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It’s going to be a great day Friday for Pippen, and let’s get this straight: He’s a bona fide Hall of Famer and not because of Michael Jordan. Pippen may have been the greatest individual defender in the history of the NBA.
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There are players who have won more in basketball’s Hall of Fame, though not many more than Scottie Pippen with his six championships playing for the Bulls. There certainly are players who have scored more, shot better, jumped higher, run faster and been more popular.
But there may be no one tougher than Scottie Pippen, who will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Friday in Springfield, Mass.
Not physically tougher, for fellow inductee Karl Malone certainly was sturdier. And perhaps not mentally tougher in the way we generally define it in sports, as most everyone would point to Pippen’s former teammate and Hall of Famer Michael Jordan as the portrait of sporting tenacity.
Ironically, it was Pippen who was long cursed with the ugly label of being soft for his famous migraine headache in the 1990 conference finals, being openly taunted by Xavier McDaniel in the 1992 playoffs and the verbal and physical abuse he endured in the Bulls/Pistons wars of the late 1980s.
But that, really, was part of his great strength, sort of Scottie Pippen as Buddha.
Likely no one in the history of the NBA has endured as much, from hardscrabble upbringing, which is not uncommon among pro athletes, to raging controversies that rank among the highlights in the history of the game. Just mention the number 1.8 and everyone knows the reference. Mention migraine. Mention the gun arrest before they were fashionable and the wonderful tradition of feuds with management, though Pippen took it to the greatest lengths by once announcing his retirement during a championship season while he was on the injured list.
It all made him one of the most polarizing athletes Chicago ever has known, if also once of its most successful and acclaimed.
It’s going to be a great day Friday for Pippen, and let’s get this straight: He’s a bona fide Hall of Famer and not because of Michael Jordan.
Pippen may have been the greatest individual defender in the history of the NBA.
No, he never was named Defensive Player of the Year, though he was all-defensive first team eight straight seasons and second team two others. Generally, centers have won the award. Michael Jordan did once, and among perimeter players, Sidney Moncrief, Alvin Robertson, Gary Payton and Ron Artest were named. None matches Pippen for his ability to influence a game defensively.
When the Bulls won their first championship in 1991, it was Pippen’s defense on Magic Johnson that was the difference in slowing the Lakers. Pippen bookended it with a spectacular job in shutting down the Pacers Mark Jackson in the 1998 Eastern Conference Finals on the way to the Bulls’ last title. The season before in the Finals, it was Pippen deflecting the potential game winning assist pass from Bryon Russell to clinch the championship over the Jazz.
It was like the kind of stuff you’d see Jason Kidd do in his prime.
I remember Phil Jackson once telling me Pippen was one of the brightest players he’s ever coached and Jackson several times talked with Pippen about joining his coaching staff.
“You can put him at any position you want and he knows the overall nature of what has to happen on the floor,” said Jackson.
And, yet, Pippen would, seemingly, do or say the dumbest things, sitting out that 1.8 seconds in the 1994 playoffs because Jackson selected Toni Kukoc for the game winning shot attempt, accusing Chicago fans of racism for not booing Kukoc when he played poorly—and Pippen personally liked Kukoc. There was a seemingly unending series of trade demands and public debates with management that left by the end even Jordan and Jackson condemning Pippen, with Jordan congratulating Dennis Rodman for being more mature.
That was in the beginning of the 1997-98 season, the dynasty’s dying moments, when Pippen announced on a November road trip during which he wasn’t playing because he delayed surgery that he was never going to play for the Bulls again, this being after both Jordan and Jackson, on one-year contracts, decided to return for one more season, so as not to leave Pippen alone.
But then Pippen would return in January, and the team took off, immediately winning 10 of 12, the languid Pippen the picture of grace and athletic poetry of motion. Really, he was simply beautiful to watch with those long, gliding strides and a sort of playing arrogance forged in the refusal to be cowed by events and his own missteps.
I remember talking many times about that with Pippen’s former agent, Jimmy Sexton. We’d marvel at all the controversies swirling around Pippen and his almost insouciant indifference. I remember one time the team was in Boston and Pippen had went off about his favorite foil, then Bulls general manager Jerry Krause. Pippen had called Krause a bunch of unkindly names—Jordan would as well, but not to reporters—over some contract dispute.
The next day when the team was arriving for practice back home, Pippen saw the huge crowd of reporters waiting and was curious. He went over to Jackson and asked if something had happened, why they were all there. Jackson smiled. “They’re here for you,” he said. Pippen was mystified. He didn’t know why.
I thought Sexton, with whom Pippen is now estranged, had summed him up best.
"Mostly, I'd say Scottie is an easygoing and relaxed kind of guy," Sexton told me then. "But the chairs (he’d thrown one onto the court that season in anger), the other things he does, it's a frustration with things that develop at certain times. He can be stubborn, but that helps him. Most players you see, if they have the kind of scrutiny Scottie has had, their play drops off. Not Scottie. He never lets these things affect him, so really that stubbornness helps him. Sometimes you'd like to see him not do certain things, but he continues to respond through all the adversity. It's always been that way with Scottie."
I remember the famous 1.8 second strike in the series with the Knicks. Jordan was playing baseball then and couldn’t believe it. He called Jackson the next morning.
Yes, Pippen never wavered in his belief that he was right and Jackson was at fault.
"Phil (Jackson) was wrong," Pippen told me many times over the years as we once worked on a book together which never came to fruition. "Those times in games are the moments you live for. I thought it was an injustice the way Phil treated me, and I had to say something, right or wrong. It wasn't what people wanted to hear.
"I'll say what's on my mind—I'm not going to be a phony—and sometimes people don't like that. I don't like making a front. I don't really have any celebrity friends. In basketball, I'm friends with Karl Malone, but I'll never say we're such great friends (like some other stars around the league who pretend to be close friends). The Bulls wanted someone to go out and be quiet. They say, 'You're a player and you do your job.' That’s not me. I know some things I've said or things I've done haven't always been understood, but if it comes down to speaking your feelings or doing what you have to do, you're cheating yourself if you don't voice your opinion. You're allowing people to run over you. And I'll never do that."
I never could quite figure where all of that came from, but I also could never envision what it was like to grow up like Scottie Pippen.
He was the youngest of 12 kids growing up in a two-room rural house in Arkansas. How does anyone make it out of that? His father, Preston, was a mill worker who had a debilitating stroke and was out of work before Scottie was in high school. A brother, Ronnie, was injured in an accident in high school and was in a wheel chair. Scottie often dreamed of himself that way.
"I've always thought that one injury could wipe all of this away," Pippen once told me. "I'm able to run and jump and do all the things I can do. I'm blessed. We're all blessed in the NBA. But I always would look at (the late) Darryl Stingley (who used to sit behind the Bulls' bench in the Chicago Stadium). I'd kind of watch him sometimes and see my brother, a healthy, strong young man, and all of a sudden he's confined to a wheelchair, to where he can't get around. I think about that a lot."
Yet, rarely did I hear Pippen mention anything but sweet memories about his childhood. "As I look back, I have to say growing up was fun, not a problem at all,” he said, mentioning dominoes and checkers games as the most fun. “I knew if I didn't make it in the NBA, I'd probably be doing something like I do now, maybe in an athletic department somewhere. I'd just have a smaller TV."
Pippen's story has been well chronicled, if also still seemingly beyond fiction.
It’s told famously by his high school and college coaches, but truly defies explanation. The supermodel skinny kid who didn’t play much in high school and wasn’t even sure he wanted to play in college, even if he could. But his high school coach called in some favors just to get him a look at NAIA Central Arkansas. Pippen, maybe 135 pounds then and 6-1, couldn’t get a scholarship and wasn’t recruited by even a junior college. He became team manager and went to school on a Pell grant before a scholarship came open late in his freshman year and he got it in more a charitable move. He cleaned the locker room and handed out the towels. He said he enjoyed that because he could just hang out with the guys.
And now he’s going into the Basketball Hall of Fame. C’mon, you cannot even make that up.
There is no member of the Hall of Fame who was farther from the Hall of Fame as a college freshman than Scottie Pippen.
And then even as he began to grow and star at Central Arkansas, the level of competition was so poor the first Bulls scout to see him, Billy McKinney, now Bucks personnel director, couldn’t figure out how good he was because everyone playing in the games was so far from NBA talent.
But Krause quickly realized he had a gem, and as things went then in the bizarre world of Krause machinations, he tried to get Pippen to take a two-week vacation (at the team’s expense) in Hawaii, so Pippen would skip the predraft camps and no one else would see him. But Pippen was having too much fun finally being noticed and declined.
Krause did pull off a stunner of a deal to move up in the draft and get Pippen, and had some luck as well as Seattle agreed to trade its pick to get Pippen, though only if Reggie Williams wasn’t available. When the Clippers took Williams at No. 4, the Bulls pulled off the trade with Seattle to get Pippen just ahead of Sacramento at No. 6, which wanted Pippen and took Kenny Smith. Smith was whom Jordan wanted with the North Carolina connection.
The Bulls also selected Horace Grant with their other first round pick, though Jordan didn’t particularly see him ahead of his buddy Charles Oakley.
But the coaching staff could see what they had, as Jordan and Pippen would square off in practice and Oakley and Grant. It was some of the best battles they’d ever see, and eventually Oakley would be moved for Bill Cartwright to finish off the blueprint for the dynasty.
In fact, Jordan was 1-9 in playoff games, though pretty amazing in some of those losses, before then coach Doug Collins decided to start Pippen for the first time over Brad Sellers in the deciding game of the 1988 playoffs against Cleveland and it was Pippen’s play in that Game 5 clincher that enabled Jordan to win his first playoff series.
“He'd be going down court late in a game and looking to find someone," says former coach Collins now coaching the 76ers.
"Scottie is not the kind of player to make winning shots, game-winning plays, but he was always more unselfish than Michael. If I were on the floor, I'd want to play with a guy like Pippen more than Jordan, but the perception always runs ahead of the reality, and Michael was the guy always perceived as hitting that winning shot and Scottie not doing it."
Steve Kerr used to recount times on the floor he’d go several minutes and not get a shot and become a bit wary. He said Pippen would run by him and say, “I know you haven’t gotten a shot. Don’t worry. Next time, I’ll get you one.” Kerr said it was uncanny Pippen seemed to know what everyone on the court needed.
Longtime coach Don Nelson once remarked to Jackson that the Bulls were the dream team. Nelson said there couldn’t be anything better than your two best offensive players being your two best defensive players.
I remember talking to the late Chuck Daly after that 1992 Dream Team and Daly raving about Pippen. Daly said he knew Pippen was a potential MVP candidate type player, but said Pippen was the best player on the 1992 team. “I know Michael’s the best player, but Pippen was the best player on that team,” admired Daly.
Yet, Pippen truly is a contradiction.
He always had such fears about money and losing everything he wanted security early in his career, yet he made so many risky investments and purchases he lost tens of millions of dollars late in his career. He was a devoted family man who bought homes for his parents and several siblings and delighted in summers back in Arkansas, yet he was involved in numerous paternity suits, some at the same time.
He was irreplaceable, yet the Bulls almost traded him for Shawn Kemp to Seattle in 1994 and to the Celtics and Clippers in 1997. He lashed out bitterly after each such occasion, and when he was MVP of the All-Star game in 1994 with arguably the best All-Star game ever, 29 points, 11 rebounds and four steals, he spent the post game talking about being traded and trying on different uniforms of other teams.
But you couldn’t tell when he and Grant came to the NBA as the ultimate kids in the candy store.
Their friendship was legendary at the time as they were inseparable. They’d call each other a dozen times a day and agree on clothes to wear to the game. They purchased the identical cars, dogs and lived on the same street. They were each other’s best men at their weddings, a few months apart. They had the same agent and vacationed together. In the Bulls’ yearbook in answer to the question, “Who would you take if you were going to the moon?” Pippen responded, “Horace Grant.” One of my favorite stories was when Pippen’s cat died and Grant called in saying he’d be late for practice because he had to mourn with Scottie.
Pippen and Grant became the pieces Jordan needed to make the Bulls successful, and maybe it was symbolic when the Bulls finally broke through in 1991 to beat the Lakers. After Pippen had thwarted Magic Johnson, it was Pippen with the ball in his huge hands as the game ended. And later in that famous layup missed by Charles Smith in the 1993 conference finals, it was Pippen with two blocks on the play.
That 1991 title would be just the true beginning, as the Bulls went on to those first three championships, and then in what could have been the most remarkable season in NBA history if not for a questionable foul call in the playoffs, without Jordan the game’s best player and led by Pippen the Bulls won 55 games and were on the verge of heading to still another Finals. Pippen had his best season, becoming the third player ever to lead his team in every significant statistical category as he averaged 22 points, 8.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists.
You lose the best player ever and barely miss a beat, winning two fewer games than the season before without any significant addition. It basically ended any serious discussion of the value and talent and leadership of Scottie Pippen.
People try to compare Pippen, and he often has been doubted because of Jordan’s influence and greatness.
But Pippen is akin to LeBron James today.
And going to Miami, James basically acknowledged he knows he’s Pippen, a transcendent talent who needs a closer.
People ask who Pippen would have been without Jordan, and he would have been James, a superstar facilitator who learned to shoot, though it was hardly his strong point, and who would finish the game but needed someone better to bring out the best of his talents.
James has routinely been compared with Jordan, and Pippen should be as well—not as a scorer, but as an all-around basketball player.
He’s one of the best the game has ever seen and Friday he gets his recognition. It's well earned. | 2019-04-19T15:20:59Z | https://www.nba.com/bulls/history/pippenhof_smith_100812.html |
For today’s discussion, let’s talk about worshipping and working with the church.
Just so we’re clear, we don’t go to church because we are the church. We go to worship with fellow Christians.
Also, when it comes to attending worship, our focus should be first on God and second on helping others.
A few weeks ago, I published a post at TheCourage.com, entitled, “What’s the point of going to church if I can worship God anywhere?” Kirk Cameron posted the link to the post on his Facebook page, and the comments were quite an interesting read. There is a large population on Facebook that reads the title of an article, but never bothers to get beyond the headline to see what the writer actually said. Such was the case with many of these comments. In spite of that, these comments were quite telling about the pain and disillusionment many people hold about the church (as in God’s people).
The comments in the thread revealed many people seriously hurting and many more who feel the church could care less about their pain. Others mentioned issues with adultery, hypocrisy, judgment, etcetera. Some feel unwelcome. Some feel as though they cannot share their struggles for fear of being ostracized.
When we work with and worship with our local church, love should be abounding. One of the reasons we are encouraged to worship together is to “stir up one another to love and good works.” Too many people have decided that worshipping with other Christians isn’t for them because they have been hurt too deeply to come back. This is a tragedy.
My question to you, my readers, is how do we (as individuals and congregations) get better at seeing those who need help, love, and encouragement?
Here’s something else to think about: How do we conquer social anxiety when it comes to helping others? There are times I want to do something for others or say something encouraging, but I am concerned about whether it will actually be helpful or encouraging.
Fear unfortunately holds me back from helping more than I’d like to admit. I’ve walked up to strangers to welcome them, only to be met with a condescending glare and/or one-word answers. Such a hostile or cold reciprocation will send me scooting off to my seat in a heartbeat. I’ve offered help only to be told I’m not needed. I’ve helped only to find out through the grapevine that my help wasn’t wanted or good enough.
I know that the Lord can work through even a weak vessel like me and its my job to step out on faith in spite of my fear, but even so, we can get discouraged or burnt out!
What are your practical suggestions?
What have you done (or are you currently doing) that you have found effective in making people feel loved and welcome?
How do you get your relationships with people in the church to go beyond the surface, “Hi, how are you” to recognizing needs and addressing them?
Inquiring minds want to know, so answer below!
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We are blessed to have churches in abundance. Try another one. If someone tries a few and gets hurt in all of them, the problem might not be with the church.
Hanging out at the Library is pretty safe… haha!
Yes, when we interact with people, eventually our feelings get hurt. Sometimes people come into the church with misguided expectations. They expect us to be exactly like Jesus. That’s what we should be striving for, of course, but because we are not there yet, we mess up. I do agree—the problem isn’t always the church, sometimes people have a chip on their shoulder.
Hello. Thanks for your invitation. Your invitation is accepted. This exactly I have been through. I know many people who share same feelings. I am are of some who deserted church as they couldn’t bear any longer. I have realised that leaving church is not a solution. It could be a problem. Rather learn to adjust. Love those who hurt you. You require extra grace to be a part of a church. You have to be like a wheat grain who has to be willing to become flour and then only we can have dough. I have practiced these things. Remember, church is a bunch of sinners saved by grace. Better to have realistic and practical expectations from the church. I have started encouraging people to continue in the same church. One can not guarantee that another church would be better, it could be more difficult to adjust. Have a great day.
Thank you for your valuable insight! Praise God for making you stronger in spite of the hurt.
I agree—Leaving the church altogether often makes us more vulnerable to Satan’s attacks.
One of my home bible study teachers used to point out that in Revelation, people were not encouraged to leave the dead, lukewarm, or struggling church, but to “overcome.” I appreciate how you point out that we need to learn to love even those who may be difficult to love.
Amen. I am glad that you brought up this sensitive topic for discussion. Although it is not a favourite topic.
No… it’s definitely not a favorite, but it’s been coming up a lot lately in my little corner of the world so I thought it needed addressing.
Based on what I’ve seen with people I know though, I think a lot of folks expect too much from the church, like it’s some magic thing that’s supposed to address all your needs and if one little thing is out of place (not the right music, uncomfortable chairs, bad coffee, no coffee, or whatever), than they move on. They forget it’s run mostly by volunteers and that it’s a miracle in itself that the show goes on so smoothly every Sunday.
That’s not talking about poor leadership that ignores/extols those that are hurting and is abusive in an way. That should not be tolerated at all.
It’s interesting you bring up coffee & chairs. I worship with a church that doesn’t have any food or coffee in the building. One of the reasons is to keep everyone focused on being fed spiritually. Those other things tend to be a distraction. Plus, if people only come to be fed in the worldly sense, would they still come if that disappeared and/or didn’t meet their needs?
It’s true that far too many come to have their ears tickled or to be entertained. The question becomes, can we get people beyond that and if so, how do we encourage them to do deeper?
So agree, it should be about being fed spiritually. There’s still the people factor to consider though which means a fair amount will expect those things in addition to having the perfect preacher, greeters, etc….
I’m not sure what the answer is other than to stay on topic biblically and make sure people feel welcome and safe.
1. Instead of asking, “How are you?” I ask, “How has your week been?”. That’s when they really tell me.
2. We need to stop talking to each other (our buddies) and look around for those standing around the lobby or sitting alone.
3. Follow up with a visit to their home.
4. My brother dropped out several years ago “because they didn’t remember us from one week to the next”. But, when I asked if he at least worshipped at home, he said no. And when he moved, they did not resume worshipping.
I’m so sorry to hear that your brother isn’t worshipping anywhere. It’s harder to stay strong without a connection with fellow Christians.
Thank you, Katheryn for these very practical suggestions!
I’m sorry you saw some of that frustration and hurt people have around “the church,” Elihu. I encounter a lot of that myself and it’s kind of heartbreaking. I hate to see people feeling so hurt and disconnected.
Something I really love, when we can just humble ourselves and trust in the Lord, other people really will minister to us. Once when I was really struggling with my own kids, I went to a church and someone just sat down next to me and started talking about their frustration with their own kids. They didn’t even know me, they had no idea how their own story was just ministering to my soul, it was just what I needed to hear at the time. And then right on cue, the pastor actually preached on God’s frustration with His own kids, His faithfulness, His love, the investment He has made in us all. It was really sweet. I arrived with grief and frustration and left encouraged and at peace.
What an awesome testimony. I do believe God gives us refreshing when we need it. I went to worship the other day feeling anxious and stressed and one of the songs we sang was “Great is Thy Faithfulness” which was just what I needed to remember at that moment.
Are you still connected with the lady who spoke to you? The pastor? There are many who have ministered to me throughout the years and I’ve tried to stay in touch with them, but I think I need to get better about having a stack of notecards and stamps and sending ripple random thank-you’s as soon as their kindness pops into my thoughts.
Thank you, as always, for your excellent insight!
Perhaps one problem is that we are looking too much at the guests in the Lord’s house and thinking about what they are doing or failing to do. Can we get back to the Host and remember that he has invited us there to receive gifts from him? Whether the preaching is inspiring or boring, the music uplifting or dragging, the congregation welcoming or cold, all those things matter less than the fact that Jesus is present among his people proclaiming forgiveness for sins, eternal life, power for living today, and victory over all enemies. J.
That’s definitely a good point. Of course, I would probably be comfortable not having to talk to anybody and worshipping. And yet when we come together worship and edification need to be part of our gathering. I agree with you—we take for granted the beauty and the awesomeness of what we are there to do.
As someone who is currently unable to attend church due to medical issues, I would like to comment about what would be helpful to me. I really really miss fellowship with like-minded people. However, it seems that many people are too busy to connect outside of Sunday mornings. When I was able to go, many people came up to me to talk (and I did the same for them), but now that I am at home, I rarely hear from anyone. What would be helpful to me is contact via text or phone call, just to let me know someone cares. I have tried striking up these conversations myself, but mostly end up feeling like I have more time available than the other person. Therefore, I hesitate to initiate any further contact to keep from being a burden on others. I have turned to God to salve my loneliness which is something good that He is working from this (Romans 8:28), but there is also something to be said for people relating to other people.
Kim, your insight is so helpful! It is important to connect with our fellow Christians outside of worship time so we can go deeper in our relationships. Unfortunately, we fall into the habit with those cannot attend of “out of sight, out of mind.” This should not be the case!
Out of curiosity, do you have a podcast or sermon you’re able to listen to each week? I always find those helpful when I can’t be at worship. If you don’t, I have friend who preaches in San Diego and his lessons are so insightful. I can send you the podcast info if you’re interested!
I am glad your relationship with God is deepening, but I pray that the Lord sends you a friend or friends to be more constant companions in your life. Dealing with medical issues can de discouraging; adding loneliness is worse. I am putting you on my daily prayer list!
I listen to John MacArthur sermons and messages from my home church that are online, but I would consider others as well. I also really like reading Spurgeon sermons and do a lot of study this way. It is the fellowship that is lacking for me. I had been able to gather with a small group, but this is not going to work out this fall. Thanks for your prayer.
When I was dealing with my spouse’s PTSD, I felt almost completely abandoned by my congregation. I needed support and it just didn’t exist. Only a couple people reached out and helped. I still attended, but I felt so alone. This blogging community became a sort of lifeline during that period. I know it’s not the same as face-to-face contact, but please feel free to email me or message me via Facebook. I’m always willing to encourage or pray for you or just discuss scripture or whatever.
The podcast I mentioned is Santee Church of Christ. My friend Erik Borlaug is a young man who preaches the gospel at that congregation and he has such amazing insights.
My experiences as a church consultant/transitional pastor lead me to believe that people have been told indirectly that they do not matter when they become regular attendees in a church. Once outreach programs and seeker driven services became the norm we told people that they were not important. I am not against outreach or simplifying/removing all the Christianize in church. The problem arises when we tell people they are loved by the church before they become Christ followers but when they join the church we make them busy, tell them worship service is for the non-believer and chastise for being selfish when they say they need something more out of church. By doing this we suggest that they only mattered before they became Christians.
We need to recognize that out of our overflow, out of what we gain in community with other Christ followers, how we make each other feel is what propels all of us to reach our community. The new attendee and the life long attendee both are seeking more of God which is what we show when we love both of them enough to come alongside them in their journey.
You know, I didn’t even think about it, but that does happen a lot! The best congregations I’ve been part of are those who love you from the beginning and throughout. I am so thankful for your perspective, Dave, and I hope my readers consider this as they work among their own congregations. | 2019-04-18T18:41:18Z | https://elihuscorner.com/2018/08/03/how-can-we-improve-at-helping-others-within-the-church-coffee-chat-17/ |
Butler graduates should clutch their diploma with a sense of optimism because they are in America and they are educated, retired Indiana Supreme Court Justice Randall Shepard told the 138 graduates at the 2016 Winter Commencement on December 17 in Clowes Memorial Hall.
“This nation has created more opportunity, more freedom, more economic security for more people from more walks of life than any society in the whole history of humankind,” he said, noting that investors and governments from Canada to Canton continue to support America.
President James M. Danko presented Shepard with an honorary doctorate. Trustee James P. White and his wife, Anna, also received honorary degrees.
Christopher McDonald, Computer Science B.S.
Chancey Seger, Computer Science B.S.
Benjamin Trube, Computer Science B.S.
Alexandra Van Hoof, Biology B.S.
"The value of an education earned in 2016 at universities like Butler is more tangible than ever."
Patricia Cochran, the great-great-granddaughter of Butler University founder Ovid Butler and great-niece of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington, died on December 5. She was 97.
Cochran, the daughter of Margaret and Donald Jameson, was a pillar of Indianapolis society, with memberships in the Indianapolis Women’s Club, The Dramatic Club of Indianapolis, Colonial Dames, Wildflower Society, the National World War II Museum, the American National Red Cross, the Society of Indiana Pioneers, and a life member of the Order of Merit.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, December 10, at 11:00 AM at Crown Hill Cemetery in the Gothic Chapel for visitation and services, followed by a reception at the Woodstock Country Club at 2:30 PM.
Her grandson Richard Austin Cochran Acheson, her son, John Huyler Acheson, her husband of 32 years, Richard A. Cochran, and her siblings, Margaret Jameson Wildhack and Donald Fenton Booth Jameson, preceded her in death. She is survived by her son, Donald Jameson Acheson, and his wife, Clare Fox Acheson; her daughter-in-law Becky Acheson; six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, and many cousins.
Patty Cochran’s connection to Ovid Butler begins with Ovid Butler marrying Cordelia Cole. Their daughter Maria Butler married Patrick Henry Jameson in 1850. Maria and Patrick’s son Ovid Butler Jameson married Mary Booth “Haute” Tarkington in 1886. Their son Donald Ovid Butler Jameson married Margaret Booth in 1915. Patty is their daughter.
Patricia Cochran was a pillar of Indianapolis society.
Sigma Gamma Rho, the sorority founded at Butler University on November 12, 1922, has given Butler a gift to establish the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. 7 Founders Endowed Scholarship to honor the seven education majors and public school teachers who started the organization.
The scholarship will be awarded annually beginning next fall to a student enrolled in the College of Education.
“We acknowledge these courageous women through this gift in preparation for the coming Centennial Celebration of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority,” she said.
Sigma Gamma Rho has more than 85,000 members in more than 500 chapters across the United States, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada, Germany and Korea.
“We’re thrilled to have this scholarship to award, given the history of Sigma Gamma Rho at Butler,” said Jaci Thiede, Butler’s Vice President of Advancement.
The curtain rose December 7 on the new Butler University Theatre Department Scene Shop, which has moved from cramped quarters in the basement of the Holcomb Building to much larger, well-ventilated space in the west side of the Sunset Avenue Parking Garage.
Half the space will be used to build scenery for Theatre productions; the other half will be used for costume storage for the Theatre and Dance departments.
At a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony, members of both departments said they couldn’t be happier.
“It’s like moving out of a house built in the ‘50s with no closet space into a house with walk-in closets,” Larry Attaway, Chair of the Dance Department, said.
“Such a significant upgrade,” said Michelle Jarvis, interim Dean of the Jordan College of the Arts.
“The scene shop was a small, crowded space in Holcomb, and this is way, way, way, way better,” Theatre Professor Wendy Meaden said.
The 40x80 scene shop and 40x40 storage spaces for both ballet and theatre costumes (which had been located in a pole barn behind Hinkle Fieldhouse) gives students and staff closer proximity to the Lilly Hall Studio Theatre, the Schrott Center for the Arts and Clowes Memorial Hall, where performances are held. It means that Glen Thoreson, the Scene Shop Supervisor and Technical Director, and crew have space with lots of natural light, a 25-foot-high ceiling, and improved air flow to build and paint sets, and they also have a garage door for easy access and exit to move sets.
In addition, costumes that once were often damp or damaged in storage are now kept in a climate-controlled facility. Both Theatre and Dance have more than 10,000 pieces in the new space.
“There’s so much more room to move and work,” Meaden said.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Department of Theatre Chair Diane Timmerman said the scene shop had been in various locations over the years, including under the old Hilton U. Brown Theatre west of Hinkle Fieldhouse.
She thanked the administration and Board of Trustees for approving funds to make the new space possible, and she acknowledged the efforts of past faculty, staff, and administrators who worked to secure better space for the scene shop.
“We’re standing on the shoulders of the people who came before us,” Timmerman said.
“We’re so grateful for everything that was done to make this happen,” Attaway added.
Butler’s Center for Citizenship and Community (CCC) celebrates its 20th anniversary on November 30 at 4:00 PM in Jordan Hall 109, and among the achievements the CCC will be reflecting on is the widespread impact it’s had on the city of Indianapolis, the University, and, especially, Butler students.
The CCC is responsible for creating the Indianapolis Community Requirement (ICR), which requires students to take one course in any part of the University that involves active engagement with the Indianapolis community. In 2015-2016, Butler students gave more than 25,000 hours of time, which translates to about $600,000 in value.
Beyond the ICR, the CCC also has helped facilitate projects that involve campus-community partnerships. This year, for example, the center is helping lead a major research project, “Music First,” which will use music to attempt to ease the suffering of Alzheimer’s patients. It also has supported Education Professor Katie Brooks, who secured a $2 million grant to alleviate the shortage of English as a New Language teachers. And the center has sponsored educational programs like leading a campus-wide discussion on civil discourse.
But Braid said the most significant impact the CCC has had may be on individual students who have gone into the community thinking they were simply doing volunteer work and instead found that they were learning about themselves and getting back even more than they were giving.
When Kate Richards ’18 came to Butler from Effingham, Illinois, she knew a little about the ICR and Butler’s focus on service learning. But the idea of communicating with the Indianapolis community was something that appealed to her.
During her first American Sign Language class, she did her service learning at Miller’s Merry Manor, a nursing home and rehabilitation center, where she and another student played cards and talked with three or four deaf residents using sign language. In her third ASL class, she was assigned to the Indiana School for the Deaf, where she tutored middle-school students in math.
Richards, a Communication Sciences and Disorders major, has now completed four ICR courses and works for the CCC as a liaison between the Deaf School and students at Butler. In that role, she places students where they’ll have the best experience.
The CCC began through a grant from Eli Lilly & Co. in 1996 with Political Science Professor Margaret Brabant as its first director. The center’s creation was an outgrowth of Butler’s role as a founding member of Indiana Campus Compact, an organization of Indiana universities that got together to recognize the value of civic engagement and the responsibility of universities to make connections with their communities.
Early on, Brabant pursued Community Outreach Partnerships Centers grants from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grants help colleges and universities apply their human, intellectual, and institutional resources to the challenge of revitalizing distressed communities.
Those grants, along with funding from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust and other local foundations, launched the CCC, which initially focused on service learning, community revitalization, fair-housing, and crime and safety issues.
The Indianapolis Community Requirement is one of those pieces that stayed. The CCC set up partnerships with community organizations, many of which continue to this day. The relationship with the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ISBVI) is one.
Luke Schaible ’17, an Accounting major from Findlay, Ohio, began his service learning experience at ISBVI when he was a first-year student in Braid’s Making a Difference in the World course.
When he first got there, he sat in a corner—“just being my shy self”—when a student came up and asked him to play basketball.
Braid said the experiences Richards and Schaible have had are exactly what makes the CCC important to Butler.
“We’re interested in empathy, community, and service, which are what we think are an essential part of an education, and with students coming through a liberal arts university, we hope to generate an understanding and a practice of those kinds of values and virtues,” he said.
Among the achievements the CCC will be reflecting on is the widespread impact it’s had on the city of Indianapolis, the University, and, especially, Butler students. | 2019-04-23T19:59:45Z | https://stories.butler.edu/topics/campus?page=12 |
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Ah, here is the promised poem… And what a delight Shiva. And the images…. This is one I revisit quite a few times methinks. Thanks so much.
Now please tell me immediately if you are online right now, how you saw this post, through your reader or email notification in your mail. As I am myself not able to see the post appearing on My Reader but it has come on my mail. Many of my blogger friends say my posts are not getting them to be seen on their Reader or email. I just want to confirm it. If you have come through your email please see in your reader and confirm if it is to be seen in your reader, I posted it just 50 minutes back.
So, My Dear keep visiting and reading this post so that you will be inspired to visit me sometimes as my guest in the forest. Hahaha!!
See this is happening with so many of followed bloggers. Thanks for your immediate response. If you have not seen the notifications you can have a small tour of my blog if you have time.
What to so about this should we put it on support.
Your poetry is beautiful, with stunning images to accompany.
Tell me how did you come across this post your Reader or email notifications.
What time was it, if you do not mind. Say how many minutes back.
I and many others are having problem seeing my posts in the Reader.
Thanks once again for the visit and comment.
Loved this one my friend.
You’re welcome. Love and peace.
You have not seen the previous two or three .
Now I have added my “Home” menu you can straight away browse.
Beautiful poem and beautiful pictures…lovely!
I think I have all these widgets on my my Blog already don’t you see then, anyway I shall look into them. Thanks.
I think it might be around 10.30 pm?
I signed out from my blog and saw my Blog as any other blogger could see it. I have all the widgets that you have mentioned in my side bar, the Follow button for wordpress follow and down below the button for email follow.
The current problem that is going for which I have registered it in the help and support, let us see what they would do about it. Is there anything else that you are talking about, can you not see these widgets in my blog.
Thanks for the comment. Its all about a person how and why he turns to be a monk or a sage; the state of mind becomes so and actually it happens so in real terms or life. The most astonishing thing is I read a book on Kundalini last week in which there is mention of such a thing in it and I was surprised that I had already written about it in a few lines in this poem. When a person attains such a state of mind as mentioned in the last few lines; nature and everything else becomes one with him, even the wild animals and beasts do not give any sort of problem and they bow down and be friendly.
I have finished writing one more poem and it is again strange that it has come out to be of 9 lines and 72 words.
I shall post it during next week. On an average I post four posts in a month and I think that is more than enough for me, rest of the time that is available I keep visiting other blogs and I am really very happy to be here with happy people sharing and caring sometimes even in their sorrows.
You have always been a special support and friend to me and I keep thinking how it influences on our minds too.
I do see that I am following you, I don’t see this type of widget on your page. It’s a little bit different than the follow widget, but maybe because I have set my individual email notifications for other blogs is tbe reason why I don’t see it.
That is a fascinating story about the monk/sage. I love the idea of becoming one with nature and the animals…that’s what I strive for. That’s the Universe at work once again where you wrote those lines down and then are reading a book that is stating what you wrote. I love how that works.
Thank you, I appreciate and enjoy reading your comments too.
I am very happy that you strive for and have been seeing that your state of mind is in track of that spiritual Sadhana.
“years of sadhana blessed him with technical mastery”. You can refer wikipedia for further reference.
In the Sadhana there comes so many other things, practices like Prayer, Pooja, Meditation, Yoga and Tantric practices, Reading of Scriptures and listening to the Sages of Scriptural texts and so on. All of them give certain amount of rewards, there is no doubt about it. But here how much of what is to be done, is the main criteria, that you shall get to know over a period of time and more so also by the one whom you have faith in his or her guidance. You may call him a Guru, Guide or whatsoever. He may be your own Parent, Friend, Teacher, Guardian, or anybody; it is not only I, even the scriptures say so. In this path; compared to any other, there shall be millions of obstacles which we may know or not, they shall hinder the progress, so we have to check on that. It shall again depend on our Karma also, I think I shall keep a little of it to write of karma in your post “Karma Knows”.
I feel if I have written this particular poem, I feel it is because of that little ‘Sadhana’ whatever I have been doing in the past so many (almost 20 Years now) years. I have been practicing all what I have told above but again so many obstacles have come. A decisive factor is again another thing to take into account. I feel you understand what I am saying, you are intelligent and that also helps not fully though, most things in the path have to be taken from the Heart center. You will start knowing how the universe works, it is good you love it.
The next post I feel you will simply feel it is amazing as it is very simple.
I wish you all the very best in the PATH.
Thanks Shiva for all your wise words and insight. You are right through life we encounter many obstacles, I believe these “obstacles” are actually there to help us learn. We need to observe them and then decide which path we want to take either with the obstacle, through the obstacle or around the obstacle. I agree also that most things do have to be taken from the Heart center. I believe if they are taken from there you will be less likely to regret the choice of path you took. I look forward to your next post. Thank you for your wish!!
I wish you an enlightening journey along your path too!!
You are very right.Mr.Shivakumar Ji.
You and I are often on the same wavelength Shiva, as we are this week. I love these beautiful photographs and wrote about nature myself. It is always a welcome rest and delight to visit you here.
There is such warmth in this comment and the oneness of feelings. Wow! you wrote about nature, I would love to read it. I just visited your blog and commented on your ‘Languor Management’ a wonderful post.
You feel a Welcome rest and are delighted to visit me here makes me feel so very happy, as you visit so many places around the world and maybe get tired; I welcome You always to come have a rest and refresh.
I had replied to your comment on my previous post which I am not seeing it, I think I had not pressed the Post Comment button after completing it. I shall go and reply you there right now, please go and read it as that was also a memorable comment of yours.
We can now both take an oath never to miss reading each other’s posts.
Yes Wendy! You are right always.
Hi Shiva! Lovely words as always!
I too do not see your posts in my timeline. I have to go to your site to see if you’ve posted anything. That being the case, I am sure that I have missed some things. I hope to be able to catch up soon.
I had this problem facing with me.
Just now I have Published one Post and I am able to see it in my Reader.
What you do is, go to your Reader, there is one icon “Manage”, on the right side, click on that, you get to see the blogs you follow, there you click on another icon, there you can manage the blogs howsoever you want in regard to the notification options. You can make them Daily, Weekly or not at all, choose the options, accordingly you shall be able to get the notifications to your mail. Tell me after you do it.
Meanwhile read the newest post simple as that.
Thanks Shiva. I’ve found that to be the best way to go about it; especially if I haven’t seen anything from a blogger in awhile.
Tell me after having done the options how it has worked for you. Depending on the one that you want you can do it, as you shall receive notifications in the way you want.
So now it is worth to have a cup of coffee.
The very best coffee for you, Shiva!!!
I felt a sigh of relief seeing you in my reader again as it is so hard to go through the tedious process of finding your blog if you are not on my reader..
I wonder how could you find me on the Reader as my last post is posted on 5th Sept, do you go by the dates to find or can you find it like that, please let me know. Because thousands of posts are posted every day by bloggers and how did you happen to find me. It is better not to totally depend on the Reader.
If it has made you think hard as it should but I feel you shall digest it fully as I come across your poems in the context of my thoughts.
You please read the other comments on this post to get more light on that.
I will indeed read them over again as i may really need it ..
I read all of the comments as you recommended shiva..and you’re right i am clarified as ever..
I am also hoping with fingers crossed that i don’t lose you again….
I hope wordpress would be kind enough to work this “we can’t find you in our reader” thing..
Do not forget to see and read my post scheduled for tomorrow around 10 am, hope you shall have that “Celestial Embrace”. Just scheduled.
A delightful poem to read while sipping my tea.
Beautiful images to go with a beautiful poem.
I visited your blog and its full of your heart’s feelings.
I have followed you there.
Thank you Shiva for the visit and your kind words.
Will visit your site this weekend. Weekdays barely get any spare time.
I never wanted or want to express that I am spiritual.
Maybe it comes naturally when you have such thoughts or in the path.
Yes I do feel still – when I start witnessing the world as a Soul and when I Meditate, I suddenly go into that Blissful state.
Remember, that is not all. there is further to understand. I think most of it is said in the lines in this Poetry, which has given me also that satisfaction. Every line tells of something profound. I think one has to think over deep again and again, so a glimpse of it shall be seen.
If you want any details of some of the lines you feel free to ask.
Hope you have listened to the music. Do keep time for them during meditation or while you go to sleep.
Wonderful Shiva! I have experienced the stillness myself but nothing beyond that. I would like to know what is beyond that and pray to God to enable me to experience it. I do not meditate but I pray everyday. I will try to do as you Shiva. BTW lovely poetry!
Prayer, Pooja, Japa, Studying of Scriptures, Yoga, Pranayama, Tantra, Homa, Listening to Discourses and Meditation are all different types of Sadhana. They have their own rewards to give and they have their limitations. But I should say they are interconnected and interlinked. One who is aspiring to know has to practice, and as you practice you shall know how much to of what.
In the course you shall find a Guru or if you have one it is so good. I should tell you here that a competent Guru is difficult to find and it is vice versa.
By the by, you are talking of Meditation. See it is like this, even if you sit for meditation what will you meditate. So first you have to ‘Know’ to ‘Experience’ it.
I shall continue my this discussion in my reply to your comment on my post “Celestial Embrace” as there is lot to be said there.
how did you get such amazing images?
Rekha after completing my write-up, I start searching for images in Google, relating to my subject and thoughts. Sometimes I search by the hundreds, only when I am convinced that it suits well to the post I insert them. Fortunately I getting them very soon sometimes. Mostly we have to devote time for that too.
So when anyone says and are impressed about them I feel good, having got the pats worth the search.
You will be opened to a big list of them.
yes, searching apt image is a task. I loved the water fall / running water image. its too good. thanks Shiva.
good morning . Ok. Thanks a lot. | 2019-04-20T04:43:58Z | https://theshivasponder.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/oh-you-world-now-you-envy/ |
Most conveyances are effected in a standard and fluid process. It is imperative that you follow the directions of Brisbane Conveyancing as well as those of your external advisers and consultants (such as your finance broker, your financier/bank, your pest inspector, your building inspector, your pool safety inspector etc.).
This, however, is not always the case and some conveyances encounter bumps and hiccups along the way. This is usually and commonly because either you, or your external advisers or consultants omit to do certain things as required because of oversight or unforeseen, and therefore un-scheduled issues arising during the conveyance process. These situations will then require renegotiations or extensions to certain deadlines and key-dates.
receiving a fax advising the cheques required to be provided at settlement.
preparing and sending a formal ‘settlement letter’ to you after settlement.
three further correspondences (via email or telephone) to or from you (excluding legal advice referred to in clause 7 below).
sending one fax nominating the time and place for settlement and advising the cheques required to be provided at settlement.
That the matter will be a ‘standard conveyance’ as defined in clause 1 above. If we are required to perform any work outside the scope of a standard conveyance we then we may levy an Additional Fee or Legal Advice Fee to you for each item of work outside of a standard conveyance required to be performed.
That we are formally engaged by you to act in the matter at least 23 days prior to the Settlement Date stated in the Contract. If we are not formally engaged within this timeframe we may levy an additional fee of $100.00 plus GST.
That we are formally engaged by you to act in the matter within 23 days of the Settlement Date stated in the Contract. If we are not formally engaged within this timeframe we may levy an additional fee of $100.00 plus GST (“Short Settlement Fee”).
When purchasing a property, that all funds required for settlement will be provided by your financier (bank). If we are required to receive funds required for settlement into our trust account then we may charge an additional amount of $100.00 plus GST (“Trust Account Fee”).
That you are not required to withhold any GST from the sale proceeds at settlement under the Taxation Administration Act 1953(Cth). If GST is required to be withheld from the sale proceeds at settlement then additional work is required to be carried out and accordingly we may levy an additional amount of $100.00 plus GST (“GST Withholding Fee”).
When purchasing a property that you are an Australian Resident. If you are a foreign person and we are required to prepare a Form 25 – Foreign Ownership Information, then we may levy an additional amount of $70.00 plus GST (“Foreign Ownership Fee”). Please note that advice or additional calculations required in respect of ‘Additional Foreign Acquirer duty will be charged at the Legal Advice Rate.
That the property you are purchasing is a residence or vacant land which is not located in a body corporate or community management scheme such as a unit or a townhouse. If you are purchasing within a body corporate or community management scheme, then we recommend that a body corporate information certificate is obtained in respect of the property. There are additional costs for this search.
That the property you are purchasing is located within the Brisbane City Council. If the property is located in another council, you may be required to obtain a council records search for the property to determine the status of the rates account for the property. We use the services of a search agent for our searches and the costs we are invoiced from these search agents is the cost that you will incur in us carrying out these searches, if necessary. There is no “mark-up” (handling fee) by us on these searches, just what they cost us.
Determine if there are any charges affecting the Property (which charges may need to be released at settlement).
We use the services of a search agent for our searches and the costs we are invoiced from these search agents is the cost that you will incur in us carrying out these searches, if necessary. There is no “mark-up” (handling fee) by us on these searches.
if the Contract is subject to you obtaining satisfactory finance by a due date (“the Finance Date”), then you obtain your approval for finance by that Finance Date. If any extensions to the Finance Date are required, we may levy an Additional Fee to you.
you have done and will do everything required by your financier (such as executing documents and returning them to the financier or your broker) in a prompt and timely manner enabling settlement to be effected on the scheduled date for settlement in accordance with the Contract. To this end, we assume that when we telephone your financier to schedule the settlement, the financier has received all documents and information from you allowing us to make the booking for settlement. If your financier is not in a position to schedule the settlement when we contact them (not earlier than 7 days before the settlement date under the Contract) and if we are required to make further telephone calls to your financier to enable the settlement to be scheduled, then we may levy an Additional Fee to you.
When selling a property, if the property is mortgaged, then we assume that you will contact your mortgagee promptly after entering into the Contract to inform your mortgagee of the sale and you have done and will do everything required by your mortgagee (such as executing documents and returning them to the financier or your broker) in a prompt and timely manner enabling settlement to be effected on the scheduled date for settlement in accordance with the Contract. To this end, we assume that when we telephone your financier to schedule the settlement, the financier has received all documents and information from you allowing us to make the booking for settlement. If your financier is not in a position to schedule the settlement when we contact them (not earlier than 7 days before the settlement date under the Contract) and if we are required to make further telephone calls to your financier to enable the settlement to be scheduled, then we may levy an Additional Fee to you.
That the Contract does not contain any non-standard or unusual special conditions requiring us to carry out and provide any unusual work in the conveyance. If your Contract contains any non-standard or unusual special conditions, we will notify you as soon as we become aware of such special conditions and we will provide you with an estimate of any extra fees that may be levied by us.
That there are no encumbrances on the title for the Property. If there are encumbrances on the title for the Property, we will recommend to you that you should instruct us to obtain images of these registered encumbrances. We use the services of a search agent to obtain these images and the costs we are invoiced from these search agents is the cost that you will incur in us obtaining these imaged encumbrances, if necessary. There is no “mark-up” by us on these images. If you require legal advice in relation to the encumbrances, we will provide you with a separate quotation for the advice upon request.
If we are required to correspond or liaise with any person or entity other than the above parties, we may levy an Additional Fee to you.
Settlement is outside of Brisbane (CBD), we will need to engage the services of a settlement agent at the town or place for settlement. Settlement agents charge anywhere between $50.00 and $150.00 to act as an agent at settlement. The cost that we are invoiced from the settlement agent is the extra cost you will incur in us engaging the settlement agent. There is no “mark-up” by us on the engagement of a settlement agent.
Settlement is not effected on the settlement date or at the time nominated for settlement, we may levy an Additional Fee to you.
if we attend at settlement and settlement is not effected requiring us to re-attend at a later date or time, then per additional attendance.
Tailored forms of Contracts contain non-standard provisions and are therefore specifically excluded from the Standard Conveyancing Fee. We at Brisbane Conveyancing are able to comprehensively advise you in relation to these forms of tailored contracts and we can provide you with a quotation for these services upon request. To give you an estimate of what we would charge you for an “off-the-plan” contract, it usually is around $1,500.00. But call us and we will be able to guide you further on this.
The standard searches included in the Standard Conveyancing Package are set out in the break-down of the Standard Conveyancing Package. These standard searches do not ensure that your rights and interest in relation to the Property are fully protected.
Powerlink search – this search will tell you if Powerlink have any interests in the Property.
Energex search – this search will tell you if there is any electricity connection to the Property.
Local Authority (full) search – this search gives you much more information than just the outstanding rates owing on the Property. It gives you information such as whether or not the property is flood affected, whether there are any vegetation protections orders on the Property, whether there are any outstanding plumbing approvals, it provides plumbing/drainage plans to the Property, and other important information concerning the Property.
Inspection Dwelling search – this search tells you whether or not the council holds final inspection certificates in respect of the Property.
Native Title search – this search tells you if the Property is subject to a claim under Native Title laws.
Heritage Register search – this search tells you if the Property is on the Heritage register or if there are any heritage agreements affecting the Property or if there are any prohibitions on use of the Property as a result of it being Heritage listed.
Telco search – this search shows you where the major telecommunications network cables (including fibre-optics) are located on or in the vicinity of the Property.
Special Water Meter Reading – this search provides an up to date reading of the water meter for settlement adjustment purposes.
We will provide you with the approximate costs of these additional searches upon request. We use the services of a search agent for our searches and the costs we are invoiced from these search agents is the cost that you will incur in us carrying out these searches, if requested by you. There is no “mark-up” by us on these searches.
You must deposit the Search Costs into our trust account prior to any additional searches being undertaken by us. We require the Search Costs at least 14 days prior to the Settlement Date If we do not receive the Search Costs into our trust account by this date, we will assume that you do not want to undertake any additional searches.
Unfortunately not all Contracts continue to settlement. Some Contracts which are, for example, conditional upon the buyer obtaining satisfactory pest and building inspections or satisfactory finance approval or pool inspections may be validly terminated under the terms of the Contract.
In the event of a Contract being validly terminated, we will only charge you a handling fee of $110.00 + GST and any searches that we may have undertaken on your behalf as at the date of termination (note that in addition to the handling fee will be any Additional Fees and Legal Advice Fees accumulated as at the date of termination).
In the event that you terminate your retainer (i.e. withdraw your instructions) with our firm prior to the completion of your matter we will be entitled to charge you the Standard Fee plus any Additional Fees and Legal Advice Fees incured along with the cost of any searches that we may have undertaken on your behalf up until such termination.
In the event that the contract is terminated due to a failure to settle on the settlement date, then we may charge the Standard Conveyancing Fee and any Additional Fees and the cost of any searches that we may have undertaken on your behalf as at the date of termination.
If during the conveyance an event occurs (e.g. the other party does something or omits to do something required by him or her under the Contract or at law, and if we are required to enforce your rights) that is not specifically covered by these terms and conditions, we may levy extra fees to you. At the time of this event occurring, our experienced property solicitors will notify you of your rights and provide you with all of the options available to you along with our best estimate (based on that point in time) on the extra fees you can expect to incur from us to enable you to make an informed decision. You can then decide how you want to move forward. You are the client and you are in control of your conveyance.
If you require us to provide legal advice which falls outside the scope of our retainer set out in clause 1 above, we will charge $50.00 plus GST per ten minutes or part thereof (Legal Advice Fees). Any Legal Advice Fees incurred will be levied in your final account and you acknowledge and accept such Legal Advice Fees.
In the event that you engage us to act on your behalf and decide not to proceed with our service. We may levy professional fees for the opening of your file in the amount of $110.00 plus GST.
It is often difficult to arrange for clients to present cheques to their banks for refunds of small amounts of money issued from our trust account. The effect of this is that the funds remain sitting on our trust account for years. Accordingly, on completion of your matter, if there is a balance held in our trust account of not more than $5.00, we may levy professional fees equal to the amount remaining in our trust account up to an amount of $5.00so that the funds can be withdrawn from our trust account.
In order to open your file, we will request that you deposit a Handling Fee into our trust account, to be held on account of your fees and disbursements. These funds will be applied to your final invoice and is not in addition to our Standard Conveyancing Fee.
Standard post is included in our Standard Conveyancing Fee, however, if we deem it necessary given the circumstances of your matter to send items by express, registered or international post the cost of the same will be included as a disbursement on your final invoice.
We advise that there have been recent cases where fraudsters have sent emails purporting to be from a law firm and requested clients transfer funds for a settlement. Should you receive any email from our office requesting the transfer of funds, please telephone our office to confirm our account details prior to attending to any transfer. | 2019-04-25T04:49:58Z | https://www.brisconvey.com.au/terms-conditions-2/ |
Silvio Tavares is an experienced CEO, senior executive and thought leader with over 15 years of experience in the digital commerce and payments industry. Mr. Tavares is President and CEO of The CardLinx Association, a leading global trade association for the payments and digital advertising industries. CardLinx founding members include MasterCard, Discover, First Data, Facebook and Microsoft among others.
He was previously SVP and Global Head of Information Products at Visa Inc. where he led a business unit generating several hundred million dollars in annual sales and successfully launched key new industry leading products in the areas of payment fraud detection, digital marketing and merchant loyalty. Mr. Tavares joined Visa from First Data, where he was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Information and Analytics. At First Data, he patented and launched First Data’s U.S. macro-economic spending indicator. He began his career at AT&T where he authored one of the earliest business method patents for web-based payments. He has authored over fifteen granted or pending patents in the fields of digital commerce, electronic payments and payments analytics.
Mr. Tavares earned a Juris Doctor degree from the Boston University School of Law (Oxford University Program), an MBA from Boston College and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tufts University.
Neal is the General Manager of Microsoft Earn. he leads Microsoft’s card linking initiatives and leads new initiatives to increase consumer engagement and monetization. Prior to this role, Neal was Chief of Staff for a number of Microsoft initiatives including Bing Local, Bing Mobile, Bing Maps, MSN, and Local Ad products.
Prior to Microsoft, Neal was a pioneer in the voice recognition industry. He launched IBM’s voice recognition products, he founded two companies that commercialized voice self-service, and for Microsoft he created the industry’s first voice search service.
Jon Carder is CEO and Co-founder of Empyr, an innovative online-to-offline commerce platform providing a frictionless approach to monetizing online consumers in the offline world.
Carder is a serial entrepreneur who has been nominated for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award three separate times and was previously named San Diego’s Most Influential Tech Executive. He has successfully created several multi-million Internet businesses, including card-linked offer company, Mogl, which was named Most Innovative Tech Company in San Diego. Carder also founded MojoPages, a local search engine that helps people find the best local businesses. Some of the nation’s largest media companies are using MojoPages technology including Hearst, CBS, FOX and ClearChannel.
Prior to Empyr, Bryon was previously the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Lytx, Inc, where he led the organization’s advanced analytics strategy, business intelligence, and algorithm development to support driving safety and autonomous vehicle driving. Bryon held various senior executive positions while at Lytx ranging from product management, quality, operations and manufacturing management, and has led several engineering and development teams. Prior to Lytx, he led product management, marketing and quality teams at Mitchell International, developing technology to the insurance space for efficient processing of automobile physical damage and bodily injury claims. Bryon received an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis. He holds multiple patents in driving safety processes and algorithms and is a certified Big Data analytics developer.
Paul is a seasoned product and marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in payments and technology. Paul manages data analytics products at First Data, a global leader in commerce enabling solutions. His responsibilities include overseeing First Data’s advertising analytics services, SpendTrend branded products, and various merchant analytics offerings. Prior to his current role, Paul headed digital and e–commerce products for First Data’s Gift Solutions business. Paul is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and earned his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jasma is responsible for the strategy, design and delivery of consumer and commercial products that position Discover to continue to be a leading payments partner. She is also responsible for international product strategy to better serve the needs of Discover’s Network Alliance and Diners Club franchise partners. Prior to her current role, she led the Innovation Office for the Discover Network. Jasma received a M.S. in Statistics from Michigan State University and attended the Kellogg Executive Leadership Program on leading transformation in the digital age. She is on the Chicago Chapter Board of Governors for American India Foundation and a Junior Achievement volunteer.
David is the founder and CEO of Augeo, and Co-Chairs the company with Juan. He leads Augeo’s new ideas origination efforts and drives the parallel strategic and technological innovations. In his role, David is active in all aspects of the firm’s activities. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, and Stanford University’s School of Law. He began his career at the law firm of Winthrop & Weinstine, PA. David is very active in philanthropic activities and serves as a voluntary member on a number of boards. He also actively participates in early stage commercial efforts, from time to time serving on their boards or supporting these ventures through Augeo.
Ricardo is an experienced Financial Services Industry professional (B2B/B2C) with more than 25 years working for large, multinational organizations in the areas of payments (network, issuing, and acquiring), product development, corporate strategy, business management and development, and client relationship management.
Prior to leading Discover’s Innovation, Products and Merchant Partnerships organization, Ricardo led Discover’s Global Acquiring group for two and half years and served as the Head of Global Commercial Payments for Diners Club International for over a year. Current and past employer list includes: Discover Financial Services/Diners Club International (Chicago, IL; 3.5 years), American Express (NY, USA and Sao Paulo, BR; 7 years), MasterCard International (US/New York and São Paulo, Brazil; 5 years), Visa USA (US, McLean, VA; 1 year), Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group (US, New York, NY; 5 years), e American Management Systems (US, Fairfax, VA; 3 years).
Ricardo was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and has lived in the United States for more than 20 years. He holds a B.S. degree in MIS and Decision Sciences from George Mason University and M.B.A. from the DARDEN Business School at the University of Virginia.
Brandon is President of PDI’s Engagement & Loyalty business, Excentus. With over 16 years of experience at Excentus, Brandon has been the driving force behind emerging and developing cents-per-gallon discounts into a coveted rewards currency, creating the Fuel Rewards program – a first-of-kind, nationwide coalition loyalty program, as well as delivering robust loyalty solutions for the convenience retail, consumer packaged goods, and grocery industries. Prior to joining Excentus in 2002, Brandon worked at, JPMorgan Chase, e-commerce start-up iChoose, and he also co-founded a strategy consultancy, Bloomin’ Partners Inc., providing strategic sales and business development services for venture and private equity backed companies.
Brandon holds a BA in Finance and Marketing from Texas Christian University and is a board member for the North Texas chapter of the Folds of Honor foundation. He and his wife are proud parents of three children.
Kirsty Rankin is Senior Vice President and Global Group Head of MasterCard’s Loyalty Solutions. In this global role, she is responsible for the strategy, design and management of innovative loyalty value propositions for the merchant community. MasterCard is committed to providing tailored, leading edge loyalty solutions that help businesses drive greater engagement and create longer term more profitable customers.
Kirsty brings a wealth of loyalty knowledge and expertise having been the Co-CEO of Pinpoint Pty Ltd, one of Asia Pacific’s leading loyalty and marketing service companies with offices in Australia, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Taiwan. During her 20+ year tenure at Pinpoint, Kirsty was instrumental in the growth of the company to over 500 employees where she developed highly successful, award winning loyalty and marketing programs across a broad range of industry verticals including financial services, retail, travel and entertainment. Pinpoint was acquired by MasterCard in July 2014.
Prior to Pinpoint, Kirsty worked at Qantas and American Express.
Kirsty holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales where she was a University Medallist. In Australia, she was a board member of ADMA, the leading marketing and advertising association and an advisory board member for Visit California.
Paul joined TransUnion in 2015 as the leader of the TransUnion’s Card organization, including both Market Strategy and Market Development. Transunion would become the first data platform to be represented on The CardLinx Association board of directors. Pauls teams at Transunion gather client needs, collect market intelligence and deliver thought leadership and solutions to the market.
Prior to joining TransUnion, Paul spent 12 years at Fifth Third Bank as Director of the Credit Card lines of business. Key contributions over the last decade include developing and leading the strategy resulting in ten-fold growth of the business to $2.6B in assets. A major component driving growth of profitability has been the ability to leverage the knowledge and manpower of key strategic partners such as TransUnion, MasterCard, Argus, Zoot, Vantiv and TSYS. Additionally, Paul was responsible for Fifth Third Student Lending from 2012–2014 and the associated partnership with Sallie Mae.
Paul spent 1996-2003 with Visa Sales and departed as the Midwest Regional Manager.
Jonathan brings over 25 years of executive experience to the marketing technology space, including his work at McKinsey & Company for clients like 3M and Honeywell, and developing affinity programs geared to consumer life stage and lifestyle segments.
Jonathan founded Affinity Solutions, the leading provider of card-linked offers and transaction-informed marketing solutions, where he now presides as President and CEO. Affinity partners with over 4,000 financial institutions and leverages proprietary analytics, applied to a range of customer data in a privacy-controlled environment to drive behavior for its retailer and bank clients.
In addition, Affinity’s Coupon-on-a-Card technology offers a highly differentiated, real-time customer experience that’s fundamentally changing the way card-linked offers are delivered in the marketplace. Lastly, the company provides a gateway service for retailers looking to distribute their offers in a variety of different publishing environments, with access to over 200 million customers.
Jonathan is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and briefly attended Harvard Business School.
Dev is the founder and CEO of Fidel based in London, UK. Fidel is a leading API platform for card-Linking and would become the first European company represented on The CardLinx Association board of directors. Fidel makes it easy for developers to build applications that receive real-time payment events directly from transactions made by payment cards, both online and offline. Fidel API currently supports Visa and MC only, with customers like British Airways, Gap, Subway, Burger King already plugged in. Prior to Fidel, Dev has been active in a variety of start-ups ranging from e-commerce to social networking including founding Badoo. He is a graduate of the Queen Mary University in London.
Satoru Suzuki is General Manager of Sumitomo Mitsui Card, USA and is based in the Palo Alto Office of Sumitomo Mitsui Card. He works on research and advanced payment solutions and technologies in North America and business development. He has 20+ years career in credit card business.
Mladen Vladic is the General Manager of Loyalty division within FIS, the world’s largest provider of retail payments and banking technologies.
Mladen specializes in banking and retail loyalty solutions as well as emerging payment trends. Under his leadership, FIS Loyalty division has been focused on convergence between banking and retail loyalty space to deliver relevant, real time point-of-sale consumer engagement opportunities and coalitions. Those efforts received five industry recognitions in the last two years including PYMNTS.com POS Innovation Award and Pay Before’s Outstanding Loyalty Program.
Mr. Vladic earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business from University of Pristina, Serbia and Master’s degree in Business Economics from University of South Florida.
Erin Warren serves as the senior vice president of marketing at Cartera Commerce, a leading provider of loyalty marketing solutions and rewards programs that increase revenue and customer loyalty. Last year, Cartera Commerce was acquired by Ebates/Rakuten, and Erin, along with Cartera’s executive team, has led the successful transition to strengthen loyalty marketing solutions for its customers. As part of the integration of Cartera into Ebates/Rakuten, Erin is now also heading up the Rakuten Card Linked Offer Network for Rakuten. Before coming to Cartera, Erin was CMO at CollegeWeekLive (an edtech start-up) and VP of Channel Marketing for Sallie Mae. Erin came to Sallie Mae through the successful acquisition of Upromise where she led member acquisition marketing for this coalition-based marketing company. A marketing veteran with 20 years of experience in the industry, Erin has always been motivated by the opportunity to enhance the way companies execute their marketing strategies to attract and retain customers. A former two-time luge Olympian (’94 and ’98), Erin is currently President of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Luge Association as well as a member of the U.S. Luge Foundation. She earned her MBA from Babson College’s Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business.
Sabine Brunthaler has longstanding, international experience in client-facing advisory roles in professional B2B services providing strategic business support to senior leaders of large and mid-sized global organizations. Most recently with Boyden Executive Search, Sabine was the Lead Partner for Finance and Life Sciences in Switzerland. Additionally, as a committee member of the British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, she helped member organizations grow in the UK and continental Europe.
Before that, Sabine was CEB’s Director Member Services for their European Finance Practice offering best practice research for management strategies and serving over 150 of Europe’s leading organizations across industries. Her earlier experiences include working for CEB’s IT Practice in new member acquisition, developing marketing strategies for an American software company as well as managing a team of 150 trainers in adult education.
She holds a humanities degree from the University of Vienna and an Austrian diploma in training management. Sabine received her marketing qualifications in the UK with the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Her MBA at London Guildhall University (now London Metropolitan University) allowed her to analyze consulting needs for human resources, information technology and finance in organizations across Europe, an area of additional research for the past two years. Sabine is fluent in German, English, and French.
Ming Lacey is the PR Director of The CardLinx Association.
She directs media outreach and strategy, manages social media engagement, explores strategic partnerships and identifies conference and journalist interviews/ speaking opportunities for CardLinx and its members.
Ming’s communications career began in New York City as the PR and Communications Manager for The Reserve, a money fund company. After managing crisis and triage communications at The Reserve, Ming joined Rubenstein Associates as Assistant Vice President in the financial and legal group where she helped financial services institutions, law firms and non-profit organizations to amplify their messages to the business media. Following a move to Portland, Oregon, Ming worked at LANE PR as Account Director overseeing their largest agency accounts with regional community banks and financial institutions.
Prior to her work in public relations, Ming started her career in the financial services industry as a portfolio assistant at Alliance Bernstein managing municipal bond funds. Then she worked at Citigroup in Hong Kong and New York for five years in varying capacities in the Corporate Realty Services and Global Transaction Services divisions where she focused on marketing, branding and internal communications. Ming is a graduate of the University of Chicago and received a B.A. in Economics.
Ester supports the enrollment of new members and member relations for The CardLinx Association, including outreach and registration of new members and ongoing management and support of existing members.
Steve is responsible for new member outreach and the marketplace activities that lead to growth of the association. Having a background in business development for marketing publishers and association, he brings the opportunity and resources for new members in the CardLinx ecosystem.
Christina organizes CardLinx Forums worldwide, including venue selection, marketing, logistics, sponsorships, catering, transportation and speaker liaison for each event.
Scott is responsible for UX and UI Design for the website. As well as maintaining the site platform and updating content. | 2019-04-20T04:58:19Z | https://cardlinx.org/about-us/team/ |
It is the term used to describe legal work involving the buying and selling of properties.
How long will the whole process take?
The amount of time a sale or purchase may take can vary significantly. The factors to consider are whether you are in a chain of transactions, if a mortgage is required and how quickly the local authority return searches. It also depends on whether the property is freehold or leasehold. Transactions of leasehold properties tend to take longer to complete than freehold transactions.
It is likely that a mortgage will be required and there will be a chain of transactions and if that is the case it will usually take 8 to 10 weeks to exchange contracts and then another 2 weeks between exchange of contracts and completion making a total of 10 to 12 weeks from start to finish.
Reference to a chain is where there is more than one buyer and seller involved, e.g. you are selling to someone who in turn is selling to someone else. Unfortunately, a chain of conveyancing transactions can only proceed at the pace of the slowest link. Purchasers waiting for search results or mortgage offers can cause delays to the chain. Even when everyone is ready the longer the chain the more difficult it can be to agree a completion date as the various people up and down the chain all have their own preferences for moving dates.
How soon do I need to pay any money?
If you are purchasing a property we will ask you for approximately £300.00 at the beginning to cover the search fees that will be paid out on your behalf. When contracts are exchanged, we will require the deposit to be paid to us in cleared funds.
If you are just selling, we usually ask you to pay us £100.00 in advance. The remainder of our costs, disbursements and agents fees will be paid out of the sale proceeds on completion, before the balance is sent to you. We will deduct any sums to your lender before we pay you the balance.
Why do I have to provide my solicitor with various items of ID before I can proceed with selling or buying a property?
We are required by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Land Registry and current Money Laundering Regulations to certify that we have checked the identity of our clients. It is also often a condition of your mortgage offer. In addition, we have to complete various forms, particularly those relating to stamp duty land tax and we need to have information such as your full names, national insurance number and date of birth.
Do I need a survey?
If you are taking out a mortgage to assist with your purchase, a surveyor/valuer will inspect the property on behalf of the lender. The surveyor’s report will give an indication as to the property’s value and may highlight any areas of concern. Whilst there have been cases where borrowers have been able to rely to some extent on a lender’s valuation report, the prudent way to proceed is on the basis that if the lender’s valuer has made a mistake or misses something, you will not have recourse against them.
For an extra fee you will usually be offered the option to arrange for the same valuer to carry out a more detailed “Home Buyers Report”. You can rely upon this, so if at a later date you find a problem that is not mentioned in the report you may have some redress against the valuer.
If the property is quite old or you are concerned about its condition you can obtain a full structural survey report which will provide further detail.
Broadly speaking there is no duty on the part of a seller to disclose defects in the physical condition of a property. For all practical purposes you should therefore rely on your own surveyor or valuer.
What searches are carried out and why?
There are four main types of search that will be carried out by the buyer’s solicitor .
A local authority search reveals information about a property, such as planning permissions and building regulation consents, proposals for roads or traffic schemes and environmental and pollution notices, tree preservation orders, conservation areas and any other matters within the Council’s control that may affect the property. A local authority search only reveals matters that affect the property being searched against. It will not disclose matters that relate to neighbouring properties. If you have any concerns about neighbouring properties, please tell us.
This will show whether or not the surface and foul water drains run into a public or private sewer. It will also show whether the property is connected to mains water. The replies may also show the location of public sewers within the boundary of a property and other such matters that may restrict development.
An environmental search will provide a report about the likelihood of contamination at a property based on past land uses. If a local authority determines that land is contaminated, and the party who caused the contamination cannot be found, the current owner or occupier of the land may be required to remedy the contamination. This can be an expensive process, so it is important to check the position before committing to buy a property. An environmental search will also provide details about flood risk, which can be followed up with an full flood search if appropriate.
A deposit is the amount of money paid across at exchange of contracts. It acts as security in the event that you do not complete the purchase. It is usual for the deposit to be 10% of the purchase price, but the actual amount depends on what you have available and what the seller is willing to accept.
Traditionally, the deposit has been 10% of the purchase price, but provided that the seller is willing to accept less, a lower amount can be used. If you are buying and selling within a chain, it is quite common to use the deposit received in connection with your sale for your purchase so you do not always have to find extra at exchange of contracts.
Can either party withdraw without a penalty being incurred?
The short answer is yes. Until contracts exchange, there is no binding commitment to proceed. Therefore, either party can pull out of the transaction (and potentially the chain), whether it is as a result of replies to enquiries, issues with the title, a negative survey or simply a change of mind without any obligation to pay compensation to the other parties in the chain.
If you exchange and then withdraw from the transaction , for whatever reason, you will lose your deposit and could be liable to pay compensation to the seller.
Should you decide to withdraw you would still be liable to pay your legal fees and any disbursements incurred. However, if the other party to the transaction withdraws for any reason before contracts are exchanged and you have taken out our TurnKey Cover your legal fees to the appropriate limit will be covered.
Restrictive Covenants – What are they and do they affect me?
If you subsequently breach any of the restrictive covenants imposed against your property, the person with the benefit of the covenant could take legal action against you to enforce the covenant and/or claim damages.
What are Indemnity Insurance Policies?
Indemnity polices are insurance policies taken out to protect you against a defect in the title of the property. Title defects range from a property having building works carried out without the required building regulation consent to a breach of covenant. The policy is designed to cover you against losses incurred should a third party take action as a result of the defect.
What happens with the keys?
The keys are usually left with the estate agents (if any) and the buyer collects them once the money has been paid over on the day of completion. If there are no estate agents (or this is not convenient) then the seller can hand them direct to the buyer.
What should I do once I get my keys on completion and begin to move in?
Have a good look around the property, check the loft, garden and any outbuildings (i.e. the garden shed and garage). Take a copy of the Fittings and Contents list with you and check that all items, which are due to be left, have been. Check that there are no items left which should have been removed, including any rubbish. You must report any discrepancies to us immediately so that we can take the appropriate action. You will also need to check the meters and make contact with the utilities providers including the local council office.
When will I get my title deeds to the property?
All ‘deeds’ for registered properties are held online in an electronic format at H M Land Registry. You will no longer receive a big bundle of old documents, but simply a copy of the electronic register once registration of the property in your name has taken place. Registration is dealt with after completion of your purchase so you will most likely receive a copy of the updated register entries within a month of completion.
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Profitability module is included and can be customized and upgraded at anytime This feature is included as a standard option. Your institution has the ability to effectively tailor your data to maximize the relationship between profit and marketing efforts.
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CRM Implementation Consulting 10 hours of best-practices consultation from an industry expert is included with your purchase.
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Annual Marketing Conference A bonus that is always a favorite with hundreds of our clients, the cost of the annual MARQUIS marketing conference is included with your purchase.
User Groups We offer nationwide online and in-person regional meetings to share ideas among current MARQUIS CRM users.
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The aesthetic appeal of Apple iPhone would definitely hook many eyes and once inside the OS, then there starts the real deal as it uses the new iOS 11 operating system to its full potential and its loaded with new features that would pacify your mobile experience. It’s a charm to own Apple iPhone, and if your pocket is wide enough then here are some of the accessories that will best fit the Apple iPhone portfolio.
If you are one among many who struggles sorting and copying files to an SD card, then Dooter Card reader is a blazing deal for you. This multifunctional card reader is much more than a fancy accessory; it has a Lightning adapter for iOS devices; USB C adapter for Type C devices; Micro USB adapter for Android devices; USB adapter for computers / Macs., thereby making it an exceptional tool for file transfer. Both SD and micro SD cards are supported with ultra-speed file transfer capability.
The omission of 3.5mm was a surprising move from Apple, but they have made adequate amends in the lightning connector to support audio. If your thoughts are fiddling like how would you listen to music while charging, the answer shall be dual Lightning adapter by Steanum. The audio and charging will be handled efficiently as if it was happening separately. This adapter is compatible with iOS 10 and later, and gives the best throughput with almost all lightning headphones. Compatible with iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 8/8 Plus, and iPhone.
A super sturdy and ultra-stiff data cable might have been a dream stuff for many, with Syncwire iPhone Charger Lightning Cable the ‘ its dream come true’. The highlight is the rigid and unbreakable construction of the cable, which is made from ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene which is 40% stronger than normal cable. The core is toughened aramid fiber and all connections are laser welded with reinforced stress points, all this means one badass hulk kind of cable for your iPhone X. The stringent lab testing and flawless build had earned them Apple MFI certification, so you can go for this one without much of a concern.
It’s common to have Lightning cables in every room in the house but to do the same with charging pads could be a major investment. The iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are the first smartphones from Apple to feature wireless charging. These new iPhones are compatible with the Qi wireless charging standard and can be charged wirelessly with Qi chargers like the Belkin Boost Up or the Mophie Wireless Base.
The “Wireless Charging” is a premium feature and it had never been the cup of tea for mid-rangers, so comparably the choices for wireless charging pads have always been limited. However, for all premium flagships, there had always been a perfect generic match and Mophie wireless charger is the pick.
Mophie wireless charger is compatible with all Qi-enabled phones, so does your iPhone too. There are aligners in-built, making sure that your phones get aligned properly for effective charging. It charges iPhones faster, at 7.5W maximum. LED indicators are housed to notify 100% charge and the ergonomics are perfectly sculpted to avoid any fuss handling the phone.
Belkin BoostUp is one of the best wireless chargers out there in the market targeting iPhone users. The design and aesthetical appeal are so soothing for eyes, and so does with the performance too. Basically, you could find a 5W and 7W version of this model, where the later one could do a quick charge in supporting devices. The anti-slippery surface and sleek profile ensure that your phone could safely be ditched for charging.
How if you could get a smooth ergonomic mobile stand with a quick wireless charge for under few bucks? Choetech Qi Wireless Charging Stand is an amazing deal which packs in all high-end specs in a wireless charger. The smooth rubber padded mobile stand could position your phone in the landscape as well as portrait mode while giving a 1.4x quick charge. The charger could support a wide range of Qi-enabled mobiles including iPhone, Samsung phones, and various other Android phones.
If you own an Apple watch and iPhone, this might be the exclusively for you. The PowerHouse from Belkin is packed with some cool features, which might be little expensive at this price point; however, an iPhone user wouldn’t call it so! The wireless charging module is only for Apple Watch, where the mobile will be docked with lighting adapter protruding for charging. The built quality and ergonomics are outstanding making it a perfect match for your iPhone as well as Apple watch.
Airpods are a charm, and technologically much upper handed than any other earphones in the market, but all this charm comes with a heavy price tag. AirPods are still arguably the best true wireless headphones out there from a technical standpoint, and they work super- seamlessly with iPhone. They sound great and stay in the ear perfectly. All the new iPhones and watches support wireless charging and the AirPods gets the same feature too. However, the wireless charging feature applies to the charging case. It holds a charge for about five hours, and the charging case can charge it for up to 24 hours of usage.
Zolo liberty series earpods house similar specs as that of Apple Airpods, with 3.5 hours running time and the charging case can charge it for up to 24 hours of usage. Earpods are exclusively designed for workout freaks with sweat proof and super ergonomic design to snug fit the ears during vigorous movements. The graphene coated sound drivers would deliver crisp and better audio, and the Zolo earpods also features quick charge, Bluetooth 4.2 or 5.0 all packed inside a sturdy polymer body.
Now we are moving to more budget-friendly territory in the wireless world. Level U from Samsung is a smart move featuring an around the neck design comforted with urethane polymer grip and wing gels on the earpiece to suit ergonomics. The earphone comes with Dual-Mic Noise Reduction and Echo Cancellation which reduce outside sound interference and feedback during calls.
If you could spend $1000 for an iPhone, then an extra few hundred bucks for the Beats Solo 3 shall be justified. With a hefty price, Beats introduce Solo 3 wireless on-ear headphones that come in with best in class sound quality. With 40+ hours battery backup, slick ergonomics and streamlined voice support, solo 3 is a great choice for iPhone users.
The earphone has 5-minute Fast Fuel charging feature which gets you 3 hours of playback. This headphone can be charged with Universal USB charging cable (USB-A to USB Micro-B). And to satisfy your aesthetic sense there are 10 color choices available.
Losei Wireless earbuds are more like an Apple Airpod, but comes with a more affordable price tag. Earbuds deliver good quality audio output and run for up to 3 hours on a single charge. The portable charging dock can hold 450mAh electricity and can charge the earbuds 3-4 times. These earbuds also have noise and echo cancellation feature.
A Car Charger is designed to charge from your car when you are on the go. The charger could even feed larger devices like MacBook or IPad. Apple products could juice the best performance with this charging adapter and separate lightning cables are available exclusively for Apple devices.
When your mobile is smart enough, then you should carry it in a super smart handbag. For those ladies over there, FYB London Smart City Bag is more than a fashion statement. Equipped with wireless charging pocket, biometric fingerprint vault, Bluetooth security, RFID for data protection, and super secure compartments this is kind of James Bond stuff we are dealing. While the bag is technologically outstanding, style is not lagging behind anything. Made from Genuine leather this bag is a perfect match for your iPhone in all sense!
Morpheus Labs have some of the best exclusive bike mounts for Apple phones. They have a model specific design which ensures that the phone will snug fit into the case. The mount has auto-rotating quick lock system which gives a 360o movement for the holder. The case also features military-grade toughness and has MIL-STD-810G certification too. So if you plan to mount your expensive iPhone on a bike, better don’t take chances, go with Morpheus Labs M4s bike mount.
This is another bike mount to hold your phone safely especially if it’s a bumpy ride you’re expecting. The arms of the mount can be moved horizontally and vertically to suit the phones dimension and an additional rubber grip would ensure it stays on the mount itself. The neck of the mount can be rotated 360o according to your convenience.
Well, this is some tech-savvy stuff, which would make your smartphone even smarter. X-Triple 6 Case is a multi-sim adapter which can accommodate 2 extra sim card in addition to default Nano sim (iPhone comes in a single Nano sim version). So with this adapter, you can manage 3 sims simultaneously and the best part is that there is a protective case for the phone included which will accommodate this extra add-on. Once the adapter plugged in, an automatic setting app will help you switch between sim cards and manage calls, SMS etc. without the need for jailbreaking.
It is basically a mobile case with inbuilt power bank. With 6000mah battery capacity, you could charge your iPhone X at least 1.5 times and the case, on the other hand, is a protective shell made from a high-quality PC+TPU material with 3600 protection. The battery is well circuited and has overheating and overcharge protection, thereby protecting your iPhone from all angles.
This is something that everyone should own. Anker Multi port charger has 5 quick charges 3.0 outlets that could simultaneously charge your multiple devices at once. The total power is 51.5 W and could feed high-end phones from all major mobile brands like Samsung, Apple, HTC etc. This charger also has Power IQ which would automatically detect your device and deliver the optimized fast charging supply which when combined with their revolutionary voltage boost would work better than other quick chargers. The design is sleek and well sculpted which has blue soft LED, making it visually pleasing.
Swift as an arrow, that will be the perfect idiom that will pop into your mind once you use this flash drive. As small as a usual a pendirve but could store tons of data in the blink of an eye. Sandisk iXPAND is a perfect solution for photo junkies you would often click with their Apple device. Once the memory is full, just plug in Sandisk iXPAND and that’s it. When you plug in the flash drive, the photos and videos will be backed up automatically without the need for manual intervention. USB 3.0 lighting support makes it work like a bolt with iPhone as well as your PC. Available in 32GB, 64GB, 128 GB.
If carrying a big power bank isn’t your idea, then this phone accessory might be just enough for you. Lipstick-sized power bank from Anker has adequate juice in it to keep your phone running for half day. Since the module has got only a single 3350 mah battery, it could power your iPhone X to some 70 -80% which still is a great deal, especially considering the size and price. There is a 3 color LED indicator to alert battery status too. With this slim and compact profile, Anker PowerCore+ Mini is an apt power bank for your iPhone.
All joggers out there, this might be the perfect armband you might have been looking for. Tribe A37 is a great mobile carrier when you are out for jogging. Sweat and water resistant construction ensure that your phone isn’t prone to any liquid damage, moreover, the Velcro strips of the band would snug fit it into almost all sizes of arms. There is a narrow reflector on the side making it a great choice to use in low lights and the mini pouch within could carry small valuables like keys, money or coins.
What could you perceive when someone says a mobile stand? If that dull cliché stand popped in your mind, then it’s time to change it because Lamicall has some of best looking mobile holder design that is adjustable at the same time and perfect to fit your phone. The best part is that you could position your phone even with a case on it and proper gaps are minded for charging dock. The construction is all aluminum body with ergonomic rubber pads to secure phone in place. Best of all, the brand offers a lifetime guarantee a full refund for unsatisfied customers.
Anker SoundCore Nano is a great extension portable Bluetooth speaker for Apple iPhones. The form factor is well designed and so compact such that you could easily carry it around, even inside your pant pocket. Though the size description appeals tiny, the sound quality is exactly opposite; the 3W audio driver produces a crystal clear sound. Standard 33ft wireless connectivity is offered with Bluetooth 4 protocol an extended 4 hours of battery backup is also there. Aluminum-alloy shell design looks premium and it is available in multiple colors.
This is a 2 in 1 wallet/mobile case which could carry a minimum of 3 cards and some dollar bills without bulking up. The groves and cuts are so precisely made such that you can improvise a kickstand with one of your cards. The texture is perfected with micro grips making it a charm to hold in hand, giving better hold on your device. Well, when the design offers you so much definitely your wallet must some extra dollar bills to afford this case.
If you think like Sphero is something that has rolled out straight from Star War realm, it’s partly true nonetheless it’s a cute remote controllable buddy that you could own. There is a companion app that you’ll find on the App Store which will give you an interface to fiddle with Sphero’s mind.
The aesthetics are simply a charm and to add glam there is wireless charging base for this droid and altogether this is a fun to own accessory for your iPhones. | 2019-04-26T12:36:39Z | https://www.beingtechsavvy.com/best-top-iphone-accessories/18116 |
Plans to restore the Grade II-listed Royal Bell as a 5-star hotel in the heart of Bromley have been unanimously granted permission by Bromley councillors (subject to conditions). The building, which is currently on Historic England’s ‘At Risk’ register, will now be fully restored and extended, to house 50 luxury bedrooms, function rooms, a retail unit, gym and swimming pool.
The Royal Bell has stood over Bromley High Street since it was rebuilt in 1898 on the site of an earlier 17th Century hostelry. The Grade II listed building as it stands today was designed by Ernest Newton, an important Arts and Crafts movement architect.
For many years, The Royal Bell has been vacant, neglected, and has declined into a state of disrepair, with Historic England placing it on the ‘Buildings at Risk’ register. Recent conditions reports have estimated the cost to restore the former coaching inn to be in excess of £3million.
Local building and property development company, N. Hillman & Sons, have successfully acquired the property, through The Substantia Group, and are determined to restore the building to its former glory; returning Victorian Grandeur to the slowly decaying shell.
Hillmans have employed the acclaimed restoration architect, Benedict O’Looney to design a scheme that works sympathetically with the historic building whilst providing a commercially viable solution to safeguard the buildings future.
The Bell at Bromley, a celebrated local landmark, has its origins in the 16th century. By the 18th Century, it was one of Bromley’s busiest coaching inns, with two stagecoaches running daily to and from London. As an important stopping point on routes from London into Kent and Sussex, the inn was celebrated in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’, when the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh recommends that Elizabeth change horses at Bromley – “If you mention my name at the Bell, you will be attended to”.
In 1898, coaches and horses had been replaced by the railway, and the building was completely rebuilt by Ernest Newton, an important local figure and prominent Arts & Crafts architect. The new luxury hotel was the largest of a trio of buildings that included a bank and a jewellers. The grand urban streetscape, in a fashionable ‘Queen Anne’ style, reflected Bromley’s status as one of Kent’s most prosperous market towns.
A much loved institution for local people for over a century, the formerly grand building latterly operated as a Bernie Inn, hosted a troubled nightclub called ‘Bromleys’, and the late-night ‘Sky Bar’. Today sadly neglected, the Royal Bell has stood empty and unused for over eight years.
An inn called the “Bell” is referred to in parish records as far back as the Seventeenth Century. It grew over the years to be one of Bromley’s principal staging hotels. The building grew in a haphazard way, but by the early Nineteenth Century boasted a genteel regency frontage – the rear remained rather more humble. Both sides are captured in early photographs of the period, when the Bell was at the heart of Bromley’s social and political life. From 1847, the landlord was William Sutton. The building had the same scale and general appearance as the still extant Swan & Mitre at the other end of the High Street. While visitors to Bromley stayed and took refreshment in its well appointed rooms, local working people would have drunk beer at the “Bell Tap”, an unassuming secondary building next door.
By the 1890s the front of the Bell had to be propped up as it was in danger of collapse. William Sutton was succeeded by his son Frederick, but in 1897 the family negotiated the sale of the whole enterprise to Reid and Co Ltd, owners of London’s Griffin brewery. Reids began redevelopment of the whole site, replacing the coaching inn and the Bell Tap with a building better reflecting the prosperity of Victorian Bromley. Fittingly, the foundation stone for the new building was “laid” by William Sutton’s 1 year old grandson.
Ernest Newton was a prominent and influential architect at the end of the Nineteenth and the early Twentieth Centuries. Born in 1856, he began his career in June 1873 as a pupil in the office of the celebrated architect, Richard Norman Shaw, and after undertaking a 3 years pupilage he became Shaw’s assistant for 3 further years, learning from one of the most popular and influential architects of the day. Setting up in his own practice from 1879, his buildings reflected these cosmopolitan and fashionable beginnings.
He was the son of Henry Newton, an estate manager for the Sturt Estates in Hoxton. His father’s position, and Shaw’s extensive connections, gave Newton his earliest opportunities. With the acquisition of Bickley Hall by a land and development company in 1884, Newton’s father took on responsibility of developing the site, giving his son the opportunity he needed to grow his practice with new commissions. Here he would build the large middle class homes that established his name over the next ten years. Deeply influenced by Shaw, he took up the fashion for red brick, tile hung, houses with attractive windows, adapting it for use in the burgeoning neighbourhoods of Grove Park, Bickley and Chislehurst. Along with houses, he built the churches, shops, pubs and meeting halls that completed these communities.
Newton went on to be one of the founders of the Art Workers Guild, that highly influential body that promoted the Arts & Crafts movement, and was president of the Royal Institute of British Architects during the difficult years of World War One, where he coordinated the issue of building licences. Recognition of this important role can in the award of a Royal Gold Medal in 1918, and a CBE in 1920, while in 1919 he was made a Royal Academician. However, his dedication during the war years affected his health and he died on January 25th 1922 aged 65.
In the 1860s, the fashion for Gothic architecture in England was on the wane. Richard Norman Shaw introduced into popular public taste a new style in reaction to Gothic, one which rejected medieval architectural features in favour of a distinctly English palette of red brick, small square panes of glass, white painted woodwork and red roof tiles. Just as the Gothic revival had been led by the polemics of Pugin, this new “artisan” style had a powerful advocate in William Morris and his decorating firm. The Red House, designed for Morris in 1859 by Philip Webb only five miles from Bromley at Bexleyheath, was the first manifestation of this new “Domestic Revival” style. Where Webb and William Butterfield led in the 1850s, others including Norman Shaw, followed in domestic work of the 1860s, and more attention grabbing public projects emerged in the 1870s, when the fashion rose to dominance in England.
This new style, labelled “Queen Anne” after the English architecture of the early Seventeenth Century, was a reaction to the perceived moralising of Gothic. Also called the “Domestic Revival”, “Arts & Crafts” or even “Free Classical” it drew upon a range of sources including English, Dutch, and Flemish domestic buildings of the Seventeenth Century, the interiors of Robert Adam, and the artistic ideals of William Morris and his firm. It was sometimes formal and sometimes playful, rejoiced in red brick, scrolled ironwork, white woodwork, terracotta and plaster ornament. It delighted in asymmetry and breaking conventional rules of proportion. It was generally a “town” style, unlike the full blown Arts and Crafts fashion of the early Twentieth Century. It was immensely fashionable, defining the “look” of large parts of Kensington and Chelsea to this day, but was also employed for philanthropic buildings, particularly hospitals, fire stations and schools. The London Board Schools (built from 1872 to the early 1900s) were almost invariably designed within the movement, and represent its most extensive legacy, along with the prototype “aesthetic” suburb of Bedford Park (at Turnham Green, built from 1876).
Norman Shaw was a generous employer and assisted his proteges in the development of their own careers. It is likely that he was responsible for introducing his former pupil to the Earl of Northbrook, of the Baring banking family. Northbrook became one of Newton’s first independent clients.
The Earl’s father, Sir Francis, had bought the Manor of Lee in 1792. The area was progressively developed from the early Nineteenth Century, particularly after the arrival of the railway with Lee and Grove Park stations. Grove Park in particular was conceived as the opportunity to create a new “artistic suburb” much in the manner of Norman Shaw at Bedford Park. The choice of Ernest Newton as the preferred architect meant that it was destined to be more than a run of the mill speculative development on the edge of London; his talents and tastes had been guided by the very best of late Nineteenth Century architectural practice.
Newton designed a number of large villas at Grove Park, including “Three Gables”, the house that would be let by children’s author E Nesbit and her husband in 1895. The house was in the best fashion of “Queen Anne” free styling, beneath the hipped roof, tall brick chimneys and titular gables (two half timbered, the central one pargeted), the fenestration was irregular and deep bay windows were thrown out from the principal rooms into the generous gardens. It was a suitably free and liberating backdrop for Nesbit and her circle, that included HG Wells and George Bernard Shaw. Whether just following architectural fashion or a real attempt to style a South London rival to Bedford Park, the efforts of Lord Northbrook did attract its share of liberals and free-thinkers.
Newton also design the shops at the neighbourhood’s centre and the Baring Hall Hotel as one of the country’s first “improved” pubs, where moderate intake was encouraged by the provision of food as well as alcohol. Of all his work at Grove Park, only the pub survives today, thankfully saved from recent demolition by local campaigners. Nevertheless, at Grove Park, Newton established his refined architectural style.
After 1884, development of the Bickley Hall Estate began in earnest as a high class commuter enclave. The South Eastern Railway’s new short route from St John’s to Chislehurst opened up the area to affluent Londoners looking for space and clean air. Numerous villas and large houses remain today in Bickley and Chislehurst as testament to this period, many of them designed by Newton, who had by this time established his office at Gray’s Inn, London. It was the remodelling of a house called Bullers Wood, in Chislehurst, for the Sanderson family, that gave Newton his first significant large commission in 1889. The house cleverly took advantage of its sloping site with a number of garden terraces, overlooked from a large drawing room decorated by Morris & Co. In Bickley, he designed Lyndhurst (No.8 Bird in Hand Lane) in 1884 for himself and his family. Newton had married Antoinette Hoyack of Rotterdam in October 1881 and they went on to have three sons.
The new Royal Bell was an ambitious exercise to give Bromley a street that reflected its prosperity and proud urban character. Cole Childs had built the new Town Hall around the corner in the 1860s, its prominent tower representing a new scale for the town centre that the Bell had to match. At four storeys, it is double the height of its predecessor. The scheme incorporated not only a large new hotel for the railway age but also a branch of Martin’s Bank and a jewellery shop. Each were given different stylistic treatments to create a sense of variety and an organic growth to the High Street. The bank was favoured with Newton’s beloved bow windows cased in ornamented lead, surmounted by curved dormer windows. The shop is neo-Jacobean. The Bell is in a domestic style, a granite faced ground floor with a fine red brick elevation above, surmounted by a wooden cornice in the manner of a “Queen Anne” townhouse. The prominent three sided bay windows are a typical Newton feature, marking the most important rooms, and are embellished with pargeted motifs. Above the cornice a row of long dormer windows pierce a brick parapet – these rooms were clearly upgraded during the design process, probably because they were to be additional guest rooms. The windows on the street elevation are small Georgian panes, while those at the rear are Victorian plate glass. The glory of the Bell is its enormous Ballroom,with decorative stained glass, on the first floor at the rear, and also its ornate function rooms overlooking the street; a grand staircase endorsed the new hotel’s high class status. Meanwhile the plans allowed for a reincarnation of the “Bell Tap” at the far right ground floor, with a separate entrance.
The plain gables at each end of the group suggest Newton intended his group to be the starting point of a grander High Street, an ambition that would be thwarted by the onset of the Great War. Nevertheless these fine civic buildings represent Newton’s most important non-domestic commission, and remain one of the finest local townscapes in the proximity of London. The only substantial changes are to the front of the ground floor, adapted in the 1930s to incorporate separate shops either side of the main entrance. The group was listed Grade II in 1973.
Hillmans are dedicated to returning the property to its former Victorian glory, whilst introducing a scheme that is sustainable and that will safeguard the property’s future. Hillman’s scheme will see The Royal Bell reinstated as a grand 5-star hotel and community hub.
To ensure these plans, and to return the building to a working hotel that provides a viable solution to secure The Royal Bell’s future, the team is working with a Hotel specialist who is advising on the facilities deemed as critical by UK hotel operators. To run the hotel as a premium, 5-star rated hotel requires a minimum of 50 bedrooms with restaurant, function space and spa facilities.
The ground floor will therefore house the Hotel reception, a restaurant and provide two commercial units, whilst the Basement will be renovated to provide a gym and spa, which will be available to both hotel guests and the public. The former Dining Room and Ballroom, on the 1st floor, will be painstakingly restored to their original grandeur and will offer function spaces which will be available for meetings, private hire and as a community facility.
Guest bedrooms suites will be created in the upper floors of the historic building, and within a sympathetic extension to the rear.
This development will see the historically important building not only protected from further decay, but painstakingly restored to its former glory.
It is hoped that the introduction of a 5 star hotel on Bromley High street will help rejuvenate the area which in recent years has unfortunately become home to many empty units, for sale signs and charity shops.
The Royal Bell Hotel will offer local artists and makers the opportunity to exhibit within the hotel, and local community groups will be able to use the function spaces.
Hotel guests will enjoy the town centre location, making use of the shopping, dining and entertainment opportunities within walking distance.
The property’s central Bromley location makes it perfectly positioned to once again operate as a hotel. Car parking, restaurants, shopping, cinema, theatre and public transport are all in easy walking distance.
Do you have a story of times spent at The Royal Bell or photos of the building over the years, if so the team would love to hear from you, please email [email protected] or complete the below form to get in touch.
