Surrey, Sussex and Somerset.
If you are interested in sound and would like to know more about the Library’s sound preservation programme to digitise the nation's rare and unique sound recordings check out our Save Our Sounds programme and #SaveOurSounds.
Find more about the British Library's Drama and Literature Recordings and keep up with our activities on @BL_DramaSound.
Earlier in the year the Irv Teibel Archive generously donated a complete set of the hugely influential environments LP series to the British Library. This collection of environmental field recordings, released over a 10 year period from 1969 - 1979, represents the work of Irv Teibel, the ambient and new age music pioneer whose record label Syntonic Research Inc brought the sounds of nature to a public that was becoming increasingly interested in the natural world. In this special post, Creative Director of Syntonic Research and the Irv Teibel Archive, Jonathan Een Newton, writes about the work and legacy of one of the leading figures from the environmental sound movement.
If you’ve ever drowned out your co-workers’ chatter with rainy sounds, or fallen asleep to a loop of the ocean, you owe your peace of mind, in large part, to field recordist Irv Teibel. His environments series, released on eleven albums from 1969 to 1979, helped introduce popular culture to the utility of natural sound.
Irv was born in 1938 in Buffalo, New York and studied art in New York and California before becoming a public information specialist for the US Army. While stationed in Germany in the early 1960s, he began experimenting with electronic music at a local radio station. After his service, he found his way to New York City where he photographed and designed layouts for magazines Popular Photographer and Car and Driver.
His fascination with natural sound was piqued while on a field recording trip for Tony Conrad and Beverly Grant’s film Coming Attractions. Playing back his ocean recordings the next day, Irv became excited by their potential to mask noise and positively affect mood. He soon threw his creative energy into producing a record designed to be "useful.” In late 1969, he released environments 1, which he assembled with his friend Lou Gerstman, a Bell Labs neuropsychologist.
Over the next decade, the series found surprising mainstream success and was even licensed to Atlantic Records for distribution. The thought of a major label releasing a record with just a single 30 minute track per side and without the involvement of a known artist is unimaginable today. Irv eventually released most of the series on cassette and some on CD while he experimented with other projects like video environments, and continued to run a mail order business from his house until his death in 2010.
Environments has often been lumped together with the new age music genre it helped inspire, most likely because of the way it was marketed. But talk to almost any sound artist of a certain age and they’ll tell you that these recordings were hugely influential and helped pave the way for the flood of environmental releases that proliferated in the 1980s and 90s and continues today as Spotify playlists and white noise apps. Like me, many younger listeners have picked up an environments LP in a local record store bin precisely because of the colourful quotes and distinctive Bauhaus-inspired design. But in the end, it is the meticulously constructed soundscapes, which include everything from the classic “Psychologically Ultimate Seashore” to the porto-ambient “Tintinnabulation,” that keep us loyal fans of Irv’s work.
What continues to surprise me as I've worked on this project over the past two years is environments' diverse admirers. I’ve connected with musicians working in metal (Earth), noise (Prurient), and electronic music (Matmos) who all cite Irv Teibel and the environments series as an influence. Even pop musician Henry Gross told me he used environments to help write his hit single “Shannon.” There are also pages of comments I'm still sorting through—from students and teachers to army captains and correctional officers of every age—collected via the feedback cards inserted into each record sleeve.
We’re excited to be working on a number of projects to showcase Irv's work including a recently-launched website featuring his writing, photography, and of course, recordings. We're also in the early stages of creating a mobile app to re-imagine environments for the twenty-first century.
We’re thrilled that the British Library’s exceptional sound archive now has a full set of environments. I hope you’ll take some time to listen to this seminal series of creative field recordings and discover your own favourite (mine is "Dusk in the Okefenokee Swamp"). Thanks for caring and keep in touch.
Opening this Saturday 9 July, Hidden Traces is a new sound installation by Gabriele Reuter and Mattef Kuhlmey. It takes the listener through a promenade of voices on the streets around The Place, the dance venue just off Euston Road, London.
A combination of sound choreography, urban history and oral reminiscences of childhood and everyday life in the local area, was used to create a series of short audio plays, which have been placed on listening points on and around the buildings and streets surrounding The Place.
For Gabriele Reuter, understanding city planning and the way the cities are constructed is very much related to understanding space and choreography. In this context there is no dance; here, choreography is about arranging memories in time and space.
Gabriele Reuter (on the right) with interviewee Emma Coates from Wallace Space.
Gabriele is a choreographer, dancer and urban historian. She works in Berlin and Nottingham and trained at The Place where she has presented many of her works over the past ten years. She collaborates regularly with sound designer, artist and composer Mattef Kuhlmey.
Hidden Traces has been commissioned by The Place and supported by the British Library. The sound journey has been inspired by interviews with local residents made for the project, and archival recordings from King’s Cross Voices interviews, courtesy of Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre.
Experiencing Hidden Traces is free but booking is essential through The Place box office. On collection of your ticket you will be given a map showing the different listening stations, a pair of headphones and a mp3 player. The order of the listening journey is up to each individual listener.
The project has amassed a legacy of audio interviews with local residents, plus sound pieces composed from the fieldwork materials, and a short video interview with Gabrielle talking about the connections between choreography, urban history, memories and the use of dance as a discipline to engage with communities. All the recordings will be archived and eventually made available to listen to at the British Library.
Hidden Traces runs from Sat 9 - Sat 16 July, 10am - 5pm. Please come along for a unique experience.
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After the wedding, you probably have a pile of gifts from friends, family, coworkers, and other guests. You also likely have a group of people who helped you put on the event, such as members of the bridal party, your planner, or even vendors. Of course, sending thank you cards is an important step in the process. However, you don’t have to break the bank with fancy cards and envelopes to show how grateful you are in a classy and appropriate way.
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When you’re looking at hotel and flight prices for your honeymoon, it might seem a bit overwhelming to plan an affordable and memorable trip with the love of your life. However, many vendors and retailers offer discounts, and even free stuff, for newlyweds. Take a look at some of these ways to save money on your post-wedding vacation.
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The BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs has, over its seventy-five years of broadcasting, interviewed most of Britain’s great and good, and a few others. As anyone who has listened to the programme more than a few times will know, the format doesn’t change. Guests are asked to choose eight pieces of music that they feel they could live with over the longue durée if marooned alone on a desert island. In addition they are allowed one book – in addition to the Bible and a Complete Shakespeare, which it is assumed everyone will want – and one luxury; it is taken as given that the island will afford castaways enough food to survive.
The hope is that in the spaces between playing the records the guests will be amusingly forthcoming about their lives and careers and that they will rub along well with the presenters, who have been drawn, over the years, from some of the most talented figures in British broadcasting (Roy Plomley, Michael Parkinson, Sue Lawley, Kirsty Young). Guests should of course also be aware that their choices may affect listeners’ opinions of them: one who chooses a well-rounded selection of tuneful classical pieces, preferably including a few snatches of Mozart or Vivaldi, will in all likelihood go down better than one who confines his selection to the works of the Second Viennese School. Of course some people – and perhaps artists in particular – often care very little what people think of them and there have been a few cases over the years of performers – the singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, the pianist Moura Lympany – who it seemed looked forward to decades of splendid isolation listening wholly or chiefly to their own recordings. And while the guests were, over the years, overwhelmingly persons of middlebrow (or upper middlebrow) culture one could occasionally regret not being able to see the presenter’s facial expression when asking, say, Jimmy Savile or the pop singer Gene Pitney which book they would be prepared to read and reread in addition to the Bible and Shakespeare. Pitney chose “a giant book of Mensa puzzles” (was he trying to tell us something?) and Savile “a mail order catalogue”. On another occasion a famous blues musician chose “a book with pictures of pretty women”.
Few British public figures of the twentieth century can have had more of a claim to a high place among the great and good than the art historian, writer and broadcaster Sir Kenneth Clark. Clark was a high achiever from an early age, director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford at twenty-seven and of the National Gallery three years later, and knighted at the age of thirty-five. It is remarkable then that, given his wide culture and, after the screening of the BBC2 television series Civilisation in 1969, proven broadcasting ability and massive public recognition, he never appeared on Desert Island Discs, particularly perhaps as his son Alan, the notorious Thatcherite minister, political diarist and upper-class bounder, did.
Clark’s biographer James Stourton (Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation) manages to shed some light on this strange gap in the great man’s CV. It appears that Sir Kenneth was in fact invited by Roy Plomley to appear on the programme, and in its very first months, in spring 1942. In May of that year he wrote to accept the invitation but later changed his mind on being told of a stipulation that ruled out the broadcasting on air of any words in German or Italian, an “imbecile regulation”, he observed, that ruled out most opera. Stourton suggests that, whatever may have been Clark’s faults (aloofness and even arrogance, some thought), holding a grudge was not one of them, and so, he speculates, it must have been Plomley, still presenting the programme at the time of Clark’s death more than forty years later, who decided never to forgive or forget.
believed in the inspiration that art gives to the individual soul, and that access to good art is what matters. Central to this was a socialist viewpoint and the idea that the state could, with some reservations, support the arts.
When Clark became director of the British National Gallery one of his first moves was to press for the abolition of all entrance fees (this eventually happened during the war). He pioneered evening openings, which were advertised on the Tube, cut the length of public lectures from two hours to one and arranged for the publication of a series of “hand guides”, which were less unwieldy and intimidating than formal catalogues.
On April 30th, 1938 over 93,000 people attended the FA Cup Final at Wembley, most of them having travelled down from Lancashire and Yorkshire to support the two contestants, Preston North End (featuring a twenty-four-year-old Bill Shankly) and Huddersfield Town. Not many of those involved in running art galleries at the time (or indeed since) thought of football supporters as likely to be interested in what they had to offer. But Clark decided he would open the gallery early – at 8am –on the day of the match to give the fans the opportunity of looking at some paintings instead of just wandering around the streets. A later director, Neil MacGregor, has called this “a dazzling populist touch”, which it may well have been but it was also something more: whatever the number of actual football fans who visited the gallery on that day its director had sent out a well-publicised message that they, and people like them, were in future to be considered welcome there.
With the outbreak of war, Clark went to work for the film division of the ministry of information, despite having no experience of the sector. In this period of military defeat, confusion and fear, civilian morale was the great worry. Clark was involved in drafting material to be issued in the event of a German invasion. He was also concerned to counter German propaganda that while the pain of the war was being felt by British workers, it was being fought in the interests of safeguarding the interests of the wealthy. Clark and his political friends and allies felt it necessary to stress that the war could be won, was worth winning and that after victory things must and would be different. In 1940 he spoke to Edward Hulton, the owner of the popular magazine Picture Post, about the desirability of sketching out perspectives for postwar reform and reconstruction in some detail. This led, in January 1941, to a special number on “The Britain We Hope to Build When the War is Over”, with sections on planning, education, culture and recreation and a universal health service.
Clark believed that art and culture were central to the very values that Britain was fighting to defend, and that they should therefore be marshalled to articulate those values. In short, he wanted art not only to raise morale, but to show the public what they were fighting for. As Michael Levey observed, it was through the war that ‘Clark’s eyes were opened to the power of art, in its widest sense, over supposedly ordinary people’.
And thus the gallery came to host a picture of the month feature, when one of the more exceptional pictures from the Welsh underground hoard would come back to London and go temporarily on display. The National also showed the work of the official and temporary “war artists”, a group Clark had been active in recruiting, and ran special exhibitions, a total of thirty-four during the war years. The highlight, however, at least in terms of impact on the public, was the series of daily lunchtime concerts which the gallery hosted throughout the war and beyond (almost 2,000 in all). The concerts were the brainchild of the pianist Myra Hess, who performed at 150 of them herself.
Clark, however, also surely knew that “what we are fighting for”, or at least what he was fighting for, was encapsulated in the programmes of the wartime concerts at the National Gallery, in particular the stubborn conviction that culture does not observe national boundaries and that even if some now appeared to be intoxicated by the delirium of blood, soil and nation, Italian art and architecture or German music were the patrimony of the civilised in all nations. No wonder he didn’t take kindly to the small-minded restrictions of Desert Island Discs.
Our hope lies in an expanding élite, an élite drawn from every class and with varying degrees of education but united in a belief that non-material values can be discovered in visible things ... I believe that the majority of people really long to discover that moment of pure disinterested, non-material satisfaction which causes them to ejaculate the word “beautiful”; and since this experience can be obtained more reliably through art than any other means, I believe that those of us who try to make works of art more accessible are not wasting our time.
The painting reproduced is Eric Ravilious's Newt Pond. James Stourton’s Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation, was published in paperback in September 2017 by William Collins at £10.99.
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2019-04-25T20:51:23Z
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http://www.drb.ie/blog/writers-and-artists/2017/11/22/art-for-all
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MUCH sooner than I was lead to believe... And judging from the patch we got yesterday, WAY too soon.
There is still only one game mode, 3 maps and 18 ish mechs.
Right now there is some oddball error with the server, that after apx 5 minutes of play, it starts to LAG badly. Eventually freezing your mech in position untill you disconnect from the match. This happen is about 40% of the matches.
Something to do with the Crytek Upgrade.
We have decided to push Open Beta back. We agree that the game's current state of stability is not allowing us to get the latest experience across to new and veteran players alike. This is a short push back on the date and will depend on the stability and playability of the build.
The instability (lag to completely dead FPS) has been identified and we will put out a fix tonight. We also want to make sure this fix works on the Live game servers so you will get a new patch very soon.
The developers at PGI are all veteran game players. Many of us were or still are competitive gamers and truly know the feeling of a great match played between two equally matched teams.
Reduce the maximum # of players in a group to 4. This means when players form a group, they will only be able to add 3 people. When that group launches, they will be put in a bucket. The match maker will then fill the rest of the 8 player team with 4 PUGs or any partial groups that are looking for a match at that moment. The same will happen for the other team. Matches will still be 8v8 but instead of playing against 8 people in an organized premade, you will see a max of 4.
Now before you light your pitchforks, we know that this does not address all the issues and that 8-player groups are the mainstay of community and organized team-play. This is why we move to Phase 2 VERY soon after Phase 1.
Players will be able to convert their 4-player group to an 8-player group similarly to how World of Warcraft’s group to raid conversion works. With a click of a button, a group leader can convert a 4-player group to 8-players and invite 4 more players to the group. There is a limitation to this however. If the group leader decides to convert to an 8-player group, they MUST have 8 players in order to launch. (i.e. you cannot launch a game with 5,6 or 7 players). In addition to that, your 8-player group will be matched to another 8-player group ONLY. This does reduce the change of finding a match quickly but at the same time 8-players teams will finally be matched to other 8-player teams exclusively.
At some future date we will also want to include the ability to challenge a specific 8-player team to a match in a competitive/eSport manner. But as stated, this will be coming at a later date.
We have been examining the various ranking systems in other games/structured tournament play etc. This includes ELO, TrueSkill and others. Our current plan is to use a hybrid system that uses the mentality of ELO with a weighting system that we’ve determined that drives down to player effectiveness/skill in a match. In order for this to work properly, we will need to do heavy pre-release testing before it goes live to the community and hence the amount of time to get it implemented.
We currently cannot go into detail as to how this system will work because we are not going to over-promise something that may change during implementation. We will try to keep you as up to date on this as possible.
No patch yesterday, so the open beta will be pushed back at least a week it appears.
-I am also betting on some kind of minor nerf to gauss, such as increased recycle time.
-Hoping for a minor decrease in LRM damage, currently at 2 per missle and a little over powered.
I can see how taking a PPC hit would add some fuzz to your targeting systems. That could be some nice flavor.
I thought LRMs had greater range because they carried a smaller warhead and more fuel. SRM 20 with double+ the range is wrong on so many levels.
GR is a superior weapon in so many ways: headcapper, long range, and low heat.
It's only real drawbacks are it's weight and use of ammo. I can see where a longer recycle could help with balance.
In Invasion, even I won't drive a Flea. I hope they have some use in MWO. With some balance, it could be fun.
An established team of Locust/Fleas taking on a pick-up team of Heavy/Assaults could really show the advantage of communication over "big toys". I'd like to see that fight.
I am resurrecting a term that we used to describe max engine lights in MW4... Lag Armor. When moving max speed you can see the hit to them on your screen, but they don't show to take damage. They have literally moved beyond the point where they are drawn on the screen.
I added a pair of med lasers to the build, specifically to "lag lead" the Jenners and Ravens, so I could find out EXACTLY how far forward I had to aim to actually register damage to them, then I can tap them with the pair of gauss and really ruin their day.
3 extra heat sinks, engine comes with 8 for a total of 11. Allows 4 shots of med laser on most maps before having to cool.
I have been practicing head shots, I have the exact hit locations down for Awesome, Catapult (these are easy out to 750 meters) Dragon, Centurion, and Hunchback, (smaller hitbox, 80% at 400 meters) The Atlas is a pain, it's hitbox is half of the left eye, I generally don't even try I just side torso them. The lights... I just pray to register the damage.
Tuesdays patch has been delayed yet again, supposedly due sometime today... I'll let you all know when and if it arrives.
With the current mechanics, one jump jet moves you as far as 100 would. No real aiming required, just get a lock, either by LOS or via spotter, be within 1000 meters of target and let em fly. I have only used all the ammo once, and you can fire for two minutes solid before heating.
The only drawback is LRM's have a 180 meter minimum range, so anything that gets closer than that can rip you apart without fear.
This chassis is also the one used for the most cheeseball build currently used in game, the 6 streak 2 cat. Same process of missile lock before firing them, but if you chain fire them, the resulting shake from the impact renders the target unable to target anyone for return fire. It takes a while to kill someone with it, but it is enough to totally disrupt them, and make them useless on the field.
I don't have a build for one, it's too cheesy, even for me.
Ok, the patch is in. As are DHS, Endo steel and Ferro Fiber armor.
With this patch we lost all mechs in inventory, but were refunded all XP (both Mech specific and General) as well as 75% of all C-bills earned since last wipe. So, I had a stockpile of 65 million waiting.
Collisions and falling temporarily removed, was not working as intended.
Phase one of matchmaking added, no more 8 man premade team drops, now limited to 4 man only.
They reconfigured the mech lab with tabs, switching between tabs causes you to pay for any changes at that time, so switching things around can get very expensive if you don't pay attention.
The Advanced zoom module is extremely low quality, very pixelated image and almost unusable. It also drops your standard zoom to 0 when closing it.
Double Heat Sinks have been reported to have an issue (have not tried them myself yet) where the engine retains single heat sinks when swapping over.