“My father was born in The Royal Bell, and when I showed him the photos on your site, it brought back a lot of memories. My grandparents took the tenancy of the Bell Shades pub in around 1926. At that time, the building was split with the pub on the right, and the hotel on the left. My grandparents were newly-weds then – the youngest publicans in Bromley at the age of just 21 and 20. My dad’s brother, Bob, was born in 1927, and my father, Philip, arrived on 7 July 1929. He remembers the pub being very small, just a single room. His parents stayed there until he was six years old, when they all moved to the tenancy of the Chequers Inn, in Isleworth. He can remember watching a parade to celebrate the silver jubilee of George V out of the Bell’s upstairs window in 1935. | 2019-04-22T17:02:23Z | http://www.theroyalbell.co.uk/ |
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Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) There is established an account to be known as the "Face of Connecticut account" which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account and contributions from any source, public or private. Any moneys in the account shall be expended by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, as directed by the Face of Connecticut Steering Committee established pursuant to section 2 of this act for the acquisition, restoration or stewardship of properties, each of which such properties, when acquired or restored, will serve not less than two of the following objectives: (1) The conservation of open space land, as defined in section 12-107b of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes; (2) the renovation and enhancement of urban parks; (3) the preservation of active agricultural land; or (4) the restoration or reuse of historic resources.
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) There is established the Face of Connecticut Steering Committee, which shall be within the Department of Environmental Protection for administrative purposes only. Such committee shall direct the expenditure of any funds deposited in the Face of Connecticut account created under section 1 of this act. The committee shall consist of the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, or the commissioner's designee, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the executive director of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and ten members as follows: (1) A representative of a local organization involved in historic preservation, appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; (2) a representative of a nonprofit organization involved in farmland preservation, appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate; (3) a representative of a local or regional nonprofit organization involved in the preservation of open space, appointed by the majority leader of the House of Representatives; (4) a representative of a water company actively involved in land preservation, appointed by the majority leader of the Senate; (5) a representative of the agricultural industry, appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives; (6) a representative of a state-wide nonprofit involved in the preservation of open space, appointed by the minority leader of the Senate; (7) a representative of a state-wide nonprofit organization involved in historic preservation, appointed by the Governor; (8) a representative of an organization involved with community redevelopment, appointed by the Governor; (9) a representative of the legislative Brownfields Task Force, appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; and (10) a representative of the environmental law section of the Connecticut Bar Association who is involved with brownfields remediation, appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate.
(b) All initial appointments to the committee shall be made not later than September 1, 2008. The term of each appointed member of the steering committee shall be coterminous with the term of the appointing authority or until a successor is chosen, whichever is later. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall serve as the chairperson of the committee for the two years following the appointment of the committee, followed first by the Commissioner of Agriculture for two years and subsequently by the executive director of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism for two years and subsequently by the Commissioner of Economic and Community development or said commissioner's designee for two years. Such rotation shall repeat every two years thereafter in the order specified in this subsection, except that if there is a vacancy in one of said positions, one of the other commissioners or the executive director may serve as chairperson until the vacancy is filled.
(c) The committee shall meet quarterly.
The commissioner shall, in consultation with the Farmland Preservation Advisory Board established under section 22-26ll of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes, adopt, in accordance with chapter 54, such regulations as [he] the commissioner deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Such regulations shall provide that individual landowners applying for such program shall be eligible to receive not more than twenty thousand dollars per acre for development rights, and the schedule of the state's contribution for joint ownership projects initiated by municipalities shall be increased accordingly.
Sec. 4. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Commissioner of Agriculture may establish a community farms program for the preservation of farmland that does not meet the criteria of the farmland preservation program established pursuant to section 22-26cc of the general statutes for reasons of size, soil quality or location but that may contribute to local economic activity through agricultural production. The commissioner may purchase up to one hundred per cent of the value of development rights directly from an eligible owner, or may acquire development rights on qualifying farmland jointly with a municipality, subject to the appraisal and review required by the regulations adopted pursuant to this section. For the purposes of this section, "development rights" and "owner" shall have the same meaning as in section 22-26bb of the general statutes.
(b) If the Commissioner of Agriculture establishes a program in accordance with subsection (a) of this subsection, the commissioner shall, in consultation with the Farmland Preservation Advisory Board established under section 22a-26ll of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes, establish criteria for said program. Such criteria shall give preference to farms that produce food or fiber, and at a minimum shall consider (1) the probability that the land will be sold for nonagricultural purposes, (2) the current productivity of the land and the likelihood of continued productivity of such land, (3) the suitability of the land for agricultural use, including whether the soil is classified as locally important soils by the United States Department of Agriculture, and (4) the demonstrated level of community support for preservation of the parcel. The commissioner shall, in consultation with said board, consider mechanisms that encourage continuation of the land in agricultural production to maintain its long-term availability and affordability for future generations of farmers, including, but not limited to, deed restrictions or stewardship requirements.
(11) "Eligible grant recipients" means municipalities, economic development authorities, regional economic development authorities, or qualified nonprofit community and economic development corporations.
(b) Subject to the availability of funds, the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development may, in consultation with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, provide financial assistance pursuant to subsections (e) and (f) of this section in support of eligible brownfield projects, as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of this section.
(c) An eligible applicant, as defined in subdivision (4) of subsection (a) of this section, shall submit an application for financial assistance to the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development on forms provided by said commissioner and with such information said commissioner deems necessary, including, but not limited to: (1) A description of the proposed project; (2) an explanation of the expected benefits of the project in relation to the purposes of subsections (a) to (i), inclusive, of this section; (3) information concerning the financial and technical capacity of the eligible applicant to undertake the proposed project; (4) a project budget; (5) a description of the condition of the property involved including the results of any environmental assessment of the property; and (6) the names of any persons known to be liable for the remediation of the property.
(d) The commissioner may approve, reject or modify any application properly submitted. In reviewing an application and determining the type and amount of financial assistance, if any, to be provided, the commissioner shall consider the following criteria: (1) The availability of funds; (2) the estimated costs of assessing and remediating the site, if known; (3) the relative economic condition of the municipality; (4) the relative need of the eligible project for financial assistance; (5) the degree to which financial assistance is necessary as an inducement to the eligible applicant to undertake the project; (6) the public health and environmental benefits of the project; (7) relative economic benefits of the project to the municipality, the region and the state, including, but not limited to, the extent to which the project will likely result in a contribution to the municipality's tax base and the retention and creation of jobs; (8) the time frame in which the contamination occurred; (9) the relationship of the applicant to the person or entity that caused the contamination; (10) the length of time the property has been abandoned; (11) the taxes owed and the projected revenues that may be restored to the community; (12) the type of financial assistance requested pursuant to this section; and [(10)] (13) such other criteria as the commissioner may establish consistent with the purposes of subsection (a) to [(i)] (k), inclusive, of this section.
(e) (1) There is established a remedial action and redevelopment municipal grant program to be administered by the Department of Economic and Community Development for the purpose of providing financial assistance in the form of grants to eligible grant recipients. Eligible grant recipients may use grant funds for any development project, including manufacturing, retail, residential, municipal, educational, parks, community centers and mixed-use development, and the project's associated costs, including (A) soil, groundwater and infrastructure investigation, (B) assessment, (C) remediation, (D) abatement, (E) hazardous materials or waste disposal, (F) long-term groundwater or natural attenuation monitoring, (G) environmental land use restrictions, (H) attorneys' fees, (I) planning, engineering and environmental consulting, and (J) building and structural issues, including demolition, asbestos abatement, polychlorinated biphenyls removal, contaminated wood or paint removal, and other infrastructure remedial activities.
(2) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall award grants on a competitive basis, based at a minimum on an annual request for applications, the first of which shall be issued on October 1, 2008, and the following to be issued on June first each year, with awards being made by the following January first. The commissioner, at the commissioner's discretion, may increase the frequency of requests for applications and awards depending upon the number of applicants and the availability of funding.
(3) A grant awarded pursuant to this section shall not exceed four million dollars. If the eligible costs exceed four million dollars, the commissioner may request and seek funding through other state programs.
(4) If the eligible grant recipient develops and sells the property, such applicant shall return any money received pursuant to this subsection, to the brownfield remediation and development account established pursuant to subsection (l) of this section, minus twenty per cent, which such eligible grant recipient shall retain to cover costs of oversight, administration, development and, if applicable, lost tax revenue.
(5) Any eligible grant recipient shall be immune from liability to the extent provided in subsection (a) of section 32-9ee.
(6) The eligible grant recipient may make low-interest loans to a redeveloper, if the future reuse is known and an agreement with the redeveloper is in place and the private party is a coapplicant. Loan principal and interest payments shall be returned to the brownfield remediation and development account established pursuant to subsection (l) of this section, minus twenty per cent of the principal, which the eligible grant recipient shall retain. If the eligible grant recipient provides a loan, such loan may be secured by a state or municipal lien on the property.
(7) Any eligible grant recipients that provide a loan pursuant to subdivision (6) of this subsection shall require the loan recipient to enter a voluntary program pursuant to section 22a-133x or 22a-133y with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection for brownfield remediation. The commissioner may use not more than five per cent of eligible grant or loan proceeds for reasonable administrative expenses.
(8) Notwithstanding section 22a-134a, the eligible grant recipient may acquire and convey its interest in the property without such recipient or the subsequent purchaser incurring liability, including any such liability incurred pursuant to section 22a-134a, provided the property was remediated pursuant to section 22a-133x or 22a-133y or pursuant to an order issued by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection and such remediation was performed in accordance with the standards adopted pursuant to section 22a-133k as determined by said commissioner or, if authorized by said commissioner, verified by a licensed environmental professional unless such verification has been rejected by said commissioner subsequent to an audit conducted by said commissioner and provided the subsequent purchaser has no direct or related liability for the site conditions.
(f) (1) The Department of Economic and Community Development shall develop a targeted brownfield development loan program to provide financial assistance in the form of low-interest loans to eligible applicants who are potential brownfield purchasers who have no direct or related liability for the site conditions and eligible applicants who are existing property owners who (A) are currently in good standing and otherwise compliant with the Department of Environmental Protection's regulatory programs, (B) demonstrate an inability to fund the investigation and clean-up themselves, and (C) cannot retain or expand jobs due to the costs associated with the investigating and remediating of the contamination.
(2) The commissioner shall provide low-interest loans to eligible applicants who are purchasers or existing property owners pursuant to this section who seek to develop property for purposes of retaining or expanding jobs in the state or for developing housing to serve the needs of first-time home buyers. Loans shall be available to manufacturing, retail, residential or mixed-use developments, expansions or reuses. The commissioner shall provide loans based upon project merit and viability, the economic and community development opportunity, municipal support, contribution to the community's tax base, number of jobs, past experience of the applicant, compliance history and ability to pay.
(3) Any loan recipient who is a brownfields purchaser and who (A) receives a loan in excess of thirty thousand dollars, or (B) uses loan proceeds to perform a Phase II environmental investigation, shall be subject to section 22a-134a or shall enter a voluntary program for remediation of the property with the Department of Environmental Protection. Any loan recipient who is an existing property owner shall enter a voluntary program with the Department of Environmental Protection.
(4) Loans made pursuant to this subsection shall have such terms and conditions and shall be subject to such eligibility, loan approval and criteria, as determined by the commissioner. Such conditions shall include, but not be limited to, performance requirements and commitments to maintain or retain jobs. Loan repayment shall coincide with the restoration of the site to a productive use or the completion of the expansion. Such loans shall be for a period not to exceed twenty years.
(5) If the property is sold before loan repayment, the loan is payable upon closing, with interest, unless the commissioner agrees otherwise. The commissioner may carry the loan forward as an encumbrance to the purchaser with the same terms and conditions as the original loan.
(6) Loans made pursuant to this subsection may be used for any purpose, including the present or past costs of investigation, assessment, remediation, abatement, hazardous materials or waste disposal, long-term groundwater or natural attenuation monitoring, costs associated with an environmental land use restriction, attorneys' fees, planning, engineering and environmental consulting costs, and building and structural issues, including demolition, asbestos abatement, polychlorinated biphenyls removal, contaminated wood or paint removal, and other infrastructure remedial activities.
(7) For any loan made pursuant to this subsection that is greater than fifty thousand dollars, the applicant shall submit a redevelopment plan that describes how the property will be used or reused for commercial, industrial or mixed-use development and how it will result in jobs and private investment in the community. For any residential development loan pursuant to this subsection, the developer shall agree that the development will provide the housing needs reasonable and appropriate for first-time home buyers or recent college graduates looking to remain in this state.
(8) The loan program established pursuant to this subsection shall be available to all qualified new and existing property owners. Recipients who use loans for commercial, industrial or mixed-use development shall agree to retain or add jobs, during the term of the loan, unless otherwise agreed to by the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Connecticut Development Authority and the Connecticut Brownfield Redevelopment Authority. The residential developer shall agree to retire the loan upon sale of the units unless the development will be apartments.
(9) Each loan recipient pursuant to this subsection may be eligible for up to two million dollars per year for up to two years, subject to agency underwriting and reasonable and customary requirements to assure performance. If additional funds are needed, the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development may recommend that the project be funded through the State Bond Commission.
[(e)] (g) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall approve applications submitted in accordance with subsection (c) of this section before awarding any financial assistance to an eligible applicant or purchasing any participation interest in a loan made by the Connecticut Development Authority for the benefit of an eligible applicant. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, if the applicant's request for financial assistance involves the department purchasing a participation interest in a loan made by the Connecticut Development Authority, such authority may submit such application and other information as is required of eligible applicants under subsection (c) of this section on behalf of such eligible applicant and no further application shall be required of such eligible applicant. No financial assistance shall exceed fifty per cent of the total project cost, provided in the case of (1) planning or site evaluation projects, and (2) financial assistance to any project in a targeted investment community, such assistance shall not exceed ninety per cent of the project cost. Upon approval of the commissioner, a nonstate share of the total project cost, if any, may be satisfied entirely or partially from noncash contributions, including contributions of real property, from private sources or, to the extent permitted by federal law, from moneys received by the municipality under any federal grant program.
[(f)] (h) Financial assistance may be made available for (1) site investigation and assessment, (2) planning and engineering, including, but not limited to, the reasonable cost of environmental consultants, laboratory analysis, investigatory and remedial contractors, architects, attorneys' fees, feasibility studies, appraisals, market studies and related activities, (3) the acquisition of real property, provided financial assistance for such acquisition shall not exceed fair market value as appraised as if clean, (4) the construction of site and infrastructure improvements related to the site remediation, (5) demolition, asbestos abatement, hazardous waste removal, PCB removal and related infrastructure remedial activities, (6) remediation, groundwater monitoring, including, but not limited to, natural attenuation groundwater monitoring and costs associated with filing an environmental land use restriction, (7) environmental insurance, and (8) other reasonable expenses the commissioner determines are necessary or appropriate for the initiation, implementation and completion of the project. The department may purchase participation interests in loans made by the Connecticut Development Authority for the foregoing purposes.
[(g)] (i) The commissioner may establish the terms and conditions of any financial assistance provided pursuant to subsections (a) to [(i)] (k), inclusive, of this section. The commissioner may make any stipulation in connection with an offer of financial assistance the commissioner deems necessary to implement the policies and purposes of such sections, including, but not limited to the following: (1) Providing assurances that the eligible applicant will discharge its obligations in connection with the project; and (2) requiring that the eligible applicant provide the department with appropriate security for such financial assistance, including, but not limited to, a letter of credit, a lien on real property or a security interest in goods, equipment, inventory or other property of any kind.
[(h)] (j) The commissioner may use any available funds for financial assistance under the provisions of subsections (a) to [(i)] (k), inclusive, of this section.
[(i)] (k) Whenever funds are used pursuant to subsections (a) to [(i)] (k), inclusive, of this section for purposes of environmental assessments or remediation of a brownfield, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection may seek reimbursement of the costs and expenses incurred by requesting the Attorney General to bring a civil action to recover such costs and expenses from any party responsible for such pollution provided no such action shall be brought separately from any action to recover costs and expenses incurred by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection in pursuing action to contain, remove or mitigate any pollution on such site. The costs and expenses recovered may include, but shall not be limited to, (1) the actual cost of identifying, evaluating, planning for and undertaking the remediation of the site; (2) any administrative costs not exceeding ten per cent of the actual costs; (3) the costs of recovering the reimbursement; and (4) interest on the actual costs at a rate of ten per cent a year from the date such expenses were paid. The defendant in any civil action brought pursuant to this subsection shall have no cause of action or claim for contribution against any person with whom the Commissioner of Environmental Protection has entered into a covenant not to sue pursuant to sections 22a-133aa of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes and 22a-133bb with respect to pollution on or emanating from the property that is the subject of said civil action. Funds recovered pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the brownfield remediation and development account established pursuant to subsections [(j)] (l) to [(m)] (o), inclusive, of this section. The provisions of this subsection shall be in addition to any other remedies provided by law.
[(j)] (l) There is established a separate nonlapsing account within the General Fund to be known as the "brownfield remediation and development account". There shall be deposited in the account: (1) The proceeds of bonds issued by the state for deposit into said account and used in accordance with this section; (2) repayments of assistance provided pursuant to subsection (c) of section 22a-133u of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes; (3) interest or other income earned on the investment of moneys in the account; (4) funds recovered pursuant to subsection (i) of this section; and (5) all funds required by law to be deposited in the account. Repayment of principal and interest on loans made pursuant to subsections (a) to [(i)] (k), inclusive, of this section shall be credited to such account and shall become part of the assets of the account. Any balance remaining in such account at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward in the account for the fiscal year next succeeding.
[(k)] (m) All moneys received in consideration of financial assistance, including payments of principal and interest on any loans, shall be credited to the account. At the discretion of the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, any federal, private or other moneys received by the state in connection with projects undertaken pursuant to subsections (a) to [(i)] (k), inclusive, of this section shall be credited to the assets of the account.
[(l)] (n) Notwithstanding any provision of law, proceeds from the sale of bonds available pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 4-66c of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes may, with the approval of the Governor and the State Bond Commission, be used to capitalize the brownfield remediation and development account created by subsections [(j)] (l) to [(m)] (o), inclusive, of this section.
[(m)] (o) The commissioner may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, provide financial assistance pursuant to subsections (a) to [(i)] (k), inclusive, of this section from the account established under subsection [(j)] (l) to [(m)] (o), inclusive, of this section.
(a) Any municipality or licensed environmental professional employed or retained by a municipality may enter, without liability to any person other than the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, upon any property within such municipality for the purpose of performing an environmental site assessment or investigation on behalf of the municipality if: (1) The owner of such property cannot be located; [or] (2) such property is encumbered by a lien for taxes due such municipality; [or] (3) upon a filing of a notice of eminent domain; (4) the municipality's legislative body finds that such investigation is in the public interest to determine if the property is underutilized or should be included in any undertaking of development, redevelopment or remediation pursuant to chapter 130, 132, 445 or 581; or (5) any official of the municipality reasonably finds such investigation necessary to determine if such property presents a risk to the safety, health or welfare of the public or a risk to the environment. The municipality shall give at least forty-five days' notice of such entry before the first such entry by certified mail to the property owner's last known address of record.
(b) A municipality accessing or entering a property to perform an investigation pursuant to this section shall not incur any liability pursuant to section 22a-432 of the general statutes for any preexisting contamination or pollution on such property, provided, however, a municipality may be liable for any pollution or contamination resulting from a negligent or reckless investigation.
(c) The owner of the property may object to such access and entry by the municipality by filing an action in the Superior Court not later than thirty days after receipt of the notice provided pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, provided any objection be limited to the owner affirmatively representing that it is diligently investigating the site in a timely manner and that any municipal taxes owed will be paid in full.
(a) There is established a task force to study strategies for providing long-term solutions for the state's brownfields.
(10) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or the secretary's designee.
(c) Any member of the task force appointed under subdivision (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) or (7) of subsection (b) of this section may be a member of the General Assembly. At least one member shall be an employee.
(d) All appointments to the task force shall be made no later than thirty days after the effective date of this section. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority.
(e) The speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate shall select the chairpersons of the task force [,] from among the members of the task force. Such chairpersons shall schedule the first meeting of the task force, which shall be held no later than sixty days after the effective date of this section.
(f) Not later than [February 1, 2008] January 1, 2009, the task force shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to environment and commerce, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes. The task force shall terminate on the date that it submits such report or [February 1, 2008] January 1, 2009, whichever is later.
(7) (A) Subject to the provisions of sections 12-87 and 12-88, the real property of, or held in trust for, a corporation organized exclusively for scientific, educational, literary, historical or charitable purposes or for two or more such purposes and used exclusively for carrying out one or more of such purposes or for the purpose of preserving open space land, as defined in section 12-107b, for any of the uses specified in said section, that is owned by any such corporation, and the personal property of, or held in trust for, any such corporation, provided [(A)] (i) any officer, member or employee thereof does not receive or at any future time shall not receive any pecuniary profit from the operations thereof, except reasonable compensation for services in effecting one or more of such purposes or as proper beneficiary of its strictly charitable purposes, and [(B)] (ii) in 1965, and quadrennially thereafter, a statement shall be filed on or before the first day of November with the assessor or board of assessors of any town, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough, in which any of its property claimed to be exempt is situated. Such statement shall be filed on a form provided by such assessor or board of assessors. The real property shall be eligible for the exemption regardless of whether it is used by another corporation organized exclusively for scientific, educational, literary, historical or charitable purposes or for two or more such purposes.
(B) On and after July 1, 1967, housing subsidized, in whole or in part, by federal, state or local government and housing for persons or families of low and moderate income shall not constitute a charitable purpose under this section. As used in this subdivision, "housing" shall not include real property used for temporary housing belonging to, or held in trust for, any corporation organized exclusively for charitable purposes and exempt from taxation for federal income tax purposes, the primary use of which property is one or more of the following: (i) An orphanage; (ii) a drug or alcohol treatment or rehabilitation facility; (iii) housing for homeless, retarded or mentally or physically handicapped individuals, or for battered or abused women and children; (iv) housing for ex-offenders or for individuals participating in a program sponsored by the state Department of Correction or judicial branch; and (v) short-term housing operated by a charitable organization where the average length of stay is less than six months. The operation of such housing, including the receipt of any rental payments, by such charitable organization shall be deemed to be an exclusively charitable purpose.
Sec. 9. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Nothing in subparagraph (A) of subdivision (7) of section 12-81 of the 2008 supplement to the general statutes, as amended by this act, shall be construed to affect the terms of any stipulated judgment with regard to the imposition of property taxes. | 2019-04-19T00:21:54Z | https://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/ACT/PA/2008PA-00174-R00HB-05873-PA.htm |
The story behind the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II is an incredible one. British and other Allied troops had been essentially backed into a corner, stranded on a beach with no route home and the German Army cutting off all land routes. That story is being told once again in Dunkirk, the new movie from director Christopher Nolan.
The movie tells the story of what happened to those on the beach with nowhere to go and no way back to friendly territory from three perspectives. On the land, there are the hundreds of thousands of troops who are waiting for rescue while trying to survive regular bombardment from the Luftwaffe. In the air there’s the Luftwaffe, who are the only German force harassing the troops and the Royal Air Force meeting them for battle. On the sea there’s the story of the makeshift navy made up of British fisherman and other civilians who were called upon to cross the English Channel and actually rescue the troops stranded in Dunkirk.
Another poster used an extreme close-up of one of the soldiers on the beach, his comrades scattered around him and fires burning in the background setting the scene. The same message of how the soldiers were stranded so “home came for them” is used here but it’s notable that this new approach is less about the scale of the story and more about the human element.
An IMAX poster changes perspective from the rest of the poster campaign, this time showing one of the civilian boats that’s heading toward Dunkirk, the flames visible in the distance and men swimming desperately toward the boat. IMAX gets big brand placement here, bigger than the title treatment.
Another shows soldiers climbing out of the sea onto a rescue vessel while fighter planes and ships smoke and do battle in the background.
A motion poster was basically a quad graphic showing a couple battleships on fire as the camera slowly zoomed in.
The first teaser is very much just that. Between shots of a beachfront with groups of soldiers standing on it we’re reminded this is coming from Nolan, with The Dark Knight Trilogy and other movies being name-dropped. At the very end we see a transport boat full of soldiers and hear a plane coming in on a bombing run before it cuts to black.
All the shots are wide and hazy, establishing the style of the movie but not really hinting at the story with the exception of a couple title cards that tell us “At the point of annihilation…survival is victory.” It’s a good teaser but will do little to nothing for the casual fan.
The first official trailer is an emotional one. It starts out by establishing the danger the 400,000 troops arrayed on the beach are in, receiving threats from the German army and generally feeling penned in. Soon the attacks start and are unrelenting, with soldiers seeking shelter anywhere they can or going mad with fear and, as we see, just walking into the ocean. It’s framed by conversations with the officers about the situation they’re in.
It’s pretty powerful stuff. Nolan’s name is all over it, usually associated with The Dark Knight Trilogy and other movies audiences have previously enjoyed. Aside from that, though, what’s promised here isn’t a war movie like Saving Private Ryan that’s brutal but uplifting. Instead it’s more about showing resilience in the face of overwhelmingly bad odds. There’s little star power on display – a couple shots of Murphy and Hardy, with more of Kenneth Branagh – so it’s more concerned with both the story and the director’s brand.
The second trailer starts out by showing the scope of the military situation at hand, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beach and constantly facing attack. The perspective then shifts to the everyday sailors who were called upon to go get them, even as the enemy kept up the pressure. It’s a race against time as the massive rescue operation gets underway even as the German air force keeps up the pressure to take them all out.
Again, the focus here is on the scope of the story even while it is given a few different very human and personal faces. It’s a big dramatic war story that’s being told and it’s that which the trailer is promising.
Another short trailer was specifically designed to promote 70mm IMAX presentations and amps up the tension with loud music, fast cuts and narration about never surrendering, even as bombs drop and planes fly over.
The official website for the movie starts off by playing the main trailer, which is worth your time to watch again. Once you close that or it finishes you’re greeted with the main page that uses the key art with the close up of the soldier on the beach, the ravages of war in the background. There’s also a big “Get Tickets” button there that encourages you to find a location playing the movie in 70mm.
Buttons below that include “Watch Trailers,” which takes you to a section that lets you watch all three of the trailers. Then there’s a link for the “Soundtrack” where you can choose to buy the album on iTunes or elsewhere or stream it on Spotify or Apple Music. “Worldwide Release Dates” is just what it sounds like.
The first two options in the row of prompts at the bottom relate to the VR experiences created to help promote the movie. “Web VR Game For Chrome” (some clunky branding there) is a Google-powered WebVR experience that allowed you to play alone or with a friend and get an idea of what life on that beach might have been like. “Save Every Breath: The Dunkirk Experience” is a bit more full-featured, developed for use on Oculus or other VR platforms that take you inside the events of that fateful period.
Next is “Amazon Skill,” which is a skill you can add to Alexa devices offering a narrated adventure game allowing you to play as a solider at Dunkirk who must survive all the dangers there. “Unlock Dunkirk” offers facts and stats from those days on the beach that were unlocked by people who posted to Twitter using #Dunkirk. You can explore what’s already been unlocked or Tweet something yourself to find out more. After that the “Prologue Experience” is a map/schedule of theaters that have been showing snippets from the movie containing all three story perspectives.
Finally at the bottom of the main page are links to the movie’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram profiles.
TV spots like this one focus exclusively on the tension that comes with trying to fight off a massive army while being stranded on the beach. There’s nothing here about the heroism of the British public in mounting an ad hoc naval rescue or anything else, it’s just about the bombs and the strafing runs and other action. More TV commercials kept hammering on different aspects of the story, from the desire to get home to the call to do your duty for Queen and Country to the desperation of the men on the beach.
Outdoor billboards used variations on the posters, with shots of the airplanes, ships and more that were involved in the battle and rescue around Dunkirk. Online ads used similar imagery while social ads used the trailers to promote ticket sales.
The very first bit of publicity about the movie – indeed the first time people knew the movie was coming – was when Warner Bros. gave it a release date. A few months later it was finally confirmed what the movie was as well as a few other details about the cast and production.
Reports surfaced back in December that a seven-minute preview of the movie would get a big stage, rolling in front of select screenings of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. That got everyone talking about Dunkirk again.
Later on there were profiles of the cast, including Fionn Whitehead, who was making his feature film debut. Nolan also talked about the approach he took with the story, including the three different perspectives that move the plot along and how he took pains to pare down the dialogue to create a sense of starkness. The director also justified why he sought a PG-13 rating and how it played to what he was trying to accomplish with the story. He kept talking about working with IMAX, how he views the story and more.
A very brief featurette had Nolan talking about the real life story being told and why he felt it was so compelling.
The film format became a story of its own, particularly since it was announced it would have the largest 70mm release in decades. That was something that Hollywood was advised to pay attention to as it could signal some strong consumer preferences. It was also pointed out that historical war stories like this are new ground for Nolan, who has rarely dipped into the past at all. Nolan not only talked about the nerves leading up to release but also how he pulled some inspiration from previous movies like Mad Max: Fury Road and Gravity that seem to be telling the expanded third act of a story we’re joining in progress. He also addressed how Harry Styles is hidden in the marketing, an intentional decision to not oversell his part in any way and to acknowledge that this is the story of a massive army, not a single individual.
Usually I find myself needing to take several points off the campaigns for movies based on historical events because they don’t do enough to provide background and information on those actual events. Dunkirk, though, goes hard in the opposite direction, with every aspect of the campaign reinforcing the facts around what transpired on and around the beach and giving the audience a history lesson. The posters and trailers all contain facts and figures on the scale of the crisis and the efforts mounted to rescue the stranded soldiers. And the multiple VR and online experiences devised by the Warner Bros. team are all designed not to just explain to the audience what happened at Dunkirk but provide a virtual means to experience a small slice of that themselves.
All of that comes in the context of this being the latest movie from Nolan, who, as I’ve said when analyzing the marketing of some of his previous movies, is as much a franchise as any superhero or sci-fi series. He has significant mainstream name recognition as well as a stellar reputation with film critics and others that all adds up to a sizable built-in audience for his new movies. The campaign trades on that heavily, making sure we know this is coming from the director of Interstellar and other movies. It all adds up to a campaign that sells the movie as a prestige event, one that’s likely to please general audiences as well as those who consider themselves serious cinephiles.
Tagged: christopher nolan, dunkirk, warner bros. | 2019-04-24T13:56:40Z | https://cinematicslant.com/2017/07/19/dunkirk-marketing/ |
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If you are a newcomer to cover letters, then then you are able to refer several samples on the internet, in order to find a notion as a way to write a cover letter. Create a list of these enclosures you’re going to be including together along with your cover letter. For this reason, you must not take the cover letter gently and hamper the likelihood to having a employment deal. Lots of folks believe a cover letter is not mandatory, even though setting in a program for work, although time has changed since the previous few years. Simple cover letters are simple to write.
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Jana Apih, Managing Director of GoodPlace in Ljubljana, in this interview tells us about Slovenia’s journey towards tourism sustainability and how the country’s sustainable tourism strategy, including the Slovenia Green destination certification initiative, has benefited the destination’s competitiveness and reputation.
Advice for entrepreneurs eager to develop their tourism business sustainably.
Jana, your extensive professional background within the travel industry includes placements in National Tourism Boards, marketing consultancies and now, founder and Managing Director of GoodPlace; do you remember what brought you to working in tourism in the first place?
To be honest, it was more of a coincidence than a plan. I studied ethnology and social anthropology, which are not closely linked to tourism. But when I finished my studies, there was a job opening at the Slovenian Tourism Board and I seized the opportunity.
I could say that it was love at first sight and after a few months I knew that tourism is where I belong. It’s a perfect mix of understanding the way people think and behave, which always fascinated me, and understanding how the tourism “product”, the offer works. Bringing the two together is where magic happens and things move forward.
The other thing was that Slovenia at that time was a young country and we all were driven by feelings of pride of being able to promote the country which we all were fascinated to have.
What were your thoughts on “sustainable tourism” when you first started GoodPlace? And how has your view of the topic changed since?
Starting GoodPlace was, like probably most of my decisions, a very emotional one. I looked at many examples of not sustainably run business, which somehow pushed me to start thinking about the mechanisms that could change that.
Then I realised that in Slovenian tourism at that time you could already sense that the path was not clear. So, I asked a number of people whom I respected to do something about it. At the end, 12 of us founded GoodPlace, which gave us proof that we were on the right track.
We also got big support from both the Ministry and the Tourism Board, and a really big group of partners. They all realised that sustainable tourism was the way Slovenia should develop its tourism, and supported the idea that a non-profit institution with such a mission was being established.
Our idea at that time was more or less focused on what would be the best way to bring this idea of sustainability into all development programmes of Slovenian tourism. We were very lucky that our mindset was completely in line with that of the Slovenian Tourism Board.
As a result, we formed a partnership and developed a Green Scheme of Slovenian Tourism, owned by the Slovenian Tourism Board, of which we are an accredited partner.
Five years have passed since we started GoodPlace and I can say that the initial idea of developing a national frame for development of sustainable tourism was the right one. It led to the next step, again in partnership with the Slovenian Tourism Board, where we focus more and more on different topics of sustainability, trying to develop useful tools, such as on carrying capacities, visitor management, communication with visitors etc.
And I think that this is not the case only in Slovenia but overall. The tourism sector has adopted sustainable development as a way to more successful destinations and services. It now has to focus on the issues supporting that vision.
Sustainable tourism product development and communication strategies are among your areas of expertise at GoodPlace. In your experience, which is the most effective way to communicate sustainability in connection with tourism businesses or destinations?
First of all, you have to be very honest with your visitors and avoid green-washing. Before you spread the word about being sustainable or green, as it is usually communicated to the visitor, you really need to be green.
This means that first you need to find out what your weaknesses and strengths are, and work from there. Certification programmes that guide you step by step can be of a big help here. With action plans you should tackle the weaknesses and with communication plans you can use your strengths to communicate your competitive sustainability advantages.
We help our destinations in Slovenia to dig into their green DNA and come up with representative green stories. Just saying we are green – visit us does not do the trick.
People might even misunderstand this and not look at the statement as an advantage but rather a compulsion. What visitors seek are experiences that bring that green story closer to them and give them the opportunity to be part of it. Once that works, it is much easier to get the attention of the visitor.
The strategy usually depends on the goals we set up. In the case of Slovenia, we established a kind of cooperation body, a Consortium of all Slovenia Green Destinations, in order to build joint communication and promotion in partnership with the Slovenian Tourism Board. The Consortium provides the so-called green content to the Tourism Board, which then effectively communicates it through its channels on international markets and promotes it further. And it works.
Judging from your experience with Slovenia Green, which factors or challenges within the country might support or hinder a better, more responsible tourism in Slovenia?
The most important support comes from the top, both from the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, where the Tourism Directorate is based, and the Slovenian Tourism Board as the owner of the Slovenia Green programme. Both institutions understand sustainable development as the only development paradigm of Slovenian tourism.
This year a new strategy of Slovenian tourism was adopted with the title “Strategy for Sustainable Growth of Slovenian Tourism”. It means an even stronger implementation of sustainability aspects to all steps of development and on all levels.
Besides, Slovenia has made sustainable tourism one of the basic economic pillars in the Strategy of Smart Specialisation. So the national frame and support is there and it is very strong, focused and successful.
The biggest challenge on national level is now the cooperation with other sectors. You cannot make important steps if sectors like infrastructure, agriculture or environment are not on the same page.
The new national tourism strategy addresses most of those issues, but I am sure it will take quite some time to find the solutions to all loose ends.
On the other hand, we are very happy that more and more destinations and suppliers are joining the Slovenia Green programme, which means that we have a very strong support also on local levels. I am convinced that it is the result of national institutions giving a strong statement of support.
That said, we cannot succeed without strong cooperation between stakeholders at the local level. That is why, in the process of evaluation, destinations need to set up green teams involving private, public and civil sectors, and work together.
The sustainability action plans also need to be confirmed by municipality boards and funds have to be allocated. Only then can we change things.
Reflecting on the Slovenia Green programme so far, which would be your key insights, or lessons learned?
The most important is that it is a national programme, owned by the Slovenian Tourism Board. This gives it credibility on the one hand, and on the other it gives all Slovenia Green destinations and businesses a closer link to effective promotion. Without that I am sure it wouldn’t be as successful as it is.
The other very important thing is that when developing it, we didn’t come up with our own standards and tools, but we carefully studied what was already out there and was most in line with what we were looking for.
So the final solution for businesses was to endorse six existing certification programmes (Travelife, Green Globe, Green Key, EU Eco Label, Bio Hotels and EMAS) and to encourage accommodations and travel agencies to adopt one of these labels. That gives businesses freedom to choose the label that suits them best content-wise and financially. On top of the international label they also get the Slovenia Green certificate.
The system for destinations is a bit different. We use the Green Destinations Standard, following steps from the European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) and some additional national characteristics.
With that approach we do not need to constantly develop and adapt the standard, since this is done by our partner Green Destinations from the Netherlands. We also use their platform for the uploading of relevant documents and final evaluation.
Last but not least, using an international standard gives our destinations the opportunity to benchmark against other destinations from around the globe, and opens doors to different awards such as the TOP 100 sustainable destinations.
My main suggestion to any regional or national authority developing tourism sustainability programs is not to develop something from scratch, since it will be very costly, far less effective and globally less recognised.
Which key themes or trends do you think will dominate the agenda of sustainable tourism marketing and communication professionals in 2018?
I think we stepped away from talking about the importance of sustainability as a development paradigm and are now more and more concentrating on the role of our visitors. Tourism is driven by demand and only with in-depth understanding of our visitors we can participate in that game. And with the visitors changing, the demand and expectations are also changing.
For the last couple of years, we have been hearing only about the demand for sharing economy and wish of traveling like a local. But if you look at the agendas of conferences today, it is all about overtourism.
I cannot shake off the feeling that the two are closely connected. If we are talking about local experiences and bringing tourist to parts of the cities which were just yesterday more or less owned by locals, it cannot come as a surprise that those locals will maybe not be so very happy with the idea that tourists would like to meet them.
Even worse, tourists are slowly pushing the locals from their favorite cafes and restaurants.
It is not uncommon now to find posts in restaurants saying “don’t rate us on TripAdvisor”.
In the end, we shouldn’t be that surprised that the locals are less and less satisfied or even tolerant with tourism.
So I believe that the question is how far we can actually go with trying to grant every wish of a tourist, especially if at the expense of local residents.
Overtourism has become a critical sustainability issue that is now widely debated, especially in European city destinations like Barcelona and Venice. In your view, what protective measures could/should popular destinations adopt to avoid overtourism from becoming a threat to their reputation and long-term competitiveness?
I’m sure that the answer lies in proper management and communication. Understanding what is going on in your destination at any given time is crucial. That means not only following the numbers of overnight stays, but also understanding daily flows, dispersion of visitors in the destination, dispersion throughout the year, expectations of visitors and also expectations of the locals.
We must keep in mind that any city’s primary function is to suit the needs of its residents. Only when we have an in-depth picture and understand the key issues of concern, we can do something about it.
I believe that growth is not the enemy and that tourism is a very positive sector, bringing far more opportunities than threats. And those need to be addressed smartly and in cooperation with all stakeholders.
We work closely with Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia, which for the first time this year faced some warnings from the residents. Tourism Ljubljana (DMO) responded by carrying out an extensive research, asking inhabitants of the old town (which is the most visited area), about their thoughts on tourism. Results showed that every 10th inhabitant thought Ljubljana was overcrowded. But what was interesting, far more people would say that they like Ljubljana more when it was full rather than empty.
Even though the percentage of people who felt that tourism could become a problem was relatively low, the DMO started developing new approaches on how to integrate the offers of surrounding towns and municipalities, as well as how to introduce and develop new sights, new thematic products and happenings in parts of Ljubljana which were up to now touristically underdeveloped, and how to involve inhabitants into tourism products.
All these actions need to be supported by smart technology solutions for management, visitor communication and guidance, development of tourism offers throughout the year and effective promotional campaigns.
Which businesses or destinations around the world have served you as inspiration this year, in terms of their innovative approaches or solutions to tourism sustainability?
This is a difficult question. There are so many inspiring examples around the globe so it’s not so easy to pick just one. But since at the moment we are focusing a lot on issues of visitor management and involvement of visitors, I could mention Iceland.
I think that the idea with the Icelandic pledge of motivating and educating visitors about their role in sustainability is a good example. Being supported with a fun academy makes it interesting to the visitors and hopefully it will have a positive influence on their behaviour.
The UN have declared 2017 the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. With the year coming to an end, has it been impactful and useful for your work, or Slovenia?
Yes definitely. The 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development made an important impact on awareness on all levels of tourism. In Slovenia it meant that the interest from both destinations and business grew, which was a result of both strong national and international guidance.
Sustainability was a subject at all conferences I attended, and at one point you actually could feel shifts in mentality. In many cases, sustainability has become no longer something additional but necessary, and a normal way of doing business. And only when that happens we can be sure things will go in the right direction.
Besides that, I see that our destinations and businesses are coming up with so many new ideas, which is often the result of things they saw or heard.
Also, it was a very important year for us in terms of international acknowledgment of our vision and actions. Slovenia and our destinations received a number of international awards for sustainable tourism, including National Geographic awarding Slovenia for its Destination Leadership and its approaches in development of sustainable tourism.
Finally, Jana, your 3 bits of advice to the passionate entrepreneurs out there eager to develop their business around offering responsible tourism products and services?
The first would definitely be “follow your dreams and be passionate about what you do”. I’m sure that if it comes from your heart and you really believe in what you are doing, you will be successful. Even if it means that you have to fight for it and change it along the way, but if you are open and really enjoy your job, it will work.
The second advice would be “be honest and fair” and don’t take the shortcuts, which would affect the level of your product. The consumer has really high expectations. Disappointing them will create more problems.
Tourism is a very hard job. We are selling dreams which are a very intimate and an important part of our clients. And for that dream we are not asking just money but also time, which in many cases can be even more valuable.
The responsibility on our shoulders is therefore huge and we have to be aware of it every single day.
Therefore, to fulfil that task, we need to “be innovative, playful and always in search for new ideas”. Try to surprise your customer, give them a feeling of being special. Include them, make them feel that their wishes come first and be open to something new.
Connect with Jana Apih on LinkedIn or learn more about her company GoodPlace here.
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Another aspect (much more technical) of the scientific research conducted on this cruise is the collection of acoustic data. This field is continually evolving as the detection resolution improves allowing scientists to more precisely identify fish. This has been used with more success in fisheries farther north because the schools of fish are more likely to be monospecific (a single species). However, the technique still needs improvement in warmer waters where the fish assemblages tend to be multi-specific (having a much greater variety of fish).
This field of study is called Hydroacoustics (hydro- means water, and acoustics refers to sound). It is the science of how sound moves through water. Leonardo da Vinci noticed how sound travels through water in 1490. He noticed that, “If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.” (Urick, Robert J. Principles of Underwater Sound, 3rd Edition. New York. McGraw-Hill, 1983.) World War I helped promote innovation in the field, especially with the need for anti-submarine detection devices (Wood, A. B., From the Board of Invention and Research to the Royal Naval Scientific Service, Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service Vol 20, No 4, pp 1-100 (185-284)).
Hydroacoustic instruments utilize SOund Navigation and Ranging, more commonly referred to as SONAR. The ship Pisces is equipped with a system located on the center board; this is a flat structure that can be raised/lowered through the water column beneath the center of the ship.
Line drawing of the NOAA ship Pisces showing the location of the center board.
The system used is a sonar beam that is split into quadrants. This instrument is used to assist in determining fish abundance and distribution. The premise is relatively simple: an echo sounder transmits a pulse of energy waves (sound), when the pulse strikes an object, it is reflected (bounced) back to the transducer. The echo sounder is then processed and sent to a video display. This is the same general process behind the recreationally available fishfinder.
A short burst of energy is focused into a narrow beam. When this beam encounters an object such as a fish, a school of fish, plankton, or other object, some of the energy bounces back up through the water to the transducer. It is the detection of these reflections that allow scientists to determine location, size, and abundance of fish. These reflections show up on our video monitor. These measurements are combined with groundtruthed data (for example, fish collected in the field, camera images).
One of the difficulties in data interpretation is that often, the signals that appear on the computer monitor have false readings. This is a result of the sound wave bouncing multiple times. It travels to the bottom from the transducer, strikes an object, returns to the ship, bounces off the ship back toward the bottom, strikes another object, and is detected yet again.
Real-time annotated echogram at sampling site.
Last night the crew of the Pisces carried out a task that they don’t normally perform. The Pisces was created for fisheries research projects – it focuses on collecting fish samples either by bandit reel, longline, or trawling. This particular operation was to deploy the anchor for a buoy that will be attached at a later date. When the buoy is ready to be attached, another vessel will bring it out to the site and divers will go down to the anchor to make the final attachment.
The anchor consists of a huge rebar-reinforced concrete block with a very long chain that has marker floats attached at the end. Logistically, this took some planning; the A-frame had to be raised and the anchor lifted with the Gilson winch with a 1″ spectra line (has an enormous tensile strength). The gate to the ship’s ramp was lowered and the A-frame (or as the deck hands call it, the “Tuna Tower”) repositioned so the anchor was hanging over the water. The rope holding the anchor, chain, and float was cut through, and the anchor plunged to the ocean bottom. Again, the crew made the operation go smoothly and demonstrated their ability to complete unexpectedly assigned tasks.
Today was a slow fishing day – no fish at all. Without any fish to “work up” (collect samples from), the day goes more slowly and we have more down time. With the extra time, I had a chance to interview Kevin Rademacher, the Chief Scientist on the cruise.
LU: What is your official job title and what are your job duties?
KR: I’m a Research Fisheries Biologist. I work for the Reef Fish Unit at the NOAA Fisheries Lab in Pascagoula, MS. I am the Senior Tape Reader/Reviewer, in charge of the readers that analyze the video data we collect from Reef Fish Surveys. I also help plan, organize, and run the surveys. Additionally, I participate in trawl surveys and anything else the lab needs done.
LU: When did you first become interested in the ocean and marine sciences?
KR: I guess that would have been when I was really young. There is a photo from the Panama City, Florida newspaper, two weeks after I was born with my parents pulling me in a homemade wagon along the beach! I knew in junior high school that I wanted to be a cross between Jacques Cousteau and Marlin Perkins of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
LU: It’s such a broad field; how did you narrow your focus down to what you’re currently doing?
KR: I got lucky and kind of fell into reading underwater videos at the initial stages of the project and fell in love with being the proverbial “fly on the wall”! It has allowed me to see the fish in their natural habitat, different color phases, behavior, etc.
LU: If you were to go into another area of ocean research, what would it be?
KR: Marine Mammal Studies. After college I trained dolphins and sea lions and put on shows with them for a local Oceanarium on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
LU: What is the biggest challenge in your job?
KR: Communicating with people and writing papers.
Ariane Frappier and Kevin Rademacher reviewing a dichotomous key in order to determine the species of a fish we caught.
LU: What do you think is the biggest issue of contention in your field?
KR: The impression that commercial fishermen have regarding the work we do to regulate the fisheries they work in.
LU: What are some effects of climate change that you’ve witnessed during your career in fisheries research?
KR: The decline of coral reefs and overfishing of some species.
LU: In what areas of marine science do you foresee a lot of career paths and job opportunities?
KR: Ecosystem management and data modelers. There has also been a decline in taxonomists over the past few decades.
LU: How would you explain your work to a layperson?
KR: I use underwater cameras to help assess populations of reef fish, especially snappers and groupers. The data collected is used to manage those fisheries.
LU: If a high school student wanted to go into your field of study/marine science in general, what kinds of courses would you recommend they take?
KR: Math, Biology, Chemistry, and any other science courses available.
LU: Do you recommend students interested in your field pursue original research as high school students or undergraduates? If so, what kind?
KR: Most definitely! Whatever they are interested in would be beneficial.
Well, only two more days left with the scientists before we pull into San Juan, Puerto Rico. We have 17 more daytime sites to sample and then this survey will be over. The scientific crew will be flying home on the 25th, and once home, their work will really begin. Back in the lab, they will be analyzing the data and reviewing the video. Some of them will be going back out on other cruises. Kevin Rademacher will be going out on another reef fish survey in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. It is currently delayed because of the potential formation of tropical storm Debby. Joey Salisbury has a couple more; he will be going on a longline cruise and then another reef fish survey, both of which will be in the Gulf of Mexico. Arian Frappier will be heading off to begin a masters program in marine systems and coastal studies at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
After a day’s shore leave in San Juan, I’ll continue on to Mayport on the Pisces. During this time, I’ll focus on the crew members and their jobs. The cruise will definitely take on a different feel at this point, but it will give me an opportunity to explore other ocean related careers. | 2019-04-18T22:22:34Z | https://noaateacheratsea.blog/tag/fish-behavior/ |
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Welcome back to Budget Legacy. The deck I will be discussing today is a special one, in that it's a unique member of a much larger archetype, but is by far the most successful of the class. Affinity has struggled to compete in Legacy, due to the inconsistency and fragility of typical builds. I actually played Affinity for a short while in 2005 before deciding that it was too vulnerable to hate, and that I could not accept the weak late game. I also wanted to build decks around more powerful manabases, that could more consistently support my favorite play in this format, Chalice of the Void. After years of being an incredibly strong play with many support cards, it has only been in the last few months that players are starting to realize how good this card is and attempting to take advantage of it, or at least have better preparation against it.
Rafael Truchado took the central component of all my Stax and Tomb Aggro decks — Chalice of the Void at one — and built an Affinity deck around it. He eschewed my standard colorless manabase that is now used in all decks of that type, and passed on many of the cards found in standard Legacy Affinity builds, which usually splash Red or Black. He placed first with the deck in a pretty large tournament on February 25th.
The most expensive cards in this deck are the Chrome Moxes and the Force of Wills. There are also Umezawa's Jittes in the sideboard. Everything else should be pretty easy to obtain. This deck is impressively good for such a small investment.
I have modified the deck somewhat, as I think the original manabase would be too inconsistent for a GP-style event. I also considered making some more changes to the maindeck, such as trying Trinket Mage instead of Cloud of Faeries (since it can fetch Seat of the Synod, Chalice of the Void, or even Chrome Mox, and after boarding gets Tormod's Crypt), but I do not have conclusive results for that change.
If you have played Affinity before, you will certainly be surprised to see some of the cards in this deck. Chalice of the Void? Force of Will? Even Cloud of Faeries is confusing. But like every other archetype in Legacy, the deck had to be redesigned from the ground up to make any sense. No porting from other formats or modifying PT decklists will suffice in this format. The card pool is big, and so players have to be creative.
This is not your typical Affinity build, but it shares many of the same qualities with the decks played in other formats under the name Affinity. It only uses one color (Blue), it does not have any game-ending combos, and it has permission! However, it has very fast starts, it has a highly synergistic core of cards, and it is also vulnerable to a lot of hate. This deck takes advantage of the deep card pool and exploits some of the unique aspects of Legacy.
Supporting Force of Will requires the inclusion of more Blue cards than usual, but they all work towards the game plan of the deck. Force of Will buys time for the deck to resolve Chalice of the Void at one, as well as providing defense against hate cards and giving the deck a much stronger strategy against Combo decks. The Blue creatures, Somber Hoverguard and Cloud of Faeries, support the Blue card count as well as being themselves very cheap flyers that can carry a Cranial Plating, or after boarding perhaps an Umezawa's Jitte. Ornithopter also serves the purpose of carrying equipment, but also boosts Affinity on turn 1, all while being free and blocking Goblin Lackey.
Chalice of the Void has superb synergy with the Affinity mechanic. While the deck has to sacrifice the game-ending combo cards such as Disciple of the Vault to function, the trade off is well worth it as the disruption is much better than the ability to deal a few extra points of damage. You may end up paying only one mana for many of the cards in this deck (Frogmite, Thoughtcast, Somber Hoverguard, or Myr Enforcer), but the Affinity mechanic allows these cards to resolve past a Chalice of the Void at one since their casting costs do not change. This is a beautiful interaction, and is exploited fully in this deck, as even Chalice of the Void itself is an artifact that boosts Affinity. Even Chalice of the Void at zero isn't bad either, as it can stop Tendrils decks from going off, and then be sacrificed to Arcbound Ravager to resolve Chrome Mox or Ornithopter.
Even though these cards change the typical Affinity openings, there is still a lot of power in this deck's early game.
Chrome Mox, Ancient Tomb, and City of Traitors support a wide array of openings for this deck. Chalice of the Void at one on the play (or on the draw after Force of Will) is still as good as it has always been, and is a main strength of this deck. Ornithopter and Chrome Mox boost early affinity counts, allowing the deck to resolve turn one Frogmites. Other than these plays, the deck can simply play an Arcbound Ravager or Cranial Plating. The main strategy of the deck is to resolve as many permanents as possible, and then force unfavorable trades through Arcbound Ravager's ability, or simply do as much damage as possible with Cranial Plating. Getting Thoughtcast, Force of Will, and Chalice of the Void online protects this main plan, and can stop the opponent from resolving key cards.
This is mainly an Aggro deck, but there are some control elements. The deck has 24 creatures, and at high Affinity sixteen of them are free, four cost 1 mana, and four cost two mana. These creatures range in size, but they get really big with a Cranial Plating, so protecting and dealing damage with Cranial Plating allows the smaller creatures to be very effective. The control elements are Chalice of the Void and Force of Will, which are only there to shut down specific parts of the opponent's strategy, and give the deck enough attack steps without having to worry about blockers or removal. Force of Will prevents the deck from losing to faster decks such as combo, and prevents the most damaging cards such as Aether Vial or Pyroclasm from resolving. The sideboard can be changed, but Mana Leak and Umezawa's Jitte are very important cards for the Combo and Aggro matchups, and I would suggest keeping them.
Against Goblins, the deck needs to open with flyers and start hitting with Cranial Plating. If Goblins can reach a stable amount of mana, they can begin to destroy all your creatures with the huge complement of removal in the deck: Mogg Fanatic, Gempalm Incinerator, Siege-Gang Commander, and Goblin Tinkerer or Tin-Street Hooligan can destroy key permanents, and will remove whatever is dealing damage so that Goblins can make another land drop and start exploiting its own synergies. The later into the game Goblins gets, the more likely it is they will be able to respond to flying threats and race you.
Opening with Chalice of the Void at one on the play will usually buy enough time to apply significant pressure to Goblins, but that will not happen the majority of the time. Myr Enforcer and Arcbound Ravager are big enough that they will probably survive the early game, so they are going to be the most useful for combat. Cranial Plating is still a key card for putting the Goblins player on the defensive, but the flyers have low toughness so be prepared to see Gempalm Incinerator cycled.
In the sideboard, Umezawa's Jitte is a strong card in this matchup, as it protects your guys from damage and can kill the important Goblins before they deal too much damage to you. There are other alternatives if this card is too expensive, but it is really so good here that I would advise not cutting it.
Against Threshold, this deck has several significant advantages. First, Chalice of the Void at one is a critical threat that they must stop or they will likely lose the game. Second, they cannot block your flyers effectively, even in the late game when they can actually cast flying blockers, because you can re-equip Cranial Plating to another very cheap creature and attack them again. Finally, when this deck reaches a sufficient number of artifacts in play, all of the cards in the deck are extremely cheap, causing Threshold to lose tempo by countering spells and digging for removal.
Chalice of the Void at one is good any time in this game, not just on turn 1, so plan to play through Daze and possibly another counter to get it to resolve. Be very aggressive with your attack steps, as they will have to choose between answering flyers with removal, or making pumped up ground creatures to block Myr Enforcer and Arcbound Ravager. If you do not have an aggressive early game, mulligan into one because if they can effectively use permission against you, it will be much harder to race them.
Sideboard in Tormod's Crypt and Powder Keg. Both of these cards are excellent against Threshold. Tormod's Crypt will reset their game, and break a stalemate on the ground in your favor if it resolves. Powder Keg will protect both Tormod's Crypt and Cranial Plating from Pithing Needle, and can also kill Nimble Mongoose to help push through damage.
Against Tendrils based combo decks, Chalice of the Void and Force of Will are excellent disruption. The cheap artifacts in the deck provide a very fast clock without blockers, and this should make your disruption even stronger as they will be going off under sub-optimal conditions. They can still go off before you get a chance to deploy a relevant strategy, so make sure your opening hand can stop them from going off right away.
Mana Leak and Tormod's Crypt out of the sideboard offer support the combo matchup even more, and will buy you more attack steps.
Against Control decks, there may be a wide variety of cards you need to side in. Umezawa's Jitte is strong against removal like Pyroclasm, and less prevalent removal such as Infest. Mana Leak is effective against cards like Wrath of God, and will also allow you to keep big control win conditions from resolving. If some decks bring in Null Rod, you need to board in the Echoing Truths to deal with this (this is also one reason why there are Islands in the manabase). Tormod's Crypt will give the deck outs against Genesis, Life from the Loam, and Squee recursion, all of which have been utilized in some control decks to either lock down the game or just cast removal every turn.
Generally, this deck needs to exploit the Affinity mechanic as much as possible in the first two turns, and then after that prevent the opponent from significantly developing their board position. If the opponent survives to a point where they can remove your best threats or execute their own strategy, the power of this deck diminished significantly: all of its threats are on the board, and there is little you can use to bluff with. Furthermore, your best cards are susceptible to artifact removal as well as creature removal, which means your opponent is likely to have the right answers to your threats if they begin to develop a board position.
Even worse, after sideboarding, your opponent is likely to have some very effective hate cards. Pyrokinesis, Pyroclasm, Disenchant / Naturalize / Krosan Grip, and Pernicious Deed are some typical sideboard cards that are devastating against this deck. The deck has some protection against them, as it runs Blue creatures as threats, and has permission to slow down the opposing deck, but the best and ultimately only really effective weapon against these cards is the speed of the deck. Chalice Affinity has to take advantage of its quick disruption and cheap threats and attack the opponent very early, or it will lose to the better engines and strong hate cards that other decks play.
Join me next week for another Budget Legacy deck!
Chris Coppola has been playing competitive Vintage and Legacy for many years, and has had considerable tournament success in both formats. His deckbuilding skills are a critical factor in his performances. | 2019-04-23T07:09:26Z | http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/legacy/14049_Budget_Legacy_Chalice_Affinity.html |
Read Cassidy (Big Sky Dreams 1) by Lori Wick online free full book.
-s LaRae-What an amazing time we had with you on an amazing trip in an amazing state. As you said, it was like traveling with family, for you certainly are. Thank you so much, dear friend.
.s Helen Ann-"I don't want to go to bed; I want to be in bed." Thanks for a delightful quote. I love you, Mom.
-s Jack and Stella-It was wonderful to dine with you, Jack. You are a treasure. Thank you for the lovely hospitality, Stella. The story of the two of you and also of the moose are among my favorites.
-s Todd-Those reminders about gasping and yawning are amazing to my heart. Thanks for being someone who gasps at God's holiness and goodness.
-s Phil-Wonderful words on the life of Paul. Thanks for the encouragement to double our efforts. It gives us all hope.
1 Bob-Oh, the places we've been. I didn't know what kind of ride it would be, but it's certainly been fun. I'll keep riding shotgun if you'll stay at the wheel. It doesn't matter where we go, as long as it's together.
adjusted the shoulder of the brightly patterned dress she'd been working on and then stepped back a little.
"How is that, Mrs. Potts?" she asked the woman wearing the dress.
Mrs. Potts frowned into the full-length mirror and said, "It's still crooked."
Cassidy could not see what the woman was talking about, but she stepped forward to make another adjustment. She pinned and shifted and stepped back again, her brows raised in question.
"That's better," Mrs. Potts conceded. Cassidy smiled. She hadn't moved it much, but she had learned early on that pleasing the customer was paramount to her business.
"It's good," the woman said, but she was still frowning into the mirror. Her face cleared enough to ask, "When will it be done?" "In the morning."
"Not today?" she questioned, the frown returning.
5 "I thought you needed it Friday," Cassidy reminded her. "I do. I just hoped to have it a few days early."
"Wednesday morning is a few days early," Cassidy said sweetly. Mrs. Potts actually smiled. "It is, isn't it?"
Cassidy laughed a little, and the other woman shook her head. "If all of your customers are like me, Cassie, I don't know how you keep from losing your mind."
"I love my customers," Cassidy said sincerely, helping Mrs. Potts out of the dress. "You included."
"I'm glad to hear it. God was smiling on Token Creek the day you came to town."
Cassidy thanked her with a laugh, made a few notes about some mending the woman wanted done, and then saw her out to the front of the shop. She wasted no time settling back at the sewing machine, finishing Mrs. Potts' dress in less than an hour. Cassidy was happy with the results and thought Mrs. Potts would be as well. She knew the other woman would return in the morning and pay in full. Mrs. Potts was one of her best customers.
That dress done, Cassidy was free to work on the other projects waiting for her attention.
"Hi, Brad," Cassidy said, greeting Brad Holden, the tall cowboy who had just stepped into her shop an hour after lunch.
"Hey, Cass," he said quietly, looking a little uncomfortable. "Something I can do for you?"
"Maybe," he said cryptically, his eyes shifting around the rather feminine establishment with its small covered chairs, lacy curtains, and bolts of fabric.
6"All right," he chuckled, his voice resigned. "I knew I would catch it if I came in here."
Cassidy laughed but repeated her offer.
"Yes," Brad said this time. "I want something for Meg-something pretty and comfortable."
"Is she already uncomfortable in that dress we remade?" Cassidy asked, frowning a little. She had just helped her friend, who seemed to increase in size daily, open the waistline on one of her calico dresses.
"No, I want something soft and lightweight that she can sleep in. She's not getting much rest right now."
"I think I have just the thing," Cassidy offered, not mentioning that she slept in the same fabric she brought from the shelf to hold out for his inspection. "You have your choice of colors."
Brad looked down at the sheer, lightweight fabrics in white, pale yellow, blue, and green. He fingered the very fine cotton, noting its near transparency. His gaze shifted to Cassidy's eyes.
"Yes. Can you make something for her? I think you must know her size."
"Certainly. If I have time, I'll bring it out tomorrow."
"You can do it that fast?"
"Unless something unexpected comes up, it shouldn't be a problem. Do you want to surprise her?"
Brad smiled before saying yes. "Leave it in your buggy, and I'll find it."
Cassidy laughed a little. He looked a bit like a small, mischievous boy just then. Brad didn't linger. Cassidy walked him to the door and then stood on the boardwalk in front of her shop and watched him put his hat back on and head in the direction of his aunt's house.
Brad's long legs covered the distance to Jeanette Fulbright's house.
7Jeanette was his mother's sister and lived in one of Token Creek's finest homes. She was a widow with more energy than five women and one of the most generous people Brad knew.
Brad was in his aunt's yard when he realized his brother, Trace, was on the porch, meaning he'd just finished his own errands. Trace waited to go in until Brad joined him. Brad was older by twenty- one months, but they were often mistaken for twins. They were both WI, lean cowboys with dark hair, beautiful brown eyes, and mischievous smiles. They owned the Holden Ranch, a good-sized spread outside of town.
"You get done at the livery?" Brad asked.
"What did you need?" Trace asked.
"Something for Meg." Brad frowned a little. "She's not sleeping much."
Trace nodded, and the two men turned toward the door, not bothering to knock but slipping inside to greet Heather, one of the two women who worked for Jeanette.
"Well, boys," Heather said, smiling, a vase of flowers in her hands, "this is a nice surprise."
"Hello, Heather," Trace greeted. "Is our mother up?"
"She is. All settled on the porch. I'll tell your aunt you're here."
Brad thanked her and then followed his brother to the large sun- porch, technically a small conservatory but now "home" to Brad and Trace's mother.
Nine years earlier, Theta Holden had been severally beaten by her husband. Normally Brad and Trace's father was not a drinker, but one Saturday night Wes Holden came home very drunk and attacked his wife. The boys were still in their teens and woke to find their mother barely alive and their father hung over. It was obvious what had happened, and they had rushed her to town for help, leaving their father to fend for himself.
8It turned out to be the last day they saw him. By the time their mother had been seen to and made comfortable at her sister's, their father was gone from the ranch. Had she died, he would have been wanted for murder, but Theta clung to life for almost two weeks before seeming to make a full recovery, at least physically. What no one expected was the change in her mental state, the one that could be seen in her glazed-over eyes. Theta never soiled her clothing and would eat when fed, but Heather dressed her and saw to nearly every need. She didn't speak or show any interest in books or songs. Unless urged to do so, she never moved from her chair. Few could break through the stare that had become normal. Some days having her sons visit seemed to agitate her, and they could not stay. This morning, she was completely unaware of them, but the boys still sat down and spoke to her.
"Meg was tired and decided not to come, but she'll probably see you next week," Brad told his mother, always talking as though she'd been a part of their life when in fact he'd met Meg after his mother's attack and she'd not been at the wedding. Brad added, "The baby is due in about two months, and Meg isn't feeling sick anymore."
The brothers looked at each other. They were used to this, and although it was not what they wanted, they were both glad to see their mother.
"We branded all day yesterday," Trace put in, his voice soft and deep. "The herd is growing strong, doing well."
For a moment it looked as though she would turn to Trace, but she kept staring out the window. Trace, the brothers had figured out one day, sounded the most like their father, and that was not always a good thing.
"Good morning." Jeanette appeared, hugging the nephews who were more like sons and bending to kiss her sister's cheek.
"How are you, Theta?" she asked as she always did. "It's a beautiful day."
"How are you, Jeanette?" Trace asked. "Not working today?"
9"Since Cassie takes Wednesday afternoons off, and I'm at the shop all day, I take Tuesdays off."
"At that rate you'll be a woman of leisure in no time," Trace teased, and Jeanette laughed.
Jeanette's husband had been a very successful banker, and he'd left her in considerable comfort. Indeed, she still owned the bank. The part-time help she gave Cassidy with her sewing was not done for money but to get out more. For years she'd taken care of Theta on her own, but when it seemed obvious that her sister didn't know who was seeing to her needs, she hired Heather. It had been a good match.
"Other than being a little tired, she's doing well."
"Why don't you come in for her birthday next week, and I'll put on a meal? Whom shall we invite?"
While Jeanette and Brad talked about this, Trace watched his mother. She didn't look bad-a little thin, but that wasn't the problem. It still hurt his heart that there was nothing left of the mother he had known. Her life had never been easy-his father had been a hard man to understand-but she had made a home for them. She had been constant, hardworking, and cheerful, and she'd loved her sons with every fiber of her being. She had taught them what the Bible said from Trace's earliest memory. Their father liked to go into town on Saturday night and not come home, so there wasn't always a wagon to get them to church. But that hadn't changed their mother's desire to teach them. And she didn't wait for Sunday. Any evening their father left them alone she would take out her Bible and share with them the way God had saved her and what He expected her to do with her life.
10a woman who was serious about wanting a godly man in her life, it wasn't long before they fell in love.
"You ready to go?" Brad asked, surprising Trace.
"Sure," Trace agreed, dragging his mind back to the moment. "Are you all right?" Jeanette asked.
"Just missing my mother," Trace admitted honestly, and Jeanette hugged him again.
The men took their leave a short time later.
"Is there a problem, Mrs. Ferguson?" Cassidy asked the woman who had the shop next to her. Cassidy had found that lady standing out front, frowning into the sky.
"A hornet's nest," Mrs. Ferguson answered, drawing Cassidy's eyes to the corner of the building.
"I'll get my broom," Cassidy said without delay, and the women went to work.
Back at the ranch, Brad saw to the wagon and team, which meant Trace was the first one into the kitchen. He greeted his sister-in-law, who sounded completely normal, but Trace could see that all was not well.
"You've been crying," he said quietly.
"You can tell?" Meg asked.
"Not at all," Trace swiftly denied, his brows rising. "Just a wild guess."
Meg laughed, but it was short-lived.
"If you can tell, Brad will notice."
"Why don't you want Brad to know?"
"He'll know I didn't take a nap."
11and in truth he found it endearing. His brother was trying to take care of Meg and baby her a little while Meg was insistent that she couldn't get everything done if she slept during the day.
It looked as though Meg was going to say something else just then, but they both heard the door. Giving her an amused but compassionate smile, Trace slipped away. Brad was in the kitchen a moment later.
"Hi," Brad greeted his wife before he kissed her. He looked into her eyes and saw just what Trace had seen. | 2019-04-25T22:43:27Z | https://100vampirenovels.net/pdf-novels/cassidy-big-sky-dreams-1-by-lori-wick-free |
I think it is a great move for Lismore Council to go ahead with a cycleway strategy. I ride frequently from Goonellabah to Lismores shopping areas including the CBD and user-friendly bike paths are long overdue.
The suggestion by Cr Hampton that almost nobody ever rides in the CBD isan unqualifiedand blinkered generalisation, which is a shame since he is supposed to be representative of the rate-paying public. Perhaps he should ask around and have a genuine look himself before making embarrassing comments about paying money toanyone seeing phantom riders. Id suggest too, that if bike access improved then more riders would be willing to make the effort to ride downtown and anywhere else that allowed safe passage.
I look forward to theimproved bicycle access around town and dont worry Cr Hampton, I wont be asking for a$100 spotters fee.
The design of the shared driveways for the rezoning proposal for Camerons Road, McLeans Ridges, shows these driveways are to be 6m wide.
These driveways then are wider than parts of Camerons Road, most of Boatharbour Road north of Camerons Road all the Eltham Road, Cowlong and Pearson Road north of Lavis Lane and most of the internal roads of previous subdivisions in the area, and the same width as many intersection connections in the area. These driveways are more like intersections than driveways. All this when the Rural Housing Strategy states that direct vehicular access to (this) road should be precluded and the number of new road connections be minimised.
This must be lateral thinking.
Geoff Lambertons column on the ethics of cricket (Echo, Feb 28) raises lots of questions not just about cricket but how we do ethics today.
There are some curious logical leaps he makes between dishonesty in cricket and a continuous supply of incorrect umpiring decisions that may come from a lack of knowledge of the game, but I will leave for others to challenge.
The more important issue raised is how do we know something is wrong, that its just not cricket? Where do we ground this judgement? All the ways Geoff hints at seem to be inadequate or simply begging the question.
The consequential approach doesnt help us because, in the end, we still have to decide if the consequence (or the means of getting there) is ethical. Similarly with Aristotles virtuous person. Whos to say what constitutes such a person?
The feeling approach (embarrassment, shame, cowardice) appears more popular these days. But how do we know if our feelings are a true reflection of reality? They seem to regularly let us down in other areas.
He finally appears to give up and settle on some kind of mutual acceptance of two opposing ways of playing sport/living in the world: winning is everything vs something more ethical. But how does this advance our ethical understanding?
In the end, I suspect that we all still just somehow know that a cheat is a cheat and its just not cricket. What we appear to have lost is knowing a good reason why.
In reply to Helen Coyles lament regarding Lismore Councils refusal to further fund the Herb Festival (Echo, Feb 28) it is one Council decision I must agree with.
The Herb Festival had degenerated into little more than another local market and a poor one at that. I think Helens claims of it drawing thousands of people to Heritage Park may be an exaggeration. The last one was very poorly attended; no surprise really as very little was on offer.
But when Lismore Council year after year virtually ignores and refuses to help fund, or grant concessions to a highly successful event that does repeatedly bring thousands to this town, books out every motelfor three days and does push a huge number of dollars through the tills of our taxis, service stations,food marts, takeaways and shops,surely that isa gross oversight?
I refer to the Tropical Fruits annual New Year Party.
You mention the Lantern Parade? All very admirable, even though it now ignores the timing of the actual solstice, and has been tweaked and shunted around to become little more than a childrens pre-bedtime event.
That of course in itself may be fine, however it must be asked, does the Lantern Festival manage to book out all the motels here in Lismore? No, of course it doesnt.
The shops are closed at the time, so no retail gains to be had either. And even if the weather manages to remain clement, the spectators are mainly locals and have certainly not travelled many miles to be here, as is very often the case at the Fruits party.
Ask the retailers which event swells the cash register.
Consider this fact. Last year it rained majestically during both events. The Lantern Parade was a dismal affair with very poor attendance. The Fruits Party had a record crowd despite the torrential rain, most of whom stayed inthe areafor at least two days and often longer, all the while spending up big.
And yet which event gets all Councils cream?
I wish to publicly thank all performers who volunteered their time on Sunday, Feb 24, for the charity concert in aid of the Lismore PCYC at the Lismore Workers Club.
From the Alstonville Concert Band and singer Dean Doyle to the Lismore City Pipe Band and Scottish Dancers, the Northern Rivers Big Band and Wendy Simpson Quartet, plus compere Richard Mackney and light and sound man Des Grace, the standing ovations said it all.
A magnificent performance by 70 people was greatly appreciated by the 560-strong audience at the best auditorium in the district.
More than $5000 was raised on the day.
Ian Kiernan is right. About one third of all the rubbish collected on Clean Up Australia Day last Sunday was recyclable beverage containers.
Glass and plastic bottles and aluminium cans made up most of thefour largebags of litter that my husband and I collected in Lismore.
How muchbetter it would be if NSWhad container deposit legislation? CDL in South Australia is an all-year-round incentive for people to return containers to the place of purchase.
Many readers will remember the joy years ago of that extra pocket money when we returned a few bottles to the local milk bar.
The SA refund has just been doubled from 5c to 10c. Im sure many kids today would love the job of collecting and returning those bottles and cans with such an incentive and imagine the scarcity of drink containers next Clean Up Australia Day if CDL was introduced here.
So come on NSW Government, just do it.
Clean Up Australia Day last Sunday saw 14 volunteers shift tonnes of rubbish from an old dumping ground in the beautiful Central Avenue pine forest on East Ballinas reservoir hill.
Hearty congratulations and thanks to those who participated. Your terrific effort will make a big difference to the area, as well as helping East Ballina Landcare Group manage the reserve to become a fine bushland amenity for the enjoyment of local residents.
Thanks also to Ballina Council for later removing the mountains of rubbish that were collected, which included tyres, old appliances, furniture, bags of clothing and garden waste.
This site is Crown Land and local residents can help by never dumping garden cuttings or other vegetation on it, because these weeds will only escape and turn the site back into the ugly mess it was a few years ago.
Local residents who want to continue to help conserve this native forest or any other bushland near their homes in East Ballina should contact East Ballina Landcare group on 6681 3557.
Well put you on our information newsletter list so you can join future working bees. Everyone is welcome and everybody can play a part in keeping East Ballina beautiful.
At the February Lismore City Council meeting the executive director of development and governance, Lindsay Walker, missed a golden opportunity to demonstrate to the community that LCC followed its own rules, acted fairly and openly, and was above reproach.
After admitting that the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) for McLeans Ridges was based on incorrect data and thus seriously flawed, he went on to say it represented only a small part of the decision-making process. In dismissing the SIA as almost irrelevant he and the six councillors who voted to put the flawed proposal on exhibition are guilty of treating the residents of McLeans Ridges withutter contempt.
Some of the developers involved have been telling us for the past 18 months that we are wasting time and that it is a done deal. Do they know more than we do?
In light of revelations in the media regarding the lack of openness and transparency in NSW local government, it is difficult to maintain any confidence in Lismore City Councils process. | 2019-04-22T02:41:01Z | https://www.echonews.com.au/news/20266-good-strategy/683574/ |
A User Is Adding Weird Updates To "Get Up"
You guys have been great with addressing the problems I have on this front, so I hope you can assist with this.
One of the sports shows I update is Get Up https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7877780/.
I have been monitoring the show's site and Twitter feed to ensure all hosts and guests are captured accurately.
The last few weeks another user has been going in and adding lots of incorrect credits. They are changing character names and adding a lot of people who did not appear.
Since this is a sports show they are going to show clips of the previous day's games, matches or big interviews. This person is adding every single one of those brief clips as an acting credit, which is not correct, and will lead to hundreds of incorrect listings for the show and that individual.
In order for our staff to take a look can you post links to some of the episode titles that you recently observed the changes on?
All of the people with (archive footage) listed did not appear.
Thanks for posting the episode link, I can see that all the archive footage credits have since been removed. If you are still seeing credit errors on the site, please continue reporting them through our online Update form for our editors to review. In the meantime, I have reached out the contributor. Thanks again for your corrections!
I guess if (archive footage) credits are not allowed for sports talk shows, then all such credits I submitted for“Mike and Mike in the Morning” (tt0783392) from 2010-2017 will have to be looked at.
I submit archive footage credits only for those people who are identified by the hosts and whose names are shown in a graphic at the bottom of the screen. I don’t try to identify everyone in a scene. Kevin Cantor says this is “incorrect” If there is a rule against this, I’ll refrain from submitting such credits. Also, I changed credits such as “Himself - NFL Insider” to “ESPN NFL Insider” because that’s how they are identified by the graphic underneath.
As for making changes in credits already listed, the standard order for the 3 regular cohosts is: Mike Greenberg - 1; Michelle Beadle - 2; Jalen Rose - 3. If there is a guest host, the numbers should be adjusted to reflect how the hosts are introduced in the first hour. Michelle Beadle has been absent for several days, and various ESPN personalities have filled in. If Mike Greenberg (aka “Greenie”) is present, he introduces himself, then Jalen Rose, and the guest host last. For this reason, on a number of episodes I adjusted Jalen Rose’s number to 2, so that the guest host would have order #3.
Thanks for letting me explain where all my archive footage credit submissions come from.
I try to update all of the shows in the same fashion whether it is scripted, reality, talk or sports.
That means there is a set group of stars, or "series regulars". For Get Up it would be Mike Greenberg, Michelle Beadle and Jalen Rose. Those are the only three that would be numbered. For guest stars they are listed alphabetically after that without any numbers.
So, if Cassidy Hubbarth, Mark Teixeira, Jason Williams etc. are hosting that day they would not receive a number, just a credit in the guide.
This is an interesting case. I would say that the credits are valid with the (archive footage) attribute if that individual does appear inthe episode. The same with the ordering, if there is no order present in any onscreen credits then it makes sense to list them in the order they appear or are introduced. In terms of the himself character name then I think that this is ok to include it, as it is a "self" performance, but it is also right to reflect the rest of the character name as it appears on screen.
Is your post definitive, or will an official ruling be coming? Thanks.
Yes please follow the advice I listed above.
Thanks, Will. Just one more question: Will all the credits that were deleted (per Michelle's post) be restored, or should I resubmit?
I would ask you to look at my post below responding to Peter as I think it explains why this should not be valid credits on IMDB.
Regardless, I will operate under the notion of them being allowed until I hear from otherwise.
If these are going to be added it is important to maintain consistency as such. Some of the credits include the team name of the player and some don't. There are also a lot of spelling and grammatical errors and a few examples of the wrong person being added.
I did correct the 4 typos I submitted for Friday's 8/24 show. Sometimes if an athlete is "between teams" (released by team 'A' but not yet signed by team 'B') I usually leave the descriptor blank.
I'm going to submit names for other ESPN shows this week instead of Get Up!
I appreciate any help on that front, with Get Up or otherwise. There are a lot of talk and news shows that are not updated so any user that can assist with that is appreciated.
Some guides use (Credit Only) tags when a regular is off for the day. I think that is dependent on the editor though. Personally, I don't like it as some shows don't really have opening credits like a Drama might have.
This is not really an appearance though. This is recycled footage from a game, or an interview or something. For example, Donald Trump is not appearing 5,000 times a day on Fox News, CNN or MSNBC. They are airing clips of him walking around the White House or speaking to reporters. Then the actual people in that episode, whether it is hosts or commentators, will start to speak on the subject matter.
They are just showing something to introduce a discussion. Archival footage would be like how they used footage from the original run of Twin Peaks in 90-91 to have Frank Silva (who passed away in 1995) as Killer Bob in the 2017 reboot.
Sorry for my two cents, but Donald Trump should be listed if he a) was credited, which on the news sometimes is done during the appearance or b) if the clip was specifically filmed for the instance and/or was not shown before anywhere. That said, uncredited archive footage is usually not eligible for listing, so most of the instances won't do.
Also, "Twin Peaks" is a fairly unique example: most likely out of respect and personal preference, nearly everyone was credited, including Don S. Davis and Sheryl Lee for appearing in photographs in some episodes (which led to "credit only" in their acting filmographies). I should say that it is a very inspiring case, as it mostly felt like respectful homage and when archive footage or photos were used, such were moslty in line with characters.
Kevin, recycled footage from some other, unidentified source is exactly what archive footage means.
Also, for documentaries and talk shows, being identified by spoken name is enough to be listed as credited with an order number.
I respect your opinion and the IMDB decision, even if I disagree with it for a number of reasons.
1) It is going to make it seem like people who never appeared on the show appeared more prominently and frequently than those that do. For example, they might show one pass from Tom Brady every single day. If the hosts take days off occasionally, Brady will appear in more episodes than the stars of the show despite never being in studio and probably not even being aware of the show.
The "on screen credit" ruleIf someone's appearance is credited on screen it automatically qualifies as a valid archive footage credit, regardless of what type of archive footage it is. This supersedes any of the potential exclusions below.
The name isn't being credited on screen by ESPN. The name MIGHT be credited in a bar at the bottom of the screen by whatever the local sports station is, but that is not always the case. There are definitely no on-screen name credits during game footage, but there might be during locker room interviews. It would be SNY putting that name bar for New York Sports as an example, not ESPN.
The "no degrees of separation" ruleOnly "archive" footage that is used directly in the film is eligible. If an actor appears in a film shown as being watched on TV in a scene of another film, then the first film clip is not eligible as archive footage. In other words, James Stewart's footage from Vertigo shown in a scene in Twelve Monkeys where Bruce Willis' character goes to the movies is not eligible.
They have a large monitor in the studio that analysts will write on to break down plays and other things. A lot of the game footage and interviews are shown on that monitor. Since it is the hosts and analysts watching the archive footage, according to this rule it does not fit. | 2019-04-20T16:13:12Z | https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/a-user-is-adding-weird-updates-to-get-up?topic-reply-list%5Bsettings%5D%5Bfilter_by%5D=all&topic-reply-list%5Bsettings%5D%5Breply_id%5D=19720440 |
Wayne Lord, Ph.D., currently is an associate professor of Forensic and Biological Sciences at the University of Central Oklahoma. The Forensic Science Institute (FSI) at UCO is a comprehensive training and research organization for students, professionals and first responders. The FSI provides research, training and consultation services in all aspects of forensic science including evidence collection, preservation, analysis, reporting and testimony. Lord teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in parasitology, entomology, histology, behavioral criminology and crime scene processing. Additionally, he serves as the graduate program advisor for the Forensic Science Institute and conducts research in the areas of insect ecology, terrestrial and marine parasitology, vertebrate taphonomy and behavioral ecology.
Lord is a 22-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and has served in a wide variety of investigative and Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) positions in the forensic and behavioral sciences. SSA Lord served as Unit Chief of Behavioral Analysis Unit III (BAU-III), a component of the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG). The CIRG is located at the FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia. Specifically, Behavioral Analysis Unit-III provides a wide variety of behaviorally based consultation services to time sensitive and complex investigations involving crimes against children. SSA Lord lead a diverse cadre of behavioral scientists, mental health professionals, and Supervisory Special Agents who provide Congressionally mandated operational, research and training services in child abductions, child homicides, mysterious disappearances of children, and child sexual victimization cases. Additionally, Lord provided management oversight for the NCAVC’s behavioral research program.
Prior to entering on duty with the FBI in 1986, Lord served as a medical entomologist/parasitologist for the United States Air Force. He was assigned to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and was adjunct assistant professor of Preventive Medicine and Tropical Public Health at the F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, in Bethesda, Maryland.
Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania 1976.
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 1978.
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 1982.
Research and Teaching Faculty, 1979-1986; 2003-Present.
1987 Department of Defense, Joint Services Commendation Medal, in recognition of superior military medical service.
1997 Presidential Citation for Outstanding Alumni Achievement, University of Delaware, in recognition of exemplary public and professional service.
2000 Arnold Markle Award in Forensic Science, University of New Haven, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of forensic science.
2010 American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Pathology and Biology Section, Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of contributions to the biological forensic sciences.
2018 Oklahoma Medal of Excellence in Regional University and Community College Teaching (Finalist).
2018 Kirkpatrick Foundation Grant for the Study of Wildlife Forensic Science Genomics. Collaborative Award with Drs. James Creecy and Dwight Adams.
2019 Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Delaware.
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What's wrong, are the in board pylons supposed to be longer?
The fuel order will be given in pounds or kilograms. The aircraft refueling panel will have a digital preset for each tank also in pounds or kilograms.
The refueling operator will annotate the amount of fuel dispensed on the aircraft load sheet (given to the captain at the conclusion of fueling) in either pounds or kilograms. This is done by noting the total fuel weight shown on the refueling panel at the beginning and end of refueling and subtracting the beginning reading from the final reading.
BUT the refueling truck (or bowser) meters will show the amount dispensed in either gallons or liters, and the final paperwork that the refueler turns in to his office (for billing purposes), will be in one of those two units of measurement.
The pilot’s fuel request is not given in gallons, because the weight per gallon is not exact. It varies with the temperature and the specific gravity of the fuel in the truck or underground tanks. That can vary from day to day depending on the supplier of the fuel.
In general, Jet-A weighs 6.7 pounds per gallon, but depending on the API index of a particular load of fuel in the truck, sometimes it may be a bit more than 6.7 pounds, and sometimes a bit less.
With high-density fuel, 10,000 pounds might equate to 1,470 gallons, while low-density fuel might equate to 1,515 gallons.
Each aircraft fuel tank contains at least one compensator probe that measures the actual fuel density and applies a correction factor to the quantity displayed on the aircraft fuel gauges.
Typically the only aircraft where the pilot would request fuel directly in gallons or liters would be on smaller biz jets without single point refueling - where fuel has to be dispensed directly into the tanks with overwing nozzles, much like refueling an automobile.
Right, and I get that. I guess I wasn't understanding why Wilhelm responded to by post the way he did. The issue I outlined in my post was if I am requesting 248,000 pounds of fuel to be loaded, I should NOT get only 230,000 pounds of fuel loaded. That's an 18,000-pound difference.
I haven’t tried putting that much fuel on board yet, and when I have loaded before, I just entered the total on the fuel page of the FS Actions menu, and have gotten the correct amount. (Biggest load so far was 150,000 pounds).
I’m about to install the new update via OC. Hopefully that will have fixed any mid-loading issues.
Hmm....interesting....although to be fair, that was at one extreme with the fuel density at 6.30, but even at 7.20, I could never get it to be exact, it would always be slightly less than what I asked for.
I didn’t realize you could specify the fuel density in refueling. I usually just do an instantaneous refueling through the FS Actions fuel page, though I know you can do a real-time gradual refueling for more realism, but I haven’t explored that option.
With extremely low-density fuel, it’s possible that you might run out of fuel tank physical capacity (in gallons) before reaching a requested fuel load (in pounds) when requesting a tank to be filled completely full.
During refueling, when the level sensor in a given tank detects that it is completely full, the fuel computer will close the tank inlet valve to prevent any more fuel from being added. Otherwise the fuel would likely overflow out of the tank vents onto the ground.
I can't find a lot of real life bird eye views of the 747-8's wing. How do you know they're supposed to be longer?
And please, don't present evidence as eye-witness accounts, random YouTube videos and/or pictures found on the Internet. Please present actual verifiable empiric evidence, such as data references or similar.
This caught my eye. I've used Coriolis flow meters in applications where I need mass flow rather than volume flow and they make excellent transfer of custody instruments. I've never ran into a "probe" that would measure a fluids density. How does it work?
I downloaded the new update and tested the 747-8..
2. panel lighting issue is fixed.. even during daytime, the integral panel lighting is bright and makes everything readable..
3. When I turn the battery & Ext.Power ON, and when all the displays power up, the FPS drops by 7-8.. so at cold and dark, the FPS is 34 and when displays are powered up, its around 27-28.. and remains that way all the way until engine start.. anybody else observed this?
Would you kindly take a screen shot of the -8 from the same angle as the link?
From looking up 747-8 diagram on google, the Pylons on the PMDG look as they should be. There are tons of top down views and drawings to show it's correct. Do you honestly think that PMDG would make that big of mistake?
The installations declined because it could not find the 747-8 exe file?
By default, it's set to 6.70. Supposedly, the fuel density changes on its own, but I've never seen it do that, and when I initially submitted the support ticket reporting the fuel loading discrepancy, they had said it might be related to the fuel density, and thus, a non-issue. I ended up testing the fuel density to the extremes, just to be sure. The end result was even with the highest possible fuel density, I could never get the exact amount of fuel I entered, it was always a little less. At a low fuel density, the differences between the input fuel request and the actual amount of fuel loaded was drastic.
I'm aware that with a low fuel density, it's possible to run out of fuel tank space before reaching the requested fuel load, as this was mentioned in the introduction manual. However, the highest you can load under idea conditions is somewhere close to 383,000 pounds for the 747-400. My loading of 248,000 pounds is certainly nowhere near that limit, which makes me wonder why it only loaded around 230,000 pounds in that instance with a low fuel density. Do keep in mind that all this is happening with the instantaneous refueling via the FS Actions fuel page. I never did test the real-time refueling option since I didn't have time to really play around with it much after the -8 came out (as it is, I still haven't even flown it yet).
Aircraft fuel quantity probes are basically capacitors. A small metallic cylinder nested inside of a larger cylinder by insulating standoffs. The probes are mounted vertically in the tanks, and are open at the top and bottom.
If you are familiar with the properties of capacitors, you will know that the capacitance is dependent on three factors: the area of the two plates (in this case the inner and outer cylinders), the distance between the plates (which is fixed), and the dielectric constant of the material between the plates. In this case, the dielectric is the fuel itself.
When the probe is fully immersed in fuel, it’s capacitance (measured in picofarads) will be at maximum. As the fuel level drops, air enters through the top of the cylinder, while fuel flows out the bottom, so that at anything less than “full” the dielectric is partially fuel, and partially air, which causes the capacitance to decrease. The lower the fuel level, the less the capacitance.
A very low voltage (1 volt peak-to-peak) AC waveform at several hundred hertz, which is generated by the fuel quantity computer, is applied to one plate (cylinder) of each fuel probe, and a signal return line goes back to the fuel computer from the other cylinder of each probe. The magnitude of the returning signal is directly proportional to the probe capacitance (less capacitance = less signal), and the capacitance is directly proportional to the amount of fuel between the two plates (cylinders) of the probe.
The fuel quantity computer determines current fuel quantity by measuring the magnitude of the AC signal returning from each probe, which decreases as fuel level drops. A specific voltage equates to a specific amount of fuel.
There are several types of compensator probes. Most are also capacitors, using fuel as the dielectric, but mounted lower in the tank so as to be always fully immersed in fuel. This probe has its own separate AC input and output line going to the fuel computer. The dielectric constant of the fuel varies with the density, which is dependent on the ratio of the various hydrocarbons in the mix, and also the temperature. For any given density, the return signal will be of a specific known magnitude. Lower density = less signal. That value is used by the fuel computer to apply a correction factor to the quantity measured by the standard probes.
TL:DR Each main fuel probe is a variable capacitor, which produce a specific output voltage directly proportional to how deeply the probe is immersed in fuel. The compensator probe is a fixed capacitor which produces a specific output voltage directly proportional to fuel density.
The fuel computer translates the voltages from all the various probes into quantity readouts by mathematical magic.
Yeah, The density setting is right there on the fuel loading page right in front of my nose. Just never noticed.
So far, my loads have been very accurate. I’m doing a 6-hour flight right now in the standard 400F. I requested 160,000 pounds, and got just a few pounds less - something like 159,980, which I assume is due to rounding.
I’ll try a full load on my next flight. I’m using the new update just released.
Right. What I'm saying is prior to the initial update to the -400 when the -8 got released, if I requested 40,000 pounds, I got 40,000 pounds rather than 39,994. Start lowering the fuel density, and the difference starts to become more noticeable at the higher fuel weights.
The capacitive system for aircraft fuel measurement has proven to be quite reliable over the years. It’s simple, and has no moving parts. The probes rarely fail - when they do it’s usually because they have been severely contaminated by water or biological growth in the fuel.
The probes are wired in series/parallel. The AC input to all the probes are wired In parallel from a common low impedence line coming from the FQMC, and the outputs are high Z with each probe having a discrete return line to the FQMC via coaxial cables.
Gotcha. Didn’t think the difference was significant at mid-range loads like I have been using, but I haven’t tried high loads yet, or varying the density. Though, with low density fuel, you could definitely have a situation where you will end up with less than requested weight when filling tanks to the brim.
I suspect so. The aircraft fuel tank is a much much cleaner environment that the product tanks in a refinery or truck terminal. And you never know how much salt water you're going to get from an ocean tanker bringing you the crude. It's nasty. In fact when someone says they only use high octane I tell them about how refineries must trap the vapors that are released from tank trucks, barges or ships when they fill the tank. Those vapors are compressed, cooled and condensed into a liquid and refiners will put that trash in the high octane product tanks because it will increase the volume of fuel without degrading the octane values. Don't ever think that something is better because it's more expensive haha.
Though, with low density fuel, you could definitely have a situation where you will end up with less than requested weight when filling tanks to the brim.
Yes, I am aware of that, because you're limited to volume at that point. But 248,000 is nowhere near close to the fuel tank volume limit. I was wondering if there's something in the coding that's trying to convert the input into gallons, and then giving you an output with the fuel density being taken into consideration, but that doesn't really explain why there's still a slight discrepancy even with the highest possible density. | 2019-04-26T11:46:17Z | https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/542882-29sep18-pmdg-747-qotsii-update-3009019-released-via-oc/?page=2&tab=comments |
Madness To Creation: With Upcoming Hip-Hop, you did a very nice Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage impersonation, do you watch professional wrestling at all?
Chris: I won’t turn it off when it comes on, as a kid, that’s all I lived for from the ages of eight to about the age of 12, it was a solid four or five years, I still have, I’m not sure what they’re worth(I looked on eBay), I have probably a couple hundred wrestling magazines, and they’re in pretty mint condition from the early 80’s.
Madness To Creation: Do you collect comic books as well?
Chris: Just wrestling magazines back in the day, but comic books not so much.
Madness To Creation: Have anything else that you collect?
Chris: Gray hairs. *laughs* Not really so much anymore, the only thing that I collect is our band memorabilia, I have one of everything that we put out over the years, I have a full room in my house that’s a memorabilia room, it’s pretty cool.
Madness To Creation: That’s awesome! There is a documentary coming out called “Pick It Up: Ska in the 1990’s”, what is so important about that movement or recollections that you have from it?
Chris: It had it’s moment, but it was a blip on the radar from 1996 to 1999, it was a good three years of where it was selling a lot of records, it was the opposite of this EDM, people aren’t really calling it that, it used to be techno, it was trip-hop for awhile. There was all kinds of stuff, genres of things, a lot of it has to do with journalistic media defining the genres by sound. The ska/punk thing definitely had its moment, now I want to say there’s a resurgence, everything goes away to nostalgia, everyone wants to remember as kids now, now we see 16 year olds in the crowd, and they’re like, “I wish I was alive in the 90’s”. I’m not trying to tone it down, or not making it sound like it wasn’t cool or whatever, it was a moment, we never dwell on it. There were a lot of bands that when it was over, they put their horns back in the closet and called it a day, we just kind of kept doing our thing, we didn’t try to necessarily be a ska/punk band, we felt that we were more than that, with more substance, not to knock any of those bands or anything or saying that we were better than them, but when you’re living it, you weren’t sure if it was going to last, people aren’t going to be going gold or platinum on a ska record in 2005 or 2010, I guess we were right.
Madness To Creation: You guys will be going out with your friends in Reel Big Fish, what is the secret to the success of Less Than Jake, what has kept this machine going after all these years?
Chris: We never stopped. There were bands, whether it was a ska band, a punk band, a rock band, or even a hip-hop band, we’ve toured with them all, unless you were a superstar band that could afford to take a year or two or three years off(not talking about those one-hit wonder bands), we kept going and giving the fans what they wanted, we always had new merchandise and cool things, being a band that is as old as we are, we were one of the first bands that had social media presence, our first website was in 1995, it was pretty much x’s and o’s, our friend at a university in Florida had designed us a website, he was always trying to stay on the cutting edge of what was new, we just had to keep up with the times, and keep it as still Less Than Jake.
Madness To Creation: A lot of success has to do with how creative you all are as a band, what business advice would you have for us?
Chris: If you’re going to run a business, always operate way below your means, we’ve seen bands crash and burn when that record label money dried up, they didn’t know what the hell to do, and they still wanted to have two tour buses and ten hotel rooms a night, we never did that. We always operated below our means, we always come home with money after a tour, and it’s not because we’ve been this huge commercially viable band that has dollars falling out of the sky, it’s just we’ve paid attention to the bottom line, it is a business. As much as I don’t think of it as a business because it’s fun and exciting, it’s not the hassle of a corporate gig where you’re sitting in a cubicle all day, but it is a business, we’re not going to come out here and lose money. Operate below your means and find the right people that have the same goals and share the same aspirations and same ambitions.