Much better, the "Lag Armor" of the lights is vastly reduced, I am back to legging Jenners at 500 meter range, however the lack of falling and collisions make them more firece up close. They can now run through your legs and constantly chew at rear armor.
It seems more stable over all, with no loss of performance.
One of the biggest complaints now is the cost of repair and rearm, with all the expensive tech, even a win can cause you to run at a loss, with ammo, XL's and Endo/FF.
Monday Oct. 29th - New Mechs, New Toys, Open Beta!
We wanted to give you an update on how everything is going, and to thank you for being here with us!
Firstly: Open Beta is on schedule and will be beginning quite soon (12 noon PDT, Monday!) This means we’re very close to getting the final phases of the main beta features coming in. On that as well, Open Beta is our final reset. Once it happens, we will not be resetting everything again. We will be resetting C-Bills, MC, XP, GXP, Mechs, and inventory. The only thing you’ll keep is your friends list. However, if you have a Founders pack, everything will be added from that pack. Also anything you’ve purchased (with MC) will be added back.
The limit on 8-man premades hasn't gone through. We were running 8-man teams all last night with no issues.
I'll try loading it after work on Monday.
We'll have to see how well it runs on this machine.
I could barely handle XCOM. I hope MWO will run better.
I took the test Awesome out 12 times or so, and I've done 48 combined damage OVERALL.
Apparently I can't even find the enemy to shoot at them. When I do find them, I die before I can return any kind of fire.
I'll try MWT, but this hasn't been any fun for me at all.
I have done a little better than that although it took me until my fifth match before I got my first kill (things improved once I doscovered the "r" key).I have been having some problem with my joystick so atm I am mouse limited which I am not enjoying much/ Done about 12 matches now and am approaching the 1 million C-Bill mark. Am I better getting a mech I can customise early or am I better off waiting for a better chassis? and if so what would you recommend as the first chassis to go for?
I am feeling a little Ping crippled here in Oz though - Im normally at something around the 250 ms mark.
Use MC to buy the Yen Lo Wang. Gives you a 30% C-bill increase. Follow your team, shoot what they shoot. Play with an organized group. Pugs are all sorts of terrible.
Also, I may try MWO here soon. Does anyone know what the basic/recommended requirements are? I would hate to download the MWO game and just see the game stall since my system is too slow.
I'm not sure the people joining Open Beta have MC Fei? But, yeah a lot of the people you are facing are in Lances with other experienced players or the like, so don't get too discouraged.
The trial mechs currently available S U C K.
I have been using the Centurion 9AL. I find myself an assault and shadow him. The Awesome has too little LRM ammo, and too few heat sinks to be viable, and the Dragon just doesn't seem much better.
As to Bob's question, you are better off getting a mech of your own, as you can't earn any XP in trial mechs. XP is used to unlock efficiencies on specific chassis and general XP unlocks modules. I would suggest a Jenner with your ping, you would be damn near unstoppable. Save enough for a large XL engine, with the current net code and >200 ping you will be able to circle strafe assaults to rubble.
I will grind my way up to a Hunchback, then use it to grind for my Atlas. I miss my Atlas.
Henry, the controls are not all that intuitive, and learning how to target enemies, and getting the hang of the dual reticule also takes time. The reticule has a small circle inside the cross-hair, the circle is all arm mounted weapons, the cross-hair torso mounted. Arm mounted weapons can be used above, below and farther in side arc than your torso weapons will travel. It takes a bit to get comfortable with it, if the circle is dragged beyond the torso cross-hair you will see a line drawn back to the center, firing any torso mounted weapons will not hit the target under the circle.
Use the R key to target enemy mechs, this will cycle through all detected targets (those in your LOS and those that are being targeted by team mates) The red triangle above the enemy mech is hollow if no one has it as an active target, it's filled in if you or a team mate has it targeted.
LRM's and Streak SRM will only track to targets you have selected and "locked" this is indicated by a large red reticule. (Streaks will ONLY fire with a lock, LRM's will dumbfire to the reticule location without lock) To lock on a mech, select the target with the R key, and hold reticule over target for apx 3 seconds. (You will see yellow concentric circles while you are locking them in) If you loose the lock while missiles are in flight, they will track to it's last known position. If you regain lock while missiles are in flight they will attempt to re-track.
LRM's have a 180 meter minimum range, they do not arm under that, and will harmlessly bounce off the target under 180 meters. They also have a max range of 1000 meters and explode upon reaching max range.
ALL missiles have splash damage, so firing LRM's into a group of enemies does damage to those around the target, firing SRM's into the ground under a mech does leg damage to it.
AC's have a bit of a lag between when you pull the trigger and when they actually fire, they also have travel time, so you will need to lead targets.
Lasers are not hit scan weapons, you must hold them on target to deal max damage. When firing lasers you can literally draw lines in them and spread damage. This can be good or bad, by spreading out damage it will take longer to kill them, but if you see a weak side torso, you can drag the lasers to it and hope to take it off.
To group your weapons, use the arrow keys to select individual weapons (up and down) left and right to select the number group. Use the right control key to select or deselect the group. weapons will fire from number keys as well so if you have a 3 button mouse but want small lasers in group 4, Hit number 4 to fire them. The highlighted vertical bar is mouse button one, so move that back to position one.
Backslash is the Alpha Fire key... Not much use since heat is always an issue.
The Z key has a two stage zoom, use it to get a clearer picture of your target for lasers and AC/Gauss.
N is night vision, and H is thermal. Thermal is VERY useful.
I wouldn't be so discouraged if I were able to fight semi-effectively.
So far, I haven't been able to hit anything, much less get any kills of my own.
That's what has me discouraged.
Win or lose, at the end of the fight, I'm the only one still showing 0 damage done.
Last night (and probably for the next week I assume) there were TONS of premade teams running. They will always stomp the regular pick up gamers.
Again, the trial mechs blow chunks. Not much you can do about it, and it will take at east 20 wins to afford the basic Commando... A lot more to get into a decent mech, then have to grind more to customize it.
All the while, you will be up against Founders, with better equipment, teams with better equipment and comms, with preset roles and standard battle plans.
You will have to learn to do a lot of building/rock hugging, especially when people start getting the $$ for missile boats.
If I could damage someone before dying, I wouldn't feel so bad.
Getting beat by someone with better gear isn't so bad, but I want to at least ding their paint before I fall.
Maybe if I joined a team, where I could follow directions and do SOMETHING useful, that might help, too. I think I'm still running into walls and getting stuck in places where I then get shot.
Turn-based, I'm pretty good. Real-time, not so much.
I've used the onboard mic and speakers in my laptop for voice in LotRO. Does it work similarly for MWO, or does it take different gear?
1. It auto-allocates crits for structure/endo et al. Is it possible to re-distribute these. If there is I can't find it.
2. Is it possible to sell excess components?
BTW I am now using a Catapault A1. Removed the JJ and reduced to 13 HS. I have additional ammo and 4x SSRM2. I am now broke so a long grind to getting an XL engine for it.
Also a quick question of MWO good manners. Is it rude to DC if you get blown out of your cockpit in the opening moments (as A CPTL pilot I seem to attract attention ). If you do bail do you still get your cash?
Actually reduced the ammo - now only got 1 ton off SSRM2 for the 4 launchers and went back to the default for the LRMS - I think having an AMS is more important.
Bob_CK wrote: A couple of quick questions.
1) kinda... If you want to add somthing to a side torso, just add it, any endo/ferro in white will be moved to another empty slot.
2)yes, on the RHS you see the list of available parts, if you own one there will be a drop down arrow on it, click this then it will show how many you own, click one and at bottom center will be a sell button.
Manners, you are totally fine disconnecting after a death. Not before.
The A1 with 6 SSRM2 is nasty, and total cheeseball. If you chain fire them, the shake it gives to the target is enough to keep them from firing.
There is still a bug with JJ, if you have one, you can jump full distance, anything more is unneeded as it will not increase jump distance. My A1 had 11 tons LRM ammo (1980 rounds) and 6 LRM 5 with DHS and an engine to move it at 71 kph. It was cheesy, but a mass killer.
Henry wrote: If I could damage someone before dying, I wouldn't feel so bad.
The game has a voice component, C3. It can be enabled in options but you need to download it seperatly to get it to run with the game.
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2019-04-21T22:46:48Z
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http://capcon.forumotion.net/t936-mwo-open-beta-announced
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Author contributions: Liu XH, Yang YW and Dai HT contributed equally to this work; Ye ZQ designed research; Liu XH and Yang YW performed research; Dai HT and Cai SW contributed new reagents or analytical tools; Chen RH analyzed data; Liu XH and Yang YW wrote the paper.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Institutional animal care and use committee statement: All procedures involving animals were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. The animal protocol was designed to minimize pain or discomfort to the animals.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declared no conflicts of interest in this study.
AIM: To determine the potential protective role of adiponectin in intestinal ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury.
METHODS: A rat model of intestinal I/R injury was established. The serum level of adiponectin in rats with intestinal I/R injury was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The serum levels of interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α were also measured by ELISA. Apoptosis of intestinal cells was detected using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling assay. The production of malondialdehyde (MDA) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) and villous injury scores were also measured.
RESULTS: Adiponectin was downregulated in the serum of rats with intestinal I/R injury compared with sham rats. No significant changes in the expression of adiponectin receptor 1 and adiponectin receptor 2 were found between sham and I/R rats. Pre-treatment with recombinant adiponectin attenuated intestinal I/R injury. The production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α, in rats with intestinal I/R injury was reduced by adiponectin pre-treatment. The production of MDA was inhibited, and the release of SOD was restored by adiponectin pre-treatment in rats with intestinal I/R injury. Adiponectin pre-treatment also inhibited cell apoptosis in these rats. Treatment with the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling pathway inhibitor, compound C, or the heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) inhibitor, Snpp, attenuated the protective effects of adiponectin against intestinal I/R injury.
CONCLUSION: Adiponectin exhibits protective effects against intestinal I/R injury, which may involve the AMPK/HO-1 pathway.
Core tip: Serum adiponectin was downregulated in the rat model of intestinal ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury, and adiponectin pre-treatment attenuated intestinal I/R injury in rats. While the underlying mechanism of adiponectin-induced protection against intestinal I/R injury is not fully understood, the results of the present study suggest that the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)/heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) signaling pathway may be involved in this process. Therefore, adiponectin and components of the AMPK/HO-1 signaling pathway may be promising targets in the treatment of intestinal I/R injury.
Intestinal ischemia reperfusion injury (I/R), a critical complication in patients with trauma and after liver and intestinal transplantation, is associated with high morbidity and mortality[1-3]. Interruption of the blood supply may cause tissue damage. However, restoration of blood flow does not relieve tissue damage but leads to additional injury. Previous studies have shown that oxidative stress, the inflammatory response, and cell apoptosis are involved in I/R injury, which leads to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) and acute respiratory distress syndrome[5-9]. Extensive research has been conducted to develop effective treatments for I/R injury that regulate oxidative stress and the inflammatory reaction.
Adiponectin, also referred to as gelatin-binding protein-28 (GBP28), ACRP30, AdipoQ, or apM1, is a hormone secreted mainly by adipocytes. As a serum protein similar to C1q, adiponectin is exclusively produced in adipocytes. Adiponectin exerts its function primarily via two membrane receptors, adiponectin receptor-1 and -2 (AdipoR1/2), which interact with AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR). In addition, previous studies have reported that adiponectin exhibited anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptosis effects and regulated the metabolism of glucose and lipid[11-13]. Interestingly, a number of studies have also reported the role of adiponectin in protection against I/R injury in myocardial, cerebral, liver, and renal tissues[14-17]. However, the effects of adiponectin in intestinal I/R have not been confirmed. The present study aimed to investigate the potential role of adiponectin in protecting against intestinal I/R injury based on a rat model of I/R injury.
Rat adiponectin was cloned into the pET30 vector (Novagen, Darmstadt, Germany) as described previously. The DNA constructs were then transfected into competent Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) (Takara, Shiga, Japan). Isopropyl-1-thio-b-D-galactopyranoside was used to induce the expression of His-tagged adiponectin at 37 °C. Recombinant His-tagged fusion protein was isolated from the cytoplasm and purified using a His Bind resin column (Novagen).
All animal experiments were approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. Female Wistar rats were randomly grouped and underwent surgery to induce intestinal I/R injury. There were five rats in each group weighing 180-230 g. The rats were deprived of food and received only water 12 h prior to laparotomy. The rats were anesthetized by intraperitoneal injection of ketamine (50 mg/kg) and xylazine (5 mg/kg). A midline laparotomy was performed, as previously described, before equilibration for 30 min. The superior mesenteric artery was identified and isolated, and an atraumatic microvascular clamp (Roboz Surgical Instruments, Rockville, MD, United States) delivering 85 g of pressure was used to block blood flow in the mesenteric artery in rats in the intestinal I/R injury group. Intestinal ischemia was identified by the pale color of the intestine. After intestinal ischemia for 45 min, the clamp was removed to allow reperfusion for different time periods. When the color of the intestine returned to pink, the intestine was assumed to be reperfused. At the end of reperfusion, an approximately 10 cm segment of the small intestine 10 cm from the appendix was harvested for follow-up experiments. As a control, the sham group (sham) was subjected to the same surgical intervention but without superior mesenteric artery occlusion. The body temperature of the animals was maintained throughout the surgical procedure using a water-circulating heating pad.
Rats in the adiponectin pre-treatment group (IR + adiponectin) received a tail vein injection of recombinant adiponectin at different concentrations (0.25, 0.5, or 1 mg/kg) 30 min before the establishment of intestinal I/R, as mentioned above.
To determine the possible pathway involved in the protective effects of adiponectin, the IR + adiponectin (1 mg/kg) group received an intraperitoneal injection of 20 mg/kg compound C (Millipore, Cambridge, MA, United States) or 50 μmol/kg Snpp (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, United States).
Serum adiponectin level in rats was determined using a rat enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (R&D Corp., Minneapolis, MN, United States) according to the protocol described previously. Sections of the small intestine were homogenized and the supernatant was collected by centrifugation to measure the levels of cytokines, including interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, in intestine tissues. The levels of IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α in intestine tissues were determined using a commercial ELISA kit (USCN, Wuhan, China).
Small intestine tissues were homogenized in 1.5% cold KCl solution at a ratio of 1:10 (weight:volume). The lipid peroxide level in the supernatant was measured according to the method described previously. Absorbance of the reaction was measured at 532 nm (Shimadzu UV-1700, Kyoto, Japan). The lipid peroxide level was expressed as nmol of malondialdehyde (MDA) per mg of tissue protein. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was evaluated using a commercially available kit (Cayman Chemical, Ann Arbor, MI, United States) according to the protocol described in a previous report. SOD activity was expressed as unit (U) per mg protein. One U of SOD activity was defined as the amount of enzyme needed to inhibit 50% dismutation of the superoxide radical.
The small intestine tissues were homogenized and lysed in radio immunoprecipitation assay buffer [50 mmol/L Tris·HCl, pH 7.4, 150 mmol/L NaCl, 1% NP-40, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, and 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)] incorporated with phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (Forevergen, Guangzhou, China). Isolated total proteins were separated by 10% SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and transferred to polyvinylidene fluoride membranes. The membranes were then incubated with primary antibodies and then horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies (Santa Cruz, Dallas, TX, United States). Bands were visualized using an enhanced chemiluminescence kit (Pierce, Rockford, IL, United States). The following antibodies were used in Western blot analysis: anti-caspase 3, anti-AMPK, anti-pAMPK, anti-heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1), anti-GAPDH antibodies (Cell Signaling, Beverley, MA, United States), anti-Adipo 1 (Abcam Inc., Cambridge, United Kingdom) and anti-Adipo 2 (Abcam Inc.).
Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL)-positive cells in the sections of jejunum which had undergone ischemia for 45 min and reperfusion for 3 h were detected by TUNEL assay using a Cell Death Detection kit (Roche Applied Science) according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Intestinal mucosal lesions were graded as described previously. Briefly, grade 0 was defined as normal mucosal villi. Grade 1 was defined as the development of subepithelial Gruenhagen’s space, usually at the apex of the villous, often with capillary congestion. Grade 2 was described as extension of the subepithelial space with moderate lifting of the epithelial layer from the lamina propria. Grade 3 was defined as massive epithelial lifting with a few denuded villi. Grade 4 was defined as denuded villi with exposed dilated capillaries, and Grade 5 was defined as digestion and disintegration of the lamina propria, hemorrhage, and ulceration.
The data obtained from independent experiments were expressed as mean ± SD. Differences among groups were analyzed by analysis of variance followed by the least significant difference method to determine statistical significance. A P value < 0.05 was defined as statistically significant.
The serum levels of adiponectin in rats in the sham group and the intestinal I/R group were determined and compared by ELISA. A gradual decrease over time (1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 h after reperfusion) was observed in the serum level of adiponectin in the I/R rats compared with that in the sham group (Figure 1A). The lowest level of serum adiponectin was detected 3 h after reperfusion. At 12 h after reperfusion, the serum adiponectin level partially recovered. No significant decrease in the expression of AdipoR1 and AdipoR2 was detected in the intestinal tissues of rats with intestinal I/R based on western blot analysis (Figure 1B). The evaluation of intestinal mucosal lesions showed significantly increased villous injury scores in rats with I/R injury (1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 h after reperfusion) compared with that in the sham group (Figure 1C and D).
Figure 1 Adiponectin levels in rats in the sham and ischemia reperfusion injury groups. A: ELISA was used to determine the adiponectin serum levels in the sham and ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury rats. Data are presented as mean ± SD obtained from five independent experiments; B: Western blot analysis of the expression of adiponectin receptor 1 and adiponectin receptor 2 in the small intestine of rats with I/R injury; C: Hematoxylin-eosin staining of the small intestine at different time points after I/R injury; D: Villous injury scores of C. Necrosis was the major damage after intestinal I/R. N: Colon tissue in normal control rat. aP < 0.05 vs sham.
To investigate the effects of adiponectin on the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, the rats were pre-treated with recombinant adiponectin 30 min before laparotomy. The rats were randomly divided into three subgroups, which were pre-treated with adiponectin at different concentrations (0.25, 0.5, and 1 mg/kg). Sham and I/R rats were used as controls. To assess the inflammatory response to I/R injury, the serum levels of IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α were measured by ELISA. As shown in Figure 2A, the serum levels of IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α in the rats with I/R injury were significantly higher than those in the sham group. In addition, pre-treatment with recombinant adiponectin significantly reduced the serum levels of IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α in a dose-dependent manner.