Madness To Creation: A while back Less Than Jake released “Sound The Alarm”, what was the biggest takeaway from that experience, and what are a few things that make you “sound the alarm”?
Chris: Not to undermine your question, but we wanted to make a full record in 2016, we didn’t have time, we had time to write six or seven songs on that EP, went in and recorded them, and it came out last year in 2017, and we went back in the studio and did something, it can be looked at as a blessing or a curse, but I look at it as a blessing. We were still so busy on the road that it translated beyond that at this point, we have plans to rerecord that in the future, when I don’t know, it used to be every year or every two years, we’d record an album, but the business model has changed as you know, the industry is different, and as much as we tour, to even find time to do seven songs was a feat for us, but that’s not making excuses, it’s between us having other things that we do in our personal lives, involved with families and things of that nature, we still hit the road like we are in our 20’s.
Madness To Creation: Less Than Jake has been around since 1992, and it’s 2018, what’s the feeling like that you’re still performing in front of substantial sized audiences to this day?
Chris: It’s great, it’s gone to generations now, the kids that come up to our merchandise booth that are here, they didn’t find us through their high school, they found us through their parents, they were riding around in their car seat from the time they were sucking on their pacifier, mom and dad would play them and they grew up with them. It’s generational now, our fans range from eight year old kids with their parents all the way up to 60 year olds, they were punk rockers in the 70’s, they were in their 20’s and 30’s in the 80’s going to The Ramones shows. When people ask if they thought it was going to go on this long, I didn’t think it was going to go five years, and there was never a thought of it. All we wanted to do was get out of the warehouse and play party music for some free beer for our friends, maybe play at a bar. Half the time we couldn’t get in because a couple of us were only 19.
Madness To Creation: Speaking of beer, do you have a favorite beer?
Chris: Well, I don’t drink, but there was a beer in Europe that I liked. It was either made in Germany or Belgium.
Madness To Creation: What is one memory that you have of Vans Warped Tour that is ingrained in your mind right now?
Chris: There’s about 1,200 people on the tour now, back when we started in ’97, there were 300, there are over 100 bands now, there used to be only 25 bands and three stages. As you can see the catering area, it’s a big operation, there’s a couple of semis, and a whole staff, back in the day, there was two guys. They were operating with what was the size of an ice cream truck. I was drinking Kool-Aid all summer, then I walked by and the cook at the time was this large, hairy Italian man, and he had Kool-Aid in a five gallon bucket and he was stirring it with his freaking arm. “I’ll have a bottled water please”.
Madness To Creation: A question that I’ve been wanting to ask you, Donald Trump gets in the skank pit at a Less Than Jake concert, how does the band react?
Chris: We have the fans crowdsurf him to the stage and we make him drink tequila until he pukes.
Chris: Whoever is listening to this or reading this, thank you, we will keep doing this as long as we can.
And there you have it! Less Than Jake has a few appearances in the United States with Bad Religion, Pennywise, The Interrupters, Mad Caddies, and Reel Big Fish before embarking on a UK tour with Reel Big Fish, Suburban Legends, and Zebrahead. Check out tour dates below. | 2019-04-26T16:24:10Z | https://madnesstocreation.net/2018/08/26/chris-demakes-of-less-than-jake-converses-with-madness-to-creation-on-education-economics-and-vans-warped-tour/ |
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5. What are my data subject’s rights?
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Please contact us in writing using the contact details mentioned in Section 10 below if you would like to action any of your rights above. You should note that these rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled (or required) to refuse requests where exceptions apply.
6. How about data security?
Your contact information and personal data are stored securely, using mixture of encryption, password protection and servers/cloud back-ups all kept with multiple lock protection.
EXERTE PARTNERS LIMITED takes all of the necessary, appropriate, technical and organizational security measures including physical, electronic and procedural measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, misuses, altered, disclosed or destruct. For instance, your data is saved in a secure operating environment which is not accessible to the public. We restrict access to your personal data at our offices so that only those officers and/or employees agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know have access to your data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Please be aware that you should also take care with how you handle and disclose your personal data and should avoid sending personal data through insecure email.
7. For how long will we hold your personal data?
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9. Changes to Privacy Notice and Your duty to inform us of changes?
We keep our Privacy Notice under regular review, EXERTE PARTNERS LIMITED reserves the right to change its Privacy Notice at any time with or without prior notice. From time to time, we may need to change and/or updated this Privacy Notice in line with changes as to how we process personal data. We will publish any new version of the Privacy Notice on our Website and we will inform you on these changes and where appropriate, will provide you with a copy of our updated Privacy Notice.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during our relationship.
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If you have any queries about this Privacy Notice or how we process your personal data, you may contact us at +357 22333048, or at [email protected] or by post at Data Protection, EXERTE PARTNERS LIMITED, 9A Vasilissis Freiderikis Str., 1st Floor, 1066 Nicosia, Cyprus. | 2019-04-25T22:43:42Z | https://www.exerte.com/privacy-policy/ |
Not every organization has moved its IT operations to the cloud, nor should we expect that to be the case. There are legitimate reasons to adhere to the on-premises IT approach, not the least of which is the fact that it assures that your IT infrastructure and all the data in it is under your control.
Nonetheless, no IT leader today can reject the cloud out of hand. The benefits of increased functionality, flexibility and cost and process efficiencies simply can’t be ignored. That said, though, there are degrees of commitment to the cloud, and there’s more than one cloud model to consider. You should familiarize yourself with all the variables before making any decision.
Is an on-premises IT approach the best long-term IT asset management framework for our shareholders?
Does such an approach favorably position the enterprise to rapidly exploit emerging tools, techniques and technologies that might be more effective in driving innovation?
How can we retain control of our proprietary/strategic IT assets and still find ways to make our IT investments more productive year over year?
A continuously improving IT asset management strategy is important to the success of the business. For that reason, you should constantly ask yourself whether your on-premise approach is truly optimal.
Investing in technical capacity is risky: Needed computational capacity must be estimated well in advance.
When the estimates don’t match reality, some extra computational capacity goes unused, or worse, isn’t available when it’s needed.
Effectively investing in computational capacity also requires a deep understanding of projected needs, technology trends and technical life cycles.
Keeping top technical talent is difficult: Attracting and keeping technically skilled staff is complex and expensive, and requires significant management attention.
It continually increases expense, especially in out-years.
Keeping skills current in keeping with career path growth is a difficult-to-predict expense and a never-ending management challenge.
Needed uptake of new technologies is inconsistent: The process of awareness, trial, adaption and adoption of new technologies is unstructured, reactive and slow.
IT research is usually not part of IT management expense.
For competitive purposes, business units, not the IT function, normally direct technological change.
Introducing business change is not encouraged: The modernization of legacy systems is often postponed.
Updating existing systems to make them more responsive to business needs is considered a cost instead of an opportunity business case.
The pace of making improvements in business unit processes is limited by aging applications that are expensive to change.
It is worth repeating that moving to the cloud is not an all-or-nothing proposition. A cloud approach to IT management is compatible with either retaining some on-premise IT or eliminating it entirely. Finding the right fit is a matter of assessing what will bring you the most business benefits. But a deeper understanding of cloud options is where the matchmaking process is best begun.
The public cloud is a typical starting point for many businesses’ journey to the cloud IT management option. It’s easily available to even the smallest businesses, from some of the best-known vendors. Take Microsoft Office 365, for example. The cost benefits are clear. With the traditional, on-premises deployment of the Microsoft Office suite, every employee who will use the software must have a license — a capital expense to be depreciated over time. But if the business scales back its head count, it retains those licenses that were already paid for. With the public-cloud Office 365 approach, you pay month-to-month for only the licenses you need at the time. And for most companies, that would be recorded as an operational expense, not a capital expense.
Naturally, this approach is good for cash flow. Instead of making a major purchase and depreciating it over three years, the cost is spread out.
The public cloud has a downside, of course, most notably that most of the available applications are not very customizable. If you have enhanced security or compliance requirements, for example, or the desire for more control or customization in your environment, you may want to step up to the private cloud.
Because a private cloud is dedicated solely to your company, run either by your own staff or a third party, you have more freedom for customization and can shape it to suit your needs. Upgrades can suit your timetable, which is usually not the case in the public cloud.
A private cloud is also a much more protected environment. In many cases, you don't have any administrative-level access to the environment; you only have the ability to configure the applications that you use. Companies that need to comply with Dodd-Frank or HIPAA, for example, where very clear controls and security measures are required, often find the private cloud a much better option.
On the downside, it’s a more expensive option than the public cloud.
Companies that don’t want to build and maintain a data center can turn to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. Building a data center can be a very large capital expense, especially for a data center that can withstand severe weather and has several redundancies for electrical power and computational capacity. Once it’s built, the data center has to be physically secured, and it of course requires 24/7 staffing.
Besides all that, you have to figure out how many physical servers and virtual servers you need for the processing power necessary to operate your business. You also need storage of some kind, probably a storage-area network (SAN), for maintaining your important data and documents. You have to figure out how much storage you are going to need, now and in the future, and you’ll want to get that right, because SANs are expensive.
IaaS offerings remove the need to anticipate your needs; expansion (or contraction) is easily accomplished, with no costs incurred until the additional capacity is needed. And IaaS also allows for varying degrees of control. An organization may want its IaaS provider to replace its server room but let the organization’s own staff administer the replacement site. Others might cede administration duties to the provider, allowing them to reduce their head count or redeploy those IT workers to areas where they are more needed.
Some businesses can benefit by using multiple cloud approaches. You may have a highly proprietary business application that is better kept on-premises, but you also use Office 365 in the public cloud and maintain your accounting system in the private cloud.
Your IT management team or technology adviser can help evaluate the technology you are using, build a business case for each of your cloud and on-premise applications and determine where your systems should optimally reside. Those decisions are primarily based on security and controls, as well as on the extent of your IT team’s skills and abilities. If you have a small IT team, you may not be able to manage a data center or your accounting system in a private cloud environment. However, an IT adviser can guide you in implementing these enhanced capabilities.
Although hybrid environments can be complex, your users needn’t be overwhelmed by that, since all the complexity is behind the scenes. With single sign-on, a hybrid environment can feel to them like a single server maintained and dedicated for their needs at your site.
A preference for operating expenditures over capital expenditures — As mentioned earlier, transitioning to an operating expenditure model provides more cash on hand and more financial flexibility for the business.
Compliance concerns — A business that has to meet compliance requirements can run into unwanted expenses, audits and headaches. All those woes can be alleviated by working with a private cloud provider with demonstrated, current security and controls.
IT staffing and competencies — The technology competencies required to run a secure, reliable IT environment have become so varied and complex that no individual can do it all. Talent has become increasingly expensive and very difficult to find and keep.
Technology advances quickly, and the capabilities of the cloud are no different. With the depth of solutions currently available and the inherent flexibility of varied and combinable cloud solutions (through virtualization), there is very likely a cloud platform arrangement that will help meet the needs of your business. Task your IT management team or secure a technology adviser to help you develop a comprehensive cloud solution to align with your business goals and existing capabilities at a predictable and more optimal monthly operational (not capital) expense.
It's the age-old question: To whom should the CIO report?
Imagine if the strategic engine of the enterprise didn't report to the CEO.
The idea that IT professionals don't need business acumen is a destructive myth. | 2019-04-26T02:34:38Z | https://www.computerworld.com/article/2903915/choosing-the-cloud-that-s-right-for-you.html |
San Antonio – October 18, 2017 – Since NASA’s Dawn spacecraft detected localized organic-rich material on Ceres, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been digging into the data to explore different scenarios for its origin. After considering the viability of comet or asteroid delivery, the preponderance of evidence suggests the organics are most likely native to Ceres.
SwRI scientists are studying the geology associated with the organic-rich areas on Ceres. Dawn spacecraft data show a region around the Ernutet crater where organic concentrations have been discovered (background image). The color coding shows the surface concentration of organics, as inferred from the visible and near infrared spectrometer. The inset shows a higher resolution enhanced color image of the Ernutet crater acquired by Dawn’s framing camera. Regions in red indicate higher concentration of organics.
WASHINGTON — NASA has granted a second, and likely final, extension for the Dawn mission, allowing it to continue observations of the dwarf planet Ceres through 2018.
The extension, announced by the agency Oct. 19, means that the spacecraft will not leave orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, to visit another asteroid, an option project scientists said earlier this year was under consideration.
The latest extension, the agency said, could allow the spacecraft to make high-resolution observations of Ceres. The mission team is studying options to place Dawn into an elliptical orbit that would bring it within 200 kilometers of the surface of Ceres. Previously, the spacecraft came no closer than 385 kilometers.
Those close approaches, NASA said in a statement, would allow better measurements of the uppermost layer of the dwarf planet’s surface using the spacecraft’s gamma ray and neutron spectrometer, including determining how much ice it contains. Dawn will also collect high-resolution images and spectra on those close approaches.
With the proposed shift to a lower orbit, Dawn will expend more hydrazine. The spacecraft should be able to operate until some time in the second half of 2018. That will allow observations of Ceres as it passes perihelion, the closest point in its orbit to the sun, in April 2018.
This extension, though, rules out proposals to send Dawn out of orbit to another asteroid. Project officials proposed such an extended mission in the senior review of planetary science missions in 2016, which would have sent Dawn on a flyby of the asteroid Adeona in 2019. NASA rejected that proposal, concluding that Dawn would provide more science by remaining in orbit around Ceres.
As that initial extended mission came to an end in June, project officials again suggested they were considering a proposal to send Dawn to another asteroid. “It’s an option,” Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for Dawn at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said at a June 13 meeting of NASA’s Small Bodies Assessment Group. She didn’t provide additional details about that option.
Dawn, part of NASA’s Discovery program of low-cost planetary science missions, launched in September 2007. Using an ion propulsion system, it entered orbit around the main belt asteroid Vesta in July 2011, remaining in orbit there before leaving for Ceres, arriving there in March 2015.
NASA said the extended mission will be designed so that, when Dawn depletes its hydrazine, it will be in a stable orbit around Ceres with no risk of crashing into the dwarf planet.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Minerals containing water are widespread on Ceres, suggesting the dwarf planet may have had a global ocean in the past. What became of that ocean? Could Ceres still have liquid today? Two new studies from NASA’s Dawn mission shed light on these questions.
Landing on Ceres to investigate its interior would be technically challenging and would risk contaminating the dwarf planet. Instead, scientists use Dawn’s observations in orbit to measure Ceres’ gravity, to estimate its composition and interior structure.
The first of the two studies, led by Anton Ermakov, a postdoctoral researcher at JPL, used shape and gravity data measurements from the Dawn mission to determine the internal structure and composition of Ceres. The measurements came from observing the spacecraft’s motions with NASA’s Deep Space Network to track small changes in the spacecraft’s orbit. This study is accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
Ermakov and his colleagues’ research supports the possibility that Ceres is geologically active – if not now, then it may have been in the recent past. Three craters – Occator, Kerwan and Yalode – and Ceres’ solitary tall mountain, Ahuna Mons, are all associated with gravity anomalies. This means discrepancies between the scientists’ models of Ceres’ gravity and what Dawn observed in these four locations can be associated with subsurface structures.
The second study, led by Roger Fu at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, investigated the strength and composition of Ceres’ crust and deeper interior by studying the dwarf planet’s topography. This study is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
If you could fly aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the surface of dwarf planet Ceres would generally look quite dark, but with notable exceptions. These exceptions are the hundreds of bright areas that stand out in images Dawn has returned. Now, scientists have a better sense of how these reflective areas formed and changed over time -- processes indicative of an active, evolving world.
"The mysterious bright spots on Ceres, which have captivated both the Dawn science team and the public, reveal evidence of Ceres' past subsurface ocean, and indicate that, far from being a dead world, Ceres is surprisingly active. Geological processes created these bright areas and may still be changing the face of Ceres today," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator of the Dawn mission, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Raymond and colleagues presented the latest results about the bright areas at the American Geophysical Union meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
Since Dawn arrived in orbit at Ceres in March 2015, scientists have located more than 300 bright areas on Ceres. A new study in the journal Icarus, led by Nathan Stein, a doctoral researcher at Caltech in Pasadena, California, divides Ceres' features into four categories.
The mountain Ahuna Mons gets its own fourth category -- the one instance on Ceres where bright material is unaffiliated with any impact crater. This likely cryovolcano, a volcano formed bythe gradual accumulation of thick, slowly flowing icy materials, has prominent bright streaks on its flanks.
Over hundreds of millions of years, bright material has mixed with the dark material that forms the bulk of Ceres' surface, as well as debris ejected during impacts. That means billions of years ago, when Ceres experienced more impacts, the dwarf planet's surface likely would have been peppered with thousands of bright areas.
"Previous research has shown that the bright material is made of salts, and we think subsurface fluid activity transported it to the surface to form some of the bright spots," Stein said.
The leading explanation for what happened at Occator is that it could have had, at least in the recent past, a reservoir of salty water beneath it. Vinalia Faculae, the diffuse bright regions to the northeast of the crater's central dome, could have formed from a fluid driven to the surface by a small amount of gas, similar to champagne surging out of its bottle when the cork is removed.
In the case of the Vinalia Faculae, the dissolved gas could have been a volatile substance such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane or ammonia. Volatile-rich salty water could have been brought close to Ceres' surface through fractures that connected to the briny reservoir beneath Occator. The lower pressure at Ceres' surface would have caused the fluid to boil off as a vapor. Where fractures reached the surface, this vapor could escape energetically, carrying with it ice and salt particles and depositing them on the surface.
Quick's analyses do not depend on the initial impact that formed Occator. However, the current thinking among Dawn scientists is that when a large body slammed into Ceres, excavating the 57-mile-wide (92-kilometer-wide) crater, the impact may have also created fractures through which liquid later emerged.
"We also see fractures on other solar system bodies, such as Jupiter's icy moon Europa," Quick said. "The fractures on Europa are more widespread than the fractures we see at Occator. However, processes related to liquid reservoirs that might exist beneath Europa's cracks today could be used as a comparison for what may have happened at Occator in the past."
The rounded shape of Kwanzaa Tholus is typical of tholi (plural of tholus) in general, but is different than other examples found on Ceres (like Dalien Tholus) and Mars. This region is particularly rich in this type of feature: The current Ceres map shows six named tholi and montes (slightly bigger mountains) in the region (centered around 32 degrees north, 327 degrees east) and several others including Ahuna Mons farther south.
Scientists say Kwanzaa Tholus may have once been as prominent as Ahuna Mons, the tallest and most noticeable mountain on Ceres. Ahuna Mons is likely a cryovolcano, formed by the gradual accumulation of thick, slowly flowing icy materials. Because ice is not strong enough to preserve an elevated structure for extended periods, cryovolcanoes on Ceres are expected to gradually collapse over tens of millions of years. This means Kwanzaa Tholus and other tholi in that area could be degraded mountains, which also formed from cryovolcanic activity. | 2019-04-23T20:55:14Z | https://p4-r5-01081.page4.com/_blog/2017/12/27/8786-raumfahrt-nasa-raumsonde-dawn-im-orbit-von-zwergplaneten-ceres-update-12/ |
From S.A. Hanford's translation (linked in title above), pp. 221-225. Cataline has been found guilty of conspiracy against the Roman state; Cato is responding to Caesar's plea against the death penalty and for life imprisonment, both of which are punishments that departed from precedent. The date is December 5, 63 BC.
I record the speech here for obvious echoes it has for our own context; there is a lot of debate about just who was guilty of what in the Cataline Affair.
When I turn, gentlemen, from contemplating the dangerous situation in which we stand to reflect upon the opinions of some of the previous speakers, the impression made on my mind is very different. If I understood them rightly, they were discussing the punishment to be meted out to these men who have planned to make war on their country, parents, altars, and hearths. But the situation warns us rather to take precautions against them than to deliberate what sentence we shall pass on them. Other crimes can be punished when they have been committed; but with a crime like this, unless you take measures to prevent its being committed, it is too late: once it has been done, it is useless to invoke the law. When a city is captured, its defeated inhabitants lose everything.
I will address myself for a moment to those of you who have always been more concerned for your houses, villas, statues, and pictures, than you have for your country. In heaven's name, men, if you want to keep those cherished possessions, whatever they may be, if you want to have peace and quiet for the enjoyment of your pleasures, wake up while there is still time and lend a hand to defend the Republic. It is not a matter of misappropriated taxes, or wrongs done to subject peoples; it is our liberty and lives that are at stake.
Many a time, gentlemen, have I spoken at length in this House; many a time have I reproached our fellow citizens for their self-indulgence and greed -- and by so doing have made many enemies; for as I had never, in my own conscience, excused myself for any wrongdoing, I found it hard to pardon the sins which other men's passions led them to commit. You took little notice of my remonstrances; but the stability of the state was not impaired by your indifference, because of its great prosperity. Now, however, it is not the question whether our morals are good or bad, nor is it the size and grandeur of the Roman empire that we have to consider. The issue is whether that empire, whatever we may think of it, is going to remain ours, or whether we and it together are to fall in to the hands of enemies. In such a crisis does anyone talk to me of clemency and compassion? For a long time now we have ceased to call things by their proper names. To give away other people's property is called generosity; criminal daring goes by the name of courage. That is why our affairs have come to such a pass. However, since such is our standard of morality, let Romans be liberal, if they want to, at the expense of our subjects, let them be merciful to plunderers of the exchequer. But let them not make a present of our life-blood, and by sparing a handful of criminals go the way to destroy all honest men.
It was an eloquent and polished lecture that Gaius Caesar delivered to you a few minutes ago on the subject of life and death. Evidently he disbelieves the account men give of the next world -- how the wicked go a different way from the good, and inhabit a place of horror, fear, and noisome desolation. Therefore he recommended that the property of the accused should be confiscated and that they should be imprisoned in various towns. No doubt he feared that if they remained in Rome, either the adherents of the conspiracy or a hired mob might rescue them by force. What does he think? Are there bad characters and criminals only at Rome, and not all over Italy? Is reckless violence not more likely to succeed where there is less strength to resist it? His proposals are useless if he apprehends danger from the conspirators; and if amid such universal fear he alone is not afraid, I have the more reason to be afraid for myself and for you. In making your decision about Publius Lentulus and the other prisoners, you must realize that you will also be determining the fate of Cataline's army and of the whole body of conspirators. The more energetically you act, the more will their courage be shaken. Show the slightest weakness, and you will soon have the whole pack of them here barking defiance at you.
Do not imagine that it was by force of arms that our ancestors transformed a petty state into this great Republic. If it were so, it would now be at the height of its glory, since we have more subjects and citizens, more arms and horses, than they had. It was something quite different that made them great -- something that we are entirely lacking in. They were hard workers at home, just rulers abroad; and to the council-chamber they brought untrammelled minds, neither racked by consciousness of guilt nor enslaved by passion. We have lost these virtues. We pile up riches for ourselves while the state is bankrupt. We sing the praises of prosperity -- and idle away our lives. Good men or bad -- it is all one: all the prizes that merit ought to win are carried off by ambitious intriguers. And no wonder, when each one of you schemes only for himself, when in your private lives you are slaves to pleasure, and here in the Senate House the tools of money or influence. The results is that when an assault is made upon the Republic, there is no one there to defend it.
I will say no more on that subject. A plot has been hatched by citizens of the highest rank to set fire to their native city. Gauls, the deadliest foes of everything Roman, have been called to arms. The hostile army and its leader are ready to descend upon us. And are you still hesitating and unable to decide how to treat public enemies taken within your walls? I suggest you take pity on them -- they are young men led astray by ambition; armed though they are, let them go. But mind what you are doing with clemency and compassion: if they unsheathe the sword, you may have reason to regret your attitude. Oh yes, you say, the situation is certainly ugly, but you are not afraid of it. On the contrary, you are shaking in your shoes; but you are so indolent and weak that you stand irresolute, each waiting for someone else to act -- trusting, doubtless, to the gods, who have often preserved our Republic in times of deadly peril. I tell you that vows and womanish supplications will not secure divine aid; it is by vigilance, action, and wise counsel, that all success is achieved. If you give way to sloth and cowardice, the gods turn a deaf ear to your entreaties: their wrath makes them your enemies.
In bygone days, during a war with the Gauls, Aulus Manilus Torquatus had his son put to death for fighting the enemy against orders. That noble youth paid with his life for an excess of valour; and do you, who are trying a set of ruthless traitors to their country, hesitate about the appropriate sentence to pass? If their past lives are urged in extenuation of their crime, by their past lives let them be judged. Spare Lentulus for his high rank -- if he ever spared his own chastity and good name, or showed any respect for god or man. Pardon the youth Cethegus -- if this is not already the second time he has made war on his country. As for Gabinius, Statilius, and Caseparius, if they had not been utterly unscrupulous, they would never plotted as they did against the state.
To conclude, gentlemen: if we could afford to risk the consequences of making a mistake, I should be quite willing to let experience convince you of your folly, since you scorn advice. But we are completely encircled. Cataline and his army are ready to grip us by the throat, and there are other foes within the walls, in the very heart of our city. We can make no plans or preparations without its being known -- an additional reason for acting quickly. This therefore is my recommendation. Whereas by the criminal designs of wicked citizens the Republic has been subjected to serious danger; and whereas, by the testimony of Titus Volturcius and the envoys of the Allobroges, confirmed by the prisoners' own confession, they stand convicted of having planned massacre, arson, and other foul atrocities against their fellow citizens and their country: that, having admitted their criminal intention, they should be put to death as if they had been caught in the actual commission of capital offences, in accordance with ancient custom. | 2019-04-20T11:16:18Z | http://free--expression.blogspot.com/2007/09/sallust-conspiracy-of-cataline-catos.html |
Portable hearing aids – How to buy the right one?
Hearing misfortune is normal. It is not a sickness or malady; it is in any case, second just too joint pain as a medical issue for individuals beyond sixty five years old. Around twenty-eight million individuals, one in ten, Americans encounter disabled hearing. How to begin? The principal thing is not to accept any exhortation or suggestions from any other person: your life partner, youngsters, neighbors or anyone. Get up one morning and start to follow along (perhaps make notes) of what’s new with sounds throughout your life. On the off chance that somebody says “please” and you listen “cheddar” recall that (record it). On the off chance that somebody says “entryway” and you listen “more” focus on that, do not disregard it or shut it out or accuse the speaker, simply perceive that it happened.
Try not to contend with anyone or focus on their “you require a hearing aid discourse”. Watch your days with respect to sound, what is the number on the TV volume control when you watch it independent from anyone else what is the number when another person in the house is controlling it? When you go out do you hear the flying creatures? Shouldn’t something be said about your aeration and cooling system, your fish tank, the sound of your feet on the carpet, running water? Select things that make sounds and clamor that you know and make note of what you are hearing or not hearing; music, rain, wind, activity, and so forth. On the off chance that somebody asks did you hear the telephone, entryway ringer, whatever, answer them sincerely and make note of it. Before long you will start to perceive what’s new with the sounds throughout your life. You might stir up S’s and T’s and D’s and C’s, experiencing issues hearing every one of the consonants, experiencing issues hearing your grandchildren, see that low pitch sounds are louder than high pitch sounds. These perceptions are critical when you are prepared to push ahead for find the best hearing aids from Daysland here.
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It seems like the back-to-school dust has barely settled before we are flung into holiday preparations. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas come in rapid-fire with only a little breathing room in between. So if you woke up one morning in September (or October or November) and thought, Oh no! Christmas is coming!, you’re not the only one. That thought can be especially stressful if this year was a tough one economically for your family.
Christmas is expensive (the average family spends around $1000), and with only a short time left to save up for it, you might be freaking out a little bit. But don’t be discouraged if an “all-out” elaborate Christmas season is out of reach for your family this year. You can absolutely have a fun and meaningful Christmas without putting everything on a credit card or taking a second job.
Having an affordable Christmas requires prioritizing, creativity, and preparation, but it does not require deprivation or embarrassment. Simplifying your Christmas season may be exactly what you need to connect as a family and truly experience the Christmas spirit. I’ve compiled some ideas and tips to help you define your priorities as a family, creatively save money, and prepare now.
Calling this Christmas “affordable” or a “budget Christmas” might have a negative connotation with going cheap, being a Scrooge, and sad deprivation. You might shudder to imagine your children’s sad faces as they turn their stockings upside down to shake out a single orange and candy cane. But that is NOT what being frugal and financially savvy is about!
Being frugal means being deliberate about how you spend each dollar; it has more to do with self-awareness than cutting coupons. If you want to save money on Christmas, ask yourself what truly brings your family joy during the holidays. Not everything about Christmas will bring you joy. The trick to saving money is putting dollars where they will make you happy, and not putting them where they won’t.
Your biggest priority should be financial peace. Overspending and going into debt will overshadow any happiness gained from the purchases. You’ll find that committing to financial responsibility will bring you the most joy this season.
To identify your family’s priorities for the season, hold a family meeting. It can be around the dinner table on a Sunday, or in the car, or before bed.
Ask your children and spouse to tell you their favorite Christmas memories.
Ask about which traditions they look forward to this year.
Ask why those experiences made them happy.
Take a few notes and pay attention to what kinds of things came up multiple times.
Get to the heart of what made those experiences meaningful–you may be surprised that your children didn’t care about the Nutcracker, but they loved singing silly carols together on the drive there.
After the family meeting, counsel with your spouse about what activities and traditions you will include this year. Review your notes from the family meeting and determine what things will bring you joy and what you will cut out this year. Saying no to activities or traditions is hard, but it is easier if you view it as making room for more important things. Choosing to spend your time and money on only a few meaningful traditions will bring peace to a hectic holiday season.
After you’ve identified the priorities for the season, your budget is probably looking more attainable, and your stress level has hopefully gone down. But what if your priorities are still going to cost more than you can afford? It’s time to get creative! Often our ideas and expectations for Christmas are formed by an avalanche of marketing and social pressure, but you can dig yourself out and be true to your own priorities. Here are a few practical tips for reducing the cost of Christmas while still keeping it fun and meaningful.
Christmas Parties: Throwing a big Christmas bash can cost a lot of time and money. The food and invitations can really add up, plus it’s a ton of work to make the food, plan activities, and prepare the house. But the point of throwing a Christmas party is to be with people and feel festive, not to win hostess of the year. So invite your friends and neighbors to a night of caroling. Print out the lyrics to popular carols and spread some Christmas cheer around the neighborhood! Then gather at your house to warm up and visit over glazed doughnuts and some hot chocolate.
Christmas Cards: First of all, it’s time to realize that you don’t have to send Christmas cards at all. If it is a priority for you, then absolutely do it. But in the age of social media, most people have already seen your family photos and vacation pictures, so the custom printed photo cards are really unnecessary. If you truly want to wish friends Merry Christmas, you can get basic holiday cards, and write a personal note inside. For grandparents who love to put pictures on the fridge, print a couple 4×6 photos (for pennies at your local Walgreens or Target) and tuck them in the card.
Decorations: Gorgeous holiday decor is so tempting! I dream of my home being decorated like a Hallmark set. To save money on decorating, you’ll have to say no to new decorations. It’s okay to use the same decorations you used last year and the year before. If you want a refresh, get creative and see what you can make with what you already own. Or instead of overhauling your whole home, choose to replace the twinkle lights that are flickering and get one new centerpiece or wreath. Another free option is to trade decorations with a family member or friend.
Framed children’s artwork or hand prints.
Cousin Gift Exchanges: Get your children involved. It will be more meaningful for them if they think of a creative idea to make and give. Encourage your children to use their interests and talents to make jewelry, write a story, invent a game, sew a doll blanket, etc. It will probably take more time than a Walmart run, but that’s why you prioritized, right?
Neighbor Gifts: Many neighborhoods have traditions of exchanging small gifts or goodie plates , but like Christmas cards, you don’t have to do it. If the cost of ingredients and time to make five types of cookie is not a priority, you can skip this year. But if it is important to you to reciprocate your neighbors’ gifts, you can do a simplified version. Instead of four or five varieties of cookies, make mini loaves of pumpkin bread or pound cake. You can always skip the gift altogether and mail each neighbor a card with a handwritten message expressing your gratitude for their friendship and generosity.
Gifts for Your Children: You can discover the things your children truly want by reducing their exposure to marketing. Less TV and YouTube before the holidays will tame the “gimme gimmes”. Also, never hand a child a catalog to circle things he/she wants. Everything looks cool in a catalog, even if your child didn’t know it existed before that moment. Without being told what they should want, your children will be able to think independently. Ask your children to write down the top three gifts they would like. Without the prompting of advertising, the things they write down will probably be items they’ve thought about for a while. As such, they are more likely to be enjoyed for a long time.
Here’s an important clarification though: you do not have to buy something just because your child wants it. If you don’t have the money for something or you don’t want your child to own it, do not buy it. Even if your eight-year-old daughter desperately wants an iPad, don’t buy her an iPad if you don’t have the money or you don’t want to fight a screen time battle for the next decade. Being a parent is often about making choices that may make your children temporarily unhappy–even at Christmas time.
When thinking about buying gifts for your children, think about maximizing the ratio of joy per dollar. Don’t feel obligated to buy a large number of gifts just so they have the pleasure of ripping lots of paper on Christmas morning. Only in commercials should stacks of presents hide the tree. The ripping-paper joy is short-lived, and it starts to wear off after the first few presents anyway. Focus instead on a few quality gifts your children will enjoy for several months. Choose gifts that will engage their minds and feed their interests.
Cut the cable. Besides the benefit of reducing the advertising your children are exposed to, it will free up some cash. Plus, you’ll have more time to work on those handmade gifts with your children. Sad you’ll miss all the Hallmark movies? Check them out from your local library for free!
Cancel any other subscriptions you can live without. Netflix and Hulu are not vital (Gasp! Not ALL the shows?! Yes, you can live without TV for a few months.). Cancel magazine subscriptions, any beauty or clothing box, Audible memberships, monthly gym memberships (Let’s be real. I’m not going to the gym until January anyway.), and anything else you pay for monthly. Will it be a sacrifice? Absolutely. But Christmas is on the line here.
Stop eating out regularly. I know it’s super convenient, but even the cheap options are more expensive than eating at home. You can still eat out, but plan ahead, budget for it, and make sure there’s a purpose for it. On the plus side, eating at home is generally healthier than eating out, so you won’t miss that gym membership so much.
Besides reducing your spending, you can also find ways to make extra cash. It is the season of spending after all, so why not be on the receiving end? Here are a few ideas to bring in some Christmas cash.
Enlist the whole family in a serious decluttering effort, and then list the stuff on Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace.
Offer yard work as a family to your neighborhood. The fall is a great time to offer leaf raking, gutter cleaning, weeding, and trimming. Make up some flyers, set your rates, and have your children practice giving a pitch. It’s a great way to earn some cash and work together as a family.
Do a bake sale. Are you great at cookies? Sell frozen homemade cookie dough. Choose a few recipes you are great at, then teach your children how to price out the costs and profits of each. Set your prices, create order forms, and then have friends and neighbors order and pay ahead of time. It’ll take one weekend of mixing, packaging, and delivery. Your customers will save time on holiday baking, and you get money for Christmas!
With budgeting, knowledge is power. The more you know early in the game, the better prepared you will be. I’ve created a downloadable spreadsheet you can use to estimate what your Christmas will cost. Armed with that, you can break down your total cost and save a little at a time. Looking directly at the total cost and making a plan will reduce your stress significantly. As you fill in numbers for each category, you’ll see its effect on the total. Always go back to your priorities and ask yourself if that category will bring you joy.
As you work through your priorities, get creative with gifts and activities, and prepare your finances, your holiday-induced stress will decrease. Simplifying the holidays will bring your family closer together as you spend time helping and creating together. Rediscover the true meaning of Christmas when you prioritize things that don’t have a price tag. As you celebrate this season, your tough financial year can turn into a memorable Christmas. | 2019-04-25T14:14:09Z | https://www.mommyhighfive.com/how-make-christmas-affordable-your-family-budget/ |
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There are many diseases whose symptoms generate certain discomforts that lead to patients unable to fall asleep and experience a greater deterioration in their quality of life. In this sense, insomnia appears as a secondary manifestation to other pathologies. These problems happen very often in people suffering from some form of cancer. According to medical evidence, insomnia is one of the most common symptoms in cancer patients. However, it is one of the less studied clinical manifestations compared to other cancer-related problems such as pain and depression.
There are authors who have focused on assessing the relationship between insomnia and cancer and warn that it is an association that acquires relevance if it is intended to improve the lives of those affected. In one of these studies, the authors state that many researches have been done that have contributed to generate knowledge about the link between oncological diseases and fatigue. However, very little is known about the role of tiredness in sleep deficiency. In this sense, the authors warn that observations have been made that sleep disorders such as insomnia can be one of the main causes of habitual tiredness that people feel.
In turn, it has been pointed out that poor quality sleep can have a notable impact on the physical symptoms associated with cancer. It is known to contribute to increased fatigue, reduced tolerance to pain and further deterioration of the immune system. Psychological aspects can also be affected, since insomnia can contribute to a worsening of mood, increasing irritability and the chances of falling into depressive episodes.
These data should not be discounted since insomnia can represent a serious factor that acts to the detriment of a better clinical state in those people suffering from some type of cancer. Zolpidem should be evaluated for use in these cases, because its low rate of serious adverse reactions means a variable that becomes more relevant in these patients who already present a significant deterioration of their physical condition. Although zolpidem is approved for the management of insomnia for brief periods of time, there is evidence that long-term use may be beneficial in some patients. In the case of people with cancer, the use of zolpidem should be evaluated as an option recommended by physicians, strictly attending to the symptoms presented by each patient.
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"Your Pastor, the leader of your sheep, shall flee in terror"
Veronica - There are two long rays of blue light coming from opposite sides of the sky and meeting just over Our Lady's statue. One ray is now opening up and forming a narrow—what looks to be, appears to be a road, a very narrow road. And over on our left side—the right side has the narrow road, and on our left side, just over the trees, beaming down from Heaven, there are two streams of light forming a wide road. But the wide road is going downward and seems to be going down into the ground beyond the trees. The narrow road ends over Our Lady's statue head.
There are blue dots of light appearing all over the sky. It's just beautiful. The sky is beginning to lighten, to grow very bright, and I can see now the slivers, tiny minute particles of glistening, crystalline graces Our Lady speaks of many times, the graces that will be evident to the human eye.
Now over on our right side there is a sheath of light coming forward. Our Lady is coming down now; She's floating as though She was on a staircase. She is coming down on this narrow road, and behind Her is Saint Michael, covering most of the sky. His hair, his head is so large that it reaches past the flag of our country.
Our Lady now is floating over—She doesn't walk, She's carried by the wind, over to our left side. It would be the right side of the sky for Our Lady.
Our Lady is holding in Her right hand a very large Scapular. It's a piece of brown cloth. There are no figures upon it, but it's very neatly stitched. It's a huge replica of the brown Scapular. And in Her left hand Our Lady is carrying the Rosary. It's a beautiful white Rosary with the golden Our Father and a gleaming crucifix. The crucifix is so brilliant that, as Our Lady turns, the light upon the crucifix is very dazzling to the eyes. Our Lady now is kissing the brown cloth and placing it about Her neck. The panel of brown cloth hangs forward upon Our Lady's tunic, Her mantle.
Our Lady is dressed in a very deep blue mantle and a white, a gleaming white gown with a sash of—it's not blue; it's like an off-beige color. Our Lady is now placing Her Rosary and twining it upon the cording around Her waist. The crucifix is hanging far down onto the leg section of Our Lady's gown.
Our Lady is touching Her lips with Her first finger, and that means to listen well.
Our Lady - "My child, you must understand that it is not often that I send you upon a distant mission. However, in our desperate times you must be ready to follow My direction without notice in advance.
"It is sad, My child, that there are so many delusions and errors prevalent upon earth. The souls fall into deep darkness, as they are misguided by Our clergy and those who have cast aside the light to run fast headlong into the darkness.
"My child, it has soothed Our hearts, for you have defended Our beloved son, Francis, Saint Francis of Assisi.
"Yes, My child, even the blessed ones are attacked upon earth by satan, for they know that these blessed have joined in the fight ahead against the forces of 666, the man of perdition now loosed upon your earth. The battle continues; the evil has accelerated.
"I will instruct you, My child, for the knowledge of all mankind. The word 'nakedness' and 'naked' has been misconstrued, and has been taken out of context from the good Book, the Bible. Watch, My child, as I will enfold, unfold the story for you."
Veronica - The sky is beginning to open up on the right side. I see a very quiet body of water, a sea. And there is in the water a boat; it is a wooden structure, very crudely made. It is lying listlessly in the water. And now, as Our Lady brings me forward, I can see men—one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine—nine men are standing in the boat, and they are pulling upon a net that's stretched over the side of the boat.
Three of the men have tunics tied about their waists, but off their shoulders. The men have been fishing, but they have not filled their nets, Our Lady says. The men have been fishing, but they have not filled their nets.
Our Lady - "You will observe, My child, that none of these men are naked, for the word 'naked' can be misconstrued, when what is meant is stripped or uncovered, but not wholly. Nakedness is not to be practiced before another human. Adam and Eve, your first parents, when they found themselves naked, they covered themselves with the leaves. Therefore, watch, My child, and record the truth."
Veronica - I see over on the left side of the boat a man, a tall man. He has a beard and long brown hair. Now as I watch he is tying the cord belting tighter about his waist. He has on a tunic, a long tunic, but underneath I can see the upper part of an undercovering.
Our Lady - "My child, it is called a loincloth."
Veronica - A loincloth. And the tunic being worn by the man is now being taken off from his shoulders and he tightens the belting, so that it lies suspended about his waist.
The waters are warm, the air is heavy, and they continue to labor, the men, to bring up the fish. They are becoming discouraged, and they are looking about them. Another man who is dressed in a long tunic that is belted, girded very tightly about his waist, approaches the first man standing to the left. I can hear his voice. He is saying: "Simon Peter, look! There is the Master on the shore."
Simon Peter—it is the man on the left, and he turns and looks the short distance that lies to the shore. Excitedly, he brings up his tunic, the top covering, and places his arms in the sleeves and brings the tunic closer about his chest as he ties the rope closer.
Our Lady - "Never did Peter stand, My child, naked as man will call nakedness. The word 'naked' can be taken out of context, I repeat. Peter found the work heavy and hot. He removed only the top of his tunic by girding it tightly about his waist as he worked, as he labored with difficulty with the heavy nets to bring up the fish."
Veronica - Now the man who had approached Peter is pointing to the shore. And now Peter is growing very excited, and the other men are starting to pull at the nets. They have grown very heavy, and I can see now fish jumping up. Oh, my goodness! The nets are filled with fish jumping up and down. Oh! And the man on the right side talking to Peter, says: "The Master has filled the nets."
Now Peter is going over to the front part of the boat and he's leaping in, feet first into the water. It's not very deep. They're not far from shore, and he's now trying to swim, and wading to the shore. And over on the shore is Jesus; I can see Jesus. He's standing there in His long white tunic, His robe on His arm.
It's very warm. It's early morning, around ten or eleven o'clock, Our Lady said. Ten or eleven o'clock, but it's very warm and humid.
And now I can see Peter rushing up onto the beach—it looks like a beach. And the sand, though, is not a white; it's sort of a reddish, muddy-colored looking. And he's now throwing himself at Jesus' feet.
Now they are preparing wood, and there's a fire in it. It had been prepared previously, because it's burning quite well. And Jesus is saying: "Come, let us eat."
And now the men out in the boat are all quite excited, and they're coming in and trying to pull the heavy nets overflowing with fish behind them. They are all talking excitedly of the power of Jesus to fill these nets after they had labored most of the night without success.
Now it's growing very dark, and Our Lady is moving closer, just above the flag, the American flag.
Our Lady - "My child, you understand now why I allowed you to carry the cross.
"Saint Francis, your patron, he did not appear naked before his bishop. It is an expression, a symbol of divesting yourself of all your worldly desires and goods. He wished to live a life of poverty and piety, loving all creatures of God, for they reflected the joy and the dignity of his Master, the Lord high God in Heaven.
"My child, much penance, much atonement is needed for the abominations being committed from the hearts of men. My Son's House, His Church, is under constant attack by the forces of 666. These demons set loose in these end times, My children, will enter into the body of any man, woman, or child who has fallen out of grace.
"My children, do not fall for the error—do not fall into error: you must pray for the light before you read the Scriptures. Many have set themselves to change, renovate, and place deceit in the lines written by the prophets.
"My child, do not be concerned of expressing your true feelings. If you cannot accept the penance, will you be able to accept a heavier cross, My child?
"When I send you upon a mission, My child, do not be concerned of the outcome. You have accomplished what I set you out to do.
"Man must be cautious in the manner in which he is trying to set My Son's Church to right. There are many who are rushing headlong into error and confusion. The priesthood will be step by step, lesson by lesson. We cannot, My children, have instant priests at this time. You ask why, My child, and I must give you the facts.
"My Son taught His priests, His disciples, the Apostles, in the time He was upon earth. He infused in them accumulations of knowledge that was supernatural in manner. In your human mind and your human limitations, My child, you will not be able to fully understand the ways of the Father. The twelve disciples, Apostles, set down the rule, and they were taught in truth, facts, and solid foundation.
"Man through the ages became dissatisfied and filled with pride. He sought to bring in, to enter upon the Bible his own interpretation of the wordings. To the simple of heart, those who do not succumb to pride and arrogance, the wordings are quite clear.
"A true priest is a man who has been legally ordained; a true priest is a man who will need extensive study to prepare him to be able to understand and teach the truth. The first Apostles were given this knowledge by Jesus; the descendants of Peter are given this knowledge by the Holy Ghost.
"It is only when these descendants of the priesthood do not pray and have entered themselves into the world of humanism and modernism that they no longer bring the light to the sheep. They scatter the sheep in all directions, sowing confusion, abominations, fallacies, and lies. And you ask, as did Pilate: And what is truth? My Son is truth, in God the Father and the Spirit. My Son is the light of the world. If you make instant priests, what good is it without the salt?
"My children, there is much to correct in the procedures that man has chosen to right the wrong. Pray a constant vigilance of prayer that satan does not enter upon the good works.
"My children, you must continue to wear your sacramentals. You must come to My Son by the tabernacles of the world. Join with Him; pray with Him; do penance for your brothers and sisters. Much atonement is needed. There will be much gnashing of teeth and woe set upon the world by the evil one.
"My child, you will not speculate with dates. I assure you, all the knowledge the Eternal Father wishes to give to you will appear before your very eyes. Be patient and long-suffering, My child.
"The Message from Heaven is reaching to all corners of the world, the earth. I bless Our children, your neighbors, your brothers of the north who wear the white berets. I bless those in your country, My child, the United States, who wear the white berets and the blue berets.
"I understand, My child, there is confusion. The blue berets will be worn only by the ladies who are in the circle of light. They are signatures and signify the placement within the circle of light. This message of the blue berets was a personal one, My child, and not to be adopted universally. I repeat: all will wear the white berets, all but the ladies of the inner circle.
"Continue, My children, with your prayers of atonement. Pray for your bishops; pray for your Holy Father, Our blessed son who now is carrying his cross. Do not be astounded at the turn of events that will soon come upon you.
"As I directed you before, there is an impostor; there is one who is a double for your Holy Father. The game of the reds and the blues are played like chess, My child. You must watch well.
"There will be a gathering in your city of Philadelphia, My child. Pray that out of the confusion that will reign, that much good could develop.
"The Eternal Father watches with great anxiety, My child. Keep a constant vigilance of prayer for your bishops. Do not be concerned of public opinion, and do not waste your energies and your precious time in trying to combat adverse opinion. Go forward, carrying your banner of Faithful and True."
Veronica - Our Lady now is extending Her Rosary. She's taking it from about Her waist, and She's holding it out, like this, with the crucifix hanging. It's quite heavy. Oh, it's beautiful, though—a golden hue, a color that's just so brilliant it almost hurts your eyes to try to look into the center of the light. Our Lady is extending now Her Rosary out, like this, and making the sign of the cross: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Our Lady is now going over to our left side, just a little above the tree, and extending Her hand out: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Michael now has joined Our Lady, and they're going over to our right side. They're traveling quite fast on the wind; they're just gliding. Our Lady now is bending over, and She's extending Her Rosary out, like this, and making the sign of the cross: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Our Lady - "I bless you all, My children, as the Eternal Father blesses you in the Spirit, and send among you graces, graces for cures and conversion—cures of the body and cures of the soul."
Veronica - Now Our Lady is going backwards into the sky. Saint Michael—he's over on Her right side now; he's cut across, and he's standing at Our Lady's right side. He has the balance in his right hand, the golden balance, and a spear that he's holding up now in his left hand. I can't see Michael's face. I don't think I have ever seen Michael's face—the light is so bright. The color is reflecting, the brilliant lighting is reflecting on his hair, and it lights up all of the sky about Our Lady over to the left side of the tree.
Our Lady - "Be seated, My child, and await My Son."
Veronica - The sky is becoming a deep, smoky red. It's a warm color, a fiery red. Now over on the right side, to the right of Our Lady's statue, high over the banners, there's a sheath, a streak of white light now coming through the sky. And directly above it, Michael is coming forward and stepping over—he's not stepping; he's gliding over to our left side, his right side.
Now through the light—the light now is branching out, and there are streams of light coming from the center. That makes one, two, three beams of light coming directly down.
Oh, and high above the beam, directly over Our Lady's head, is Jesus. Oh, it's quite windy; His hair is blowing. He has no shoes on His feet, not even sandals; they're bare. And His hands now are extended. He has His hands extended in front of Him, and that's where the rays are coming from—both hands. There's a ray coming out from each hand. It's very beautiful. Now the ray in the center is extending upward and going directly to His chest. Oh, beautiful!
Now Jesus is coming down, followed by Michael. And Our Lady now is appearing in the light. She's coming down just behind Jesus, and Michael is on the right side now. Our Lady is stepping—She's gliding between Jesus—She's on Jesus' right side, and Michael is next to Her.
Now Jesus is taking His garment away from His chest, and there's a huge pink—oh, almost a deep pink-colored heart emblazoned on His, the front of His tunic. Jesus is placing His hand in front of Him, like this, and touching now His lips, which means to listen and repeat.
Jesus - "My child, for those who have been given an abundance of graces, much is expected of them. You will be given no more a burden than you can carry.
"There is now in the city of Rome a conspiracy of evil to remove your Vicar from the Seat of Peter. The forces, the red forces are gathering. Pray a constant vigilance of prayer. When the upheaval in Rome takes place, My children, know that the end of your era is at hand.
"Your country, the United States, is standing now, has placed itself upon a brink, a road to disaster. Much will depend upon your free will of exercising the power to place in your government men of God or men of dark secrets. Pray for your government and your leaders; pray that you choose wisely, for your country will be in chaos.
"My children, My Mother has cautioned you of the days ahead. I do not have to enlarge upon Her direction. Keep a constant vigilance of prayer throughout your country and the world. You must be persevering and diligent. There are many armies of satan now throughout your world. The Eternal Father plans the strategy to combat this evil. However, man holds his destiny by his actions.
"The Ball of Redemption, the direction for the Chastisement, is with the Eternal Father. Be prepared at all times for the approaching Warning. All who are of well spirit will have nothing to fear. They will go through these times with great fortitude in the knowledge that the eventual victory is with Heaven.
"All parents hold the measure of responsibility for the salvation of their children's souls. Do not expect others to save your children. You must retain the Faith in their hearts through your homes and your family unity. Satan has sown discord within the family circles. It will be a struggle in the days ahead to keep your children from falling into the web of evil that is slowly ensnaring the world. Satan is weaving his web of evil like the black widow.
"The forces of 666 are spreading their evil throughout your world. Do not be deluded; do not set yourself in speculation, for you have been given the meaning of 666 in the past: six is for the six who are coming, and have come; six is for the six days of great suffering; and six is for the six who will be punished.
"The photograph miraculous, given to the world through Jacinta, the child seer, has been discarded and forgotten. It was, it is still a mystery to mankind. But the secret has been given to the simple of heart. Those of great knowledge, who hold the highest places upon earth, have lost sight of the road, the road to their redemption. It is only in the hearts of those who remain simple and pure of thought and deed that these miracles of photographs, of cures of spirit, of cures of body, will be given.
"It is sad, My children, that We have to look upon a world that has become much darker, more corrupted and defiled than in the time of Noe or Sodom. Awaken now from your slumber, My pastors. There is not much time left to gather My sheep. And shall you stand before Me and say that your teaching of My sheep has been pure in My sight? No! I say unto you: many of you have fallen asleep.
"Do not be deluded by those who say: Where is His coming? Has He fallen asleep? For I assure you, as day will come out of night, as light shall emerge from the darkness, I will return."
Veronica - Now Jesus is going over, directly above our flag, the American flag, and He's pointing downward to the flag.
Jesus - "Look, My children, upon a nation, America the beautiful, that has given itself to satan. Look upon a nation that has conspired with the enemy, the enemies of God. Look upon a nation guided by My Mother for years of plentitude on earth, and look upon a nation that shall be chastised through suffering.
"The Message from Heaven shall go throughout your world, and then shall come the end. There will be a baptism of fire set upon mankind. How soon, My children? It all depends upon you and your actions. Prayer must be joined with action, works, good deeds of atonement.
"Those in Rome who have been given a high place to guide the souls of mankind must now clean with inventory. Their works have been found wanting; their direction has been found wanting; and none shall escape the wrath of an angry God.
"Unless you pray more for your bishops, there will be chaos in Rome: bishop against bishop, cardinal against cardinal, while satan stands in the midst of them. Blood shall flow in the streets of Rome. Your Pastor, the leader of your sheep, shall flee in terror.
"I say now, My children, I long to bring words of cheer and joy to you, but know that if the scale is not balanced soon, this joy shall be with the ultimate victory."
Veronica - Now Jesus is extending His hand out, like this, with the three fingers in front of Him, and making the sign of the cross: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
It's very windy. Now Jesus is floating; He's just gliding on the wind across the sky over to our right side, directly above the second tree. And He's looking down now and placing His hand out, like this: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Jesus is now going over to our left side. He's joining Our Lady and Saint Michael, who have been standing there motionless. Our Lady does not look very happy; She has a very sad expression upon Her face. And now Jesus is going ahead of them and moving over high above the tree. And He's standing now, bending over now, and placing His hand in front of Him: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Jesus - "I bless you all, My children, as the Father blesses you, and We send among you the Spirit of light. Continue with your prayers of atonement. Go forward and send the message throughout the world. Shout it from the rooftops, for the time is growing short."
Veronica - Now Jesus is rising very, very high into the sky. The light that's coming out from all about Him now is closing in, and He's going directly beyond the light; it's as though the sky has opened up and closed again.
Our Lady is standing over with Saint Michael, just directly above the Michael banner, and She's touching now Her lips.
Our Lady - "My child, continue with your prayers of atonement. I will be with you through the days ahead." | 2019-04-22T02:20:36Z | http://nuestrasenoradelasrosas.org/messages/bm760715.htm |
The early years of Renault were mostly dedicated to car racing, with great success at various long-distance races. Success is good advertising, so Renault sold many cars of several types. Till 1904 they used the one-cylinder De Dion and Aster engines. The location of the radiator, at the backside of the hood, behind the engine, was a typical Renault feature, and the result was the a hood named “alligator” or “cheese cover,” seen on most of the models up to 1929. From 1904 onwards Renault produced the car engines themselves, and after 1905 the models were equipped with 2 and 4 cylinder engines. Renault is flourishing. Quality and car comfort became better and better, engine power and top speed increased. Renault used characters for type name indication right from the beginning, but throughout the years a great and almost confusing programme came into being. The letter codes told something about the chassis and the used technology, which meant that Renault only made the chassis, the engine, the hood and the suspension. Renault began to set things right in 1908. They started serial production of the type AX. Though they were based on the same principles, cars with a different chassis, coachwork and motor version got a type name with added characters. Renault got a plant to produce their own coachwork in 1912. However, various kind of coachwork were made by different car manufacturers. During the first World War Renault produced also engines for tanks and aircraft.
After the first World War a wave of new Renault models appeared. It was a whole new generation of cars, four-wheel braked and equipped with electronic parts. Real serial production started. A top model was the 40cv, from 1923, with a 6-cylinder, 40 hp engine, a top speed of 130 km/h and looking like an impressive torpedo-chaser. One of the characteristics of this period was the fierce competition with André Citroën. To attract new buyers both manufacturers put in turns a new model on the market. The new Renault models had a combination of letters as type name indication, sometimes completed with a numeral, e.g. NN, KJ, NT, KZ2 etc. In those times Renault was a very conservative car builder. They avoided new developments or improvements and elaborated on the already existing cars. Over the years engine power increased (4 and 6-cylinder engines were available now), the “cheese cover” hood disappeared, as a following of the radiator to be moved to the engine’s front side. Something typical for the thirties too: Louis Renault using Ford and Chrysler cars as a model for designing his own new car models. A mania for “streamlined” models came into being, the wheels with spokes disappeared and models with more elegance were designed. Models got a name as type indication, like, for example, Vivastella and Primaquatre. Competition widened with brands like Peugeot, Simca and Fiat, trying to take advantage of the growing car market. Renault introduced a new top model in 1939, the Suprastella. A real super car (in those times) with an 8-cylinder, 110 hp engine and a top speed of 130 km/h. Put on the market as a presidential car for dignities and industrial magnates. WWII, in which Renault mostly choose the allies side, put an end to progress.
Hard times began with the start of the second world war. It is said of Louis Renault that he collaborated with the Germans. In reality he followed their orders, in order to spare his factory and employees. The factory was rebuilt immediately after every bombardment. Nevertheless, Louis Renault was prosecuted for collaboration. In September 1944 he was picked up, tortured and he died on 24 October 1944 at the age of 67. Renault becomes a nationalized company after the war, under the name Régie Nationale des Usines Renault, with Pierre Lefaucheux (former resistance leader) as the new director. It was this Pierre who took the first steps towards automatized production. Though it was forbidden to Louis Renault to develop anything that had to do with cars, a new car model was prepared in all secrecy. Mostly as a following of the German Kdf (Kraft durch Freude), which was the base of the Volkswagen Beetle, a car Louis Renault had seen, and he mostly desired to build a car like that. So, in 1941 the development of the 4cv started, a model presented in 1946, just after the war. The 4cv was a car that could meet the increasing demands for a comfortable, economical family car. Over the years, more than 4 million 4cvs have been made. As Mister Lefaucheux was killed in an accident Pierre Dreyfus became his successor. Right after the war the number of models was limited, but far more surveyable. Once again they got names as type name indication and serial production became standard now. Production numbers increased, the production of millions of cars of a certain type was no longer an exception. Some other legendary Renaults made in the fifties are the Dauphine, the Frégate (the last model with the engine at the frontside) and the Floride.
Het eerste cijfer geeft aan wat voor soort voertuig het is: 1=auto, 2=bestelauto benzine, 3= tractor benzine, 4= bestelauto en vrachtauto diesel en 7=tractor diesel.
De overige cijfers geven aan welke uitvoering het is, aanduiding van de techniek (motor- en chassisvariant) en het soort remmen, radiateur en ophanging dat worden gebruikt.
Met de introductie van de Renault 4 in 1961 slaat Renault een geheel nieuwe weg in. Het is de basis van een zeer gevarieerde modellenreeks van auto's die ieder hun eigenschappen of innovaties hadden. Tot en met de Renault 19 wordt elk Renault model aangeduid met een cijfer (m.u.v. de Rodeo en de Fuego). Begin jaren '60 verschijnt een zekere Amédée Gordini op het toneel. Hij wordt zo'n beetje de huistuner van Renault. Hij maakt opgevoerde, sportieve modellen van enkele straatrenaults. Ook in de formule 1 sleutelt hij aan de diverse V6-motoren. Op de Renault 8 worden standaard 4 schijfremmen gemonteerd en is de de R14 de eerste Renault met een dwars voorin geplaatste motor. In 1978 sluit Renault een overeenkomst met AMC (American Motors Company), zodat de verkoop van Renaults in Amerika kan beginnen. De R30 is de eerste naoorlogse 6-cilinder en de R20 is de eerste Renault auto die leverbaar is met een dieselmotor. De turbo wordt voor het eerst gezet op een motor van de Renault 5 en de Espace is de eerste Europese ruimtewagen. De jaren '80 verlopen rampzalig voor Renault vanwege heftige financiële verliezen, maar het tij keert als in 1988 de Renault 19 wordt geïntroduceerd. Hij zorgt ervoor dat het roestimago uit de jaren '70 en begin jaren '80 verdwijnt. Er worden auto's gebouwd vanuit een geheel andere filosofie: kwaliteit.
Vanaf begin jaren '90 worden de personenauto's gebouwd volgens een nieuwe management politiek: totale kwaliteit. Renault wil weer groeien en concurrerend worden, met name op internationaal niveau. Het gehele autoprogramma wordt dan ook vernieuwd en vooral verbeterd. Duidelijk merkbaar is dat er een geheel nieuwe weg is ingeslagen. De jaren '90 staan ook in het teken van de Concept Cars, diverse studie modellen worden gepresenteerd met typenamen die later terug komen in fabrieksmodellen. Vanaf de Clio hebben alle nieuwe Renaults voortaan weer een naam als typeaanduiding. Renault beschikt nu over een zeer groot assortiment met als grootste voorbeeld de Mégane-serie, hiervan zijn maar liefst 5 varianten verkrijgbaar. Zo slecht als het in de jaren '80 ging zo goed ging het dus in de jaren '90. Tot 2 keer toe behaalt Renault de titel "auto van het jaar". In 1991 met de Clio en in 1997 met de Mégane Scenic. In de jaren '90 was Renault zeer succesvol als motorenleverancier in de Formule 1 en dat vertaalde zich in goede verkoopcijfers. Ander nieuws was dat eind 1993 een fusie met Volvo op het laatste moment niet door gaat omdat de Zweedse aandeelhouders zich terug trekken.
Since Renault, thanks to the U-turn of the nineties, came out of the dumps the time came for step two: distinction from other brands. With the presentation of the Avantime it becomes clear which way Renault wants to take in the 21st century. Adventurous and special design will become standard, because the cars of Renault must be clearly recognizable within the never-ending stream of similar cars. And it worked! We went into a new era with completely different cars. Safety plays an important role now, besides quality of course. Many Renault models get the maximum score of five stars in the EuroNCap-crash tests. Renault is establishing a place on the list of the world’s top sellers. But the 21st century will also bring the dispose of the divisions building the trucks, buses and tractors, to respectively Volvo, Irisbus and Claas. Only the cars, vans and the activities concerning car racing are left to Renault. | 2019-04-23T18:06:25Z | http://www.renaultoloog.nl/autos-english.htm |
Well, after getting Ernieplex finished I got The Drawing Board out of its cubbyhole and back in its rightful place, intending to get on with it. However, things proceeded very slowly for a while - so slowly that I've been having a blitz on it over the last couple of weeks. The results follow.
The 3 tippers on the tipping dock - a study in rust. Yes, I finally got round to painting them.
The tipping device in action. Rather than try to hide it I've painted it red and white, as part of the scene. It only took a couple of attempts to get the form right and a little adjustment is easy to make. Now I need the tipping chute below - and a way to get the skips back to the horizontal.
Didi and Wot the Deutz making their way out of the scene past the Wood Bros building.
Woody and Ernieplex on the curve with the other 2 wagons. The atmosphere must be very corrosive.
A study in calm repose by the Wood Bros door.
Very atmospheric - and VERY convincing. You say there's lots to do - but there's already a LOT to look at and admire.
I'm not going to list it all here as actually...........I'm still admiring!!
it looks great.love the solution with the tipping of the skips.
You could use a similar contraption to bump them back down.
Bilco wrote: It only took a couple of attempts to get the form right and a little adjustment is easy to make. Now I need the tipping chute below - and a way to get the skips back to the horizontal.
I agree with what the other have said! This is a fantastic small layout, and I love the rust effects.
Re: getting you tippers back to horizontal, you could drive backwards with them in the tipped position, and around the back of the layout have another bar, that pushes the handles back downwards again.
Sort of like what you have for tipping, but the opposite direction.
You could have a return contraption (almost identical to the first one but just high enough to catch the upturned wooden bar) just above the original bar that forced them back down again. Effectively it would create a channel for the wooden bars to run in. I hope all my writing makes some sense (I rarely do ) I will endeavour to draw a diagram and scan it in.
Excellent! The rust is very believable. I like the idea of the female loco operator too.
Some years ago I made up something similar in S gauge using flat bed tilting log cars. At the time old American Flyer cars of the type were hard to find, so I had to build my own.
An arm came out from the bottom of the car that rode up a ramp at trackside, similar to your device. This tilted the bed of the car to dump the logs. To bring the car bed back down, I weighted the side that was up with a tiny bit of lead to make it drop back down. That way I didn't need to build another tipping ramp.
The tough part was calculating the point just short of vertical so that the bed would go back down with just the weight. Fully automatic, yet very simple. Once I got it working, it was really neat to watch in action.
They had much shorter 'rods' on the wagons and the unloader had a short ramp that flipped the wagons back again.
Unfortunatly I don't have the versions that I had many years ago but a google search might find some photos to explain what I mean.
Many thanks for the comments and suggestions, chaps. It's gratifying that my cunning plan to tip the skip works in practice, but the matching plan to get it back down isn't a practical proposition.
I had intended to have a wire overhead, angled across the track, which the long arm would catch on the way back from the tipping dock, and so bring the skip down again. The major obstacle to this was the driver's head! The original idea was for the loco to pull the skips onto the dock in reverse, but Didi clouted her head on the tipping frame, so I now have the loco pushing the skips, facing forward, so she is far enough over from the frame to miss it. The planned wire will foul her head again, unless I make the tipping arm much longer, and it's long enough now!
So, any scheme that uses something overhead, or encroaches into the footprint of the loco, runs up against this problem. I have this mad idea of burying a length of tube in the scenery, surfacing alongside the track just off the tipping dock on the opposite side to the frame, and pointing upwards and across the track. On the other end of the tube have a rubber squeeze bulb, and blow a short blast of air into the upturned skip, pushing it over, as it goes past. Needs a bit of coordination, but early tests using the Big Bad Wolf's technique are encouraging. Would this be a pneumatic device?
On the other hand, I could just run the skips off scene in the tipped position, and push them back down with the Big Hand In The Sky.
I confess that I am like a terrier - give me a challenge and I will keep at it until I think I have a solution. If you think it worth it you could always make the wooden arms shaped with a s shaped curve so that when the skips are in the tipping position the arms are not so high and so the tipping rail can be lower and further out.
Again it would be easier to draw than I have taken to describe.
Barry, I think I see where you are coming from - have an arm that rotates over the track after Didi is safely out of the way, and engages the arm to push it over. Yes, a good alternative scheme.
Simon, I can see what you mean about the tipping frame not needing to be so far over the track to tip the wagon, though I think it would still have to intrude a little way. Didi sits well over, as you can see from the 3rd photo above. It would need any device on the lines that Barry suggests to tip the skip back to have a longer arm, I think.
Fascinating to see how people approach this problem!
at the photo of the Fleischmann dumper shed.
Opposite the sign is a low-level ramp that catches the lower edge of the tipped bucket as the wagons are reversed out after tipping. This ramp gives the tipped bucket on the wagon a "gnudge" back to the loading position. Note that this ramp is lower than the height of the top of the V-tip and well clear of the track. Once the V-tip bucket gets off it tipped position it will usually self-level in the loading position.
Another idea, which you probably will not think much off, is to use DCC then you can motorize each of the wagons with one of those phone shaker motors and tip and return them anywhere you want on the layout.
However I must admit it is a bit (very BIG bit) of an overkill unless you already have the DCC equipment.
Have a look at the June & July Mid-Month editions of the Micro Layout Website at www.carendt.com to see how I've achieved dumping/returning of the V-Dump Cars on the 'Sylvester Chocolate Mine' Layout.
The layout is looking superb! It just goes to show that you don't need a multitude of pointwork or to spend a fortune on scenic materials and buildings to get a good effect.
As for righting the skips after tipping, how about a twist of wire around the handles, then a magnet to attract them back down. Would probably only need to start the movement, gravity should do the rest.
Well Chaps, many thanks for all the suggestions - what passes for my brain has been mulling them over and has finally come up with something.
Simon, I was rather dismissive of your S-shaped idea, but what I have now tested is very similar - the L -shape!
A few months ago a little art shop in my local town closed down, and sold it's stock off cheaply. I bought some big bottles of Liquitex Concentrated Artists Color acrylics in burnt umber and cadmium orange (great for making my rust, with the magic ingredient) neutral grey and cadmium red, some self-adhesive lead strip, used for making faux-stained glass (and great for fast fixing of extra weight on wagons), and some aluminium wire. This last item comes in a big roll and is 2mm diameter. It's easy to bend to the shape you want, and is exactly the right size to fit in the tipping arm fixings put on the ends of my wagons. I bent up an experimental L-shape and re-used the old tipping gantry to try it out - and it works perfectly, doesn't stick out so far, and the gantry doesn't foul any part of Didi's anatomy!
The prototype L-shape tipper arm in place.
The next step is to install a new tipping gantry, made from the alu wire, and 3 more L-shapes.
As for getting the tipper bodies down again, I am trying your magnetic method, Steve. You may just be able to make out a little washer on the end of the tipper arm. This is made of steel, and I'm experimenting with various magnets to get it to pull down on the tipping arm and so right the body. I may need a more powerful magnet, or a bigger washer, but the concept is good.
The Fleischmann tipping device has a small 'ramp' on opposite side to give tippers a nudge back to normal. Maybe something on near side of track just as wagons leave tipping area to nudge tipper back.
Well, a good result today. The new skip works well with the tipping frame, and seems to run around the track with no problems.
Old and new skips on the tipping dock under the guidance of Didi. The sharp-eyed amongst you will have deduced that this is a posed shot - no coupling links between the stock. However, they push around the curve and through the tipper with no problem, so links is the next thing on the list.
The big event today was to plug in my Gaugemaster Hand-Held controller for the first time. I tried it out first with Wot the Deutz - and the brand-new Spud under it ran perfectly. Slow running is a revelation - it crawls around like an arthritic snail, with no hesitation at all.
Then I tried Ernieplex - same result - smooth, ultra-slow running. Finally I tried Gnot a Gnat, with the rather coggy BEC mechanism - again, nice smooth slow running. My poor old Clipper, bought at the 009 second-hand stall at Pewsey 2 years ago, is now only good to provide the 16vAC supply, as it goes instantly from immobile to rather too fast and can't achieve smooth running to save it's life (although the UE mechanism did better than the others).
I have bought some small disk rare-earth magnets from the local Maplins, so the next task is to work out how use them to coax the tipper bodies back to the horizontal.
So, fabjulous day, calloo callay.
Right - coupling links have been sorted. I have a bundle of black-finished florists wire which is easy to bend and isn't shiny without the need to paint it.
For the locos with the small coupling pockets - Wot the Deutz and Ernieplex - I developed a waisted loop - like an asymmetric figure 8 - which allows the coupling to swing sideways enough not to drag the coupled-up wagon off the track on a curve.
Gnot-a-Gnat has the wider coupling pockets so can take a simple loop. The loops are held in place with the shanks of No 10 fish hooks - I think I have you to thank for that tip, Steve!
The wagons are coupled with simple loops, long enough to cope with the swing on the curves, but not so long that they get in the way when pushing the stock.
I expect the rest of you have sorted this little matter out long ago, but it's one of those things I've been putting off for a long time.
Now to get working on those rare-earth magnets!
Bilco wrote: The loops are held in place with the shanks of No 10 fish hooks - I think I have you to thank for that tip, Steve!
I'm continually astonished at the speed with which people here construct locos and complete scenery - and all with fantastic results! I seem to have been pottering about, planting a bit of vegetation here, a few boulders there, and sticking down the odd bit of painted card for a bit of variety, for weeks and weeks. There are finally some signs of progress visible, especially at the front of the layout, to show for the weeks of slow motion modelling.
A view of almost all the layout, showing the road and the tipping chute - now I just need something to tip whatever it is into.
A closer view of the tipping chute, with Woody and Ernieplex plus a couple of tippers.
Didi and Wot the Deutz at the end of the tipper dock - studiously ignoring the warning light Health and Safety insisted should be fitted.
Still lots to do, so I'd better get a shift on! | 2019-04-23T08:57:50Z | http://forum.gn15.info/viewtopic.php?p=70510 |
This guide describes the process of installing X-Cart 5 on your server.
Before you get started you might want to check whether your web server spec meets system requirements. Even if you don’t, the installation wizard will alert you during the process that something is not set up properly.
You can always refer to the Setting up X-Cart 5 environment section for the tips on a proper server set-up for the best X-Cart software performance and security.
MySQL 5.1.31 or higher. You can also use MySQL-compatible database engine MariaDB.
Any other cachers should not strip comments from the code too.
Suhosin PHP extension might interfere proper work of X-Cart 5, so you should disable it.
Use X-Cart on *NIX-based servers only (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS etc.)!
This article covers the process of installation for X-Cart versions 5.2.5 and later. For earlier versions the process is similar; however, the installation wizard steps are a bit different.
Upload the downloaded package onto your server.
(Be sure to replace the file name with the actual name of the archive you have downloaded).
Create an empty database in your MySQL storage.
Open the link: http://<your-domain>/<x-cart-5-directory>/install.php in your browser. It will start the installation wizard. Accept the license agreement and click Next.
At this step, you need to define the email and password for your store’s administrator profile. Once you are done with that, X-Cart 5 will send a notification to the email address you have specified along with some service info.
Now the installation wizard will check whether your server meets the system requirements for X-Cart 5. It will report if the requirements are not met. If everything is OK, you will be automatically redirected to the next step.
MySQL server name: The name of your MySQL server. In most cases, it is localhost. If it is different, your host has likely notified you about it.
MySQL database name: The name of the database that will be used by your X-Cart 5 store (You have created this database earlier at the step ”Create an empty database”).
MySQL username and MySQLpassword: The credentials needed to access the X-Cart 5 database on your MySQL server.
Install a sample catalog:Whether you want to have sample data in your X-Cart installation for you to experiment with. If this is your first experience with X-Cart 5, we strongly recommend enabling this check box.
Below you will find links to some advanced configuration settings. Click on a link to access the respective settings section.
MySQL server port: The port for connection to your MySQL server. In most cases, it is 3306 and can be omitted.
MySQL server socket: This should be defined if the connection to your MySQL server is done via a socket, not via specifying a server and a port. To be honest, it is quite a rare situation, and you almost always run the connection via specifying a server and a port. Anyway, if using a socket is your case, do not specify a server and a port. Just define the socket.
MySQL tables prefix: The prefix of tables in order to distinguish ones related to X-Cart from others in your database. However, it is highly recommended to use a separate database for X-Cart 5 and not to put any other applications’ tables into this database.
Web server name: The domain name at which your store will be accessible from the Internet. The installation script defines it automatically, so you can just keep what you see in this field.
Secure web server name: The domain name for secure connections (HTTPS). Usually, it copies the main domain name; however, in some cases your hosting may provide a different domain name for your secure web server.
X-Cart 5 web directory:The web-accessible directory of your server or hosting account where X-Cart will be installed. The installation script defines it automatically.
Default time zone: Your store’s time zone. This needs to be defined to correctly set up the time, dates, number formats, etc.
Once you are done adjusting these settings, click Next.
These two steps are dedicated to some boring work that X-Cart 5 has to do. It creates MySQL tables, cache, development code and so on. These steps are fully automated, so you just need to wait and let X-Cart 5 do the job. Usually it takes less than a minute.
Now the installation process has been completed. You can use the links provided to access your store’s customer front end and admin area.
X-Cart store is ready to work and the whole world is open to you.
Use X-Cart Beginner’s Guide to set up your store and start selling.
P.S. And don’t forget about security measures!
If you face any problem during Environment check, you get a general instruction about how to fix it. You can pass it to your developers or hosting team and they will be able to take care of it. This section describes typical problems you may encounter and what you can do in order to fix them.
Such problems generally mean that MySQL credentials were specified incorrectly or MySQL server/database is incorrectly set up.
Such error message means that your MySQL login or password are incorrect. You need to double check your MySQL credentials and input them correctly. Note: sometimes this problem can happen even when you correctly specify login and password, but there is actually the problem with MySQL user preferences. You can check it in a following manner: go to the phpMyAdmin console of your server and check the MySQL user’s Host field. If it is specified as % (Any host), then you should remove this MySQL user and create new one with the same name but specify Host field as localhost (Local).
FATAL ERROR: Cannot connect to specified MySQL server : SQLSTATE[HY000] Access denied for user 'tony'@'localhost' to database 'xcart' Click the 'BACK' button and review the MySQL server settings you have provided.
Such error message means that your MySQL login/password allowed X-Cart to log to MySQL server, but your database does not exist or your MySQL user cannot access it. You should log into your MySQL dashboard and make sure that your database exists and the MySQL user has an access to it.
FATAL ERROR: Cannot connect to the specified MySQL server : SQLSTATE[HY000] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
FATAL ERROR: Cannot connect to the specified MySQL server : SQLSTATE[HY000] The requested address is not valid in its context.
mean that there is something wrong with your MySQL server settings. You need to send such error message to your hosting team and ask them to fix it.
Such error messages mean that some files do not have suitable permissions and you must correct them manually. Copy the instructions suggested and run them using Terminal section in your Control Panel.
Such instruction means that all users must have readable and writable permissions for the /home/tony/public_html/xcart/.htaccess file.
Such instruction means that all users must have all possible permissions (chmod 0777) to all directories (-type d) inside /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/xcart/var folder.
this instruction means that all users must have readable and writeable permissions (chmod 0666) to all files (-type f) inside /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/xcart/var folder.
The list of disable functions can be different.
In order to solve this issue, you should send the list of disabled PHP functions (phpinfo, escapeshellcmd, escapeshellarg, openlog, syslog, exec, popen from the example above) to your hosting team and ask to enable them in your account.
PDO extension with MySQL support must be installed.
it means that your server does not support library to work with MySQL via PDO. PDO is an extension that ensures safe work with database and it is required for proper X-Cart 5 work. Ask your hosting team to enable it for your hosting account.
If you are on local machine, you need to edit your php.ini file, uncomment the following line there and restart Apache.
it means that libCurl system library is not enabled in your account and your PHP scripts cannot create connections to other services. Ask your hosting team to enable libCurl for you.
Setting up cURL article may be helpful if you are installing X-Cart 5 on your local server. | 2019-04-23T10:33:48Z | https://kb.x-cart.com/general_setup/installation_guide.html |
Below are some frequently asked questions and some helpful tips in the use and maintenance of your clerking trailer.
What should I consider when choosing a tow vehicle?
The weight of the trailer and the weigh capacity of the trailer are the major considerations when determining a tow vehicle. There is lots to consider.
When considering a towing vehicle, keep in mind certain requirements for safe and easy use.
1. Transmission – The transmission can be manual or automatic, but for most people, an automatic transmission will control engine loads better.
2. Power – Make sure your towing vehicle has adequate power to tow your trailer on the type of roads you will be using. Factors to consider are engine power, cooling capabilities, and axle ratio. Discuss the towing capabilities of your vehicle with both your tow vehicle dealer.
3. Tires & Suspension – It is important to make sure that your tow vehicle tires and suspension have a sufficient rating to handle the additional capacity needed to tow a trailer. Check with your tow vehicle dealer and owner’s manual for what type of tires and tire pressures are required. If your tow vehicle is equipped with air shocks, do not use the air shocks as a load leveling device to level the tow vehicle/ trailer combination once it is hitched up.
4. Hitch – Make sure that your towing vehicle is equipped with a weight distributing hitch that has a rating at least equal to the GVWR. Make sure that it is installed per the hitch manufacturer’s instructions, and that it meets the tow vehicle’s requirements for fit and performance.
5. Sway Control – Make sure to install a sway control system that is compatible with both your hitch and tow vehicle. Have it installed and properly adjusted per the manufacturer’s instructions.
6. Safety Equipment – Make sure to install proper safety equipment such as towing mirrors. In most states they are required by law. Most styles available are not permanent and can be easily installed and removed. Check with your dealer for correct types and methods of installation. Also make sure to install proper hitch wiring to supply 12 volt power to the trailer for turn signal and brake light operations.
How do I connect my truck to pull the clerking trailer?
To ensure safe towing, make sure you have a suitable vehicle, and hitch for your Auction Trailer. It is the trailer owner’s responsibility to correctly match the combination of tow vehicle and Auction Trailer. Contact a hitch specialist, who can help you match your tow vehicle and hitch, and equip you with a properly installed brake controller.
Make sure the ball on your hitch matches the coupler size on the Auction Trailer (unless optioned otherwise the standard ball is 2 5/16″).
Use the jack to raise the coupler high enough for the hitch ball to slip beneath.
Release the coupler-locking device (raise the lever).
Back your tow vehicle into mounting position for your clerking trailer.
Continue raising the jack until it is fully raised.
Latch the coupler-locking device (It is very important to lower the lever and insert a pin in the lock hole).
Connect the safety chains by crossing the chains beneath the coupler and attach them to the tow vehicle.
Allow enough slack for turning, but no dragging (Tip: if chains are too long, simply twist them).
Connect the electrical plug on the clerking trailer to the plug on the tow vehicle. Check to make sure that all running, directional, and brake lights are functioning.
Load properly approx. 60% in front of the axles (you want 10-15% of the trailer and load weight on the hitch. Please note: a floor plan with standard storage space on the rear of the trailer may start with a heavier hitch weight to compensate for rear load potential), balance the load side to side, and secure it (you don’t want it getting loose). Don’t overload, go by acceptable payload ratings or you may void the warranty.
Take a trial run and familiarize yourself with the handling characteristics of your tow vehicle and clerking trailer.
Where to deliver the auction trailer to the site?
Beginning with the delivery Kuntry Kustom RV recommends the delivery of a clerking trailer or cashier trailer by an experienced driver with an appropriate driver’s license. The clerking trailer has electric brakes on the axles and so the towing truck needs to have an electric brake controller for the trailer brakes.
The delivery site for auction trailer should be reasonably level, dry, and well drained. Additionally there needs to be enough room allowed for the lines of crowds to register. Along with enough room for the crowd it is important, when choosing a site position for your auction trailer with restroom facilities and waste holding tanks, to plan for space to allow a pumper truck to have appropriate access to the auction trailer.
Are there brakes on the clerking trailer?
Your electric trailer brakes on your clerking trailer are basically the same as the brakes in your tow vehicle. Hydraulic pressure is used to expand the brake shoes in your tow vehicle, while an electric circuit is used to perform the same function on your Auction Trailer. This electric circuit uses a combination of electromagnets and the rotation of the brake drum to accomplish the movement of brake shoes against the drum.
Your electric brakes are wired to the towing vehicle through the electrical pigtail. When attached and properly adjusted, they distribute even braking power to both the towing vehicle and the clerking trailer.
Make sure to test the brakes on your Auction Trailer and adjust them as necessary, per the instructions of the brake controller manufacturer. Proper adjustment of the brakes can help to avoid dangerous swaying or jack-knifing on slippery pavement, or during an emergency stop.
It is very important to achieve the proper balance between the brake action of both the Auction Trailer and tow vehicle.
Both sets of brakes were designed to stop only the vehicle on which they were installed. If one set of brakes is asked to absorb the load of the other also, excess heat is formed, which increases brake lining wear. If the tow vehicle’s brakes are used alone, the weight of the Auction Trailer pushing on the back of the tow vehicle can cause jack-knifing. The correct method of brake synchronization has the Auction Trailer brakes being applied with a slight lead over the tow vehicle’s brakes. Make sure this proper balance is achieved when the controller is installed and adjusted.
Before taking your clerking trailer on a trip, check for proper brake action on a short road test. Apply the brakes several times at different speeds and pressure. If wheel lock-up occurs, the brake shoe adjustment is too tight. If no clerking trailer brake action is occurring, brake shoe adjustment is too loose. Do not exceed a speed of 25 mph during this road test. Refer to the Brake/Axle Owner’s Manual for adjustment procedures and troubleshooting guide.
Another frequently asked question is if stabilizer jacks are available with clerking trailers from Kuntry Kustom RV. It is important to note that these stabilizing jacks should not be confused with leveling jacks. They should not be used to level your clerking trailer. The stabilizer jacks (stab jacks) are designed and intended to be used to remove the bounce of the spring axles and rubber tires of your clerking trailer when it is in “set up” position.
Finding a good level spot is the first required step to leveling your clerking trailer…then use your stabilizing jacks to firm things up. When the terrain calls for it, you can use blocks to help bring your tires into a level position. You should always avoid attempting to use the stabilizer jacks to level your clerking trailer.
Electrical power necessary on the site?
Most clerking trailers from Kuntry Kustom RV are powered with electricity. If you ever have trouble with any of the electric appliances in your clerking trailers (including the air conditioner(s) or optional heaters), the most common cause is not providing enough power for the proper operation of the clerking trailer. Always check your venue ahead of time to ensure that your power requirement will be met.
Each clerking comes with at least one shore line cord to provide power to the unit. Keep in mind, demand for greater auction trailer appliances has come with a greater need for electrical power. Coffee pots, computers, printers, copy machines all need electrical power. Clerks and customers love the amenities while operators have to plan for the increased electrical power usage.
Should I check my trailer before I pull it?
Yes! Make certain that the following items have been checked and rechecked before you take your clerking trailer on the road. Take a quick inventory of all items in your clerking trailer to be sure they are secured.
Make certain all items inside of your Auction Trailer are secured for travel. Also be sure doors inside the trailer are closed and latched securely.
Front Hitch Jack – The front hitch jack of your Auction Trailer should be raised as far as possible.
Stabilizer Jacks – Both the rear and front restroom trailer jacks should be raised as far as possible.
Steps – Check to be sure the steps are folded into an upright position and ready for transport.
Doors and windows – Check through your Auction Trailer to be sure that all doors and windows are closed and latched.
Pigtail – Check to be sure that the pigtail of your Auction Trailer is connected properly to the tow vehicle’s electrical plug in.
Lights – The following lights should be tested on both your Auction Trailer and the tow vehicle: for your Auction Trailer: brake lights, warning lights, flashers, clearance lights, taillights and head lights.
Hitch Coupler/Pin box- Inspect the hitch coupler or pin box on your Auction Trailer to be sure they are secured.
Power Cord – The 110 volt shoreline cords on your Auction Trailer must be unplugged from the external source and placed in its compartment with the storage hatch of your Auction Trailer fastened shut.
Water Hoses and Shore Line Cords on your Auction Trailer must be disconnected and all hose and pipe caps should be secured.
Tires – The proper air pressure for the tires on your Auction Trailer is printed on the sidewall of the tire. Air pressure should always be checked when Auction Trailer tires are cold in order to get the most accurate reading.
Before each trip check the tires of your Auction Trailer for uneven wear, road damage, foreign objects or excessive peeling or bulging. Heat generated by surface friction will increase the tire’s air pressure approximately six to nine psi, so do not bleed air out of a hot tire since you run the risk of leaving your Auction Trailer tires low on air pressure.
How to avoid bad smells from an auction trailer restroom?
Another frequently asked question if about toilets. If a restroom is built in the auction trailer model it will include a gravity flow toilet. This toilet does not operate the same as the toilet in your house. There is not a reservoir of water on the toilet to push the waste upon flushing. Instead the toilet opens directly over the waste holding tank. If there is odor in the restroom it is because the standard gravity toilet opens directly above the tank and may allow tank odor to penetrate into the bathroom.
In gravity-flush toilets, when water is added to the bowl and stays in the bowl it acts as an odor seal between the bowl and the tank. To continue performing this vital job, the seal and flush ball or valve must remain clean and smooth so that water does not leak down and out of the bowl. Be aware that it takes regular cleaning to ensure this function remains effective. Mineral and waste build up can damage the seal, meaning the protective water seal cannot function.
To help avoid bad smells from a gravity toilet, use tank treatments that are designed for those toilet systems. Proper waste tank ventilation is also important to make sure that tank treatments work properly and odor is kept to a minimum. So any odor may be more noticeable if the waste tank is not properly treated or ventilated.
Add water before and after using the toilet. Keep a little water in bowl to seal against odors from the waste tank.
Add water and chemicals to the waste tank to help reduce odors during use.
Of course! Our friendly and knowledgeable customer service manager is available to help with maintenance questions, service items or parts purchases.
Will I need to perform regular maintenance on may trailer?
Of course! It is important to keep your trailer clean on the inside on out and to check the exterior sealants/caulking every 90 days, including the roof sealants. For a full maintenance chart click toggle below. | 2019-04-26T00:11:43Z | https://www.kuntrykustomrv.com/kuntry-kustom-rv-home-auction-equipment-260-593-2208/frequently-asked-questions/ |
Despite what you might have read in the MSM, it’s not just Mayor Khan who’s getting stuck into resolving the scourge of motorcycle crime on Britain’s streets.
The latest meeting of the Motorcycle Crime Reduction Group was honoured, when it met at the recent Motorcycle Live show at Birmingham’s NEC, by the presence of no less a luminary than Bankstone’s own Dixon Tiepin (whose broad shoulders, steel-edged teutonic crop, expressive ears, and manly neck flesh can just be made out (centre-left) in the image below).
In the chair was newly anointed Motor Cycle Industry Association CEO Antonius “Tony” Campbell who relayed tidings from the recent Home Office Roundtable meeting, including the news that an over-reaction to the current spate of scooter crime would not now – as initially feared – see Lembit Opik banned from carrying pillion passengers.
There was also discussion of the worryingly high rate of thefts from motorcycle dealerships witnessed of late, and an update on the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Venus which appears now to be achieving some modest success in curbing bike theft in the capital (which currently accounts for 44% of total UK bike thefts).
Other parts of the country, however, delegates agreed, should not be overlooked. Motorcycle Action Group (MAG), a group committed to taking action on issues related to motorcycles, is in the process of submitting Freedom of Infotainment Requests (FIRs) to every police force in the country, with a view to establishing which forces most urgently need to divert resources into combatting the menace of bike purloinage.
Before wrapping up the formal proceedings and giving delegates a chance to rub shoulders with (and perhaps even request an autograph from) Bankstone’s Tiepin, the group turned its attention to MCIA’s MASTER scheme, under which nearly 50,000 bikes were registered from Jan to Oct 2017.
Just 0.33% of these have subsequently been nicked, compared with a historical average of 2.6% of all bikes. Which just goes to show, all agreed, that if you don’t want your bike stolen you should buy from a MASTER manufacturer (i.e. any one of BMW, Ducati, Honda, Kaurismaki, Suzi Q, Trump, Yuma Honey, Harley Davidstowe or Indians).
If you’d like to get involved in the fight against motorcycle crime yourself, and perhaps even get the change to meet Dixon Tiepin in the flesh, as they say, you hold on to that ambition. One day your time may come.
You can kind of understand why London Major Sadiq “Citizen” Khan couldn’t wait another couple of hours, ahead of his City Hall meeting with a delegation from the Motor Cycle Indus try Associa tion (MCIA), to tell the world about his brilliant new idea for fighting bike theft in the capital.
When a pure-genius flash of inspiration like that hits, it’s hard to keep it to yourself.
Who knows exactly how the Khan brain works, but suddenly out of nowhere a brainwave washed over him. It must have gone a bit like this: maybe if you want to stop people stealing bikes, it would be helpful if manufacturers fitted some kind of ‘anti-theft measures’ to some of the machines they sell.
Of course! That’s it! People are only stealing bikes because the firms that sell them have done literally nothing to deter would-be thieves from straddling them, kicking the pedal (or pressing a button, or however these things work), and riding away.
Taking a break from his usual packed schedule of self-inflatory preening and posturing, the capital’s puffed up popinjay in chief tweeted “I’m working with @metpoliceuk to tackle moped crime – but it’s time for manufacturers to step up and design anti-theft measures into their vehicles to help keep Londoners safe”.
MCIA CEO Tony Campbell must not have checked his twitter feed – or listened to a word the Mayor said – because he was still insisting later that day that “there is no silver bullet” when it comes to bike theft.
Some members of the biking community are even trying to make out that bikes already have security devices – but that these are no match for robbers armed with hammers, knives and angle-grinders.
It’s not bike manufacturers’ job to keep Londoners safe, it’s the Mayor’s, such malcontents maintain outlandishly. Perhaps they’d also like SK to wipe their little noses for them and tuck them up at night!
Mr Khan and his police officers clearly have 101 more important things to do than fighting acid-wielding tooled-up thuglets on an ultraviolent bike-crime binge. MCIA and their ilk would do well not to waste any more of the Metropolitan First Citizen’s valuable time.
Especially, when he’s just explained how manufacturers could stop bike crime in its tracks if they simply fitted anti-theft measures!
What a nasty little (online) newspaper the so-called Independent is. In one recent column within its (electronic) pages, Bankstone News was literally sickened to find a totally unwarranted and irresponsible attack on the entire fabric of the Great British motor insurance industry.
But how did the so-called Independent respond to Mr Cummings’ rallying cry? Why, with weasel words and left-wing whingeing, that’s how!
According to the “Independent” soaring motor insurance premiums have less to do with the rabid ravages of an out of control compensation culture and more to do with insurance companies making “profits” and paying “dividends” to their shareholders.
Well, excuse us! God forbid insurance companies should be allowed to make a profit! Bankstone News supposes the crypto communist “Independent” would be rather see our industry decimated, make insurance bosses and shareholders homeless, and have their children thrown out on the street.
Far from being a fearless campaigner for the little motorist (with “cape” and “Zorro mask”) the paper sneers, Mr Cummings is nothing but a “motor-mouth” intent on blaming “dodgy lawyers with their dodgy clients feigning whiplash” for rising premiums, when really it’s all down to Mr C and his mates filling their boots.
Quoting data spoon-fed him by (presumably dodgy) lawyers Thompson’s, the author of the “Independent”’s deranged attack claims rising premiums can’t be down to increasing claims costs because “the total cost of claims actually fell in 2016”. God knows where they got those figures! Diane Abbot, probably.
Claiming outlandishly that net claims have fallen every year since 2010, the so-called Independent claims motor insurance premiums keep going up because motor insurers “will ultimately charge what they think they can get away with” and care more about their “multi million pound bonuses” than decent ordinary motor insurance customers.
Condemning every other reputable newspaper in the land as “an overly credulous British media”, the “Independent” casts itself as a lone beacon of truth, standing resolute against the others’ supine acceptance of the ABI’s claimant-blaming narrative, while insurers cram their bulging pockets fit to bursting with decent ordinary motorists’ premium payments.
Has it ever even occurred to the so-called Independent’s so-called journalists that, if the whole world thinks one thing and you think something else, it might just possibly be you who’s wrong?!
Needless to say, Bankstone News would be cancelling its subscription to the “Independent” right now, if we had one.
What is wrong with young people nowadays?
Where to start, you’re probably thinking! But one of the wrongest things about the youth of today is surely their wrong-headed spurning of technology’s greatest ever gift to mankind, the private motor vehicle.
New data from the Department for Transport (D4T) suggests that the percentage of 17-20 year olds holding driving licences has fallen from from a peak of around 50% in 1992 to just 29% today.
Among 21-29 year olds, the equivalent figures have dropped from around 75% to just 63%.
And it’s not just fewer people driving; they’re also driving fewer miles. The decade from 1997 saw a fall of around 35% in the number of car journeys per person.
The later people start driving, experts fear, the less driving they’re likely to do once they do start.
Is this once-great nation somehow losing ‘the will to drive’? Or is it simply that, in an era of declining disposable income and rising costs associated with driving (sky-high insurance premiums being a key deterrent where youngsters are concerned), we simply can’t afford it any more?
Part of the problem could be that young Britons are spending too much time at home – perhaps because social media removes the need to actually participate IRL. Young men today spend 80 minutes more at home than their peers did in 1995, young women 40 minutes longer (according to D4T).
Another possibility is that driving simulation games like Grand Theft Otter, Dirt, and Reliant Rampage are more fun that the real thing (and don’t require leaving the house).