Figure 2 Adiponectin attenuated ischemia reperfusion injury in rats. A: The expression levels of IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α, MDA, and SOD, and the villous damage score. The data are expressed as mean ± SD obtained from five independent experiments; B: TUNEL/Hoechst staining was performed to assess the effects of adiponectin treatment on cell apoptosis. Nuclei were stained with Hoechst (blue staining). Apoptotic nuclei were identified by TUNEL staining (green). aP < 0.05 vs sham, bP < 0.05 vs IR, cP < 0.05 vs 0.25 mg/kg group, dP < 0.05 vs 0.5 mg/kg group. SOD: Superoxide dismutase; MDA: Malondialdehyde.
Consistent with the ELISA results, the level of MDA and villous injury scores in the I/R injury group were significantly higher than those in the sham group. Pre-treatment with recombinant adiponectin partially restored the level of MDA and villous injury scores. In addition, the SOD level was reduced in the I/R injury group and showed a decrease in the group pre-treated with adiponectin.
TUNEL staining was performed to investigate the effects of adiponectin on apoptosis in intestinal tissues undergoing I/R injury. As shown in Figure 2B, marked cell apoptosis was observed in intestinal tissues in the I/R injury group, but almost no apoptosis was found in the sham group. In addition, intestinal cell apoptosis in the I/R injury group was reduced by pre-treatment with adiponectin. The rats that received pre-treatment with recombinant adiponectin followed by intestinal I/R injury showed a statistically significant decrease in TUNEL-positive cells in intestinal tissues compared to rats with intestinal I/R injury without pre-treatment with recombinant adiponectin. The protective effect of adiponectin against apoptosis of intestinal cells in rats with intestinal I/R injury was dose-dependent (Figure 2B). Taken together, these results suggest that adiponectin was protective against intestinal I/R injury by inhibiting the apoptosis of intestinal cells and the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
AMPK, AKT, and signal transducer and activator of transcription-3 have been reported to be associated with adiponectin-mediated effects[23,24]. To determine the potential underlying mechanism responsible for the reduction in intestinal I/R injury, the expression levels of AMP, p-AMPK, and HO-1 were determined by western blot. As shown in Figure 3A, no significant difference in phosphorylated AMPK (p-AMPK) expression was observed between the sham and I/R groups. However, following adiponectin pre-treatment, AMPK was active and the level of p-AMPK was increased. No significant change in total AMPK level was found among the groups. Furthermore, the increased level of p-AMPK was partially abrogated by compound C, an AMPK inhibitor. Similar results were also found for the expression of HO-1, which was suggested to be activated by adiponectin in renal I/R injury. Rats administered adiponectin following I/R injury showed a higher level of HO-1 than the I/R group (Figure 3A), which was partially reversed in the compound C treatment group, indicating that the protective role of adiponectin in I/R may be via the AMPK/HO-1 pathway.
Figure 3 AMPK inhibition attenuated ischemia reperfusion injury. A: Western blot analysis of the expression of p-AMPK and HO-1; B: Western blot analysis of the expression of cleaved caspase 3; C: The serum levels of IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α, MDA, and SOD and the villus damage score. Compound C: AMPK signaling pathway inhibitor; Snpp, HO-1 inhibitor. Adipo: Adiponectin; Compo. C: Compound C; The data are expressed as mean ± SD obtained from 5 independent experiments. aP < 0.05 vs sham, bP < 0.05 vs IR, cP < 0.05 vs IR + adiponectin. I/R: Ischemia reperfusion; HO-1: Heme oxygenase 1; SOD: Superoxide dismutase; MDA: Malondialdehyde.
In addition, to confirm that the anti-apoptotic role of adiponectin is associated with the AMPK signaling pathway, the expression of cleaved caspase 3 was determined. As shown in Figure 3B, significant upregulation of cleaved caspase-3 was observed in the I/R rats compared with the sham rats. The upregulation induced by I/R was diminished by pre-treatment with adiponectin, compound C, and the HO-1 inhibitor (Snpp). Among these groups, the adiponectin group showed the lowest cleaved caspase 3 level.
Finally, as shown in Figure 3C, adiponectin-mediated I/R injury protection was partially abolished by compound C and Snpp. Increased levels of IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α, increased production of MDA and SOD, and a higher villous injury score were seen in the IR + adiponectin + compound C and IR + adiponectin + Snpp groups compared with the IR + adiponectin group. These findings confirmed the involvement of the AMPK/HO-1 pathway in the protective role of adiponectin in intestinal I/R injury.
Previous studies have demonstrated that adiponectin plays an important role in preventing I/R injury[14-17]. However, whether adiponectin functions in the prevention of intestinal I/R injury is unknown. In the present study, we provide evidence that adiponectin is protective against intestinal I/R injury in rats.
IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α are important pro-inflammatory cytokines and are regarded as molecular markers of inflammatory responses in human cells. In the present study, increased serum levels of IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α were observed in rats with intestinal I/R injury. Interestingly, adiponectin reduced the serum levels of IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α in rats with I/R injury, indicating that adiponectin has anti-inflammatory effects in intestinal I/R injury.
The production of free radicals and oxidants are dramatically increased during ischemia and reperfusion[7,9,27]. Increased levels of oxidative stress markers such as MDA (an indicator of lipid peroxidation and free radical-induced cellular damage) were observed in I/R injury, accompanied by reduced scavenging ability against oxidative injury, such as low activity of SOD[3,8]. Consistent with previous studies, increased MDA production and reduced activity of SOD were observed in the rat model of intestinal I/R injury. Reduced MDA and increased SOD levels were found in rats with I/R injury that received pre-treatment with adiponectin. These results suggest that adiponectin pre-treatment inhibited oxidant generation, maintaining a higher level of antioxidant activity in rats with I/R injury than in rats without adiponectin pre-treatment.
Intestinal villi have been reported to be susceptible to I/R injury and are involved in cellular necrosis. In the present study, we found that adiponectin pre-treatment attenuated villi damage in the rat model of I/R injury, indicating the therapeutic application of adiponectin in intestinal I/R injury. However, the underlying mechanisms should be investigated further.
AMPK plays an important role in mediating the production of adenosine triphosphate and fatty acid oxidation. In addition, it has been reported that adiponectin activated AMPK signaling in cat cardiomyocytes in vitro and protected against heart I/R injury in mice via an AMPK-dependent pathway. Based on previous studies, we hypothesized that adiponectin may also protect against intestinal I/R injury through the AMPK signaling pathway. In the present study, an increased level of phosphorylated AMPK was detected in rats with I/R injury that received adiponectin pre-treatment compared to the sham group, which supports our hypothesis.
HO-1, also known as heat shock protein 32, is a stress inducible protein involved in the protection against cellular injury. Previous studies have shown that adiponectin upregulated HO-1 expression and exerted beneficial effects in the protection of renal I/R injury[25,31]. It has also been reported that increased HO-1 expression by adiponectin played an anti-apoptotic role in iron-induced liver injury. The present study showed that the expression of HO-1 was increased in rats with intestinal I/R injury and adiponectin pre-treatment. These results support the involvement of HO-1 in cellular injury protection. In addition, a previous study suggested that the anti-apoptotic effect of AMPK mediated by HO-1 may provide an important adaptive response to preserve endothelial cell viability during metabolic stress. Here, we found that the expression of p-AMPK and HO-1 was inhibited by compound C, suggesting that the AMPK-HO-1 signaling pathway was involved in the protective effects of adiponectin against intestinal I/R injury.
AdipoR is involved in various biological effects of adiponectin, and is closely related to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In different tissues, the expression levels and the regulating factors of AdipoR are different. Adiponectin receptor expression is elevated in colorectal carcinoma but not in gastrointestinal stromal tumors. The expression of placental adiponectin is increased during pregnancy in the rat, while Adipo R2 shows the opposite pattern. In this study, protein levels of Adipo R1 and Adipo R2 in the I/R and I/R + adiponectin groups did not change significantly, while p-AMPK and HO-1 increased in the I/R + adiponectin group compared to the I/R group which are consistent with the results of Chen et al and Cheng et al. However, it is unclear whether it is Adipo R1, AdipoR 2, or their combination that have an effect on the protein level of p-AMPK and HO-1. Perhaps the function of AdipoR is not dependent on the protein level in intestinal I/R injury. In the future, we intend to conduct experiments to understand further this mechanism.
In summary, we showed that serum adiponectin was downregulated in the rat model of intestinal I/R injury, and adiponectin pre-treatment attenuated intestinal I/R injury in rats. While the underlying mechanism of adiponectin in protection against intestinal I/R injury is not fully understood, the present results suggest that the AMPK/HO-1 signaling pathway may be involved in this process. Therefore, adiponectin and components of the AMPK/HO-1 signaling pathway may be promising targets in the treatment of intestinal I/R injury.
It has been reported that adiponectin protects against ischemia reperfusion (I/R) injury in several tissues. This study aimed to determine the potential protective role of adiponectin in intestinal I/R injury.
Previous studies have shown that oxidative stress, the inflammatory response, and cell apoptosis are involved in I/R injury. Interestingly, a number of studies have also reported the role of adiponectin in protection against I/R injury in myocardial, cerebral, liver, and renal tissues. However, whether adiponectin functions in the prevention of intestinal I/R injury is unknown.