Hopes that rising incomes among millennials – as Britain emerged from a decade of post-downturn austerity – might help turn this tide of motor vehicle desertion have recently been put in doubt by stubbornly stagnating wages and ‘uncertainties’ around Britain’s departure from the EU.
Some experts now believe that getting young people back behind the wheel could require forcing them to live outside major conurbations or rationing their access to public transport.
Anything’s worth a try, we say here at Bankstone News.
If young people lose interest in the whole car thing now, there’ll be no-one left to not drive the driverless cars of the future.
Or perhaps they’re all just practicing not driving, so as to be ready to embrace DLCs with both arms.
Who knows? Certainly not Bankstone News.
If you were at Friday’s I Love Clams’ Motor Claims Networking Lunch at London’s Grand Connaught Rooms, you won’t need us to tell you what a fabulous event it was.
If you weren’t there and would have liked to have been, you probably won’t want us to tell you what a fabulous event it was, because that would just be rubbing (metaphorical) salt in your (equally metaphorical) wounds.
If you weren’t there and, quite frankly, wouldn’t have gone if they’d paid you, then, again, you won’t want us to tell you what a fabulous event it was, because you’re Lukewarm About Claims at best.
None of that, obviously, is going to stop us bringing you the following in-depth account of what a fabulous event the 2018 I Love Clams Motor Knitworking Lunch really was.
Our man on the spot, Bankstone MD Dip-thong Tie-string, reliably informs us that this was the best attended ILC lunch ever, with m>re than 500 persons squeezed in around tables (some of them tucked away on the balcony this year) with actual tablecloths and proper cutlery and everything.
Style-conscious Tie-string noted the prevalence of boldly checked suits, and, if we know him, will be nipping down to his tailor in Dilman’s Yard any time now to have himself fitted for something natty crafted from a broad expanse of black and orange chequerboard velour.
Cornish crab with three diamond-shaped lozenges of cucumber jelly, followed by an excellent ‘lump’ of pan-fried fillet o’steak, celeriac puree, Portobello mushroom, a fair quenelle of watercress and Madeira sauce, culminating in cheesecake and sorbet (or possibly, since this is Tie-string we’re talking about, cheese, cake and sorbet).
Compere for the event was none other than Jonny Gould who is apparently some kind of TV presenter who runs auctions at charity events on the side. Tie-string reckons he was rather good at this, wringing ever more extravagant bids from those intent on proving they had cash to splash.
But he wasn’t as good as guest speaker Matt Dawson, a former rugby player, we’re led to understand, and also a regular on some TV thing called a Question of Spores. Dawson had the crowd on tent hooks at he recalled his stint on (another TV show) Strictly Come Ballroom Dancing, then soothed them with a blow by blow break-down of the build-up to Jonny Wilkinson’s world cup winning ball-through-posts kicking thing in 2003, and finally roused them to applause by explaining that he was going to stop talking and sit down again now.
Somewhere along the way, he also explained that episodes of a Question of Spores are filmed in batches of three – punctuated by lengthy stints at the bar (i.e. the kind of bar where people drink alcohol, not the legal or the balletic kind) – resulting in subtle modulations in the degree of enthusiasm, hilarity, abandon, and indeed coherence in participants’ comportment (which readers may wish to see if they can discern for themselves when watching future emissions of this popular show), and why anyone tempted to ‘touch’ noted grilling expert George Foreman might be well advised to reconsider.
Some people (though not all) also talked a bit about motor insurance claims.
All in all, a truly fabulous event.
Answering questions on potential problems with the government’s proposed PI reforms from members of the Commons Juice Committee on 16 January, justice minister Dickie Keen (aka Lord Keen of Lie) explained patiently that something will turn up and it’ll all be fine.
Barring claimants with injuries worth under £5k from recouping their legal costs, Lord K accepted, would significantly increase the number of persons obliged to seek justice without the benefit of legal representation. But, he insisted, litigants in person (LIPs) should have no trouble negotiating the complexities of the English civil justice system unassisted.
There’s really nothing much to it, he suggested. And if LIPs really felt they needed help, someone or other would probably be only too happy to provide it. Their union, perhaps. Or maybe the Citizens Advice Bureau. It would give them something to do. Or what about Claims Manufacturing Companies (CMCs) – couldn’t they get involved?
Responding to quibbles along the lines of ‘weren’t CMCs supposed to a key factor in creating and sustaining the fanatical compensation cult that is currently threatening the entire fabric of British society’, Keen noted that, obviously, there were one or two bad apples amongst the CMCs of this world, but most of these chaps were perfectly reputable and it would be good to get them involved in a new sector of the market where they could provide a refreshing alternative to Before The Event insurance for trivial PI claims.
When some smart-arse pointed out that, just because a case is low-value, it doesn’t mean it isn’t complex, Lord K suggested that judges or perhaps ‘parties’ could step in to have the cases taken somewhere else where complicated legal stuff could more practicably be accommodated. Or, better still, claimants could simply give up and go away.
Quizzed on the fairness and appropriateness of denying so many smaller claimants the chance of legal representation, Lord K stressed that the most urgent matter was not what should be done but when – and, what with all these fraudulent whiplash claims about these days, that ‘when’ could not come soon enough.
Exactly how many fraudulent claims are there about these days?, someone wanted to know. To which, Lord K patiently reiterated that this was really not the point. Far more important than getting bogged down in a lot of tedious detail, he made clear, was getting something done – and getting it done quickly.
The beauty of a one-size fits all solution like the proposed small claims limit increase, he emphasised, was that restricting little people’s access to legal support would make them much more likely to ‘pause and think about the merits of their claim before they make it’.
Quite right too! If people can’t afford justice, they’ve no right going round demanding compensation every time they happen to sustain some minor injury or other. It’s basic common sense, really, if you think about it.
And, if that seems a trifle harsh, there’s plenty more to come where that came from. So you’d better get used to the idea.
On December 21 last year Nicholas “Nikki” Springthorpe, an insurance executive of excellent character, was on board an Emirates flight from Dubai to Birmingham when a combination of “somewhat bizarre circumstances” culminated in the unfortunate boss of One Call Insurance being arrested and subsequently landed with a £3,205 fine from Birmingham magistrates.
Or at least that’s the story Bankstone News saw splashed across the webpages of that leading pictorial purveyor of scantily clad celebrity flesh, MailOnline.
According to this publication, Mr Springthorpe (or Springthopre, as the website originally construed his name), found himself caught up concatenation of contretemps after he was witnessed acting tired and emotional in the top-deck business-class bar of an Emirates Airbus A380.
It was while thus engaged in carousing and conversing that Mr S is alleged to have taken vigorous exception to the presence of two children in the bar area and to have subsequently become involved in a combative discussion (perhaps even a scuffle, but not necessarily a full-blown brawl) with their father.
Barry Cuttle, defending, noted that in a state of inebriated exhaustion consequent upon a recent divorce, a holiday in Singapore, a flight thence to Dubai, having had a couple of drinks, and now enduring the fresh ordeal of the Emirates business class bar (imagine an Intercity buffet carriage with better lighting), Mr S perceived a brace of crawling children as a clear and present ‘danger’ and felt he had no option but to voice his emphatic exception to their inappropriate presence in a drinking environment.
Be that as it may, angry words and a certain amount of argy-bargy ensued between Mr S and the father before the latter, perhaps prudently, elected to yield the bar arena to Mr S.
When Mr S himself decided to return to his seat, he had the misfortune to become involved along the way in two further heated exchanges with other passengers. The second of these, Mr Cuttle claimed, saw a passenger disturbed whilst ‘listening to music’ leaping to his feet, seizing Mr S by the throat, and shaking him.
And yet, the unfortunate Mr S was arrested and fined, whilst the would-be strangler was merely cautioned!
Mr Cuttle fully accepted that his client may have been a tad boisterous due to the exceptional exonerating circumstances noted above, but insisted that the One Call boss was now very sorry, upset, and indeed retrospectively disgusted at his own behaviour, and was by no means the kind of person who makes a habit of getting into drunken fights on aeroplanes.
And let’s face it, which of us has not, when confronted in our cups with the extreme provocation of poorly supervised children, especially after 20 hours without a decent kip, felt moved to unleash a bit of inner rage.
At Bankstone News we do it all the time, which may be why the council took the kids off us.
Far be it from Bankstone News to interpose itself betwixt a start-up InsurTech operation and the wrath of global broking behemoth Marsh & McLennan Companies, but reports that minnow insurance provider Marshmallow faces the threat of copyright-enforcing legal action from the mighty Marsh could not but catch our eye this week.
Granted, the respective names of the two organisations share five consecutive letters, but is there really any meaningful sense in which Marshmallow is in any way inspired by, derived from, or likely to gain commercial advantage from this nomenclatural overlap?
This is a marshmallow (an item of confectionary).
This is a marsh (a type of terrain).
The two are somewhat dissimilar, you’ll probably agree.
But wait, the Marsh in Marsh Mclennan does not refer directly to marshes of the wetlands kind. It derives from a common English surname (originally applied to persons living on or near a tract of boggy land).
Here is another (partially disguised as a giraffe).
Positing an emulative connection between a company named after an edible cylinder of sugar, water, gelatine and corn starch and another named after the third of our human Marshes (its joint founder Henry W. Marsh, to be specific), seems fanciful, to say the least.
Indeed, Mallow Insurance Brokers of Mallow, County Cork, Ireland might have an equal right to challenge the UK start-up if we go down this route.
Besides which, if Marshmallow were trying to piggyback on the brand equity of Marsh, they would have branded blue like Marsh, not a slightly pastel red.
Besides which in turn, Marsh may be a big name on the global insurance stage, but has the average personal-lines insurance consumer ever heard of it?
So, seriously, Messers Marsh, grow a sense of proportion, get over your big bad selves and cut these chaps some slack!
Having said all which, we only have the word of Marshmallow founders Oliver and Alexander Kent-Braham that this emotive David v Goliath copyright wrangle even exists.
Maybe it’s all just a canny publicity stunt.
In which case, ironically, maybe Marsh’s legal guys would have a leg to stand on.
Not content with plotting to steal back Northern Ireland from the UK as a spin-off from the Brexit process (thereby undoing all the great work done by Oliver ‘Chuckles’ Cromwell, Billy Jean King et al), the Republic of Ireland is apparently trying to purloin our title as the Whiplash Capital of Europe.
The Emerald Entity’s designs on our prized WCE title came to Bankstone News’ attention recently via an ‘investigation’ published by campaigning group Axes2Justice (which exists to deny decent ordinary claims-free motorists the 36p reduction in motor insurance premiums promised by government in return for surrendering the legal right to ‘try it on’).
And it’s not just Ireland that’s been eyeing up our crown. There are real fears now that sour-grapes EU member states may also be plotting to strip the UK of its role as Europe’s whiplash capital as punishment for our temerity in taking back control.
The Justice2Excess ‘investigation’ quotes some implausibly named academic, one Professor Kenny Elephant, who’s been going round suggesting that lowly Italy has nearly 50% more whiplash claims than the UK and pays out more than twice as much in compensation. Absurdly, Elephant claims the value of UK whiplash claims is no better than mid-table in the Euro neck-pain compensation league.
Germany, France and Spain also have aspirations to take over from the UK as Europe’s whiplash capital.
But how seriously should we take such claims? Not seriously at all, we say here at Bankstone News.
There’s just one word to describe the preposterous, preening pretentions of these pompous puffed-up Euro popinjays: fake news!
What with the news always being so gloomy and boring these days, it’s nice to have something just plain positive to report.
Bankstone News was delighted to learn this week (or was it last week – we’re not a time-sensitive publication, you know) that Claire Longman, who is technically leader of South-West based insurance purveyors Cornish Mutual, has attained the ultimate rung in the insurance-knowledge game by joining the Fellowship of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CIA).
This is not some ad hoc informal fantasy thing like the Fellowship of the Ring, nor indeed a spirit-empowered community advancing the kingdom of God like the Fellowship Network, a novel by Franz Kafka, or a town in Florida.
No, indeed. It’s something where you have to pass exams and everything to prove both your total mastery over the arcane arts of insurance and that you’ve once and for all foresworn and abjured the dark side through an absolute personal and professional commitment to Ethical Practice.
Claire can now add the initials FoTCII after her name, and the affix the honorary title Lady Fellow before it, should she so choose. But she’s probably far too modest to insist on such formalities.
A true Cornwalldian, having grown up in Truro more than 15 years ago, Claire Longman travelled the land (mostly its Southeasterly parts) in search of insurance experience before returning to her home country, where she quickly found herself at the forefront of developing offerings for the mutual insurer’s members.
Certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas – none of these hurdles in the leastly daunted Claire on her path to insurance mastery. And now at last the ultimate accolade is hers. And thoroughly well deserved it is too.
No doubt there will be accusations that all this knowledge makes Claire some kind of ‘expert’ or that joining the Fellowship marks her a member of the ‘elite’. Nonsense, we say here at Bankstone News. Insurance is a subject about which a person simply cannot know too much.
So let us simply say: Congratulations Claire! | 2019-04-25T21:41:05Z | https://www.bankstone.co.uk/2018/01/ |
Home » LGBT » Where the Hell Is the Outrage?
From the first breaths of life to the last, our lives are being stolen out from under us. From infant care and early education to Social Security and Medicare, the dominant economic ideology is demanding more lifelong sacrifices from the vulnerable to appease the gods of wealth.
Middle-class wages are stagnant. Uemployment is stalled at record levels. College education is leading to debt servitude and job insecurity. Millions of unemployed Americans have essentially been abandoned by their government. Poverty is soaring. Bankers break the law with impunity, are bailed out, and go on breaking the law, richer than they were before.
And yet, bizarrely, the only Americans who seem to be seething with anger are the beneficiaries of this economic injustice – the wealthiest and most privileged among us. But those who are suffering seem strangely passive.
As long as they stay that way, there will be no movement to repair these injustices. And the more these injustices are allowed to persist, the harder it will be to end them.
Where the hell is the outrage? And how can we start some?
Paul Krugman ruminated about inflation-free unemployment the other day, and he was feeling pretty grim. Krugman is frustrated that clear prescriptions for this kind of economy – prescriptions born in John Maynard Keynes’ day – aren’t being followed. What John proposed then, Paul’s proposing now.
He’s right. A number of studies have linked political participation with economic conditions, typically with results like those Krugman describes. But that doesn’t explain why Brazilians took to the streets in such large numbers recently.
A majority of Brazilians believe that their economy’s improving, according to a recentPew survey. 59 percent of Brazilians rate their economy positively and 74 percent say their personal financial situation is good. By contrast, the same organization’s most recent US polling showed that only 46 percent of Americans said they believe the economy’s getting better, while 50 percent think it’s getting worse.
The polling says that Brazilian political unrest is driven by a divergence in goals and priorities between political leaders and the population, triggered by poor public services, bus fare increases, and the cost of hosting the World Cup.
A similar divergence of priorities exists in this country. Washington’s been focused on deficit reduction, while the public wants more job creation and economic growth. But Americans are quiescent.
US voter turnout is extremely low when compared to other developed nations, even though we rank among the highest in terms of income inequality. And other forms of political expression are also under-used. The Occupy movement was originally very popular, for example, but most people were easily persuaded to abandon it and return to a state of quiet desperation.
Wealth inequity and other economic injustices are the product of deliberate policy choices – in taxation, Social Security, health care, financial regulation, education, and a number of other policy areas. So why aren’t Americans taking action?
The “change” theories Krugman mentioned don’t tell the whole story. For one thing, it’s not true that the lives of the majority are frozen in an ugly stasis. Conditions continue to become objectively worse for the great majority of Americans. But these ongoing changes – in actual wages, in employment, in social mobility and wealth equity – have received very little media attention or meaningful political debate.
It’s not that things aren’t changing. It’s that people don’t know they’re changing. And without that knowledge the public becomes a canary in a coalmine, only aware of its declining oxygen supply when it keels over and dies.
It’s an almost classic state of alienation, in which people may be acutely aware of their own increasing difficulties (although sometimes they can be numb to that as well) but experience them in a state of isolation. That turns the anger inward, leading to crippling reactions like guilt and despair. And repeated individual failures – failures made increasingly likely in a skewed system – lead to a sense of learned helplessness.
Interestingly, the “change = political pressure” theory helps explain the rage of the “radical rich” who – despite their almost unprecedented lives of wealth and privilege – are articulating an anger which seems at first to be inexplicable. But they, unlike the vast majority, are experiencing perceptible (if minor) changes.
No current policy proposals would substantially affect their historic levels of wealth and privilege. But some Democratic policies would slightly discommode the ultra-wealthy, and conservative forces have been shrewd enough to trumpet that fact far and wide in a tone of barely suppressed hysteria.
The wealthy have already seen a cultural change, as the Occupy movement led to previously-unheard public criticisms of their riches and political influence. That helps explain today’s seemingly paradoxical political situation, in which the beleaguered majority accepts the injustices heaped upon them while coddled and ultra-wealthy Americans erupt in fury.
The media has failed to tell the story of our broken economy. The two-party system is failing, too, as corporate forces complete their corruption of the GOP and seize an ever-increasing chunk of the Democratic Party.
That’s one of the reasons why voter turnout may not be the best indicator of political awareness. Even pronounced financial hardship won’t result in increased turnout or participation in electoral politics if neither party is clearly articulating the majority’s needs or actively fighting for its interests.
In fact, they’ve said it for the last fifty years.
And yet technology jobs were down in last week’s jobs report. “Structural unemployment” is another way of telling you it’s your fault if you don’t have a job. It’s a lie.
Even worse, decades of “Pimp My Ride”/”Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” acculturation have idealized the wealthy and have left the majority with a subliminal message: If you’re struggling economically, it’s your fault.
The leftist Brazilian educator Paolo Freire spoke of “internalizing the oppressor consciousness”: internalizing the values of those who colonize, rule, and exploit you, accepting their distorted, Matrix-like view of the world as an objective reality.
This can lead to agony, as well as continued exploitation. When I first began writing about illegal foreclosures in 2009 and 2010 – before bank fraud became common knowledge – I began receiving dozens of emails from bank victims saying, in essence, “I thought it was my fault” and “I thought I was the only one.” Some of them had contemplated suicide, which is the tragic end point of an “oppressor consciousness” within.
Books and films like The Pursuit of Happyness have delivered the message that anyone who’s struggling economically hasn’t been brave enough, bold enough, or smart enough, while movements like the Tea Party have mocked underwater homeowners and other victims of Wall Street fraud and predation.
The last two Democratic Presidents have tried to have it both ways, exalting, deregulating, and pampering the wealthy while speaking the language of justice. That has weakened the Democratic “brand” and undermined public confidence in government, while failing to resolve our underlying economic problems. The rhetoric of “consensus” and “compromise” contributed to the decades-long rise in inequality.
Expand our avenues of political expression: First, we need to remind ourselves that electoral politics is not the only productive avenue for political activism –that we need strong and independent voices and movements.
Refuse to let politicians use social issues to exploit us economically: We also need to reject the exploitation and manipulation of progressive values by corporatist politicians who use social issues like gay marriage and reproductive rights exactly the way Republicans do – to manipulate their own base into ignoring their own economic interests. Politicians who don’t take a stand on economic issues should be rejected, up and down the ticket.
Explain what is changing – and contrast what is with what should be: We need to do a better job of explaining what’s happening, so that we can make people aware of the harmful changes taking place all around them. And it’s not just about “change”: It’s also about contrast – between economic conditions as they are, and conditions as they should be and could be, if we can find the political will.
Expand the vocabulary of the possible: The “learned helplessness” outlook says “the rich and powerful always win; we don’t stand a chance.” History tells us otherwise. From the American Revolution to the breaking up of the railroads, from Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting to FDR’s New Deal, from Ike’s Social Security and labor union expansion to LBJ’s Great Society victories, we need to remind ourselves of what we’ve accomplished under similar conditions.
Tell stories: And we need to tell stories – human stories. That’s why Tuesday night’s Bill Moyers special on PBS is so important. “Two American Families” tells the story of a white family and an African-American family in Milwaukee over two decades. Their stories bring home, in a personal way, the agony that has accompanied the destruction of middle-class jobs – a destruction that only happened because politicians made conscious policy decisions. | 2019-04-18T14:32:41Z | https://bluxomestreetpost.com/2013/07/10/where-the-hell-is-the-outrage/ |
1981-08-31 Assigned to WRIGHT LINE INC., A CORP. OF MA. reassignment WRIGHT LINE INC., A CORP. OF MA. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST. Assignors: CRABBE, DAVID K., LATINO, RICHARD M.
This invention relates to office machines and accessories therefor, and more particularly to a wrist support for use with office machines having a keyboard such as a computer terminal keyboard. The wrist support described and claimed herein is a device which is designed to fit horizontally against the front of the keyboard thus providing means of support for the operators arms.
This invention relates to office machines and accessories therefor, and more particularly to a wrist support for use with office machines having a keyboard such as a computer terminal keyboard.
The operation of a computer terminal keyboard over extended periods of time involves a great number of muscular activities of hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. The fact that the entire extremity is suspended without support leads to greater physical strain than necessary. More effort goes into keeping the arms suspended than into the task of operating the keyboard. Fatigue and reduced productivity are the result.
The wrist support described and claimed herein is a device which is designed to fit horizontally against the front of the keyboard thus providing means of support for the operators arms. The contour of the Wrist Support is such that it provides the proper support angle and has no projections which could cause injury or discomfort. Its surface is smooth and hard thus reducing to a minimum the amount of drag on the forearms as they are slid back and forth. The unit is adjustable in height, providing the optimum relationship between the hands of the operator and the various function keys of the keyboard. This adjustment permits the operator to vary the height to suit his or her individual preferences or comfort. Of importance is the ease with which this is accomplished. The height may be readily adjusted by the keyboard operator without tools and without lengthy interruption of his or her work.
The wrist support, made in accordance with this invention, is provided with preferably two knobs which, when turned, raise or lower a support bar relative to a base. The device does not require attachment to the keyboard or the work surface though, if desired, this can be accomplished, for example, by bolting the base to either one. The design achieves optimal qualities in a device which can be economically manufactured.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a wrist support for office machines having a keyboard.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a wrist support designed to reduce the physical strain of a keyboard operator.
A further object is to provide a wrist support which is adjustable in height.
A still further object of the invention is to provide a wrist support which can be economically manufactured.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a wrist support which can be adjusted by the keyboard operator without tools and without lengthy interruption of his or her work.
These and other objects are met in the present invention which is comprised of a base, a support bar disposed for vertical movement relative to said base, and at least one rotatable means connected to said base and threadedly engaging said support bar, wherein rotation of said means raises or lowers said support bar relative to said base.
FIG. 8 is a sectional view taken along line VIII--VIII of FIG. 3.
FIG. 9 is a top view of the rotatable means.
The support bar 12 may, for example, be molded of a plastic such as structural foam. Its external geometry is substantially that of an elongate box having generally rectangular top, bottom, front and rear surfaces, respectively designated 18, 19, 20 and 21. The top surface 18 is inclined at an angle, for example, of five degrees relative to and in spaced relation from the bottom surface 19, and extending from the front 20 to the rear surface 21. The width of the top surface 18 from side surface 22 to side surface 23 is chosen to accomodate either one or both hands of the operator, and may, for example, be 20-30 centimeters. The included side surfaces 22 and 23 are in spaced relation to one another and extend, for example, ten degrees from the perpendicular towards one another at their join to the top surface 18. The rear surface 21 extends in the vertical direction a greater distance than the front surface 20 due to the inclination of the top surface 18. Edges 24 and 25 between the top surface 18 and the front and rear surfaces 20 and 21, respectively, are each provided with a generous radius of approximately one centimeter. This radius, as well as the inclination of the top surface 18 is designed to provide comfort for the wrist of an operator. Preferably, edges 26 of the side surfaces 22 and 23 are provided with a sufficient radius, and corners 28 are sufficiently rounded to prevent injury.
Each of the rotatable means 14 includes a knob 30 and a cylindrical portion 32, as shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 4. The rotatable means may be of, for example, a molded plastic construction. The knob 30 is designed for manual rotation and can be provided with a knurled outer annular surface 33 for improved friction or traction to facilitate its turning by the operator. Each of the rotatable means 14 are disposed near one of the side surfaces 22 and 23 so as to provide balanced and stable support of the support bar 12. Though two such rotatable means 14, each with a knob 30, are shown and preferred, the invention contemplates the use of a single knob 30 or more than two depending, for example, on the desired length of the top surface 18 (between side surfaces 22 and 23), the choice of materials and strength of construction of the support bar 12 and the rotatable means 14.
The base 16 of the wrist support 10 is, for example, of an eighteen gauge steel sheet construction, designed to rest on a work surface (not shown) in a horizontal, flat orientation, substantially parallel to the top surface 18 of the support bar 12. Each of the rotatable means 14 is fastened to a proximal portion 34 of the base 16. A distal portion 36 of the base 16 extends from the proximal portion 34 toward the rear of the wrist support 10, culminating at rear edge 37. The width of the distal portion 36 should be chosen, for example, so as to permit it to extend under a keyboard (not shown). The length of the distal portion 36 away from said proximal portion 34 should be sufficient to prevent rocking or tilting of the wrist support 10 when in use and may, for example, be 15 to 30 centimeters. In the preferred embodiment utilizing two rotating means 14, the base 16 is of a general "T" shape with the rotating means 14 attached to the proximal portion 34 as described hereinafter. For example, the proximal portion is equal in length and width to the top surface 18 of the support bar 12, to prevent sliding of the base 16 on the work surface (not shown), cork pads 38 may be glued or otherwise affixed to the bottom surface 40 of the base 16.
FIG. 6 shows further details of each of the rotatable means 14. The cylindrical portion 32 comprises a thin-walled outer cylinder 50 having an external thread 52 and a thin-walled inner cylinder 54, concentrically disposed within the outer cylinder, and having a central bore 56 and a top surface 58 with an opening 60 therethrough in substantial axial alignment with and of a smaller diameter than said bore 56. Between the outer cylinder 50 and the inner cylinder 54 is an annular space 62. A plurality of circumferentially-spaced radially-directed ribs 64 are disposed in said space 62 to physically connect said inner and outer cylinders 50 and 52. The ribs 64 can, for example, be of a substantially planar construction. The inner cylinder 54 is open at its end 66 opposite to top surface 58. The inner cylinder 54 extends axially beyond the outer cylinder 50 at its end 66 sufficient for a surface 68 of a snap feature 70 to substantially align axially with, though spaced from, the bottom end 72 of the outer cylinder 50. Snap feature 70 includes said surface 68 which extends radially outward from external cylindrical surface 73 of the inner cylinder 54 and is substantially parallel to the top surface 58; a bottom surface 74 of the end 66; and inclined surface 76 which extends from the bottom surface 74 to the surface 68 at approximately a 30° to 45° angle. The bottom end 72 of the outer cylinder 50 is connected to the knob 30. The knob 30 extends radially beyond said exterior thread 52 and in a direction parellel to top surface 58 and perpendicular to and away from said inner cylinder 54. The knob 30 is substantially annular and comprises a tip 80 and a substantially planar element 82 connected between the tip and the bottom end 72. The knob 30 may further be provided with an annular strengthening rib 84. The tip 80 extends at, for example, a 45° angle from the planar element 82, in a direction away from said top surface 58. A distal end 86 of the tip 80 is coterminal in the axial direction, though radially-spaced from the strengthening rib 84 and the bottom surface 74. The outer annular surface 33 of the tip 80 can have spaced notches or ridges 88 or be knurled for improved friction or traction for manual turning of the knob 30. The rotatable means 14 can be of one-piece construction or an assembly of separately formed then physically joined pieces such as the knob 30 and the cylindrical portion 32.
FIG. 7 shows a bottom view of the rotatable means 14. The outer cylinder 50 with its exterior thread 52 and the inner cylinder 54 with two snap features 70 and 90 are illustrated. In addition, the strengthening rib 84, the bottom surface 74, the top surface 58 and the opening 60 can each be seen. The snap features 70 and 90 are identical. Each extends in arcuate fashion about the bottom surface 74 for approximately one quarter of the circumference, and is disposed diametrically opposite to the other. The snap features 70 and 90 are provided with plier holes 92 and 94 respectively, whose purpose shall be explained below.
FIG. 8 illustrates the assembly of the wrist support 10. In assembly, the inner cylinder 54 of each of the rotatable means 14 is inserted into an appropriately located hole 100 in the proximal portion 34 of the base 16. The hole 100 is of a diameter slightly larger than that of the exterior surface 73 of the inner cylinder 54 and smaller than that of the surfaces 68 and 69 of the snap features 70 or 90, respectively, at their farthest radial extent. Extending axially for a distance approximately equal to, though less than that of the snap features 70 and 90 in a direction from the bottom surface 74 of the inner cylinder 54 toward the top surface 58 are the pliers holes 92 and 94. These holes permit the insertion of tonged pliers (not shown) which are an aid to assembly. The pliers deform inner cylinder 54 by squeezing the snap features 70 and 90 toward one another for a distance sufficient to provide a clearance fit of the snap features through the hole 100. On release the elastically deformable inner cylinder 54 returns to its previous diameter and is therefore axially locked into, though rotatable within, the hole 100 of the base 16 by the snap features 70 and 90. If desired, and depending on material, geometry and dimensions, any number of snap features can be provided within the scope and spirit of the present invention. Further, other techniques for locking the rotatable means 14 onto or within the base are within the skill of one in the art.
Continuing with the assembly, an expansion insert 102 having an axially-extending threaded bore 104 is securely positioned within a cylindrical relief 106 which is disposed within an inner end wall 108 of bore 110 in the support bar 12. Alternatively said relief is axially threaded. The bore 110 extends axially from the bottom surface 19 of the support bar 12 towards, though not reaching, the top surface 18. The cylindrical wall 112 of bore 110 is threaded to receive in threaded engagement the outer cylinder 50 of the rotatable means 14. The rotatable means 14, after insertion into the base is screwed into the bore 110 via rotation of the knob 30. Shown in this Figure is the wrist support 10 with the support bar 12 in its lowest position, i.e., in its vertical position in which it is closest to the base 16. Vertical adjustment of the support bar 12 relative to the base is easily accomplished by manually rotating the outer annular surface 33 of the knob 30 which, after assembly, extends beyond the front surface 20 of the support bar and is therefore readily accessed. As an example, the wrist support 10 as illustrated is designed so that clockwise motion of the knob 30 as viewed from directly above the wrist support will result in a lowering of a support bar 12, and counterclockwise motion in a raising of the support bar.
To limit the amount of vertical adjustment in order to prevent the accidental disassembly of the support bar 12 from the rotatable means 14, a retaining screw 114 can be provided. Shank portion 116 of the retaining screw 114 is inserted through bore 110 and opening 60 and into threaded engagement with bore 104. The length of the shank portion 116 between top surface 58 and head portion 120 of the retaining screw 114, after assembly as shown in this figure, should be less than the axial extent of the external thread 52 of the outer cylinder 50. The diameter of the head portion should be larger than that of opening 60. Thus the head portion 120 contacts top surface 58 when the support bar 12 is in its highest vertical position, and thereafter prevents further rotation of the knob 30 in the direction that would otherwise raise the support bar 12 relative to the base 16. This prevents accidental disassembly of the wrist support 10.
It should now be understood that the relief 106, insert bore 104, inner cylinder 54, outer cylinder 50 and opening 60 are all arranged coaxially.
In the practice of the invention as illustrated, two substantially-identical assemblies as shown in FIG. 8 are utilized since two rotatable means 14 are incorporated in the wrist support 10.
FIG. 9 is a top view of the rotatable means 14. The ribs 64 of planar construction are shown as extending from the inner cylinder 54 to the outer cylinder.
Additionally, in the preferred embodiment the wrist support 10 is not attached to either the office machine or the work surface. It is designed to provide the necessary stability and support without such attachment. In fact, the operator, for example, of a computer terminal keyboard (not shown) may desire to place the wrist support 10 closer to or farther from the keyboard to suit his or her personal comfort. Since the wrist support 10 merely rests on the work surface this can be easily accomplished. Of course, if attachment to the keyboard is desired, the base can be readily modified in design by one skilled in the art to practice the invention accordingly. For example, the base could be integrally manufactured with the keyboard housing (not shown) or be bolted to the underside thereof or to the work surface. All such means are within the spirit and scope of the invention.
1. A wrist support for use with a keyboard, comprising a base, an elongate support bar having a top and bottom surface, first and second spaced apart rotatable means, means for securing said first and second rotatable means to said base for preventing axial movement therebetween while permitting rotational movement relative thereto, said first and second rotatable means each including a cylindrical portion having an exterior threaded surface, and a knob operable separately from said securing means, disposed adjacent to said base and fixedly connected at a first end of said cylindrical portion, said bottom surface of said support bar having therethrough an internally threaded bore which extends axially from said bottom surface toward though not to said top surface, said bore being sized to receive a second end of said cylindrical portion in threaded engagement therewith, wherein manual rotation of said knob turns said cylindrical portions therewith relative to the support bar causing the support bar to screw or unscrew on the cylindrical portions, and thereby adjusts the height of the support bar relative to the base without disassembly therefrom.
2. The wrist support of claim 1 wherein said base comprises a proximal portion to which is secured said rotatable means and a distal portion connected to and substantially coplanar with said proximal portion and extending therefrom and beyond said support bar, said base being adapted and configured to support said support bar and said distal portion to slide beneath the keyboard.
3. The wrist support of claim 1 further comprising means for preventing accidental disassembly of the support bar from the rotatable means.
4. The wrist support of claim 1 wherein the bore in said support bar is defined by a threaded cylindrical surface and a surface perpendicularly connected to said cylindrical surface at the axial extent thereof closest to the top surface of the support bar and in spaced-parallel relation thereto, and said support bar further includes a relief defined within said perpendicular surface, said relief having a threaded bore for receiving a threaded shank of a bolt.
5. The wrist support of claim 4 wherein each rotatable means includes an inner and an outer cylindrical portion, said outer cylindrical portion having a threaded outer cylindrical surface, said inner cylinder being concentric to and within said outer cylinder, said inner cylinder having a bore therethrough and a top surface substantially parallel to the top surface of said support bar, said top surface of said inner cylinder having a hole therethrough sized to receive the shank of the bolt with a clearance fit, but smaller in diameter than said head of said bolt, whereby when said knob is rotated in a direction which vertically raises said support bar relative to said base, said vertical movement is limited beyond a predetermined point by the action of the head of the bolt against the hole in the top surface of the inner cylinder.
6. The wrist support of claim 1 wherein the securing means includes an elastically deformable snap feature, said base has a hole; and said snap feature, when deformed, extends through said hole with a clearance fit and when no longer deformed, returns to its nondeformed configuration which prevents the removal of the snap feature from the hole.
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Owner name: WRIGHT LINE INC., WORCESTER, MA. A CORP. OF MA. | 2019-04-21T21:00:06Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US4545554A/en |
There are a number of locations within the story of Aladdin. When we enter the theatre a midnight blue curtain, sprinkled with sequins like stars, is closed over the stage. The word Aladdin, written in silver sequins, twinkling as they catch the light, curves like a constellation across the deep blue of the night sky. A large circle with an abstract pattern in crimson and blue is marked out on the floor of the stage throughout all the scenes. The orchestra play live music from a pit below the stage.
Before the curtain rises we see through it to Egyptian hieroglyphics in vertical lines, to indicate we are in Egypt. A huge head of a Pharaoh dominates the centre back of Abanazars lair, with a tomb or sarcophagus patterned with geometric designs, in front of it. When we revisit the lair the tomb has gone and a gold throne with a silky green cushion, a fan of purple feathers at the back is centre stage. Behind to left and right are two gold braziers, from which coloured smoke pours.
This is a hotchpotch of brightly coloured buildings festooned with flowers. On each side, red and yellow Chinese-style houses with steeply sloping green roofs are built into the rocky mountain face. In the centre, stone steps lead up to a green and white tiled temple with a tiered red roof. On each side of the steps, white oriental pillars with ornate roofs are covered with leaves and blue forget-me-nots.
We briefly visit other streets in Peking, where steep alleyways are connected by wooden rope bridges. Houses are tightly packed together. Narrow red banners with yellow Chinese writing line the streets and at the sides tall, slanting parasols protect wicker baskets full of spices and other goods, laid out on rugs. These images are all painted on a backcloth and the action takes place in front of them.
Twankey’s Laundry is a motley collection of wooden buckets and wheels, joined by metal pipes to create a huge contraption, overflowing with soap suds. It’s painted onto a backcloth where are also painted shelves, stacked with towels and sheets and clean washing waiting to be collected. One bucket is labelled WASH, another RINSE, an old fashioned mangle is set to the left with rollers which actually turn. Sticking out centre stage is a recognisable front loading washing machine, with a door that opens.
Later there’s a different view of Peking which also features high houses, this time made of wood and reached by ladders as well as narrow curved bridges over streams.
At home in her Peking Palace, Princess Jasmine sits on an ornate bench in a moonlit oriental garden in shades of lilac. Behind her, is a pair of covered bridges, draped with purple jasmine flowers. Two golden lanterns nestle among the blooms. Some of the windows in the surrounding buildings, which are covered with lush vegetation, are lit up. A central flight of stairs leads up to the interior of the palace.
There are rocks painted on the right and real steps lead up to an archway, which is blocked by a large rock. Mountains are painted behind it. On the left is a painted bridge, with painted river beneath and snow covered mountains beyond.
Inside the cave the steps, hewn out of rock, descend on the left. The interior is surrounded by dark grey, solid rock. All is dim and gloomy until the treasure is revealed.
This is another painted backdrop with onion-domed buildings, tents, palm trees and an actual pointed Arabic arch centre stage.
We first meet the villain, the wizard Abanazer. Abanazar is tall and imposing, dressed all in black. His slim-fitting tunic has dull gold buttons down the front – over it he wears a floor-length leather coat and black leather fingerless gloves. His black trousers are tucked into his knee length black boots. Abanazer has sleek, short, fashionably cut light brown hair and a small beard of the same colour and regular, manly features. He stands with his feet wide apart and throws his arms in the air, striking a dramatic pose. For the wedding scene his black tunic is covered by a patchwork cloak in shades of pink and lines with deep pink. Abanazar’s part is played by Earl Carpenter.
Scheherazade, the enchantress, wears a sparkly white chiffon outfit. The skirt, which is calf length, reveals her belly button. Her bodice, very low cut, with small capped sleeves, comes to below her bust and is covered in glittering jewels. The skirt starts on her hips, so her bare midriff and belly are revealed. She wears harem pants under the skirt. She has a high white feathered headdress which springs from a bejewelled cap on her head and she wears her long blonde hair is a side pony tail. Her outfit is completed by silver bangles and high heels. She has delicate features and a kindly expression. Later in the play she wears an almost identical outfit in a pretty shade of pink. Faye Tozer takes the part of Scheherazade.
Aladdin wears a brown waistcoat and a white shirt, with brown velvet trousers tucked into brown, knee-length boots. He is a pleasant faced, slender young man with short, dark-brown hair and regular features. Later he is transformed, appearing in an all gold outfit, gold trousers tucked into gold boots, a gold tunic and gold cloak. The tunic is encrusted with sparkling jewels and he wears a small gold hat with a gold feather, on his head. Another outfit features a pale blue tunic trimmed with gold and pale blue trousers. The hero, Aladdin, is played by Aaron Hayes Rogers.
Princess Jasmine, played by Jayne Wisener, is richly dressed in a floor-length, red brocade dress, seamed under the bust, and falling in a straight line to the floor. It’s decorated with gold. The sleeves are narrow to the wrist then end with long wide cuffs, which hang down to the ground. She has high heeled gold sandals and a red and gold headdress. Around her neck is a deIicate ruby necklace. Later she wears a similar outfit in blue and gold and later still she wears a gold brocade gown. The princess has long, straight dark hair. She is slim and petite with delicate features and large eyes.
The Emperor is a shortish man with a commanding manner. He has heavy black eyebrows, a Chinese mandarin’s long black moustache which droops down on either side of his mouth and a thick black pigtail. The Emperor wears an impressive full length scarlet robe, with a dragon picked out in gold sequins on the front. The robe is trimmed with gold and he wears with a huge matching headdress with a wing on each side and a central column. Later he wears a deep blue robe trimmed with silver, with a large Chinese character appliquéd in silver on the front of his torso and an equally extravagant headdress. When it comes to the wedding scene the Emperor is resplendent in silver. The part of the Emperor is taken by Paddy Jenkins.
PC Ping Pong is played by Jimmy Tamley. He is a talented ventriloquist and appears with a variety of ventriloquist’s dummies, for whom he speaks, seemingly without moving his lips at all. He wears a Chinese style police uniform. It’s a light blue Chinese tunic over loose trousers. Both tunic and trousers are trimmed with blue and white check. On his head he wears an English-style hard police helmet with a flashing light on top. He wears small black boots on his feet and has a pleasant open face, fairish hair and is of medium build. For the wedding his uniform is silver trimmed with pink and he wears a silver helmet.
Ping Pong’s ventriloquist dummies. PC 68 wears an identical outfit to PC Ping Pong but it is all in miniature. PC 68 is the size of a large doll about ¼ the size of PC Ping Pong. He has a shock of white hair which stands up on his head. Another dummy is a boxer. He has long skinny legs, and long red satin boxer shorts with red boxing gloves and red boxer boots with white laces. His torso is bare and he has a tuft of orange hair, as well as cauliflower ears. His body looks as though it could be made from stuffed brown tights. Later Pong brings on a baby dummy in a multi-coloured baby-grow with hood. He also introduces an orang-utan with a ruff of orange hair around a happy face with an enormous smile. His only piece of clothing is a bright, boldly patterned tie around his neck.
The undoubted star of the show is May McFettridge, who plays the part of Widow May Twankey. May’s face is square with big cheeks and a large nose and she has a beauty spot close to her mouth on the right of her face. Two of her front teeth are missing. Hers is a dumpy figure, almost as broad as she is long. May Twankey is dressed in a series of extravagant and fantastic costumes. First we see her in a hooped skirt, the hoop itself a rotary clothes line, supsended from her waist, with socks and other articles of clothing pegged to it. Under this hoop she wears yellow trousers and her bodice front, which is also yellow, has ‘scrub up’ written across it in large letters. The bodice has huge leg of mutton sleeves in yellow and the top is decorated with black and white check bunting. She wears white stockings and black pumps. Her hair is styled in stiffly sculpted coils of black over each ear and the small hat perched on her head is in the form of a washing line emerging from a basket of laundry with clothes suspended from the line. Later she wears an orange striped outfit comprising a loosed tunic with blue frills at the bottom, and also on the ends of the sleeves and a blue collar. Her frilly drawers show underneath the hemline and a fabric washing machine appliquéd to the front. With it she wears white stockings and flat pumps. Another outfit of May’s consists of a short hooped skirt in patchwork colours of white and blue and greenish grey with a white apron over it and striped green and grey caps to her sleeves. The dress is trimmed with mustard and she wears pantaloons beneath it. She is stunning in a bright pink chiffon sequinned dress with a purple chiffon scarf round her neck and prominent large bosoms. Her hair is still black but this time it falls straight to her shoulder with a fringe and her bright red lipstick matches the vibrant red flower in her hair. She sports gold slippers on her feet. As part of the court she appears in a full length bright blue robe embellished with large silver butterflies and tied with a silver belt. The robe has a slit up one side and she sports a silver bow in her long, straight black hair. For the wedding she is splendid in a full-length purple and silver robe with an enormous head dress over her sculpted blonde wig.
The genie is a large puppet, twice the size of Aladdin. His features are large and caricatured, very ugly, with a huge nose, big curled lips, prominent eyes and sticky-out ears. He has a blue body trimmed with gold and a gold belt round his middle. His torso seems solid but below the belt is a waft of fabric which narrows at the bottom as though a wisp of smoke has emerged from the lamp and spread out as it rises. The puppeteer is never visible.
The chorus consists of four men and four women and eight children from the McMaster stage school. The women all wear straight black wigs in a bob with a straight heavy fringe across the forehead. The men have conventional hair styles and colours. To start with they all wear brightly coloured Chinese tunics with loose, wide trousers. The bright yellow, red and blue costumes are decorated with contrasting patches and trimmed in contrasting colours. The children of the chorus also wear coolie style hats perched on the back of their black bobs. The princess’s attendants, all women, wear elegant, tight straight silver dresses with slits up the side to reveal a deep pink lining. They are trimmed with sparkly sequins. At one point they all become policemen, even the children, and wear the same outfit as PC Pong, a light blue Chinese tunic over loose trousers. Both tunic and trousers are trimmed with blue and white check. Later in the Magical cave the chorus becomes the jewels which Aladdin finds, with their gold costumes embedded with huge sapphires, rubies and emeralds. The women wear gold yokes at their necks, also encrusted with jewels and their headdresses are high and loaded with gems. The men have naked torsos over their rich loose pants and small hats. Sometimes the chorus become Abanazar’s guards. Then they all ape their leader, wearing long black coats and knee high black boots. The men have dark trousers underneath, the women black tights. They wear silver helmets and glittering silver breast-plates. When Aladdin appears in his gold outfit the small members of the chorus are also in gold, with gold cloaks and tunics and small hats. There’s a dual between some of Abanazar’s guards and Scheherazad’s belly dancers who are dressed in blue and yellow chiffon harem pants, with sequinned belts around their hips and bra tops from which dangle golden discs and which reveal their midriffs. Their dark hair is decorated with an encircling band. For a dance routine the women wear gold leotards with a flurry of red feathers emerging from behind and red feathers on gold caps on their heads. They have long gold gloves, gold sandals and fans made from red feathers. For this sequence the men wear top hats and tails with red cummerbunds matching the red trim on their top hats and their red bow ties. As members of the court some of the chorus wear deep blue robes, decorated with silver, which match the Emperor and May’s robes. Finally for the wedding scene the children are tricked out in purple chiffon suits with gold yokes and gold hats. The adult chorus wear pink harem pants, and bra tops, if women and slaves trousers with bare torsos, if men. The women wear enormous pink feathers in their head-dresses.
Aladdin was directed by Jonathan Kiley, Mark Dougherty was the musical director and lighting design was by Mark Clutterham. We hope you enjoy the show. Please remember to be in place 10 minutes before the show starts if you wish to hear these notes. It’s also very useful to test out your headset to make sure it’s working before the lights go out. | 2019-04-20T02:49:29Z | http://www.nisightlines.co.uk/aladdin---grand-opera-house-panto.html |
This entry was posted on September 19th, 2016 and is filed under Finance & Tax, Property Taxes.
Some counties do receive lots of requests for these statements. Brunswick and Union counties issue several hundred a month. But other counties report that requests for G.S. 105-361 statements are pretty rare. Carteret County gets only a few requests a month. Mecklenburg County reports they normally receive only 10 or 15 requests a year (although that has increased since the kerfluffle over their 2011 reappraisal). Bertie County said that only a single attorney has requested these statements in the past 15 years! It seems that many closing attorneys rely on county tax websites or informal telephone calls to tax offices to determine if there are any outstanding taxes owed on property being sold.
Here’s what you need to know about statements of taxes due issued under G.S. 105-361.
Who may request a statement?
The statute essentially permits anyone with an actual or potential interest in the property to request a binding statement of taxes due on the property. Owners, lien holders, tenants, buyers, lenders, and attorneys for these parties are all authorized to obtain binding statements.
What must information must the requestor provide?
The requestor will need to have completed at least a basic title search prior to requesting the statement because G.S. 105-361(a)(2) requires that the requestor “specify the name of the person who listed the real property for taxation for each year for which the information sought.” Most requestors will want to know tax information for at least ten years, in light of the ten-year statute of limitations for property tax enforced collections. See G.S. 105-378.
G.S. 105-361 also requires the requestor to “identify the real estate in the manner required by the tax collector.” Most often, tax offices require a parcel ID number (“PIN”) and/or the deed book and page numbers. While the statute gives the tax collector discretion about what info is required, that discretion should not be abused by placing unreasonable demands on the requestor. For example, it’s likely a judge would not approve of a requirement that all requestors provide complete copies of all deeds to the property for the past 20 years.
Is a particular form required for G.S. 105-361 statements?
No. The statute does not require a specific form nor does it mandate that the tax collector sign the statement. That said, best practice is for tax office to do both. By requiring that all G.S. 105-361 statements be issued on a specific form and be signed by the tax collector or a deputy before release, tax offices decrease the likelihood of errors that can come back to haunt them. I offer a sample form from Gaston County on page 55 of my property tax collection book. Rockingham County’s form is here.
How quickly must a tax collector respond to a request under G.S. 105-361?
The statute imposes a $50 penalty if a tax collector fails to furnish a statement “when requested.” I don’t think that means the tax collector must drop whatever he or she is doing and immediately produce the requested statement. But a tax collector probably can’t file the request and get back to it in a week or two. In my view the best approach is for tax collectors to produce the statement as promptly as reasonably possible, the same standard that applies to public records requests.
From what I hear, most tax collectors respond to G.S. 105-361 within a few days absent unusual circumstances. Some counties try to respond within 24 hours. Mecklenburg and Orange counties produce the statements within five business days. If a tax office routinely makes requestors wait longer, it should be prepared to explain exactly what activities are involved with the production of the statements and why they contribute to the longer response times.
What liens must be included in a statement?
G.S. 105-361 mandates that the statement list all property taxes that are owed for the current and prior years as well as any deferred taxes that would become due if the property is transferred. I think this requirement covers only taxes levied by or collected by the local government that receives the request. If the county collects property taxes for a town, the county must include that town’s taxes on all statements issued under G.S. 105-361 else it will waive that town’s tax liens. But if a county does not collect property taxes for a particular town, then the statements issued by that county need not include that town’s taxes. The requestor will need a separate statement from the town.
Statements must also include all special assessments levied by or collected by the government that receives the request. Special assessments are charges for public improvements (streets, sidewalks, sewer lines, etc.) that are charged to the property owners benefiting from those improvements. They are liens on real property and may be collected using the same remedies available for property taxes (foreclosure, attachment & garnishment, levy & sale). If a county has agreed to collect a town’s property taxes but not that town’s special assessments, it should make clear on all G.S. 105-361 statements that they do not cover municipal special assessments. The requestor will need to contact the town for a statement covering those debts.
The statements do not need to include other debts that are liens on real property and may be collected as property taxes such as nuisance abatement liens, housing code enforcement repair and demolition costs, ambulance and EMS fees, and solid waste fees. (See this bulletin for how and when these other debts can be collected as property taxes.) While it might be good practice to include these liens on all statements so that purchasers are on notice of them, the failure to do so would not waive the liens.
What happens if a lien is mistakenly omitted from a statement?
Covered liens are waived if the tax office fails to include them on a statement. If a lien is waived, the tax office loses the foreclosure remedy for the omitted lien.
For example, assume that Carolina County issues a statement of taxes due on Parcel A. That statement includes delinquent taxes from the years 2012, 2013, and 2014. Delinquent taxes from 2011 were also owed on the property but the tax office failed to list them on the statement. If the party who receives the statement purchases the property, she will take the property free of the lien for 2011 delinquent taxes. The county could no longer foreclose on the property for the 2011 taxes.
What about other collection remedies for the omitted 2011 taxes? Clearly the county could use its remedies aimed at personal property (attachment & garnishment or levy & sale) against the seller. That party’s personal responsibility for the old taxes under G.S. 105-365.1 was not affected by the incorrect statement.
It’s unclear whether the county could use personal property remedies against the buyer who relied on the incorrect statement. I think the best answer is no, the county loses all collection remedies against the buyer for taxes erroneously omitted from a G.S. 105-361 statement. The county should write off these taxes as uncollectible using the insolvents list if they cannot collect from the old owner rather than try to collect them from the new owner after an incorrect G.S. 105-361 statement issued.
A G.S. 105-361 statement does not prevent the tax office from later issuing a discovery bill for the property that was the subject of the statement. Subsequent discoveries are not waived by G.S. 105-361 statements because the discoveries were not liens on the property at the time the statements were issued.
Assume Billy Blue Devil buys Parcel B after receiving a statement of taxes due under G.S. 105-361 that stated there were no outstanding taxes on the property. Three months later the county discovers a detached garage that was built five years ago by the previous owner but had never been listed for taxation.
When Billy gets the discovery bill, he complains to the tax office about the back taxes on the garage. Billy claims that the county can’t enforce the old taxes on his property because the county failed to include those taxes on his G.S. 105-361 statement.
Billy’s anger about the back taxes is understandable, but his argument is incorrect. The county did not know of the detached garage at the time the statement was issued, therefore the taxes on the garage were not a lien on the property at the time the statement was issued. The lien for the taxes arose later, when the discovery bill was issued. Therefore the county’s failure to be aware of and include the taxes on the garage as part of the statement does not waive the lien for those taxes.
Billy’s anger over the discovery is more properly directed at the former owner, who failed to list the garage and left Billy holding the bag for taxes on that structure from years before Billy purchased the property. Billy might be able to sue the former owner to contribute to the discovery bill, but the county has no collection remedies against that party.
Are oral statements about old taxes by the tax office binding? How about county tax web pages?
No and no. Only written statements issued under G.S. 105-361 are binding. Errors in oral statements or on county property tax web pages do not waive liens. But they do produce really angry taxpayers, of course, so tax offices should work hard to make sure they are not issuing inaccurate information from any source.
Are statements issued under G.S. 105-361 the same as deed certifications?
No. Deed certifications are intended to assist in the collection of delinquent taxes and are not binding on the tax office. See here and here for more. | 2019-04-23T14:55:57Z | https://canons.sog.unc.edu/statement-taxes-due/ |
Hjørring Municipality has a rich and vibrant city life and a wealth of exiting leisure activities. There are therefore plenty of activities to engage in after work.
Would you like to meet new people and expand your social network in Denmark?
Hjørring International is a social network for expats and internationally minded Danes who live in and around the Hjørring area.
Hjørring Internationals is a unique and fun opportunity for newcomers to Hjørring to make friends and build up a network which will help you settle and feel at home.
The network meets on a regular basis for different activities, some during the day and some in the evening.
Everyone is welcome to join the network; Whether you are working, looking for work or studying, whether you have a family or you are single, whether you are young or old, whether you speak Danish or not, whether you are here for three months, three years or 30 years – everyone is welcome.
Danes wanting to meet foreign cultures and make friends with internationals are also very welcome to join.
The events within Hjørring Internationals are arranged by Hjørring Municipality.
The network has a very active Facebook group 'Hjørring Internationals'. Invitations for networking events are published in this group and you are more than welcome to post your own events in the group. In addition, representatives from Hjørring Municipality post daily updates with information, that you might find interesting as an international in Denmark. If you are looking for advice from your fellow internationals you are also be able to post these questions in the group.
Did you accompany your spouse/partner to Denmark?
As an accompanying international spouse you have come to Denmark because your spouse / partner has either got a job here or is searching for one.
Maybe you are also pursuing a career in Denmark?
Maybe you have questions about life in North Denmark?
Maybe you are interested in meeting others and building a network?
‘Café Spouse’ is an initiative by Jobcenter Hjørring that aims at helping accompanying spouses / partners of international employees in the Hjørring area settle down in the area and achieve an everyday life in Denmark that meets their requirements.
We meet on the first Wednesday of each month to an informal networking event. Each event has a certain theme, e.g. job search, Danish Culture, Volunteer work etc. Representatives from the Jobcenter will be present at each meeting to help you with your questions about life in Denmark. In addition, we will have guest speakers at the meetings.
Interested? Sign up by sending an email to [email protected]. Further information about the network can be found in Facebook Group 'Hjørring Internationals'.
The next meeting in Café Spouse takes place on December 7 2016.
For further information, please have a look at the invitation.
Hjørring Municipality and the Rotary Club in Hirtshals work together in helping internationals settle down in Hjørring Municipality.
The Rotary Club in Hirtshals and Hjørring Municipality arrange network-events for internationals (expats and their accompanying families) and internationally minded Danes.
By joining the networking events you will get the chance of meeting new people and build up a social network, that will help you settle and feel at home.
Every networking event will have a special theme that will provide you with knowledge of the Danish society, e.g. Public Transportation in North Denmark, Renting or buying houses, the Danish Health Care System etc. You therefore get a unique opportunity to achieve new knowledge of the Danish Society – and find answers to many of the questions that may arise, when you are new in Denmark.
The next networking-event takes place on Saturday the 26th of November from 10:00-13:00. For further information, please have a loot at the invitation.
If you (or your children) want to do sports or exercise together with others, you/they can become a member of a sport club.
Almost all types of sports are represented in the municipality’s kaleidoscope of sports and leisure activities. In the Municipality of Hjørring there are no less than sixteen sports centres, six tennis clubs, five golf courses, one badminton centre and five swimming pools. Hjørring is characterised especially by its broad base of amateur sports. Sports such as football, handball, tennis, badminton, swimming, fitness and gymnastics are very popular.
Nearly all forms of formalised exercise and sport are run by associations or organisations that people can join. You have to pay to become a member, but in some cases the municipal authority will contribute towards the cost so that the fee remains low.
If you are interested in joining a sports association, please have a look at the list of some of the sportsclubs in Hjørring. Please note that this list only contains a limited number of the sports associations within Hjørring Municipality.
DGI (A nationwide sports organization) has a website, where you can look for a certain sports club in your local area. On the website Here you can put down your zipcode under "Hvor" (where) and the sport of your interest under "Hvad" (what), and then the website will provide you with different options. Please note that the website is available in Danish only.
If you enjoy Wellness, we recommend that you visit ‘Vandhuset Park Vendia’. It has a large swimming pool and a wellness section, where you can indulge yourself and find inner peace and strength. You can also enjoy a swim in the large 50 metre basin with 8 lanes. Vandhuset Park Vendia has a fun area with a 60 metre long water slide, where children can play and includes a basin with 30 degree C warm water plus steam bath and sauna.
If you love the outdoor life, Hjørring Municipality has a lot to offer you.
Hjørring Municipality is characterised by a beautiful landscape and a vigorous nature. In the Spring everything turns green and nature sets the scene for a pleasent picnic. In the Summer you can enjoy the warm summerdays on one of the many wide sand beaches. When Autumn comes, the hunt for natural treasures like mushrooms and berries begins. In the Winter it is time to enjoy the snow and a wonderful toboggan ride in the hilly landscape.
The options for doing outdoors sports are plenty. Why not go hiking in Slotved Skov, near Sindal, where you can observe the flocks of fallow deer? Or if you like mountain biking, try the MTB tracks in the many different woods or dune plantation. On the beaches you can go surfing, play beach volley and beach soccer – or just take a nice walk in the shallows. If you are in to fishing, you can fish from the piers, the beaches or take a boat out to go sea fishing. Another option is to rent a canoe and take a trip down the small river Uggerby Å? And for golfers we have a large selection of golf courses of a very high quality. Winter swimming is popular – and you can join the local winter swimming club in Hirtshals every morning during the year.
As you can tell, the possibilities of being active indoor or outdoor are excessive in Hjørring Municipality.
Hjørring and the smaller towns around are characterized by life all year round.
Throughout the year there are a host of exciting events. No matter if you like revue, theatre, films, concerts, galleries or workshops you can find it in Hjørring. Below we have listed some of the many experiences. We also recommend you to have a look at www.visithjoerring.dk for further information.
Vendsyssel Theatre is a small and dynamic regional theatre in Hjørring. The theatre provides four student productions during the season, plus a number of guest performances and themed events.
Hjørring Theatre is a beautiful old theatre from 1907. It provides about 30-40 performances annually.
Hjørring Biocenter is the largest cinema in Vendsyssel and presents movies for the entire family. The foreign movies are shown in their original language with Danish subtitles.
In the center of Hjørring you will find historical pearls like three Middle Age Churches and Vendsyssels Historiske museum which is the historical museum of Hjørring with exhibition about prehistoric times.
At Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum you can experience modern Danish art and on P. Nørkjærs Plads you will find a sculptural collection of the artist Bjørn Nørgaard.
In the town of Lønstrup you will find a wide selection of exciting galleries and other forms of arts and crafts, e.g. Glass blowers, pottery, textile art, jewellery artists and stone sculptors.
There are a number of different scout organizations in Hjørring Municipaliy.
There are scout organizations for boys, girls and adults. They offer a variety of activities are a great way to meet new people and get involved in the community.
By following this link, you will find a list of scout organizations in and around Hjørring.
Interested in Music? Playing yourself or listening?
Hjørring Municipality offers different options for you and your family to practice your musical skills. Below we list some of these options. Most websites in Danish only.
'Hjørring Musiske Skole' offers music lessons at all levels for both children and adults. The school offers lessons in many different instruments within all musical genres. You are normally taught individually (25 minutes pr. Lesson).
For more information, please visit the website of the school (in Danish only).
'FOF Vendsyssel': FOF Vendsyssel offers different musical and singing lessons, primarily for adults. Please click here for further information.
In Hjørring there are various options for going out and listening to music. At www.kulturnaut.dk you are able to find a list of upcoming events in Hjørring and North Denmark.
The different cafés and bars in Hjørring also present live music from time to time.
All Danish municipalities have public libraries, where you can borrow books, CDs and videos and use the Internet free of charge.
Did you know that it is possible to borrow music, films, Danish language materials and journals and magazines in many different languages at the library? Or did you know that the Library offers free access to the Internet by Wifi or by using one of the PC’s in the Library?
And did you know that the Library has a kids’ area, offering picture books, access to PC’s and playing opportunities, where you and you children can have a nice time? Or that it is possible to use the Library as a meeting point, where you can meet with others to read/discuss literature?
Have a nicetime with you children in the kids' area offering picturebooks, access to PC’s, playing opportunities and much more.
Free access to the Internet by Wifi or by using one of the PC’s in the Library.
Get free access to online movies, music, games and newspapers.
Borrow books, movies and games in many different languages.
If you wish to become registered as a borrower at the Library, please contact the Library. Remember to bring a valid ID-card.
Café Chat is a free language café for anybody who wants to meet new people and have a chat about everyday things - in Danish!
The café takes place every Wednesday from 15:00 - 16:00 at Hjørring Library (Upstairs at the Metropol Shopping Center, Østergade 30,1, Hjørring).
No need to sign up - just turn up. The language café is mostly for adults, but children can play in the children's library. | 2019-04-21T06:59:16Z | https://new-in.hjoerring.dk/welcome-to-hjoerring-municipality/after-hour-activities |
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Andy Johnson likes—more accurately, loves—to talk about the weather. Technically, he gets about 1,000 chances to do so each day from his Waukee, IA home, by the estimated number of international hits his non-profit weather information website, wxscience.com, receives. Andy, 72, is a retired meteorologist and oceanographer. He nurtured his career while serving in the U.S. Air Force Reserve as an air crew instructor and flight examiner. Through the website, he reaches and consults with middle and secondary school teachers and their students with the aim of expanding coverage on weather-related concepts in science classes.
On a personal level, Andy is reaching many more folks by example. He feels blessed to be able to continue doing the work he loves and keeps a cheerful attitude while making his way through a different kind of storm—living with Parkinson’s disease, a condition of the nervous system that affects movement, coordination and, in many cases, speech.
Andy and his wife, Pat, live gratefully. He credits her for her understanding, patience and encouragement. She admires him for keeping active, noting that he walks often with the aid of a walker because he wants to stay strong.
Though the disease makes it harder for Andy to speak clearly, the difficulty is subsiding, thanks to his recent acquisition of a Tobii Dynavox T10.
Andy got the Tobii Dynavox T10 on the recommendation of Jennifer Bodensteiner, a home health care speech-language pathologist. She knew right away what the main attraction of the technology, and its Compass communication software, would be for her patient.
Every time someone better understands what he is saying, Andy considers it a personal victory. He has been using the T10 for just a few months and feels secure in his new voice. Andy describes himself as “determined, witty and scientific” and looks forward to spending time with new and familiar communication partners including his three children, seven grandchildren, fellow fans of the Florida State University Seminoles sports teams and aspiring weather enthusiasts he crosses paths with.
For Andy, a good chat is a great joy. His best conversation partner is his wife. He reads and listens to the poetry she writes. She loves when he tells of his experiences in ocean wave modeling (a form of climate pattern simulation) and hurricane hunting. They watch movies with a weather theme (many in surround sound) together. “Twister”—the 1996 blockbuster—is an all-time favorite. The Johnsons also enjoy New Orleans-related films, having lived in Louisiana for many years. They have mixed emotions that their 2005 move to Iowa occurred a few months before Hurricane Katrina hit.
Andy is expecting a call any day from Blake Hammond, a sixth grade science teacher at Albert W. Merrill Middle School in Des Moines. The two met about five years ago when a neighbor, Mr. Hammond’s student at the time, suggested that Andy share his expertise when it came time for the class to study the weather unit that spring. Andy immediately said “yes” and Mr. Hammond found a phenomenal volunteer. They planned lessons together—Andy providing background on key concepts, Mr. Hammond preparing lessons in a multimedia format. Students learned to use a cloud identification wheel and weather instruments including a psychrometer (a combined wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometer used to measure relative humidity) Andy made for them, a thermometer and a barometer. Andy has attended the class three or four days a week. He wholeheartedly awaits the standing engagement each May and the class works around his visits, which are less frequent now. Students email questions to Andy. Printouts of his thorough replies drape an area of the classroom known as “Andy’s Corner”—a name that belies Andy’s style of working the room, addressing various discussion points with small groups of students as he moves about. They understand Andy’s challenges, Mr. Hammond said, and see that his abilities outshine his limitations every time.
Stephen Murray is a Professional BMX Rider. In June 2007, when Stephen was 27, he broke his neck while attempting his signature double backflip and sustained from a severe spinal cord injury (SCI). Stephen was left completely paralyzed from the neck down. He says, “BMX was a massive way of me expressing myself. After the accident, the BMX was done. So, my freedom of expression and communication was almost wiped out.” Almost.
Stephen was soon introduced to the Tobii PCEye Go, an eye tracker that works with standard laptops and desktop PCs. Because of the hands-free computer access the Tobii PCEye Go provides, Stephen is able to surf the web, Skype, and stay in touch with family, friends, and fans on social media with only eye movements. It has helped Stephen to regain some of his lost independence, freedom of expression, and communication.
The Tobii PCEye Go has also helped Stephan start and run two businesses, Stay Strong and the Athlete Recovery Fund (ARF). Stay Strong is Stephen’s apparel line that encourages others faced with similar challenges to his own to not give up on themselves. ARF is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds to support the medical costs of other extreme athletes injured on the job.
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Kylie Bryant (“Kye” to her friends) would probably shout from a mountaintop how she loves her new voice. Just a year ago, she had no idea she would feel that kind of enthusiasm for an augmentative and alternative communication device she worked simply by moving her eyes. The 19-year-old from Bolingbrook, IL had been using AAC technology since kindergarten and felt totally comfortable with the device access method she used all along—pressing one switch on her wheelchair headrest to scan and choose her words, then a second switch to speak them.
Coinciding with this important time in Kylie’s life is her acquisition of the Tobii Dynavox I-15 that is her primary means of communication and is proving to be a real game changer for her. Though cerebral palsy compromises Kylie’s ability to speak and do physical tasks, she is sure of what she needs and wants, and able to express it articulately. She does so a lot faster and more fully with the new device. Yet for Kylie, communication goes way beyond talking. It is something more vital—and more empowering.
Doug Schneebeck is feeling the power of summer. That emotion, no doubt, will peak at the 2015 Oso High Mountain Bike Race June 7 in the picturesque Rocky Mountain village of Angel Fire, NM. The first U.S. Paralympic Cycling Team member with ALS, Doug, 54, hosts the event for a bigger reason: to raise ALS awareness. More concretely, the race is a fundraiser ALS for research efforts, and services for the estimated 30,000 people in the United States living with the fatal disease, and their families.
On average, 15 people are newly diagnosed with ALS (short for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) each day.
With his own diagnosis in July 2010, Doug joined them. Within the next year, he found what he hopes will become a lasting way to lighten the grimness of a situation he shares with so many others. After retiring from a career as a civil litigation attorney, Doug started Oso High Endurance Sports, an organization that has raised more than $300,000 for the ALS community through cycling and running events. From the get-go, he had much more than dollars and cents in mind.
“I had decided to create something enduring that would contribute to the public understanding of ALS, raise some money, and be a present for our family,” Doug told us in a message composed through the Tobii Dynavox I-15 device he uses for communication. “I began brainstorming on a Saturday morning, and had a working website by Sunday evening.” The illness has taken Doug’s ability to do many things that most of us take for granted, like speaking, but his desire to help others is unstoppable.
Since he cannot ride his recumbent tandem trike off-road, Doug plans to ride 22 miles on the road with his wife Jean Bannon at the Angel Fire event. With an estimated 125 participants, they expect to raise about $37,000, he said.
Oso High is Doug’s passion and the I-15 helps him not just with typing, maintaining the website and other technical aspects of carrying the project forward, but keeping in touch with everyone involved. It takes a bit longer to tell a joke using the device instead of his natural voice, but he still keeps everyone laughing. Doug is grateful to friends and acquaintances in the cycling community for their support. His biggest cheerleaders are his wife and their children—Jessa, 35; James, 20 and Abby, 18.
Doug and Jean talked frankly about life with ALS in an “Eye on New Mexico” segment last fall. Their appearance on the local news show coincided with their participation in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Doug communicated using a Tobii Dynavox EyeMax then and was about to make the change to the newer I-15. The transition, he said, was seamless. He is especially pleased with the I-15’s processing speed, mouse simulation and reliability.
It is almost the end of June and Christopher Viau is already having an awesome summer. Earlier this month, the Evanston, IL resident released his second book of poetry. Entitled “Being in Harmony with Nature” and featuring his own illustrations, it is a sweet collection of his everyday observations. A watercolor artist, Chris has recently taken up chalk pastel sketching. He spends two days a week at The Arts of Life studio in Chicago’s North Shore area—one as its archivist and the other doing his own artwork.
The excellence that Chris, 38, has achieved as a writer and visual artist highlights the fact that though his speech is limited, his voice is strong. Like his creative endeavors, his longtime use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technology gives him a deep appreciation for the freedom of self-expression. These days, Chris often turns to his Tobii Dynavox T10 when he has something to say. He says it was easy to transfer to the new device from the Tobii Dynavox V he used before. A speech-language pathologist and occupational therapist at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago assisted with the transition.
Chris likes the portability and layout of language the T10 offers. He does a lot of his own programming. “It is a quick way to communicate,” he said.
Along with the language Chris needs to order a coffee or joke with a friend, his T10 has preprogrammed messages for long conversations on many topics, for his interests span many worlds. Chris nurtures his love of history through reading. He goes fishing and horseback riding. Sometimes he’ll hang out in downtown Evanston for the day, by the lake.
A serious athlete, Chris played on the U.S. Paralympic Adapted Boccia America’s Cup Team in 2014. His physical limitations (Chris has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair) seem to make Chris want to work harder for the team. A past Athlete of the Year for the Maine-Niles Association of Special Recreation, he is known as both a fierce competitor and all around nice guy. One of his coaches, Lauren Ruiz, admires his discipline and constant focus on improvement.
“The more you get to know him, the more inspiring he is,” she said. “He’s so much fun to be around.” One of her funniest memories is when they went to a Chicago Cubs game. Chris hated to admit his beloved baseball team had an off day. “He claims they lost because I was there and brought them bad luck,” Lauren said.
As a close friend, she usually understands Chris when he speaks in his natural voice if she knows the context. She is happy that he has the technology to help him clarify information and socialize with people he does not know well. It is a great help in connecting with all the fellow athletes he meets through boccia.
Chris said it means a lot to be able to order for himself at a restaurant or ask questions of store employees while shopping. Sometimes it’s hard, he said, because people like him are often ignored. But Chris keeps his spirits up and makes time for others. Lauren said, for example, he is always asking about her husband and family.
Family means a lot to Chris. He takes the train to his parents’ home in Waukegan to celebrate every holiday and family birthday with them, his sister Liz, brother-in-law Chad and his two nieces—Ila, 18 months old and Ava, 4 months. He is godfather to both.
The train ride gives Chris quiet time to enjoy his surroundings. His love for the excitement of the city equals his fondness for nature. Both are captured in “Chicago’s Seasons,” his first book. Chris plans to write a third book using his Tobii DynaVox T10 while sitting outside.
Chris’ books are available for purchase online. He also keeps a blog where you can find more of his insightful writing. | 2019-04-25T23:45:24Z | http://www2.tobiidynavox.com/tag/aac/ |
Cheryl is in Seattle and stopped by Elliott Bay Book Company.
I have seen this on the new book shelves at several bookstores—The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace.
Stopped into the Dusty Bookshelf in Lawrence yesterday.
On Here & Now today, I listened to an interview with Wes Moore, the author of The Other Wes Moore that is turning out to be the freshman read this fall on many college campuses. He was very interesting and his book sounds very powerful.
Two kids with the same name, living in the same city. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison for felony murder. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that has lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had a life not unlike his own: Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices and the people in their lives would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.
Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a challenging and at times, hostile world.
I heard an interview on NPR with Alexandra Fuller about her new memoir Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness. She was very interesting and the passages she read were well written.
In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multi-layered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the emotionally frozen landscape of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war- torn Africa of her own childhood. At its heart, this is the story of Fuller's mother, Nicola. Born on the Scottish Isle of Skye and raised in Kenya, Nicola holds dear the kinds of values most likely to get you hurt or killed in Africa: loyalty to blood, passion for land, and a holy belief in the restorative power of all animals. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is an intimate exploration of the author's family.
I've started the first book of the Outlander series, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
In 1946, after WWII, a young Englishwoman named Claire Beauchamp Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband, Frank. She’s an ex-combat nurse, he’s been in the army as well, they’ve been separated for the last six years, and this is a second honeymoon; they’re getting re-acquainted with each other, thinking of starting a family. But one day Claire goes out walking by herself, and comes across a circle of standing stones–such circles are in fact common all over northern Britain. She walks through a cleft stone in the circle….and disappears. Back into 1743, where the first person she meets is a gentleman in an 18th-century army officer’s uniform. This gentleman, Jack Randall, looks just like her husband Frank–and proves to be Frank’s six-times-great-grandfather. Unfortunately, he also proves to be a sadistic bisexual pervert, and while trying to escape from him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Highland Scots, who are also trying to get away from Black Jack Randall–though for other reasons.
In order to avoid being handed over to Captain Randall, Claire is obliged to marry one of the young clansmen. So she finds herself trying to escape from Castle Leoch and her Scottish captors, trying to get back to her husband Frank, trying to avoid being recaptured by Captain Randall–and falling in love with Jamie Fraser, the young man she’s been forced to marry.
For Cheryl's birthday, I gave her a novel recommended by Rainy Day Books, Beginner's Greek by James Collins.
Is love at first sight possible or just an old-fashioned romantic idea? And what if, to further complicate things, you meet the love of your life and then lose her phone number? Then what if, after the impossible happens and you find her again, she's now about to marry a roguish lothario who is also your best friend? The complications don't end there for Peter Russell, the winning hero of James Collins' charming, generous, and romantic first novel. Part modern-day Jane Austen, part Tom Wolfe, Beginner's Greek is a romantic comedy of the highest order, with characters who are perfectly, charmingly real as they swerve and stumble from fairy tale to social satire and back again.
Cheryl just checkout Rescue by Anita Shreve. Cheryl says its good so far, a quick read.
A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma--streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married, and parents to a baby daughter. Like the crash that brought them together, it all happened so fast.
Can you ever really save another person? Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off track, and for the first time in their ordered existence together, Webster fears for her future. His work shows him daily every danger the world contains, how wrong everything can go in a second. All the love a father can give a daughter is suddenly not enough.
Sheila's sudden return may be a godsend--or it may be exactly the wrong moment for a lifetime of questions and anger and longing to surface anew. What tore a young family apart? Is there even worse damage ahead? The questions lifted up in Anita Shreve's utterly enthralling new novel are deep and lasting, and this is a novel that could only have been written by a master of the human heart.
From our favorite beach bookstore, Sundog Books, Cheryl bought Staying at Daisy's by Jill Mansell, one of the romance author's she follows.
Daisy MacLean runs the country house hotel owned by her flamboyant father, Hector. When she hears who's about to get married there, she isn't worried at all - her friend Tara absolutely promises there won't be any trouble between her and ex-boyfriend Dominic, whom she hasn't seen for years. But Daisy should be worried. Dominic has other ideas. And seeing Tara again sets in motion a chaotic train of events with far-reaching consequences for all concerned.
Hello old friend... Sundog Books, Seaside, Florida.
Jim just finished Just One Look by Harlan Coben, a "quick thriller."
An ordinary snapshot causes a suburban mother’s world to unravel in an instant. When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn’t belong—a photo from at least twenty years ago. In the photo are five people, four Grace can’t recognize and one that looks strikingly like her husband, Jack.
When Jack sees the photo, he denies he’s the man in it. But later that night, while Grace lies in bed waiting, he drives away in the family's minivan without an explanation, taking the photograph with him.
Not knowing where he went or why he left, Grace struggles alone to shield her children from Jack’s absence in the days that follow. Each passing day brings only doubts about herself and her marriage and yet more unanswered questions about Jack, along with the realization that there are others looking for Jack and the photograph—including one fierce, silent killer who will not be stopped from finding his quarry, no matter who or what stands in his way.
When the police won’t help her, and neighbors and friends alike seem to have agendas of their own, she must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past to keep her children safe and learn the truth that might bring her husband home. | 2019-04-22T13:11:53Z | http://www.kansasreadingsociety.com/2011/08/ |
Are Handepay/Merchant Rentals ripping off small businesses?
Back in September of 2009 I signed up for a credit card machine with Handepay which the salesman said would be for a term of three years. Last week, I decided that the time had come to terminate the contract since the iZettle card payment system is a much better mechanism for my business. Today I received a letter from Merchant Rentals demanding the sum of £1153.30 to cancel the contract!
The Handepay contract is for a MINIMUM of 36 months, but you have to give them 12 months notice of cancellation. Since 12 months notice was not issued, the contract then automatically extends for another 24 months.
So, because I didn’t issue a cancellation in October 2011, the contract automatically extended to October 2015. However, because I didn’t cancel in October 2013, the contract is further extended to 2016! Needless to say, the polite salesman who sold me the contract neglected to mention this little nugget of information!
To me, this seems to be a dirty, underhand way of doing business.
Upon challenging the charges, Merchant Rentals – they reduced the cancellation period to 9 months and the fee to a little over £320. The nice lady on the phone said that it was Handepay’s contract that stipulated the terms and not Merchant Rentals. When I pointed out that both Merchant Rentals and Handepay have the same address, she confirmed that they do but that they are totally different companies.
I thought it was interesting to note that one of the directors for Handepay is a gentleman by the name of Mr Andrew MacAuley whilst Merchant Rentals have a director by the name of Mr Simon MacAuley. Additionally, former Handepay director Mr Michael Christopher Prendergast is currently listed as one of the two directors of Merchant Rentals. It almost seems like a family affair.
I personally feel that such a contract is immoral and unjustifiable.
I would just like to say that Handipay conned me into a Five Year Contract 4 and half years ago. I rang them last April and told them I would not be re-newing my contract and she said I had to do this in writing I did this and rang them up today to confirm everything well surprise surprise they did not receive the letter and have now told me that I am rolled on to another 2 year contract UMBELIEVABLE I am a small business too, How can they do this legally ????
I feel your pain. I am guessing that your mistake was not sending the letter by Recorded Delivery, so they can quite legally play the old “it must have gone missing in the post” game. All I can suggest is that you put it in writing now, send it via recorded or special delivery, then argue the toss with them over the contract.
My argument is that as soon as I wrote and told them I wanted to cancel the contract, they immediately raised an invoice for the whole of the extended period, but cancelled the service. This means that I am paying for services not provided, which seems immoral. Still, I guess that shows my naivety in thinking that businesses should have morals.
I have emailed the lady above hopefully trying to cancel my contract I will let you know what becomes of this.
I have been caught out similarly with Merchant Rentals and Handepay after trading with them for 5 years. However, after writing to them and challenging the agreement (politely), they have written back to me with a compromise agreement for a reduced settlement payment of £255 if paid within 7 days instead of the 36 months in the contract.
Still a bad deal, but appears as though the least painful solution. In future I will read that small print a little more closely!
I would like to add my comments. BEWARE OF HANDEPAY/MERCHANT RENTALS. READ your contract very very carefully and ideally take your business elsewhere.
I would suggest any small business go elsewhere. I have had to pay 5 years worth of fees to this company and I have never received the equipment at all! They took me to court because I refused to pay for equipment and a service that had never been delivered…THEY WON!.
This is because their contract is clever…it says that ‘in delivery of equipment etc…time is not of the essence’….essentially meaning that they don’t have to deliver their equipment in any particular time frame.
My business requires a debit card machine. They bungled the delivery of such several times…and it never did arrive. I moved to world pay who arranged everything within 24 hours and I have never looked back.
My argument was that Handepay/MerchantRentals service did not meet the industry norm…they still won and I have had to pay 5 years rental! They get away without providing any service or any equipment or anything at all while I pay their court fees too! Unbelievable!
I have also been caught out today, but we were told by the representative that we wouldn’t have this trouble if we went with Streamline and Handepay and took him at his word. We had a 4 year contract and this comes to an end in January 2014. But how are you to know that you are going to go under. To keep the business going we have put in our pensions of £30,000this year, had to sell our house and now been told by Handepay that we owe £720. I will be looking at my contract and seeing a solicitor for miss selling this product to me as my husband was with me when the representative came in to the shop.
I have received a letter today after cancelling my agreement to say that as I didn’t renew my contract in January I was automatically signed up for a extended contract of 24 months and owe £376.72 my machine is an ingenico 15100 which is so old, and if haven’t been offered anew machine by Handypay, they are rip off merchants.
I don’t understand how customers are supposed to serve notice that they wish for the contract to be terminated. As soon as anyone notifies Handepay, they are faced with a termination bill and the service is cut-off.
I am in pain with merchant rental now, just went to court with them today. The judge asked me to fire a defend application to the court within 14 days. Can someone advice me what to write in defend form, what argument can I put?
Hi. Last week a letter demanding £600 received from Merchant Rentals dated 19th Nov 14 landed on my doorstep. the letter claimed that my terminal; had not been returned to them. I rang them and spoke to woman called Linda (and only that). I explained I had proof id returned the terminal and she looked through her records and agreed. she stated that the letter sent was just a ‘standard letter’. She stated I still owed them £600. I was confused and stated they could take me to court. today a court letter arrives and it states that I had a 5yr contract with them. I looked back at my contract and sure enough it states the written numerals ’60’. since cancelling my contract with Handepay and Wordpay/streamline back in June 14 I thought everything was sorted. I even had a refund of £110 from Worldpay for over payment. I thought everything was sorted. I was a new very small business and never would have knowing taken out a 5yr contract. I was under the understanding it was for 2yrs but didn’t check the small print. Lovely sales rep, even got another local business to sign with them…how wrong I was. Conned and nothing I can do about it but warn all other businesses not to trust Handepay and Merchant Rentals who seem to be in bed with each other. Appalling behaviour. I will fight my corner in court but know I haven’t got a leg to stand on. I will however be raising my concerns with the financial ombudsman! I am lucky if I used their terminal twice a month and it wasn’t making any economical sense keeping it!
I have the same thing here–took out two machines for four years—when I wanted out of the contract after 3 years Handepay did the ‘nothing to do with me guv’ see Merchant Rentals–These sent me a bill for 700 and then told me they were doing me a favour by not extending the contract for another two years–big bunch of ripoff artists using the 1974 consumer credit Act loopholes on third party procurement. Also the DTI says that these extension periods are wrong and illegal–They clearly set up ‘two’ companies to circumnavigate the Act–My advice if you live far away from them is issue a claim against them in the small claims court and file for jurisdiction–they have to send representatives and the judge may see them as harassing you–anyway all it costs you in a small court fee but it’s costly to them.
Please note after another ombudsman ruling if you have seen out the minimum term of your contract and wish to terminate they have no power to roll the contract over and make you pay–just take the case to the ombudsman and you will NOT have to pay.
Ref: DRN5046352 is just one of a few saying they should NOT be rolling over contracts.
That’s great news! Thank you for sharing – it will help a great number of people.
i have just received a court notice to pay over £600 within 14 days. I was assure by my new provider that this would not happen and that its empty threats. Obviously not! I terminated my contract a year early and genuinely did not receive a letter about having to cancel the two extra years a year earlier. They sent it after I cancelled! No reasoning with them. This is August 2015 and they are still saying you have to give a years notice to me. I now have added court costs. Beware of Handipay, a truly terrible company ripping off those that cannot pay..
Ive had a handepay machine now for 6 years. I started with a 3 year contract that would have ended 3 years ago. However, about 3 and a half years ago Streamline contacted me to say the machine I had was too old and the banks couldn’t use it any longer. As my contract was not up I had no choice but to have a new one and they said it had to be for 48 months. I was told I would receive the new machine from merchant rental in about a week. 6 MONTHS LATER ! I received it but now they saying my 48 month contract does not finish until April 2017 when in fact I signed it in October 2012. I wanted to send a cancellation letter next month to give a years notice as I can’t afford it anymore as a struggling sole trader. It seems to me they made up the rubbish about the bank not being able to accept the old machine just to draw me into another long contract and to add salt into the wound didn’t send it for 6 months so that they could get an extra 6 months payments!! Any advise?
My advice,and don’t forget I am not a lawyer!, would be to write to them and cancel the contract as of the anniversary of the contract. I don’t see how they can enforce the additional 6 months if they opted not to send the terminal in a timely manner.
Any typical merchant rentals contract that goes back at least a year will typically contain 3 things that are questionable legally.
2) It will then have a roll over if you have not cancelled 12 months before the end of your contract which commits you to 2 more years.
consumer to a renewed fixed term.
Anyone who has had Merchant Rentals bill them after their fixed term has finished need only go to the Ombudsman to get them to back down–There are a number of adjudications where people have won but as the Ombudsman only decides on individual cases and does not set precedents the unmoral scum continue to flout these guidelines.
In court I would argue you could make a strong case for having the contract annulled as unfar if it contains these clauses.
3) A MR contract is set up deliberately to deny you your rights of 18 month cancellation under the 1974 Consumer Credit Act. This is because Handepay (who you almost certainly thought you had the contract with) asks (MR who are sat in the same offices) to select the machine. MR then goes to Spire or some other party to get you the machines.
This is legally more complicated. In court it could come down to a judge deciding who selected the goods–Handepay and MR are ‘associated’ that is easy to prove–Certainly they have set out the ‘selection’ of the goods deliberately to try to stop you exercising your right to cancel.
If you think that 90% of businesses are never going to cancel 12 months before as it is impossible to work out revenues, tech changes etc it means that MR are sending nearly everyone who wants to get out of their contracts huge bills.
These bills are often a starting point for negotiation and businesses who get a £1000 bill will gladly pay £300 to get rid of these F######s—those who know no better stay with them as they can’t afford to leave or pay up to avoid court.
A few of us stand up to them–the tip of the iceberg to what amounts to a multi-million scam that the Ombudsman, FCA do not seem to be interested in.
I have today received a demand for £603.10 from Handepay, to be paid by 1/1/2016 otherwise they will revise the figure.
I took my original agreement out in November 2011 for 48months. They, without notification re-newed this until November 2017.
I have contact the Financial Ombudsman today and they are wtiting to Handepay on my behalf. I advise anyone else with this issue to do the same.
One thing becoming increasingly clear is that they have another scam– DO NOT post anything back to them that is not signed for. They then claim that the machine has never been recieved.
There must be so many of these machines knocking around in the postal serivice it’s a joke.
I have a list of a number of people this has happened to. Any court receiving this list would be very interested to see just how many of these machines go ‘missing’.
Anyone they have pulled this stunt on please post on here your company name or write to me and I will furnish the list.
They read this site BTW so here’s a message.
Just another victim to add to the list.
I have just sold my company and so contacted my provider (Payzone UK Ltd) to cancel my machine as clearly no use for it now,only to be told I had signed for 60 months and that the agreement didn’t finish until January 2018!
It seems they are able to operate outside the CCA 1974 by being a club to which we become ‘members’.
It would be great to hear from anyone who has successfully taken these cowboys to task and how this was achieved to either get their bill reduced or just simply ignored the threats!
Most of us in business just want to do the right thing but these guys are a different kettle of fish!
If they do not concede, complain to Financial Ombudsman on basis that extended notice period is onerous and wasn’t specifically explained/highlighted at the time.
I am counter-suing Merchant Rentals. Are you able to send me your case details?
Hi Liz, your website seems to be out of action now?
I am being faced with not being able to cancel my payzone even though it was mis-sold – The salesman spoke of a “one-off charge” when actually he meant a MONTHLY charge.
However, my mistake for not fully reading the contract and failed to realise I had signed up to the 12 month contract.
The unit rarely works and has caused me embarrassment thus far. It looks like I will have to stick it out – ending up paying £300 for the year on a service that I could be paying far less for – and more reliably.
I don’t know what to do – I feel sick every time I look at the thing.
I am sorry to hear that you’ve also experienced problems. It is my understanding that Liz had to close her website due to the threat of legal action.
I’m delighted to say that we won our case – Merchant Rentals vs Ms Rosemary Harrison. I have uploaded all the documents we used to http://www.merchantrentalscourtcase.com We are not lawyers, bor indeed have we any experience of court, but we are honest, truthful and the judge decided in our favour.
Jonathan – could you forward the court documents as website seems to be down. We have a client with the same issue we are trying to help.
It is my understanding that pressure was brought to bear and the website was closed down for fear of further litigation.
After Liz and Jon’s great news it has also led me to think that anyone who has already paid this company could now go direct to the small claims court (you can do this online) and claim any monies paid above three month’s notice back.
This is a simple process and using the precedent set by this judgement if you were a sole trader you were covered by the 1974 Act and should have been allowed to leave your contract with three month’s notice–anything paid above that amount should now be refunded to you.
Further to the Merchant Rentals vs RE Harrison Court case, we have now been told that Merchant Rentals have appointed new solicitors who are asking for permission to appeal the case in the small claims court. At this stage we have no more information.
I am coming to the end of my 2 year contract in December 2015 so wrote to them on 16 th November 15 to cancel my streamline card reader They have sent me a letter stating a 12 mth extension period or I can pay £330.85 now or it wont cancel until 10th nov 16 well n truly p*** off with this .
After reading the above I rang Handepay to confirm when I would need to terminate my 2yr contract with them.
They want 3 months notice in writing that you wish to terminate the contract on the anniversary date, but you can submit this any time up to the 3 months period.. Also, as my payments go through WorldPay I need to give them 1 months notice.
My contract ends on 2nd June 2016 so I would need to submit a written cancellation letter before 2nd March 2016. I then need to call Handepay on 2nd May 2016 to get an email address to enable me to advise Worldpay that I will not be renewing my contract also.
I hope this snippet of information and the periods of termination required help other customers of Handepay / Merchant Rentals.
have you had any success i am with the same firm first payment sole trader was told by the agent maximum term is 18 under the cca act 1974 but turns out it does not apply to them since they only provide a service. They provide the terminal supposedly ” free of charge” but they do run a credit check and take money upfront for their services.
Have found this site after speaking with Merchant Rentals this afternoon – and discovering that we have ‘automatically’ been signed up for a further two years.
To say we’re p****d off is an understatement.
To add insult to injury they inform me that they could reduce my rental payments by £9 per month, with a new reader – if I sign up for another three year contract. So we’re paying over the odds for an old machine! These people are outrageous!!
Tomorrow we will be setting ourselves up with an alternative card reader followed by adding our comments to the http://www.merchantrentalscourtcase.com , writing to Merchant Rentals to cancel, the Ombudsman to log our case, parcelling up our Card Reader for registered post return and broadcasting information about this company as far as we can reach.
NOT what I wanted to be doing!
Thank you for all your help and advice. I am currently in dispute with merchant rentals and have sort legal advice. I am putting a case together which is based on missold contracts. I have found your information very useful and I am sure it will help me fight these people.
I will post on the outcome.
I have had my contract “automatically renewed” and Handepay and Merchant Rentals are playing the “it’s not us, it’s the other guy” game, even though we all know that they are the same people, in the same office, with the same directors and shareholders!
So, I was thrilled to find this resource. Unfortunately, it seems that the Merchant Rentals Court Case website is inactive. Has it been taken down?
Sorry to hear that you’ve also fallen foul of the Handepay/Merchant Rentals auto-rollover clause.
I’d noticed that the court case website is down. I can only assume that the originators of that site were persuaded to remove it – either through inducement or threat.
On behalf of my wife who has a small Hair Salon. She signed upto a 4 year contract with Transax (Now FIS Payments Ltd.) in Feb 2011. As she was due to retire she did not renew the contract but contined with the use of service. Last week she emailed notice to cease service in one month as new owners had their own service. She had a reply stating an automatic four year renewal clause came into force (small print on original contrcat) and she had another three years to the end of it. Attached was a bill for £1377 + Vat if she wished to continue with cancellation. We will fight this.
Just a quick comment about giving notice on contracts. Even with national utilities companies etc., I always issue a cancellation letter for the apprpriate date AS SOON AS I SIGN UP. Always send by recorded delivery.
There is generally no time too early to issue a notice of cancellation. It is very rare for anyone to rollover a contract and still have the best terms going.
For the last few years we have been with Daisy communications for our telephones and always get a better deal on renewal. Now paying less than we did 6 years ago!
So cancel immediately for the anniversary date. This way you are always covered and can re-negotiate or move contracts with confidence.
I had a sales rep come into the hairdressing salon I had. I closed the business a year ago and I’m still paying them! Everyone else I had a a couple of months and a cancellation. I have kept the machine but I want to take this matter further as I feel this is wrong. I have contacted them and they have told me to put everything into writing by email. Can anyone help me? Do I have a leg to stand on? Surly this is unfair? I can even had my car back if I can’t afford to pay for it.
..Now looking at another 3 years contract.
From what I’m reading …if you close your business then you still have to pay the rental.?
I have entered a court case for something similar. Do you know of anyone else who has suffered at the hands of this company… I need all the evidence I can to support this case and I intend to invit the press on the day.
I suffered a similar fate with regard to Handepay/Merchant Rentals, which went to the Small Claims Court. Before I submitted my defence, however, I did a bit of digging and it’s amazing what you can find out when you put your mind to it! You may find the following information useful and indeed it has served me well! Just ensure that you return the terminal, and chances are, they won’t pursue the matter further!
Despite the fact that Merchant Rentals attempt to distance themselves from Handepay, it would appear not only do they share a common address, but also two founding directors, namely A. J. Peake and M. C. Prendergast.
“The company recharged costs to Handepay, a company in which A.J. Peake, M.C. Prendergast, and K.L. Adlam are shareholders to the value of £82,208.
Merchant Rentals annual return at 6 June 2013, has the same registered office as Handepay.
M.C. Prendergast is Company Secretary of Merchant Rentals and K.L. Adlam is a director of Merchant Rentals. M.C. Prendergast owns 23,750 Ordinary D shares in Handepay.
Simon Macauley d.o.b 17.11.57 is a director of Merchant Rentals, and Andrew Macauley d.o.b 12.03.64 is a director of Handepay and holds 120,000 B ordinary shares in Handepay. It is not unreasonable to assume that these two are connected.
AJ Peake is a director of Merchant Rentals and also owns 12471 Ordinary C shares and 55442 Ordinary D shares in Handepay.
Handepay Annual Return 17 July 2013 has the same registered office as Merchant Rentals.
• A.J. Peake owns 12,471 Ordinary C shares in Handepay and 55,442 Ordinary D shares in Handepay and is a director of Merchant Rentals.
• M.C. Prendergast owns 23750 Ordinary D shares in Handepay and is Company Secretary of Merchant Rentals.
• Andrew Macauley d.o.b 12.03.64 is a director of Handepay and holds 120,000 B Ordinary shares in Handepay. Simon Macauley d.o.b 17.11.57 is a director of Merchant Rentals. It is not unreasonable to assume that these two are connected.
One might make a fair deduction that some of the shareholdings in Handepay changed between April 2012 and June 2013 But at the time the Defendant signed the contract with the claimant on the 1at March 2010, it is believed that 3 of the directors of Merchant Rentals were also directors of Handepay and that there was a considerable shareholding overlap.
• “Merchant Rentals Limited, is a third party asset lease finance company, Hypercom/Spire is the supplier of the equipment, Streamline Merchant Services (World Pay) are an acquiring bank (for the processing of funds through a terminal and credited in to a bank account) and Handepay Limited is an independent sales organisation, that arrange merchant facilities for businesses. None of the companies are connected in any way and are completely separate entities” cannot be wholly accurate.
Did you know the highest paid director in Merchant Rentals was paid £1,090,000 in the year ended 30 April 2015, and £1,100,000 in the previous year, representing around 25% of turnover respectfully. Moreover, a major shareholder in the company is Charter Capital Ltd, a company registered in Anguilla (British Virgin Islands). The company is run & owned by Graham Crabtree & Simon Macualey ( based in St Maarten – Dutch V.I). Graham Crabtree has been linked to a number of “pump & dump” share offers. Simply type in ” Graham Crabtree – Anguilla – The Streetsweeper” and you will get the links. All of the readers of this blog might gain some comfort in the knowledge that Charter Capital Ltd had some CAN $6,000,000 in the National Bank of Anguilla when it went bust a few years ago, and is now in the bankruptcy courts of New York (southern Manhatten District). So is money being being sent offshore by Merchant Rentals to avoid taxes? Who knows. But I can say Mr Andrew Peake has been a busy boy buying up a great deal of property to redevelop them over the last few years which has required a multi-million pound budget. He must have a very supportive bank manager. Oh and both Peake(and wife) and Predergast are the beneficial owners of the Merchant Rentals / Handepay property. I do love digging around companies and directors that really don’t give a F*** about others. The law and Inland Revenue will catch up with them, it’s just a matter of time.
On a more salient point Merchant Rentals new contracts have been amended to a 3 month notice period and a twelve month max rollover. This is probably as a result of them applying to be a member of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and being bound by their code of conduct. Argue you cases on the basis that you should only be on a twelve month rollover, and threaten complaints to the FCA or Financial Ombudsman. And if they issue legal proceedings from the Northampton Small Claims Court (the cheap way to issue proceedings) ensure you deal with the paperwork and get the hearing location changed to your local County Court. This will ensure that they will have to travel, incur costs, and waste their time.
Take a look at devices like the iZettle which provides contactless/chip and pin card services that’ll work with IOS and Android devices. They cost around £60 and there’s no monthly charge for using them – they just take a percentage of each transaction. We’ve been using them for a couple of years now and they are brilliant.
It is interesting to note that it appears that Merchant Rentals/Handepay are reading and taking note of this thread. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had people get in touch with me after they’d posted comments on here explaining their interactions with the companies. Shortly afterwards it looks as though they are receiving revised settlement offers from MR/HP but only on the condition that they contact me and get me to remove their contribution to the thread. From the message that was left on my answerphone this afternoon, it looks as though the settlement is dependant upon the comment removal.
This strikes me as being a kind of censorship – “We’ll only change our offer if you remove all evidence that you’ve had a problem.” This is because the more people who comment on here, the more it indicates that the company is behaving badly. None of the posts that have been made on here are litigious as long as they only contain facts. There have been comments made that are clearly inflammatory, one particular one that claimed to be made by an employee of Handepay. However, since I couldn’t verify the source of the email, I decided it was prudent not to publish it.
I know from the dozens of people I’ve spoken with over this that this thread is a useful resource to those that are battling with these companies. In future, posts will only be removed from here if there is a legal requirement so to do.
I joined Transax/ Elevon last December and was told by the rep that I wasn’t bound to a contract and could leave at any time. This it turns out isn’t the case as I have just been informed that I am in a contract until Dec 2019.
Interestingly the very friendly rep only communicated with me via text or mobile with no email so since upgrading my phone I don’t have a contact number for him. He also guaranteed that he would automatically renew my PCI each year which it turns out isn’t the case.
I no longer have the shop as it was putting me in to major debt and now work from home. I assumed I could change my card terminal supplier if ~I wanted to but it seems not the case. I would also like to point out that I was approached by another rep from a different company promising the same deal whereby I wouldn’t be bound to a contract. It seems that they all try to lure retailers in to the same trap.
I stupidly have got myself involved with handipay. I had the reps come to my place of business and convince me into something other than a complete nightmare. I have since closed the two shops with two seperate terminals and sent of a letter of cancellation. My response has been a generated bill for terminals no longer in use or needed. Coming to the pricey sum of over £1200. When the reps sat with me they never told me what I should expect if my business was to close. I was told to send a cancellation letter and I could relieve myself of any further charges etc. They want a good name by defrauding customers of money they haven’t got. This is not going to stop here handipay. I have an excellent solicitor, brilliant media resources. One of which works for a national paper, please please please watch this space. This thread is very usefull with all of its nuggets of information. Very handi lol. I can raise many points that would make interesting reading in court. For which I’m really looking forward to. Point 1, the mis information I was told upon signing agreement. Point 2, the fact that I have several emails from different people mis informing me and leading me into a financial debt. This is simply disgusting how I’m being treated. This is definately not the way to get yourself noticed handi pay and merchant rentals.
One of the best thing I can say I did today was to have wondered into this site and I dare say big thanks you to all the contributors. I managed to read every comment from beginning to the last and it seems to me that this merchant rentals company have been out there causing untold havoc on so many honest hardworking small business owners without any hindrance from the authorities.
I bought a very small business from an elderly man barely 2 months ago and as at the time of taking over, the former owner declared that the Merchant rentals terminal has never worked and he had had to cancel the contract. To all my surprise less than 2 weeks after taking over the business, Merchant rentals sent in a Bailiff who came in with all sorts of threats and abject bullying forcing the former owner to pay £500 leaving a balance of another £1800+ for him to pay in two installments within two weeks. The irony of this is that they are targeting the fledgling business and its old equipment. I went to the local county court to seek an injunction to stop the bailiff agents of the Merchant rentals to desist from further attempts to take over the company’s equipment but failed. The whole case has now pushed me to the brink of packing it all up and potentially losing all the substantial money I recently spent in buying the business. Its so distressing what companies like this Merchant Rentals are doing to destroy lives of so many decent and hard working citizens. it seems they have been getting away with this for far too long.
We have been involved with Merchant Rentals/Handepay since 2010 with a 5 year contract, like many of you we wrote to them in June 2015 giving notice to be told we had been rolled in to another 2 year contract as we were outside of the 12 months notice period. We have now issued again notice to them as not only is the terminal so old the charges are most expensive and non competitive. We have since been advised that we would need to pay them £272 if we wish to cancel sooner as the extra 2 year contract ends September 2017. We have no intention in paying this and feel that the companies have lifted our leg for far too long. Thank you all for the above information as this has helped in writing our response letter.
1. Mr Andrew Peake is a director and major shareholder of both companies. Check out his Linkedin page as well as Handepays’ own website news. You will see him referred to as the the MD of Handepay. This means he has significant control over both entities.
2. The business premises which both entities occupy (Westway Park – orignally three sererate units, but now one unti)) is beneficially owned by Mr Andrew Peake, Helen Lord (partner/wife of Peake), and Mr M. Prendargast (source:- Land Registry). The premises are rented to Merchant Rentals, via a lease agreement, and they pay the whole rent. Merchant Rentals pay the business rates (source:- St Helens non domestic rates register ref: 2G090472000MR. I wish a non related benefactor would pay my rent and rates.
3. The premises are open planned, meaning Merchant Rentals & Handepay share everything (Source: http://www.dsceilingsandpartitions.co.uk/case-studies/handepay-merchant-rentals-relocate-new-office-building/).
4. Why would Merchant Rentals spend £94,887 on web-site development in the year ended 30 April 2015 and capitalise it in its own accounts, when the site was developed for Handepay(source:- Companies House and http://www.carpe-diem.co.uk/portfolio/handepay-direct-website-design-and-development/)?
Use the free site http://www.bailii.org to locate the cases and review the judgements.
The first case reflects the trade practises used by Merchant Rentals, c/o Handepay to “entrap” customers into an unfair contract. Read the whole case as it is relevant to you.
In the second case go to paragraph 20-23 which comments on “agency”.
Hi, I have just read your post, I have had a machine for 6years. I too wrote a letter of cancellation to say I didn’t want the machine anymore but they have said they didn’t receive it. They sent me court letters, I didn’t reply in time before the court date so I received a letter saying that they wanted over 1000 pounds in the courts rule.
I wrote back to explain I wasn’t in the wrong, I shouldn’t have to pay this money , the letter got sent back to me with advice to contact a solicitor, I have now just received a high court notice of inforcement letter to say I must pay 1146.66 with in one week or they will send debt collectors to take away my goods. I really don’t know what I can do now. I am so stressed with this horrid situation. 😔 Could you please give me some advice, if you are able too.
I am truly sorry to hear about your problems with these companies. You are not the first person to say that the companies have conveniently “not received” letters of termination. I know it is a bit late for you, but I recommend that everyone who communicates with the companies via post should do so via Special Delivery so that the letters have to be signed-for.
I fear that you are now in a position where you’ve little option other than to pay what they are demanding if it is set out in a court document, but I would also recommend that you seek legal advice too.
If you are a Sole trader the maximum contract term permitted under the Consumer Credit act is 18 months.
Apologies firstly for contacting you, but I have fallen foul of handepays contract, they have pursued a money claim order against for an unfair extension of contract, I need submit a defence to put my case forward in dealing with this matter could you please advise so I can take stop this ruthless firm in bullying me.
I really wish I had read this before I signed up with them. I am in the middle of an argument with them although I have just realised today that it is unlikely to get me anywhere as I made the mistake of not reading the small print. My only defence is that I had no idea companies could still get away with this kind of underhandedness. The bill for the moment isn’t as big as those mentioned on here but is a lot of money to me having just lost my business.
I can only hope that getting the word out there will in some way stop them from doing this to others.
The author of the above comment has reached an agreement with the companies but it is dependent upon the removal of the comment from this site. I am not sure that they can actually make an offer that is dependant upon the actions of a non-related third party.
I have had an account with Merchant rentals/Handepay since 2012 last year they virtually forced me into having a contactless machine even though I objected they said that it was necessary. After been cajuled by the salmon I agreed now I find my business is struggling and have given notice to my landlord that I wish to end his contract in september, no props there. However Handepay inform me that I willow between £450-£500 for the remainder of the contract even though a main reason for closure is arthritis and ill health I can barely pick up a bottle of milk. Any advice you could give me would be greatly fully appreciated.
We ( a company) signed a new contract with Merchant Rentals (MR) in September 2015, upgrading to a contactless Spires SPC50 terminal. We had many problems with it, and it was replaced twice in December alone.
We rescinded the contract with MR in January on the basis that they had supplied terminals not fit for purpose, and that we had lost total faith in Handepay. Needles to say all MR wanted was the outstanding rentals, and Handepay refused to compensate us for the thousands of pounds we lost in sales.
MR sued us, and we counter sued for lost profits. The hearing was held on 30 March this year, in Bury St Edmunds County Court. The judge agreed with us that we had the right to rescind the contract, and MR’s claim was dismissed. The defence was based under the statutory rights in The Sale of Goods and Services Act 1982. He agreed that Handepay had supplied goods not fir for purpose, and that we had relied upon them for their skill and judgement. I am happy to provide details of our case and defence (email:- [email protected]).
We did not win our counter claim. The hurdles to prove agency between MR & Handepay, and MR’s exclusion clauses, ensured that we ran out of time in connecting all the evidence and mounting the case (it was an all day hearing – with a trial bundle of some 350 pages). We did not agree with the judge, but it wasn’t feasible to appeal to the High Court, given the relatively small claim, and the related costs of appeal.
However, we have decided to take action against Handepay and Spires Payments (the terminal manufacturer) for negligence. Has anyone else had a Spires SPC50 Terminal and encountered any problems? Please let me know, as we need as much evidence as possible. In the court hearing Fiona Lyons (Manager at Handepay), stated that of all their 22,000 customers we were the only one she was aware of ever having a problem with the SPC50. Hard to believe!
My husband ran a small caravan accessories shop. He was with World Pay when a Handepay Rep came in and said he could save him money. Now here’s the thing. My husband has Primary Progressive MS, is in a wheelchair and doesn’t process information very well. The Rep took advantage of this and completed the paperwork for him and had my husband sign saying as he believed the Rep could save him lots of money. No fees if you dont use the machine etc. The Rep even returned a second time with a further form saying he forgot to get him to sign this , just sign here and unfortunately my husband did. The first I knew of things going wrong was court letters to Home. We completed to have the case reassigned to a more local court but paperwork was returned saying completed incorrectly and now too late to submit. Now my husband believes he deals with Handepay, unaware of Merchant Rentals. Both parties have been unhelpful when I have tried to resolve. Rep has admitted he knows Alan’s situation and he completed the paperwork for him. Even stated he was unaware of product and service he should have offered Alan ( pay as you go instead of contract as Alan has Seasonal business) unfortunately we have now received high court letter and have to deal with bailiff. I tried calling their office to be told unless we can pay the full amount we have to deal with the bailiff direct with an arrangement to pay. My husband has become very poorly with it all. Stress makes is MS deteriorate. We have had to make the dining room into a bedroom as he can not up the stairs and is really unable to deal with the situation. He is a vulnerable man and we are scared of what will happen next. We have an appointment with Citizen Advice tomorrow, but any advice anyone can give?
I am so sorry to hear your dealings with this pair of companies – as you’ll have seen from this thread you are far from alone in your experience.
I am afraid that there’s not a lot that I can say to help but perhaps Citizens’ Advice may be able to.
Over recent months I have noticed an apparent change in the way that the companies respond to complaints. I’ve had several people get in touch to say that they’ve received a revised offer of settlement after they’ve posted their grievance on here.
All I can do is wish you the best of luck and hope that your husband’s health improves.
I’m so sorry for all the people who have had to endure unnecessary stress caused by handepay/merchant rentals!
I too have fallen foul to the roll over clause! Why this is still allowed to happen is beyond me.
I was also mis-sold this service as the gentleman I was dealing with told me to make sure I spent at least £10 a month via card transactions as the minimum amount I would be charged was £10 and if for whatever reason I hadn’t taken any card payments then I should purchase something myself to the value of £10 that way I wouldn’t lose out!! WHAT I hear you say! Exactly. Un be known to me (and him by the sounds of it) he was talking about £10 worth of charges, now either I am completely gormless or even he didn’t have a clue what he was talking about!
Anyhow I’ve been hit by the ole cancellation fee as I failed to notify them years before I even thought about renting a machine that I would at some point want to cancel.
I hope the guys at the head of the very expensive table they sit at are extremely pleased with themselves as they continue to cause havoc with people’s lives!!
I will never trust… well, probably any company of this kind again!
I also called and spoke to a rep today who said the dalls were because they were concerned that id signed the legal part of the document and didnt want me to be charged. I responded saying that there was a special offer with no rent until jan so how can i be charged.
I feel so stressed i ve just opened up as a sole trader and i dont know what to do, female rep said she d call me tom first thing to see if she can help… i wont be holding my breath!
If the Rep did void the contract then I don’t see how they can hold you to it. If the rep didn’t void it, and you can prove that the rep claimed they did, then I also don’t see how they can hold you to a contract since you can prove they are lying to you.
If the contract has a cooling-off period then, personally, I would exercise it.
I don’t know what line of business you are in, but it might be worth looking at taking card processing from PayPal, Square or iZettle.
I use the latter and, whilst their percentage is higher than Handipay/Merchant Rentals, there’s no monthly fee and no contract. For the volume of card sales we take, we are far better off using iZettle.
Hi, they said there is no cooling off period and as it has been signed it is legally binding.. i have a small cafe/ coffee shop , the agreement i signed is non cancellable, so i guess im stuck.
I have just received Cout papers fron Handepay/Merchant Rentals. claiming £723.00 which I propose to defend. A rep from Handpay came to my shop in October 2015, offer me very good rates to replace my existing card machine, I was even offered a financial inducement to do so, ie part payment of any fees incurred from my existing supplier. I informed the rep. ( name available) i was in the middle of a two year lease on the shop, and could not take out a contract for more than a year, he informed me Handepay/Merchant rentals do contracts for one/two/ three years and he could do a one year contract for me. The rate offered were good. the paperwork was drawn up very quickly, I signed on the understanding it was a one year contarct as discussd with the rep. Ther was no mentioned off cooling off periods, cancellation times etc( I also have written confirmation this one / two / three contracts are available from Handepay/Merchant Rentals.) I decided not to renew the shop lease the following year due to failing health. When I notified Handepay /Merchant Rentals I wanted to cancel / not renew the contract. Shock horror, I found I was on a 4 year contract. How fooloish of me not to read the contratc after the rep had obtained a signature, I was given the impression I was signing a one year contract, ( Handepay/Merchant rentals have confirmed in writing they offer these contract..) Its time this company was stopped from ripping off small buisness and make their contact more transparant . Avoid this company at all cost Any advice.
Simon – this is a great thread you’ve started which seems to have helped a lot of small businesses. We were interested in the court cases which were brought under s101 (7) where the defence is “the goods were specifically selected for the hirer from a 3rd party” therefore the 18 month get out does not apply. Some of the posts mention this but there doesn’t seem to be any record of the verdict in these cases. Does anyone know what the outcome was ?
We run a proce comparison website for card terminals/merchant accounts, etc and get a lot of emails from small businesses facing large penalties in early termination situations. Your website is a great source of information from people in similar circumstances.
Thanks Stephen. It is strange how things go. The blog post was originally meant as a warning to others who might not read the contract fully and end up making the same mistake I did. Over the years it has become apparent that I wasn’t alone in making the mistake of believing what I was being told by the salesperson.
Simon – is there any public record of the court cases where MErchant Rentals were challenged on their CCA 2101 (7) defence. We had thought the court found in the merchant’s favour but Merchant Rentals appealed and we do not know what the appeal verdict was. Anyone ?
I am sorry to say that I don’t know.
Had the misfortune of signing up ..greed got the better of me plus the sales people at handy pay are experienced at lying and concealing important information example.. telling customers about the no cooling of period, four year contract .
Used the terminal for three days results were over 100 rejected transactions, upset customers as terminal rejected payments when in fact it was accepting had to refund well over 1000 pounds and give away the same value in free food.
Called the help desk several times a day but no luck, now stuck with a bill for £1100 to cancel.
As I am in the same position as pretty much everyone else here having just suffered a Merchant rentals automatic roll over period and have cancelled my contract but they expect me to carry on paying for “future rental” on a machine that will not be in use . I would ask if anyone could please let me have the contact details for the ombudsman?. Because although I cancelled in writing signed and attatched to emails I am now also being chased by Worldpay too.
Hello Kevin would this be under the consumer credit act of 1974 please. I have signed up to a contract of 48 months out of which 6 months have passed does that mean I should be paying for 18-6 = 12 months and not 48-6 =42 months in penalty.
I signed up for 48 months in may the agent for the told me when questioned about termination emailed me that their rates for rental processing etc will remain same as long as I am with them all sole traders can exit their contract after 18 months. This is the law which governs consumers under the ‘credit consumer act of 1974’.
Great forum hopefully Kevin or someone reading this forum can assist.
Could you recommend a good card payment company? iZettle looks great but the fees are high especially as I am selling high-value items (above £5k).
I am afraid that the only company that I’ve had experience with is iZettle, who I find to be fantastic. I know others that use Square and PayPal with great effect too.
Yesterday I received an email from someone who had posted on here about their problems with Handepay/Merchant Rentals.
The contributor had originally signed up but changed their minds before the completion of the paperwork, or the installation of the card machine but faced an exit fee of £1300. After posting on here and on TrustPilot the contributor received an offer of a reduced exit fee of £300 with the proviso that all negative reviews be removed.
Hello I was hoping to assist and in the process clarify for someone who has searched for card terminal contracts. I came across an analysis / explanation of the The Consumer Credit Act 1974. My understanding is as sole traders your maximum contract would be 18 months as long as the following are met amount of credit provided is less then £25,000. A natural person; an unincorporated association; or a partnership comprising three partners or fewer, where not all the partners are bodies corporate, (“small partnerships”).
And more importantly it is not possible to exclude the contract as long as the above criteria are met. So if you have come here as self employed i was hoping for clarification on this as even the get out clause of hiring the terminal seems not permitted.
i would place a link but not sure if its allowed or not the analysis of the act has been done by a law firm and explained well.
Hi Simon, thank you taking the trouble to host this site.
If only we had found these comments before signing up with Handepay/Merchant Rentals/EVO. They are now demanding the payment of 48 months rental, despite blocking the delivery of the terminal, and communicating with them to say that we were mis-sold.
The rep (name available) visited our premises in August 2017 and offered to save our company a lot of money, hey it seemed too good to be true! and also offered financial insentives to cancel our existing contract. At no time did he explain that we would be dealing with three separate companies; Handepay, Merchant Rentals and EVO Payments, the cancellation procedure or terms of the contract were not mentioned verbally. We were currently using Worldpay and have stayed with them.
When trying to contact the rep after realising that we would be dealing with three companies rather than one, the answer phone message gave the option of EVO or WORLDPAY our current supplier! All leaflets left regarding the service mention Handepay only. At no point in his visits did he explain that he was also acting for our current provider.
We contacted Handepay to explain that we felt we had been mis-sold the package and wanted to cancel. We also cancelled the delivery of the terminal.
No services have been provided by any of the companies, but they are claiming that we are still liable for 48 months rental for the terminal over £800 and other costs.
Under NO circumstances would we recommend using these people, having read the other comments we regret ever signing anything with them.
We would be very keen to join any group trying to fight the actions of these guys.
Thank so much for the help of this blog. Just won our case at small claims court.
I agree with all of the above comments. Merchant Rentals Limited are threatening to commence legal proceedings against my company for just under £9k. They are using all of the same lines as above e.g. “MRL are a third party asset lease finance company, Handepay Limited is an independent sales organisation… common ownership does not establish agency etc”. Absolute nonsense – MRL and Handepay entirely misrepresent (negligently, if not frauduently) the commercial set up to its customers. A court should look behind the wording of the contract to determine the true working relationship between the parties.
I would simply re-iterate that you should not do business with Handepay and/or MRL.
Please do post on TrustPilot. I do not believe that the 5 star gushing reviews on Trust Pilot are genuine. You’ll find (as I did) a negative review is followed by a torrent of 5 star reviews within a couple hours.
Re the lying sales person, MRL will claim that Handepay are a separate entity to MRL and Handepay are not their agents, therefore you can’t rely upon Handepay’s representations. I am sure your lawyers will refer to the issue of ostensible and actual implied authority to evidence the obvious agency relationship between the two companies.
Good luck with it. I would be very interested in the breakdown/ legal docs etc.
For these purposes you are defined as an individual under s.1 Consumer Credti Act 2006, and therfore have the right to terminate the contract under s.101 Consumer Credit Act 1974. BUT you are not able to terminate before the first 18 months without being liable for those 18 months worth of payments. But if you signed a 48 month contract that will still save you 30 payments. The terminal was provided by Handepay whom are an “associate” of MR, so they can not get out of this provision.
If you do wish to terminate make sure you do it in writing before MR start imposing charges etc. If you do this your are not obliged to pay these “fees” as you have terminated the contract and no longer liable under the terms. Also MR may think twice before pursuing you if they are only likely to get 18 months or less of payments. Legal /admin costs etc may outweigh the benefit.
“101 Right to terminate hire agreement.
(1)The hirer under a regulated consumer hire agreement is entitled to terminate the agreement by giving notice to any person entitled or authorised to receive the sums payable under the agreement.
(2)Termination of an agreement under subsection (1) does not affect any liability under the agreement which has accrued before the termination.
(3)A notice under subsection (1) shall not expire earlier than eighteen months after the making of the agreement, but apart from that the minimum period of notice to be given under subsection (1), unless the agreement provides for a shorter period, is as follows.
(4)If the agreement provides for the making of payments by the hirer to the owner at equal intervals, the minimum period of notice is the length of one interval or three months, whichever is less.
(5)If the agreement provides for the making of such payments at differing intervals, the minimum period of notice is the length of the shortest interval or three months, whichever is less.
(6)In any other case, the minimum period of notice is three months.
(2)A person is an associate of any person with whom he is in partnership, and of the husband or wife [F2or civil partner] or a relative of any individual with whom he is in partnership.
(b)if a group of two or more persons is a controller of each company, and the groups either consist of the same persons or could be regarded as consisting of the same persons by treating (in one or more cases) a member of either group as replaced by a person of whom he is an associate.
A detailed search on Companies House (free) will point you to the fact that Andrew Peake, Michael Prendergast and Charter Capital Ltd (registered offshore in Anguilla) are all associated and control both MR & HP .
2. Wishing to cancel the contract because the terminal you have or had replaced keeps failing and losing you money.
2(i).(a) The contract is covered by the Sale of Goods and Services Act (SGSA) 1982 s6(1) as a “contract for the hire of goods”, and CC uphold their right to rescind the contract of hire under s10A(1)(a) of the same Act for a major breach of an implied condition as to the fitness of the goods supplied.
2(i)(b) CC claim that under the SGSA 1982 S9(2)(4)(b) & (5) MR have an implied duty to ensure the bailed goods were “reasonably fit for purpose” and of “satisfactory quality”. MR are under a strict liability to supply such goods regardless of fault or not.
2(i)(c) CC refer to the SGSA 1982 s.18 (3)(a)(c)(d)(e) as to the requirements of the quality of goods. CC uphold the goods bailed did not meet the requirements as the goods were not:- (a) fit for purpose, (c)free from minor defects, (d) safe and (e) durable.
This was how I phrased the defence that won in the county court, but do look at the law. HP acts as a broker in the contract of supply of the terminal. The reference to CC is my company name abreviated.
Need any more info please email me at [email protected]. These are my comments, and not any opinion that you should rely upon. I disclaim all responsibility and I am not legally qualified.
I want to terminate my contract with Merchant Rentals, I only have one terminal and have had it for quite a few years now. But now I am worried by all the comments I read. So its not as simple as giving a months notice then?
I am sorry to say that it may not be as simple as you might like. When I went to cancel, I found that the contract had automatically extended. Your best bet is to issue a termination letter immediately.
I run a small design company and have had a recent enquiry for an e-commerce website. The proposal was accepted, however, at the point of making a deposit the client said “her broker won’t allow her to us PayPal” (!) and a bank transfer was out of the question as the client only has a credit card.
When a asked how the client intended to pay the required deposit they sent me a link to the Handepay signup and said they would stand the monthly terminal rental charges for the 1st year.
Obviously, I tactfully told them to “f**k right off”. I almost certain after reading a little about Handepay (never heard of them prior) that this is someone on commission trying to tie me into a nightmare contract. | 2019-04-21T04:44:56Z | https://www.simoncoatesphotography.co.uk/handepaymerchant-rentals-ripping-small-businesses/ |
I was approached by the webmaster of the BBC East site and asked to do an interview about 911 Truth. The results speaks for itself.
I hate to tell you this, but when I click the link I get a generic BBC Suffolk page with nothing but a full stop as actual content.
Ipswich Truth is an organisation asking questions about events such as 9/11 and they insist they're not 'conspiracy crackpots'..
But that link leads to the same blank page.
Nobbled by the PTBs. We had better luck on BBC radio merseyside. Couple of good presenters who are not in the PC brigade have given air time To William Rodriguez and a half hour slot for 9/11 truth.
Keep plugging away they are always looking for different things to fill the schedule.
The Ipswich Truth Campaign is still asking questions about the 2001 attacks on New York's World Trade Center (WTC).
The group claims elements within 'the establishment' dismiss them as crackpots to stop people taking notice.
They say the mainstream media has failed to ask the right questions about September 11.
"I would encourage people not to see us as 'conspiracy theorists' because that is merely a buzzword," said Carl Friar from Ipswich Truth.
Alternatives to the official theory that terrorists were solely responsible for the attacks have mushroomed on the internet.
The most famous example is the Loose Change film made in the US which was the subject of the BBC documentary The Conspiracy Files , which is a good portal to the official theories, alternative theories, questions and counter-claims that are out there.
Ipswich Truth is a group which meets to discuss these matters at venues including PJ McGinty's pub in the town centre.
There are various alternative theories into the 2001 events at the WTC and Pentagon and the flight which crashed in Pennsylvania.
Some theorists claim the events were allowed to happen, or even given assistance, by the US security forces who knew something was going to happen.
In this version, it gave a pretext for the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. They would claim the ultimate motive is securing oil and gas supplies.
For some (not all theorists sing from the same hymn sheet), the WTC collapses, including the third tower WTC7, were aided by demolition and the failure by the US Air Force to intercept any of the passenger planes was intentional.
"It was really off the back of so much information coming my way that suggested to me that the overall facts behind the 9/11 atrocities were not complete and that the mainstream media were not delivering all the information," said Carl Friar.
"I have no political affiliations," said his Ipswich Truth colleague Jonathan Adams. "This is a cross-spectrum dis-organisation just keen to get at the truth.
"The term 'conspiracy theorist' is put about to elicit what's called a 'slide response'.
"By heavily promoting it in a negative fashion what happens is that as soon as people hear that term they're programmed to ignore whatever is said next.
"If you want to hang a tag on what we're doing, we're part of the evolution, not the revolution. We need to think of a new way of looking at things and part of that is looking at inconvenient truths.
"You look at the companies that have done well out of the misery and slaughter in Afghanistan and Iraq - companies that have been paid well out of the spoils of war.
"The big money-making areas in the UK now are IT, security, weapons and pharmaceuticals and if you follow the money to the top it's the same corporations.
"It does sound sinister and there are people who would rather not buy into it. We don't want to think that our governments, that are supposedly there to protect and serve you, are capable of stuff like this.
"That's not to say there aren't good people in the NHS, the armed forces, the police etc. We're not suggesting that they're all part of some huge conspiracy."
Carl added: "People will often choose not to engage with the information because their world will be torn apart."
However, counter-critics would say these are all just wrong conclusions drawn from theory rather than hard evidence.
"What about these people who may call you crackpots?" asked Carl. "Well, they will say that because they haven't gone there and they're full of fear about it.
"There's nothing to fear but fear itself."
"We all have huge amounts of power - our heart, our intellect, our minds," added Jonathan.
"In my view this is one of the tricks that's played on us by 'them that are they' - the idea that we don't have any power when in actual fact the opposite is the truth."
Ipswich Truth is part of a wider East Anglia Truth network.
Have you spoken to them? I suppose the BBC being the crumbling edifice of the ministry of truth is the easiest one to control with all sorts of creeps etc. having login codes put there by spooks and 'consultants' they can use.
I remember the most blatant censorship I ever saw on the BBC site was a headline before the invasion of Iraq saying "Arab League say Iraq invasion could 'open gates of hell'" That one had its content and headline replaced not removed within a matter of minutes.
They are getting rather slipshod.
This censorship could easily be a big story so we need to know the facts, quotes from the people who did the reporting etc.
I guess putting it up on this forum may well have triggered the censorship zombies to get a jolt of electricity and kick in to pseudo-life.
Meanwhile I'll circulate the censored material far and wide on email.
The page was up long enough for me to save it in my cache so we have at least the genuine article.
I have emailed the guy who did the interview, Andrew Woodger who is also the webmaster and the person who asked us to do it. He was a real breath of fresh air and he has a particular interest in truth generally. He mentioned that he attended this years 'Secret Garden Party' festival and said that he spent most of the weekend in the 'conspiracy area'.
We filmed the interview or at least most of it. There were a couple of times when he asked us to stop filming because of things he wanted to say off the record which would indicate that he is sensitive to the bigger picture and indeed keeping his job!
I'll give Andrew a call tomorrow to find out more and keep everyone in the loop.
As to what has happened? It is possible that someone within the Beeb received an email from me today. I sent out a generic email to all contacts on the Ipswich Truth mailing list with a link to the page in question. The list includes radio, tv and newspaper media as well as supporters. So questions may have been asked. This may have been a bad move on my part. Lets see what the morning brings.
Thanks to everyone for their efforts in searching for the page.
In communist Russia everyone knew it was propaganda, today in the modern 'free' society, people actually believe todays propaganda to be the truth. Such is the power of this paradigm.
Just to cheer you up a bit (god what utter shysters) and hopefully help you see that it is possible here is the interview with the BBC in 2007 here on Radio Bristol - there is a lot of resistance to this sort of thing from the zombies though. Incidentally the stats are way out because wakey had his account knobbled and had to re-upload.
This excellent morning phone in presenter Dave Barrett has now gone - apparently voluntarily - and has been replaced by some guy that drones on like most of the rest about nothing.
I've submitted a post on 9/11 blogger.
My new website is CMS driven and when I saw the article it looked like the text and title of it had been replaced with full stops.
I don't buy the comment that blames a server side scripting error because, as I have occasionally found to my horror, the text of server side scripting errors have the habit of appearing on the page.
I don't think it was systemically censored - I think that it was sabotaged by a lone gunman.
I really like the way this forum has been used to share this article and respond to it's censorship. I hope more people get to read it as a result of them removing it than if they had just left it there.
so this post gets a few more views.
Any news from the BBC about this?
Anybody want to chip on this debate here?
The latest from the BBC is that this was removed because it did not contain a balanced point of view. Make of that what you will.
The edited page should re-appear soon.
Yes, you guessed it; its now disappeared from there too.
So as the world's thought police seem to have had a busy few days I'm sending big love to all spooks who are reading this post - Enjoy the karma that's coming your way guy's This is a natural and necessary balancing that ensures the light of truth shines into enternity. The difference is that this balancing cannot be wiped from the universal cache.
Here is an update concerning this; an email exchange with Charlotte Spakman, the Editor of BBC Suffolk following the removal of the story from thre BBC website.
Points to note are that there have been a number of similar complaints sent from different sources notably including the author Michael Moorcock! Also it is apparent that the reply from Charlotte is a somewhat hurried and limited response.
We (Ipswich Truth) are continuing with the process of knocking on the BBC's door with this in the form of another follow up email as we feel that there is still many unanswered points from the complaint and the we still have yet to see any re-written piece materialise.
ON the 12th November, an interview with Carl Friar and myself was posted to the BBC Suffolk website.
We were both heartened and surprised to find such a balanced piece where our usual experience has been that the mainstream media, BBC included, tends to treat all doubters of the official story of the events of the 11th September 2001, as something akin to the modern equivalent of ‘flat Earthers’.
But the surprises kept coming. Within hours the piece vanished altogether, to be replaced with a basic generic BBC page layout, which persists even now. Enquiries to establish an explanation ranged from false claims about downed servers, to scripting errors.
We were told eventually that there were editorial issues that pronounced that the piece had not been balanced enough, itself a fairly odd claim, given the content, but that an amended piece would replace it shortly.
I’ve waited until now before making a complaint, as I felt you should be given the opportunity to display this amended version. Its’ failure to materialise is the reason I write now.
Inasmuch as the piece has now also vanished from the google cache, in itself a very troubling development, it’s difficult to see an explanation other than simple censorship.
If this is indeed the case it is extremely worrying for a public service broadcaster, charged with impartially reporting the news and reflecting the diversity of British culture. If it is not the case, I invite you to offer an alternative explanation before I take the matter further.
“The following statement is from BBC employees, presenters, reporters and contributors. It was paid for by them personally, not the BBC itself.
Greg Dyke stood for brave, independent and rigorous BBC journalism that was fearless in its search for the truth. We are resolute that the BBC should not step back from its determination to investigate the facts in pursuit of the truth.
Unless I’m much mistaken, yours is one of the names appearing on the list.
Thank you for your emails. I apologise for any incovenience or nuisance. Andrew Woodger went out to look at a possible story about your group. He did not set out to conduct a proper investigation into global events. But without conducting that investigation he should not simply have allowed a series of claims about those events to be made without any attempt to look at them properly. There should therefore not be any mystery about why this piece was taken down it was a poor piece of journalism and has been taken down for that reason and that reason alone.
That extensive Online resource I hope shows that the BBC does report on these matters. But just as it’s important to be balanced it's also important to properly research items. That did not happen in this case.
Nothing new! Its not really a surprise coz they dont want any of this stuff getting out.
Nothing new? It's not meant to 'surprise' anyone either. What's your point apart from giving the impression we are all powerless Stephen?
Powerless we most certainly are not.
It's blatent blooming censorship and we have caught them with there trousers down. Yes, it's as you'd expect from Aunty Beeb and yes 'they' do not want this 'out' but for goodness sake, here we have a situation where a BBC journalist has put out a brilliant report to the public in a fair and honest way and his organisation have tried to remove every trace of it from existance. Should we just say, oh well never mind, maybe tomorrow?
For what it's worth we are making waves with this and locally and it is creating some good vibes within the truth community. We are not expecting the complete story of 911 truth to be exposed because of what is going on here but if you go back to the actual article (post 6) you'll see that it is well written and by a member of the BBC. This journalist may have marked his card from the perspective of his empolyer but he also represents many others within the media who are waking up. Perhaps the cracks are appearing in the MSM at last?
What are this saccarine-sweet 'editors' credentials?
Has she ever made a programme?
That extensive Online resource I hope shows that the BBC does report on these matters.
a) it's unprecedented nature - all the amazing after the unprecedneted collapses of the twin towers.
e) scientific evidence of hi-tech explosives found in the dust.
Therefore we can conclude that the BBC is censoring itself and actively concealing evidence.
Thanks for the suggestion SP2, I'm in the process of replying and will include a reference to the 5500 comments. Are those comments viewable?
What's your point apart from giving the impression we are all powerless Stephen?
I was just making the point that the main stream meadia is controled.
Shocking! As if the BBC has EVER conducted a proper investigation of the 9/11 events in the past. And as if it's even possible to make a story about a 9/11 Truth group without allowing the people in the group to make statements about what went down on 9/11.
I know you're not allowed to do much in the way of opposition in your country because of your current regime, but the BBC seems to be one of your main oppressors.
Do tell if there's anything we can do to help from 9/11 Truth Norway.
Sincere apologies for that Stephen, I think I needed a day away from the computer when I wrote that.
Thanks for your comments TV, if you feel motivated you could air your feelings to the BBC.
Simply emailing the censored text around. Wikileaks etc etc. | 2019-04-22T21:29:28Z | http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=18321 |
This gap addresses the need for sustained calibration of the FTIR remote sensing data (essentially columns with some vertical information that enables to separate partial columns) for CO2, CH4 (and CO). This can be done by comparing the FTIR data with co-located or nearby in-situ soundings of the same species that are calibrated to community standards, in this case the WMO standards. At present, however, there is not enough capacity to provide such in-situ data.
This gap also addresses the need for a European infrastructure for vertical greenhouse gas profiling in the troposphere for CO2 and CH4 There is a need for vertical profile information about these ECVs in the troposphere, among others, to verify model results, and to validate remote sensing total and partial column data. The capabilities of the ground-based remote-sensing observing systems are limited when it comes to vertical-profile information, and are not sufficiently validated. Options for filling this gap are the facilitation of access to airborne in-situ measurement systems, like aircraft or UAV, or Aircore for greenhouse gases.
For the ECVs temperature, ozone, water vapour and aerosol, vertical-profile information with relatively high vertical resolution (100m to a few km) in the troposphere is available from sonde and/or lidar measurements. For greenhouse gases (CO, CH4, CO2), the non-satellite observing system does not have sufficient capabilities. The FTIR measurements of these greenhouse gases have a low vertical resolution of the order of 5 to 8 km, if any, and this vertical information is difficult to validate. For example, measurements analysed so far within the GAIA-CLIM project have shown that the CH4 retrieval can be improved under polar vortex conditions as a result of applying new profile data. Also, the modelling component in GAIA-CLIM has highlighted the deficiencies of the FTIR vertical profile information and the resulting needs for better in-situ vertical profiles.
One option to obtain in-situ vertical profiles is the use of the Aircore technique. This technique has been under development since 2000 and has the capability to obtain vertical profiles up to the middle stratosphere. Several Aircore sites exist in Europe, but the system is not yet a fully operational system. It is necessary to make the Aircore measurements easier for the users. Moreover, the Aircore cannot be launched at all sites, due to air traffic limitations and the fact that the Aircore must be recovered upon landing. The landing site cannot be pre-determined as long as the Aircore is launched with a balloon and descends with a simple parachute, thereby drifting with the wind and landing at a location which is not always suitable for retrieving the payload for performing the post-flight analysis of the air sample.
To solve the latter issue, some projects have investigated the design of a steered system to bring the Aircore down. A second option to obtain in-situ vertical profiles of greenhouse gases is to make use of aircraft spiral flights. The aircraft capacity in Europe is too limited to perform regular aircraft campaigns. Europe has no capability similar to the HIPPO campaigns in the USA. In any case, aircraft campaigns cannot cover vertical profiles higher than 12 km (a better calibration is possible if the profiles cover an altitude range from the ground up to the middle stratosphere), are very expensive, and are also difficult to organise above remote locations that are not situated on the European continent. High-altitude UAV or Aircore are required to cover higher altitudes. At present, high-altitude UAV are still largely in proof-of-concept stage.
However, although expensive, in-situ calibration of CH4, CO2 (and CO) columns/profiles measured by FTIR remote sensing instruments can be performed by aircraft overpasses equipped with in-situ instruments that are calibrated relative to the WMO standards. Such campaigns have been undertaken in the past, for example in Europe as part of the EU project IMECC. But, as mentioned above, new flight campaigns in Europe are currently not planned, the flights cover only an altitude up to about 12 km, and calibration flights are very costly and difficult over stations that are not situated in the European continent, like islands, S. America, Africa, Asia. Hence more regular verification of the calibration of the instruments is desirable, to ensure long-term and network-wide consistency with the standards, as well as to ensure a better understanding and minimization of the biases across the networks when studying fluxes from e.g. hot spot regions.
Current and future satellite missions, which have the capability to measure greenhouse gases from space include GOSAT, IASI, OCO-2, Tansat, S5P, GOSAT-2, Merlin, MicroCarb, OCO-3, Sentinel-5.
New Aircore in-situ vertical profile data will be made available outside of GAIA-CLIM that can serve as calibration of FTIR greenhouse gas measurements and in support of modelling activities. However, they are limited to only one site (Sodankyla) and with limited temporal coverage.
Currently, there is a limited availability of Aircore in Europe: only a few institutes have the required expertise to build and operate them, and to analyse the data. Moreover, the deployment of an Aircore depends on the availability of a suitable balloon launching site.
To enable operational use of the Aircore for providing vertical profiles of greenhouse gases over Europe and elsewhere on a regular basis, we need to have an Aircore system that is available ‘off-the-shelf’ and that can be used at many sites by non-expert users. Or we need a dedicated provider of Aircore data in Europe.
Moreover, we need an Aircore system that can be launched at many more sites, without meeting too many constraints about the site’s environment. More specifically, we need an Aircore system that can descend in a steered way to a pre-determined landing site, and that complies with air traffic regulations. Currently, carrier platforms are being studied for bringing the Aircore down to a pre-defined landing spot, based on the concept of a steerable glider or Unmanned Airborne Vehicle (UAV). The development of this kind of system should be further extended and such systems should become readily available to the community.
The database of vertical profiles of greenhouse gases measured by Aircore will be used by the scientific community for verification and validation purposes, and for better calibration of the non-satellite and satellite remote sensing observing system to WMO standards (traceability). In the end, it will result in more reliable greenhouse gases products and trends, e.g., in Copernicus.
The remedy will also contribute to the network-wide, more cost-effective calibration tool.
A much larger database of vertical profiles of greenhouse gases, with a better spatiotemporal spread.
Remedy 2: Enhance the airborne infrastructure in Europe.
Currently there is a limited availability of suitable aircraft in Europe that can carry in-situ analysers of greenhouse gases to high altitude and make spiral flights to obtain vertical profiles. High-altitude UAV are still under development, but at the proof-of-concept phase and may have air traffic control restrictions that prove prohibitive.
We need an infrastructure and associated deployment programme that makes regular flights, especially over Europe but also over observation sites in other continents and the oceans, to obtain a good spatiotemporal sampling of the vertical distribution of greenhouse gases. This infrastructure can consist of aircrafts and/or UAV that can reach to high altitude. The scientific community should have easy access to this infrastructure for dedicated campaigns.
One option to realise this infrastructure is to engage more commercial airlines in the IAGOS RI such as to obtain a better spatiotemporal coverage of the profiles that are measured during take-off and landing of the aircrafts at the airports. Unfortunately, airports may not be representative for the background vertical profiles.
Such an aircraft / UAV fleet will be very useful also for other research purposes (e.g., T/ H2O observations in the UTLS).
A much larger database of vertical profiles of greenhouse gases, with a better spatiotemporal spread. It will be used by the scientific community for verification and validation purposes, and for better calibration of the non-satellite and satellite remote sensing observing system to WMO standards (traceability). In the end, it will result in more reliable greenhouse gases products and trends, e.g., in Copernicus.
Remedy 3: Create a database of in-situ vertical profiles of CO2, CH4, and CO with sufficient spatiotemporal coverage, possibly as part of the ICOS RI.
To enable a regular and network-wide calibration of remote sensing measurements (ground-based FTIR), the community needs access to a database of in-situ vertical profiles from regular airborne observations at different locations in Europe and beyond – in which the in-situ observations are calibrated against a commonly adopted standard (e.g., the WMO standard). This requires a sufficient capacity of well-calibrated airborne sensors and sufficient spiral flight opportunities close to the ground-based FTIR observatories (see remedies 1 and 2) from which to constitute such a database. In fact, this capacity should be part of the ICOS Research Infrastructure, to make it sustainable and fulfil the specific needs of the ICOS and ICOS-user communities. Hence, the proposed remedy is to create a database of in-situ vertical profiles of CO2, CH4 and CO with sufficient spatiotemporal coverage to calibrate FTIR profile information.
The remedy will contribute to the network-wide, more cost-effective calibration- making it consistent with the in-situ networks. This is very relevant for the ICOS RI and the Copernicus services (CAMS and C3S).
The availability of an increased number of calibrated, in-situ vertical profile data of greenhouse gases with good spatiotemporal coverage would contribute to the next, improved version of the FTIR retrievals and to a better assessment of the seasonal cycle. It will lower the biases between sites in the network, and improve the consistency with surface in-situ measurements of the greenhouse gases as carried out in ICOS. | 2019-04-21T20:42:55Z | http://www.gaia-clim.eu/wikipage2/g224-lack-calibrated-situ-vertical-profiles-ch4-co2-and-co-improving-accuracy-ftir-partial |
Right to the point, this thread is simply about Fabian Johnson's 2019 prospects with the USMNT (and maybe beyond). If everything is equal, Fabian Johnson is currently a top 5 USMNT player in the world right now.
Currently, he is a offensive rotational player for the 2nd best team in a rejuvenated competitive Bundesliga and in a pinch can step into a outside back role which he just did in BMG's last game (going 75 minutes at RB in a 2-0 win).
Unfortunately, Fabian Johnson's supposed "lack" of US ambitions post 2018 World Cup were greatly exaggerated on deceptive lingo by certain people to the press.
Will the national team play a role again?
"I hope so. Honestly, I do not know because after the failed World Cup qualification I hadn’t any contact with the US Association. It is also not clear who will be coach in the future. I'm just as smart as you are.
Honestly, I don’t think that far. First of all I would like to return to the national team and that's what I'm working on."
The angle of him being 31 years old now will be pushed as a narrative, but to compare- he is currently 6 months younger than Michael Bradley who continue to gets called in on "experience" , and fabian is currently playing and contributing at a level much higher than Michael Bradley. On top of this, Fabian Johnson is extremely smart, technical, and flexible as a player and can effectively play at a high-level SS,RM,AM,LM,RB, and LB. Making himself one of the most valued stocks in the US player pool.
In addition, Fabian Johnson was a true silent professional for USMNT (highly under-rated) and was one of our most important players and highest-level playing players from 2014-2017.
After putting up a career- best offensive season, Fabian Johnson was chosen to take one for Team USA and play in a secondary role as the starting LB for COPA 2016, to help solidify a strong defense on the way to a Semi-Final run.
The point is, Fabian Johnson can offer valuable champions-league, world cup, WCQ, and multiple- positional experience and mentorship to our young players and can fill-in as both a starter or sub role in a multitude of positions over the next 2 years.
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He's one of the best and most accomplished players in the pool. That he's never mentioned is a big sign of the dysfunction in the system right now as far as I see it. Not saying there may not be some old issues to deal with, but the absence of discussion around a guy with a career more successful than all but a small number of players easily counted on one hand should certainly be in the discussion.
Would he play Left Back?
Fabian goes 94 minutes (80@ RB, and 14 @ LW) vs Borussia Dortmund in the top of the table affair. Really Strong game from Fabian on both the defensive and offensive side of the ball. Smart, smooth, and continuous active forays forward.
Going into the break, Johnson is right behind Pulisic as the top American player in the world right now.
Think of the value of a player, that a coach has confidence to switch him from defense to winger 80 minutes into the game on the opposite side of the field in a close battle of #1 vs #2.
He has been playing multiple positions for the US for years. Complete team-player. No special treatment ever came his way.
A big part of this thread, is the belief that there will be one savvy veteran over 30 years old for the 2022 cycle. To me, that's Fabian Johnson. What I have seen from USSF HQ, is that they are trying really hard to force that role to be Bradley, and so far, to no avail. Now the question will be, will he be called up by Berhalter like Bradley?
I mean by that is he would be most valued to us as a LB.
No Johnson, no Bradley. Time to move on.
is this like a, "if Bradley cant be the veteran guy, then Johnson cant either"
Johnson is a high-level player right now and Bradley is not.
I wish I could agree with you. But this is US soccer. Our talent pool is not so deep that we can discard a veteran player like FB.
I've been a charter member of the Fabian Johnson fan club for several years now and I think he was brilliant for us in 2014 (and a key cog in our 2016 Copa America run as well). I'd love to see him regain form and return to the national team. But he also needs to earn it. He has struggled with injuries and form since his standout 2015/16 season. He only managed 10 appearances (5 starts) last year in the Bundesliga, and 21 appearances (with 11 starts) the year before. He didn't really contribute much in 2018 WCQ and he was a non-factor in the Hex.
It's good to see that he's starting to get minutes again for BMG - hopefully he can keep up his place in the team and ideally earn a consistent starting spot. The USMNT could desperately use the help on the wings as well as at LB.
Johnson has the quality, but he only has 541' played this season.
I don't think he's in the physical condition to juggle club and NT duty.
His flexibility, technical ability, and tactical understanding of the game is a huge plus for me. And as mentioned above, the fact that he was always the guy who played whatever position the USMNT required for that day, speaks volumes from a veteran perspective.
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Agree with the second, disagree with the first. FJ just played two matches in a row in the 1BL for the second placed team, and played very well. Put Bradley on the squad and he'd never see the pitch.
FJ right now is technically better than any player we have aside from Pulisic. He is a really intelligent player based on the runs he makes. He is still versatile judging on his recent games and plays more two footed than anyone in our pool. I would say he is a better RB or LB than any we have, including Yedlin. Yedlin has the edge in recovery speed and may have the edge in crossing, but I'd rather see FJ out there in a must win game than Yedlin at RB any day of the week, except that then we'd have "insert any name here" playing LB.
Unless Berhalter goes 3 at the back with wing backs, I'd rather see FJ in a flat back four as RB. Three at the back with wing backs makes it much easier to have both FJ and Yedlin on the pitch at once.
.... a veteran player like FB.
HA HA, J is pretty close to the B on the keyboard.
I'd bet money Fabian is going to be out injured for long, again, soon.
He has a chronic problem with his back. I don't know the specifics, but it sounds like a neuralgia, like the one that virtually ended Aron Johannsson's career (although in his case it was the hip).
You don't ever get better with those. You get temporary reprieve, at best. I think it's wise not to count on him for this cycle.
isent that what is so great about Johnson? you in general don't have to worry about him because he can play 6 positions, so hes a major additive to the team and not someone who is going to be a hinderance or a sudden risk because he is so important at just one position.
He can literally be the super-sub for 6 positions if he is not in top shape or he can start in a position if he is in top shape.
This guy can teach the younglings on teamwork and tactical understanding of several positions.
Does he feel pain in his arms or legs? Neurologically (I'm a board-certified neurologist) that is crucial to know before labeling it a "neuralgia." There is no specific neuralgia of the hip --- are we talking about "sciatica," low-back pain, or joint pain (not a neuralgia)?
Be more optimistic, Fabian's playing 90" well now. AJ on the other hand has been out of action for very long stretches.
Not a big fan of someone who asks to only be called up for important matches.
I say never call him up again.
Nonsense. If you know the backstory behind it, several Born-Abroad Americans were being blamed for everything (even when they ask to be subbed in fear of aggravating more of an injury playing wingback for 100+ minutes) for being born-abroad by the same in-crowd people who walked and or sucked down in T&T that night like Tim Howard.
Why? because they were "Klinsmann's" crew and even Michael Bradley was helping further along a coup to get Klinsmann out on belhalf of Flynn, Jay Berhalter, and Arena, because Klinsmann was gone anyway and the in-crowd already knew about it they were just waiting for on Flynn's heart problems.
"Despite recent losses, Jurgen Klinsmann remains the U.S. men’s national team coach and technical director, but multiple sources say that Klinsmann’s duties in the latter area have become more ceremonial than before.
Over the past year, U.S. Soccer’s chief commercial director Jay Berhalter—the brother of Columbus Crew SC coach Gregg Berhalter—has started taking over a lot of the day-to-day technical director duties. Berhalter even called an important meeting in Chicago in August that did not include Klinsmann".
"Still, questions about his commitment to the national team continue to linger more than five years into his U.S. career"
Fabian was always very loyal to the US, that's why he still showed up for games. I respect people like him for always being professional, never singling anyone out, even to the press with his name on it. Unlike all these phantom un-sourced articles like the major one in 2013 made up by journalists, who were having nice chats with certain people in the in-crowd.
The moment Arena resigned, everyone wants to be in this team and move forward.
Gregg berhalter is either going to prove himnself to be a puppet of Arena and Flynn like Stewart is or he is going to treat all American players equally.
Klinsmann himself publicly questioned Johnson's commitment and sent him home to make a point so Johnson's reputation (deserved or undeserved) was set in place well before Arena took over.
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The next foreign affairs Minister?
L'Affair Bernier's Briefs, as I think I will hereafter call it, has certainly proven to be a far sexier scandal than Cadscam, the In & Out scandal, or even Mulroney-Schreiber. It was front page news for the third consecutive day in Canada, and has been grabbing international headlines, including a front page story in Italy.
1. The Liberals are alleging that CSIS met with Harper about Bernier and Couillard weeks ago.
2. The NDP are alleging that Bernier carelessly left his briefing files out on an airplane.
3. Don Martin floats the bizarre theory that Bernier was "set up" (to take the blame, not with Couillard).
"Supposedly, the cabinet documents contained data about Afghanistan. Big deal," Peter Worthington scoffs in the Toronto Sun. "It's a challenge to imagine anything about our role in Afghanistan that could be damaging."
5. The Globe has the latest Cabinet Shuffle speculation, indicating it will be a "small" shuffle then talking about the need to replace Bernier, Toews, Emerson (at Trade), and Guergis, while promoting Jason Kenney, a Quebec MP or two, James Moore, and James Rajotte. Which is just cruel to the last two - why get their hopes up yet again, only to have Harper crush them?
April 18, 2008: Maxime Bernier suggests that Afghan President Hamid Karzai replace the governor of Kandahar, setting off an international uproar.
May 7, 2008: The "hey, hey, you, you, I don't like your girlfriend scandal" breaks wide open, with opposition parties pouncing on connections between Bernier's ex and biker gangs.
May 21, 2008: Bernier pledges that Canada will ship helicopters to Myanmar using an "available" CF-17. One problem - there are no available CF-17s.
May 26, 2008: Bernier resigns after it is revealed he left confidential documents at Julie Couillard's house.
In addition, foreign affairs drew fire for the handling of the Brenda Martin file, aid to China and Burma, and a gaggle of other screw-ups. Oh, and he got the name of the Haitian President wrong.
Maxime Bernier has resigned as foreign affairs minister, after he acknowledged leaving sensitive government documents out in the open -- apparently at his former girlfriend's home.
Sources told CTV News the documents included classified information for last April's NATO summit in Romania. One sensitive document contained details about NATO's military strategy in Afghanistan.
Leaving your stuff at an ex's is always awkward, so I'd image when it's confidential NATO files, "awkward" doesn't even begin to describe it.
So Bernier is out and the former Liberal David Emerson becomes Harper's third foreign affairs minister, with a shuffle expected this summer, at which point some other poor sucker will get the job. Although it's a difficult portfolio, I can't for the life of me imagine them faring any worse than Bernier, who has now given Harper one of the larger black eyes of his time as PM thus far.
I just got into Calgary - here for the next few days and likely won't have much time to blog so I'm tossing out an open thread, on the topic of the Liberals possibly promising a carbon tax during the next campaign.
Good policy? Bad policy? Good politics? Bad politics?
The Bouchard-Taylor report on reasonable accommodation in Quebec, having already drawn a backlash from separatist leaders, was officially released today.
The "abridged" report is 99 pages, making it about 96 pages more than I feel like reading, so don't expect any profound insight on this blog. Reading the media recaps (which is perhaps risky, since the report accuses the media of distorting and sensationalizing stories), it seems to dish out fairly reasonable advise, but little in the way of concrete suggestions for government action.
1. There seems to be a "don't worry, be happy" vibe in this report - things aren't as bad as in Europe and the media often overblow incidents. We can all get along if we just open our minds a bit more. Kumbaya spiritual being of my choosing, kumbaya.
2. The province should be proud of its Catholic culture but the government and courts needs to be more secular.
3. The report doesn't sound anti-French at all to me - it says immigrants need to learn French and the state should actively protect the language...I'm sure Marois and Dumont will find a way to spin this as an anglo assimilation blueprint, but it certainly doesn't read that way taken as a whole.
4. The government should use incentives to encourage immigrants to settle outside of Montreal. Makes sense.
5. There's nothing wrong with headscarves.
6. An effort should be made to help new immigrants integrate economically, in part by recognizing foreign credentials.
The Star reports that Ian Brodie will be out this summer as Harper's chief of staff, and Guy Giorno will be in. Although it's just speculation, they sure do make it sound like it's a done deal and there have been rumours about this for quite some time.
Is this related to don't-call-it-naftagate? I doubt it, but I suppose this could be a preemptive move if Kevin Lynch's investigation does point some blame Brodie's way.
"Selling their children to Belgian stock brokers in exchange for carbon credits"
Hear, hear. Someone find this man a seat to run in! Yes, yes, I know he’s dabbled with a few (dozen) other parties since leaving the Liberals, but this could be the biggest comeback since Ed Broadbent!
OK, I was with him on the US fighter planes shooting down UFOs. Believe me, I’m camping out for X-Files movie tickets. But referring to US planes as “our” planes…well, now he’s slipping into Ignatieff territory.
“It is ironic that the U.S. would begin a devastating war-allegedly in search of weapons of mass destruction- when the most worrisome developments in this field are occurring in your own back yard.
Come to think of it, using alien technology to solve the climate change crisis might be an easier sell than a carbon tax.
...and may the force be with you!
Sad news, as Ted Kennedy is revealed to have a malignant brain tumour.
Meanwhile, the neverending story visits Kentucky and Oregon tonight and (spoiler alert) Obama will clinch a pledged delegate majority, but Hillary will win Kentucky and fight on.
Cherniak makes a good case for Hillary staying in the race until the end and I do think Obama's win at a contested DNC would generate a certain amount of excitement and create some momentum. However, the logistics of running a Presidential campaign are such that the Democrats simply can't afford to wait until late August to crown a nominee.
Puerto Rico holds the final primary on June 7th. I think a fair solution would be for the super delegates to make their choices public soon thereafter, so that Obama's win can finally become "official" and he can focus on setting up a national campaign and attacking John McCain. The DNC will, I'm sure, give Hillary a prominent role at the convention and find some way to recognize the strength of her campaign, but to delay the inevitable by nearly three months for...well, I can't think of any good reason...just wouldn't be fair to Obama, to Clinton, or to the Democratic Party.
UPDATE: Clinton takes Kentucky by an impressive 65%-30% margin.
...and Obama's looking good in Oregon - 63% to 37%, with 11% of the polls reporting.
"The talk is that Maxime is going to end up at something fun and more at his level, like Revenue," one Conservative insider told The Hill Times last week.
Snap! You'll remember that Bernier was assigned to the portfolio less than a year ago, after a series of high-profile bumbles by Misters MacKay and O'Connor. I'm not sure this is neccesarily a portfolio I'd want to get if a shuffle does happen this summer.
If you were doing a report card on the performance of the Harper government in different areas, you have to think that Foreign Affairs would get their lowest mark. It's been one mistake after another in that file.
Which kind of makes you wonder why the Liberals didn't think Afghanistan would be a winning issue when they had a chance to make it the issue earlier this spring.
Like the dozen other scandlettes that hit the Harper Tories this spring, it looks like this one will quietly slink away. I do think that there are still a plethora of unanswered questions around this but Harper can just say "the RCMP has cleared us of all wrong doings" (even if that isn't completely accurate) and there's not much anyone can say to counter that.
It's a shame because, unlike many of the other areas where opposition parties have been scratching for blood, it really does seem like there was something here.
Rumours are flying that Vic Toews, Minister of Whatever-The-Hell-He-Was-Shuffled-Out-Of-Justice-To, will soon be appointed as a federal judge in Manitoba...or not.
While some will cry about patronage, anything that gets Vic Toews out of Ottawa can't be that bad, so I don't have a huge problem with this. What it does mean is that, after nine months of non-stop election speculation, the media will soon move on to their second favourite topic - cabinet shuffle speculation!
Quite a difference nine days can make, eh?
John and Elizabeth Edwards have finally made their endorsement plans -- or lack of them -- official.
On the eve of potentially decisive voting in Indiana and North Carolina, with political tensions at white-hot levels, John and Elizabeth revealed all in an interview with People magazine, of all outlets.
The news in the interview is that they confirmed they will not endorse either candidate in the presidential race, because they are "saving their political capital for their own causes -- his, fighting poverty; hers, fighting for universal health care," reports, um, People mag.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 14 (Reuters) - Former U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse fellow Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday, a campaign spokeswoman said, giving a big boost to the Illinois senator in his effort to rally the party around his bid for the White House.
Smart timing. Should make people forget West Virginia pretty quickly.
There are at least a dozen things Ed Stelmach could do to clean up politics in Alberta. So what has he chosen to change?
Fixed election dates? A citizen's assembly? More open FOIP rules? Campaign spending limits? A ban on corporate donations? A cap on individual donations? A more powerful auditor general? Independent ROs? More government resources for opposition MLAs?
Nope. Instead he's gunning for a ban on third party advertising during campaigns - the one change that will actually help him (after the Albertans for Change ads attacked him last campaign).
1) Dan Cook on the varying delegate counts floating around.
2) Marjory Lebreton on why the concept of facebook is "dangerous".
3) Paul Martin is writing his memoirs, titled "Come Hell or High Water". Feel free to post your alternative titles in the comments section!
4) With no election likely this spring, the media focus has now turned from election speculation to...election speculation! The Hill Times floats a bizarre scenario built on the premise of Liberal public support gains this summer.
5) The Edmonton Journal is running a "rename the Alberta Liberal Party" contest. I personally believe they should just borrow a page from the Sask Party and rename them the...Sask Party! Judging from the number of Riders fans at Esks and Stamps games, it'd probably be a winner.
No brussel sprouts for dessert if you don't finish your dinner!
OSLO — Canada will be probed on suspicion of violating rules for registering greenhouse gases that are the mainstay of a UN-led fight against global warming, official documents show.
Ottawa could be suspended from rights to trade carbon dioxide if found to be in breach of the rules by the enforcement branch of the UN's Kyoto Protocol. Greece was suspended last month, the first nation to face such a sanction under Kyoto.
Just so we're clear. Canada is going to be punished for not meeting targets we no longer really care about meeting. And the punishment?
Canada won't be allowed to buy credits - something we have no intention of doing - to meet a target we have no intention of meeting.
...well, not so much "fun" if you're a Clinton supporter.
In an interview published by the French newspaper Le Monde on the weekend, Michaëlle Jean said she intends to speak about the importance of Canadian francophones who live outside Quebec when she meets with President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday.
“There are a million of them out there fighting to save their language and their culture,” said Ms. Jean, who is in France to underline the significance of this year's 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City.
“And I will tell President Sarkozy, ‘Look beyond Quebec,'” she said.
“I think France should go beyond Michaëlle Jean,” Mr. Duceppe said during Question Period.
Look, I agree with Gilles the monarchy should be scrapped. And since no one in Canada knows who is actually in the "Quebecois nation", I guess Gilles' interpretation that it doesn't include francophones outside of Quebec isn't more asinine than any others out there.
But can anyone explain to me what he has his hairnet in a bunch over here? As I read the Globe article I kept expecting some offensive comment to come out but...nada.
The Canadian Head of State is promoting a big event for Quebec City? Sounds good to me. She says the million francophones living outside of Quebec shouldn't be ignored? Sounds reasonable.
I'm really at a loss to explain what set Gilles off on this one.
1) The Liberals, NDP and Greens would "divvy up" all Alberta ridings and agree not to run candidates against each other.
2) The parties would maintain their autonomy and run their own election campaigns but would agree on a list of "core priorities to act upon if they are able to form a government after the next election."
3) If they form government, the parties would look at major electoral reform, possibly adopting a system of proportional representation for future elections where political parties would receive a percentage of seats based on their percentage of votes.
While this proposal might lead to a larger opposition, it sounds like a recipe for perpetual opposition to me. I’d also suggest that “giving up” on a large chunk of ridings isn’t the best way to build up a stronger grass roots organization.
Even if you assume that 1 + 1 + 1 = 3, a “united alternative” would have won…wait for it…19 seats this March. Out of 83. Outside of Edmonton, the NDP and Greens (and in many ridings, the Liberals) just aren’t in the game and vote splitting isn’t the issue. Sure, this strategy would ensure a nice opposition caucus from Edmonton year in and year out but to actually form government there needs to be a more appealing alternative to voters. And my hunch is that a “giant left wing alliance” isn’t going to appeal to many voters in Alberta (then again, I have been away for a while - maybe things have changed).
There may be some benefit in trying this out in 4 or 5 Edmonton ridings but, even then, when (if?) voters decide to toss the Tories, Edmonton won’t elect a single PC MLA regardless of how the vote is being split.
It’s good to see people bringing forward different ideas and I’m glad to hear that “everything is on the table” from an ALP perspective. But this idea would be one step forward and three steps back in my opinion.
Since I’ve been bitching about the Liberal Party’s fundraising problems for ever and ever, it’s only fair to help them publicize this latest initiative.
Meet “The Victory Fund” – a stab at trying to get those small time donors the CPC have so effectively recruited with their “give us 20$ because the CBC is eeeevil” direct mail campaigns.
Stéphane Dion and the Liberal Party need your help and that of all our members to defeat Stephen Harper and build a strong Liberal Party.
Your contribution of as little as $10 per month – the equivalent of just $2.50 per month after your year-end tax rebate (that’s the price of a coffee and muffin!) – will make this happen.
$2.50 for a coffee and muffin? Maybe the Liberals are catering to the Tim Hortons, rather than the Starbucks, crowd!
“But what’s in it for me?” I’m sure you’re asking yourself.
Victory Fund supporters will be invited to participate in 120 hours (each year) of live online dialogues with senior members of the Liberal caucus and other key party figures. In addition, at the upcoming biennial convention, there will be a Victory Fund reception area, lounge and preferred seating.
Although the thought of someone wanting to chat on MSN with Garth Turner for 120 hours is a bit disturbing, I’m all about preferred seating so I’ll definitely be signing up, and I encourage other Liberals to as well.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Liberals are starting to view by-elections like a trip to the dentist – every six months you get a bit of discomfort…with the possibility of a lot of discomfort if they find a cavity. And there’s a toothache right now, with another quartet of by elections looming. Asuming, of course, that there’s no spring election.
The two in Quebec should go according to script. The Bloc took Saint Lambert by a 2 to 1 margin last time, and Marc Garneau should launch off in Westmount-Ville-Marie with no problems (rule of thumb: any riding with the word "westmount" in it is still safe in Quebec). With both the BQ and Liberals struggling in Quebec, it will be interesting to see how much the margins of victory shrink but I wouldn’t expect anything too earth shattering.
In Don Valley West, John Godfrey will be stepping down July 1st, which kiboshes doing all four by elections in June. Rob Oliphant won a nasty nomination for the Liberals, while John Carmichael, who lost by 20% to Godfrey last time out, will be the Tory nominee again. Again, I’d expect a drop in Liberal support due to the incumbent leaving, but it should be a hold.
The most intriguing of the four is Guelph, following Brenda Chamberlain’s official resigning on April 7th. That means Harper can call the by election anytime between now and October. If I were Steve, I’d be targeting June since the students won’t be there, and it could generate some momentum going into the summer break. Of course, doing all four at once would be neater, he’s shown a willingness to delay by elections before and, there’s the somewhat counter intuitive theory that Harper doesn’t want to win any more by elections.
Liberals: Frank Valeriote, a lawyer with lots of community involvement.
Conservatives: Gloria Kovach, a 16 year city councillor and, judging from her picture, member of Deborah Grey's motorcycle gang. Kovach's nomination generated a fair bit of controversy after the original CPC candidate was removed.
NDP: Tom King, a University Professor and creator of CBC radio show "the dead dog cafe".
Greens: Mike Nagy, who has run twice for the Greens before.
"Born on third base. Stole Home."
A few random Sunday links"
1) The "six words for Bush" blog asks readers to submit 6 word memoirs about W. My favourite is the title of this post.
3) Big City Lib with the latest twist in the In and Out scandal.
With a neck and neck race for the democratic nomination, the usually insignificant Guam primary is now...slightly less insignificant. Barack Obama has become the first Democrat to ever set up a campaign office in Guam (Republican Rudy Gulliani, of course, set one up in January as part of his "Florida and Guam" strategy), while Bill Clinton has been talking up the importance of Guam. It's nice to see that no region is too small to pander to!
It's difficult to say who has the edge in this primary, given that so little is known about Guamanian politics. Having dodged gunfire during the Battle of Guam in WW2, I'd expect Hillary to have the edge, but who knows?
UPDATE: It's Obama by 7 votes! 50.1% to 49.9%.
First Maxime Bernier takes over Peter MacKay's job in foreign affairs. Then he ends MacKay's 9 year reign as the "sexiest MP" on the Hill. Anyone know who Belinda is dating these days?
For the women, Rona Ambrose was voted sexiest MP - and here I'd thought she was invisible.
The NDP's Peter Stoffer takes this one, ahead of Monte Solberg and Merv Tweed. I don't know much about Merv Tweed, but I can't imagine someone named "Merv Tweed" not being funny.
Stoffer is the "Frasier" of the Hillies, winning a slew of awards this year - best constit MP, throws best hill parties, and most generous to staff.
The worst sense of humour list is no surprise - Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion, Ralph Goodale, and Peter Van Loan.
With Myron retiring, someone else will finally have a chance to win this one but, until then, it's no contest.
Iggy and Harper in the house. Harper and Iggy out of it. Meanwhile, Prentice and Baird tie as the best Cabmin in QP, followed by Van Loan and MacKay.
Stephen Harper, which makes sense given that he doesn't let anyone else in his caucus talk. Harper also takes hardest working - since he's basically running and entire party and country by himself, I'd say that's fair enough. And he completes the hat trick with "best fundraiser" - it's shocking that a Liberal didn't win that one, eh?
Pierre Pollievre edges out Garth Turner and Ruby Dhalla.
Hey, it's Pierre Pollievre again! Runner up to Ignatieff. Pierre is left off the "best up and comer" list though (for obvious reasons some might say) - instead, it's Navdeep, James Moore, Mark Holland, and that young wipper snapper Bob Rae.
6 names make the list due to ties: Baird, Pollievre (again!), Turner, Iggy, Holland, and Layton.
It's Pablo Rodriguez and Helena Guergis.
Why don't we just declare Stephen Harper "supreme emperor" and get it over with already?
OTTAWA–Ottawa's financial watchdog says she won't go along with draft government rules that she says would undermine the independence of officers of Parliament like herself.
Auditor-General Sheila Fraser found allies yesterday who condemned the Conservative proposal, which could mean that Parliament's officers must vet their public statements through a wing of the Prime Minister's Office, as an unprecedented attack on the independence of the officers, who are supposed to work at arm's length.
The draft proposal would lump in Fraser, along with other officers of Parliament such as the head of Elections Canada, and the privacy, information and ethics commissioners with all other government departments and demand they get high-level approval before speaking out.
At least the Tories recognize that picking a fight with the incredible Hulk of Canadian politics (you wouldn't want to see her angry...) isn't a good move and decided to quickly backtrack/clarify their position.
The Prime Minister is often compared to George Bush. His role model (however) may be a different republican.
Te Enemies List now includes Elections Canada.
Mr. Speaker, we know the Prime Minister loves power, we want to know why he hates HIS own government. | 2019-04-23T06:29:14Z | http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/2008/05/ |
Spice of life | an attempt to make our life a little better, by reflecting and sharing "agile learnings".
Enterprises – Ignoring users is killing your software adoption!
What do you think their reaction will be? In today’s enterprises, it’s a reality. There is a lot of waste: of effort, money, and creativity.
During my first decade in IT, I was very proud of the software solutions I was responsible for: as a developer, business analyst, and project manager. Had I known only a fraction of it made any real difference, it would certainly not have helped my motivation. I have met product owners who have NOT seen, met or had any interaction with the users that they are building the solutions for.
Agile software development tries to address the gap but, in my experience, many organizations fail at it because there is no direct user involvement. Unless the delivery teams meet the real users, they simply cannot relate to what problem the users are facing. If you don’t understand a problem, how can you solve it? Direct interaction with users helps uncovers hidden assumptions, provides the overall big picture and specific context, pains, gains of how their actions impact the business.
Delivery partner(s) and their teams are often brought in as an afterthought and are handed over deliverables (requirements or user stories) to craft the state of the art software solution, with latest and greatest technologies.
Jeff and Josh mentioned about this problem in their book Lean UX.
In the recent decade, using more and more of lean software development approach, UX (User eXperience) and modern business analysis skills, in conjunction with working side by side with users, taught me a lot.
We need to empathize with the users, be in their shoes. Ask yourselves, how can a person sitting in a cubicle, who has never been a part of the domain in question, can understand the needs of a user (Example: a bio-technician, a warehouse worker, salesperson etc.) who is using the software in a particular environment?
Empathy is a life skill that everyone in software needs to acquire. Some people are naturally skilled and it, others need to work at it. Understanding users and what they want is a laborious and tough skill, but one worth acquiring. Only by empathy can we create better software that has a higher user adoption rate.
One of my projects was about providing an on the ground sales team access to their data in a convenient format which they could easily update. The customer decided to move off of a commercial off the shelf (COTS) product as it was too cumbersome to use and configure. During the initial discussions of the project, we were told by the customer leadership that they wanted to have a custom built solution to tailor to their user’s needs.
Once this detailed research was shared with the customer leadership, we saw an immediate change in their attitude and approach. A year after delivering the solution, when I checked in with the IT management we were interfacing with, they were beaming with joy and shared that the delivered solution had a very high adoption rate. The simplicity and usability of the solution had spread throughout the company and that application is one of the most successful deliveries in their company history.
I can cite more examples of success when users were involved early on and failed projects where users were an afterthought. Sometimes the user themselves don’t know what they want!
It is an iterative process, an art to research and explore what the users want. A process of skillfully drawing out assumptions and validating (or invalidating) them using multiple tools in your pocket — continuously throughout the delivery.
Does the proposed solution solve the issue?
What impact does it have on their lives (and in turn the business they represent)?
In the end, remember that business is engaging with delivery partners to solve a business problem. Business is operated by the users, involve them as early and often as possible.
So next time when you hear in your enterprise projects that “..we will have to work without involving the users directly..”, I hope you will challenge that stance and help initiate the dialogue about why user involvement and input is necessary, beneficial and economical in the long term.
Joseph Flahiff states in his book, “Being agile in a waterfall world”, Agile is about the ability to adapt (to changing circumstances), it is an adjective and not a noun.
For a person, agility could mean — physical agility (someone with a flexible body) or mental agility where they have the ability to learn and adapt to a new skill (language, subject etc.). For a business it is about their ability to respond to changing marketing needs or customer demands.
In the IT industry, this word has been lost it’s meaning. It has become a fashion tag that everyone claims to be associated with. You hear individuals, companies saying, “We are agile, because..
… the list goes on. These statements reveal a lack of understanding of the essence of agility. Such Businesses and enterprises chase the end state without changing their behavior, implement new tools or frameworks, but fail to inspect and adapt. They fail to cater to their customer’s needs — the reason for their existence.
In my nearly two decades of software career, I have experienced many businesses trying to “Go Agile” but in the last 3 years since I joined OutSystems, I have experienced what I can identify as organizational agility. During my tenure here, I have seen the core of OutSystems (the platform) evolve in a dramatic way. I started with platform version 8 and saw the product evolve in multiple increments in just few months — an already robust product, becoming the best and most extraordinary tool I have experienced in the market. It was a great feeling using the latest and greatest product and implementing enterprise grade applications for our customers. In matter of 10 to 12 weeks we completed enterprise grade projects and then tackle the next customer to solve their challenge.
OutSystems Engineering, Product and Leadership teams had a trick up their sleeve. Some of us were unaware of the change brewing. In Paulo Rosado’s words, there was an open heart surgery going on to create OutSystems 10.
It’s not just a new version of the product, but latest version that supports mobile development with offline capabilities — a redesign of a decade plus old product which has improved in increments. A reinvented product that came into being to ease enterprise customers struggling with mobile application development challenges.
Following this incredible change to the product that OutSystems developers around the globe are thrilled about the capabilities OutSystems 10 is providing them! This is a major win for the organization that has always been focused on helping customers succeed. Pivoting to put the customer right in the middle and reorganize the whole organization in the new direction. We have experienced changes and realignment in multiple departments like: Marketing, Sales, People operations, Support, Delivery-Enablement and Training.
This organizational change did not happen as a big bang. It came through a series of experiments with the product, testing those with the participating customers and by following lean-startup principles in an enterprise. The results have been outstanding with stories that make an impact.
If you have ever been through at least a departmental change, you can appreciate the impact of change at an organizational level. It is not an easy task, but at OutSystems various teams welcomed that with open and experimentation mindset, reorganized for the ultimate goal — Customer Success.
There are times when the environment can get cloudy, unstable, negative. But, even with the rapid growth the company has been experiencing, the culture at OutSystems is guided by The Small Book of the Few Big Rules and I personally really appreciate the benefits of such open, safe and supportive environments.
Agility does not come from copying some frameworks, but from people who can lead, a culture that enables to experiment, inspect and adapt.
The reason for this post is simple: I am not sure if there is a way to report discrepancies to Agile Alliance (@agilealliance) on it’s site – especially for the #Agile2017 program.
It is an attempt to collect these issues reported/observed, a running backlog and not any criticism. After all, I am a part of volunteer in #Agile2017 and want to make it the BEST conference ever.
The tracks listed on the main site (with their definitions), do not match the options available on the proposal submission page.
Track available on main page Is this track available on submissions page?
In addition to this post, I have used the contact us form on Agile Alliance site to report the issue. Hoping this gets fixed soon.
If you see any such issues, please feel free to share on twitter using #Agile2017 tag, Comment here or @ me!
LinkedIn as a product, tool has great uses. HOW one uses it, varies from person to person. That creates an interesting challenge for you if you are a subscriber. When I joined LinkedIn I just wanted it to be a place where my professional career summary is available and there are “recommendations” from people I worked with to provide credibility to my experience & expertise.
In past few years, through my consulting and volunteering activities, I met a LOT of people. Attended classes, training(s), certifications, conferences and then conducted many! Many amazing individuals: sharing and learning. People started to the send me “friend” or “networking” requests and that’s when things started to get out of control.
Ask the person requesting to be connected, what’s the benefit in connecting for BOTH the parties? I’m not on LI to get brownie points for I have 5K+ connections.
Validate if the connection is beneficial BOTH to them and you!
Thank you for your request. Could I kindly request you to help me remember where we have met or interacted? Please accept my apologies for not being able to place our meeting.
What are your expectations from this professional connection we make, that would help both of us in future?
I have seen this work pretty nicely so far as genuinely interested people DO write back and admit what they accept. I will continue this process and refine/tune as needed.
What’s your side of the story? Do you get overwhelming requests and what strategy works for you. Share with us!
I am not even going to look at how long I haven’t posted. Cause, I know it’s been a long time.
I joined an incredible company and happy with the environment, work culture and colleagues. I am valued for what I am and get to work with the brightest minds in technology, project management and business analysis. Coaching & learning at the same time!
To the wonderful clients that I have met in the last year: Every experience makes you wiser, stronger, mature.
We got our green cards in 2014. It was just 6 year journey, but thankful to all the people who were involved.
To my friends, community in Atlanta: Without them, life in the suburbs would be dull.
To agile community at large that I have been part of. It’s amazing to see volunteers you worked with, finding you online and connecting so that they can work with you again. It’s an incredible feeling.
Last but not the least, to Meghana: For being there to celebrate, for envisioning the goals and make them happen, for sticking to our personal kanban. To the planning that we did that allowed us to – enjoy time with our families, pay off flat in Pune!
To the small & big celebrations we do together by traveling internationally. It’s great to learn about other cultures, people and of course the cuisine!
A decade later, I am a better person because of you! Here’s to the next one and many more to come!
While growing up, my parents helped me guide through choices that kept me with them until I got my Bachelors in Engineering. Whenever I was sick, had accidents (fractured arm, busted forehead, a complex left arm fracture and an appendectomy..) Mom and Dad have always been by my side. Dad spent nights on uncomfortable beds, drove me around the town to make sure I was able to attend school and tuition’s when my hand was in cast and traveled from Nagpur to Pune for being with me.
Recently, he tore his shoulder muscle – pretty badly. He went through a surgery and has been recuperating fine and attending his physical therapy sessions. Doctors say his recovery is good (definitely a good news) but his shoulder hurts during the exercise sessions.
A surprise call to my Mother-in-Law (one of the most active persons I know), revealed she is down with symptoms of dehydration and sunstroke.
It’s times like these when you just want to be there. Can’t express the feelings in words. Just counting our blessings that they are feeling better than before and recovering.
While the world is trying to comprehend the activities in Newtown, CT about the inhumane incident, the first thought that crossed my mind was about the quote above. Lots of thoughts and emotions surfacing but I will refrain from expressing them.
Prayers and thoughts for everyone affected by this evil act. | 2019-04-26T05:42:46Z | https://bendre.wordpress.com/ |
<firstimage=”//static.makeuseof.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/android.png”> You don’t have a Google Android phone yet? Why not? Going by many opinions out there, Android phones are the cream-of-the-crop. Without trying to start an all out flame war with the iPhone fan boys, I think you should take a look at Google’s prize of a mobile operating system.
Truly the Android is not just any phone. Yes, you can talk and text on it, but it doesn’t stop there. Your Android phone works hard to connect your digital life to your real life.
Sold yet? If you’re like I was and are in the market to get an Android phone, you need to know some things about the cell phone services offering them with their plans.
What Android Phones Do The Cell Phone Services Offer?
These days most companies offer at least some Android phones. AT&T offers a few, so does Sprint. You can also get a Verizon android phone. Who should you go with? Do some research and see which phone you actually want. For instance, I was originally looking for the Droid 2 and only Verizon offered those at the time (screenshot from the Motorola site).
Then I was looking for the HTC Evo (which I finally decided on) and Sprint offered those at the time (screenshot taken from the HTC website).
My suggestion? Do some research and narrow down a few of the best services in the area and only look for the phone you’re looking for within their offerings. Then and only then narrow down the phone you want. What good is your favorite phone with a bad plan or coverage (we’ll get into those next).
What Kind Of Plans Does The Cell Phone Company Offer?
Price is a big deal for most people. When you begin looking, you will notice that most companies require some sort of minimum data plan to come with all smart phones. This, I believe, is because when data-centric phones began hitting the market, people were inadvertently using data without knowing it. The problem comes when a data plan is not purchased, the as-you-need-it basis is very expensive. Now, they make you get some sort of data plan to avoid much of the trouble.
Personally, I found a company that offered me the best deal on unlimited data. This gives me all kinds of room to use and test all the many Android features. One example is if you are planning on using services that stream music such as Pandora Pandora - Your Personal Online DJ (Music Player) Pandora - Your Personal Online DJ (Music Player) Read More you will be using a lot of data (the app even warned me before getting too far into using it). Also, think about how much data you’ll be using if you stream or upload a lot of video.
If you are planning on making full use of the Android Market with all of the free apps for downloading, you’re going to want a good amount of data to use. My advice, do what I did and find a good deal on unlimited data.
Then there’s the minutes and texting. I also chose unlimited texting because I use it all the time. If you don’t, don’t waste the money. You may even be able to find a plan offering free cell-to-cell and considering how many people these days have cell phones this kind of deal could be a decision-maker. As far as Android phones go, watch the data. You may talk and text very little but depend heavily on Internet-based apps and services. Watch… your… data!
You can have the best phone the market has to offer and could have even scored yourself the best cell phone plan on the planet but if you have no coverage where you are, what’s the point? Look closely at the maps all of the companies should have on hand. They ought to be able to show you where you can and can’t get service and whether or not roaming charges will apply.
If you are thinking about adding 4G on your plan, make sure it’s offered in your area. Don’t waste your precious money on something you can’t use.
Before I share my personal opinions, realize they are relative to my own needs and my area. If something is not true or available in your area, it’s not my fault.
As far as coverage and service goes, Verizon rocks the Central New York world. Everyone knows that Verizon has the largest strongest reach and the fact is never really argued. They offer a few of the cooler Android phones like the Droid 2, Droid X and Droid Incredible. I believe their data plan is one of the most expensive, however.
The other big player, in my opinion, is Sprint. They offer a good plan that includes unlimited data, talk and text. The price is very reasonable so they got my attention. They didn’t have as good coverage as Verizon but they roam off Verizon’s towers for free so all is good. Offering the HTC Evo sealed the deal.
Do you have an Android phone? What kind do you have and what kind of service are you sporting with it? Tell us what you think.
Got me an HTC Desire running on android 2.2. Happy with it. Lots of free apps on the market. And also lots of "free" apps on the torrent " market". Battery life comparable to iPhone, Wow factor is a bit less, but I can do whatever I want with "my phone".
This article should be named "Here's How I Chose the Carrier for My New Phone." It contains absolutely nothing you "need to know" before purchasing an Android phone.
I have a Sprint Samsung Moment. What strikes me as the most important phenomenon is that it runs too many background apps that chew up the battery. Even when you use Advanced Task Killer, it seems that I can't browse on it for 30 minutes without the battery dying. I always have a spare battery with me as one is simply inadequate.
Likewise, I had to replace one phone that would not completely reboot after changing out the battery. Had to have a new phone sent to me--the techs at the Sprint shop couldn't identify the problem causing this.
Moreover, this reboot problem, which is intermittent, can be a real pain when traveling, especially when one uses Sprint Navigation. Sprint Navigation is slower than pond water. Often, after turning the program on, it will take 15 minutes for it to find a proper GPS and by then, at highway speeds, you can get a long way off.
Additionally, some pockets in cities will get no coverage at all. Was traveling in downtown Houston over Labor day weekend and could not get service. Houston is not exactly the boonies.
I hope as models evolve, that they find a way to balance the power consumption of background functions so that you can use the phone for hours at a time, instead of a half a hour or less. The main G3 signal is intermittent as well and often does not work indoors in office buildings.
When I heard Google was discontinuing the Nexus One, I bought mine. I've got an old grandfathered plan on AT&T that I'm very hesitant to give up. For $52 after tax, I get my 600 daytime/5000 night and weekend minutes with rollover, 1500 sms with additional costing one cent each, and 200 mms. I'm in the DFW area where AT&T coverage is good and isn't too overloaded.
Another plus...GSM. If I'm ever going out and doing anything physical, I can put my sim in a more rigged phone and not worry about breaking it.
bb is just like every other moron on the apple bandwagon. Keep giving them money to make crappy products "kid"
you kids still making justifications to yourself for NOT jumping on the iPhone?
I almost went Android. Then i checked out their app store. What a bunch of terrible apps. The only one I would consider buying is Angry Birds.
T-Mobile & Nexus one owner here. The network I would say is pretty good where I live, but I don't have any big hopes for it if I'm on vacation or something. It's nice to research so you can get into a plan when the deals are good. Because mobile plans stick with you for a long time, it IS worth the research. I like Android and Gmail sync. I love sharing pics and using Seesmic and the Facebook app is nice too.
I was pretty nervous about traveling with Sprint but roaming on Verizon towers for free made my last trip painless. Many accommodations offer WiFi so that helps for the Internet.
I currently have a EVO with Caulkin ROM can't complain 4G Speeds around 6~8 MB and 3G speeds around 2~3 MB I like the fact that I can completly customize the phone whatever I want remove and install anything i want from the phone.
I'm very happy with my EVO.
Me too. I wasn't sure how I'd like a touch screen keyboard but I'm very happy so far.
Don't forget T-Mobile! I bought my G1 phone in 2008 and I've been very pleased with it, although it's now outdated and won't run the latest version of Android (2.2). T-Mobile is coming out with a new selection of Android phones by the end of the year that will compete with the other carriers' offerings.
Another consideration for those who travel outside the U.S. is whether the phone uses GSM networks and SIM cards, the mobile phone standard used by most of the rest of the world. T-Mobile and AT&T (formerly Cingular) are the only nationwide carriers to use GSM, which means if you go to Europe, for example, you can very cheaply purchase a SIM card from a European carrier, replace it inside the phone, and off you go with a new phone number. (You will first have to unlock your phone, but T-Mobile will do this for free after your first 90 days on the plan, or you can pay someone on the Internet to give you the unlock code.) I have used my T-Mobile G1 phone in Ireland, France, Spain and Morocco, including 3G Internet access, with no problems.
Shut up. Keep T-Mobile cheap and bandwidth available by suggesting people use Verizon.
These are some good considerations. Thanks.
not sure, you'd have to check Verizonwireless.com. For me 4G is a bit over rated bc 3G works fine while traveling and WiFi is readily available when I'm not.
When coverage on general gets better I'll probably look into a plan.
Is Sprint 4G not all that good in the NYC area? What are Verizon's plans for 4G like?
T-Mobile's 3G is better that Sprint's 4G in New York... Just saying.
Considered a droid, but I need a databasing program for business. Asked the Verizon salespeople. They told me there are 10,000 apps to choose from, and "Go fish.". . . not especially customer friendly. Searched the Droid store and found nothing. Googled, "Database apps for OiPhone". . . got 5 choices. Currently waiting for the December / January, Apple / Verizon "announcement".
Does anybody know of a database app for Droid phones?
Have you considered looking for some sort of web-based database app? That would work on any smart phone. | 2019-04-23T04:24:35Z | https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/buying-google-android-phone/ |
I like that Halloween Haunt idea, though it might be tough to compete with Knott's so near by and so successful at it. Plus, will Disney commit to being scary? Worth considering though.
i think disney can do anything they set their minds too. knott's needs somebody to compete with theirs and having it at dca will be good. it will be good for disney to do something like this. and it would be great for dca to get some more attention. they just need to do something.
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I agree Gemini, But I like the "America" Theme but what about the colonial East brought to the west?
What about the park that failed back east? Why not recreate that here?
I can go to Santa Cruz anytime for boardwalk rides.
I'm definitely in the brainstorming stages of a CA history ride. So far I've come up a title (Golden Moments), various sets, type of car, and the startings of a script. However, the way it's looking right now, it looks like we could a 2+ story building in the shape of CA! (What can I say, I think big). To give you some idea of where my insanity is taking me, think of Haunted Mansion meets Spaceship Earth (This elevator takes you UP to the cars). Give me a little more time and I can give you ALLL the details.
Thanks for the inspiration, Jspider.
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I approve of the Americaland philosophy, its a know fact across the web that CA has lost favor in many categories.
Hopefully it won't be after terrorists nuke NYC and Washington DC that somebody figures out that we need more of our heritage of our wonderful free country.
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As said by someone earlier: DCa is a work in progress. Get some new E and D-ticket attractions and it will start drawing larger crowds.
I think the ocean in front of Paradise Peir needs a large pyrotechnic/water show for the evening. Something that would continually draw crowds like Fantasmic! does but nothing very similar as Fantasmic... I like the surfer idea that someone mentioned a while back on this thread, but how safe could that be?? What if the performers got hurt? "Mommy, was that man supposed to drown after falling off his surfboard?" "Oh, Timmy, that man didn't drown! He's only.. uh... pretending.." "Then why are they rescuing him?"
I would actually be much safer than surfing in the ocean. A wave pool is a much more controlled enviroment and if you hire ACTUALLY surfers who do this everyday your accident levels would drop significantly. There are often way too many factors that can get us surfers into trouble if we are not vigilant and are often on constant alert. We have to keep in careful mind about where the rip currents are, sumurged rocks, kelp strands that we could get tangled in, rogue huge waves that sometimes roll in between sets and catch us off gaurd, and especially where your fellow surfers are so you don't get clocked upside the head with a fast moving weapon made of fiberglass and foam. That is why there is a surfer's etitique that we follow so no one gets hurt. Oh yeah, I forgot the fact that living up here in Santa Cruz, we actually become part of the food chain when we enter the water and have to keep watch on how the local wildlife are acting. If the are acting spooked and seem to hurry out of specific areas of the water...then there is a pretty good bet that there is some kind of predator in the vicinity.
If DCA turned the lake into a wave pool and got real surfers and not people just taught to surf. Accidents will be very little.
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Fix what? Why do so many of you think that California Adventure is such a failure.
The problem is you compare it to Disneyland a park that has been built out over the past 50 years. How many of you have attended a brand-new theme park and if so did the park feel finished? I hope not since that would be a bad sign of the future success.
Theme parks need to constantly reinvent themselves to keep the visitors coming back. Disney has an advantage over most parks that they don't have to reinvent as often, but they still have to go through the motions just over a longer period of time.
The only problem with DCA in the beginning has been a little over capacity on food and retail locations, but in time they'll be needed. DCA opened with more attractions than most of the recently built Orlando Disney Parks. Expections for DCA for too many of you were unrealistic and completely out of whack. The complaints about carnival rides were unjustified since Disneyland is full of just that... themed carnival rides.
Who here knows was the TOP 10 Best Attended Parks in North America was last year. Funny, how a park so often criticized is also one of the most succesful in North America. It beats out well loved parks like Busch Gardens, SeaWorld and Cedar Point.
-Please use that rediculously huge lake for something. I mean come on, it's giant and isn't doing anything. Use the water for something, whatever, just don't make me walk all the way around it when it's not serving any other purpose than reflecting at night.
Yes, I agree rip out the Rivers of America that rediculously huge lake for something. I mean come on, it's giant and it isn't doing anything. Use the water for something like a water roller coaster, pave some concrete so I don't have to walk all the way around and then ride a dumb boat to get to the island. Heck, build a couple of shops as well and maybe but in a full-scale McDonald's as well. I'm tired of having to walk to DCA to get a burger with my fries from Conestoga Wagon.
Don't forget to eat your breakfast. It throws off your blood sugar and makes you cranky!
I don't think he meant they should rip it out, Leech. Rather, they should use it for something, like the Rivers used to have a bunch of attractions and while there's not as many (RIP Keel Boats), there's still several things to do over there.
There are some great ideas all over the place in this thread! Fun stuff!
Personally, I enjoy DCA and think there is hope for it. What I've been struck by is a lack of rides that both parents and children can enjoy together. It seems like it is one extreme or the other. We've got the Jumping Jellyfish or Tower of Terror, which have some attendance problems. Meanwhile, Soaring Over California never has a line under an hour.