This study showed that serum adiponectin was downregulated in the rat model of intestinal I/R injury, and adiponectin pre-treatment attenuated intestinal I/R injury in rats. While the underlying mechanism of adiponectin in protection against intestinal I/R injury is not fully understood, the results of this study suggest that the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)/heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) signaling pathway may be involved in this process. Therefore, adiponectin and components of the AMPK/HO-1 signaling pathway may be promising targets in the treatment of intestinal I/R injury.
Adiponectin and components of the AMPK/HO-1 signaling pathway may be promising targets in the treatment of intestinal I/R injury.
Intestinal I/R injury is a critical complication in patients with trauma and after liver and intestinal transplantation, and it is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Adiponectin, also referred to as gelatin-binding protein-28, ACRP30, AdipoQ, or apM1, is a hormone secreted mainly by adipocytes.
The title is short, conclusive, and reflects the content of the study. The abstract is clear with obvious delineation between the various parts.
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2019-04-19T10:43:10Z
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https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v21/i47/13250.htm
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Before Local 5362 there was CUPE Local 1550.
CUPE Local 1550 included the Health Sciences Centre (HSC), CancerCare Manitoba (CCMB) and Diagnostic Services of Manitoba (DSM).
In 2015 DSM bargaining unit left to join with Local 4214 that united all DSM CUPE members.
In the spring of 2017, the Conservative government of Manitoba announced bill C29, the Health Care Bargaining Unit Restructuring Act. This act will set out to lower the amount of health care bargaining units from close to 200 down to 50 by making 4 rural health authorities (Eastern, Southern, Northern and Western) as well uniting all of the bargaining units within the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and 2 “province wide” employers – CCMB and DSM. Within each of these 7 employer groups there would be 7 bargaining units.
Due to the coming restructuring of the WRHA, CUPE proposed to merge all 21 of their WHRA Locals into one large local. This is how Local 204 originated. HSC was one of those 21 units, so they separated from Local 1550 to join with 204.
CCMB remained Local 1550, but due to the huge change in the local structure and Local 1550 being associated with HSC and not CCMB, the members requested a local number change from National. This was granted and our charter for Local 5362 was received in November 2017.
Below is the Local 1550 website front page prior to the change.
Note: Local 204 will be in the process of instituting their own communications systems shortly. Until then, CUPE Local 1550 will continue to send out information to the HSC unit, using the 1550 email addresses, email system and website on behalf of Local 1550. Please watch for updates coming soon.
ATTENTION Local 204 – HSC Members. Please see the notice below regarding CUPE/Employer information sessions. This was emailed out to the HSC members who have submitted their email addresses. If you did not receive this through email as of 21 October 2017, please check your spam box or re-submit your email address.
ATTENTION HSC CUPE MEMBERS! Did you work any OT over a break? Please read below.
Please see the update below regarding the ongoing employment changes at HSC.
CUPE Local 1550 is organizing a rally to show support for the HSC workers who will be losing their jobs and for those who will be facing losing their full-time EFTs and being reduced to part-time. We will also be showing our solidarity to ALL Health Care workers in Manitoba who have or will be facing job loss or EFT decreases due to all of the cuts.
We will have pamphlets ready to hand out to the passing foot traffic explaining what some of the cuts are, including working short, hiring freezes and of course position deletions.
This Rally will be held in front of the Women’s Hospital from 11:00 – 1:30 on Thursday, September 21st.
CUPE’s news release on September 12th told us that at HSC there are going to be approximately 111 jobs lost as well almost that many full-time jobs will be reduced to part-time jobs. At the time of that release not all information had been received by CUPE to make a final analysis. We are still receiving information in little bits at a time.
We also know that many Unit Clerks and Unit Assistants will be losing their positions as the hospitals move to replace them with the dual trained Nursing Assistants! There will be cuts and changes to EFTs at all of the other hospitals in Winnipeg.
CancerCare Manitoba has not seen these kinds of position deletions due to the government’s mandate. That does not mean that there won’t see any cuts or deletions in the future. There has been a clamp down on hiring and filling positions.Part-time and casual staff are being used like full-time, to the point that people are unable to plan their vacations or usage of banked OT or stat time because there are not enough part-timers or casuals with available hours to cover these requests. We have until November 15th to complete vacation scheduling but a number of staff are having difficulties getting these requests approved because there is not enough staff to allow for coverage. When staff are on vacation or are sick many of people are having to double up their workloads and do extra duties so that their own work falls behind.
Come join us as we show our solidarity to all health care workers and protest these cuts that affect us all as we make the public aware of all that is happening and how these cuts will also affect them.
The results of this election will not be known on September 20th as the ballots from all 21 of the Local 204 facilities will be counted at the same time at a different time and location.
Please see the attached posters for the Local 204 Elections! Included is the election information and we also have the campaign materials from the candidates running for President: Debbie Boissonneault (Grace Hosp, Local 1599) and John Boyd (Seven Oaks Hosp, Local 2509).
The Position of Unit Lead Shop Steward is up for election. Liam McCann and Belinda Raposo are running for this position.
At this time, neither candidate has submitted any election materials.
The ballots of this election will be counted as soon as all HSC Local 204 members in the room at 4:30 pm have had the opportunity to vote.
CUPE News Release regarding HSC Cuts for Support Workers and Local 204 Elections!
Please visit the CUPE Provincial Health Care Council website phcc.cupe.ca to get all of your elections information. There will be elections for Table Officers and Trustees on September 20th as well, some units will be having elections for Unit VP and Lead Stewards.
Please watch for further information regarding the cuts.
CUPE will have info tables set up in HSC in the MS Mall on Wednesday, September 13th and on Monday, September 18th. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to stop in at any time between the hours of 9 – 4.
Please watch for notices of an upcoming rally!
We’ve had a rally earlier in the summer but now that we know how the CUPE Members at HSC will be affected, we need come out in droves to show the Pallister Government how we feel about these cuts and the total disrespect for Health Care Support Workers Professionals (we are professional in what we do).
The Nurses were guaranteed that “there is a job for every nurse”. We demand fair treatment. Pallister guaranteed “No Cuts to front line workers”.
Let’s tell Pallister that WE are FRONT LINE WORKERS! He broke his promise by cutting our jobs.
Please share this with others who may not have received this information.
If you know someone who believes that they have submitted their email address to us and they are not receiving these emails, please have them look into their “spam” or “junk” boxes. If the email is not there, please email [email protected] and type in the body of the email their name and their preferred not work email. Some handwritten emails have been discarded as we could not read the writing on them.
So that in this time of constant news releases and updates, HSC CUPE Members please rest assured that until Local 204 has all of their communication pieces intact and has been given time to get the new website going, CancerCare Manitoba CUPE Members will ensure that their comrades at HSC continue to receive all of their information in a timely manner. We will continue to post all information necessary for HSC CUPE Members as well as use our email systems to get as much information out to you all in as timely a manner as possible.
We are all in this fight together!
Please see the notice below regarding the Employment Security notice for CUPE HSC Members. These are the changes brought about by the unreasonable cuts being imposed by the Pallister PC government.
CUPE Local 1550 – CancerCare Manitoba has a new Executive!
This Executive will not take effect until approximately October 1st.
All were nominated and elected by acclimation.
We do still need a one year and three year Trustee.
Thank-you and congratulations to all of you who have allowed yourselves to be nominated and elected!
The formatting needs to be fixed, but as these are draft for reading purposes only. Please bring any comments to the meeting or call our Local office at 204-987-2873. Please be sure to tell Patricia (our Admin Assistant) that you are a CCMB Member!
Please note the time of the meeting, 5:00 pm. As we do not have anything in place at this time to hold meetings electronically, we need to allow time for our whole Membership to get to our McDermot site especially as the items on the agenda are very important. As CCMB grows and we accept 13 new members from the Community Cancer Clinics and Hub we will have to get used to allowing for travel time for the approximately 75 members who will be assigned away from MCC.
We do have limited parking for those members coming in from St. Boniface and Screening Programs. Great for car-pooling!
Please see the bulletins below. There is one for the HSC Members Local 204 as well as a general bargaining (or non-bargaining) update for everyone.
Local 204 will be doing their by-law voting a little different than the norm as all of the locals have yet to come together into one general meeting. At this time it was thought that it was better and more effective to post the by-laws online for the members to view and to email in comments rather than to try and bring all 7000 members together. You will be able to vote on them at the end of August. A notice will go out later this week with that date and time.
CCMB will be holding a special meeting at the end of August to vote on the by-laws in the traditional manner. We will meet, go over the by-laws, make any changes within the room and then vote on them.
When we hold this meeting, there will be several other items on that agenda so keep watch for this.
Come join us as CUPE Members from Health Sciences Centre and CancerCare Manitoba come out to protest the Pallister Government and all of their cuts.
In just a few months we have seen a wide swath of cuts throughout all of healthcare in Manitoba.
Pallister promised more long-term care beds – he put a freeze on those. This causes a back-log in our emergency rooms as they help care for this population. This also puts a squeeze on our medicine beds as they are used more often for long term care.
Pallister will close down the Emergencies at Seven Oaks and Victoria General in order to open up Urgent Cares, he is completely closing the Urgent Care at Misericordia and the Emergency at Concordia. People living near both of these hospitals will not have any kind of urgent or emergent care in their neighbourhoods.
What will that do to HSC and CancerCare? It will put more demands on our services. Many cancer patients go to the Concordia cancer unit and their Emergency. They will now have to start attending the Emergency department at HSC as well as the urgent care clinic at CCMB. This will put an extra burden on these resources as well as cause prolonged wait for care for people who are already very ill.