I think that perhaps one of the things that makes DL so successful is its emphasis on rides that appeal to everyone. Warm memories are built with older family members in the minds of little ones riding "Pirates" and "The Haunted Mansion", and as the years pass and that child begins to understand nostalgia, where does the child go? Back to Disneyland where the memories began. I mean, when you break it down, The Tiki Room is a bunch of plastic birds moving to a record. But to sit there in the dark with the memory of sitting there twenty years before with your mom and dad, singing loudly with all of the other guests... THAT is what makes people come back.
Contrast it with Six Flags, I know very few people who wildly crave going back to Six Flags. I don't know a single soul who goes there as often as I am at DL. My own theory is because the memories built there tend to be built during the teen years and who wants to remember those?
Rather than going for extreme rides or baby rides, I think a few brilliantly imaginative rides would serve the park better. I would love the Imagineers to answer the question, "What is the coolest thing a person can do in California?" and then build rides based around capturing that experience or emotion. I can go anywhere and experience "fast" or "drop", but to be transported to a different place and have my mouth hang open in wonder? THAT is only at Disney.
there is NOTHING a few bulldozers, a paver and a striping rig can't fix.
bring back the Disneyland parkinglot.
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Believe it or not, an insider told me a while back that surfers were being considered for Paradise Bay, but that even though Disney liked the idea, they would NEVER take liability risk. True or not, I'm not sure, but I doubt that the liability-minded suits in TDA are ever going to go for that idea.
By the way, I was very surprised when I found out the Paradise Walk for Paradise Pier Hotel guests had been shut down for good. At first I was angry because that "private" walkway linked the hotel to the pier, keeping the theme for hotel customers in tact. But as I thought more about it, I wondered if this closure meant that Disney means to expand this area with a little more land.
So far I've heard very little about this on the web.
Well, now that we have Mickey & Friends, the parking lot idea is just tired.
This picture blows me away. I can't believe they paid the exhorborant amounts of money needed to have those electrical towers moved around and then spent so little on the park they planted there. | 2019-04-21T16:29:03Z | https://discuss.micechat.com/forum/disney-theme-park-news-and-discussion/disneyland-resort/293-can-disney-s-california-adventure-be-fixed/page5 |
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Tatiana currently teaches Stretch & Pilates on Sunday mornings at EPH&F. She is a certified and registered Yoga Teacher, integrating Hatha, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Restorative, Prenatal, and Postnatal and Yoga Rehab in her classes. She is also certified in Power Pilates Mat I and Mat II and the comprehensive Pilates certification utilizing all of the Pilates apparatus. She incorporates bits of all of her training in all of her classes, while educating and pushing her class participants to become better at their practice.
Tatiana studied Dance and has a Dance Education and Dance Therapy Masters from Columbia University NYC. She is a professional Ballerina, Capoeira, Flamenco, Ballroom and Modern Dance teacher. She is trained by David Howard, studied dance at Ballet Hispanico, STEPS, Broadway Dance Center, NYC Ballet, American Ballet Theatre Feld Ballets. She has worked as a personal trainer and fitness instructor, throughout New York, New Jersey, and California and has trained for fitness competitions in Los Angeles, California.
Tricia was born and grew up locally, settled in the Locust area with her hubby and now two grown kids. It didn’t take long before spinning became her addiction at the gym. “It has never not become a challenge. My rides take you on the road as we pedal to the beat of the music. Your goal is to finish and mine is to get you there...I thrive on putting classes together, finding music that motivates, and always keeping the participants in mind.” Tricia is an interval trainer and certified thru Mad Dogg Athletics and CPR/AED certified. She has been spinning for 20+ years, and instructing for 10+. Indoor cycling is not only a great physical workout but also helps to clear your mind.
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With the Internet well into its third generation, we're beginning to see writers move from mere speculative visions to a more historical approach to the development and impact of computer networks. Michael and Ronda Hauben provide their readers with such an approach in Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Largely based on a collection of articles originally appearing in the Amateur Computerist, the authors use anecdotal evidence and their own early experiences to take a somewhat different tack from most Internet histories which tend to treat the Internet as arising in a straight line from its ARPANET roots. The book's strength comes from the fact that the Haubens have correctly recognized that the Internet has emerged from several distinct technological developments and utilization trends, including other early networking systems (such as BITNET, FIDOnet), the development of a widely available open platform (UNIX), and an initially unpredicted but highly-valued type of use (Usenet). They also tend to focus on the forces driving developments rather than the results, which provides a stronger basis for considering how the Internet will continue to develop and impact society. The book's greatest weakness is that it is more a collection of papers than a coherent whole -- some topics are duplicated, and others are clearly filler material.
The book is divided into four parts. The first provides a bit of a foundation for their approach, largely focusing on the Usenet as an exemplar for their vision of the Internet as a networked platform for interactive communication and the building of virtual communities. The second section shifts to a somewhat more traditional historical review. The third section turns to more current issues, with two chapters addressing the history of the move to commercialize and privatize the Net and a chapter reflecting on NTIA's 1994 Virtual Conference on Universal Service and Open Access. Two other chapters are tossed in, one on the Net and journalism, and a short exploration of a New York newsgroup. The final section is called "contributions towards developing a theoretical framework," and consists of three unrelated speculative pieces.
In their opening chapter, the Haubens identify their particular focus and perspective as the empowerment of the individual within the "grand intellectual and social commune in the spirit of the collective nature present at the origins of human society" (5) that is the Net, and is reflected in the concept of "netizen." They trace this conceptualization to J. C. R. Licklider who, while not the originator of such concepts, was in a position to implement them from his leadership position at ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (the original funder of ARPANET). They support their emphasis on empowerment and community-building by quoting extensively from responses to several Usenet postings asking for comments on impacts and uses of the Internet. The next two chapters look at the development of Usenet, provide a basic history, and examine the role played by the rise of ARPANET and UNIX as providing a model and a foundation for the development of Usenet. The final short chapter considers Usenet as more of a social network than a computer network, arguing for the importance of Usenet as a model for cooperative information systems and community-building.
The real strength of this book comes with the historical discussions in the second and third sections. Here the Haubens provide some fascinating insights into the evolution of thinking about computing from single devices to connected networks as a mechanism for time-sharing to an emphasis on interactive communication. Chapter 5 introduces Licklider's vision of an "'intergalactic network,' a time-sharing-utility" (72), and the importance of promoting access to the network. Chapter 6 provides a good grounding in the roots of computing and cybernetics, particularly of the contribution of Norbert Wiener, both as scholar and as convenor of regular interdisciplinary seminars on computer communications held at MIT. The Haubens suggest that the true key, though, was the development of the concept of time-sharing, with its emphasis on communication and shared resources. The next two chapters examine the role of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA) in supporting research in computer science, and through the development of ARPANET.
Chapter 9 shifts focus away from ARPA to examine the roots of UNIX, finding them again in the concept of time-sharing and the need to develop an operating system which could handle time-sharing and the wide variety of applications and collaborative research that would likely to be found on such systems. The Haubens also discuss the importance of open source code to the diffusion and impact of the UNIX system. Chapter 10 continues the UNIX story, discussing its importance in providing a shared, stable foundation for the development of online communities through the UUCP connection protocols. The flexibility of UNIX was also important for the developers of Usenet, who initial foresaw "a maximum size of 100 sites, and 1-2 articles a day, net-wide" (166). The historical overview then tracks the development of Usenet, from the cross-linking with the ARPANET through its continuing development as an international public network. These chapters abound with recollections of participants, providing insights into some of the motivations and linkages which make Netizens more than a history of technology.
The historical overview continues into the first chapters in the third section, as the Haubens examine the more recent activities of the government in shaping the development of the Net. Chapter 11 looks at the NTIA Conference on the Future of the Net, held in 1994, and Chapter 12 looks at an earlier private conference held at Harvard University. The Haubens argue that the plan to privatize the Internet was largely agreed upon at that conference, under the pretense that it was unfair for the government to offer a service that could be offered privately, even if it could do so more cheaply and universally. As the Haubens present it, the fix was in, and the NSF unilaterally undertook the privatization of the net, actively seeking to restrict dissenting opinions and violating guidelines mandating the collection of public comment and the provision of reasoned documentation supporting what was a significant policy change. The result was the NII Agenda for Action which recommended "turn(ing) the public Net over to the private sector, thereby subordinating the more advanced academic and public sectors involved with the Net to the private sector" (220).
The NTIA online conference, called in response to criticism that public and academic concerns were not being addressed, provided a unique opportunity to learn and address the concerns of those being directly affected by policy. In Chapter 11, the Haubens quote extensively from the public comments, documenting the public concerns over access and the NTIA's emphasis on high-profit broadcast uses, and how the dialogue contributed to the identification of the principles that should shape policy debates. The conference is discussed further in Chapter 14, where the Haubens use it as a foundation for discussing the impact of the Net on politics. There, more quotes from the online debates on a variety of issues are used to illustrate the positive role that the Net can have in facilitating public discourse on policies and other public issues. The NTIA conference showed clearly that the Net can contribute to the political and policy process by raising the level of public participation and discourse. Whether that discourse is heeded, or even considered, though, is another question. The Haubens state that the final result of the NTIA online conference, however, was that "although the stated goal of the conference was to broaden citizen participation in policy development, the government ignored the concerns and voices raised during the online conference and went ahead with the plans to privatize" the Net (211).
The remaining chapters add little more of substance to the book. Chapter 13 looks at journalism and the Net, focusing on the ability to use the Net to bypass traditional journalism without really addressing the underlying issues of whether that's good, bad, or a mixed bag of both. Chapter 15 is a throw-away looking anecdotally at a couple of uses of a community newsgroup. Chapter 16 attempts to link the rise of Usenet with the diffusion of the printing press in Europe, not very compellingly. Chapter 17 calls itself an economic perspective, but reads like a bad college paper that tosses quotes as a substitute for thoughtfulness without really saying anything substantive. Chapter 18 is a short call for action, using John Stuart Mill and Thomas Paine to support the ideal of universal access to the Net.
Netizens is a mixed bag. Its weakness lies the fact that it reads like a series of separate, although somewhat conceptually connected, articles. It's not a coherent whole, and there are parts which really don't contribute much to the central theme. The book's strength is in dealing with what could be called the social history of the Net; in compiling and abstracting comments and recollections, providing the background behind the technological history. Netizens is worth reading for the insights the Haubens provide into forces, motivations, and personalities driving the development of the Internet.
Benjamin J. Bates is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Broadcasting, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on the social forces shaping the evolution of communication systems, and he's published widely in the areas of new technologies and information systems, and telecommunications/information policy and economics. | 2019-04-19T19:19:34Z | http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp%3FReviewID=54&BookID=59.html |
New Year Prayer Points for a New Beginning: Every New Year, we need a new prayer point that will keep us living in the blessings of the Lord. We need to appreciate God for His love and favors in our life; He deserves our praise, He so much loves us and this is more reason why we own Him lots of praises. We should also put hope in the work of God, let us believe that no matter how long it takes Him to answer our prayers, the fact is there that He loves us passionately. He does not want anything evil to happen to us. So, let’s be grateful to the highest God, the one worthy of all honors.
1. Behold I shall do a new thing this year; I shall be celebrated all over the world because I believe in Christ.
2. I shall leave my sinful life to embrace a new beginning full of a love of God, devotion, righteousness, and salvation.
3. I will be faithful to the Lord, my heart shall not wander about sins again; my life will become a new testimony to man kinds.
4. I shall not dwell in poverty again because this year will mark the beginning of a new success in my life. I shall smile for the love of God.
5. No matter what has happened in my life; my portion shall not suicide. I will stand by the Lord and wait until His help come to me.
6. All my hand-work and job may have been shattered, but I will not lose hope in God for He is my Lord and shall not forsake me.
7. Remember the story of Abraham; his wife could not give birth until old age. There is nothing that can stop you from achieving your dream if you have faith in God.
8. Remember that, as long as there is life; there is hope. Keep your faith in God, He will come to your rescue when you least expect Him.
9. In as much as God remain the same all the time; I will make it this year. He has always been with me since these years; He shall lift me up this time.
10. I believe that I shall not die until I achieve what the Lord has destined for me; I shall be happier this year than ever.
11. You will be stronger when you put all your hope on God. He shall bless you with what you don’t expect at all. This year will be different because your case shall differ.
12. Many predicaments might have occurred in your life making you depressed all the time; don’t give up, remember, many are out there in the worst situation. Pray to God for a new beginning.
13. I have talked to God about my life situation; He will take care of me, it is my belief because I have maximum confidence in the Lord.
14. O Lord, plant new beginning in my life this year; let me harvest lots of success that will put an endless smile on my face.
15. Lord, this year my prayer point is for you to uproot every evil thing in my life. Let me think straight to take the right decisions.
16. This year, I cancel every evil act that pushes me away from the mercy of the Lord; I praise Him for He shall do new things in my life.
17. Lord as this year begins; make me your sword to crush evil things out of my life; bless me with the shower of your mercy.
18. Lord, I call upon you to paralyze every spiritual soldier working against my life; protect me against their evil acts.
19. Every spells cast upon me to hinder my greatness in life; Lord begins to destroy them any moment from now to clear my way to success.
20. I cannot do it alone; Lord, support me with a good wife this year so that we can reach our goals together.
21. Many reading this might have gone through a lot; may your sorrow be turned into joy for you as you see the light of a new beginning.
22. The Lord shall not forsake you for any reason and this New Year will bring lots of success and prosperity in your life and that of your family.
23. Your love cycle shall move smoothly and nothing will stop you from achieving your dreams in this world. Your hopes shall be fulfilled for you.
24. Glory is to the Lord for the benefit of this world; may He bless you with whatever you want or need; may His infinite mercy work on your life.
25. Let’s give thank to God in many situations we find ourselves; many were in good condition all through while others were in pains all through; it does not mean that we are hated by God.
26. If there is life, definitely there will always be hope in this gentle world we find ourselves; Let’s put our trust in God and everything will be fine again.
27. Last year may not be our expected year because we didn’t achieve our heart desires; this year may be one of the best for us, so don’t give up hope.
28. You can’t what God’s plan for you is; always be faithful in Him; He is the God of wonders and He shall perform miracles in your life.
29. We don’t know the reason for our sufferings in life but most of the time, it used to be a blessing in disguise; we shouldn’t lose hope in God.
30. Those who were able to achieve their dreams in 2018; we are happy for you and pray that the Lord should elevate you better. Those who are still struggling; don’t give up, for the Lord is with you.
31. Truly, the Lord is with those who are patient. As you see Him, so He shall appear to you; always believe in what God can do and you will enjoy life.
32. Lord, we thank you for the year that has gone; we thank you for the freedom you gave to us to express ourselves as another human. Thank you for always being there for us.
33. It is not our portion to lose hope in the promise of the Lord; we shall not commit suicide no matter how difficult things may look.
34. God is my strength and upon Him, I rely. No evil shall reach me this year and every other year to come.
35. As we enter this New Year, Lord, make my ways easier for me to achieve the purpose I was born with. Lord, elevate me to the top by your mercy.
36. I hope for your help in my life; as I search for a life partner, let it be easy for me to achieve. Bless me with abundant love.
37. God, we thank you for this marvelous year; we appreciate your help and support all through last year; may your Name be our strength in our life.
38. Glory belongs to God the most marvelous; we worship your Holiness for there is none worthy of praises but you.
39. Great indeed shall be my achievement this year because I have given my life to the only God who can make things happen in my life.
40. Blessed is the Name of the highest God; the Lord is my happiness and the success that keeps my smile.
41. With prayer, fasting and devotion to the will of God; every soul shall rise to the top of the highest mountain.
42. I shall not give up on the favor of the Lord; for I believe that a victory is close by and salvation is awaiting me in the hereafter.
43. Lord, I bring my problem before you; I kneel down before you for your goodwill upon me; give me the soft chance to win your glory.
44. Lord, as this year begins, I come before you to declare a new season upon myself; I declare endless favor upon my family and friends.
45. I shall rise above the sky when the glory of the Lord shines upon me; I shall not fail for I have a God who is perfect.
46. Lord, I beg you to give me the ability to surrender myself to you; bless me with glorious love for you; let this year be my year of complete devotion to your service.
47. I am praying with all my heart to the Lord this morning to please bless me with the heart that accepts that the will of God is the most perfect in all matters.
48. Lord, I don’t have the power to raise my status; you are the secret behind my success; I am here this year again; bless me with more reasons to worship you forever.
49. In your service I want to die; make this life favorable for me to carry out all your will; support me with righteous men in your service.
50. Lord, I beseech you to grant my friends the wisdom to position themselves to obey your rules and regulations in the most perfect manner.
51. Lord, you have made me a navigator; make this life clear for me to sail through with my followers; let my congregations benefit from my tenor.
52. As the Lord led Moses and his people across the red sea; let Him lead me to the end of my service with my followers.
53. Praise be to the Lord for the blessing He has brought to me; my only prayer for nows for the Lord to make things easy for me as I lead my people.
54. O Savior, make this wonderful year easier than last year; show new ways to guide your servants to your path.
55. As the Lord leads us; we pray that the direction is clearer to us; we hope for His divine guidance upon us forever.
56. Lord, come and lead my financial and business prosperity for me; come and bless my brain to think faster for the benefit of my life and property.
57. You are the master leader; lead my way up and bless me with joy and happiness; forgive me and make my life a better one.
58. Lord, you have better plans for my life; let them manifest in a way that will be clear and lenient enough for me to bear and understand.
59. I surrender my life unto the Lord to lead and guide; I hand over my life and property for the Lord to take care of.
60. Lord, lead me to the right path and forgive me of my sins; break all obstacles in my life and admonish me followers through me.
61. Lord, I will wait patiently as you work to make my life better for me; I will not panic for your holiness is with me.
62. I understand that you are working for my favor; I will not be in haste until your favor is achieved upon me.
63. Lord, grant me the braveness to withstand those things I cannot control in my life; give me the power to benefit what is good this year.
64. I know that God will not forsake me; I know that God will not leave me uncared for; it is my belief that God is working to make my lifetime of joy and success.
65. In the end, victory will be mine; I will celebrate the entire patience I have been into and the Lord will bless me forever.
66. Lord, I am hungry. Lord, I have no reason to be ungrateful to you upon your favor in my life; I pray that your promise is fulfilled soon.
67. Make ways out of no ways for me and my friends. Let them enjoy your favor in their lives and make us be your humble servants as we await your favor.
68. Lord, I don’t know what you are planning for me; I am not sure of the next thing that will happen to me in the nearest future; Lord, protect me.
69. Lord, we ask for your incredible favor in our life; protect our secrets from our enemies; make us victorious against them.
70. Lord, only your favor we want; it is you we shall direct all our prayers. Thank you for the blessing of a new beginning.
71. O Lord of wonder, show us your mercy today; give us rest of mind and answer our prayers. Forgive our sins intentional and unintentional. Bless us with good things this year.
72. This year has come to an end O Lord, our surprise is with you; please let them descend any moment from now. Send your angels to us to bless our home with joy.
73. We have no power to do any good for ourselves but your grace; as we call upon you today, bless us with our heart desires.
74. We thank Almighty God who made us see this year; the big God whose size cannot be comprehended by human or any creature. Praise is to you. Bless us with prosperity.
75. The amazing God whose blessing pours like rain on the rock of success; bless our business this year so that we will give more testimonies.
76. Purify our heart O Lord; protect us against the will of a devil who suggests evils in our heart. Let your will be done in our life.
77. Your mercy is wide O Lord, spread it to our homes and count us among the people that will benefit from it.
78. I beseech the Lord to bless me and my entire family with great success. May His infinite mercy continue to reign in our lives forever?
79. Our Lord, our creator, has mercy upon us; forgive us your servants. Whatever our hands have done which may cause us evil in the Last Day, convert it to a good deed for us as we repent?
80. The blessing of the Lord shall remain with us as we wish; His love will penetrate our hearts and make us love Him more than ourselves.
81. I want to be a better person this year; all my prayer is to see it happening. Lord, draw me close to you and wear me your garment of light.
82. P Lord, turn me into a righteous man; put your fear in my heart so that I will be living my life according to your will.
83. Lord, every spirit of laziness, procrastination, unserious attitude and doubt that is disturbing should be banished in my life today.
84. As we are celebrating a New Year today, may the Lord achieve new success for us so that we will be celebrated too.
85. Lord, your Face we seek, your help alone we want; bless our hustles and prevent us from been robbed with shame.
86. I beseech the Lord from every angle of my life. Let your glory reach my home; protect my children and wife.
87. Great indeed is the name of the Lord; your name shall be glorified forever. My heart is seeking for your present, please come in.
88. Lord, boost my immune system; add more health to my body. Give me all the possibility to do my work as I wish.
89. May the Lord give us the chance to do works that will please Him; may He choose us among the people that will change this world into a better place to live.
90. We beseech the Lord to honor our heroes, dead or alive. Do not let their works go in vain. Protect their names and interest.
91. May the Lord give you the financial buoyancy to benefit from the contract proposal; as you push to secure a new site; may the Lord make it achievable with ease.
92. You are the best boss to work with. Your sense of maturity cannot be overemphasized. I pray that your business will begin to grow as you want.
93. Happy New Year to my able boss; your life will be bombarded with a series of success God’s willing.
94. You shall not be put to shame; your love for humanity will not go in vain. As you struggle to make us happy; so shall the Lord take care of your family too.
95. Every spirit of setback that is coming your way will not prosper. Every principality, evil and demons sent towards you to destroy you will not reach you.
96. Blessed is the Name of the Lord; may He bless you in an infinite manner that will benefit you and your entire generation.
97. Let the blessing of the Lord be your confidence and protection. You will always smile for the rest of your life. Happy New Year my boss.
98. Your skill in making us happy; your joy when we are able to execute your assignment will gather together as another step to a new beginning. Amen.
99. The most merciful will protect you. The Alpha and Omega will not leave you without being blessed. God shall protect your generations from errors.
100. Every single thing you need to make your business grow, may the Lord provide it for you. I ask the Lord to channel every good thing to your doorsteps.
101. Your wife is on labor as I send you this message; may her Lord grant her a safe delivery. Happy New Year to my able role model.
102. Your influence has really changed our lives and gives us much reason to love you more and more. We pray that your mission to take this company to the next level be achievable.
103. Blessed is the name of the Lord; your joy will never see an ending, you will always be happy with yourself and everyone around you forever. Happy New Year.
104. The angel of God shall be your companion as you travel for the benefit of our company. You will not enter a car that will lead to your death.
105. You will be protected by the will of God; you won’t have any reason to panic in anything you do. Happy New Year to the best boss ever.
106. I pray that your life is filled with all that you need to be happy. You shall benefit your children and properties.
107. The Lord will not leave you until He is pleased with you; you will not stop be blessed by the Lord even after your death.
109. The reward of your hard labor will not pass you by, your aim in this world shall be fulfilled for you now and forever.
110. God will not be tired of your matter. Every day shall bring a new thing for you. You won’t stop being happy for the rest of your life. Happy New Year Boss.
111. My prayer goes to the able colleagues in work, it is fun working with you guys; I pray that the Lord spare our life for each other.
112. As we celebrate the holiday with our family; may we resume in peace and harmony, sound health and complete love for each other. Happy New Year.
113. You are the best of colleagues ever worked with. Your skills and motivations made me who I am today. I pray that the Lord bless you with your needs.
114. May we resume meeting each other in good condition; the Lord shall take care of our needs as we wish. Happy New Year to all my goons.
115. May the will of the Lord bring favor to our life as we await the resumption of the new day in work; may we find our heart desires fulfilled.
116. We glorify the Lord for modifying our life; we appreciate His work in our life through the year; may His mercy reach us this New Year too.
117. Let show gratitude to the work of God in our life as He blessed us with all our needs all throughout the year. Happy New Year.
118. May we find all the peace we need in this world; every evil mind that chases us without our knowledge should be destroyed without our knowledge.
119. Lord, you are the most marvelous; there is no one like you the omniscience. Your blessing that runs all over the world shall rain on us.
110. May the Lord bless our lives with great joy and happiness; may He spare the life of our family; happy New Year friends.
111. May the Lord be with you in anything you are doing; may His help always reach you when you need Him most. Happy New Year.
112. Great things happen only with the leave of God; when the Lord is pleased with you, everything will be fine. I hope for such life for every one of us.
113. May the honor of the Lord uplift us to a status we never think of; may the joy of success always be found on our faces.
114. I wish you the comfort of a special day this year; the New Year fortune will not skip your home for any reason. Happy New Year.
115. May the Lord put a smile on your face, bless your wife with safe delivery; anything it is that you need, may the Lord grant us.
116. We worship the Lord for the love He shows to us; we can’t pay you back forever. Happy New Year to my wonderful colleagues.
117. Happy New Year to all the best of colleagues I have ever spent time with. You are all fantastic workers and I learned so much from all of you. May the New Year be a great favor for you.
118. The Lord shall protect you against all bad predicaments coming your way, you shall be wrapped in the favor of God.
119. Anything you all touch shall become a thing of joy and prosperity. You won’t have any problem throughout your holiday and beyond.
120. I want to wish every single soul reading this message a permanent success in his or her life. May the Lord guide them all to the best path?
121. Happy New to me, I am so happy to witness this wonderful moment in my life; may the Lord always be by my side to achieve my success.
122. Thank God for my life; this year will be my year of success, my year of breakthrough and the year of my divine uplift.
123. Lord, I extend my pains and sorrow before you; take them away from me and make me free from all distress.
124. I wish you able self long life to accomplish all my dreams. I ask the Lord to bring my happiness which I have been expecting near to me.
125. Thank God for everything that I achieved in my life; my prayer is that the Lord should accept me into His Kingdom on the Last Day.
126. Happy New Year to my beloved self, I am also plus one today; I pray that the blessing of the Lord that changes life for good descend upon you forever.
127. I wish myself a beneficial season this year; I want to be happy all my life. I pray the Lord to make it so. Happy New Year everybody.
128. Thank God for this wonderful time of the year; the Lord has been my strength all this while. I pray for more success in my life.
129. May your name be glorified forever in my life; may your light guide me to the way of my fortune in this world.
130. Every single day has its own blessing, may the Lord make this festive period mark the beginning of triumph throughout the year.
131. I am happy today because it is a day worth celebrating for the blessing it brings to the life of a human. May the Lord make this year my year of greatness.
132. May the Lord put a smile on my face, give me the ability to achieve all my vision and mission. Happy New Year to my gentle self.
133. Lord, protect all my footsteps; let them step only on righteous places, bring to my heart peace that does not end.
134. I wish for myself this year all the best that will sweeten my heart. Let my joy be multiplied without limit. Happy New Year.
135. May this year be the most interesting one in my life; may it profit me in all direction of my life. Happy New Year to my Facebook friends.
136. I give thanks and lots of adorations to the lord of the universe; may He make my life find a new turn that will bring joy into my world.
137. May the Lord give me the privilege to excel in anything I am doing in my life; Happy New Year to me.
138. I wish me a great moment today marking the first day of my year of progress. I pray that the Lord should protect me.
139. Protect me in all ramification of life; make my life be filled with your grace and bless me with all that I need.
140. You are the greatest Lord of the world. You are the most blessed one in this life and hereafter. You are the one that created; provide for me all I need to maintain this life. | 2019-04-25T10:43:06Z | http://deedeesblog.com/new-year-prayer-points-for-a-new-beginning/ |
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Ok, so I know everyone finished their teacher toolboxes like forever and a half ago–but I wasn’t really planning on decorating mine. You see, I am notoriously bad at spray painting. I really prefer to make everything on the computer…it comes out neat and clean and I can undo anything I don’t like.
But I kept seeing these beautifully decorated teacher toolboxes EVERYWHERE I went…the blogs, Pinterest, Monday Made It. I couldn’t escape the call to decorate it!
So I decided to keep it simple: black and white to go with my color scheme.
And I like seeing a bit of the content in the drawers, so I thought I would just decorate the little handles (this was the fun part!).
In the midst of all this, I vowed to actually spraypaint the box the right way. You know, a light coat first, then another one (following the directions on the can of how long to wait in between coats). And I did it! I painted three coats and it looked PERFECT! I was so, so proud of myself. I bragged to everyone within range about my painting skills.
That evening, I hauled my little white toolbox inside. It was still a bit tacky, but I really wanted to put the drawers inside. So I tried the first drawer. It wouldn’t fit in the box. I tried again and again. I thought, “maybe it’s still too tacky.” But I knew something wasn’t right.
Well, after a few more tries (please don’t laugh at me!) I figured it out. It was upside down. I had painted it the wrong way.
This wouldn’t be a problem, except the bottom (or top, so perhaps I should say “the bottom in Kristen’s world”) had adhered to the newspaper and had various bits of articles stuck all over it. This hadn’t bothered me before, but now this had to be the top!!
So, instead of waiting until the next day like a rational person, I rushed outside to finish it. But it was all too late. The sun was slipping behind the trees. The mosquitoes were converging. Various bits of plant life were blowing in the breeze and adhering instantly to the toolbox.
Suddenly, my old, familiar, impatient techniques had kicked in. Within 3 minutes, the entire thing was soaked and dripping and making those weird spider-webby things that always seem to happen to me when I spray paint (except in my perfect upside-down paint job this morning, of course).
So. It is what it is. From far away, it looks alright and matches my room. Up close is another story. Let it be known, this is the day I have sworn off spray paint for good. It’s all contact paper and hot glue from now on!
Thank you Tara, I never would have had the guts to even make this if it weren’t for your linky party!!!
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Kristen, we have the same painting affliction!!!! I hate and have little patience for it too! I love the little black labels and may actually do this now!!!
Thanks for sharing! It looks adorable!
Thanks Mandy! That's the problem for sure with me–lack of patience!!
Haha! I am the same way! I want it done then and won't be patient enough to wait for the next day. I love your labels. Thanks for sharing Kristen!
Kristen..do you use your regular printer to print out all of these black labels? I run out of black ink ALL the time and I have a hard time printing so much black! But these are so cute, and I like the simplicity of just hot gluing them on!
Just curious, where do you find the best value on ink? Do you use the Cartridge World refill service?
Love this! I have redone mine a few times because I don't like the paper I keep choosing 🙂 This is the perfect solution!
I love how your toolbox turned out! What font did you use? I have some signs I need to make for outside my classroom door, and I love the look of the one you used.
Hi Mel, thanks! It's coffeshop expresso (or coffehouse expresso, but I know it's expresso) from Sweet Shoppe Designs. It's my fave!!!
Oh this made me laugh!! This could so happen to me. I hope you laughed a bit. I tried spray painting for the first time on some white plastic drawers I had. I have NO patience either. I had dripping paint and bugs landing on it!
I LOVE the tags, I've been waiting to tackle this project due to the rumor I've heard that the pencils and pencs don't go straight in the drawer. Is this true??
Kristen – Thanks for posting this! After seeing how cute your drawers came out, I added a stop at Lowe's to my errand list for tomorrow! I have the same problem with painting though – I may just leave mine blue!
Thanks for sharing the labels!!!
Seriously! I just finish mine this week and then you post your idea and make me want to redo the whole thing for a second time! Honestly…I should just make a point of only creating what you create so I don't go through this again! Yours is lovely!
I have the same painting problem!! I spray painted some really cute tin pails and they have drips all over! 🙁 But most of them have at least one good side! Thanks for sharing the printable! I have the same organizer- no spray paint though- I put scrapbook papers in each drawer to fancy it up. 🙂 Anyway, I've been looking for some printables for it since I made it several months ago!
Kristen, I love the clean. neat simplicity of your white on black handle labels-and I have that font too-love it!
I Love this tool box!!! I just found your blog tonight and was wondering where you found the tool box!!
Thanks! It's from Lowe's, there's a green link at the end of the article to the box.
Very neat labels. I'm the world's worst spray painter. I usually have more on me than the piece I'm spraying. I just spent over $100 on spray paint and now hate the shelves that I sprayed. I'm definitely with you. I seriously need to stop trying.
My intent was to say that I also suffered from the spray painting blues but after reading all of the above comments, I'm beginning to think it's not us. It must be the paint if we all have the same problem! As always, I love what you made. It looks fantastic. Thanks for sharing again!
PS… Do you know how to leave a blog signature from an iPad? I've tried the HTML code but it never works….
I feel your angst at spray painting. I really try to stay away from a spray paint can as I tend to make a HUGE mess. That is one of the reasons I haven't done this tool box yet…at least that is what I keep telling myself!
But I really love your labels……so maybe this weekend, I will make me one, too! Surely I can get someone with more spray paint expertise to take care of that little tidbit for me!
So I just bought a box (a few weeks ago) almost identical to this, and labels were on my to do list. THANK YOU for sharing…. this just saved me a ton of time!
Two of my best friends went together and made me one of these for my 22nd birthday. I absolutely adore it!!!
Thanks for a great idea and a whole page full of chuckles!
Believe it or not, I just came across your amazing blog! I am now your newest follower. You have some really awesome posts!
I love your blog! Thank you so much for sharing so many great resources. I have been using a lot of your printables in my own classroom. Do you happen to have any signs for a focus wall? Thank you so much for all your hard work!
I don't currently, I'm sorry Lauren. Thanks for the nice message!
Is it ok that I laughed while reading this post?! You are a good sport! And, hey, I have not attempted this project (yet). While I still have a few days free, I think I'll head to Lowe's. Thanks for the printable!
Yes, don't worry Chrissy–I am laughing at myself about it now!
I REALLY like the way you did yours with just labeled "handles". If I only had a place for one of these tool boxes.
That is TOTALLY what would happen to me! I love that you told us because without the close-up pick we would never have known.
UGh.. this is so me. I get so excited about something and this happens. 🙂 Oh well.. Love the labels, many thanks for sharing with us. BTW… what font is that? I know I have it, but can't seem to figure out which one it is.
Would someone please explain to me how to type in this document? I downloaded it but I can't click in the label area. Obviously, I don't use ppt much! Thanks for any help you can provide!
Sure, you go to Insert, then select Text Box. You can type whatever you'd like for a label, change the font color, and just drag it over the black premade labels. I hope this helps!!
Where did you get the bins/boxes??? Thanks!
LOVE.IT. I wanted to do something with mine without all of the visual distractions of the color. This is PERFECT!! Thanks so very much!!
Where did you get your box from?
From Lowe's, there's a green link at the end of the post that shows the box.
Thanks! It looks more expensive than it really is. It's great to think outside of the box instead of buying everything in teacher stores. It's too expensive.
You are too funny and I can totally relate! I bought my toolbox but it is still sitting on my kitchen table because I have a fear of spray paint mixed with impatience! Thanks for the labels! These are a great option!
Your blog looks awesome! I am currently a SAHM, but I would love to get back into teaching. My children are entering 5th grade, and I feel ready to get back into the education field. I would love to pin some of your ideas onto some of my Pinterest boards just in case I do become a teacher again. I also noticed that you actually answer questions that people ask on your blog. I think that's so sweet of you to do! I do not see a "share with Pinterest" button, so I want to get the "okay" with you to copy and paste. (I, of course, would give you all the credit for your ideas.
Oh, I should probably put one of those up, huh? Thanks for the reminder Joy and for the wonderful message. I would be delighted if you pinned anything from my blog! Best of luck in the future!!
Hi again! Thanks for your prompt reply Kristen! I actually stumbled upon your site because I saw a pin that someone had on a board that came from your site. I am glad that you don't mind if I make pins from some of your ideas. Thanks again for sharing such great ideas with others!
Oh… it's me again! I'm sorry to bother you, but I just tried to pin your teacher toolbox idea and the wrong image appeared. I tried a few times, but eventually gave up on pinning it.
LOL, how funny!!!! Glad you got it figured out!! (And this is why my husband painted my toolbox, NOT me!) Love what did with the labels! The font is adorable, too.
I love your toolbox! I really like how your put the labels on the handles. It makes it easier to read them I think! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Kristen – Could you please post instructions on how to type on the file you made with the black labels. And – I went to the sweetsshop website and purchased the font you mentioned, but I am not understanding how to access it now on my computer – can you give any words of advice?
Hi Marne! If you make a text box and type the font you'd like and change the color, you can then drag it over the graphic.
I painted two of them (two different sizes) that I got yesterday with spray paint, along with two bookcases I had sitting around in our spare bedroom. I am glad I am not the only one who can't use spray paint the correct way. I was too impatient. Thanks for the free labels, I was just about to make some.
Hi! I love your toolbox and had just started to make mine yesterday. I wasn't sure how I wanted to label them so I was so excited when I found yours!!! Thanks for sharing!!! One question … Did you just tape them on?
This looks great, Kristen! I am thrilled to have found your site!!! Is there a way to change the label color? Instead of black, I would love to use a purple color to coordinate with my room. Please let me know if you have a minute. Thanks so very, very much!
So nice of you to share this, but I also can't get them to download. Sorry to ask but can you also email me the file? ( [email protected] ) Thank you so much for taking the time to do it.
Thanks for sharing all your fabulous ideas!
These are gorgeous. I just bought the font because I want to make these for my house and they need to look exactly like yours…and they will because I'm the cruddiest spray painter ever. ZERO patience for the stuff. Thanks for sharing.
It looks beautiful, but you have scared me off spray painting. I am pinning this though, in-case I get brave and or bored. I don't have the patience for things like that. I want my file cabinets to match my decor and I am just going to buy new ones! I just picture a disaster if I try to paint them black.
Very Cute! Could you tell me how (specifically) to change the font color and style. I only get "format" and that only changes the whole text box. I can't find anything else that says font style and color on PP. Thanks a million!
Where did you get you 'toolbox;?
From Lowes…the green link at the end of the post will take you to the box.
I can SO relate! I HATE spray paint, but sometimes its the only option! I painted some frames and put scrapbook paper in them (a cheaper version of those expensive square grouping of 9 pictures)and had done a good job on the first coat, but being impatient, I had to do the second coat before they were completely dry… Disaster! Drip marks, those "spiderwebs" as you called them… I was so mad at myself!! They turned out imperfect, but I still hung them up! They're like me — imperfect but still nice to have around!! 🙂 hehe!
THANK YOU so much for the labels! I love the simplicity, and the fact that you can still see what is inside!! | 2019-04-24T04:52:27Z | http://ladybugsteacherfiles.com/2012/07/teacher-toolbox-printable.html |
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Activity in the multi-unit space has been significant and growing for years now, with seemingly all industry participants eager to get deals done. Franchised concepts are a hot commodity, and there’s no shortage and buyers and sellers looking to engage. Yet despite all of this interest, we still see a number of challenges arise over the course of any deal.
While there are a variety of reasons both buyers and sellers alike will face difficulties when working to close a deal, purchase agreement negotiations typically turn out to be the most arduous part of the process. In recent years, one of the aspects that has required a lot of attention has concerned Reps & Warranties.
Reps & Warranties weren’t always such a point of contention. It wasn’t long ago that transactions had an air of “buyer beware” attached to the due diligence proceedings. True, sellers have always been legally required to disclose any and all information about their business that could have a future impact or economic effect post-close, but over the years these discussions have become increasingly more burdensome. Sellers no longer have the power to tell buyers to do their due diligence carefully and thoroughly, because after the deal closes, it’s done.
These days, Reps & Warranties have taken on a much larger and more onerous position within purchase agreement negotiations. Often, it’s no longer a straightforward discussion between the buying and selling parties, but instead a battle between the two parties’ legal teams. Having a trusted lawyer in place for purchase agreement negotiations is crucial to any transaction’s success. However, there are certain points of discussion, like those over Reps & Warranties, that can become unnecessarily long and drawn out in the process. Depending on the severity, this kind of occurrence regularly creates deal fatigue, ultimately having a negative impact on both parties and even interfering with a successful close.
Now we are seeing a trend in the industry, with one option in particular becoming more and more prevalent in today’s market: Rep & Warranty Insurance. With its ability to mitigate some of the otherwise laborious negotiations on the matter, and the inherent feeling of security that comes with being insured, Rep & Warranty Insurance is an important topic to examine.
To gain greater insight on the matter, I decided to reach out to one of the industry’s leading insurance companies providing Rep & Warranty Insurance in the M&A market today. Trisha Lee, the Senior Vice President of Lockton Companies, LLC, was gracious enough to contribute the following.
“Rep & Warranty Insurance (RWI) is at the forefront of merger and acquisition activity. RWI is a tool sellers utilize to transfer their escrow requirement to an insurance policy, thereby freeing up sale proceeds at closing. This enables a cleaner exit and locks in returns. From a buyer’s perspective, this insurance mitigates counter-party risk and strengthens the relationship with management rollovers by eliminating potential clawbacks. Claim examples could include a seller breaching the condition of assets representation; resulting in unexpected capital expense, or the financial statement representation such that the EBITDA determining the enterprise value was misrepresented. The insurance provides coverage over the general, fundamental, and tax representations with matching survival periods. Coverage can be structured for a specific representation or on a blanket basis. The process generally requires two weeks and insurers look to the quality of the buyer’s third party diligence work for their underwriting. It is most likely utilized on transaction sizes of $40 million and above.
Markets that write these policies are varied, and are written in US markets or foreign (UK/Lloyds) markets. Claims are being paid, and this policy is designed to respond for financial loss arising from a breach of a rep or warranty from an unknown pre-closing issue.
RWI is certainly an effective tool to carry in your deal closing arsenal, as well as a wise and prudent choice for prospective buyers and sellers today. It’s especially worth considering when you take into account RWI’s ability to streamline the purchase agreement negotiation process, essentially eliminate unnecessary points of contention, and keep deal momentum up. Because no deal is the same and each transaction requires its own unique strategy, I can’t say for certain that Rep & Warranty Insurance is right for everyone. What I can say is that I believe RWI is truly a beneficial mechanism, and it’s certainly worth exploring if you’re pursuing a transaction in the M&A space today.
I would like to extend my sincerest appreciation to Ms. Lee for her contribution to this article. If you have any further questions regarding Rep & Warranty Insurance, you can reach Trisha by email at [email protected].
Overcomplicating things is part of the human condition; whether it’s something basic like picking out an outfit for a job interview, or something as monumental as selling the company you poured your heart and soul into, people tend to overthink both their choices and their actions. True, it’s not hard to understand why someone might overdo it when selling their company, but the bottom line is that most transactions are complex enough already, so making the effort to curb any overthinking will deliver the best chance of reaching a successful close.
Interestingly, although perhaps not surprisingly, I have noticed a sort of “Jekyll and Hyde” dichotomy depending on the type of transaction a client is pursuing. Typically speaking, clients looking to recapitalize their business are more like Dr. Jekyll, remaining more rational and reserved during the process. On the other hand, we find our buyers and sellers presenting themselves in a Hyde-like manner. Sure, theirs are inherently more aggressive transaction circumstances, but that doesn’t account for the massive attitude shift that occurs in many people.
While there are multiple factors that induce this change in behavior, I’d argue that they all come back to one central theme: objectivity vs. subjectivity. Each deal I have worked on in my 25+ years of experience has had its own unique characteristics, but there has also been an unmistakable trend. Although not always the case, I have often found that clients seeking some form of capitalization or financing engage in the process with an objective mindset. Alternatively, those pursuing an acquisition or divestiture go about things in a more subjective manner. Think about it this way… The Jekylls operate in a straightforward fashion, where their efforts are intended to accomplish a specific purpose, based solely on the facts of the situation. On the flip side, our Hydes are more likely to emphasize their moods, attitudes, and opinions, basing their actions on their own perceptions, as opposed to evaluating a deal opportunity in an unbiased fashion and by its merits alone.
It should be no shock that dealing in a subjective manner undoubtedly makes any process more complicated than it needs to be. When people get wrapped up in their own emotional response, it becomes exceedingly difficult to understand the true motivation and reasons for your actions. Take a step back and look at the big picture. Why did you decide to pursue this course in the first place? How is it that you can best achieve this original goal? If you instead choose to focus on the granular details that hardly matter in the long run, you’re letting the deal process dictate the outcome, when it’s actually the deal opportunity that should drive your decisions.
To be a legitimate player in the industry today, you should only engage in an acquisition or divestiture once you have a clear plan of action and a specific, resolute goal in mind. Know what you want to accomplish and have the confidence to stand by your business decision. If you want to sell your business, be prepared to sell – if your intentions are wavering regarding any aspect of the deal, you are automatically hurting your chances of reaching a successful close, not to mention the significant effect this could have on your reputation. If you’re known as someone who is difficult to work with, you’re severely hindering your chances of being taken seriously in the future.
There’s a portion of the deal process that stands out as one which would arguably benefit most from taking this logic into consideration: Due Diligence. Above all else, buyers and sellers need to remember to be reasonable, on top of being objective. Sellers – don’t withhold pertinent information. Excluding excessive requests, the buyer has every right to view your updated financials and any additional metrics that are necessary in order to substantiate a valuation. Buyers – don’t submit a 30-page Due Diligence request list. Diligence is meant to assist you in understanding and subsequently confirming your bid; it’s certainly not the time to enlist an army of accountants and lawyers to take a fine-tooth comb to everything, with the hope that their reports will tell you what decision to make. Quite frankly, most of these items should have been addressed prior to this point anyway. Additionally, keep in mind that you are purchasing a business, not a guaranty – if you want a guaranty, buy an annuity.
At the end of the day, you need to be able to rely on your own business judgement, because this is what should ultimately produce your decision. Think back to your original goal: looking at this transaction objectively, does it accomplish your core purpose? Don’t let your answer get muddled by a process that was unnecessarily complicated due to an emotional and irrational human brain.
I frequently receive questions from clients and prospective buyers asking, “What’s the hottest new opportunity in the marketplace”? While it’s true that discovering the new McDonald’s or sexiest “Brand du Jour” seems most exciting, often times the greatest opportunities are far less glamorous. Do new and flashy concepts seem instinctively more appealing? Perhaps, but glamour is inherently fleeting, and as we operate in the multi-unit franchise industry and not the fashion industry, this subjective allure will forever be eclipsed by stability and the potential for operational upside.
This might come as a shock to some, but I believe that Casual Dining might just be that opportunity in 2017. So, what about the widely-publicized fact that the Casual Dining subdivision has suffered greatly over the past few years? It turns out that the explanations for this are legitimate, but also manageable, and by no means going to cause the downfall of the entire segment. For example, some of the primary reasons for Casual Dining’s downtrend include more competition, consumers’ shifting preference towards take-out and delivery, changing tastes, demand for high quality offerings, and demand for speedy service. Considering these aspects, it’s not farfetched to see Casual Dining as behind the times, but it is also important to note that all of the aforementioned elements affecting this segment are not solely problems for Casual Dining, or even restaurant concepts at large, but instead factors that affect all businesses operating in the market today.
Yet despite these issues, Casual Dining concepts will almost certainly bounce back in the future. There is one particular phenomenon I have witnessed time and again during my 35+ years working in the restaurant industry that is particularly relevant in this case: brands don’t die. Some brands will inevitably dissolve, but most find a way to survive and even thrive. Some relevant examples of this happening can be found by examining the Burger King, Arby’s, and Denny’s systems. All of these brands found a way to weather some serious hardships, and are now arguably operating better than ever before. Thus, it is reasonable to expect that Casual Dining can and will experience a similar rebound.
Furthermore, the Casual Dining segment is certainly not sitting idly by, waiting for the market to bring about this rebound; the big, savvy brands are making some crucial adjustments to address the issues they are faced with. Due to their established nature, these organizations have the ability to leverage their large-scale infrastructure to put the necessary resources behind these initiatives in order to win back their customer base. With a renewed focus on higher food quality, improving menus, and refining mobile apps and online ordering, these restaurants are ready to fight for the consumers’ attention. Casual Dining is also in a unique position, as it is perfectly situated to capitalize on the growing take-out and delivery trends that are making a huge impact on the restaurant industry today.
Interestingly enough, it is this current conflict in the Casual Dining segment that consequently presents prospective buyers with the most substantial opportunity. The underperformance of the segment as a whole has significantly brought valuations down to the lowest multiples seen in years. On the flipside, valuation multiples for the top performing QSR brands, such as Taco Bell, have reached record highs, making the Casual Dining financials look far more attractive to a prospective purchaser. We must also consider the fact that it wasn’t so long ago that the QSR segment was experiencing a nearly identical struggle, further demonstrating the ebb and flow of concept and segment success that is fundamental to the industry. Granted, Casual Dining restaurants will experience their own distinct complications – such as more limited financing options and a larger capital requirement – but nonetheless these strong, broadly recognized concepts possess the brand equity to maintain consumer interest and subsequently adapt to better address the demands of the marketplace.
Everyone who is active in the field plays with their own strategy, and there is no basis upon which any one specific approach can be touted as best, but before determining which method best suits you, ask yourself this: As a buyer, what do I find more compelling right now – a hot QSR brand at 8.0x EBITDA or a national Casual Dining brand sitting at 5.0x EBITDA? We think some buyers will make the move towards Casual Dining and ultimately be happy that they did. | 2019-04-25T10:23:35Z | http://cypressgroup.biz/latest-restaurant-financing-articles |
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Praying for some divine guidance?
I had a computer crisis in Mexico. If you’ve already read about it, you know I was rescued by two computer techs who I called Jesús and Espiritu Santo. I needed a miracle. In my mind, one computer crisis on a trip is one too many. But, I received the miracle in Spanish that I needed.
Apparently, the computer gods felt differently about the number of problems I needed in my life. I had another crisis - in the same month, for crying out loud!
In Mexico, my external hard drive failed. It was a back-up. I still had my main computer at home and a couple other back-ups. That problem was an inconvenience, a really awful inconvenience, because I use my files so often for so many different projects going on in my life. But, nothing completely irreplaceable was lost. And, as it turned out, nothing was lost at all. Thank you, Jesús!
The situation in Brasil was different. I took my memory card from my camera and placed it in my computer to get some photos for my blog. When I put the card back in my camera, I got a message saying that the card needed to be formatted. I knew that was trouble. I tried the card in my computer and my camera a few more times. I got the same message over and over. No, I didn’t format. I think I’ve done that before. This time, like most other times of technical difficulty, I decided I needed more help, hopefully divine.
My first thought was to ask Jesús about more help. That’s always a good thing to do. But I was weeks away from a return to Mexico.
person in time of technical needs.
I explained that the names Jesús and Espirtu Santo were already in use. There was only one name left in the Trinity and I needed a miracle from Deus. He didn’t bat an eye. I might have been under stress – terribly – but he knew what to do. I didn’t know how to describe my problem in English on a Google search, but Alisson knew what to look for in Portuguese.
It was not snap miracle to pull off. It was a huge amount of photos that I know I should have backed up. I’ve just been insanely busy while in Brasil and I never found the time. Lesson learned. Not only was he able to recover most of my photos (obrigado, Deus) but my friend gave me another piece of advice. Did you know that you can put a second memory card in a camera and make an automatic back-up? I had no idea that kind of technology existed. It’s another technical miracle in my mind.
And, I thank Deus for every miracle and blessing that comes my way.
If I could only use one word to describe the people I’ve met in Brazil, it would be passionate. They celebrate joy in life regardless of their circumstances. I’ve been told that I’ll never fully understand what my visit means to the people involved in the project. I’m already convinced of that truth. After the first day of painting, I addressed the group, in English which most of them did not understand, and told them how much I appreciated their work. It was such an amazing and fun day. And, it truly was one of the easiest mural days I’d ever had. I learned later that one person needed to leave the room because my words – even through a translator - brought her to tears. And, it appears, my blog entries have the same effect on the local population. Like I said, passionate.
Now, I want to tell you one thing that I really hate. I cannot understand why some people shake hands without ever really gripping the other person’s hand. I want a firm handshake. I want to know there has been contact. I want to feel like I have been welcomed. Do not give me a limp wrist without a trace of sincerity.
It’s my observation that Brazilians feel the same way about hugging.
There are no half-hearted, side shoulder to side shoulder hugs in Barbosa Ferraz. When you hug in Brazil, it is full body hugging like you mean it. And, when you are at a gathering among friends, everyone hugs everyone else at one point in time – and maybe a lot more than once. A hug in Brazil lets you know that you are appreciated, enjoyed, loved and it hurts to say goodbye. And, if you happen to get hugged by a guy the size of an NFL linebacker, expect to have the air squeezed out of your lungs. I tell you this from first-hand experience.
We all know that actions speak louder than words, but words are so very powerful as well. I’ve told you that the Brazilians have welcomed me. I’ve felt it. But, I think the best way you can experience it is through the words they have shared with me.
Ana - It's a pleasure to have you in our country. I'm sure you'll have an awesome experience with Geremias, Lillah and the whole JAA family as your hosts! (JAA is youth group like Future Farmers of America.) Enjoy your stay; we're very happy to receive you here!
Vini-Amor - Oh my God! Thank you very much for the honor ... Phillip Martin, I think I speak for everyone when I say ... Very Very Very Thank you ... You are giving us a simply inexplicable moment in our lives ... In the lives of JAA's and ex-JAA's ... I only have to Thank you so much!
Like I said ... We just thank you for providing us with this wonderful emotion ... thank you so much ... You made and it still makes a difference in our lives.
Wenderly – Welcome, Welcome, Philippe Martin! May Brazil provide you with beautiful stories and unforgettable memories.
Felipe - Welcome to Brazil Phillip Martin I guarantee you will like Brazil and will win many friends and free hugs.
Talita - Welcome to Brazil, Phillip Martin. I barely can't wait to meet you on November 26th, and I can guarantee you that will be a very emotional day, impossible to forget. It will be an honor to have you a part of something so special. I really hope you enjoy every single moment. See you at "A Gincana"!
Alessa - I loved meeting you, Phillip Martin! It was a special moment that I will keep forever in my heart! And that this is the first moment of many. Thank you.
Tatiani - Phillip, welcome. It is a privilege to have you here in Brazil. I hope this trip is unforgettable for you, just as this is your visit for us. Thank you!! See you in Barbosa Ferraz. Hugs.
Lucas - It is a great pleasure to have your presence here with us, to enjoy all our hospitality and our admiration. Be very welcome, Phillip!!! Thank you so much!
Bino - Thank you for this unique experience. You make me live a dream ... Thank you, my friend.
Jean - It was a pleasure to have met you and to have participated in your first mural in Brazil. Thank you and Geremias for the opportunity. You are an incredible person, cheerful, learned a lot with you and can be sure that you have become a very special person. For all of us, come back to Brazil, a big hug!
Saci-Pererê, or Saci, is perhaps Brazil’s best known character in folklore. His story started in the south of the country with the indigenous Guarani people. Their stories told of a little boy with brown skin and flaming red hair who pulled all kinds of pranks. As his stories continued across Brazil, they came under the influence of African slaves brought to South America. And, during that process, Saci turned into a black or mulatto boy, with a red hat, who still causes all kinds of trouble.
There is a long list of pranks that this little boy is blamed for. Basically, if something goes wrong in Brazil, everyone knows who to blame. Saci will spill sugar or salt, burn the beans, stop your popcorn from popping, hide your sewing thimble, misplace toys, mess up beds, put out fires, tie knots in a horse’s tail, tease dogs, curse chickens, drop flies in your soup, scare oxen, hide your keys, terrorize travelers, sour your milk, and wreak havoc on anything and anybody inside or outside of your home. He’s one busy little pest and he does this all on one leg. Legend has it that he lost his leg in a capoeira fight. And, if you aren’t sure what that is, it’s a Brazilian martial arts form that includes amazing dance, acrobatics and music.
This little guy gets around by traveling in a dust devil. If he happens to be chasing you, you can escape by crossing a stream. Saci will not come after you because he could lose his powers. No stream around? Well, drop a string full of knots. Saci must stop and undo every knot. That’ll give you time to find water.
However, some people chase after him because they want his magical cap. Saci isn’t so easy to catch. But, you can capture him if you throw a rosary with specially blessed beads into his dust devil or you can pounce on the dust devil with a sieve. Then, and only then, you might coax Saci into a bottle. He’ll grant your wishes if that happens. But, be warned, if you ever do lay your hands on his magical cap, you’ll find out it has a terrible smell. It’s a smell so bad that it can never be washed away.
Saci also finds his way to birthday parties. And, my friend Geremias happened to celebrate his birthday while I was in Brazil. Most of the party was what you would expect anywhere. There was an abundance of sugary, sweet treats. (All delicioso!) There were balloons. In America, your fiftieth birthday might have black balloons, but these Brazilians were much kinder with a blue theme. And, friends gathered from far and near for the celebration.
The party even had a piñata, but it wasn’t the paper donkey or star that you might find in Mexico. The piñata in Brazil was a large balloon. It was still stuffed with plastic jewelry, candy bars, gum and a variety of other delicious goodies. But, sometime during the preparations, Saci must have showed up on the scene. That little balloon had something else for Geremias. And, it must be a rather common occurrence because everyone knew what to expect, even my friend.
Geremias stood underneath the balloon and took one whack with a stick. It’s much easier to pop a balloon than one of those sturdy Mexican piñatas. Pop, plop and drop! Candy flew out is all directions. However, the flour and corn meal also stuffed into that balloon fell straight down on Geremias’ head. It never fully came out of his hair for the rest of the evening.
My birthday is next month. I’m hopeful that I won’t meet up with Saci.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. And, when in South America around Brasil and Paraguay, do "terere".
When I visited Ethiopia, the favorite local drink was honey beer. I don't really like beer - at all - and I just found it impossible to do as the Romans, or Ethiopians, did. I did, however, really like the way honey beer was consumed. I found two ways. The traditional glass was sort of pear shaped with a spout on top, almost like a science beaker. It made the whole concept of drinking honey beer a lot more attractive. In fact, without ever tasting one drop of honey beer, I had to get some of those glasses. I only wanted a set of six. They sold in sets of twelve. Okay, so I have honey beer glasses to spare. And, whenever I have guests with kids, I offer them drinks from my favorite glasses from Africa. Kids are always thrilled.
The second way to drink your honey beer was equally unique. There were jugs with two handles and one spout. The idea was for friends to share a jug. Each would hold onto the jug with one hand and drink together from the spout. Okay, I'm not really sure about the mechanics of the actual guzzling. Maybe one person sipped and then the other person did the same. It sounds like it would be really messy - and wet - if you both tried to drink it at the same time. Still, I thought it was a great way to drink with a friend. If I drank honey beer out of a two-fisted jug, I would only do it with a really, truly good friend.
And, this brings me to terere. It's a very traditional drink in Paraguay, Brazil and other parts of South America. In Paraguay, it was the social drink of choice. In my observations, it was enjoyed in Brazil but not with the same devotion. So, just what is it? Well, you know that necessity is the mother of invention. And, there was a need long ago to have a refreshing drink with lukewarm water. Just saying "lukewarm water" isn't satisfying. On a hot day, and I found it frequently topped 100 degrees, I never longed for lukewarm anything. Now days, you can get ice, Fanta, colas, and chill whatever your little taste buds desire. But, back in the day when terere became the social drink in Paraguay, lukewarm water was the only liquid that most people had to deal with.
So, I repeat, what is terere? To keep it short and sweet, it is a drink made from yerba and yuyo. Short, sweet, and satisfied? If you are anything like me, there is a whole lot of vocabulary to learn to go along with terere.
As I said, terere was king in Paraguay. There were a lot of procedures and social rules to follow. In Brazil, it was a whole lot more relaxed. I’ll talk more about that later. But in Paraguay, begin by getting a "termos". Even for not so great Spanish speakers, that's fairly easy to figure out as a thermos. But, you are supposed to get a big one. And, if you get an authentic termos, it comes complete with the guampa and bombilla. I'll get to those words later.
You put your yuyo in the termos. Yuyo, in the indigenous language of the Guaraní, is an assortment of medical herbs. It can even have a mint flavor if you want. So, when you have your yuyo soaking up lukewarm water in the termos, you are nearly halfway there.
Next, you place your yerba in the guampa. Yes, I guess there is more vocabulary to learn. Yerba is in the same family as holly. You can buy it in tin cans filled with the shredded plant. It smells like freshly cut grass, which has never been on my list of things to drink. It has some caffeine in it, but I don't think enough for my morning cravings.
Anyway, you cram some of the yerba into the guampa, a special kind of cup. The traditional Guaraní cup is made from cattle horn. If you aren't into that, there are special metal cups. I thought that no self-respecting terere drinker would show their face in public with a plastic guampa. That was before I went to the central bus station. The market is packed with assorted sets of termos and guampas in matching, horrendous patterns. If you can drink your terere from a leopard spotted guampa or carry your yuyo in a termos with tacky butterfly patterns, plastic is not going to slow down your sipping at all. I was particularly horrified by all of what I saw at the bus station. Every terere item I'd seen prior to that was tasteful and beautiful. Then, it was pointed out to me that they were also expensive. Okay, no surprise after all. I always like really expensive quality items. Every time!
The trick with the guampa is to not fill it too full because the yerba will eventually expand. Like an expert filling a pipe, you have to learn just the right amount. (Or so I’m told.) You don't want to waste any yerba or look like a novice while waiting at the bus stop. A little practice makes perfect.
Okay, you have your yuyo in the termos and your yerba in the guampa. You may think you are ready for a refreshing lukewarm drink, but you aren't quite there. Now you have to pour the lukewarm, yuyo laced water into the guampa filled with yerba.
Finally, cram your bombilla to the bottom of the guampa.
The bombilla, a Spanish word, has no English equivalent because there is nothing like it where English is spoken. It is a metal straw with a spoon shaped filter at the bottom. That filter is smashed into the midst of the yerba and down to the bottom of the guampa. It will prevent any yerba from making its way into your mouth. Now, take a sip. You've earned your crack at the taste of a lukewarm, Paraguayan social drink.
As you sip your drink, I have more information to share. These exact ingredients are enjoyed in winter and summer. In the winter, you drop your yuyo into hot water. The end result is called "mate". In the summer, and I was definitely in Paraguay in the summer time, you enjoy cold water in your "terere". I'm not sure, but it sounds like lukewarm water was gleefully replaced by ice cubes with the arrival of modern technology.
If you are a hassled commuter involved in a hurried rush to get to work, local shops sell "hielo" (ice) in shapes that easily fit into your termos. That way, you and everyone else on the bus can enjoy your terere on the way to work, at every single break during the day, and back home again with your friends and family.
I told you things were a little different in Brazil. There’s a whole lot less vocabulary to worry about. You buy your mix of terere herbs and put about a third of a cup full into your drinking glass before cramming your bombilla into the bottom of the glass. Next, pour in your liquid of choice. In Brazil, ice water wasn’t used among my friends. They used ice lemonade. Suddenly, I loved this drink.
Back in Paraguay (without lemonade) and with so much tradition and history, of course, there are "do's and don'ts" about drinking terere. And, of course, in complete ignorance, I violated most of them. Fortunately, my Paraguayan friends were patient.
Rule Number One: Terere is a shared drink. Everyone drinks from the same glass, using the same bombilla. I used the word "bombilla" because it isn't nearly as shocking to germ-a-phobic Americans. But, remember, it's a straw and you share it.
Rule Number Two: After you have your drink, you always pass the guampa back to your serving host. It's the host's job to refill the glass before passing it on to another friend. You don't take one down and pass it around, like I tried. No, you return to sender, or in this case, a generous host. But, as I said, things were more relaxed in Brazil. Things were taken down and passed around.
Rule Number Three: Little children don't drink terere. But, when they become teenagers, it's all a part of growing up in the family. However, another part of terere etiquette is who serves whom. It's almost offensive for parents to serve their children. Nope, those teenagers need to learn some manners and they might as well pass their guampa with a smile.
Rule Number Four: Speaking of manners, sometimes Americans have too many of them. We always say "please" and "thank you" so much that people in other countries find it humorous. I say this because it applies to terere drinking. When you give your guampa back to the host in Paraguay, if you say "thank you", well . . . "gracias", your host will never give you any more to drink. For you see, although gracias means “thank you”, it has a totally different meaning when drinking terere. In this case, gracias means "I've had enough and I don't want any more. Thank you very much." So, mind your manners.
Rule Number Five: If asked if you want sugar in your terere, always say no. Nobody ever adds sugar to their terere! I, of course, asked why? And, the answer was very clear. If you ask for sugar in your terere, everyone will know you are a savage foreigner. Which begs the question, are people in Brazil savage foreigners? I’m going to have to say no because I really liked my lemonade mixture and it was most certainly sweetened.
Rule Number Seven: The first six rules were explained to me. I made up this last one. But, it may be the most important of them all. Enjoy Rule Number One. Forget about the germs! It's no more germs than a really good kiss! For most people, if you have someone in your life who you kiss, that's the only person you should be kissing on. But, hopefully, you also have other friends in your life who are special to you. This is a great way to let them know they are one of those special people in your life. Finally, if you don't have any yerba and yuyo or you just can't get past the germs, be sure to find a way to let the people you care about know just how you feel. With or without germs, you need to do that as often as possible. | 2019-04-20T21:16:00Z | https://www.safetolearn.com/wander-my-world-with-me-by-phillip-martin/archives/11-2016 |
Good morning; it's here - demo day. The day on which we tell the EDL in numbers, peacefully but with determination that they are not welcome in Norwich.
I spent almost a decade in the Middle East, most of it working for an Arab airline based in a Gulf country. I lived and worked and travelled with Muslims, visiting almost all of the countries of the region and beyond. It was a time full of adventure and challenge that I will never forget, with a political education thrown in for free.
Time has passed, and sixteen days ago I saw the representatives of two Jewish groups in Norwich sitting together in the same hall as the representative of a Norwich mosque and a representative of the Norwich Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
It was extraordinarily moving for me to hear a Jewish speaker alternate with a Muslim speaker at the We Are Norwich public meeting. It would be almost unthinkable in much of the Middle East to have such speakers together in the same room. How wonderful then that something has brought together this astonishing event in our small city of Norwich.
The messages from each speaker were similar - beware of those who scapegoat and blame a segment of society for all the ills of that society. Beware the bullyboys who speak and act in violent ways towards others. Remember history, and how small acts of cruelty and hatred and division can become a vicious evil. Beware the fascists.
The Jewish and the Muslim representatives were brought together by a common cause, that is, in a resolute opposition to the policies of hatred of the far right, and in response to the threats of the English Defence League (EDL) to march on Norwich 10 November - tomorrow.
Representatives of all the main Christian churches of Norwich have already registered their objections to the EDL.
Representatives from the Norfolk Humanist Group have also expressed support for We Are Norwich.
Opposition to the far right bigotry of the EDL has brought together the citizens of Norwich in all our glorious diversity. Not only the religious, but the political, with messages of support from all the major political parties. Representatives of huge political parties, and representatives from small local community groups.
We are young and not so young; gay, straight, bi, and passed bothering; athletes and disabled; religious and irreligious; political and apolitical; students, trade unionists, housewives, professionals, priests, soldiers, artists, pensioners and labourers; people of every hue united in this rainbow coalition.
Our main leaders teethed their organisational skills on the annual Norwich Pride events, and we are united in admiration for what Nick O'Brien, Julie Bremner and the Norwich LGBT group have achieved.
The EDL has held countless demonstrations across the country where they have rampaged through towns – attacking mosques, businesses and individuals. More recently it has begun to attack peaceful demonstrations, multicultural events and trade union demonstrations. Its leader Tommy Robinson, who has a string of convictions and was formerly a member of the British National Party appeared of a Channel 4 programme praising Anders Breivik, the fascist terrorist, responsible for killing 76 people in Norway.
(Tommy Robinson is now in prison awaiting trial for allegedly travelling on a false passport).
No rampaging for the EDL in Norwich tomorrow. I trust the Police, their superb planning and fencing, and I trust We Are Norwich to keep the peace.
I am proud to be a part of this coalition and look forward to the celebrations tomorrow.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at Chapelfield Gardens at 11am on Saturday morning. New groups pledging to support us every day. Disabled People against the Cuts have contacted us today and stewards will invite disabled supporters to move to the front of the march should they wish.
Weather forecast looking good – we will have some brilliant acoustic music – Red Flags, ACivilianInvention, Jonathan Williams, Dandelion and the Rockets and loads of speakers – keeping very tightly to 3 mins each to warm everyone up.
Then we will march peacefully to City Hall and drown out and demoralise the EDL with our chants, our diversity, our positivity, our unity.
When we know that they have gone we will march joyously back to Chapelfield Gardens. See you all there.
Just to head this one off at the pass: The EDL have put out a blog and a facebook post this evening saying that a group of four people giving out WAN leaflets threatened a war veteran in the city today.
I know, as secretary who has been leafleting, have spoken to them since and have EVERY confidence that this did not happen at all. Desperate last measures.
Had this happened – we can be sure there would be photos and video footage everywhere. We are not the kind of organisation that needs to tell people not to chant racist slogans or bring weapons to demos. What a desperate attempt to smear our reputation.
If the EDL can prove this happened, they need to go to the police and deal with it officially.
Stay strong, stay calm. There are many, many more of us than them.
A young artist called Lily and I have been leafleting together, and we have had absolutely no trouble at all from anyone.
I would say 99% of those we spoke to were positive and supportive, and the ones who weren't were simply busy or preoccupied.
And by the way, EDL, both of my parents and all of my uncles are/were WWII war veterans and my two grandfathers were WWI veterans. The same is true for many of the We Are Norwich group.
It is highly insulting of the EDL to assume we who oppose the EDL are not respectful of veterans. We remember those who served this country and fought against the forces of fascism in the past very well, probably much better than you do.
I loathe the way you of the far right try to exploit sentiment towards the Armed Forces and seek to give love of our country a bad name.
You started by attempting to bully three women in a fast food shop on Prince of Wales Road. You threaten and lie in the social media. You scapegoat fellow citizens and blame them for everything wrong.
How dare you pretend it is freedom of speech that brings you to Norwich to cause such trouble, nuisance, expense, and loss of business? On the day before Remembrance Sunday too.
Tomorrow we see you off. Peacefully, of course. We outnumber you, we outsing you, we outpeace you and we see you off, you miserable bunch of bullying EDL bigots.
Earlier this year the English Defence League's East Anglia division decided they wanted a demo in Norwich to protest against the City's several hundred Muslims.
After pressuring the leadership, they finally relented and an excuse to have a demo was sought. The best they could come up with was to support a reverend of a fringe church who had been banned from distributing anti Muslim hate literature in the market place.
Such was the interest by leadership, their original date was scuppered to make way for the return to Walthamstow which never happened in the end.
The reverend has been ostracised by all the other clergy in the city for his extremists views which closely reflect those of the Westboro Baptist Church in the United States, which in turn closely reflect those of Muslim extremists who they are supposed to be against. To put simply, he is a tea party type loon.
However not many EDLers know why they are going and what the demo is all about. We spoke to several and they think that are going to shout abuse at Muslims, which considering few live in the city, they are going to be sorely disappointed.
The Reverend Alan Clifford, leader of the The Norwich Reformed Church, is not just against Muslims, he also has it in for gay people as well which makes us wonder what the EDL's LGBT Division think about all of this and how many are attending. We also wonder how many of the LGBT Division who are attending, know they are going to support someone who thinks they are an abomination.
Loving sexual relationships are to be confined to heterosexual marriage. Fidelity within marriage is the ultimate antidote to AIDS and other STDs."
Like adulterers and murderers, homosexuals must repent of their particular sin if they wish to be part of Christ's Church and be saved. As there is no limit to the transforming power of God's grace and Holy Spirit, so those with homosexual tendencies may be delivered from them.
Leaders of all the main Christian denominations in Norwich have spoken out against a march by the English Defence League in Norwich. Church leaders from the Church of England, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Baptist churches, Salvation Army, United Reformed Church and the Quakers have united to issue a joint statement against the march.
We have asked demo organiser, Anthony Bamford why they are supporting a homophobic reverend but each time he has dodged our questions. Bamford has previously been outed on YouTube when him and a gang of thugs videoed themselves intimidating two young female takeaway workers because the establishment that they worked at sold halal food.
Please ignore any provocation and let’s get our message across peacefully. We need to show the city that we are not ‘racist thugs’ (or whatever else). We can go to ANY city to get our message across and leave with as little disruption as possible.
Strangely they forgot to advise that if any of their members are LGBT, they should probably not turn up for this one.
There seems to be very little interest in this demo amongst their Facebook pages, much like there was very little interest in the return to Walthamstow which saw around 80 drunks stood outside the Houses of Parliament looking cold and dejected.
With Christmas coming and the fact that the English Defence League have already fleeced all they can out of them this year, Norwich is out of the way for many of them who will simply decide that travelling that distance to support a bigoted revered who many have never heard of, is simply not worth their time.
The other reason few are likely to turn up is the fact that the next day is Remembrance Sunday and many already have plans to attend that event in London. Last year they were mass arrested as they fought each other in a pub near the cenotaph and racially abused the staff.
With demo numbers already looking bleak, things have taken a turn for the worse as it has been discovered one of Walsall Division's members has done a bunk with the £200 deposit for their coach leaving them either stranded or having to fork out £78 for a train.
If the EDL organisers really do not want racists to turn up, they have a job on their hands because neo nazi and white supremacist leader of the Millwall Divisio, Trudie Toker, has vowed to turn up. She is a violent alcoholic who turned up at a school in Croydon and threatened some black children and their teachers. (Her Facebook racist filth is too vile to be reproduced on this blog).
We have a poke around their groups and found this discussion between the organisers where they share their concerns that the EDL will be turning up and singing racist songs.
And here the EDL shamelessly exploit Remembrance sentiment for their own ends.
A Norwich MP has attacked the English Defence League as “hate-merchants”, ahead of a march tomorrow which will bring parts of the city to a standstill.
The EDL is holding the march to protest at Norwich City Council banning a preacher from a stall at Hay Hill for promoting “hate- motivated” leaflets.
But its arrival has provoked strong opposition from trade unions and politicians.
I do not want to see the EDL on parade in our city. I believe the EDL to be disreputable, divisive, harmful, and violent.
Hate-merchants like these have no place in Norwich or anywhere in Britain.
I am proud of this country’s legal freedoms and rights to take part in peaceful protest, but do not want to see them abused, and Norwich dragged down, this weekend.
So why are the EDL coming to Norwich again?
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Sapling: Antilever Press is a nonprofit organization founded in 2010 “to discover, publish, and promote excellent contemporary poetry and criticism.” As a relatively new small press on the block, what should people know about Antilever?
D.H. Tracy: That doesn’t say much that no one else says, does it? The key there, I suppose, is the “and” in “poetry and criticism.” We are especially interested in strengthening the practical relationship between the two, and I’ll say more about that in answering your third question.
But editorial vision is probably only interesting insofar as it comes out in the works a press produces. In a way, what I’d most like people to know about Antilever is the existence of our launch titles: Johnathon Williams’s The Road to Happiness, with its cumulative portraits of the poet’s wife, father, and place; Sarah C. Harwell’s Sit Down Traveler, with its witty sendup of the poet-oracle as wage slave on one end of the Psychic Hotline; George Kalogeris’s DIALOGOS, with its riverine connections between different phases and eras of the European mind, and its gentle cohabitation with other poets’ voices. The forewords for these books are available indefinitely on our site, and of course get into it more deeply.
DHT: Caitlin’s Auntie Levera bequeathed us $66 million, so we felt naming the press after her was the least we could do.
That one was the made-up story. “Antilever” emerged fully formed from Brian’s formidable Joycean forebrain (at least that’s the part of his anatomy he said he used). We like the associations, via “cantilever,” with opposition, support, vantage, advantage, extension, reach, span, balance, counterbalance, and structural soundness. And the domain name was available.
S: In addition to accepting standard submissions of poetry, criticism, essays, and translations, Antilever also invites submissions of “sponsorship proposals,” in which established authors are invited to introduce another writer’s poetry manuscript with a critical foreword. That’s a really exciting idea; can you tell us how it came about and why Antilever chose to open this route for submissions?
DHT: Indeed we have high hopes for this (and to clarify, the proposal’s author need not be at all established). The idea was born of three parents: frustration with blurbs, the “preview problem” (I’ll say more), and faith in the powers of criticism generally.
When A writes on the back of B’s book, “these radiant, lapidary poems are both luminous and radiant,” we have a statement that can’t be cashed out with anything except A’s reputation. There isn’t enough space to present evidence for claims, so the blurb tends naturally toward hyperbole and becomes a kind of argument by authority. This is a poor kind of argument, and no one would resort to it if three thousand words were available instead of thirty. Our intention, with the sponsorship proposals, is to make those three thousand words available. We see the critical foreword as the inverse of the blurb: where one presents no evidence and rests on reputation, the other rests on evidence and is indifferent to reputation. One shelters nonsense and the other can’t.
Finally, and most importantly, people have interesting things to say about poetry and ought to have the space to say them. A foreword like the one Louise Glück wrote for Spencer Reece’s The Clerk’s Tale seems to me so successful, so in and underneath its subject, as to make one wish that for every book. In the forewords to and commentary on our launch titles, we were delighted to see points appear that had not occurred to us ourselves as editors. David Ferry’s analysis of the prosody in DIALOGOS, Katrina Vandenberg’s sketch of recent Arkansas history, Christopher Kennedy on how emotions and daily life are and aren’t distanced in Sit Down Traveler—these are substantial points, which could serve any given reader as background, guide, or provocation. Nor would they necessarily come up in the denser, evaluative context of a review.
Though it adds significant complexity to production, our plan is to include a critical foreword with every book of poems. Some prize series do this, but as far as I know, no other press has made a practice of it.
S: Where do you imagine the press to be headed over the next couple years? Are there any changes you foresee taking place in the near future?
DHT: Bookish types have been in an extended tizzy over the past few years about changes in the publishing industry and, via the demise of paper books, about changes in the act of reading itself. I will state very cautiously that a little more entropy in the means of producing, obtaining, and reading books will on the whole be favorable to smaller operators. It might not matter, though. As a press specializing in poetry and criticism, we are practically immune to market considerations; or, more accurately, there are no market considerations for us to need to be immune to. We have near-complete freedom and can adjust course at whim.
I’m prepared to accept the prognostication that the definition of “book” is going to change rapidly in the next few years. For our part, very soon we will be releasing ebooks of our launch titles, and ebook co-releases will be a matter of course after that. The big surprise to me is how primitive the technology is—the tooling is rough, the devices and ecosystems are fragmented, backwards compatibility requires kludges, no one thought through poetry support, and none of the impressive digital typesetting software developed over the past thirty-plus years has been leveraged. When you are looking at an ebook, you are essentially looking at a web page from 1996. There are forums full of rants by scandalized typography geeks. From the point of view of content creators, ebooks entail more work for a less satisfactory result. This will all improve in time, I’m sure, and keeping up with developments will claim a lot of our attention in the near and medium term.
Sea changes aside, the next couple years should see us get another dozen or so titles out, and the prospect of seeing our list develop depth and personality is exciting. What are we going to find out there?
S:As a small press editor, what is the hardest part of your job? The best part?
DHT: A small press is a small business of sorts, and it has all the frustrations attendant on a small business, with the bonus feature that it will never make money.
But on a day-to-day basis I think the hardest part is also the most exhilarating. You are constantly being presented with crazily divergent tasks. Unless you are T.E. Lawrence, 90% of these will be outside your comfort zone. On Monday, you are an expert in IRS nonprofit minutiae, talking up accountants and lawyers; on Tuesday, you are up to your elbows in the nano-adjustments of layout; on Wednesday, you are Joe Photoshop, converting the color spaces in your graphic designer’s latest batch to conform to your printer’s new ink level requirements. On Thursday you are figuring out how to get hanging indents in block quotes to reflow properly on first generation Kindles. On Friday, you were planning to read some manuscripts, but instead you are back and forth with the web studio’s Beijing office trying to figure out why the fix for bug #697 works on the staging server but not on production. The work requires a kind of positive capability that perhaps doesn’t come easily to poets, and you have to resist the urge to lock yourself in a closet with your notebook and your Asperger’s.
As for the best part, I’ve had authors be moved to tears at seeing their finished books. I can’t say I’ve done anything else that has made people cry for joy. Wonderful. Just stupendous.
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DHT:When we were getting underway we solicited advice from as many people in the small press world as we could. They were uniformly positive and forthcoming, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that their optimism tipped the balance for us at an early stage—their having done it was proof it could be done. Stephanie Anderson at Projective Industries, Kathleen Rooney at Rose Metal Press, Peter Gale Nelson at Paradigm Press (presently dormant), and Monica Fambrough, formerly at Wave Books, were all especially helpful. Those presses are all worth checking out, not least for the spectrum of design they represent.
S:Just for fun (because we like fun), if Antilever had a brain, what three things would it be thinking about obsessively?
D.H. Tracy's poems, essays, reviews, and translations appear widely. He is the author of a book of poems, Janet's Cottage (St. Augustine's Press, 2012). | 2019-04-26T06:40:43Z | http://antilever.org/articles/interview-with-dh-tracy-of-antilever-press |
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"I want to pay tribute to Dmitry Shlyakhtin and the colleagues he brought with him when he was elected as RusAF President in early 2016".
Easily the biggest name of all is eleven time world champion Usain Bolt, who this year has gradually been waving goodbye to the athletics world after announcing his plans to retire at the world championships.
Others who joined Jamaica in publicly supporting Russian Federation were Bangladesh, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Jordan, Lebanon, Macau, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nauru, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Romania, North Korea, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Syria, Tajikistan, Vietnam and Yemen.
Andersen claimed being readmitted to worldwide athletics remained within their own control.
Andersen said: "Their fate is in their own hands and they can complete this without much further delay, perhaps as soon as November".
Reports started surfacing of leaking cases and subsequent blisters, burns , and swelling caused by the liquid inside. For now, though, it probably makes more sense to just get a case with a bootleg Disney character on it or something.
To recall, Sunder Pichai at the recent held Google I/O summit had said that there were 2 billion active Android users. According to Google India, majority of internet users in the country are going online primarily via smartphones.
As at the time of writing this article, the project is still without a director, distributor, and the supporting cast. James Bond will be back in action in 2019, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Eon Productions have announced.
Rhodes ranked 66 on NFL's Top 100 list, a lineup voted on exclusively by Rhodes' peers across the league. Rhodes himself indicated he is raking in the money with a Sunday afternoon tweet.
Putin said Moscow would only decide on how to retaliate once it had seen the final text of the proposed law. Russian Federation said it reserved the right to take further measures if the USA retaliates.
Bradley, whose son is US and Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley , compiled 43 wins in 80 games at the helm of the national team. The 59-year-old Bradley has no players just yet on his new team, but he has a lengthy list of coaching accomplishments.
Louisiana State Employees Retirement System has invested 0.08% in Anglo American plc (LON:AAL). (NYSE:AAP) or 1,500 shares. It also upped Enterprise Prods Partners L (NYSE:EPD) stake by 515,669 shares and now owns 836,753 shares.
The team's catchers have combined for a 43 wRC+, an advanced stat that measures offensive performance. Lucroy, a career.243 hitters at Coors Field, figures to take over as the Rockies' primary backstop.
They are an MLB-best 73-31, and extended their Major League Baseball record to 51 consecutive victories when leading at any point. The bullpen pitched the final 3 1/3 innings, Kenley Jansen working around a little trouble in the ninth for his 27th save.
The BoE today said the economy will "remain sluggish " as it cut growth forecast in the United Kingdom from 1.9% to 1.7% in 2017. The decision came just after a report on Thursday showed Britain's dominant services sector recovered slightly last month.
Announcing the Nano, Steve Jobs famously pulled one his jeans coin pocket, billing it the biggest thing since the iPod Classic . Also, both the iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle models have also been delisted from Apple's official website .
One of the most popular projects is called Eclipse MegaMovie, a partnership between Google and University of California, Berkeley. These should include an ISO 12312-2 designation and lenses that are less than three years old.
Fin formerly worked as the Miami Bureau Producer for Fox News Channel where he covered Florida Politics & Latin America. Justice, though, is said to have a friendly relationship with some members of Mr.
Analysts expect auto sales to hit a new record high of 2 million units in 2017, according to analysts at Scotia Bank. GM and other automakers are expected to report total U.S. vehicle and truck sales for July later this morning.
The number of devices under the agreement can also change during the middle of the term as well, the post said. Every 18 months, you'll have the option to trade in your Surface for the latest and greatest model.
But Pochettino said they would rather wait for the right moment in the current window. It is true when you compete you want to win.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pushed for a crackdown on MS-13, which has led to hundreds of arrests in Suffolk County. And we're sending them the hell back home where they came from.
Does Yamana Gold, Inc. (AUY)'s current closing price competes the market?
The shares price go down so far this year; showing a decline of -6.76% and added with positive flow of 4.38% during recent week. FuelCell Energy, Inc. (FCEL ) stock price escalated 7.43% to finalize at $1.59 throughout previous buying and selling session.
Kushner spoke with the Jordanian monarch after the administration was approached by Israel for assistance resolving the situation. Two Palestinians died, including one when a petrol bomb exploded prematurely. "I'm not aware", Nauert told reporters on Tuesday.
Indian armed forces officers salute in front of the Kargil War Memorial in honour of the Kargil war in the Drass sector of Ladakh. President Ram Nath Kovind today expressed "gratitude" to the armed forces personnel on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas .
The President's speech was watched by a crowd of 40,000 people including tens of thousands of boys aged between 12 and 18. Trump noted from the podium that Obama did not personally attend either of the two national jamborees during his tenure.
Davon Reed #32 of the Phoenix Suns shoots against Johnathan Motley #55 of the Dallas Mavericks during the 2017 Summer League. It looked like there was a path for Knight to bounce back this season, but the injury derailed any chances to do that.
Likewise, 34% said they would be upset if Congress impeaches the President, and 34% said they would be upset if Congress does not. Surprisingly, those that believe Trump won't finish his first term include 11 percent of Republicans.
But as of the end of June, GM had 105 days' supply of cars, above the 90-day supply it told investors to expect back in April. GM got a lift from a nascent recovery in South America, which has been a drag on the bottom line in recent quarters.
European Brent oil added 0.27 cents to reach USD48.33 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate inched up 0.21 cents to USD45.98. Marzouq, whose country heads the joint ministerial committee, said attendees would discuss continuing the production cuts.
The Cavs' situation could be the best fit for Rose, 28, who is coming off his best season in five years. As the report notes, Irving also possesses something many stars yearn for - a championship ring.
He said that if any resident in the area encounters someone from the truck, they should "call 911 right away". A hearse pulled into the parking lot early Sunday morning, according to the San Antonio Express-News. | 2019-04-25T23:47:39Z | http://halokarimun.com/2017/08/bolt-farah-in-early-action-at-world-championships/ |
We have so much to look forward too.
52:10. Those who are truly awake, they’ll see these tumultuous times as demonstrations of this light and it will not evoke survival instincts, or run-and- hide tactics of despair. They will feel a new power that comes to them unbidden, in the sense that they don’t call for it consciously, but it will flow over them nonetheless, like a new current of energy and they will anchor it, share it, and experience it like never before.
The more I do the Event Temples and everyday doing the QP the more the Quantum Presence comes to fore and very quickly throughout the day. In one moment, my HMS is trying real hard to be reactive and in the next my smiling Heart has it marinating and my Quantum Presence letting any vestige of it go. And in that process the realization comes up that none of that HMS reactive stuff is significant in the least and in the light of all eternity how could it possibly matter? Just chill'in.
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing and so is the clarity and lovely warm feeling that comes after doing so.
Trusting FS within is a wonderful, blissful thing. What else can I say except, NO FEAR.
inside of me I touched.
Earth and Nature demonstrate without words essential principles if not FS in action. I love the thunder , lightening and rain and the wind blowing as my dogs and me encounter them on our walk and feel the cleansing from the sky of the air and the thirst of the Earth quenched. The lightening activates the plants if not seeds for growth and the birds have a natural bath for all the puddles. Life is good!
I love my puppy Quantum, she makes me laugh and open to play and gives me much to appreciate along with her mentor Moksa.
Using "the muscle of imagination" with care and compassion, here is something constructive and positive and powerful when aligned with others in doing this.
Here's a story I call the "The Four Views." A wise master had four students that exceeded all others. One day the five gathered, and the master spoke to the first student: "Tell me what you see when you look into the world."
"I see savagery. The planet is raped. The world hides from the truth. Contaminating material is released everywhere. There's particulate matter in the heavens and acid rain. The rain forests are being destroyed and so is the ozone layer. There's such ignorance and selfishness. The world needs so much correction."
The master replied, "You are right and I shall call you Correction,for you by your vision have committed to a world of need."
To the second student the master put the same query: "Tell me what you see when you look into the world."
The second student replied, "Master, I see futility. Nothing can be done to change the ways of the world, although some will repent and call for change. Still, the world is condemned by the acts of humans. The sciences teach us that too many people are being born, too much destruction has already been done, too little money is provided for science to adequately assist , and there is too little concern for ethics and values. Crime escalates while families decay. Law is lost."
"You too, are right, and I shall call you Righteous, for your indignation beholds a corrupt world beyond repair while your heart suffers its pain. You shall be known for your words, and your works will express the sadness of your heart."
The master turned his gaze to the third student. "And you, what do you see?"
"I see a world needing the restoration of law. I don't believe that hope is lost . I find encouragement in the words of my brothers, for they, too, recognize the need for a change. All good government is government of the people and for the people. It's through law and government that change can be effected. The mass will follow the right action and attitude of government. The agent for change exists and it's law and government."
"You also are right. I shall call you Government,for your words forge your observations and become what you teach. You'll therefore be committed to a work of law and order through government."
Finally,to the fourth student, the master put the same question: "And what do you see?"
"Master, I behold only miracles. Life is a miracle; all being is a miracle; consciousness is a miracle. I behold God in all creation. I sense the beauty of love in the fragrance of the flower, in the smile of a child, in the warmth of lovers, and in the glow of stars. When I look upon the world, I am greeted with its mysteries. It's with awe and reverence that each day unfolds its beauty. I know that all things are good and that each expresses its good in its own appropriate manner for the moment. I know that that which my brothers speak about is illusion, for only the eternal is real. I'll give no power to thoughts of scarcity, of limitation, or of need, for all that is truly needed is here for us to behold, to recognize and to accept. I wish only to give to the world the sight I have been given. For with these modest eyes and senses, my heart is quickened by the glory of being."
The master smiled before he spoke."And you my chosen student, I will call Truth, for your vision is of truth, and its reward is the reality it sees.You shall go unto humankind and teach from what you see, for yours is the vision of what is, and all that is possible rests in this peace."
The master speaking to all of them added these words: "To each of you is the blessing of your vision. As you see the world, so it reveals itself to you. You will know the world by your vision of it. To each of you will go the works of your sight. You'll experience life according to your vision."
Not only is our reality a matter of choice but so is the power we give it. Only is the eternal incorruptible, therefore only the eternal is true. All else is inherently false by definition. To be a master, one must begin by acting like a master. To grow we must give. The old saying "You can't receive if the cup is full" is absolutely true of the human condition. As we sow , so do we reap. The first step then in self-actualization is to give forgiveness and care. The old deep-mind memories disappear; the new memories become both the process and the goal.
yes, in abundance... all we need to do is reach out and grasp it.
Bliss is a wonderful feeling....that is available for all to experience ....no one is barred from Joy which is a state of consciousness ...free for everybody to take hold of and enjoy .... It is a gift of First Source .....that too many have given away.....but can now take back ..by reversing their polarity and moving them that have taken away this freedom....along.
Even after all this time, the Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
As practitioners of the six heart virtues, our focus is on the expression of appreciation, compassion, forgiveness, humility, valor, and understanding. Sometimes, though, the outflow is diminished or our attention wanders and we can find ourselves depleted and discouraged, unable to express or radiate the virtues within us with vitality and genuineness.
When you feel a bit drained or dispirited, often it is because you feel that the balance between the inflow of love, appreciation, understanding, and forgiveness does not measure up to your outflow. In other words, what we give out to our family, friends, work associates and strangers, seems to be more—in some cases, far more—than what we get in return.
This perception can rapidly lead to discouragement; a sense that life is not working or is even unfair and unresponsive to our practice of the six heart virtues. There is a technique called the Neutral Heart that is an excellent method to refresh and balance your energy system especially when the feelings of depletion and discouragement overtake your expression of the heart virtues in your daily life.
Within the energetic heart is a place of neutral feelings; a place where energy-draining perceptions can shift and transform with a gentle nudge. It may seem paradoxical, but neutrality is the pivot of transformation. It is here that you can take the stubborn, concretized energetic densities that have become rooted in your personality, and realign them with the advanced energetics of the six heart virtues.
While these densities are familiar to you, they can operate as obstacles to the new patterns and new energies that are coming to the planet and potentially to each of us individually, especially as practitioners of the six heart virtues. These densities are like plaque to the energetic grid that surrounds you, restricting the flow of intuition and creating a dissonance to the incoming cosmic rays, which makes it harder for you to operate in the state of Oneness and accelerated virtuous cycles that are the hallmark of these new energies.
Between now and 2012 our solar system is undergoing a migratory orbit that will take it within a current of empowering rays or cosmic frequencies that issue from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. It is recommended that you devote a portion of your time to realign the blockages or densities within your energetic body during this time in order to align yourself to these new energies. Doing so will empower you to embody these frequencies and transmit them with greater potency.
The Neutral Heart technique has three steps, which are designed to help you transform the stubborn energetic densities that have concretized in your energetic field and align them to the new energy-flow in which you are learning to live.
The first step is to center yourself in your heart by imagining that your heart area is smiling. If you imagine it is smiling outward it opens the door of neutrality into which you can bring densities you wish to transform and realign.
It is essential that your heart-smile expresses the genuine quality of the neutral heart, which is contemplative, with deep chords of intuitive knowing and the soft hush of divine love. This is the attitude that you can hold in your heart area. When you settle into this attitude, you are ready for the second step.
Next you invite these stubborn energetic densities into your neutral heart. For example, suppose you are feeling discouraged, and you have identified its source as feeling unappreciated at work. The feeling of discouragement is only wearing a new face, the true energy of discouragement has been with you all of your life. When you were an infant you were discouraged when your mother went away from you. As a toddler, when you did not get your way. As a child, when you were scolded. As a teenager, when you were put down by your peers. As an adult, when you were unappreciated for your contributions.
This energy signature of discouragement, within your energetic field, is calcified every time you feel it, regardless of what the temporary source may be. Most of us have a strong energetic density around this feeling of discouragement. This is what you invite into the neutral heart, not the temporary disguise that discouragement is wearing today or yesterday, but rather the collective of discouragement that is the foundational energy for this feeling.
Each of the emotions that cause depletion of energy, creativity, intuition, mental acuity, and sense of well being can become calcified to the point that they interfere with your energetic field and its connection to the Oneness we all share. The negative emotions, like anger, envy, depression, chronic anxiety, and hopelessness, are like fundamental chords that we strike in our energetic field every time we feel them, and these chords resonate and activate other negative emotions, which can be our ruin.
Inviting these densities inside our neutral heart requires that we invite the fundamental chords. Here's what I mean. Imagine that anger is a chord that is played with three fingers. Each time you feel anger; these three fingers strike the chord. The chord resonates throughout your energetic field. It finds sympathetic chords that resonate with it and together they form a dissonance within your energetic field.
The fundamental chord is triggered by the three fingers, and what are the three fingers? They are the day-to-day events and experiences that strike the chord. And every time the chord is struck, it is welded tighter to your energetic field and your field becomes a little more rigid and less adaptive to the new energies of the six heart virtues.
Negative emotions, at their fundamental level, are packages of history like balls made out of rubber bands. It is to these "packages" that you extend the invitation, and by inviting them into the neutral heart, you are, in a sense, awakening them to their pointlessness in your present reality. In this step you are not trying to force them to change or remove them, but rather you are allowing them to feel the new perspective and energy field you are assembling.
You are creating a new discernment process with this approach, and this new process is "heard" by all parts of your system, including your energetic densities at their most fundamental level. You are accessing the intuitive guidance of your heart and asking it to realign the energetic blockages or stubborn energies that create the sense of imbalance, discouragement, and depletion that you feel. It is a gentle reminder to these old behaviors and stubborn energies that change is stirring and that they need to be aware of this change and either align to it or let go.
The final step is to let these negative emotions "marinate" in the neutral space of your heart. Imagine these obstinate energies are like rigid knots when they enter your heart, and as they soak in the wisdom of its neutrality, they loosen up and begin to relax as they begin to understand your new plan. They do not magically disappear, but rather as they relax they choose to realign to the energetic grid you are consciously engineering.
What is stubborn and unwanted within you is not something you want to evict like an unwanted tenant or exorcise like a demon; rather it is a part of you that has served you in the past, and once aligned to your new plan, can continue to serve you in the future. Nonetheless, your heart—within the wisdom of its neutrality—entrains these stubborn energies to its plan and you must feel the certainty of this plan. Step three is focused on this certainty because it is in the crucible of conviction that old energies can realign and entrain to your new energetic grid.
The six heart virtues are the instruments we use to re-engineer the energy grid upon which we live. The old densities that exist in all of us are based on the history of our belief system and experiential world. In a sense, they are the bridge we crossed over to get to where we are in this very moment, but our learning must be constantly realigning itself to our present comprehension—our present learning needs. The Neutral Heart technique helps our historical learning and the behaviors and attitudes that arise from them to have less resonance and therefore cause less dissonance within our energetic field.
The Neutral Heart technique can be used for any set of emotional disturbances or imbalances, and it is ideal as a method of discernment for decision making; regaining your sense of empowerment; rebalancing your energetic field, or rejuvenating your attitudinal buoyancy.
As with any technique, the Neutral Heart is a framework. You can experiment with it, add your own ideas to it, and modify it to your own personality. If you find a better way to perform the steps in the process that helps you dial-in to the core purpose of the technique, then feel free to utilize these adjustments.
The Neutral Heart technique is not a universal remedy for emotional ills. Everyone feels depleted and discouraged from time-to-time. I'm not suggesting that if you practice this technique you will be free of these feelings, but rather if you apply it when you do feel these negative emotions, it will accelerate your movement through them, and you will feel that your energetic system has been refreshed and is able to take on the next challenge of life with greater ease and grace.
You do not need to practice the Neutral Heart technique in private or in a quiet room free of distractions. When you become adept with the technique you can use it at any time and in any place. It only takes a minute or two. Think of it like an energetic body maintenance program, not unlike the grooming you provide your physical body each time you take a shower or brush your teeth.
Your energetic (quantum) body is the connection you have to the universe of Oneness and the creative empowerment of virtuous cycles. Whatever care and maintenance you provide it returns a hundred-fold. It's truly one of your best investments.
now that's one that I did immerse myself in, and oh what a wonderful feeling, when your heart is not torn or leaning one way or the other, ... how many smile, when they are in neutral? | 2019-04-26T02:26:09Z | http://forum.wingmakers.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=74948 |
Coming to faith in Jesus puts us on the path to walking with God and others, however, we were not created to merely walk the path; we were made to walk with God and others relationally.
Understand attachment styles and how the bonding environment you grew up in has shaped you and how it affects your relationships today.
4 Keynotes and 4 Breakout Sessions each day provide increased relational skill-building opportunities (see the descriptions below).
Maribeth Poole is a pastoral care minister. She is ordained through Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Wichita Kansas. Maribeth counseled 15 years for Shepherd’s House.
During her years of practice she co-authored the book The Life Model: Living from the Heart Jesus Gave You and Bringing the Life Model to Life Study Guide. She wrote a guide for new parents to help them joyfully develop the mind of their baby called Joyful Beginnings Baby Book Guide.
Maribeth’s holistic ministry approach is centered in God’s design for our brains and His Word concerning relationships. She covers current and past trauma, relationships, spirituality and the emotional maturity process. Maribeth has specialized training in brain development and healing the effects of sexual abuse, dissociation, ritual abuse and church relationships.
Maribeth was born in Nigeria to missionary parents. She attended a missionary boarding school through 9th grade finishing High School in the U.S. She has a BS degree from Columbia Bible College and her masters in Biblical Counseling from Grace Theological Seminary.
She likes people, animals, nature and reading. Maribeth’s heart is easily captured by the wounded, overlooked and those mis-perceived as unimportant or misfits. She enjoys watching God tenderly and powerfully help people through recovery.
Denesia Huttula (Deni) is obtaining her master’s in professional counseling with aspirations to become a Licensed Professional Counselor after graduation next year. She is passionate about understanding the effects trauma has on our relational and emotional systems in the brain and plans to specialize in treating people who have been impacted by trauma. She is currently enjoying establishing healing relationships with her Life Coaching clients and empowering them to get in touch with their emotions, build healthy relationships and learn to connect with their true selves.
She discovered attachment theory 24 years ago while pregnant with her first child. Since then she’s been applying the concepts of Dr. Sears, Dr. Schore, and Daniel Siegel in her own relationships with her children, husband, and other family and friends. Through this experiential learning, she has come to understand the importance attachment has on emotional regulation and is excited to be able to explore these lessons deeper while in graduate school.
For the past 10 years, she has discovered writing as an outlet and a tool for processing her own journey, as well as teaching others from the lessons she’s learned. From journaling to blogging, to writing and self-publishing, to now being published with Deeper Walk, she gets excited to be able to share her heart and the information she’s learned with others through this avenue. Her first book, The Bridges of Chara takes the principles of emotional regulation and the Life Model’s definition of joy and creates a story that helps even children begin to grasp and understand how emotions work and how we can work WITH them.
She has personally found that God understands how we are designed- and He knows exactly how to work within that system to help us heal. The discovery of how science is aligning with the experiences she has had with God in her own healing journey is fuel for her aspirations. She hopes to help shed some light on how the two go together in her future work as both a counselor and an author. Her latest book, The Author Still Speaks is just the beginning of her attempts to share the good news of how knowing God impacts our identity and emotional stability.
Ed is a pastoral counselor who has been working with hurting people since 1980. He has a B.A. in Behavioral and Social Sciences and his Master’s Program was at the University of Florida. He was ordained in 1988 and is the director of Equipping Hearts.
Ed has worked extensively as a counselor, trainer, and writer. He has worked with substance abusers and their families in diverse settings, including outpatient counseling, jails, transitional housing for homeless addicts, and in all phases of residential treatment. He also provided daily supervision for all therapeutic services and staff in a 96-bed state licensed substance abuse treatment program. He co-founded and co-directed the Transformation Center.
As a trainer, he leads workshops in churches and ministries to help equip workers to serve men and women who are hurting in his community. He has helped develop curriculum used in Christ-centered and state-licensed treatment programs. Ed and Dr. E. James Wilder are the co-creators of Thriving: Recover Your Life Program. Thriving combines recent advances in neuroscience and brain research with a solid Christ-centered approach to issues such as addictions, trauma, abuse or painful relationships that are designed for use in churches, rehab programs, and other ministries. Ed is the author of the Restarting Workbook and Facilitator’s Guide. He and Dr. Wilder are the co-authors of Belonging. Ed is also the co-author of the book, Joy Starts Here.
Ed is also the Life Group Coordinator for his church and has developed new grace-based training materials to equip leaders for small group ministry. Ed and his wife, Maritza, lead regular training and mentoring groups for leaders in their local community.
That was the moment God had been waiting for. Bit by bit, God began to restore David’s life and open his eyes to see things he had never known before.
David has four published books to help Christians experience the abundant life described in the New Testament. He also created the popular Forming module of Connexus. Be sure to get his most recent work, Transformation by Design: How God Changes Lives. David and his wife, Jan, have three adult children and six grandchildren. He completed his Masters of Divinity at Fuller Seminary with a concentration in Christian Formation.
9:45 – 11:00 AM Session 2 – It’s Personal: God, Attachment, and YOU!
11:15 – 12:30 PM Session 3 – Me? I Need a Small Group?
Special Rates have been secured at $99.00 per night (2 queen beds or 1 king bed). These rates are only good through Oct. 1.
To make your reservation by phone, call (919) 876-5650 and tell them you are with the Deeper Walk Int’l Group.
More than merely believing in God, we need to attach to Him. In fact, bonding well is one of the most important skills we can develop!
Maribeth Poole will introduce the four different styles of attachments; Secure, Dismissive, Anxious, and Disorganized. Discover your attachment style and how you bond and relate to God and to others. Learn how the bonding environment you grew up in has shaped you and how it affects your relationships today, especially your relationship with God.
This understanding will free you to experience healing and it will empower you to increasingly offer secure bonds to others.
Can you relate? God designed us to connect and identify with Him and others; He created us for relationships.
Deni Huttula will expound on God’s design and desire for us –relationally- as His people. This understanding is foundational to walking relationally with God. He has also given us the capacity to repair relational patterns when things have gone wrong.
Adjust your outlook and experience the joy of God’s design for relating to us.
Healthy relationships are key to the abundant life we all desire, but can we make them stick?
Realize the transformative power of grace and make your relationships stick!
Having life-giving conversations with God is one of the important things we can do for our spiritual development and one of the most significant ways of building our relationship with God. In this first of two presentations, David will begin to provide a series of practical steps we can take that help to slow down the process of engaging with God, by preparing our heart and mind for deeper and more life-giving conversations with Him.
Locate these bridges and hear God speak…to you!
In Matthew 7:24, Jesus said we would be blessed if we heard and applied what we have heard. Maribeth Poole will help you practically implement the teaching on attachment styles so you can get attached to God and others. You’ll be able to address the dysfunctional aspects of your attachment style and learn to interact with others amidst their styles.
The Bible tells us God is omnipresent, everywhere always. While we know this to be true, we don’t always sense His presence…but we want to! Deni Huttula will guide you into the proven practice of quieting (meditation) and give you prompted questions to ask the Lord about pertinent Scriptures. Grow in your awareness of His presence and form a secure attachment in your relationship with God.
Connecting with God in conversation, building a relationship with Him, and learning how to be mentored by Him are all processes you can continue to grow in throughout your life. Along the path of life, you’ll encounter many barriers to your relationship, including distorted images of God, emotional baggage from life experience, and even poor theologies of Christian identity and discipleship. In this breakout, David will identify some of the barriers that people struggle with most often and offer practical help in disarming these obstacles in your relationship with God.
God did not design you to be misunderstood and/or alone!
God is intimately acquainted with all our ways. He is personally attuned to every nuance of our lives. Maribeth Poole will explain how God attunes with us to guide and support us on our journey. Learn from His example of attuning with His people and grow in your ability to support and help others on their journey.
See the remarkable design woven within you to relate well with others.
In her first keynote, Deni Huttula expounded on God’s design and desire for us –relationally- as His people. This understanding laid a foundation to walking relationally with God.
In this session, you will be inspired as you listen to Deni explain how personal God is in attaching with us relationally. Your anticipation of walking with will rise as you understand how possible it is to attach with God!
This perspective may move you from religious practice to relational engagement!
We have said it before and we will say it again, you were created for relationships (plural).
Relationships with other believers in a small group context provide vital relational elements to your walk with God that you cannot get through any other means. Apart from a strong identity in Christ and healthy attachments to God and other believers, we fall into unhealthy hang-ups, habits, and addictions.
Yes, you need a small group!
In the first of these two presentations, David began to provide a series of practical steps we can take that help to slow down the process of engaging with God, by preparing our heart and mind for deeper and more life-giving conversations with Him. Developing life-giving conversations with God is one of the important elements in building your relationship with God.
Connect with God personally with these bridges.
In Matthew 7:24, Jesus said we would be blessed if we heard and applied what we have heard. Maribeth Poole will help you practically implement the teaching on attachment styles so you can attach rightly to God and others. You’ll be able to address the dysfunctional aspects of your attachment style and learn to interact with others amidst their styles.
The Bible tells us God is omnipresent; He is everywhere always. While we know this to be true, we don’t always sense His presence…but we want to! Deni Huttula will guide you into the proven practice of quieting (meditation) and give you prompted questions to ask the Lord from pertinent Scriptures, helping you grow in your awareness of His presence and form a secure attachment in your relationship with God.
I think I am living with a narcissist, how can I be sure?
Is this person simply immature or is this a bigger problem?
This person is causing me to feel guilty, frustrated, and hurt. Why?
What is causing him/her to act like this? What am I supposed to do?
Can this relationship positively change? Today?!
Building a vibrant relationship with God that can transform us from the inside out is a learned process that has many facets which are not always well understood. In this session, David will be presenting h a number of key elements that can help to foster an interactive relationship with God that is both life-giving and life-changing, including several ways in which authentic spiritual formation differs rather significantly from traditional models of discipleship, and why those differences matter.
Includes admission to two full days of keynote presentations and breakout sessions, conference materials, beverages and snacks for breaks. | 2019-04-19T22:30:01Z | https://deeperwalkinternational.org/walkingrelationally/ |
GPU Technology Conference, and I expect this will be the last year it will go by that name. The company has evolved significantly during the last decade with robotics, artificial intelligence, and even complete workstations and servers taking it well beyond its GPU roots. My bet is this will become Nvidia’s Developer Conference going forward, as the firm displaces Intel in the hearts and minds of developers and buyers.
One interesting pivot I’m anticipating is that as Nvidia watches the Qualcomm/Apple/Intel battle, something like that might be in its future with Intel, and it may need to pivot to IBM Power or AMD Epic (AMD actually partners with Nvidia better than Intel does). This is because Intel’s long-term plan is to make Nvidia redundant, and it is about 24 months out from executing it.
If Nvidia doesn’t pivot away from Intel by that time, it will be facing the possibility of the same near-death experience Qualcomm just experienced. Nvidia isn’t stupid and clearly has to see this coming.
One thing that is missing from Nvidia — largely because its change has been gradual, and it doesn’t fully get that it is no longer primarily a parts vendor but a solutions vendor — is an effective way to convey how all the things it is doing will change the world.
several videos that it used to showcase its vision, called “A Day Made of Glass.” While I don’t have the resources to create a video of what the future will look like when all of this Nvidia technology matures, I think I can describe it.
I’ll do that this week and then close with my product of the week: a new HP headset I saw at GTC, called the “Reverb,” that I think now sets the bar for virtual reality headsets.
The elements I’m going to use to build this story range from Nvidia’s new small form factor Jetson AI products for edge computing to its Data Science Workstations and Servers, its autonomous car and robotics solutions, its graphics and imaging products and enhancements, and its coming advances in networking and interconnect.
I’m not going to name the products, but I will walk you through what “A Day Imagined by Nvidia” might be.
The video begins with a black screen. First, a compelling tune can be heard softly in the background. At the bottom of the screen is a digital dialog that says “Monday Morning 2025 AI-generated music, unique, based on a collection of favorite songs by [your name here]. That music builds and light increases as if you were opening your eyes. Colors around you are fluid, as what you see alters through scenes ranging from fantasy to science fiction, highlighting the breadth of what is possible and finally locking down on a contemporary setting that clearly has been digitally rendered.
A virtual screen then appears that looks like three mirrors with what looks like the user’s image with three choices of formal clothing, none with green or yellow, and all conservative with Asian influence.
The user’s voice is heard selecting choice two, and that image comes alive with a mirror image of the user. Jarvis asks if you want him to enter the meeting for the user as the user or as himself if the user hasn’t finished breakfast on time, suggesting that the people he is meeting with value starting on time.
The user indicates he wants the avatar to open as him while he walks into the kitchen, which has small versions of what look to be industrial robots putting the finishing touches on breakfast. As the user approaches the table, a reflection off one of the appliances shows us the user’s face, and we see that he is wearing a set of augmented reality glasses, which is why the room has been changing its appearance on command.
We fast-forward through breakfast until Jarvis speaks again, saying it is time for the user to enter the meeting. The user gives the command “proceed,” and he suddenly appears to be transported into a rich conference room with floating virtual displays and other users all well dressed, with some of the clothing actually appearing to morph and change as we watch.
We observe a short meeting, during which the people talking are enhanced by dynamic displays that emerge and vanish on command to highlight key points or elaborate on certain subjects. We drift away from this virtual meeting to get an overhead view of a child’s room that is just starting to brighten as virtual animals line up at attention waiting for the user’s daughter to get out of bed.
The child scolds some of the virtual animals and engages with others who appear to be talking about today’s assignments, thus helping the child think through her day at school. We skip the bathroom visit, fast-forwarding to the child being advised on what to wear. The video then advances to the child fully dressed and eating breakfast in the same kitchen.
A reflection shows that the child is wearing a smaller set of AR glasses. The Jarvis voice announces that it is time to leave for class, and a door that we didn’t see before opens to a small windowed room with a chair that has seatbelts.
The child enters the room, sits on the chair, and we now move out of the house to see that the chair isn’t a chair at all but an autonomous personal transport that whisks the child off to school to the sound of the old Jetsons‘ theme song. We follow the child into class where other children are drawing simple stick figures and lines on active screens.
Those screens — also using RTX technology, based on what we see on the bottom of the screens — instantly translate the rough drawings into photorealistic images of what the children intend to create. The kids all appear to be having fun when the teacher asks them to be seated.
The teacher then begins a lecture on protecting endangered animals.As she speaks, the screen behind her dynamically reflects what she is talking about, highlighting the animals. A child raises her hand and asks a question. One of the animals perks up and asks if it can answer. After getting a “yes” response, the virtual animal then takes over the class and continues the lesson.
We then transition out of the school and visually travel across the globe to find a woman who appears to be the wife and mother, watching her child perform in school real time. She speaks her child’s name and her child instantly perks up as her mother compliments her on the question she just asked. They enter into a side dialog that appears private to them.
We see a series of short scenes showing pets being fed by robots and robot pets playing with actual pets, along with robots doing much of the maintenance around the home, which is actually located in a beautiful remote setting. It isn’t clear whether that location actually exists or is rendered.
At the end of the day the family gathers, with the mother attending virtually (we’ll put time zone differences aside for now), and they enjoy what appears to be movie together. However, the actors often seem to look and sound like the family members, and they often are asked what the character should do next, with the answer having a dynamic impact on the direction and end of the film.
We follow her path at high speed and notice she is guided through the airport, which uses biometrics to identify and authenticate her, noticing there are no lines. When she boards, a very Jarvis-like voice welcomes her, tells her that the personalized meal she wants will be ready after takeoff, and offers her favorite beverage, which has been stocked specifically for her. You’ll note that it appears everything just happened like clockwork, and there is no attendant in site.
Now, much like Corning Effort, this is a best-case scenario that depicts a world that likely will never actually exist in total. Still, the fact is that what Nvidia is creating could eliminate not only the jobs we don’t like doing, but also all of the waiting and wasted time we currently suffer through.
What I want to leave you with is that we all need to be thinking more about the world as we want it to be. Otherwise, we likely will be surprised by the world we get. As I flew back from Nvidia’s conference, I finally got around to watching Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the 1980s classic, which portrays an alternative world that I personally wouldn’t want to live in, but using much of the same technology in very different ways.
In short, if more of us don’t imagine a very different future, many of us may not want to live in the future we get. Nvidia is one of the companies that could make a far better future. Here’s hoping we get to live in it.
I have a lot of VR headsets in my office, most of which I wouldn’t give to someone I didn’t like. The resolution is bad, they are uncomfortable, and the only thing I can think they’d be good for is to make fun of the poor idiot wearing them.
HP Reverb Virtual Reality Headset at GTC, and I was impressed. The price point is closer to US$600 for the base configuration and $650 for the pro configuration (you’ll want the pro, though, because it comes with leather face pads that easily can be wiped down and should both wear and feel better, making them well worth the $50 upcharge in my opinion).
This new headset sets the bar with regard to how light it is on your head, and how comfortable and easy-to-use the mounting straps are (no adjustments, you just slide it on your head). It even has decent speakers on it, though I’d likely pull them off and use one of my own noise-canceling over-the-ear headsets.
In use, the extra resolution — around 2K per eye like my Goovis — made it feel like I was actually in virtual environments. While I have yet to find a VR game title I like, this headset would be ideal for business or most medium usage commercial deployments. Heavy use would likely require the device to be a bit more robust. The headset will work with most laptop and desktop PCs, but the perfect use likely would couple it with HP’s backpack computers. | 2019-04-22T16:00:14Z | https://wewe7.com/the-future-according-to-nvidia-tech-buzz/ |
The XSI Tab Menu tool lets you accelerate your workflow by allowing easy access to run common commands and add nodes to your ICE tree and Render tree. It does this using a pop up window (accessed by hitting <Tab>) which temporarilly captures keyboard input to determine what to do. You’ll probably recognise that this is a similar functionality to that found in Houdini and Nuke.
The plugin is provided as an XSI Add-On file, and you can simply drag and drop the download link into XSI to install it. Alternatively, download the file, and then drag and drop the file into XSI, or use the File -> Add-On -> Install menu option.
1.2: Tab menu now always appears in new window (avoids problem with property pages embedded in the viewport). Fixed keyboard conflict with PickObject() command. Now allows closing of menu by hitting escape.
1.3: Fixed conflict with ‘B’ key Bounding Box Manipulator tool.
Once you’ve installed the add-on, pressing <Tab> should make the Tab Menu appear. Pressing <Tab> again will close it. If the window does not appear, try refreshing your plugins or restarting XSI.
Give it a go yourself by following the instructions below.
Note that if you ever need to close the Tab Menu, just press <Tab> and the window will disappear. If you close the window with the mouse, then the menu will still be capturing the keyboard input, and you’ll need to press <Tab> again to resume using the normal XSI keyboard shortcuts.
You should see the ICE tree editor appear in the lower part of the XSI layout. (This is assuming you’re using the default 4-view layout of XSI). Check that the point cloud is still selected and refresh the ICE tree editor to view it’s tree.
That should have created a Set Particle Color node in your ICE tree.
The XSI Tab Menu has 3 different contexts: Main, ICE Tree, and Render Tree. You can see which context you’re currently in by looking at the top of the Tab Menu window. This tells you if you’re going to be running commands in the main workspace, or if you are going to be adding nodes to your currently viewed ICE or Render tree.
Note: If you make a mistake, you can either press <Backspace> to undo the last key press, or press <Tab> to cancel entirely and start again.
Click in the ICE tree editor (in case it’s lost focus), press <Tab> and then type the letter ‘g’. The Tab Menu window will offer the suggestion “Generate 3D Point Grid”. This is the first option available to you (alphabetically) based on the first letter.
Now type the letter ‘e’. The suggestion remains the same as it is still consistent with the letters you’ve typed so far. Note that at any stage you can press <Enter> to create the node indicated by the current suggestion, or you can hit <Tab> to cancel.
Type the letter ‘t’. Now the suggestion has changed to “Get Angle Between”.
Type the letter ‘p’. The suggestion reads “Get Particle Age”, although the text above it just reads “Get P”. This is because there are two possible letters that can go after ‘p’ according to the nodes available.
Now type ‘o’. The suggestion reads “Get Point ID” and so does the text above it. This means that there are no more options available. It doesn’t matter what you type, the suggestion will never change.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Press ‘a’. You’ll notice that the upper text just jumped to read “Get Particle”. This means that the Tab Menu has auto-completed the rest of the word “Particle” for you as there are no other options within that word that are available. The next letter you type will dictate what comes after the word “Particle” so there is no need to type “rticle” to finish the word.
Pressing ‘c’ will cause another bit of auto-completion. This time it suggests “Get Particle Collision Location”, with the upper text reading “Get Particle Col”.
Pressing ‘o’ again will show the final suggestion of “Get Particle Color”. Pressing <Enter> will create this node. Alternatively you can press <Backspace> to go back and try some other key presses to see how they take you between choices.
The approach I take when using this tool is to watch the upper text when typing. You’ll notice when auto-completion occurs and then you can continue typing the rest of the command/node after. It doesn’t take long to get extremely fast and efficient at remembering the sequences, and you’ll make a few jaws drop around you if you can get good at it.
There are three fairly trivial limitiations you need to know about. Firstly, the context sensitivity for detecting if we’re in the ICE tree editor, the render tree, or the main viewport is reliant on embedded windows (i.e. in one of the A, B, C, or D viewports). In other words, if you press ‘7’ to create a floating render tree window, the Tab Menu will be unable to figure out that context.
Secondly, the <Tab> key by default is used by XSI to “Show Next Manipulator”. This usually means that pressing <Tab>will cause XSI to cycle between translation, rotation and scale manipulators. The Tab Menu overrides this functionality, so if you use it a lot, you’ll need to remap it to another key.
The final limitation is to do with the fact that the Tab Menu relies on three configuration files to specify the commands and nodes available. This means that if you create and register your own ICE tree or render tree compounds, then they won’t be available as a Tab Menu shortcut until you manually add them to the configuration files. The reason it was done like this was to give minimal delay to you when loading the Tab Menu plugin. If it had to scan (as XSI has to) then there would potentially be a few seconds extra delay when starting up or reloading plugins.
For defining shortcuts for the ICE and Render tree, the command that adds nodes needs to be told which tree to add them to. This is done using the symbol %TREE% in the text. This is automatically replaced at runtime with the correct tree that is being currently viewed.
Andy, this is fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
very nice addon. too sad, i’m using a property-editor docked into my custom layout. i can’t use your tab so flawlessly without locking my docked ppg-window before pressing the TAB key. is it possible to query the interface if there’s already a ppg open and open another ppg for the tab-menu? any ideas?
Yes, that’s not something I thought about, I can see why it’s causing you problems. I don’t know if it’s going to be possible to fix that as the XSI SDK isn’t as complete as it could be for doing these sorts of GUI manipulations. I’ll take a look for you and post back here when I figure out what the situation is.
thanks. looking forward to see this tool develop.
Many thanks for your great tools!!!
Where it is, how can i bring them up in the TAB menu?
By default they’re not in there because they’re synonymous with Get/Set Particle Position, so I didn’t think to include them.
The good news is that it’s easy to add them though. Just add these two lines to the “ICE_TabDefinitions.txt” file in the addon plugins folder.
Reload your plugins and you should be good to go.
but it do not want to do it.
The same happens as before adding the two lines.
I just tried it and it definitely works, but a couple of things to watch out for.
Firstly, if you copied and pasted the text from my original reply, the double quote characters (“) seem to be different. Delete all 8 of them and replace them by hand. I think it’s a WordPress thing with it trying to be too clever for it’s own good. It seems to be using special characters for them.
Secondly, to be ultra sure that it’s updated, restart XSI after you’ve edited the text file.
to get it to create the “Get Particle Position” node.
Okay guys, got some updates on this.
I’ve updated the ICE definitions text file for you, so if you couldn’t get it to work, you can just download the new version.
The Tab Menu is now forced to open in a new window so you won’t have any of the problems you mentioned.
andy! this is so cool!
so much better now and i see a very bright future for this addon!
this is a fantastic addon. Just wanted to share my pleasure.
controls for the lights, eg: lightbox or spotlight (activate with B) are switched with the TABkey and interfere with you TABmenu.
I’ll try to get an update uploaded soon.
Yep, that worked. Use the link at the top to download the latest version.
dear andy, your latest release is working fine.
Thank you for this great addon.
Thanks for uploading your scripts. It seems very useful but I haven’t had luck with the installation. I’ve dragged the link into the viewport, apparently the installation was successful because I can browse the files in the user-addon folder but still, when I press [TAB] nothing happens.
I’ve tried reinstalling, and deleting the default [TAB]hotkey command before installing but nothing happens.
Is there anyway to manually assign the command to a hotkey ([TAB] or maybe a different key)?.
4) adding some print() or logmessage() statements to the plugin, around where it checks for the tab key press to see how far it gets in the routine. It should give you a clue as to what’s going on.
Those are all the things I’d be doing anyway.
Hope that helps. Let me know how you get on.
I’ve tried a lot of things and I was starting to think the problem was the language (this PC is japanese) but the problem was pretty simple.
Phyton wasn’t installed in this PC.
But to be honest, I didn’t know it was a python based addon until I browse in and saw the .py file. Maybe you should add a “Python required” note or something.
Anyway, I’ve installed Python 2.6 and pywin32 212 and now it works like a charm! | 2019-04-23T12:05:14Z | http://www.andynicholas.com/?p=913 |
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The outdated 1995 Dayton Accords for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), devised to stop the 1990’s war only stopped the war but did not bring true peace or stability to the country. Bosnia and Herzegovina has for the last two decades remained frozen in time of the days of the war, only instead of gunshots being heard on the ground it is the political turmoil and its dark demeanour that increasingly amplifies the Bosniak agenda to overpower Croats in the Federation of BiH part of the country while they look away from the Serbian push to achieve independence from BiH of the Serbian Republic/Republika Srpska entity, founded on crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing against Bosniaks and Croats.
Past two decades of perpetual political and economic dysfunction, security threats amplified by radical Islam (that has found a friend and a fighter/feeder in Bosniaks), palpably fading European and American interest, and the divisive foreign influence of Russia and Turkey, the Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s emerge as a threatened nation even if on paper they are one of the three constitutional people (Bosniaks/Muslims, Croats and Serbs) that make up BiH. Croats in BiH have been marginalised during the last two decades. Bosniaks have elected a Croat member of the Presidency and formed a federal government twice without legitimate Croat support, completely ignoring Croat electoral will.
The proximate catalyst for the country’s current crisis centres on this year’s national elections. In December 2016, BiH’s Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional a controversial law governing elections in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the bigger of BiH’s two autonomous entities, the other being Serbian Republic/Republika Srpska, dominated by Orthodox Serbs). In a legal quirk, the Federation’s numerically larger Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) can elect designated Catholic Croat representatives to seats on the legislative House of Peoples, effectively disenfranchising them. In a February 2017 resolution on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Brussels-based European Parliament cited “the importance of the recent decision of the Constitutional Court on the principle of constituent status and equality of its three constitutive peoples to elect their own legitimate political representatives…in the House of Peoples.” The Bosniak-dominated government in Sarajevo, however, steadfastly refuses to implement the Court’s decision thus threatening the integrity of the election process. Unless the law is amended (attempts to do so have so far failed scandalously) there will be no constitutional basis to hold elections and form the next Federation government. Worse, the central government would then be unable to form as its legislators are, in part, selected from each Entity’s parliaments.
It’s becoming evident that the International Criminal Tribunal’s verdicts against Serbs and Croats in The Hague have injected into Bosniaks, particularly their leader Bakir Izetbegovic, a new vigour to pursue Bosniak plans for control of BiH and if not the whole of BiH, then definitely the Federation BiH (Bosniaks and Croats) entity. It was this week that Izetbegovic claimed that both Croatia and Serbia were aggressors against BiH. Izetbegovic’s political motives are clear in this even if they are devious and rotten to the core. Given the appalling lack of responsibility for war crimes pinned against the Bosniaks, who committed heinous crimes of mass murder and ethnic cleansing against the Croats in BiH, one finds it difficult to circumvent the likelihood of political engineering that favours the Bosnikas, with blatant bias and injustice towards the Croats in particular. The Bosniak plans to suppress and exterminate Croats as equals by any means possible have been there from the start and continue. This is evident today as it was during the war.
Unchecked migration in BiH, particularly from Islamic countries and increasing adoption of radical Salafi Islam from foreign fighters (Mujahideen) who came to the country during its 1992-95 war to fight alongside Muslims against Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Croats as well as from ever tightening camaraderie in the relationship between Bosniaks and Middle-Eastern Islamic leaders are a cause for real concerns, especially to BiH Croats.
Any solution that gives Bosniaks majoritarian control would result in the annihilation of Croats as a constituent people in BiH.
The threat of future terrorist attacks linked to ISIS camps in Bosniak controlled territories in BiH, widening communal violence that keeps escalating in the lead up to this year’s elections geared to the scenario that each constitutional people should vote for their own representatives so that eventually deciding power in the country is equally shared, unchecked migration, Russian military adventurism in Republika Srpska entity on a pretext of “peacekeeping,” merit renewed high level attention and resolution with international involvement, specifically the US and the EU, including Croatia. Russia’s and Turkey’s fingers need to be removed and influence sidelined.
As much as the European Union/Commission was deeply involved with its often more detrimental than useful role in the 1990’s war in former Yugoslavia, particularly in the framework of aggression against Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina who had chosen to secede from Yugoslavia, it has become blatantly apparent that the EU on its own is unable to assume the responsibility of sorting out the political mess and crisis in BiH, which is emerging as a real threat of a new war. But – no more Dayton-like accords or agreements. The European Union’s ability to play a critical diplomatic role in crafting global policy towards global challenges has been demonstrated through its response towards Russian aggression against Ukraine. But the EU is a conglomerate of sovereign states and success in crafting global or regional policies was dependent on US engagement and commitment. The historical, ethnic and cultural inseparability of Croats in Croatia and BiH dictates and empowers Croatia’s involvement in ensuring that Croats of BiH enjoy equal rights within the conglomerate of three constitutional peoples. During the war that raged from Serb aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina in early 1990’s, the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in particular president Alija Izetbegovic, pleaded with Croatia to come and help defend Bosnia and Herzegovina, which Croatia took on as well as providing for some 500,000 refugees from BiH. Having this fact in mind it is natural and just that Croatia needs to protect the interests of BiH Croats – with a stronger and more assertive voice than what has been heard so far.
On Wednesday 2 May, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and European Commissioner for Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn urged the Bosnian political leaders to reach an agreement on electoral reform, ahead of a new negotiations meeting. Without amendments to the Bosnia-Herzegovina Electoral Law there would be difficulties in implementing the results of the election to be held in October, said Mogherini and Hahn.
The ongoing local facilitation efforts by EU and US ambassadors to Bosnia and Herzegovina have provided a framework conducive to a solution being found, it is noted. It is also stated in Mogherini and Hahn statement that the EU expects the leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina to reach a compromise without further delay in the best interest of their country.
“If the results of the general election cannot be implemented, the formation of a new government could be at risk,” they emphasised.
“The holding of elections and the implementation of their results, including proper functioning of the institutions, is a fundamental democratic requirement for any country aspiring to join the European Union. Holding the future election results hostage to party interests is not an option,” reads the statement.
Leaders of Federation BiH’s (FBiH) parliamentary parties gathered on Thursday 3 May in Sarajevo in yet another attempt to reach an agreement on changes in the BiH Election Law. After five hours of debate, they came out having reached one conclusion – it is necessary to engage the Venice Commission (Council of Europe) so that it can decide whether the suggested changes are in accordance with EU standards.
Unbelievable with jerks at the past and not noticing that can be different.
No there should be no difference between the three constituent peoples there, Nilzeitung. And so fight for equality must be pursued, if that fails then the absolute self-determination for self-preservation seems the only way out.
Yes if peoples peace be said beware take political picture of what was held in Bast around its own, it is a problem germs by itself can not loose (elections)???
It’s very just to be concerned and intransigent about Turkish and Russian influence in Bosnia and the Islamist sympathies that here and there seem to sprout. I can easily see the point of Croat concern with the electoral system as well. In elections as in other things, it seems that in Bosnia it is crucial for people to be able to hold unto their own.
Yet, is not a tentative alliance of Croat and Bosniak interests in the Federation possible? Already the nationalist SDA can hardly claim to be *the* party of the Bosniaks. Could not the SDA find itself superseded in the near future by non-nationalist Croat-Bosniak sides? | 2019-04-21T04:17:25Z | https://inavukic.com/2018/05/05/existential-threats-for-croats-of-bosnia-and-herzegovina/ |
I’ve been kindly sent a 6w laser by a Polish company called Optlaser. It’s quite an interesting looking object with several through holes at the base to help cool the module while removing fumes. It looks very futuristic, and almost like it should belong on a spaceship.
In addition to this I’ve been sent a magnetic docking station, which means the laser module can be removed and stored for safe keeping. This is particularly useful if you plan to install this on a CNC router as the dust produced can damage the optics of the laser. I’ve also received some nifty safety goggles, a hood attachment which fits around collimator lens and channels fumes and smoke from the laser beam, and an additional collimator lens. So the one on the laser module is for finer work while the spare one produces a courser beam for faster engraving.
I want to use this on the CNC router I have been working on but I also have the reminisce of the xcarve and its belt driven system might work better for laser engraving.
So before I start – please be aware that lasers are not toys, bla bla bla. Please do your own research before playing around with something that can knock your eyeballs for six.
I’m going to try and get started with installing this laser engraver onto my CNC machine. Although I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to do this. I did receive some diagrams with the parts, and I think there might be a little bit more on their website. Essentially what I’m going to do now is fit this section here which is the quick release plate so the idea behind this if you’re going to install this onto a machine that also has a router the saw dust created from the router can actually effect the laser. It can build up on the optics and degrade the cut essentially.
The first thing I’m going to do is wire the laser to the magnetic docking station. I undo the wires from the barrier block and replace them into the green terminal connector. You really need to pay attention while doing this so you don’t accidentally cross wires and fry the components.
Ok be careful not to over-tighten these. That goes in like that.
These are really well made – well machined pieces. They have a strong positive hold and the instructions are pretty clear.
So I’m sort in the process of re-cutting out my plates in aluminium. Ideally, I should try think ahead and plan how to mount the laser, so I can avoid future headaches. But that’s a separate video and before I do this I’m going to double check the wiring within my controller.
When I made the controller I wired the four PWM and Spindle Enable pins from the controller to a 4PDT on-off-on toggle switch. One half went to the VFD and spindle, and the other went to the RX16 panel socket mount. What I should have done with this was actually wire only the PWM and the ground, and then also… erm.
I wanted to have the option of adding a laser, but I didn’t really know what I was doing or how I would wire this. This laser has a controller built in, and it can accept ANG or TTL inputs. Both can be used as PWM. Pulse width modulation. I don’t need the spindle enable pins to reach the laser module, so I un-soldered those and wired up the power to the laser. You can use 12-24v but you need to ensure the Power Supply Unit can provide a minimal current which is either 2.5 Amps for 12v or 1.5 Amps for 24v. I’m going to wire in the 24v.
Errr, I’ll just turn it on. In the end I tried a few different wiring techniques including wiring the power directly to the GX16 socket. This resulted in the fan constantly running. You guys can look at the laser.
In the end I decided to separate the power and signal to the laser via two switches. That way I had two physical actions to complete, not including putting the laser module onto the docking station before starting a laser job. If I forget to do any one of those things the laser will not turn on.
How you control the laser is determined by the software you are using, and the firmware you have installed on your controller. I am using GRBL 1.1 which now has a Laser Mode written into it – which acts like a safety feature. $31=1 activates laser mode, $32=0 turns it off. These can be written into the Gcode before running a job.
So what I’ve got now is a switch which sends the 24v to the laser plus a switch which sends the signal either to the laser or the VFD and then the spindle. So if I switch over to the laser it wont turn on until I put the power switch. And then if I swap over to the router this will automatically turn off. Anyway I’m going to try draw this up now so I’ve got a record of what I’ve done.
The next thing I did was check the laser along a toolpath. I used a demo/beta version of a G-Code generator by OptLaser which at the time of filming this software isn’t available yet but I think it’s going to be a contender. It looks very intuitive to use. I’m checking to make sure that when the laser mode is enabled, the laser turns off when the machine comes to a standstill. Otherwise I’d burn a hole in the waste-board.
I can’t stress the safety aspect of working with lasers. You really need to be wearing the correct safety goggles which blocks the wavelength range from the laser. You need good extraction coz lasering anything stinks and can produce dangerous TVOC’s– you need to understand how air pressure works so that when you’re extracting fumes from your work area you are replacing the air in the room from a fresh clean source. You’ll probably need a carbon air scrubber as well. I am considering making an enclosure for this machine or at least make an additional hood that can fit around the laser beam, using the appropriately tinted acrylic. There’s probably more things you need to consider as well that I haven’t even fathomed… I turn this on and hide behind my enclosure.
And the thing I have to remember is to check that the laser mode has been disabled. So it’s $32=0 to do that. It’s in the code to switch to it and switch back but if something goes wrong and I don’t finish then potentially the machine will be left on that setting and if I switch to the router, and try to cut something and the spindle stops spinning when it (the feed) slows down well I’ll look like an idiot.
I’m now 3D printing a part to mount the laser too the CNC machine. I made a quick model on Fusion 360 but I’m not going to show you how I did that otherwise this video would be 10 minutes longer.
Well the holes look like they line up.
If you are interested in that I have a similar video making a replacement bracket for a dial gauge on my main channel – which I’ll link too in the information card. Anyway I printed this out and test the design, only to realise I made a few mistakes and had to make a second one. For example, the recess holes for the nuts were a little too tight… and overall the laser was too high above the wasteboard.
I just put the the wire through the drag-chain, and it fits like that. The only problem is it’s really high up.
To get the full power of the beam you should mount it about 20-30mm above the material you are working on. I kept the holes in the same position as I had already tapped the spindle acetal plates and fitted everything together. I also added some boot ferrets to the wiring just to make it all a little more secure. I also added some boot ferrells to the wiring which I previously secured directly to the flex.
I then did some test engravings… Ok I’ve got the fan over there. It’s not long enough to reach over here but what I could do is. To focus the laser I would run a tool path and then press the pause button, and also turning the laser off at the power selector switch and then toggle the collimator lens one way and then continue cutting. I did this a few times until I was in focus.
Alternatively you could write your own g code to move the laser in stages along the z axis while engraving and compare the outcome. Picking the best one and working out the offset from the z axis home.
So to conclude this is nicely made bit of kit and it seems to work quite well, especially with the latest version of GRBL. The guys behind this seem quite knowledgeable, and I have to admit I really like the aesthetics – it’s quite sci-fi and it looks like it should belong on a spaceship.
If you are interested in knowing more about the module or docking station, I will place an affiliated link in the description. And hopefully by the time you see this video their software will also be available but if not you could always use LaserGRBL – which is a free alternative and I will leave a link to that in the description as well.
Anyway as per usual please let me know your thoughts on laser engraving, cheese, the weather and the growing costs of birch-ply. And don’t forget to sacrifice a thumb and I will cheese you in the next one.
This entry was posted in CNC and tagged 6W Laser, CNC, DIY CNC, OptLaser, PLH3D. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-23T16:20:42Z | https://miscpro.com/2018/02/04/installing-6w-laser-with-magnetic-docking-plh3d-6w-xf-from-optlaser/ |
Shows how to communicate more effectively, covering aspects of thinking, writing, speaking and listening as well as formal and informal communications.
Consists of guidelines found useful by university students and practising middle and senior managers.
Communication is the transmission of meaning to others.
Important is that 'meaning' is transferred. In other words, it is important the other persons understand what we want them to understand, that they understand the intended meaning.
More precisely, purposeful communication is the transmission of intended meaning to others.
that the receiver interprets the message in such a manner that he receives the intended meaning.
Hence for effective communication the sender must determine the purpose of the communication and use words which have the same meaning for sender and receiver.
The scientific study of meaning is called Semantics.
Words are labels. Labels are arbitrary.
Most common cause of misunderstanding arises from assuming that the word (a label) is the object. Two people can then be arguing about a concept, referring to it by using the same word, arguing because this word means something different to each of them.
So to be meaningful, words must establish the same thought (reference) in both the sender and receiver of a communication.
Words vary considerably as regards their value for communication. They differ in their level of abstraction. The greater the level of abstraction, the less meaning do they have.
Objects represent a relatively low level of abstraction as they can be seen and touched and their characteristics detailed accurately.
Here words are labels for objects such as table or chair.
In addition to objects, both action and time are implied, and so these are more complex.
Examples are: Accident, sale, party.
Words are also used as labels for groups and collections of objects or events. These generalisations are more abstract and less precise.
Examples of such labels are: Furniture, machine tools, employees, parents.
Employees, for example, can be full-time, part-time, shift working, office working, home working, male, female, young, old, single, married, unskilled, skilled, professional, and more.
Value judgements and ideology are at the highest level of abstraction and words used as labels for them are quite useless for effective communication until the meaning of the word used is clearly defined in detail.
Examples of such labels are: Beautiful, valuable, necessary, luxury, lazy, free enterprise, truth.
Such words can be strung together and mixed with generalisations to provide good-sounding speeches and statements of the kind politicians like to use, to provide speeches and statements with no real meaning attached to the words used. Listeners or readers use their own idea of what the words mean and so their understanding of what is being said differs widely from person to person.
I listed the word 'truth' as an example of a label for a meaningless abstraction. Surely 'truth' ought to be more than a meaningless value judgement, so let us look at this in more detail.
Consider two media reports of a current event. Each reports the same event, each apparently telling the truth, each report giving its viewers different impressions of what actually happened.
How come? Can there be more than one truth?
Such reports may tell only part of what happened, may report only what seems relevant to the reporter, may then be selecting what seems to support the particular viewpoint of those who prepared the report.
Which means that what is required in a court of law is the truth with nothing taken away and nothing added.
If we agree on this as a definition, then the word 'truth' has become more meaningful.
A distinction needs to be made between formal and informal communications. Formal communication implies that a record is kept, that what has been said or written can be attributed to its originator.
On the whole, written communications are formal. But statements may be qualified by phrases such as 'preliminary thoughts are ...'.
Oral (spoken) communication consists of direct or transmitted speech between two or more people. Oral communications are more likely to be misinterpreted than written ones, were regarded as informal but are now often recorded and treated as formal. Missing from such recordings is the body language consisting of facial expressions and gestures.
Consider an informal chat by telephone getting comments on matters of joint concern before producing a final report. Important is the possibility of a two-way flow of information, of immediate feedback, of a frank unreserved exchange of information, opinions and ideas.
The informal nature of such exploratory conversations is often ignored. People's preliminary thoughts can then be quoted against them as if they had been fully considered.
Although an answering (recording) machine ought to bleep at regular intervals while recording, conversations can be recorded in different ways by one person without the other being aware of this.
Hence one needs to make sure the other person is aware of the informal nature of the conversation. In other words, that the other person knows the conversation is not to be recorded and that the information is to be regarded as confidential until the matter has been fully considered.
There are, however, many formal oral communications, such as selection, grievance or appraisal interviews, or when negotiating. Characteristic is that a record is kept by those participating.
Rumours are hearsay. One person tells the next who tells another, and so on. But there are personal barriers as people tend to keep back, elaborate or enhance information in accordance with their likes and dislikes. Hence information tends to change in emphasis and content as it is passed from person to person. This makes rumours so unreliable a source of information.
Clarify your own ideas before attempting to communicate them.
Be clear about the purpose of the communication. For example, its purpose could be to inform others, to obtain information or to initiate action.
See if the other person can repeat what you have said, in his or her own words.
Effective communication, however, depends also on attentive listening.
Do not jump to conclusions before hearing what the other person has to say, and do not interrupt.
Interrupting prevents effective and meaningful communication, can prevent the speaker from making a valid point. Think how you would feel if you were interrupted just before making your key point.
It is up to the sender (originator) of the communication to use words which have the same meaning also for the receiver, for the listener. To ensure that you have understood the communication (message) correctly, you can repeat it in your own words to the other person.
For example, after being told how to get to a particular street one can ask "You mean, take the second street on the left?". Answers like "Yes, it is" or "Take the third on the left" confirm or improve our understanding of what we had been told.
Avoid jumping to conclusions, avoid making value judgements such as good or bad, desirable or undesirable, true or false, while the speaker is talking.
Restate the other person's position in your own words.
Avoid slogans, catchwords (buzz-words), jargon.
Use words or phrases which you could use naturally in conversation. Exception are technical terms and abbreviations which your reader will understand.
Use simple words and few of them.
In-house e-mail is fast. Copies are readily distributed to all those interested and reach their destination almost immediately.
Fast method for causing chaos as mistakes spread rapidly. Effects snowball as others act quickly using the mistaken information.
Better to prepare draft replies but only post the replies after some hours, which allows considering, validating, completing and improving the draft.
Avoid being blinded by words or phrases which sound good, expert, impressive, plausible or likely. Ask for a definition or explanation to be given in clear, simple, meaningful language.
Avoid being misled by illogical arguments, misleading publicity or propaganda.
When propaganda is logical, and seen to be logical, it is difficult to argue against, to counter. Such propaganda is usually misleading because it is the premise, the first argument or underlying assumption, which misleads.
In other words, a logical argument can be based on false assumptions or misleading information. | 2019-04-18T14:39:54Z | https://solhaam.org/articles/words.html |
Rubens was one of the most famous artists of his day, but his influence extended way beyond his death. Over the centuries, each generation looked to him for his vibrant colours, his grandiose compositions and vigorous painting technique. From his pupil Van Dyck to 19th-century painters Constable and Cézanne and artists working today, Rubens left a distinct mark on art history. It’s often said that, without him, there could have been no Rococo, Romanticism nor even Impressionism.
I can tell you truly, without exaggeration, that I have had to refuse over one hundred [assistants], even some of my own relatives or my wife's, and not without causing displeasure among many of my best friends.
As the above quote attests, Rubens was not a master who was easy to please – yet he described Anthony Van Dyck as “the best of my pupils”. At the time, Rubens was in his early forties and the leading painter in Antwerp and Van Dyck was just 19 and Rubens’s chief assistant. But as well as learning from his master, Van Dyck also departed from his example.
Their close artistic relationship is illustrated in two portraits of Genoese noblewomen. Rubens painted his in 1607, during his four-year stay in Italy in his thirties. In Genoa, he portrayed the city’s aristocrats, using a grand, full-length format usually reserved for rulers and king. But he introduced to this a sense of drama and movement through the play of light and anecdotal details. Notice the playful dog at the sitter’s feet and the servant, who enhances his mistress’s beauty.
Twenty year later, Van Dyck followed in Rubens’s footsteps, visiting Genoa and painting its aristocrats with the same elegance. He adopted the same full-length format and included similar classical columns and luxurious fabrics. There’s even a dog. But he also transformed Rubens’s example. He turned his sitter’s face to a profile view, giving her greater distance and reserve, and pared down his master’s exuberance.
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Maria Grimaldi and Dwarf, c.1606.
Oil on canvas. 241x240cm. Kingston Lacy, the Bankes Collection (the National Trust), Dorset, inv. 1257100/KLA/P/59. Photo © National Trust Images/Derrick E. Witty. Exhibition organised by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and BOZAR (Centre for Fine Arts), Brussels.
Sir Anthony van Dyck, A Genoese Noblewoman and Her Son, c.1626.
Oil on canvas. 191.5x139.5cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Widener Collection, 1942.9.91 Photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Exhibition organised by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and BOZAR (Centre for Fine Arts), Brussels.
In no other branch of art is Rubens greater than in landscape.
John Constable was a great admirer of Rubens’s landscapes, and shared with him a deep appreciation of the poetry of nature. If Rubens’s rural retreat was northern Flanders, Constable’s was his native Suffolk, where he was born and spent much of his life. These two artists, born two centuries apart, were drawn to similar aspects of nature: on the one hand, its suggestive appeal, and on the other, its changeability and atmospheric effects.
Rubens’s Evening Landscape with Timber Wagon reveals his close observation of nature. The dusk sky contains the last embers of the setting sun, while in the foreground a lone man heads home, taking his timber wagon down a steep riverbank. His red jacket stands out in the evening light: a strong colour-contrast that would later strike a chord with Constable.
John Constable, Full-scale sketch for The Hay Wain, c.1821.
Oil on canvas. 137 x 188 cm. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. 987-1888. Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan. Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Exhibition organised by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and BOZAR (Centre for Fine Arts), Brussels..
I like his emphasis. I like his exaggerated and loose forms.
When it came to capturing drama, Rubens’s true heir was perhaps the French Romantic painter, Eugène Delacroix. During his lifetime, Delacroix made nearly 100 drawings and 30 oil copies after Rubens. He was a great colourist himself, and was drawn to the vibrant colours of Rubens’s work. As well as studying Rubens’s religious paintings – he saw the great altarpieces in Belgium during the summer of 1850, Delacroix also admired Rubens’s exhilarating depictions of wild animals.
Rubens’s Tiger, Lion and Leopard Hunt centres on a violent trial of strength between man and beast – a theme he returned to repeatedly. Like a filmmaker, he captured the drama of the scene through his treatment of light, his contrasting colours and forceful composition. The action emanates dynamically from the centre, where a horseman is attacked from behind by a ferocious tiger. The man’s wide eyes convey his sheer terror.
Eugène Delacroix, Lion Hunt, 1858.
Oil on canvas. 92 x 117.5 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. 95.179. S. A. Denio Collection - Sylvanus Adams Denio Fund and General Income. Photograph © 2014 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Exhibition organised by the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and BOZAR (Centre for Fine Arts), Brussels.
A similar painting by Rubens made a deep impression on Delacroix. “I like his emphasis. I like his exaggerated and loose forms,” he wrote. In his Lion Hunt, Delacroix adopted a similar circular composition, with a golden lion encircled by turbaned horsemen. Their oriental-style outfits are also indebted to Rubens, as are the colours. Indeed, in his use of colour Delacroix passed on Rubens’s legacy to the subsequent generations of French artists, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
From the circle, or the perfect sphere, is created all that is feminine, and all that is of the flesh, twisting, rounded, curved and arched.
Rubens is known for his full-figured nudes and his convincing depiction of human flesh. His female figures were an inspiration for generations of artists that followed, among them Paul Cézanne. In later life, Cézanne became absorbed with the theme of female bathers, and admired in particular the way Rubens placed his nudes within nature and captured them in motion.
Both are features of Rubens’s Pan and Syrinx. The action takes place on the banks of a river, where the nymph Syrinx flees from the grasp of the lecherous Pan. Unable to escape, she is transformed by the river nymphs into a reed, like those that surround her. Despite her convincing appearance, Syrinx’s dynamic pose is adapted from a classical sculpture, which Rubens brilliantly transformed into living, pulsating flesh.
Cézanne’s nudes don’t conform to classical ideals of beauty, like Rubens’s, nor was he interested in capturing the texture of flesh. What he shared with Rubens was a desire to convey the volume and solidity of the human body. His depiction of the skin too, with tinges of blue combined with red, recall Rubens’s technique of painting flesh.
Paul Cézanne, Three Bathers, c.1875.
Oil on canvas. 30.5 x 33 cm. Private Collection/Photo: Ali Elai, Camerarts.
Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of paintings.
Jenny Saville RA, Voice of the Shuttle (Philomela), 2014 – 15.
Private Collection /© Jenny Saville. All rights reserved, DACS 2015/Photo Mike Bruce/Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
Rubens’s influence continues to touch artists today, as shown in the last room of the exhibition, curated by Royal Academician Jenny Saville. Saville is known the large, fleshy nudes, which recall Rubens’s approach to the female figure. But for the exhibition, she produced something darker, both in style and subject: a large charcoal drawing showing two severed heads on a pile of bodies. It tackles a theme often treated by Rubens. “The abduction of a woman’s body, that’s a very difficult to deal with in a painting, so I wanted to have a go at it one way or another, and that’s what led me to deal with the myth of Philomela.” Philomela, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, is raped and mutilated by her sister’s husband, and gains revenge only after she is transformed into a nightingale.
While Saville confronted one of Rubens’s themes, other artists in the display share his painterly technique. Among them are Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and contemporary artist Cecily Brown. Brown’s painting, The Young and the Restless shares an affinity with Rubens’s nudes and his technique of painting. Like Rubens, she conjures up an impression of pulsating flesh through her vibrant colours and vigorous application of paint.
King Charles I amassed one of the most extraordinary art collections of his age, acquiring works by some of the finest artists of the past – Titian, Mantegna, Holbein, Dürer – and commissioning leading contemporary artists such as Van Dyck and Rubens. For the first time since the 17th century, this landmark exhibition brings together the astounding treasures that changed the taste of the nation.
Please note: this article was originally published in connection with Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne which was held in the Main Galleries from 24 January — 10 April 2015. | 2019-04-22T08:03:50Z | https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/rubens-five-masters |
The in-memory OTLP engine does not have feature parity with the legacy engine (yet).
The batch engine will never out perform queries using the legacy engine against pre-aggregated data.
A different tact is to use some form of queue to copy the data from a normalized to a de-normalized data model. Great care has to be taken when creating this queueing mechanism in order to avoid it becoming a bottleneck in itself.
How well a LMax disruptor based queuing mechanism scales on SQL Server.
What the bottle necks are for this approach.
Where a SQL Server LMax disruptor queue burns its CPU time.
This approach might scale well with in-memory OLTP engine which is latch free and uses hashing to distribute rows across buckets.
* in front of the pop procedure.
The exact performance you will get is entirely dependent on the infrastructure you use for running SQL Server and on whatever else might be running on your instance at the time, the expectation for obtaining identical performance figures as those cited in this post is an unrealistic one.
For anyone wishing to use this code in anger, it is is recommended that it be modified thus, my initial version was written purely as a means to stress test the LMax disruptor pattern and not with production purposes in mind, similarly in the code which follows which uses a memory optimised table and IDENTITY column, IDENT_CURRENT should be used to obtain the initial slot value, the memory optimised table should only then be inserted into if the ‘Pop’ update results in a @@ROWCOUNT value of 1. Similarly, a version of the push code which is fit for production purposes should iterate with a delay in the event that the ‘Queue’ is full until a free slot becomes available.
The pop procedure has been coded with logic to allow the push procedure to create 20,000 messages in the queue before it will start removing them. Anyone wishing to use this code in anger for a practical application may want to reduce this number or remove this logic completely.
Time For A Test Drive !
For purely academic purposes, lets repeat this test with delayed durability. Were the queue to be used in anger in a real world application all message pushes to the queue should be durable. Had my server had a flash PCIe card with a NVMe driver, I would have got closer to eliminating WRITELOG waits without having to go down the delayed durability path.
Takeaway #1 a naive approach to implementing the lmax disruptor pattern with slot numbers based on monotonically increasing values does not scale well.
The method used to preserve the logical slot order but disrupt the physical order is a crude one and it needs to be deterministic, i.e. each value generated by the push sequence always has to correspond to the same pseudo random value, thus ruling out the use of GUIDs. A more elegant approach is to use a “Reverse key” index, this is a conventional b-tree index which stores the values of the indexed column(s) after they have under gone bit reversion. Oracle furnishes reverse key indexes out of the box, with SQL Server we have to craft reverse key indexes ourselves. I would refer anyone wishing to create reverse key indexes with SQL Server do this blog post which details how to do it.
Where Are Our CPU Cycles Being Burned ?
Nothing in particular stands out as an excessive consumer of CPU time. SQLServerLogMgr::AppendLogRequest is the function used to copy logging information into the log buffer. The three function calls I have highlighted relate to locking and latching, two things that use of the in memory OTLP engine should eliminate.
Where Has The Bottleneck Moved To ?
I was expecting this to be a call to sqlmin.dll!LatchBase::Acquire. Information on sqlmin.dll!LatchBase::Suspend in the public domain is non existent bar for this blog post, the post implies that suspend is used to release orphaned latches.
For any piece of software running on a modern processor to run fast trips off the CPU to main memory need to be minimized as much as possible. Performance ( the ability for something to “Run fast” ) and scalability are related, but are not the same.
The same principle applies to execution plans when the gather and distribute streams exchange iterators are present in the plan.
Processors with a faster clock speed and / or superior single threaded performance which allows the latch protecting the sequence to be acquired and released faster.
Something other than a sequence object to obtain monotonically increasing values from.
The ideal solution would be the availability of an in-memory sequence object protected by compare and swap (CAS) instructions. All of this begs the question. if a sequence does not scale that well with the legacy database engine, has the SQL Server engine team made some special provision for the in memory OLTP engine ?, at the time of writing this blog post I do not have an answer for this.
SQL Server, up to and including version 2016 does support the retrieval of the NEXT value from a sequence in natively compiled procedure.
Note that this trick only works with an in-memory table due to its latch free nature.
How does this fly ?
Takeaway #2 under load a sequence object has limited scalability which can be overcome using a memory optimized table with an identity column. However, even though this approach eliminates latching, access to the IDENTITY value is protected internally via the DBTABLE spinlock.
Microsoft does not give much away as to what the WAIT_XTP_OFFLINE_CKPT_LOG_IO wait event represents other than to state that it relates to reads on the log file required in order to perform offline check points. Because a row shows up in sysprocesses for a thread waiting on this wait type that accumulates CPU time whilst the in memory table is not in use, WAIT_XTP_OFFLINE_CKPT_LOG_IO can probably be safely ignored.
Can The Throughput Curve Be Pushed Still Further ?
Of these points, the last one is worthy of its own blog post. I suspect that there is a point at which the in memory table technique hits a scalability brick wall due to the sheer volume of DBTABLE spinlock spins. I also hope to cover the topic of queuing when using the in memory OLTP engine.
Actually, it should have the same kind of scalability issues to a lesser extent. You can’t build a queue out of a hash table so you need a range index. And there should be contention on the last page of it.
Also, CAS on the same data does not scale perfectly, either. CAS is merely a functionally constrained hardware lock.
Great work in this blog post. Would be interesting to see the throughput curves on a 128 core box. Probably, the perfect scalability is no longer present.
1. You can’t build a queue on a hash table.
If you were building your own hash table and if your choice of hashing algorithm was a poor one, this would cause problems. However, if we are talking about getting the database engine to do the leg work for us, via the in memory OLTP engine which uses hash buckets I cannot see this being a problem. Also if a good implementation of a reverse key index behaves as I think it should this would work also, although bit reversion is not technically the same as a hashing algorithm, at a high level you are effectively doing the same thing as hashing values.
2. Also CAS on the same data does not scale perfectly.
Agreed, however because a CAS instruction is a single machine instruction ( which is obvious ) it is much more efficient than a latch in terms of the CPU cycles it burns compared to a latch.
3. Would be interesting to see the throughput curves on a 128 core box.
For the legacy engine I suspect a combination of heavy spin contention on the XDESMGR and LOGCACHE_ACCESS spinlocks would kill the scalability curve long before you got to 128 threads. For the in memory OLTP engine and natively compiled stored procedures, the XDESMGR is no longer used, however you would either hit high LOGBUFFER waits or heavy spin contention on the LOGCACHE_ACCESS spinlock first.
Thanks for you comments and taking the time to read this blog post, I appreciate that my stuff is quite niche, but its still nice to have an audience.
Your stuff is awesome and is at the far edge of SQL Server tuning competence in this niche.
1. At the time of writing the comment I did not understand that you are not using range accesses to the queue. Equality predicates are enough. Hash indexes can therefore be used.
This should have no contention whatsoever on the hash buckets, you are correct in that. But each retrieval will result in at least one cache miss because the write happened on a different core. Memory transfers should now be a machine-wide limiting resource. Unclear, when that comes into play in practice.
2. True. Just want to emphasize my point: Concurrent writes, including CAS, on the same cache line do not scale at all with the number of threads doing them. I don’t think this contradicts anything of what you have said.
3. Hm who knows… Would be a cool test to run. Maybe transaction aborts for sequence number generation will be the highest contention cost?! That is my guess.
* I interpreted Thomas Kejser’s pseudo-code to mean that both push and pop would try again at the same slot in cases where the queue is full (push) or empty (pop). Was your change to increment the slot in such cases intentional? Does that change impact performance?
* In a real-world situation, it seems that pop would be constantly polling (with a small delay), but a push would occur only as new messages are generated. I think there may be some pretty bad worst-case behaviors that can come along with incrementing the pop slot even if there is no message to pop. For one, if the queue ever becomes empty, pop will quickly move in front of push. Once/if push catches up, the messages that were pushed in the meantime will be processed out of order because the first message to be processed will be the one where push has finally closed the gap on pop. Another edge case is that if the queue becomes empty and then only a single message is pushed, it will be ~30 minutes before the message is processed (2 million times the 1 ms wait) as the pop slot is in front of the pushed message and has to cycle all the way around to reach it. I could be misinterpreting, but in any case I suppose these are the sorts of issues that would need to be ironed out before using the code “in anger” (a new phrase for me as a non-Brit!).
Thanks for reading the post, “My change” on reflection was most probably an oversight ( bug ) that crept in in my haste to get the LMax disrupt-or pattern to scale. The pop procedure should ideally get the current value of the sequence from sys.sequences, however as this is approach is proven to have limited scalability, the use of the memory optimised table is recommended in which case IDENT_CURRENT should be used to the current identity value.
Geoff, Please refer to the addendum in the blog post for code pop code which is more fit for production purposes subject to testing.
Overall, I love the blog posts and it’s great to see the level of detail of your analysis. Definitely inspirational for those of us who are very comfortable with basic query plan tuning and in some cases wait stats analysis, but not yet debugging or tuning at such an advanced level as these blog posts.
Thanks for reading my blog, I’m delighted people find my musings worth reading and informative.
Question regarding the use of a pseudo-hash on the slot value: this will speed up pushes under high traffic, as you prove, but won’t it slow down pops, particularly if they’re done in less-frequent batches? I.e., having to read lots of pages with a single message each vs. a small series of pages full of messages?
There is a trade off here between logical IO and page latching. The implicit assumption behind implementing a queue in this manner is that you messages will be pushed and popped at a high frequency, therefore the design errs on the side of reducing waits on pagelatch_ex at the expense of increasing logical IO. The other consideration is that as you increase the size of the queue you risk it spilling out of the CPU cache and thrashing the lookaside buffer (TLB). | 2019-04-23T08:27:30Z | https://chrisadkin.io/2016/01/02/super-scaling-queues-using-the-lmax-disruptor-pattern/ |
His point is complaining about the "tunnel" grind. 3D graphics does not equal exploration. The maps are certainly smaller (and less visually impressive nowadays) but there were definitely branching paths and dead ends and stuff. That's gameplay exploration. Not just freelooking around with the thumb stick and going "oooo shiny". FFIV does have several optional bosses and quests you can undertake throughout the game. It's not on the same scale as later games but it's no worse than some of the PSX games.
Note: I haven't played FFXIII but I think you guys have different definitions of linearity here. Or are arguing about the linearity of different aspects of the game. Or something.
I've been playing the FFIV with an incredibly linear structure, no choice in character advancement or party, NPCs that have nothing interesting to say, boring dungeons with treasure chests never far off the beaten track, and run of the mill "go to new town, get new gear" type of weapon/armor upgrading that plagues many JRPGs.
Sounds a lot like FFXIII.
Exactly, there are actually plenty of little side paths and optional chests to grab, often blocked by more powerful enemies and the like. I'll take that over what little exploration FFIV has to offer.
Person #1) This apple is better, it's red and delicious.
Person #2) No, it's too round. I like this orange better, it's sweeter.
Person #1) Nah, I'll take apples. Oranges are too sphere-like.
I'm not really complaining about personal preference here, I'm complaining about people saying things about FFXIII that aren't really true.
I'll be honest, I haven't read back all the way. But from what I read, it was more a complaint about which game is more linear when both are. The variations in the "non-linear" sections are not really that different. Not saying which is better, but it's more like comparing apples to oranges and complaining that the other is too round.
Conversely, people are saying you're saying things about FFIV that aren't really true. You say tomahto, they say tomayto.
FFIV is very linear, this is not something that can really be argued about.
FFXIII is very linear, this is not something that can really be argued about.
Well if you want to view the FFXIII experience purely in terms of the Pulse gameplay, then that would nullify many of the criticisms of linearity. The fact that it is buried 30 hours in however, means that it is not going to be many people's experience of the game, as sitting through 30 hours of the most linear mind-numbing tedium is more than I could bear. If the entire game was like Pulse, then I would be much more favourably disposed towards it.
It's shorter than 30 hours in for most people, and I'd say only the first 3 hours of the pre-pulse experience is boring or mind-numbing. The game takes longer to build up because you need that time to learn the ins and outs of the battle system, but it's not like it's a 30 hour tutorial with no choice in character development or anything. It''s slow to get going, that's a fair criticism. Saying the game is nothing but walking down tunnels between fights is not a fair criticism. It's a very linear game sure....in terms of exploration only.
When 50 hours of a 60 hour game is spent running in a straight line down a tunnel getting in fights, I think that is a very fair criticism to make indeed.
To be fair, they did that in Chrono Cross too, and you had roughly zilch for character customization in that game.
You'll not find me an ardent supporter of curbed character growth in CC either.
Sure, it would be, if that were true, which it's not.
so have you only played the first 20 hours? Is that what you're bringing to this discussion?
Forgive me for accepting the accounts of far more credible sources than yourself.
Yeah, I think this debate has run its course. FFIV and FFXIII are both linear and want defines the non-linear sections seems to be the only debate.
I was just under the impression that I was arguing with someone who actually has actually played the entirety of the game in question.
I'll move on to talking to people who have actually played the best 2/3rds of the game.
I'm playing FF13 now. Where is the game time clock? Anyone know if the game clock runs when the game is paused?
I am on Ch 9 now...so it feels like I am almost there (to Gran Pulse I mean). I haven't kept very good track but I would say 15 hours thus far.
I kept running into fights before max level, then avoiding them thereafter (because there's little point). I also tended to avoid fights where I knew the exp reward was low, and thus not worth my time fighting.
And how many item levels do weapons have? You need a ridiculous quantity of items to get any weapon to its max level.
For battle, I like the look of the launch attack...it's effective because it stops the enemy from attacking. I like its look because it has a camera effect to go with it (zoom out and pan down). Do any other techs in the game have this? The rest of them look rather mundane.
^ What he said. Everyone should take a deep breath and get some fresh air or something.
Complaining about the curbed character growth is fair, though I didn't see it as an issue. If you're going to limit power leveling, I prefer something like Lost Odyssey, where enemies in an area just give you less xp after awhile.
I'm not sure if the max level for weapons is the same all around, but seems to be around 20, and then you can turn it into a different weapon using a catalyst.
No, I'm not trying to attack you, just pointing out that when a number of acquaintances have vouched that the latter portion is just like the first portion (with the exception of Pulse), then I'm going to take their word ahead of someone who claims that FFIV is more linear than FFXIII, seeing as that is characteristic of a lack of sound judgement.
That's what it came off as.
The pulse portion is most of the latter section of the game, chapter 12 is relatively short, and light on cut-scenes (except for the insane one to start it off) and has some great level design to it, with a good number of little side paths with treasure, and then chapter 13 is very short, no real cut-scenes until the final boss, the big thing being you can warp to both pulse and the chapter 12 areas, finishing up whatever you'd like. So yes, the post pulse areas are similar to the early parts of the game, but that's ignoring the fact that pulse is a giant section of the game.
My point about FFIV was about linearity in terms of exploration + character development combined.
Other than that, there is no point in discussing this any further. Comparing FF13 with FF4 doesn't make any sense to me. For its time it was great.
If the entirety of XIII were Pulse than I would not think it a linear game at all, but since the Pulse section is only about ten hours (until you beat the game and unlock more), it really doesn't counterbalance the overwhelming linearity of the majority of the game. Really FFXIII should have been almost entirely set in Pulse, it would have created a much better experience.
In terms of exploration FFIV is way more non-linear (Pulse not withstanding), dungeons required exploration to advance, and even more exploration to find all the treasure. I really hope that SE never decide to revisit this approach to map design, it's just so uninvolving.
So, I finally saw the end of Final Fantasy XIII a few days ago, so I may as well offer my own opinion on the game.
All told, Final Fantasy XIII is a game I have very mixed opinions on. I rather liked a lot of the game's story elements, with the way it twists around many classic Final Fantasy elements into something very unique. The basic idea behind the struggle of people of Cocoon who have been urned into Pulse l'Cie was very interesting to me, and a lot of the story scenes that built upon that were very good. I liked a lot of the characters, even if a few of them got rather annoying at times (particularly Vanille and Fang). The music in the game was consistently fantastic, but that was a given with that composer at the helm (I loved his work on SaGa Frontier 2).
The battle system was certainly fresh and exciting, with a lot of real strategy required and a good level of challenge (set Crystarium levels based on the plot helped a lot with this, in my opinion). The fact that every character had a totally unique ability set helped the game a lot, even if I would have preferred to see a wider variety of combat abilities. It certainly helped when I stopped thinking of the roles as classes and started thinking of them being AI controls more akin to gambits from FFXII. Major boss battles, including the final boss battle, were actually a lot more interesting and better built than they have been for quite a long time in the series.
With all of that said... I think I came to hate the game. I don't think it is irredeemably bad like FFXII was, but I would rank it much lower than many other Final Fantasy games. The game's particular brand of linearity is poisonous to the game in a truly terrible way. There is no sense of exploration, no ability to control your own pace, no ability to backtrack, no one to talk to, no minigames or sidequests to do, and has basically no thought required. For all the strong elements in the story, FFXIII falls into the worst trap laid out by the "travelogue" style of RPG design that FFX helped to establish: most of the game is just spent going somewhere, waiting for some plot event to suddenly jump into the protagonists' laps without them actually doing anything of note. The worst part about this in FFXIII is that the characters are not even going anywhere in particular, they are just wandering aimlessly most of the time. This structure worked in FFX because it was built upon the idea of a pilgrimage, with a very clear goal to the journey from the very beginning, but FFXIII doesn't have anything like that. It is just a mass of random environments the characters walk through until they run into an arbitrary plot scene. It's horrible.
Okay, so now I get to talk about Pulse... Yeah, Pulse fixes a number of the complaints I made above, but in many ways I liked the early part of the game in Cocoon far more than Pulse. Pulse was a nightmare at times. It promises openness and actual sidequests, but most of that is little more than an illusion placed on top of an experience which is just as linear and toxic as the gameplay in Cocoon. The environments are just as arbitrary, and despite the promise of Oerba the characters are just as aimless. Unlike Cocoon, though, it's a total plot void, with nothing but a handful of minor character interaction scenes occurring at total random across hours and hours of gameplay. And despite the cool mood of Oerba offering some promise at the end of that long, irritating journey, in the end nothing happens at all. The only thing that happens at Oerba is Barthandalus showing up, and the characters basically admitting that they were wasting their time with the whole Pulse thing before they go back to Cocoon. That was an incredibly terrible letdown for me.
Oh, yeah, I may as well mention that the return to Cocoon was pretty bad itself. It dragged on far too long, and the writing seemed to take an even worse nosedive than before for that stretch of the game (up to and including the ending). Also, I hated the pointless and overcomplicated weapon upgrade system (you can beat the game without even using it), and the shops were useless to the point of being not worth including.
Still, at the very least, the Faultwarrens are kind of cool. I like the Faultwarrens, and a lot of the rest of the optional "postgame you can do before you beat the game" stuff found on Pulse. It doesn't make up for the linearity of the plot journey through Pulse, but it does add a few drops of fun to the late game.
What can I say? For me, it really was a terrible game. I can go on and list all the many different things I didn't like about the game, but all of that pales before the one cardinal sin it committed as a game: it was boring. The game simply turned into a dull grindfest that was clearly not going to properly balance the effort it took to level up and raise funds with an appropriate amount of enjoyable plot scenes and fun battles.
For all of FFXIII's flaws, it at least never degenerated into that sorry state, so it is still better than FFXII. For me at least.
Who knows? Maybe one day I'll go back to FFXII, try something very different with it, and actually encounter a fun game experience. I just know that the my natural playstyle didn't work with that game at all.
Exploration isn't required sure, but is that so bad? | 2019-04-24T04:08:51Z | https://forums.rpgamer.com/discussion/15273/final-fantasy-xiii-spoiler-thread/p6 |
TheoPike.com » Brexit: A new hope for the UK’s environment?
As some of the dust starts to settle (or not…) on the results of last week’s referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, I’m clearly not the only environmental writer who’s been thinking day and night about the implications.
Readers of my chapter in Chalk Stream Fly Fishing (2012) may recall that I’m very much in favour of a system of supranational checks and balances on issues as fundamental as the health of the environment which transcends national boundaries yet still supports every aspect of our lives. When properly implemented into national law, the EU’s environmental directives have proved an excellent mechanism for identifying objective benefits, turning short-term political footballs into helpful long-term strategies, and keeping national governments honest, on both sides of the political spectrum.
For instance, the Water Framework Directive has enabled the clear public benefit of healthy rivers (and bugs, and birds, and fish) to be enshrined in UK law, with deadlines for meeting measurable quality improvements, and fines for not achieving these. It also mandates active involvement of stakeholders, and has given interested NGOs the right to challenge government for not taking these requirements seriously enough in their River Basin Management Plans. This has already resulted in several rounds of small but significant government funding for third sector organisations, mainly Rivers Trusts and Wildlife Trusts, to deliver river-related improvements with very high cost efficiencies in every catchment in the UK.
In these new times of great uncertainty, almost the only sure bet is that environmental issues and ecosystem services won’t be at the top of most politicians’ to-do lists or budget spreadsheets. Yet, now more than ever, the natural world really does matter. It will underpin every part of our future national policies – on farming, flood defence, clean air and water supplies, even religious and cultural inspiration – for generations to come. And it’s our responsibility to make sure that this message is heard.
As Tony Juniper wrote before the referendum, EU directives have created the context for most of the UK’s most valuable environmental protections.
SSSIs, SACs, the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) and recent regulations on the sale and import of invasive non-native species – all of these (and many more) provide clear benefits for everyone in our society and transnational ecosystem. As environmentalists, we must be very clear in our messaging to our elected representatives that WFD and other targets should be remain in place. Existing high standards of protection should be retained, enhanced (indeed perhaps shadowing future best practice as the EU’s environmental regulations continue to develop) and certainly not discarded as ‘green crap’ in some future cost-saving ‘bonfire of the directives’.
Mark Lloyd: What does the EU referendum mean for fish, fishing and much more?
Our natural world knows no political borders – indeed the transnational nature of great European rivers like the Rhine and Danube provided the inspiration for many of the EU’s highest environmental standards.
Here in the UK, the Catchment Based Approach has proved to be a practical and intuitive framework for managing the health not just of our waterways, but all our urban and rural surroundings. As a grassroots mechanism for delivering the Water Framework Directive, it empowers local stakeholders to take real ownership of the health of the places where they live. So this highly democratic partnership working has already harnessed startling reserves of local support and goodwill, producing tangible results year on year.
As the terms of Brexit take shape, river restorationists must ask Defra and the Environment Agency to commit to the future of local catchment partnerships, with secure long-term funding to enable cost-effective management of flooding, invasive non-native species, healthy soils and many other urgent issues. Failure to maintain this strategic investment in our river catchments will almost certainly prove to be a false economy in a world where the effects of climate change are already becoming clear. As many commentators have rightly pointed out, it’s exponentially cheaper to invest in a healthy environment now, than to have to pay for picking up the pieces when everything goes wrong at some inconvenient time in the future.
It’s true to say that not all European legislation has resulted in the best possible outcomes – Common Agricultural Policy subsidies, for example, a situation which George Monbiot has addressed in this article, among many others. Similarly, as S&TC’s recent work on aquatic invertebrates has shown, SSSI and SAC designation has spectacularly failed to protect the health of some of our most iconic rivers (if you can find more freshwater shrimp in the urban Wandle than the rural upper Itchen, something has clearly gone badly wrong).
Despite the risks, Brexit could provide us with an astonishing chance to examine our whole suite of environmental funding and designation mechanisms for fitness for purpose, and perhaps enhance or revision them with even better approaches for the future (for instance, the principles of rewilding could offer real economic benefits).
If properly handled, there’s every chance that this could represent an incredible creative opportunity – an inspiring new hope for our common environment, and a possibility which we must all be prepared to grasp.
Update: March 2017: Now that the crucial Article 50 has been invoked, environmental NGOs and concerned citizens must continue to do everything possible to ensure that the natural world takes its rightfully central place in negotiations about the future of our country.
Because as the dust settles (or not…) one thing is certain: sometime, somehow, a new environmental settlement will also eventually be needed.
A nice positive message, thank you..
Wise and thought-provoking stuff, Theo. Could we be seeing the political equivalent of punctuated equilibrium here?
Both major parties in meltdown, past mendacities coming home to roost – maybe there is room for a new approach? I am an incurable optimist….
Given Boris Johnson’s father, who was an MEP with top notch environmental credentials, and Exmoor upbringing, Boris could be a sensible choice for PM to help our cause.
All environmental organisations need to come together to be truly representative so that they can; properly influence government, big business and their consumers and develop a fighting fund/legal arm, like the AT’s so that they can take legal proceedings. That way we will be noticed for ever.
Theo. Fine in principle just beware ‘framing’ of the issues. The neighbours of water are often, if not always, farmers (bar the Wandle et al) and engaging them at grassroot level is key. How you communicate with them will involve more nuanced common ground outcomes and less use of the words ‘regulation’, ‘rewilding and Monbiot’.in the same sentence.
The environment will be greatly helped past-brexit by no longer allowing mass immigration and (over) population rise to continue. Less built-up areas are hopefully going to be needed and developed which means more room for the natural world.
Well said, Theo. From a personal perspective, last Thursday/Friday was a black time but good messages from you: time now to get on.
Sound words. The desire of many anglers is to help improve our rivers etc. The strong mandate ,if I can use such a term, that organisations like The Wild Trout Trust retains, remains in place & we should look for ways to build a critical mass of opinion that can’t be ignored.
The UK was set to wriggle out of another WFD deadline with appallingly low ambition but our agencies have duties under domestic legislation to improve and develop. I’ve never liked the idea that the European Commission should be forcing us to look after our land, water and air. We have the wrong people in charge if that is the case and I know we have the wrong people in charge, some of whom jumped ship from these agencies to the trusts when they could.
Three excellent and well-reasoned points thanks Theo. | 2019-04-24T08:43:27Z | http://www.theopike.com/brexit-a-new-hope-for-the-environment/ |
Santa Fe, NM – Today, the Obama Administration released its proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2016, which starts October 1, 2015.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, and has perennially been on the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk List for wasting taxpayers’ money. Despite that, the Obama Administration is giving NNSA nuclear weapons programs a 10.5% jump in funding to $8.85 billion. (1) This is statistically equal to the Cold War high point in 1985 under President Reagan’s military buildup. (2) Moreover, the NNSA’s nuclear weapons budget is slated to rise to $9.8 billion by 2020, nearly double that of the Cold War average. All of this is the beginning of the planned one trillion dollar modernization of U.S. nuclear weapons forces over the next 30 years.
The large increases in NNSA budgets are due to 1) aggressive “Life Extension Programs” that seek to indefinitely preserve existing nuclear weapons while giving them new military capabilities; and 2) new production plants for these rebuilt nuclear weapons, expected to be operational until ~2075. As an example of the former, the current $12 billion B61 Life Extension Program will create the world’s first nuclear “smart” bomb, and will soon begin production at existing facilities.
NNSA’s FY 2016 budget launches a whole new Life Extension Program for a nuclear warhead for a new air-launched cruise missile. (3) Requested FY 2016 funding is $195 million, a 20-fold increase from $9 million for conceptual studies in FY 2015. This program is slated to rise to $459 million in annual appropriations by FY 2020. This nuclear warhead has been scheduled before Pentagon development of the new air-launched cruise missile itself, in effect putting the cart before the horse. This costly program is arguably redundant as well, given that rebuilt B61 nuclear bombs will be delivered on future super-stealthy fighters advertised as capable of penetrating any adversary’s air defenses. Finally, a nuclear-armed cruise missile is destabilizing from an arms control perspective because they can fly below radar, delivering the proverbial bolt from the blue.
On the flip side of production, the Obama Administration’s funding request for dismantlements is $48 million, less than 4% of the funding for all Life Extension Programs to rebuild nuclear weapons. Obama’s request itself is an improvement from last year, when the Administration asked for only $30 million, a 45% cut compared to the year before. Congress refused to go along with that, earmarking $50 million for dismantlements in FY 2015. Besides providing a good example to the rest of the world, nuclear weapons dismantlements deliver real savings to the American taxpayer by eliminating otherwise permanent security costs.
Concerning new production facilities, NNSA is asking for a 28% increase to $430 million for the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) near Oak Ridge, TN. The UPF is to produce up to 80 “secondaries” each year, the components that give weapons thermonuclear capabilities capable of killing millions. The previous “big box” design for the UPF was canceled after out-of-control costs rose as high as $19 billion by one Pentagon estimate. UPF also had a half-billion dollar design mistake for which no one has been held accountable, in which all planned equipment could not fit within the building’s footprint. Because of all this, the UPF’s mission has been downscoped to production only, eliminating dismantlements, in order to help contain costs, currently capped at $6.5 billion. Again, dismantlements seem dispensable to the Obama Administration.
NNSA also plans to begin spending $2 billion to upgrade existing facilities for the expanded production of the plutonium pit cores of nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), beginning with $155.6 million in FY 2016. The controversial CMRR “Nuclear Facility” is formally canceled. In its place, up to $675 million is planned to be spent on additional equipment for the already built Radiological Laboratory to quadruple the amount of plutonium that can be handled there, and up to $1.4 billion to upgrade PF-4, LANL’s existing main plutonium facility.
In addition, “The third step of the plutonium strategy extends the lifetime of PF-4 and supports increases in pit production capacity beyond 30 pits per year by proposing to build new modular facilities and move selected processes into new space… The NNSA is planning to construct not less than two modular structures that will achieve full operating capability not later than 2027.” Although still far from final design, those modular facilities will likely cost a billion dollars each. Given the usual cost overruns, eventual costs may meet or exceed the CMRR’s estimated cost of $6.5 billion when it included the Nuclear Facility.
In New Mexico-related news, the DOE budget request for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is decreased by $76 million to $248 million. Of that, $87 million is for “base activities” while WIPP is shut down because of a radiation release in February 2104. The rest of funding is for “Recovery Activities” to resume underground disposal by March 2016 of radioactive wastes that were already stored above ground at WIPP when the accident happened. Meanwhile, plutonium-contaminated wastes across the country already prepared for shipment to WIPP will have to wait. Total costs to reopen WIPP remain unknown.
Inflation-adjusted funding for cleanup across the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex remains flat at $5.5 billion, even though estimated cleanup costs of the massive widespread contamination continue to climb. The funding request for cleanup at Los Alamos Lab is flat at $185 million. It includes repackaging radioactive waste drums stored at LANL that are similar to the one that ruptured and contaminated WIPP. It will also fund investigation and corrective measures for the large chromium plume in our groundwater aquifer, with an emphasis on preventing it from crossing the boundary of neighboring San Ildefonso Pueblo. Current contamination maps show the plume stopping at exactly the boundary, which is nearly impossible.
(2) The FY 2016 DOE nuclear weapons request is calculated as statistically equal to the Cold War record using data from Atomic Audit, Brookings Institute, 1998, Stephen Schwartz editor, Table A-2. It gives 5.494 billion in 1996 dollars as the cost for DOE nuclear weapons research, production and testing programs in 1985, the height of the Cold War military build up under Ronald Reagan. Adjusted for inflation that is $8.99 billion in 2015 dollars.
(3) Called the Long-Range Stand-Off weapon in the budget because heavy bombers can launch the nuclear-armed cruise missiles at a great distance from their intended targets.
Despite the fact that no one has come up with a good reason to increase plutonium pit production for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, officials want to study the possibility of radically increasing the amount of plutonium allowed in a recently completed laboratory at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The Deputy Administrator for National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs, Don Cook, has requested an analysis to increase the radioactive materials inventory in the recently completed Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building (RLUOB) to up to 400 grams of plutonium-239, the isotope used in nuclear weapons. The RLUOB, which originally was limited to 8.4 grams of Pu 239, was built as Phase 1 of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Project at LANL that would have expanded plutonium pit production to 50 – 80 pits per year (pits are the radioactive cores of nuclear weapons). LANL’s current capacity is 20 pits per year. Phase 2 of the CMRR project, the “Nuclear Facility,” was canceled because of lack of clear need and a bulging ten-fold increase in costs.
This RLUOB, along with some floor space in the existing Plutonium Facility (PF-4), will replace the old Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building, which is slated for closure in 2019. The Laboratory was working on a plutonium strategy to move out of CMR and maintain the current plutonium capability.
But NNSA recently increased the maximum amount of radiological materials allowed in the RLOUB, and all “radiological” facilities, from 8.4 grams to 38.6 grams. Internal Lab documents floated plans that could have increased the limit again by two or three times by treating each little laboratory in the RLUOB as its own radiological facility. This could have increased the limit to 115.8 grams of Pu239.
But NNSA apparently wants to go big. The new analysis is to consider the RLUOB as a Hazard Category 3 nuclear facility, which is a huge step up from its current designation as a radiological facility.
Read the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board report here.
Give ¡Grande! New Mexico is Tomorrow!
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• Oppose so-called “modernization” of the nuclear weapons complex and directly related expanded capabilities for increased nuclear weapons production.
• Stop expansion of WIPP.
• Promote comprehensive cleanup at Los Alamos and all DOE sites.
• Promote mission change at LANL. We will continue to redirect the Lab from core nuclear weapons research, testing and production programs to today’s critical national security challenges, such as preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons, promoting clean national energy independence, and studying global climate changes.
• Strive to be your worthy representative locally and in Washington, DC, on nuclear weapons issues that affect our communities, New Mexico, the nation, and the world.
Santa Fe, NM – The House Armed Services Committee is currently pushing a defense bill that pushes back against the Obama Administration’s plans to delay production of a new air launched cruise missile warhead and new nuclear warheads that would be “interoperable” between land-based ICBMs and sub-launched missiles. Related, the bill also calls for speeding up expanded plutonium pit production at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The House Armed Services Committee is objecting to delays, but not the substance, of plans by the Department of Energy (DOE) to heavily modify existing nuclear weapons during “Life Extension Programs” to create the new nuclear warheads. DOE’s FY 2014 “Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan” (SSMP), which first introduced these new warheads, caused considerable sticker shock in Congress. Now DOE has released a new FY 2015 SSMP that it claims is “generally affordable and more executable than the program proposed in the FY 2014 SSMP.” However, an analysis by Nuclear Watch New Mexico concludes that DOE’s new sales pitch is based on overly optimistic claims and outright omissions that should alarm Congressional budget hawks.
• Delaying projects and their costs – which almost always results in higher total costs.
• Lowering budget estimates while claiming undocumented improved cost modeling – when NNSA has an abysmal record in cost estimates.
• Claiming $7.5 to $9.5 billion in savings for NOT doing a Life Extension Program – which in fact was never planned.
• Omitting costs of directly related programs – which may exceed the costs of the Life Extension Programs themselves.
• Depicting costs as gradually tapering off – while failing to disclose that even more expensive follow-on programs are planned 20 years after the first round of Life Extension Programs.
• Perhaps most significantly, assuming the armed services will help pay for heavily modified nuclear weapons – when in fact the U.S. Navy does not want them (see internal memo below).
Missing is justification of why an extensively tested, reliable stockpile needs to be heavily modified during Life Extension Programs. According to a recent DOE Inspector General audit report, NNSA failed to diligently keep original “as-built” designs, when that information “is the foundation upon which the NNSA surveillance program assesses the current stockpile. Without it, NNSA loses confidence in its nuclear weapons stockpile assessments.” Changes could possibly erode confidence in nuclear weapons reliability, especially if original design information is lacking as a baseline.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently reported that NNSA and the Pentagon plan to spend $355 billion over the next decade on nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration’s FY 2015 budget request cuts funding for nonproliferation, dismantlement and nuclear safety programs, and keeps cleanup funding flat. | 2019-04-24T22:38:07Z | https://nukewatch.org/category/press-releases/ |
One cannot get what one wants out of life if one is being run by "orders" that are outdated and/or unworkable for your greater good. Your body will often automatically (from its "programs") have you do something it has evolved to do that lead to better survival in the world 10,000 years ago, where there was extreme dangers that could kill us and where the circumstances were vastly different (the scarcity of a regular supply of food, for instance).
Just go along to "get along"
To look to see what needs to be updated to adapt to this world and to having a better life.
If you don't do the latter, you cannot possibly (I repeat: "cannot possibly") have a great life.
"Oh, grow up!" is what we might say to an "out of control" young person...or to ourselves at times. Well, methinks, they "would if they could".
I think there is no one who intentionally wants to be the helpless dependent of impulses, which come from a lower brain, functioning more at the level of an animal. But that is the way we are born. It served us well for survival. Over time, however, we developed a higher brain which can do "higher thinking", where it can discriminate more about what is happening and what should be done. With the higher brain we can learn how to choose a "higher" want and/or a better behavior than the unthinking mechanistic impulse might tend to cause.
Certainly, nobody wants to be controlled by the lower unthinking brain. It is characterized, and "metaphorized" as "the monkey mind", Lennie (from "Of Mice And Men"), or Pokeyman (like a plump doughboy waiting around for circumstances or other people to "poke" us or stimulate us as we watch tv and eat junk food or take artificial mind altering substances).
The lower brain simply functions as an "association" machine, matching patterns held in the brain to anything that appears to be generally, unintelligently "similar" to something that might be relevant. The neuronal pattern, when accessed, can then trigger "emotions" and "behaviors" via electrical and chemical impulses.
Animals have such impulses and they simply follow out what the instructions (patterns) seems to say. They do not have a higher thinking brain that can further discriminate and ask questions, like "Do I really need to eat the whole pint of ice cream? Yes, I understand that in the savannah there was rarely good sources of sugar and that therefore it served me to eat all I could (which wasn't much, probably not even close to a pint). I understand that no "turn off" limit was installed, since it wasn't needed when I didn't have a big supply. Therefore, I choose to do what is healthier for me..."
The animals (and even us as babies) simply follow the impulses as if they were always to be followed, as if they are demands or commands. But they are not mandatories in most cases, those outside of truly threatening tigers or other real dangers that we MUST act on.
As a human I have the power to think and to choose what to do, instead of being the passive recipient of an impulse that is in control of what I do - and largely firing off "programs" that are outdated and do not serve present needs.
Impulses can of course be appropriate in that they serve our best interests. Of course, the impulse to eat is useful when we hunger tells us we need to eat to balance off our blood sugar and to have a fuel supply. On the other hand, I can also choose to delay my impulse, for, say, 10 or 20 minutes, and I'll be just fine - and if I am on a diet I might find that the strength of the impulse has faded by then, just as emotions (which are electrochemical pulses) only last about 90 seconds if they are not reinforced or reinstigated.
I prefer to use the term "impulse management" instead of "impulse control" because an "impulse" is something that happens instantaneously, so we cannot intervene in the middle! Once it is started we can't "control" it. It is strictly mechanical. But we can intervene afterwards once we are aware of the impulse and "think" about it, question it, and implement actions that we have learned work better than simply following the mechanical impulse.
WE MUST LEARN, IN ORDER TO "SEE", AND TO "CHOOSE"
Anyway, impulse control is something that must be learned, as it is not a magically gifted trait we are born with. We must learn to see impulses for what they are: biochemical sensations based on neurological patterns in the brain - strictly mechanical and nothing more. We must also learn to see impulses for what they are not, as they are not commands/demands that must be followed - we can choose whether or not to follow them - and therein is where the "magic" lies in self control.
Of course, the reason we want to have impulse control is so that we have the ability to choose to do what is best for us and to create a truly great life and experience of life.
Although an impulse comes to us as a sort of sensation that we "feel", it also contains a form of a "belief", though one we might not be conscious of. Each impulse came to us courtesy of evolution: if we did the impulse we tended to have our DNA survive better. But an impulse that was positive for life 10,000 years ago may not serves us well today, such as the impulse to keep eating all the fat we can so that we will survive the next famine period. Because all these impulses come up that may not be good for use, we are left with a "sorting" problem: we must sort out what is nonsense and shouldn't be followed up on.
So, now, if one is impulsive, one still must control his attention long enough to learn some of the basics (of beliefs, of thoughts, of the behavior chain, how the body operates, and what actions are better choices). We tend to learn these randomly and some of us have good influences that help us do it more rightly but many of us do not.
Given that there is alot to learning impulse control as part of self control, I am seeking herein to give you some perspective and understanding from which you can then choose to go further and to follow some of the paths I've set forth.
Except for high emergency impulses and extreme needs, we can choose to listen to our impulses and see that they are not necessarily valid in today's world - though they were helpful in caveman days.
And I can then choose not to obey the impulses, asking "is it in my best interest to let that impulse determine my behavior?" Once you get into the habit of not obeying certain impulses it will be easy - and your life results will be dramatically better!
An emotion (electrochemical impulse) dissipates within 90 seconds (if not reinforced and restarted by repeating the thought behind it).
Note that hunger and the desire to eat will often disappear if one waits 12 minutes - and anyone can do that!
Go to the special section Willpower, Discipline, Habits Contents/Links to see how you actually build up a Psychological Energy Reserve and build up your lifestyle to support your feeling the energy and power to easily have the power to do that which is a higher action for your greater benefit.
We all want to masterfully control our lives to create what we want in life.
Yet, we allow ourselves to go ahead and do something that we know (or suspect) might do us harm.
But, really, what is actually going on? What is the mechanism that is operating?
We never do things for "no reason".
"Impulses are thoughts that inspire behavior" is one frequent explanation. Basically, as a human I am responding to some perceived need for action to solve a problem and I am using that which I am familiar with as a solution.
The body/mind seeks "survival". It matches patterns stored from past behavior on what worked and what didn't work and then it applies the proper motivator to get us to do what works to promote survival (procreate, fight/flight/freeze, eat, sleep, warmth) or stop doing what lowers survival (driving us to do something else, by having us "feel" bad). Mechanically we are driven to do what is right.