If shovels are not already in the ground – no new building!
– Pallister already put a stop to the new CancerCare building. Lunch and rest areas have been taken away to make office space, a library changed into a new department, there are workers hiding out in “closet” spaces in HSC, SMD and elsewhere.
– At HSC as more people come through the doors of an already cramped space in emergency you have to wonder where will they all fit? As they close down operating rooms throughout the WRHA to have them come to HSC -where will they be put. This is a solid building. The walls are not elastic and cannot stretch to accommodate the expected increase in patient flows.
– All of this while vacancy management is in place and we are all working short staffed and carrying heavier burdens than ever.
Come join us to protest these cuts to our health services. Not only are we as healthcare workers affect but so are our patients!
Place Patients First – and stop the cuts. Enough is Enough!
You voted resoundingly YES to separate from Local 1550 and merge into Local 204 woth the other 21 WRHA CUPE Locals!
There were 40 people in attendance at the meeting who were eligible to vote and the vote was 36 YES, 3 NO and 1 spoiled ballot.
Over time the HSC Members will start to receive information regarding the organization of their new Local and CCMB Members will be receiving information as to how to reform Local 1550.
Until the actual physical split between the 2 bargaining units, the Local will operate as status quo. Our Members will not notice any difference on the shop floor.
Please see the letter below regarding the move to merging all 21 CUPE Locals within the WRHA into one large local.
This moves comes as the Pallister Government is soon to enact Bill 29, which talks to merging the WRHA as one employer, working with fewer Bargaining Units and Collective Agreements.
All HSC Members will soon be seeing postings telling them to come out and vote on this measure. Those postings will list the date, time and place of the vote.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a vote to change unions but to merge with other CUPE Locals. This will NOT stop your CUPE Membership.
CCMB Members, you will not be eligible to vote (UNLESS you also work at HSC).
CCMB, being a province wide employer group is separate from the WRHA. With this planned merger, HSC and CCMB will separate from each other. CancerCare Manitoba Members will continue to be Local 1550 while the HSC Members will join the Members of the other 20 CUPE Locals within the WRHA.
We will be holding info tables and sessions over the next two (2) weeks to answer questions. These tables will be held throughout HSC and at various times in order to reach out to all shifts including those on the weekends.
We will also be holding noon hour meetings at CCMB at all 3 sites to discuss facing this Bargaining Unit.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Local office.
Total votes cast: 478; 1 ballet was spoiled for a total of 477 counted out of 2954 members for a 16.15% turnout.
We have been asked a number of times what the vote count was. This local has a practice of not releasing that information as that often causes more divisiveness rather than helping to heal any riffs that may have happened during the election.
Jamie Johnston has been elected as Vice-President.
Congratulations to both candidates for a well run campaign!
On Tuesday, April 30th, CUPE Manitoba worked with CUPE Local 1550 to host a BBQ in the community for the Members of our Local.
It was a beautiful day for a bbq. We gave away over 1000 hotdogs, chips and juice boxes that day. When we chose this day for the bbq little did we know that we would be able to have the help of our National President Paul Moist. He just happened to be in Winnipeg at this time so he volunteered his time (and muscle) to help move tables and equipment as we set up for the event. He also stayed to greet our Members and serve them a hotdog.
Kelly Moist, the President of CUPE Manitoba worked together with our Table Officers to plan this event so that this truly was a co-hosted event of CUPE Manitoba and Local 1550.
Margaret even had the company Jenna the Administrative Assistant for CUPE Manitoba to go on the “off site” tour. We delivered lunch to the CancerCare Members who work at our units at St. Boniface Hospital as well as the breast/cervical/colon screening programs across the street from Misericordia Hospital. Jodi made the trip to the HSC offsite group at Wellington so that they could also enjoy some lunch.
Unfortunately our National Representative Shannon McAteer was away on vacation. So, for the day we received the help from two National Reps! Alex McClurg and David Jacks were on hand all day providing help where needed. We also had the enthusiastic hotdog serving help in the person of Marion Moist. She was able to fill in while Jodi and Margaret were out travelling to the offsite groups. We even had help from a Member from CUPE Local 500, WRHA group serve up lunch. Mylin jumped right in and helped out until our travelling Table Officers were back at the tables and ready to serve.
Local 1550 President with Mylin, a hardworking volunteer from the CUPE Local 500, WRHA group.
One of the busiest people of the day was Butch, one of our Housekeepers. His diligence in breaking down boxes, collecting garbage and wiping tables was an enormous help. With his help we were able to keep to our timeline with the City of Winnipeg to have our garbage ready for pick up at 1:30.
Butch our very busy volunteer. Cleans while working as a Housekeeper with a CCMB assignment and volunteers to clean up for the Local!
Behind the scenes the Local’s Administrative Assistant Patricia worked as hard as everyone else. She moved tables, hauled things up and down the stairs, sliced onions and managed to keep control of our office.
Of course, our Table Officers were busy throughout this adventure from planning, set up and serving.
We even had the opportunity to visit with Levy Abad the Filipino music, songwriter and activist as well as with the Hon. Flor Marcelino the Minister of Multiculturalism and Literacy, The MLA for the Logan Constituency.
We have new Collective Agreements for both of our Bargaining Units.
Unfortunately, DSM will now be transitioned over to Local 4214 with the rest of Diagnostic Services of Manitoba Inc.
Our Local’s bargaining units are now made up of the Support Workers from Health Sciences Centre and CancerCare Manitoba.
The new updates are now uploaded. Please follow the link below.
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https://5362.cupe.ca/about-us/local-1550-historical-archive/
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Well, I’ve had quite the adventure. Six days, alone, in New York City, my first vacation in several years and my first time in the city since the early 2000s. I visited four museums, attended three operas, and saw just about every major sight in the city. All told, it was a very successful trip with few snags. I love New York!
I imagine the thought of being alone in New York is terrifying to some. Actually, I didn’t feel afraid once. I had no negative encounters. This isn’t to say they don’t happen, but if you’re careful where you wander, no one bothers you. I didn’t see any bad apples anywhere I went (and I covered a lot of turf). There are other tourists and regular folk everywhere, and more cops available than you see at home. There are moms and kids walking the street and riding the subway, even at night.
So did I get to do everything on my list? Almost. In some cases the weather didn’t cooperate, in others, my energy level fizzled. I did a lot of walking. Living here is wonderful exercise, even though public transportation will get you anywhere (except the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For that, you have to wander Central Park for several hours). I didn’t get to the top of Rockefeller Center to see the city at night from above; I didn’t do the night time boat ride around the tip of Manhattan. I didn’t go to the Bronx Zoo.
Standout moments? Seeing the Statue of Liberty’s face up close. Mimi’s death in La Boheme. The memorials to the dead at the 9/11 Museum. Standing on the Brooklyn Bridge, looking out over the city, while listening to Neil Diamond’s poetic reminisces about it in Brooklyn Roads. Seeing my friend Michael again.
I didn’t even spend much money here. Many of the attractions are free, I ate cheaply, and a few things I paid for in advance. The best deals in New York? The Statue of Liberty (boat ride, pedestal and museum access, and Ellis Island museum for $18) and the subway (I rode it all week, and all over, on a 7-day MetroPass for $30. I didnt take a cab once).
So now it’s back to my mundane, everyday life. Jarring as it will be after this magical week of sights and sounds and stimulation, it’s a welcome return. The conveniences of home have their own special attraction, and life becomes stale no matter where you live. That’s why we need to get out of our elements periodically, to get a fresh perspective on life. We return a little bit changed, a little more knowing, a little more open to possibilities. Mind you, I haven’t been taking this advice lately. My life is extremely routine, but I broke free for a week and it was wonderful.
My NYC breakfast spot, and a description of me in the summer?
Tomorrow I start my 39th, and next to last, college course before finishing my degree, which I began almost thirty years ago. I went into business for myself right after high school graduation, then spent about ten years working slowly on college credits while running it. Since I didn’t need a degree being my own boss (and the one I pursued wasn’t even in business), I went solely for personal interest and satisfaction. I like learning and am naturally curious about things. I stopped school after finally getting my associate’s in 1996, but picked up the mantle again three years ago because I was bored (instead of working sixty-hour weeks as I had for many years, I was down to forty). Also, the new availability of online learning appealed greatly to the introvert in me.
Online class is great for introverts. I participate more in online classes, via discussion boards, than I would in live classes, because live classes are dominated by extroverts. That’s where they thrive. Online is where I thrive. It’s not unlike Facebook, where I am more social than I tend to be in real life. So yes, I strongly applaud online school, as it allows those of us who are quieter and more reserved to “chime in” in a way that works for us. Actually, you can’t shut me up on the class discussion boards, and it’s an area of every course I’ve taken where I have gotten very high participation marks. What’s more, classmates tend to appreciate my carefully rendered feedback. None of this is to say that I cannot participate in class discussions in real life, but new people and environments make me uncomfortable and it takes a while to warm up to them. Even once I do, I am always more verbose with the written word than I ever have been with the spoken, so I can really shine online.
I’ve always done well in school, whether live or online, because I am observant of things others don’t notice and am hyper-focused on the written and spoken word, introvert qualities that serve one well in learning. I take things very literally, and am always finding errors in instructions and written texts (I have found many professors’ syllabi to be riddled with errors and lack of clarity – and these people have advanced degrees). A life in academia may have suited me, and I may have pursued it were it not for my hesitance to go to college after high school, which was a little intimidating. Running my own business appealed to me more as it gave me lots of control, and if there’s one thing I like it’s the freedom of having control over my life.
But now it has all come full circle. I no longer have that control and work for the Man, and in four months I will have a college degree in English literature and poetry. Yes, I know, not the most marketable of degrees, but it is the subject area that interests me the most. My intent was not to get a marketable degree, but to get a degree period, and to also satisfy personal interest along the way. It has been a nice journey, for the most part (I could have done without the Statistics courses, even though I aced them). If it were not for the expense, I would continue on to a master’s. We’ll see.
Is online school easier than live school? I’ve done both and see little difference. I spend a good twenty hours a week on classwork – three hours a day – which includes reading, writing papers, tests, and the discussion boards, which are very time-consuming (reading the daily posts of twenty other students and responding to many of them in a qualitative way). The coursework is the same as that given in live classes, and the online curriculum is fully accredited by the regional college board. So aside from not having to drag myself to a physical location and being able to do my work at midnight if I so choose, there is little other difference – except that the courses are accelerated. What live classes cover in sixteen weeks, we cover in eight. So it can feel a little rushed (this was never more true than in my recent Western Civ class, where we covered 4000 years in two months).
Now, as for that poetry degree, I am aware that some do not consider it a “real” degree, much as they do not consider online classes “real” college. It seems the discipline of poetry is viewed as requiring no more skill than ruminating in a diary. To them, I would say this: try writing a poem that a respected literary journal would publish. Then come laugh at me. Fact is, professional writing of any kind – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenplays – is hard work. While poetry may not be highly valued, or even understood, in today’s world, it is the highest expression of our language. I enjoy the linguistic and creative challenge it poses, the introspection it requires, and the possibility of moving someone else with something I’ve written. That is reward enough for me.
After a long day at work, where I interact with many people and juggle many responsibilities, I am usually exhausted – not so much physically (though this is certainly possible), but mentally. I run out of steam. I lose the social energy that I muster to do my job, and look forward to some peace and quiet. Recharge time. It is a must for most introverts, and lack of it can make me quite irritable and cranky. It is somewhat akin to not getting any sleep. Our introvert brains are wired differently than those of extroverts, studies have shown, and mine often needs down time, STAT.
This need not involve sleep – for me, it rarely does, though occasional naps can be helpful. Recharging for me can involve internet-surfing, reading, writing, working a puzzle, doing something out in the yard or around the house, watching a show, listening to music. None of these activities require me to speak or expend social energy, though they do require my attention (in the case of puzzles, considerable attention). This does not weary me like having to be social does. When I am low-energy, uttering a single sentence can feel like delivering a monologue, and answering a phone call is out of the question – much less making one. Also, having to repeat myself is especially annoying at these times. I know this may not make much sense to many people, but it’s really a matter of energy overwhelm and social tolerance levels . If I’ve had to expend more social energy than usual on a particular day, or for longer periods of time, the overreaction to stimuli can be extreme.
Those who have known me for a long time have certainly seen this effect in me, and it may seem Jeckyll-and-Hydeish if I have been overtaxed on some social occasion. It doesn’t go over well with mates, and I have lost many this way. I reach a point where my social energy drains and I get very quiet and pull inward. This is my cue that it’s time to go, which I sometimes ignore either to be polite or – yes, even still – because I tell myself I should stick it out and hang in there a bit longer for the sake of those around me. This is rarely a good idea, but it is the conditioning I have come to adopt living in an extroverted world. It took me a long while to recognize this and take care of my need for being with my own thoughts after socializing, but it is vital to my peace of mind and quality of life, even if it does mean a life of relative solitude.
I do usually enjoy and value the time I spend with people, and in fact often ruminate on it fondly afterwards. I need time to assimilate social contact into my experience and to reflect on it. It’s all part of the deal. It must have been an introvert who said “absence makes the heart grow fonder.” The Phrase Finder reports that this sentiment originates with the Roman poet Sextus Propertius, about whom little is known. However, poets are certainly good candidates for introversion, and Propertius is a man after my own heart (that phrase originates in the Bible).
I’ve never much cared for the telephone. I’ve always found it rather intrusive and annoying, an interrupter of solitude. It has no consideration for whatever I might be in the middle of. I don’t usually look forward to calls, either making or receiving them. I will frequently let the answering machine or voice mail field a call if I am even mildly occupied, and will definitely never answer if I don’t recognize the number – salesman, ninety percent of the time.
Fact is, I usually consider talking on the phone a waste of time unless there is a particular purpose for the call. I don’t like chit-chat, it does nothing for me but bore me to death. Friends have grumbled at times that I don’t call them. I stopped having a landline several years ago, and reluctantly have a cell phone mainly for emergencies and other absolute necessities (it is hard to function in modern life without a phone number). I am not tethered to my cell phone like most people nowadays – you won’t catch me on it in a store, subjecting everyone around me to the one-sided blathering of my otherwise private conversation, and I would never use it while being cashed out. People don’t like it when clerks do this to them, so what makes them think clerks are any different? It’s rude, on either side of the transaction. It’s treating the other person like they’re not important enough to merit your brief attention.
Is phone-aversion an introvert thing? Do most people perk up at the sound of a ringing telephone, at the mysterious allure and potential of the unknown call? Judging by the smart-phone and texting addiction of the younger generation, I’d have to say “yes,” absolutely. Constant contact is king.
I can understand extroverts loving the telephone, since they crave contact and being social. I see people at work who spend their entire break talking on their cell phones, while I usually spend mine reading. These same people are on the phone the minute their shift is over, and they also usually arrive for work talking on the phone. They surreptitiously whip out their phones during work, checking Facebook or texting.
What did people do before cell phones, I often wonder, since it seems they can’t function or feel secure unless conversing with someone 24/7? Was it only a decade ago that people had to walk around – gasp! – totally disconnected? When they couldn’t call home from the store to recite every flavor of ice cream available to see which one they should buy? Oh, and do we need milk? How much of these conversations have any meaning? Does anyone care that your favorite song just came on the radio?
Granted, cell phones come in very handy at times (like the milk query), but some people take it way too far, providing their unseen cohort with a blow-by-blow accounting of their every move. I’ve noticed that people tend to share more on the phone with the other party than they likely would were they standing right next to them. It must be the fear of silence. Silence during a phone conversation is unacceptable, whereas it is perfectly alright in person.
Why is phone silence not allowed? Might there be an insecurity about whether the other person is still there? Is it because time is money on some calls? Is it because we feel stupid holding a phone and not saying anything? Whatever the reason, I suspect it has a large part to do with my dislike of the telephone – it abhors silence and demands non-stop talking, which is pretty much my idea of hell.
Blogs. Do people actually read them in today’s endlessly busy and distracted world? I will soon find out. But whether anyone reads or not, I have always found writing to be an endeavor that mostly benefits the author. If others benefit as well, then that is an added bonus – and a gratifying one.
This blog will be loosely structured with many topics, all from my particular perspective. Therefore, it would seem prudent to share a little about myself.
I am a 48-year old single gay male living in Eastern Connecticut, where I was born during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 (the famous “missiles of October”). I was a somewhat troubled, melancholy, lonely child who often felt like I was living in a semi-autistic fog, and those old feeling states have occasionally plagued me into adulthood.
I am a lifelong introvert, something I haven’t really appreciated about myself until recently. It was a bit of a revelation when I read the textbook definition of introversion and almost every trait rang true. I am overwhelmed easily by too much contact or stimulation. I recharge my batteries by being alone, and strongly crave alone time after a few hours of being social. I usually abhor chitchat, cell phones, cocktail parties and interviews. I don’t like being interrupted or put on the spot, because it can take an introvert time to focus and I need time to process my thoughts and form a response. I express myself much better on paper than in person. I have been praised since grade school for my writing skills. I have few friends, and the few relationships I have that I enjoy are the deeper ones. I dislike surface contact. Things have to have meaning and make sense or I have little patience for them. I’m a good listener, provided what I’m hearing has some depth. I am drawn to introspection and reflection.
I am also a lifelong entrepreneur, having started my own business when I was 18 and keeping it for almost 30 years. Working for myself appealed to me greatly as I dislike authority figures and taking orders. I am self-motivated and don’t need someone barking at me. Since I now work for someone else (long story for future post), I have to endure some barking. Hence the bumper sticker on my car: “Wag More. Bark Less.” Praise goes much further than criticism, yet seems seldom used in the average workplace.
Some interests/passions of mine include music (symphonic, esp. Beethoven and Tchaikovsky; opera (Puccini, Gilbert & Sullivan); Neil Diamond, who I have seen in concert a dozen times and whose music I have a deep affinity for; reading (a true introvert passion! Love Shakespeare, Dickens, King, Koontz, Preston/Childs); American history, the presidency, quantum physics and the true nature of “reality,” consciousness studies, metaphysics, and basically the notion that we create our own reality.
I greatly admire those who manage to creatively express themselves in ways that others relate deeply to – especially, those who take their pain and torment and create something divine (Tchaikovsky, Beethoven). I consider Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to be the greatest work of art I have ever experienced, and have a separate blog posting about it. As Robert Bly observed, “where your wound is, that is where your genius will be.” Tchaikovsky is another hero in this department.
I hope you enjoy my posts and find something that strikes a chord or two in you. To quote a passage from my favorite movie, Shadowlands, “we read to know we’re not alone.” I hope I make you feel less alone.
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