And the limbic system is what does this function. It is unable to express itself in verbal language (the method we, in our cortex, use to "understand" things), but is perfect in its mechanistic response using a chemical language/thought of sorts. (It is like our cortex/higherbrain speaks one native language while our limbic system speaks another language, but neither understands the other. Our objective here is to get the cortex to understand more of the limbic/body "language". The primitive limbic system, using our language translation, says "oh, damn, this is not getting us what we want [survival], we better correct this, right now!" It emits cortisol to make whatever you're doing unpleasant, to motivate you to do something else.
or "oh, there's a great opportunity to survive 'better', let's go for that". It emits dopamine in anticipation of the reward, "motivating" us to seek the reward.
So, as a human being, you simply get a chemical as an impulse - but you do not need to obey the impulse. You can overrule it - IF you have a routine and/or concrete statement to make to yourself at the time, one that is immediately available! You can have a "talking to" yourself session, from your "higher being", in a sense.
Or you can rebuild the whole pattern, as below, by developing a whole new sequence and practicing it - called a 'habit'.
Learning what is the right thing to do is part of building accumulated wisdom. But that wisdom does us no good if we are still inclined to do what we know is not good for us.
But my thinking center is aware that this is not right. So, the question is, for this piece, "How do I heed the higher brain and stop acting on the lower brain?"
We get into a habit of going with our impulses, after which we typically feel "weak-minded" besides suffering the consequences of the errant impulse.
A solution lies in developing the muscle of "postponing gratification" (though it isn't true gratification). It takes repetition to do this.
1. I get an impulse. (To eat ice cream).
2. I, obviously, notice the impulse.
3. I then label it ("mindfully") as something I know is not good for me.
This is not something to do once in a while. It is a practice to consistently engage in, for the rest of your life.
The wise person has an alternative with which to fill up the space. If there is no alternative action to choose from, then the default thought or action will persist, much to our detriment - as life will compound against our greater good.
In a relationship, if you act on impulse, I guarantee you will not have a good relationship. There will always be lots of erroneous brain messages (that haven't yet been corrected), some with patterns that are very harmful - and which should never be acted upon. You "know" these, as they are related to anger and fear - you should never proceed on those without first pausing and then answering "is this good for the relationship?" or the general power question "is this the right thing to do?".
Until you learn this and can have confidence that you will implement the interference and and the pause to think, you should not enter a relationship, for you do not have what it takes to make it work - and it'll only bring you more suffering and disillusionment.
Your health and the quality of your life are at stake, also. You can't afford to keep on letting erroneous brain messages dictate your behavior, as if you were a thought-free bozo with no brains with which to make a reasoned choice.
A key underlying concept is that you must know that the brain sends out messages that are not revised properly and are often erroneous. If you believe these untrue messages are "the truth", then you have a major misunderstanding that will have you be run by the matched, but random and/or erroneous, content from a recording in the brain.
It is essential that you know that IT IS ONLY A RECORDING, NOT A TRUTH OR AN IMPERATIVE.
Live A Life Dictated By Feelings...Or Not?
The Pause - A lifetime every day practice!
A MECHANICAL ISSUE, NOT A MORAL ISSUE!
While, of course, impulse control affects others in a moral sense, it is actually a mechanical issue, requiring intervention with mechanical means - means that have proven to be effective.
Other than the basic instinctual impulses, we "learn" how to "inhibit" dysfunctional impulses (via training of the frontal cortex) and "defuse" some of their power (via training of the primitive alarm systems and primitive "programming").
The basic human unit, while incredibly capable, will only operate at its best by getting the correct learning and stopping the inflow of the incorrect learnings - and as early as possible (such as pre-school). | 2019-04-22T16:56:51Z | http://www.thelifemanagementalliance.com/Psychological/Behavior/ImpulseControl.html |
Four separate programs provide $5 billion in supplemental payments annually, comprising about 1 of every 14 Medicaid dollars.
Supplemental payments are important to the financial health of many hospitals; all of the State’s 179 hospitals receive some payments, and the funds are especially critical for 30 hospitals including New York City’s municipal hospitals, public hospitals affiliated with five counties, SUNY Downstate Medical, and 14 voluntary hospitals for which supplementary payments are at least 5 percent of operating revenues and which still incur operating losses.
Supplemental payments will shrink in the near future due largely to federal policy, and the impact will be most severe for New York City municipal hospitals; these institutions are slated to bear the brunt of approximately $370 million in net annual cuts in 2018.
The State can revise the distribution of reduced federal funding for supplemental payments to make the impact of future federal cuts more equitable.
The four supplemental payment programs each have an acronym, yielding an alphabet soup of names. The names are: Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program; Upper Payment Limit (UPL) program Vital Access Provider Assurance Program (VAPAP) ; Value-Based Payment Quality Improvement Program (VBP QIP).
Third preference is given to county hospitals outside of New York City. These institutions, including large facilities in Nassau, Westchester, and Erie, receive the full amount of their Medicaid shortfall, currently about $300 million annually. However, the nonfederal portion of these payments must be funded locally; thus, the net payment to the hospital is actually only half the Medicaid shortfall.
While the DSH program fully covers the Medicaid shortfall for State university hospitals and county hospitals, voluntary hospitals and H+H hospitals face a remaining shortfall. The UPL program addresses these needs.
Federal law authorizes—but does not require—states to make payments to hospitals to cover the difference between the Medicaid payment for services and the amount the federal Medicare program would pay for those services. The maximum amount a state can spend is set separately for public and private hospitals and for types of services.
In New York State UPL payments are authorized for voluntary hospitals for inpatient services and H+H hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services. The combined authorization for 2016 is estimated at $811 million annually with $247 million for voluntary hospitals and $563 million for H+H hospitals.10 Generally the payments are distributed in proportion to Medicaid service volume. The UPL payments to H+H are financed half by federal funds and half by funds from New York City on behalf of H+H. Thus the net gain to H+H from the UPL payments is $282 million rather than $563 million.
The funding of voluntary UPL payments is more complex due to its links to voluntary DSH payments. The nonfederal portion of the voluntary UPL payments is technically paid from the State General Fund; however, these UPL payments are credited against the $995 million voluntary hospital DSH allocation.11 Using the 2015 figures as an illustration, voluntary hospitals do not receive an additional $247 million due to UPL payments, but those hospitals receive the same total amount of $995 million with $247 million from UPL payments and $748 million in DSH payments. This reduction in voluntary DSH payments is important because more federal funding is made available for other DSH payments as a result. Given the hierarchy of payments in the DSH program, the impact is to make available additional federal funds for H+H DSH payments; but, H+H must fund the nonfederal portion of these DSH payments from its own sources. Using the 2015 illustration, H+H receives an additional $123.5 million in net DSH payments, the federal share of the $247 million.
VAPAP was created in March of 2015 as part of the fiscal year 2016 enacted State budget as a program to help financially distressed hospitals. The initial design authorized payments in fiscal year 2016 of up to $245 million for 28 voluntary hospitals deemed in need. The program was funded entirely from the State’s General Fund with no federal financial participation.12 Just two months after VAPAP launched, it was significantly modified in response to two pressures.
First, an effort was made to use the State funds to leverage federal funds. In May 2015, VBP QIP was created, and the largest financially distressed hospitals were shifted from VAPAP to VBP QIP. Payments to these hospitals were made eligible for federal reimbursement under Medicaid by linking the payments to progress toward hospitals using “value-based payments” (VBP).
VBP is a long-term goal of federal and state policy because it improves quality of care by allowing insurers and providers to share in both risk and savings from quality improvements, rather than making payments based solely on volume of service. Because VBP arrangements are between insurers (or managed care organizations) and hospitals, VBP QIP payments are added into the rates the state pays managed care plans. Managed care plans then pass the funding on to hospitals. In this way the payments qualify for federal reimbursement, but also are subject to review by federal officials.
Second, while VAPAP was restricted to voluntary hospitals, H+H hospitals sought additional funds by seeking eligibility under VBP QIP. This was arranged by having H+H provide the nonfederal share of the payments, enabling it to qualify for an additional $60 million in federal funds.
VAPAP remains as a relatively small program serving financially distressed voluntary hospitals that are too small to have arrangements with managed care plans that could qualify for the VBP QIP program. VAPAP has also recently been used as an emergency resource for hospitals that also receive funding through VBP QIP. For example, in February and March of 2017 the State approved $30 million in VAPAP funding to three large hospitals (Interfaith, St. John’s Episcopal, and Wyckoff Heights). Altogether hospitals receive approximately $55 million annually from VAPAP coming exclusively from State funds.15 Combined, VAPAP and VBP QIP will disburse approximately $645 million annually going forward.
For 2016 total supplemental payments reached approximately $5 billion, with $3.6 billion from DSH payments, $811 million from UPL payments, and $535 million from VAPAP and VPB QIP.
Medicaid supplemental payments play an important role is sustaining many hospitals that otherwise would suffer severe financial distress and face possible closure. All of the State’s 179 hospitals receive some supplemental payment.16 Among these hospitals the role of the supplemental payments varies in importance, but for many they are vital.
Critical in their dependence on these payments are the four voluntary hospitals in Brooklyn that have received the most favorable treatment under VBP QIP. Collectively these institutions receive $314 million in supplemental payments including $249 million from VBP QIP, $52 million in DSH payments, and $13 million from the UPL program. The combined payments exceed the cost attributable to uncompensated care and inadequate Medicaid rates, yet all four hospitals are currently reporting operating losses. The unusually generous treatment is justified as a temporary measure to help stabilize the hospitals and assist in a transformation to long-term stability.
H+H hospitals also are heavily reliant on supplementary payments. They receive a total of $2.2 billion, but almost half of that sum is funds provided by New York City so the net gain is a lower $1.1 billion. Nonetheless the smaller sum represents about 76 percent of their costs attributable to uncompensated care and inadequate Medicaid rates. While H+H still incurs an operating loss, the red ink would be far worse without the supplemental payments.
Six county hospitals receive $375 million in supplemental payments, but three large ones are particularly dependent on these funds. Together the Erie, Nassau, and Westchester county facilities account for $344 million. Net of local government funding, this sum covers about 79 percent of the hospitals’ collective costs for uncompensated care and inadequate Medicaid rates; these hospitals still incur net operating losses but would be in far worse shape without supplemental funds.
The voluntary hospitals likely to be most strongly dependent on supplementary payments are those incurring operating losses and relying on supplementary payments for a significant share of operating revenues. Fourteen voluntary hospitals with operating losses (including the four Brooklyn hospitals noted earlier) derive at least 5 percent of their total revenues from supplementary payments.
As shown in Figure 3, the recent trend has been an increase in supplemental payments. From 2011 to 2017 total payments increased from $4.1 billion to more than $5 billion, due to slow but steady increases in DSH payments and creation of VAPAP and VBP QIP. The UPL payments fluctuate due to their unpredictable nature; hospitals do not know their volume of Medicaid services in advance and estimated payments are adjusted based on subsequent reviews and audits of previous years. However, the underlying trend is a reduction in UPL payments because fewer Medicaid services are paid on a fee-for-service basis and more through managed care plan arrangements. This means lower volumes of revenue qualify for UPL payments even though total Medicaid services may not be declining. In the 2011 to 2017 period this trend may have been offset somewhat by growing Medicaid enrollment, but the decline in Medicaid fee-for-service payments is likely to be the persistent trend.
Each of the programs may shrink in coming years. The drop in Medicaid fee-for-service payments noted above will reduce the scale of UPL payments. A reasonable projection is 5 percent annual declines, creating a drop of approximately $38 million from $770 million in 2017 to $732 million in 2018.
The size of VAPAP and VBP QIP is determined primarily by the State. In the longer term the programs are intended to be transitional, altering the structure of care in Brooklyn and moving the nature of hospital payments toward VBP. But the shorter term prospect is for continued need. The scenario in Figure 3 assumes a steady level of funding for these programs, although they could be cut if the State faces fiscal pressures and seeks to reduce its commitment. Based on steady funding for these programs, a 5 percent reduction in UPL payments, and a $659 million DSH cut, the total reduction in supplemental payments would be $697 million.
This cut would not affect all hospitals equally. Given the State policies for allocating supplemental payments, nearly all of the reduction is likely to be in payments to H+H.
H+H will be affected by the UPL reductions in two ways. First, lower UPL margins at H+H will mean lower UPL direct payments. Second, reductions in UPL payments to voluntary hospitals will lower DSH payments to H+H because of the link between the two programs described earlier. Voluntary hospitals are assured $995 million in combined DSH and UPL payments; a loss in UPL payments will increase their DSH payments and reduce the federal DSH funding available to H+H.
The looming cuts in supplementary payments point to a grim outlook for H+H in particular. Its leaders already recognize this; in a 2016 report H+H projected receipts from supplemental payments will fall 36 percent from $2.2 billion in fiscal year 2016 to just $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2020.22 H+H is developing responses to its challenges including greater efficiencies and efforts to secure offsetting intergovernmental revenues, but cuts in services important to New York residents could also be a consequence.
The State should reconsider its priorities in distributing Medicaid supplemental payments. The fixed size of available federal funding means that redirection to H+H comes at the expense of other institutions. Pending cuts should not fall only on H+H, and adjustments, such as reduced payments to voluntary hospitals with limited reliance on supplementary payments, may be needed.
Numbers in the text and figures may not add up to totals because of rounding.
See: American Hospital Association, “Table 4.4: Aggregate Hospital Payment-to-Cost Ratios for Private Payers, Medicare and Medicaid, 1994-2014” (accessed May 1, 2017), www.aha.org/research/reports/tw/chartbook/2016/table4-4.pdf; and Kaiser Family Foundation, Understanding Medicaid Hospital Payments and the Impact of Recent Policy Changes (June 2016), http://files.kff.org/attachment/issue-brief-understanding-medicaid-hospital-payments-and-the-impact-of-recent-policy-changes.
High volume is defined as at least 25 percent of services or a share at least one standard deviation above the mean for the state.
This practice is consistent with restrictions on regular Medicaid payments for patients of these hospitals aged 21-64. The limit is 33 percent of the state’s DSH payments or the amount paid to these hospitals in fiscal year 1995.
DSH allocations flow through three payment channels outlined in State law and the Medicaid State Plan. See: §2807-k of the Public Health Law, §2807-c of the Public Health Law, §211 and §212 of Chapter 474 of the Laws of 1996; and New York State Department of Health, State Plan Under Title XIX of the Social Security Act Medical Assistance Program (accessed August 8, 2017 ), pp. 1,216-1,329, www.hcrapools.org/medicaid_state_plan/DOH_PDF_PROD/nys_medicaid_state_plan.pdf.
Projected DSH payments for 2016 are used in this analysis. Because DSH payments are initially made and then reconciled following audits, payments for years 2015 through 2018 remain estimates until finalized. Data for hospital need is based on the most recent published estimated DSH caps for each available facility. See: Medicaid.gov, “Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) Payments” (accessed June 26, 2017), www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/financing-and-reimbursement/dsh/index.html.
The DSH Indigent Care Pool for voluntary hospitals is funded via Health Care Reform Act (HCRA) assessments. See New York State Division of the Budget, FY 2018 Enacted Budget Financial Plan (May 2017), p. 109, www.budget.ny.gov/pubs/archive/fy18archive/enactedfy18/FY2018EnactedFP.pdf.
The only State funding contributed for supplemental payments to H+H is through the Indigent Care Pool, a portion of the DSH program which uses funds from HCRA Fund to support the nonfederal share of Indigent Care Pool payments for all hospitals statewide. This represents approximately $50 million annually for H+H.
Estimate is based on $439 million for H+H Inpatient UPL for 2015, $123 million for H+H Outpatient UPL for 2014, and $274 million for the Voluntary Hospital UPL. Data provided by the New York State Department of Health subject to a Freedom of Information Law request submitted by CBC staff.
Although the nonfederal share of voluntary UPL payments is technically made from the State General Fund, the reduced nonfederal share of the DSH payments comes from a dedicated tax on some hospital revenues. The reduced amount required from the dedicated tax is transferred to the General Fund. Thus the nonfederal UPL share is, in effect, financed by the dedicated tax rather than other General Fund revenues.
New York State Department of Health, VAPAP Transformational Plan Training Conference (July 21, 2015), www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=nysdoh.
The Brooklyn Study will help inform a $700 million transformation project to be undertaken with capital resources provided by New York State. See Northwell Health, The Brooklyn Study: Reshaping the Future of Healthcare (October 2016), www.northwell.edu/sites/northwell/files/20830-Brooklyn-Healthcare-Transformation-Study_0.pdf.
New York State Department of Health, “Vital Access Provider Assurance Program (VAPAP)” (August 2017), www.health.ny.gov/health_care/medicaid/redesign/dsrip/vapap/.
Number of hospitals is from New York State Department of Health, “New York State Health Care Reform Act (HCRA)” (updated July 1, 2017), www.health.ny.gov/regulations/hcra/provider/provhosp.htm; and hospital- specific supplemental payment amounts are from data supplied by the New York State Department of Health in response to a Freedom of Information Law request by CBC staff.
The share of need met from supplemental payments for voluntary hospitals is less than that for H+H hospitals. This may appear to contradict findings in other reports. See: Roosa Tikkanen, Funding Charity Care in New York: An Examination of Indigent Care Pool Allocations (New York State Health Foundation, March 2017), p. 16, http://nyshealthfoundation.org/uploads/resources/examination-of-indigent-care-pool-allocation-march-2017.pdf. The apparent conflict is resolved by the fact that data here cover all supplemental payments; data in the other report covers only DSH payments from the Indigent Care Pool and not the other payments. The Indigent Care Pool comprises only about $1 billion of the $5 billion total.
See: New York State Health Foundation, Why Are Hospital Prices Different? An Explanation of New York Hospital Reimbursement (December 2016), p. 6, http://nyshealthfoundation.org/uploads/resources/an-examination-of-new-york-hospital-reimbursement-dec-2016.pdf.
Data on payer mix is from the New York State Department of Health’s Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) for 2014. See: New York State Department of Health, “Health Data Query System” (accessed June 26, 2017), https://apps.health.ny.gov/pubdoh/sparcsqry/GetSystemType.do; and data for hospital revenue is from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, “Cost Reports by Fiscal Year” Hospital Report 2552-10, Report Year 2014 (accessed June 26, 2017), www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Downloadable-Public-Use-Files/Cost-Reports/Cost-Reports-by-Fiscal-Year.html.
Medicaid Program: State Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotment Reductions, 82 Fed. Reg. 35155 (June 28, 2017).
Testimony of Jason Helgerson, Medicaid Director, New York State Department of Health, before the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on 2017-2018 Executive Budget Proposal on Health/Medicaid (February 16, 2017), www.nysenate.gov/calendar/public-hearings/february-16-2017/joint-legislative-public-hearing-2017-2018-executive.
New York City, One New York – Healthcare for our Neighborhoods (April 26, 2016), p. 26, www1.nyc.gov/assets/home/downloads/pdf/reports/2016/Health-and-Hospitals-Report.pdf. | 2019-04-21T19:05:16Z | https://cbcny.org/research/medicaid-supplemental-payments |
Now that we have finished looking at what you can do on your blog to improve SEO it’s time to look at the other side: external optimization.
Get quality links to your blog using your keywords.
That is basically all external SEO is about.
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This is a good place to address Google Page Rank. What is Page Rank? What does it do? Does it matter for SEO? Page Rank, or PR, is the value between 0 and 10 that Google assigns each page on the internet. The higher the value, say a 10, the more authority Google gives your page. Page Rank is determined by the quality and quantity of the links to your website. Every page online starts out at zero and moves up as it gains more links. You can check the Page Rank of your blog here.
While having a higher PR is nice, it’s not crucial to ranking in the search engines. Sites with lower PR still can rank high in the search engines and receive search traffic for less competitive keywords. You don’t need to focus on getting a higher Page Rank because when you focus on getting more links to your blog in turn you will get a higher PR. See? This is why getting more quality links to your blog is important for many reasons.
Not all links are valued equally on the internet. When you are trying to get links to improve your rankings in the search engines you need a certain kind of links. There are a few factors that make a link a good link.
Dofollow. Search engines came up with a system of labeling links using “dofollow” or “nofollow” to tell search engines what links to follow and give credit for. Google follows this system. In general most blog comments are nofollow while almost everything in a post will be dofollow. The links you want to improve your blog’s SEO are dofollow links.
Links with keyword in the anchor text. A good link to help your blog rank for your keywords will contain those keywords in the text of the link. Often bloggers unaware of SEO will link to other bloggers using their name. These links are not as helpful as they would be if they used your keywords in the anchor text. For example, a link to my blog using my name, Mary, is not as good for SEO as a link to my blog using healthy living blog. Both are links to my blog but the one using my keywords tells the search engines what my blog is about and what to rank it for. You won’t always be able to control the links coming to your site, but where you can control things make sure you use your keywords.
Links with varying keyword text. It is important to get links to your blog using your keywords, but you don’t want all of the links to be the same. When you chose your keywords for your blog you should have created a list of several keywords to target. Try to switch up the keywords used when you are creating links back to your blog. This ensures that you aren’t suspected of manipulating search engines by creating links to dominate one ranking.
Links from high Page Rank sites. While Page Rank of your blog doesn’t affect your rankings much, the PR of sites linking to you will affect your search engine rankings. Links to your blog from sites with high PR gives your blog more authority with Google and will raise your blog in the results. When you are looking to create links to your blog try to find blogs and websites with PR 3 and above. Don’t get caught up too much in PR when you are trying to get links, just realize this is part of the equation for the search engines.
Links from relevant sites. The best links to your blog for SEO purposes will be from sites that are about the same topic as your blog. If you are trying to rank for the keyword “running” then the best links you can get are from other sites about running. Since the health blogging niche is a friendly one you can generally get links from your “competitors” without much trouble. When you start building links to your blog focus on getting links from relevant blogs and websites.
Links from numerous sources. The bottom line for external optimization is that you need lots of links to your blog. Generally the more the better. The previous factors – keywords in anchor text, varying keywords, high PR links, and links from relevant sites – are important to keep in mind, but they don’t mean you shouldn’t seek links that don’t have all those qualities. Links from PR 0 sites and links without your keywords are still links to your blog and they will help you with SEO in the long run.
The first question most people ask about getting more links is “Where do you find them?” Creating links to your blog is not very difficult. There are many places and way to get more links and many of the methods are things that will happen naturally as you blog. So where do you find places to get links? How do you get them? Here are a few methods for creating backlinks to your blog and boosting your blog’s overall search engine optimization.
Be awesome. Other blogs in the health blogosphere are the best place to get links back to your blog. These blogs are the ones that are relevant to your blog and the kind of links you want to get. While being put on someone’s blogroll is nice, it’s not the best kind of link you can get from another blog. The best kind of link is one that is one in the posts of another blog or website. The best way to get these links is to make your blog content awesome. Write about things that make other bloggers think. Write about things that are controversial. Link to other blogs to include them in the conversation. Write about things that other bloggers will want to link to when they are writing their posts. If you produce great content it will get links from other bloggers.
Engage. Being part of the healthy blogging community will often end up creating backlinks to your blog even if you are just being part of the community. When you do an interview with one or more bloggers on your blog they will often link back to the interview. Once you get to know other bloggers and have a relationship with them you can ask them to link to cool projects or posts you write (just don’t abuse the privilege!) and they will often do it.
Create something useful. If you create something useful on your blog and let other people know about it you are likely to get links back to that resource. If it is something that is timeless it will continually gather backlinks as new people discover and link to it. That useful resource could be anything from a list of top blogs in the niche to a list of top resources to a free ebook that solves a problem. Anything that offers a ton of value for free will draw in links from other bloggers. Think about something you can create that will take some effort but is something your readers really would like to have.
Guest posts. Another awesome way to get those useful links in the posts of related blogs is to guest post. Guest posting is not just a great way to grow your blog socially, but it is also a wonderful way to get backlinks with your preferred keywords in the text. When you write a guest blog, the blog owner allows you to link back to your blog in your author profile or signature. Instead of using the signature “Mary writes A Merry Life” use something like “Mary writes the health blog A Merry Life” instead. This way you are creating a link with your keywords that will help out your blog’s SEO.
Article directories and content sites. Article marketing is usually something internet marketers do when promoting a product, but you can use the same technique to build backlinks to your blog. You can create short (depending on the site 200-500+ words) articles for article directories that link back to your blog. Generally these articles aren’t written for the audience even though some people will read them and click through to your blog. The main power of these articles is the links you can include in the article or resource box. There are hundreds of different directories and content sites out there that you can submit articles to, but some of the best article directories are Ezine Articles, Self Growth, Go Articles, and Article Dashboard and two good free content sites are Squidoo and Hubpages. If you decide to use these sites try to create relevant content not just spammy articles with your links – there are already too many of those on the internet.
Forum links. If you are already part of a forum community or there is one that you want to belong to, use a link to your blog in the signature. Most forums allow links search engines will follow. Each time you post it will create a new link to your blog.
Social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking sites like Delicious can be helpful in ranking sites since many bookmarking sites offer dofollow links. They aren’t the best quality links out there but if you are already bookmarking sites or want to use a site to store all your favorite links, add your link in there with the rest of them.
Comments. Most comments are nofollow and will not help you with SEO directly because search engines don’t give any weight to the link. There are some blogs with dofollow comments and even a list of them, but generally these blogs get heavily spammed and aren’t a high quality link.
Link exchanges. Exchanging a link on your blog for a link on someone’s blog lowers the value of the link. If you want to link to someone’s blog or put them on your blogroll – do it! Just don’t expect or pester the person to return the link.
Building links with one phrase. I mentioned it earlier, but it is important to vary your keywords used for links. Use different phrases as your anchor text instead of always using the same keyword.
Building links too fast. Organic links to your site occur slowly and over time as your site grows. This kind of link building is what you want. So even if you are creating links by writing articles you still don’t want to create too many at once all to your site.
Too many links from one site. Having a lot of links from one site isn’t a terrible thing, but after a certain number of links from one source the links don’t count as much for SEO. It’s much more powerful to get 1,000 links from 1,000 different sites than from just one site.
You could read for ages on SEO and what works and what doesn’t. The basics don’t really ever change but Google constantly updates it’s algorithm. This sometimes means SEO tactics that once worked well no longer work. The following books and websites will help you get a better grasp on SEO and how it can improve your blog.
moz.com is a great website with a ton of content about SEO and inbound marketing. | 2019-04-24T02:56:15Z | https://amerrylife.com/health-blog-guide/external-seo-tips/ |
Keystroke dynamics is the study of the typing patterns of people to distinguish them from one another, based on of these patterns. Every user has a certain way of typing that separates him from other users; for example, for how long does a user press the keys, how much time between consecutive key presses, etc. Keystrokes are an upcoming area of research in biometrics. One famous application is the Coursera website using a typing test as the method to verify the students. No additional hardware is required to collect keystrokes; only a keyboard. Keystroke dynamics, together with security measures already in place (eg, password) can hence serve as a convenient 2-factor authentication.
In this post, we will verify the identity of users on the basis of their keystroke information. A model will be first trained by providing it with the typing patterns of the users to be enrolled, multiple patterns per user. The model is then provided with test patterns from the user as well as others posing as that user. The model should be able to reject the imposters while accept the genuine user based on the test pattern’s similarity to the trained model for the user. We will test various detectors which provide different ways of measuring this similarity.
What are the keystroke features being used?
How is the model getting trained?
Performance evaluation by various detectors.
1) What are the keystroke features being used?
Hold time – time between press and release of a key.
Keydown-Keydown time – time between the pressing of consecutive keys.
Keyup-Keydown time – time between the release of one key and the press of next key.
The CMU keystroke data-set provides us with these three features. The below picture depicts the three time periods used as features in keystroke data-set.
Lets see how to interpret the values given in the dataset. Given below is a row from the .csv file in the dataset.
These feature vector contains the data for subject s002 (user) from his first session and first repetition in that session. The feature H.key tells the hold time for the key; eg, H.period is the hold time for the dot key. DD.key1.key2 is the keydown-keydown time for the key pair key1 and key2; eg, DD.period.t is the keydown-keydown time for pressing the dot key and the t key. Lastly, UD.key1.key2 is the keyup-keydown time for the keys key1 and key2; eg, UD.period.t is the keyup-keydown time for the dot key and t key.
The columns 4-34 thus have these time information for the various keys and key pairs in .tie5Roanl. There are 8 sessions per user and 50 repetitions per session, hence 400 keystroke vectors for one user.
The Python module pandas has been used to load the keystroke.csv file. The data variable is a panda data frame and contains the entire contents of the .csv file. subjects array has the labels of all the 51 subjects.
2) How is the model getting trained?
From the 400 vectors (repeatitions of password) available for every user, we employ the first 200 for training the model for the user, to capture the his typing behaviour. trainvariable (a panda data frame) contains the training data.
We will be presenting the results on 5 different learning models.
Our first detector is Manhattan Detector (MD). The training() function in the below Python code calculates the mean_vector for each user from the samples in train(training set). Here, only the mean of feature vectors is considered as user model.
We will now supply the model of a user with unseen test sample as explained here- a test_genuine list which has the remaining 200 feature vectors (repetitions of password) of the same user and a test_imposter list which has 5 vectors each from all the other 50 users, making a total of 250 imposter samples. In total, each user will be tested 450 times for user’s authenticity. Again, keep in mind that this process will be repeated for all the 51 users.
Code snippet for the testing() function is shown below.
Thus, the detector calculates the city block distance (Manhattan distance) between the test samples and mean_vector for the subject. Its easy to understand that smaller values of this distance indicate higher similarity of the sample to the subject’s model; however if the score has a larger value, it means the sample is quite dissimilar to the model and should get not get verified as the subject.
Having obtained the scores for both kind of samples, genuine and imposter, in lists user_scores and imposter_scores respectively, we evaluate the equal error rate (EER) for the detector.
The evaluateEER() function used above is shown in the snippet below.
#Put in a separate file in same folder, since all detectors import it.
We report the average EER as the performance metric for the detectors.
Lets see the workflow of this detector in the full code below.
print "average EER for Manhattan detector:"
We create a ManhattanDetector object with subjects array, and call its evaluate()function to kickstart the process.
Lets look at a few more detectors for our purpose and try to understand how differently they perform the training and the testing. First, we have slight variations of our simplistic Manhattan detector.
The training() function of the MFD takes into account any outliers in a subject’s typing habits. Such deviations from his/her usual typing habits may occur due to a variety of reasons, like the user being tired or bored and hence typing exceptionally slower than normal, etc. MFD simply filters (removes) such outliers.
#just the training() function changes, rest all remains same.
We calculate mean_vector and standard deviation vector, std_vector for the user from his training vectors. To reject the outliers, first the euclidean distance between each of the training vectors and mean_vector is determined. Then, any vector for whom this distance is greater than three times the std_vector is an outlier and is dropped from train. dropping_indices consists of the indices of all such outliers. Having eliminated all such training vectors from the set, mean_vector for the user is re-calculated from the remaining samples in train. This mean_vector is now the model for the user’s typing behavior.
With this detector, we get the following average EER.
Following are the training()and testing()functions for MSD.
#training() and testing() change, rest all remains same.
Thus, in the detectors based on the Manhattan distance as the similarity score, we see that , making MSD the superior one.
One class SVMs learn a decision function from the data of one class only and test a new sample to found out whether it is like the training data or not. This does exactly what we need, right? We will use sklearn.svm.OneClassSVM sub-module’s fit() function to train a OneClassSVM object, named clf here, and the decision_function() function to calculate the similarities scores for the test samples.
A digraph is a combination of 2 letters, like the password ‘.tie5Ronal’ has these digraphs – .t, ti, ie,…, na, al, . Our typing feature vector is essentially consisting of the various time latencies between the two letters of all the digraphs in the password. Now, GMMs can be used for determining whether a test typing vector belongs to one user or not since it has been proved in many studies that the digraph patterns present in keystroke data are generated by Gaussian distributions. Hence, we can model the user’s behaviour by fitting a GMM over the training data. The model is then used to calculate a test vector’s score which is its average log-likelihood of belonging to that model.
Test various other detectors, like neural networks, Mahalanobis distance in place of Manhattan distance, etc, and compare their performance with the ones presented here.
Find ways to capture their own keystroke information like one used in database and verify themselves with the system. We have not explored the ways to capture the keystroke events used in benchmark data-set.
The full implementation of followed approach and evaluation code for the test database can be downloaded from GitHub link here. All the presented models were combined in a single python file named “AllDetectors.py” (check github repo) using the inheritance concept.
The blog-post is partly an implementation of the following research paper.
Kevin S. Killourhy, Roy A. Maxion, “Comparing Anomaly-Detection Algorithms for Keystroke Dynamics“, IEEE conference on Dependable Systems & Networks, July, 2009.
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Our lunch group enjoyed a fabulous lunch in the Library Room of our usual venue, The Santa Barbara Club. The wine theme was red Burgundy/ Pinot Noir from 2005 or older. As you will note, some observed that request.
NV HENRIOT BRUT ROSE- I`ve long been a fan of this house since a wine rep friend had this house in his book and touted their champagnes since the 90s; our bottle had sweet and spicy red raspberry and red cherry fruit with a bit of spiciness; the mouthfeel was enhanced by a nice creamy mousse.
2007 LOUIS LATOUR CORTON GRAND CRU- the nose almost fooled me into thinking this was over the hill with earthy, dried, tertiary fruit aromas, but all was good once spreading the juice over the palate; no longer dried, the fresh and ripe fruit profile included red cherry/ berry and cranberry; a spicy component embellished the taste which was served up in a medium bodied smooth texture.
1997 MAISON ROCHE de BELLEN COLLECTION BELLENUM CHAMBERTIN GRAND CRU- aromas of earth, Bretty barnyard, dried red fruit gave way to burnt fully mature red cherry and red currant; it had a medium body and weight and checked out abruptly on the back end.
1995 HOSPICE de BEAUNNE DOMINIQUE LAURENT CUVEE CHARLOTTE DUMAY CORTON GRAND CRU- a heavy hit of VA greets us in the nose with some redeeming qualities once tasted with some sweet cranberry and red cherry fruit.
1996 DOMAINE COMTES GEORGES de VOGUE CUVEE VIEILLES VIGNES MUSIGNY GRAND CRU- a 2nd time for this gem for me and the one who gifted us announced he was not pleased with his testing sample pour; his remarks were the only downside to this wine as it was absolutely stellar; It did improve with time in the glass, but it started out on a high note with such an inviting nose, backed up by the lightly peppered and spicy strawberry, red raspberry and red cherry fruit; it had great mouthfeel, lovely acidity and everything crescendoed to a grand finish; it was hallmarked by its beautiful balance. My WOTD.
The vineyard was officially classified as a grand cru in 1936, and is one of only two Burgundy grand cru vineyards to produce wines from both Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The other is Corton.
2005 AU BON CLIMAT ISABELLE PINOT NOIR- I bought quite a bit of this upon release after Jim told me it may become the best one ever or as good as any Isabelle which I have been tracking since it was first produced in 94`; the HEAVY, upper body workout dark glass bottle is almost aa impressive as what’s inside which translated into secondary red and black fruit with a steak of spice running to the back end; its medium to full bodied, had unfolding layers providing new nuances adding to the intrigue of what the next taste might provide.
This is a varied blend of the best barrels from the vineyards used for ABC`s vineyard-designated wines, including Bien Nacido, Sanford & Benedict, Talley Rincon, and Mt. Carmel.
1993 WHITCRAFT BIEN NACIDO PINOT NOIR- from one of my favourite producers and a good friend who passed away too early in life, this showed beautifully and proved a point that was quite debated in the 90s and early 00s, Chris made wines that can and do age greacefully; the colour and aromatics displayed those characteristics that denote an older wine, as in this case, tertiary dried red fruit and earth notes, more specifically pleasant and tasty spicy dried plum and blackberry.
2005 DOMAINE MOLLARD CLOS de VOUGEOT GRAND CRU- this comes from a domaine stated in 1848; the ownership went through many changes with parcels broken up for inheritance over many generations; the Moillard extended family no longer owns the domaine or the maison; with more than 65 shareholders, most of them family members, disagreements arose and in 2005 some 30 acres of prime vineyards were sold off to Domaine Dujac and Etienne de Montille.
Our bottle had paint thinner in the nose that dissuaded much further investigation; the taste was even more offensive; unfortunately, it was quite flawed.
DOMAINE de L`ARLOT CLOS de FORETS SAINT-GEORGES NUITS SAINT GEORGES 1er Cru- very nice and on the heels of a flawed wine, we deserved it; mild spicy fruit forward red cherry, cranberry and black raspberry graced our palates with a hint of smoke and earth delivered in a medium+ body and holding on for a long finish.
2007 KISTLER CUVEE ELIZABETH BODEGA HEADLINES VINEYARD SONOMA COAST PINOT NOIR- massive fruit jumps out of the glass, but it`s much more mellow on the palate; fresh, ripe and spicy red raspberry and red cherry fruit dominate the fruit profile with a touch of smoke and minerals; its soft and easy on the palate.
2013 DOMAINE JASMINKA SANTA BARBARA COUNTY PINOT NOIR- from one of our members and his home wine making group, this was nice with fresh red and black fruit and a sprinkling of spice; 91% sourced from Kick On Vineyard and 9% from Lucas & Lewellen Vineyard.
2004 SEA SMOKE TEN SANTA RITA HILLS PINOT NOIR- 14.5% abv; from 10 different clones, it had a seriously dark red purple colour, fairly intense aromatics with wood spice mostly evident and even more happening on the palate comprised of complex and layered black currant, plum, black cherry and black raspberry; past mid palate, a lot of heat took over and changed the experience.
I really appreciated an individual bringing these wines as I have many fond memories of drinking them early on and over the following years. They come from a winery owner that I’ve known prior to his opening the winery in 1996 and a winemaker who was a friend in those days and the estate sourced fruit named after his now estranged wife who I also knew.
I wrote up notes on all of them, but found my notes for the first 3 to be too condescending, so I will just say that for whatever reason they were flawed and very atypical for what they have shown to be in the past.
2004 MELVILLE ESTATE HIGH DENSITY SMALL LOT COLLECTION SANTA RITA HILLS PINOT NOIR- with a still youthful dark red colour, the nose offered refreshing bright red, blue and black fruit which on the palate translated into red and black raspberry, black cherry, plum and blueberry; it had nice mouthfeel, medium weight and body and a nice steak of spice throughout; lovely and what I expected at least in satisfaction from the first 3.
2013 STARR RANCH VINEYARD & WINERY SWEET CHARIOT PASO ROBLES- 1 of 2 375 ml. bottles; this is a late harvest Viognier that is charming, elegant and easy on the palate; the colour was a light to medium cloudy yellow; it gave honeyed peach and pear, was delivered in a lightly creamy texture and is a good alternative to the robust, thick and chewy dessert wines so often the norm.
1993 ROYAL TOKAJI COMPANY BIRSALMAS VINEYARD ASZU [dried grapes] TOKAJI 6 PUTTONYOS, TOKAJ-HEGYALJA, HUNGARY- founded in 1990, inspired and founded by British wine expert, Hugh Johnson, this producer has concentrated on making single vineyard wines from first growth vineyards; our bottle was a 500 ml; it had a maple syrup colour and texture, but not that flavour; Birsalmás means quince in Hungarian and there is definitely an element of quince interwoven with the other honeyed, pear, apricot and honeydew melon flavours.
2000 DISZNOKO TOKAJI ASZU [dried grapes] 6 PUTTONYOS, TOKAJ-HEGYALJA, HUNGARY- medium dark gold colour; the nose was redolent of peach nectar; the taste included honeyed apricot and peach with an emphasis on the sweet honey component.
Disznókõ spreads over 250 acres at the south-west entrance of the Tokaj region. Tokaj is thought to be the first vineyard region in the world to have adopted a classification system and, incredibly, the entire Disznókõ estate was classified as a first growth property in 1772 at the time of the initial classification by royal decree. The estate’s vineyards today are still wholly classified as first growth.
Typical Tokaji blends include mostly Furmint, a high-quality grape, with plenty of natural acidity, which helps ensure the longevity of Tokaji wines, along with some Harslevelu and Muscat Blanc. Two other local grapes, Zeta and Koversolo, are also allowed in the blend, though these are quite uncommon.
This was another stellar lunch with the gang. I remain very grateful for the continued fellowship and dedication to sharing fine wines in a venue that treats us to a private dining experience, embellished by personalised and attentive service and a chef who excels in adapting to our wine theme with special, creative dishes. Life is good. | 2019-04-24T15:51:47Z | https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/winetalkforum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1632&p=7058 |
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Tsomo escaped Tibet last year on a zipline that carried her into Nepal over a chasm of jagged rocks and a river gushing white as frothing milk.
The 23-year-old student remembers she was numb with terror as the smugglers fastened a thick rope through her legs and across her chest in a harness. It was the dead of night, but still she could hear the river roaring below her.
"It was like something out of a bad dream. I was so scared I peed in my pants," said Tsomo, who is now a student majoring in English at a Tibetan school in India.
She was among the lucky few.
For decades, Nepal was the main station on an underground railroad for Tibetans fleeing China, which claims sovereignty over Tibet. After a long trek over the Himalayas, evading Chinese security, refugees would seek asylum in Nepal or move onward to India, where the Dalai Lama, their spiritual leader, lives in exile.
Now the doors are slamming shut, as Nepal falls under the sway of China's power and money.
On the cusp of the Dalai Lama's 80th birthday, many Tibetans wonder whether their struggle for autonomy and religious freedom will soon be lost. Desperation can be seen in the number of self-immolations that have occurred since the religious uprising of 2008 -- more than 140 to date. Some Tibetans have lost faith and are beginning to return to China.
One reason is that a booming Chinese economy has persuaded many Tibetans to remain at home. Some are even returning to Tibet after years of exile. But the dwindling number of Tibetan immigrants to Nepal also suggests strongly that the once-welcoming Nepalese government has been pressured by China to shut the door.
"Nepal has a weak government and the Chinese are able to exploit that," said Yubaraj Ghimere, a Nepali political commentator and columnist.
Tibetans already in Nepal — many of them born here — are facing new restrictions on getting refugee certificates, jobs, drivers licenses and even exit visas to leave the country.
Beijing quadrupled its foreign direct investment in Nepal to $128 million in 2015, up from $24 million in 2014. China rushed in with a 62-person rescue team after the April 25 earthquake, supplying tents, food and search and rescue teams.
Low-interest Chinese loans are funding much of Nepal's new infrastructure: hydropower plants, a ring road around Katmandu, the capital, and an airport in the second-largest city, Pothara. Schools have China-donated computers; hospitals, Chinese X-ray machines.
A Chinese-led nongovernmental agency wants to build a $3-billion tourism and pilgrimage project in Lumbini, believed to be the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha.
There are Chinese secret police crawling all over here. They aren't supposed to be; this is the land of Nepal, but they wander around and do whatever they like.
Not even the world's highest mountain is an impediment: China recently proposed burrowing under Mt. Everest for a railroad tunnel connecting China to Nepal.
The extent to which the long arm of China is reaching across borders is evident in the Nepalese town of Kodari, about 50 miles west of Mt. Everest. It has become a popular hangout for hippies and hikers, as well as the main customs entrance to Nepal for truckers bringing China-made jeans, rice cookers, telephones and sneakers across what is called the Friendship Bridge.
The smell of spicy Sichuan cooking wafts from a construction site where a crew — all of them, including the cook, imported straight from China — works on a road project.
Chinese police officers patrol the dusty main street lined with tea shops, and though they don't wear uniforms, they speak so loudly in Chinese that it is clear they don't need to disguise their presence.
"There are Chinese secret police crawling all over here. They aren't supposed to be; this is the land of Nepal, but they wander around and do whatever they like," said Shunu, a Tibetan monk at Liping Monastery, perched high on a windy bluff over the customs checkpoint.
Monks pointed out the many closed-circuit cameras attached to trees and rocks along the banks of the Sun Kosi River, which forms the border.
"When I came out, there were no cameras, no checkpoints, no police," said another monk, Jangpo, who crossed from Tibet as a teenager in the mid-90s to study Buddhism.
In response to restrictions by the Nepalese government, the monastery has adopted stricter rules for the monks, Jangpo said. The monks may not publicly criticize China. They may not participate in Tibetan independence activities. They also are forbidden to display large portraits of the Dalai Lama or celebrate his birthday in public.
In front of the monastery, a large portrait of the Dalai Lama was taken down a few years ago, replaced by a wallet-sized black-and-white photograph tucked discreetly between butter lamps.
"That is all we have. We are not supposed to do anything to provoke the Chinese,'' Jangpo said.
During the Tibetan New Year, the Tibetans used to swarm to Boudhanath, a Katmandu suburb that is the center of the community, gathering around the stupa, a religious tower draped in prayer flags, and carrying large photos of the Dalai Lama. Those ceremonies have been moved to Tibetan schools, out of public view.
Nepalese authorities have banned the traditional commemoration ceremonies held each March by Tibetans to mark the anniversary of the failed 1959 uprising in Lhasa that led to the flight of the Dalai Lama.
Nepal's foreign minister, Mahendra Bahadur Pandey, promised in March during a visit to Beijing that Nepal "will never allow any forces to use Nepali territory to engage in anti-China activity."
The Chinese did once have reason to be wary of Tibetan activity in Nepal. During the 1960s, the CIA secretly trained Tibetan refugees in Nepal to wage guerrilla war against China. Funding for the covert operation was cut off after President Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
"It feels now like China is so powerful it is unbeatable," said Phenpo Gyaltsen, 80, who in his youth was a guerrilla fighting the Chinese. Gyaltsen went on to run a carpet factory, one of many Tibetan-operated businesses that have helped the Nepalese economy.
"We Tibetans used to enjoy total freedom in Nepal, but every year the restrictions get more and more. The Nepalese government has to show the Chinese they are being tough on Tibetans," the former guerrilla said in a living room where a photograph of the Dalai Lama with President George W. Bush is displayed.
It is natural for China to help out its poorer neighbors as it tries to expand trade routes westward in what President Xi Jinping has advertised as the "new Silk Road." But it isn't all about economics. In a report last year, Human Rights Watch said China has made Nepal its complicit "partner in restricting Tibetans' basic rights."
Most of the Tibetans entering Nepal in recent years have been young people who want to study abroad, mostly in India. But China makes it almost impossible for them to get a passport and cross legally.
"Getting a passport is harder for a Tibetan than getting into heaven," a Tibetan blogger was quoted as telling Human Rights Watch in a report in July on China's refusal to grant minorities such travel documents.
The land borders between China and India are highly militarized, making Nepal the favored and most direct route for Tibetans to cross, typically by the sort of zipline that Tsomo took.
Tsomo's father had decided to send her to India to study in 2011 after her Tibetan-language high school was closed by authorities.
With a passport out of the question, her family decided she would travel to the Nepalese border and pay a smuggler to bring her across. It took three years just to get the permits to travel to the border area.
"We needed recommendations from an army official, a village official, a town and county official. We had to bribe so many people by buying them meals," said Tsomo, a delicate-featured young woman in a flowered sundress.
The family paid $6,000 for the last part of the journey, which took Tsomo to the border town of Zhangmu, directly across from Kodari, and then across the river by zipline.
Pema Tamang, 62, a farmer in Kodari whose fields overlook the bridge and customs checkpoint, said the stream of Tibetans who used to make their way across the border has shrunk to practically nothing.
But the Nepalese farmer was full of praise for neighboring China.
"China has improved the economy. We have paved roads now all the way to the border. Rice cookers, telephones, DVDs," Tamang said. "We feel sympathy for the Tibetans, but the Chinese are rich." | 2019-04-24T00:34:06Z | https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-tibet-nepal-20150806-story.html |
"Three Exhibitions by Fritha Langerman, Judy Moolenschot, Charl Graebe "
The Association For Visual Arts (AVA) at the Metropolitan Gallery, 35 Church Street, Cape Town, presents three solo exhibitions. In the main gallery Fritha Langerman presents a mixed media installation accompanied by a limited edition book of prints, entitled Black Boxes; in the long gallery Judy Moolenschot will exhibit an interactive installation Control Room, while upstairs in the Artsstrip, Charl Graebe will present Message in a Bottle, mixed media works made in resin.
In the main gallery, Black Boxes by Fritha Langerman is a floor piece consisting of 99 shoebox size units accompanied by a limited edition book of prints. It is intended that a new book be created for each venue in which the show is exhibited - in so doing the exhibition becomes organic.
The mixed media work deals with issues around modes of cultural representation, specifically those of anthropological display and language in South Africa. The work is premised on the viewpoint that culture is mutable whereas cultural classification is an inorganic and divisive process. Cultural commodification and curio production reinforce these artificial boundaries and the work makes visual reference to this, both in the display of the exhibit and in the production of the individual units.
The work is divided into 9 series (provinces) of 11 units each (languages) that refer to geographical and linguistic divisions within the country. It uses government departments as a system for the classification of objects: objects for housing, agriculture, labour, communication, water, education, health, transport and defence.
The exteriors are all individually treated with objects / patterns referencing the various object groupings. The interiors of each grouping contain editioned objects: paper weapons constructed from recent government department speeches. The medium of waxed and stained paper is in contradiction to the weapon forms and carries meaning in its permeability and lack of inherent strength. The boxes are consistently labelled using the 11 languages for each category, which alludes to the arbitrary and imprecise relationship between language, object and meaning.
Misclassification, inaccurate translation and misunderstanding are inevitable consequences of cultural ordering and are inherent within the project. The definition of the title of the show provides the most apposite synopsis - a generic device with known characteristics but unspecified means of operation, with internal mechanisms mysterious to the user.
Fritha Langerman (born Cape Town 1970) holds a BAFA with distinction (1991) and a Master of Fine Art with distinction (1995), both from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (UCT). She is currently a lecturer in the Print and Media section of the University of Cape Town, after having worked as a part-time Printmaking lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch.
Langerman began participating in local group exhibitions in 1992, including various Volkskas and ABSA Atelier Awards shows and in Stellenbosch staff exhibitions. Selected other shows are: Cross Section in Bellville (1996), Exhibition of South African Women Artists at SASOL Museum (1997), Process and Practice in Contemporary South African Printmaking at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown (1997), Recent Acquisitions South African National Gallery (SANG) (1997), Body Politic portfolio AVA (1997), International Women�s Day Exhibition Robben Island (1997), Sensitivities Area Gallery (1998), Bloedlyn KKNK and AVA (1998), Postcards From South Africa Axis Gallery New York (1999), Address-Redress Oliewenhuis Museum (2000), International Print Exhibition Macau Museum of Art (2000), Watch 2-person show US Gallery Stellenbosch (2001), Variable Contrasts Michaelis Gallery UCT (2002). She has also exhibited abroad in Under the Mountain in Canberra, Australia (1993), in an International Exhibition of Art Colleges in Hiroshima, Japan (1995), and in Project Conflux Luxembourg, Paris, Dijon, Commentary, (as well as in Cape Town, Pretoria and Bloemfontein) (1999, 2000). This will be her second solo exhibition at AVA, the first being Code in 1998.
Langerman gained the ABSA Atelier Merit Award in 1999. Her work has been published in: On the Surface: The Art and Technique of Relief Printmaking 1996, the Michaelis Yearbook 1998, What�s Bred In The Stone 1998 and the Michaelis Yearbook 2001. Her work is represented in the public and corporate art collections of: Katrine Harries Print Collection UCT, SANG, Yale Art of the Book Collection, Stellenbosch University, SASOL Museum, MTN Print Collection, ABSA and UCT.
Judy Moolenschot, in the long gallery, recently received her BAFA from UNISA. She also has a Primary School Teacher�s Diploma with Art as a major. On an extra-mural level she has completed courses in the conservation of African beadwork at SANG (1997), etching with Judy Woodborne (1993) and screenprinting with Jean Nel (1974).
In 1996 she received first prize for the best oil/acrylic work in the 1996 New Signatures exhibition in the Cape. She has taught Art at the Frank Joubert Art Centre in 1995/6. Currently, she teaches Art to adults from her private studio.
Moolenschot began exhibiting in the mid 1990s on various group shows at AVA, the Bellville Arts Association, Chelsea Gallery, Dorp Street Gallery and Rust en Vreugd, amongst others. This is her first one-person exhibition. Her work has been published in the Directory of South African Contemporary Art: vol 1 and in South African Art News: vol 1.
Of her solo exhibition, Control Room, Moolenschot says: My work, whether traditional or conceptual, has, over the past six to eight years, become progressively more densely layered. These layers refer metaphorically to hidden meanings in everything that happens in an artwork.
This current work began as an investigation into the history of an old house where I have a teaching studio. I discovered that it had once been the Margaret McGregor Children�s Convalescent Home � one of the many created in the early days of the Union when wealthy benefactors established these places that were then named after them.
The work ultimately is about the researching, reporting, manipulation and display of History. The light-boxes are hybrids of archive, file, museum diorama, security monitor, X-ray viewer, et al. They store, protect, conceal, reveal and institutionalize information. The transparent images are layered, creating rich, slightly obscure, three-dimensional tableaux that challenge the viewer to look most carefully, both physically and analytically. Dark brown wooden shelves and file boxes with brass fittings also refer to Past.
Historical �facts� have always been used to glorify, validate and uphold the policies, practices and ideologies of the current �Controllers�, such as the very wealthy, and, specifically, governments. All these histories have, in their time, been carefully and deliberately �treated� so as to sanitize, purge, heal, cover, soothe Past and Present.
The installation also has an interactive component in which viewers have the opportunity to choose slides to make their own tableau. They follow rules and make their choice at a voting counter. However, the artist/controller retains ultimate control by offering carefully selected images and �negotiated� information and then requiring that the selections be recorded in The Register.
Charl Graebe, upstairs in the Artsstrip, says of his exhibition, Message in a Bottle: Communication and art are both aspects of the human need to transcend into spiritual enlightenment. Reminiscent of the boxed objects of the Surrealist/ Dada artist Berger, and the glass art of Max Ernst, Charl Graebe presents a contemporary spiritual angle on collage. Objects floating in resin become tokens of communication, time and space.
Where the Dada esthetic encompassed nihilism and non-communication, the Message in a Bottle exhibition is about messages of hope, attempts that never quite reach their shores the way they were intended. This open-ended approach allows viewers to deconstruct their own messages, making them both voyeurs and authors.
Sculptural resin blocks become objects in themselves, containing symbolic objects, letters and glass shatters, and fragments of a hand written poem to a lover. Letters float as if in water, with references to time (roman numerals) and direction (North, South, East and West). In these sculptures time, space, words and emotions are de-bottled, spilling open into the public domain of dialogue and empathy. | 2019-04-19T20:31:51Z | https://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/04/15/29828.html |
Here you can find a wide range of reports on protected area management effectiveness. Where these are freely avaialable, they can be downloaded.
Anonymous (no date) Technical Report for Lao PDR assessment of protected area management effectiveness. Unpublished draft.
Department of Forests and Wildlife Sikkim, WWF India (2003) Rapid Assessment of the management effectiveness ofthe protected areas of Eastern Himalaya (Sikkim). Department of Forests and Wildlife Sikkim, WWF-India.
Diqiang L, Jianhua Z, Ke D, Bo W, Chunquan Z (2003) China: Management Effectiveness Assessment of Protected Areas in the upper Yangtze Ecoregion using WWF's RAPPAM Methodology WWF.
Duguman J (2006) Papua New Guineau: Management Effectiveness Assessment of Papua New Guineau's protected areas using WWF's RAPPAM Methodology WWF and partners.
Ervin J (2003) Rapid assessment of protected area management effectiveness in four countries. BioScience 53, 833-841.
Ervin J (2004) Preliminary results of RAPPAM implementation in Slovakia. Unpublished draft.
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Goodman PS (2003). South Africa Effectiveness Assessment of Protected Areas in KwaZulu-Natal using WWF's RAPPAM Methodology.
Higgins-Zogib L, Lacerda L (2006) Case Study II:RAPPAM: Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management: a methodology for assessing protected area networks. In 'Evaluating effectiveness: a framework for assessing the management of protected areas second edition'. (Eds M Hockings, S Stolton, N Dudley, F Leverington, J Courrau). (IUCN Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series: Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK).
Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis, WWF-Brasil (2007) Efetividade de Gestão das Unidades de Conservação Federais do Brasil: Implementação do Método Rappam – Avaliação Rápida e Priorização da Gestão de Unidades de Conservação. IBAMA, WWF-Brasil, http://www.wwf.org.br/index.cfm, Brasilia.
Lacerda L, Schmitt K, Cutter P, Meas S (2004) Cambodia: Management Effectiveness Assessment of the System of Protected Areas in Cambodia using WWF's RAPPAM Methodology. Ministry of Environment, Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Project., Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (2006) Management Effectiveness of National and State Parks in Malaysia. Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Nepali SC (2006) Nepal: Management Effectiveness Assessment of Protected Areas using WWF's RAPPAM Methodology WWF Nepal Program.
Simões L (2005) RAPPAM Rapid Assessment And Prioritization Of Protected Areas Management. (25th October 2005: Dallas).
Simoes LL, Numa de Oliveria LRC (2003) Implementation of the Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management by the Forestry Institute and the Forestry Foundation of Sao Paulo. WWF, Forestry Institute and the Forestry Foundation of Sao Paulo.
Stanciu E, Steindlegger G (2006) RAPPAM (Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management) Methodology implementation in Romania:Key findings and results. WWF.
Steindlegger G, Kalem S (2005) RAPPAM (Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management) Methodology implementation in Turkey:Key findings and results. WWF.
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full build Notes Full solo lane build. Power spike after second/third item, even when getting items out of order.
Start 1 Notes Recommended solo start.
Start 2 Notes Rushing Transcendence. NOTE: More easily punished early without movement speed.
Achilles being incredibly strong right now, will be able to safely aggressively lane against a Loki until very late game. Similar to his threat in the jungle, he has potential to juke your burst, and stun you out of Vanish. You DON'T want to fight Achilles early-mid unless he's making a lot of mistakes. You can also focus a bit on split pushing mid-late game if you're not bringing the same prescence Achilles is to teamfights.
A good Apollo player is just as much as a thread as Hou Yi. His Serenade will mez you out of Vanish, and if you try to run away from him, similarly to Kali's Incense, he'll pop it to break your Vanish. He is able to keep his distance in fights and gets phys prot from the same mesmerize. Apollo can also stop your split push with his ultimate, and potentially after killing you, split push himself!
Easy to gank, but hard to lane against. Hou Yi will out clear you initially, and by the time you are able to clear decently, he will have his Mark of the Golden Crow on you almost always to tell where you are when invisible. The best way to deal with this is to either wait for the 8s period where (duration - 10s, cd - 18s) his 2 is down or wait for him to use his Ricochet for clear to poke/aggress. Then Hou Yi would have to get lucky or not have his 1 to stun you out of Vanish. You have to play intuitively aggressive to keep him from just dominating you in the duo lane.
Not highly valued in season 5, but a good Osiris will use Judgement Tether to follow you while invisible. Potential to stun you out of Vanish, and a better early game than most warriors so it's hard to aggress early.
A good Ravana can avoid all your burst damage with Overhead Kick at the right time. Ravana also has a heal, so DPS over time is not as effective as it could be. Know his cooldown/last usage of this ability, because he will 180 and bop you in the forehead when you think you have the upperhand.
Bellona's disarm can put you in a crunch when you need to damage her, and can render both your Aimed Strike and Vanish auto attack useless. Look to interrupt her Bludgeon with Assassinate and save Vanish to avoid Bellona's slow and to get away from her ultimate.
Ravana can play very aggressively early, where Loki tends to have trouble in the solo lane. His ability to render your burst useless with his Overhead Kick makes him very dangerous. As long as you wait for Overhead Kick to be used, there's a ~20s (scales down to 12s, but Ravana will max this last) time opportunity to poke/kill if need be. Mid-late game, you will have enough damage to kill him once his Overhead Kick is down.
full build Notes Full jungle build. Finish starting Mace into either Jotunn's Wrath or The Crusher after buying Warrior Tabi.
Start Notes Not recommended as a start for solo due to lack of sustain.
Achilles will stun you with Shield of Achilles whenever you try to fight him. Other than this, he'd be manageable, but Achilles is extremely strong right now, and performs very well against other strong junglers, and Loki is not a meta jungler.
Arachne can chase you with webs and stun you out of your Vanish early which will most always be a death. Good thing is you don't get slowed, but Arachne will put pressure on you just like a Ravana will. Avoid fights until you can burst Arachne down, and avoid that stun!
Ravana is just as big a threat in the jungle as he is in solo. Not only can you not fight him, he will outfarm you initially and can pressure early lanes much better than you can. Best way to deal with him is to avoid early fights and trade jungle losses by invading at the right time!
She is slightly manageable because her early game is relatively weak. Be wary of using Vanish to escape her though. A good Kali will immediately Incense to stun you out of Vanish. Best way to deal with Kali is to burst her down before she can react, or bait her ultimate out.
Many people like to pick Loki into Mercury, but for me it's just the opposite! Early and late game, a mercury will outbox a Loki every time. His Special Delivery is relatively easy to land to break a Loki's Vanish and combo w/ auto's and Made You Look. A good Merc player that lands his ults will also 100-0 you. However, mid-game and late-game to a degree, you can easily 100-0 Mercury. Just don't make the mistake of trying to box Mercury late, because he will turn on you and kill you.
Serqet can not too difficultly break Vanish with her Cobra's Kiss, and 100-0 you by level 5. She is even more mobile than Loki is, so getting her close to death with her escaping might happen a lot. There's not much counterplay as a Loki jungle against a Serqet other than maybe focusing on farming and outrotating.
Hey guys, it's me Greenevers! This is my guide for my most played god in Smite, Loki. My in-game name is Regen. Updated for Season 5!
Loki is a high single target melee assassin. Loki benefits mainly from power, penetration, and cooldown reduction. His kit relies on his abilities but his abilities rely on his basic attacks.
Loki's unique clear ability, Decoy, is what makes him a viable solo laner. Loki is one of the few gods in Smite that can stealth. His burst potential is enormous if played right.
Loki has insane burst potential with his skill combos. Few gods can react to his burst. Loki's high mobility comes from the movement speed on his Vanish and a "free Blink Rune" as Assassinate. Loki is one of the few gods that have a stealth and his is currently the most flexible stealth. Loki will only be taken out of stealth from the following hard CC: stuns, fears, grabs, mesmerizes, silences, and taunts. Lastly, Loki's easy Vanish escape, his good clear late game, and his build depending on power and pen makes him a great split pusher.
Loki would be unstoppable if not for crowd control. It's what keeps him in check. Because of this, you have to keep in check the enemy's CC and cooldowns as well as your Vanish. Use it before the enemy uses their CC, and you're dead. This ties in with Loki's con of being squishy like most assassins. Due to Loki being a melee assassin and very weak to crowd control, Loki does not help his team in team fights as much as a Thor or Hun Batz. Loki's early clear is lacking so you usually play defensively until the 7 minute mark.
A unique passive that synchronizes well with both Vanish and Assassinate. This is a simple yet great passive where the power of basic attacks behind the enemy are buffed by 20%.
When clearing any camps in the jungle, use Decoy to taunt the creeps and attack from behind to apply your passive. You see an extra icon pop up so you'll know if you're getting the damage.
One of the most unique abilities in the game of Smite. This ability can be used for ganking, escaping, chasing, and damage. The bleed damage is nice, because many times I just vanish behind an enemy, apply the bleed and instead of auto attacking to secure the kill, I just run away.
When escaping from an enemy, double back when you Vanish. Meaning while they're chasing you, Vanish and while you're invisible, turn and run the other way. Make sure not to keep going that way, go left/right or you'll most likely find another enemy. If you're ganking, try to vanish a bit farther away from the enemy since it also has a distinct noise which will cause an enemy to run away. Be careful! Many things break this ability and cut your Vanish like potions, Assassinate, and some relics.
A simple clearing ability which taunts minions to attack it. Place Decoy on archers so because they will not move in range of the ability to attack it like melee NPC's will. Decoy can also be used to "body block" AA's & some abilities, dive towers, and just "distract" enemy minions while you go in for the kill. Decoy however, DOES NOT get rid of backdoor protections.
If an enemy god is sitting under his tower and your Assassinate is under cooldown, dive the tower with Decoy. Before going in, put the Decoy anywhere in the tower's circle (put it on the side so it won't get in the way of you running in/out) and Decoy will take damage for 3 seconds. Keep in mind, the moment you attack the god, the tower will start shooting at you, so be prepared.
If you're low on mana and escaping an enemy, don't use Decoy to "bodyblock" an enemy, wait for the Vanish oppurtunity and you have a much better chance of escaping (make sure enemy's CC is on CD). You can also put this ability down on the enemy and ult on them. That way, they'll receive the damage of Decoy as well.
Loki's steroid. Not only does it grant you extreme additional power on top of your burst, but it slows the enemy god. This helps you apply the rest of your burst and other AA's. This is also Loki's only ability which the CD goes down as it is ranked up.
Many people use Aimed Strike after you go in with Assassinate. Alternatively, depending on the situation, you could use Aimed Strike before you use Assassinate. Assassinate doesn't break this ability. Also be careful when sneaking up on people. This ability is known for its obnoxious noise so if you can confirm a kill without it and your enemy doesn't know you're there, refrain from using it as it will be a waste of mana and it is possible your enemy may escape.
This can be used to initiate (single god), to finish off an enemy god, to protect an ally (stun), and to escape. The reason why Assassinate's damage is rather low compared to a lot of other god's ultimate numbers is because Loki heavily depends on the burst damage right after Assassinate.
For a short duration, Loki is immune to CC when he uses Assassinate on a god. If you just use Assassinate to teleport to avoid an Ares' ultimate, you'll get pulled. However if you ult the Ares or another god at the right time, you won't get pulled by No Escape!
This combo should be your regular all-in combo for a target that will be easily 100-0'd. One where you don't use auto-attack cancelling, and one that is most familiar with Loki players. Be careful when using Vanish since you have no escape after this. Note this is not the most efficient combo, those are listed after skill combo #2.
For this, you use Assassinate to initiate instead of cleaning up the kill. The reason you use Aimed Strike before you go into Assassinate is because you save time instead of ulting, auto attacking, then using Aimed Strike and then giving out that basic.
In that time, it may be that the enemy uses a jump or something and you waste mana and it's on cooldown. This way, the next auto attack after your ultimate is going to hit with extra damage no matter what. If the enemy is not dead, autoattack or use Vanish as a chase. Try not to waste Vanish because it is extremely helpful for your escape.
Also known as auto attack cancelling, attack chain resets are a way to "interrupt" your auto attack chain (Loki's being 1/.5/.5/.5/1.5). The time for Loki's first basic attack to go off in his chain is the shortest compared to the rest of his chain. So, you can use your abilities to interrupt it after the first basic. If you have CD's, you have the option to auto attack cancel before the last auto instead of after the first.
To use auto attack cancelling with the previous combos, you have to sneak in an auto before each ability. Instead of just using Vanish and Aimed Strike, you could instead Vanish, auto attack, then Aimed Strike auto attack. It does get some getting used to and the gap between you and your enemy has to be a tad bit closer even if you get it down instantaneously.
Instead of using Aimed Strike, try auto attacking into an Aimed Strike. Try adding in Decoy as well. If you need that quick rotation to finish off someone, an auto into Decoy into an auto is 75% more damage than just two autos. Starting to sound confusing? Just try it out in-game, it's not as confusing as it sounds.
All of Loki's abilities have 100% or more scaling on his abilities (his Vanish ticks add up to 100%). Loki is the only assassin with 100% or more scalings on all of his abilities. By building pure power on Loki, his abilities' damage will skyrocket, even to the late game.
This item will give Loki the most power any item can offer. It's good in solo and adc since you can build up easy stacks. The mana and MP5 is great, you won't need to rely on blue buff as much. Best to buy first item or mid game after core items.
A staple item for all gods - boots. The movement speed is invaluable throughout the entire game. And no need for any other pair, you want that extra power from Warrior Tabi not any attack speed or defense.
Power is great, but physical defense is a huge barrier to Loki's burst potential. Penetration allows you to "ignore" a certain amount of protections your enemy has. This will allow you to shred through base protections and have an easier time against those bully warriors in lane.
This is a core item for ability based assassins like Loki. It gives him power and cooldown reduction. The early pen and mana is a nice bonus since Loki is a mana hungry god who has difficulty with bruisers.
After getting this item, Loki won't have as much as a problem with those pesky bruisers and tanks. Even though you should be targeting squishy mages, this will bring them down much faster.
The penetration and the passive are the most important things on this item. Good for extra burst damage and is useful when planning mid game ganks. Usually a better buy than Brawler's Beat Stick unless there are healers about.
This item is along with the power and penetration it offers, gives a very useful passive. Not only is it good against healers, but also when bursting hunters late-game, who outbox Loki's when caught offguard. The passive significantly reduces the lifesteal they heal from.
Relics are very important in gameplay. Some are essential such as Purification Beads, and others are more on the fun side like Blink Rune.
Purification Beads has maintained its functionality and is a mandatory item for Loki in whatever role he plays. It grants CC immunity instantly and to further CC for 1s. Learn to use this preemptively, and it can be used not only as a retaliation but also as an offensive tool.
This relic can help you to split push, keep up in farm, or rotate out. The downside is that the enemy team can capitalize that you have no Purification Beads until level 12. Remember if you're going to rotate, don't tp into a fight unless you know that your t1/t2 tower will not be taken. Instead walk to the fight and tp back if needed. If you're playing Loki ADC, I'd suggest that you don't rush this relic first though.
You usually should not start with this relic because Loki is not a strong jungler, and a good enemy jungle/mid can take advantage of this and pressure your jungle early game. But, if confident and cocky like me, start with this! Great for ganks/followups. Get late game if not feeling that cheeky early.
Does the enemy team have a lot of burst damage from gods like Poseidon, Odin, Lokis (heh)? This might be the go to. I would recommend starting Purification Beads, because that allows for outplay, but if they only have burst and minimal CC, this is the best bet.
Look to farm, farm, and farm! You will have to use Decoy twice along with some basics to clear waves early game. Make sure to get as many autos in before the enemy solo clears the wave. Melee archers if you can but if the enemy solo is ranged, they will take advantage and poke you while you auto archers. Then, it's safer to Decoy and auto melee minions. Try to get as many last hits to get Transcendence up as fast as you can.
If you feel like you're doing fine, head back the moment you have enough for Transcendence right after clearing the wave. If your enemy solo is giving you too much trouble, back and Teleport Glyph to get the xp from that next wave. Keep farming and try to take advantage of small mistakes of your enemy solo to get ahead of them.
Loki is the most annoying pick in solo (even I think he's annoying). The main reason is because he isn't forced to fight and you can just sit in lane insta clearing and the moment the enemy solo rotates, keep going until phoenix. One of Loki's niche is split pushing. He's successful in this because of his mobility and penetration/power based build.
As easy as left click split push sounds, there are ways to improve your split push experience.
This item is key to Loki's split push. It will allow you to teleport up to one of your wards that is close to a pushed up lane, take a tower or phoenix incredibly fast and get out without any consequences. A smart enemy solo will get this item to rotate and the moment they see you split pushing, they'll follow you with this active.
You should know where every enemy is on the map. Wards are well worth the money. They let you play up with less worry, and also serve the purpose to teleport to take a structure later. Should be thinking, "Oh Anhur definitely backed when he saw me take a tier 2 tower". If you know how many people are heading your way you can make the choice to fight or run.
Loki's Aimed Strike will not do extra damage to a tower. However, when you have Hydra's Lament online, you will gain the passive power bonus when using an ability. This will affect your structure damage. Decoy can be used to tank a tower but be careful because it does not remove backdoor protections so you will hit a tower or phoenix for less until minions come into proximity of the structure.
This is byfar the most important thing when split pushing. You need to communicate with your team that you're focusing on split pushing and they need to communicate who is backing or heading towards you. Your team should be prepared to fight 4v5 if needed and they need to know. There could also be a clutch situation where you could end the game but you need your teammates to stop all their backs. Communication is key!
Feel free to drop a comment or review, and I'll be sure to get back to you! Thanks.
Why no Bloodforge listed as an optional item?
131071 Kriega1 Why no [[Bloodforge]] listed as an optional item?
126720 Greenevers hey dude, thanks!
Man, I've worked a lot on my guide, but I really like the way you describe everything, from items to abilities and specific details within. Like how you branched out to include more roles...believe the original was Solo only?
Also, you'll need to update your wording on some of the items. For example, I think you're still hinting at the S3 version of The Crusher's passive, and for Brawler's Beat Stick, you say it has the same stats as Crusher.
This is a long-standing guide that has aged very nicely.
115991 Branmuffin17 Man, I've worked a lot on my guide, but I really like the way you describe everything, from items to abilities and specific details within. Like how you branched out to include more roles...believe the original was Solo only? One thing I noticed, for S4, you'll need to update your relic terminology. You may also want to talk about how you can upgrade them, and which ones/when to upgrade. (Besides the relic section, you talk about "Teleport" in the Split Pushing section below it) Also, you'll need to update your wording on some of the items. For example, I think you're still hinting at the S3 version of [[The Crusher]]'s passive, and for [[Brawler's Beat Stick]], you say it has the same stats as Crusher. This is a long-standing guide that has aged very nicely.
Yep, fixed the relics. Slowly updating everything. Originally was just solo and arena I think then switched just to solo. Now it's solo, adc, and a fun jungle build to mess around with. I'm probably adding in some brief jungle tips and even some stuff on 1v1 Duel cause although scummy, he's popular in that. Thank you Branmuffin!
116004 Greenevers Yep, fixed the relics. Slowly updating everything. Originally was just solo and arena I think then switched just to solo. Now it's solo, adc, and a fun jungle build to mess around with. I'm probably adding in some brief jungle tips and even some stuff on 1v1 Duel cause although scummy, he's popular in that. Thank you Branmuffin!
My Loki build is nearly Identical to both the builds you have created. I always build Transcendence first, second I build Warrior Tabi, third I build Jotunn's Wrath, fourth I build Hydra's Lament, fifth I build Titan's Bane, and finally I build Void Shield.
111724 Trentelligence My Loki build is nearly Identical to both the builds you have created. I always build Transcendence first, second I build Warrior Tabi, third I build Jotunn's Wrath, fourth I build Hydra's Lament, fifth I build Titan's Bane, and finally I build Void Shield.
Only problem now is with the jungle section, since due to the new changes you can't get red power pots at the start of the game. I'm gonna try out a few things myself to see if there is a good item to make Loki viable starting in the jungle.
111102 V_Valentyne In my opinion, this is the ONLY Loki build really worth using - though I typically swap out the last item for stonecutting sword (extra movement and damage a big plus while hunting down victims.) Only problem now is with the jungle section, since due to the new changes you can't get red power pots at the start of the game. I'm gonna try out a few things myself to see if there is a good item to make Loki viable starting in the jungle.
Thanks! I'll try my best to keep it updated.
111241 Greenevers Thanks! I'll try my best to keep it updated.
Great job! It works really well, and thanks for creating it. I just wanted to know why you don't build any attack speed, as I see a lot of in game Lokis build it.
108304 Mesericordes Great job! It works really well, and thanks for creating it. I just wanted to know why you don't build any attack speed, as I see a lot of in game Lokis build it.
Thanks. And you don't want to build attack speed because Loki benefits a lot more from power, penetration, and cooldown reduction. There's no room or need for attack speed in his build.
108314 Greenevers Thanks. And you don't want to build attack speed because Loki benefits a lot more from power, penetration, and cooldown reduction. There's no room or need for attack speed in his build.
Very nice guide. I'd definitely want to try bloodforge from patch 3.8, the new passive fits perfectly. Do you have any suggestions which item to replace and where to fit it in?
107102 jadcloet Very nice guide. I'd definitely want to try bloodforge from patch 3.8, the new passive fits perfectly. Do you have any suggestions which item to replace and where to fit it in?
Thanks! I've only played pts once so I don't have the best idea of whether it'd be good on him or not. If I were to guess right now, I'd probably replace The Crusher or Hydra's Lament.
107144 Greenevers Thanks! I've only played pts once so I don't have the best idea of whether it'd be good on him or not. If I were to guess right now, I'd probably replace [[the crusher]] or [[hydra's lament]].
Hey man, got any phases for jungling? or general tips with loki?
Well I included a jungle build for Loki and I initially intended to provide a jungle gameplay guide as well. As of now, I don't plan on adding anything for jungling just because you have to be pretty confident with Loki or jungling in general to be able to jungle with him.
Jungling with Loki is almost the same play style except you focus a bit more on rotations & ganks than in the solo lane. Although you still want to concentrate on farming in the jungle, split pushing isn't a priority. This is why you look for Hydra's Lament since you won't really need the early penetration as much against warriors and to split push. You need to know how to use Loki in a team fight over and over again which is a lot harder than just afk split pushing and farming. I wouldn't recommend trying it other than for fun tbh. I mean I play it all the time, and it can work sometimes but it's not all that viable.
106827 Greenevers [quote=UNDKVR] Hey man, got any phases for jungling? or general tips with loki? [/quote] Well I included a jungle build for Loki and I initially intended to provide a jungle gameplay guide as well. As of now, I don't plan on adding anything for jungling just because you have to be pretty confident with Loki or jungling in general to be able to jungle with him. Jungling with Loki is almost the same play style except you focus a bit more on rotations & ganks than in the solo lane. Although you still want to concentrate on farming in the jungle, split pushing isn't a priority. This is why you look for [[hydra's lament]] since you won't really need the early penetration as much against warriors and to split push. You need to know how to use Loki in a team fight over and over again which is a lot harder than just afk split pushing and farming. I wouldn't recommend trying it other than for fun tbh. I mean I play it all the time, and it can work sometimes but it's not all that viable. [quote=V5MesaL] Very nice guide, loving the video explanation! + [/quote] Thanks!
106446 UNDKVR Hey man, got any phases for jungling? or general tips with loki?
Glad to help you guys!
green I got a small thing for you to think about.
I see you're lvling decoy on the first clear, however unless you are solo clearing a camp you can go Aimed Strike first as someone else will be helping you clear the first 2 camps and then take decoy on lvl 2 (or I'm wrong about being able to hit lvl 2 after the first 2 camps). as the solo laner is the one taking the agro so you can do the back hits.
(I apply this in joust most of the time going 2 points in aimed 1 in vanish) Just wanted to know what you think about it.
You'd do more damage to enemy camps with Decoy plus reduce the damage that you or your ally will have take from aggro which compensates for the bad early clear that Loki has. Plus, you'd be bullied even more in lane without Decoy at level 1. You need to start Decoy as Loki in conquest unless you start mid camps (You'd be level 2) or you start with Vanish when weary of an invade. Loki's early game is really shaky, you need Decoy to clear and Vanish to escape out of awkward situations.
In other gamemodes, it's different since you don't start at level 1. Even then I find myself going 1, 2, and 3 for the utility. It doesn't make as much as a difference.
106163 Greenevers Glad to help you guys! [quote=Devampi] green I got a small thing for you to think about. I see you're lvling decoy on the first clear, however unless you are solo clearing a camp you can go [[aimed strike]] first as someone else will be helping you clear the first 2 camps and then take decoy on lvl 2 (or I'm wrong about being able to hit lvl 2 after the first 2 camps). as the solo laner is the one taking the agro so you can do the back hits. (I apply this in joust most of the time going 2 points in aimed 1 in vanish) Just wanted to know what you think about it. [/quote] You'd do more damage to enemy camps with [[decoy]] plus reduce the damage that you or your ally will have take from aggro which compensates for the bad early clear that Loki has. Plus, you'd be bullied even more in lane without [[decoy]] at level 1. You need to start [[decoy]] as Loki in conquest unless you start mid camps (You'd be level 2) or you start with [[vanish]] when weary of an invade. Loki's early game is really shaky, you need [[decoy]] to clear and [[vanish]] to escape out of awkward situations. In other gamemodes, it's different since you don't start at level 1. Even then I find myself going 1, 2, and 3 for the utility. It doesn't make as much as a difference.
106142 Devampi green I got a small thing for you to think about. I see you're lvling decoy on the first clear, however unless you are solo clearing a camp you can go [[aimed strike]] first as someone else will be helping you clear the first 2 camps and then take decoy on lvl 2 (or I'm wrong about being able to hit lvl 2 after the first 2 camps). as the solo laner is the one taking the agro so you can do the back hits. (I apply this in joust most of the time going 2 points in aimed 1 in vanish) Just wanted to know what you think about it. | 2019-04-22T11:16:12Z | https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/the-lowkey-god-4815 |
".......indeed you are right. Maldives was never an official issue of Goa's governors, nor of the Portuguese Crown. The Portuguese chroniclers, Barros, G. Correia, Castanheda and Couto always referred to Maldives associated with the struggle against Mamale of Cannanore, Calicut and as a place to intercept ships bound to Mecca, specially from Aceh. Even the fort built at Malé was a private adventure."
Until about 1950 there was a street in Malé called Andiri Andirin Magu, named after the Regent of King Manoel Siri Dhirikusa Loka (previously known as Hassan IX). This street was to the West of what is now Maafannu Theemuge- the presidential compound. For nearly 400 years the inhabitants of Malé did not find it offensive to have one of their streets named after a compatriot now vilified as a Portuguese invader. Interestingly there was no street named after Bodu Thakurufan (Kateeb of Utheem) until the 1990's.
Today the annual Maldive display of fanaticism in bashing the modern state of Portugal has reached an embarrassing crescendo. The scale of ignorance is such that, based on a recently fabricated myth, a respected state of the European Union is insulted every year on the first day of Rabee el-Awwal.
That there ever existed Portuguese sovereignty over any part of the Maldives is a myth fabricated relatively recently. No such record exists in Portuguese archives and there is no reference to Portuguese rule in the Tarikh, the official Maldive chronicle written prior to the 20th Century.
No doubt the Christian King Manoel Siri Dhirikusa Loka, formerly Sultan Hassan IX, had the moral and some material support of the Portuguese who evangelised him. The bulk of the evidence supports the view that there were Portuguese volunteers or mercenaries under the command of his captains in the expeditions sent to the Maldives. His regent in Malé was Andiri Andirin, a Maldivian by birth and upbringing, albeit of foreign parentage.
The Tarikh uses the terms Nasorah (Christian), Kaafaru (infidel) and Faranji ("Frank", a term used interchangeably to mean European and Christian) to refer to the Christian rulers of the Maldives and their Christian subjects. The oral tradition as related by Buraara Koi also refers to the Kaafaru to describe the persuasion of the non-Moslems in the Maldives at that time and only occasionally as Faranji.
At the time Malé finally capitulated to Kateeb Mohamed Thakurufan of Uteem, according to Buraara, the expatriates there comprised of Goans (undoubtedly Portuguese subjects), Frenchmen and Malabars and evidently they were all in the employ of Andiri Andirin. It was unlikely that any Portuguese authority would have engaged Frenchmen, subjects of a rival mercantile power.
Up until his assumption of the regency in Malé, Andiri Andirin is referred to by Buraara as Goa Kalu Faranji, which means the "black Frank of Goa" or the "black Christian of Goa". Why was he black? At that time it was highly unlikely that there were any dark-skinned people in Europe. The Kingdom of Grenada, the last Moorish (some of whom were dark-skinned) State in Europe fell more than 50 years before to Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille. Was Andiri Andirin not Portuguese?
The Tarikh and Buraara Koi, however, do refer to the Portuguese quite specifically. For instance there is a reference in the Tarikh to an abortive invasion in 1624 (over fifty years after the so-called Portuguese rule ended), in the reign of King Siri Kula Sundhura Katthiri Bavana (Sultan Shuja'i Mohamed Imaduddine I), headed by a captain "Balbagi".
During the regency of Andiri Andirin, undoubtedly there would have been many Portuguese people based in the Maldives, as traders, mercenaries and missionaries. Other European mercantile powers in Asia, the French and the Dutch and later the English would have viewed this arrangement as Portuguese rule.
Where transfer of sovereignty had not taken place, Christian mercantile powers at that time operated by establishing spheres of influence and by mutual understanding kept away from each other's sphere of influence. In common usage, European merchants regarded these spheres of influence as being under the rule of the respective mercantile powers.
Hassan IX and his fellow converts were probably not the first Maldive Christians. Theophilus, sent by Emperor Constantius (about AD 354) on a mission to Arabia Felix and Abyssinia, was one of the earliest, if not the first. He had been sent when very young a hostage a Divoeis, by the inhabitants of the Maldives, to the Romans in the reign of Constantine the Great. His travels are recorded by Philostorgius, an Arian Greek historian, who relates that Theophilus, after fulfilling his mission to the Homerites, sailed to his island home. (see reference). Theophilus was a well-known physician. Could it be that he was the first Maldive doctor who practised in Europe?
Another Roman source, Amianus Marcellinus courtier to the Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus wrote in AD 362 about Maldive envoys that came to the emperor's court. He called the Maldives Divi, which could be another Latin form of Divus.
This was undoubtedly the reason why Bell and other European writers such as the Frenchman François Pyrard de Laval had referred to the Portuguese presence as Portuguese rule. In spite of references to Portuguese rule, Bell concedes that the "Islands were then governed by a Native Regent, under the control of the Portuguese Commandant, who ruled in the name of the exiled King Dom Manoel (Hassan IX)".
Buraara describes in minute detail the odi (sailing vessel) of the Viyazor, the collector of revenue or Atoluverin of the four atolls to the north of Malé . Although the designation of Viyazor was derived from the Portuguese word vedor, interestingly, his vessel flew a plain red flag, and not the Portuguese ensign. From time immemorial until 1903, the flag of the Maldive sovereigns was the plain red flag shown at the top of this page.
The Viyazor of Baararh himself sounds very much a Maldivian by disposition, even though Andiri Andirin was supposed to have recruited him in Goa to act as a pilot in his expeditions to capture Malé. If the Viyazor was not a Maldivian, he must have been someone who was very familiar with the Maldives and Maldivian customs, before his arrival with Andiri Andirin.
Buraara Koi a narrator of ancient history was politically quite incorrect regarding the personality and character of Mohamed Thakurufan, Kateeb of Utheem who is now given credit for "liberating" the Maldives from "Portuguese rule". Buraara certainly gives Mohamed Thakurufan all the credit worthy of a conquering hero of Islam, but he is also described as an adulterer, a necromancer , a cheat and someone who enjoyed trapping birds into his extended adolescence.
Nothing wrong with bird trapping, but duplicity, adultery and necromancy were unbecoming of a knight of Islam, according to conservative commentators who wielded immense power.
One such commentator was Hussain Salahuddine, a twentieth century chief justice and one time royal commissioner of history. Buraara�s account was totally unacceptable for Salahuddine, so he revised it and wrote an alternative version.
His only evidence and justification for the change was that the traditional version of Mohamed Thakurufan�s character was incompatible with someone who waged Jihad (holy war) for the cause of Islam- very subjective and emotive indeed.
Accordingly he systematically and quite openly purged the traditional versions of "objectionable" events and accounts and inserted politically correct material in their place- some of it fabricated by his own admission.
Salahuddine bowdlerised Buraara's account, inserting "Portuguese" where Buraara and the Tarikh had used terms such as Kaafaru and Nasorah.
Salahuddine was Mohamed Amin Dorhimeyna Kilegefan's father-in-law.
Salahuddine�s work on the subject is worthy of literary merit. However as a source of historical or traditional reference, its unreliability cannot be emphasised strongly enough. Salahuddine�s account remains the favoured version with the Maldives authorities.
According to Buraara, he had a wife in Goa when he married the widow of the slain Sultan in Malé. No Catholic would have been allowed to divorce his wife, let alone take more than one wife. King Henry VIII had to secede England from the Church of Rome in 1534 because Pope Clement VII would not allow him to divorce Catherine of Aragon. It was highly unlikely that in 1558 Pope Paul IV would have consented the Viyazor of Baararh to take a second wife.
Oral tradition describes the Viyazor as a likeable fellow, who occasionally shared a meal with the Thakurufans of Uteem in a communal plate. Moslems would willingly share a meal with Christians, but it was unlikely that they would eat with a Christian from a communal plate. According to Buraara, the Viyazor was steeped in astrology, numerology and dabbled in necromancy. If he were a Portuguese Christian, the Holy Inquisition would have had him burnt at the stake for such heretical activities.
The terminology used in the Tarikh to describe the end of the rule of the Christian King and the end of Holin rule in 1752 is also significant. While the end of Christian rule is described as a conversion to Islam, the end of Holin rule is described as a "transfer of ownership of the Kingdom toits people". This means that while the end of Holin rule was clearly recognised as liberation from a foreign power, the author of the Tarikh saw the end of Christian rule merely as a coup d'état.
Bell had used translations of the Tarikh in his Monograph. Where the Tarikh clearly uses the terms described above, Bell uses the term "Portuguese", in translation. Whoever was Bell's translator must have been keen to draw a comparison between the colonial history of Ceylon where Bell was born and that of the Maldives.
When British rule ended in the countries of Southern Asia in 1947 and 1948, these countries started celebrating independence days or national days. This and the wave of Nationalism sweeping Asia and much of the world at that time dictated that, like other countries, the Maldives also celebrated a so-called "National Day".
At a loss for a day, Mohamed Amin Dorhimeyna Kilegefan came up with the idea of appointing the first day of the Islamic lunar month of Rabee-al-Awwal as the National Day of the Maldives. Three and three quarter centuries before on this day, according to the Tarikh, Mohamed Thakurufan kateeb of Uteem assassinated Andiri Andirin and seized control of Malé. Many traditional versions, including Buraara place the date of the event in the month of Rajab. Raabee-el-Awwal is, of course, holier in the Islamic calendar.
The National Day had to be romanticised with the defeat of a colonial European power. The myth of Portuguese rule over the Maldives was thus fabricated, institutionalised and committed to official history.
The myth of Portuguese rule is perpetuated annually since the late 1940's. All manner of festivities, including school children made to perform quaint dances dubbed "cultural", take place every year. These celebrations were canned in 1965 by Prime Minister Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan, until reinstated by the regime that succeeded his presidency. | 2019-04-19T01:11:47Z | http://maldivesroyalfamily.com/maldives_myth_of_portuguese.shtml |
We live in the Pacific Northwest, arguably one of the loveliest areas of the United States. Tucked in a valley between the Cascades and the Coastal Range, we can be either at the coast or in the mountains in about an hour. Yes, it rains (a lot) in the winter and we miss the sun. But it's beautiful here, and we love getting out and exploring, hiking, and playing in our Northwest wonderland.
This valley is also the Grass Seed Capital of the World, and just north of us are several grass farms. There are about three weeks in the spring where pollen billows through the air, funneling south toward us, and we are routinely proclaimed "worst in the nation" for pollen allergens. A few members of my family are quite miserable during this season, and we're always glad to escape when we can. This year we spent ten days near Mount Hood, about an hour east of Portland. It was a relaxing and fun time for our family. One of my favorite things was the hikes we were able to do. The wildflowers were in full bloom, and it was fun to walk slowly through the woods, pausing often to admire their delicate loveliness and appreciate the newness of life springing happily from the ground. Walk with me?
These tiny little flowers were in a marshy area near a lake we walked around on our last day. There was also a lot of camas growing in this area.
I love the color variations on this one!
Somehow I missed the trillium at lower elevations this year, as we haven't been out hiking in a while. I was happy to find a few varieties of white trillium near Mount Hood, plus pink and purple!
Foxglove... so many beautiful stalks of foxglove in bloom!
Unfurled Fern Fronds... you will get that if you've read The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place. We've enjoyed the first five books in the series over the last several months and are looking forward to the last book coming out later this year.
I think this is False Solomon's Seal. Correct me if I'm wrong!
We watched this little beetle with delight as he climbed a spiny leaf.
I have no idea what this one is.
Wild Strawberries... in can almost taste their sharp sweetness in a few more weeks!
I think this is Indian Paintbrush... not sure.
We have a large Bleeding Heart in our front yard, so it was fun to see it in the wild!
There were so many tiny things springing forth from the earth, little things that I would have missed if I were more focused on the destination.
More Unfurled Fern Fronds. Come on... say it three times fast!
Purple Trillium. I normally only see the white where we are, so it was exciting to spot different colors!
And lastly, Rhododendron, which grow abundantly in the forests here.
A walk in the forest, for me, is such a beautiful and restorative experience. I love to be surrounded by the sights and sounds of wild things. Springtime walks among the wildflowers, far from the clouds of pollen, were a beautiful gifts I enjoyed this year, and I'm so thankful for these little bursts of beauty and color. I hope you enjoyed them as well!
It's been there for years, this wooden box nailed to our fence. It's long sat empty, waiting for a pair of birds to claim it as their own. Made by little hands, nailed and fastened together, it's been full of nothing but hope as seasons have come and gone. But early this spring, as rains continued to fall from cold, grey Oregon skies, little voices excitedly proclaimed that they'd seen birds flying in and out of that box.
For the last six weeks, we've watched with delight as this little mama and papa sparrow have day after day flown in and out carrying bits of this and that. We've laughed as one approached the nesting box carrying a twig far too big to fit through the little hole, watched with amusement as Papa Sparrow sat for a moment on top before reluctantly releasing his prize twig and fluttering off in search of something not quite so grand. The kids have been thrilled to see them picking up tufts of fur from our bunnies or bits of horsehair that have migrated home from the ranch.
And then one day an egg was spied by a pair of peeking eyes. Some helpful child took a roll of packing tape and fastened the box so no one else would be tempted to open it and disturb this little family in the making. We watched with great anticipation as this faithful Mama and Papa took turns sitting on their clutch of eggs, flying back and forth all day long. And finally, about a week ago, we heard the first faint cheeping sounds coming from the box, and we've listened happily as the nearly constant cries have grown stronger.
It's been a hard season for our family, a walking through trials that threaten to swallow us up. My faith has been stretched and tried and stretched some more. At times I am tempted to give up, but like Peter I say, "To whom would I go?" My mind often falls into the familiar groove of worry, my stomach knotting with anxiety and fear. How many times I have stood at my kitchen window and watched these little birds! And the gentle voice of my Jesus comes, bidding me to cast my cares on Him, reminding me to look at the birds of the air.
Is it any coincidence that this year, of all years, this little pair of sparrows made their home not six feet from my kitchen sink? They are a gift, a reminder to my weary soul that if our Father cares for these little birds, how much more does He care for me and mine? Like Elijah's ravens, I believe they were sent to minister to my soul, to nourish and sustain my faith in a time when I've been tempted to despair. I have listened intently over the last week, hearing the persistent cheeping of tiny birds we've not yet seen. Their voices have changed swiftly from faint little chirps to loud and confident cries. Their Mama and Papa are continually flying back and forth to keep their brood fed.
And I am reminded, again and again, that I cannot add anything to my life by being anxious. What I can do is join my voice to the chorus that is taking place outside my window, waiting confidently, trusting that I and my family are of much more worth than those little sparrows. If our Father cares for them, then how much more will He care for us and hold us close? If these little birds hunger and are sustained, then how much more will we, who hunger and thirst for righteousness, be filled? Soon that box will be empty again, and yet for me, it will still hold the reminder of the gift that has dwelt in it through this difficult season.
I don't recall when I first became "acquainted" with Tsh Oxenreider, but I remember going through her book Organized Simplicity years ago and loving what she wrote about crafting a statement that defines who you are as a family. That helped me as I sorted, organized, and pared down in preparation for selling our home and traveling in 2012. I've since enjoyed her blog, podcast, and other book, Notes From a Blue Bike. Her love of travel, simplicity, and faith have often left me feeling like she's a kindred spirit, and more than once I've felt like she's written words that are in my heart.
Chichen Itza, Mexico, 2007. There's a baby Raphael tucked inside.
Little did I know at the time, but Tsh and her family lived just a few hours away from us before they too sold them home and embarked on nine months of world travel. Her newest book, At Home in the World, chronicles their journey as she and her husband Kyle, together with their three children embark on a round-the-world adventure. More than a travel memoir, it's one family's search for belonging and becoming, of seeking to discover the meaning of home and to reconcile one's wanderlust with the need to make a home in this world.
Santa Barbara, California, 2012, our tiny home on wheels. I loved the freedom we had to explore with the security of having our own little home wherever we went.
Like Tsh, I long to wander this earth, to explore the beauty that is so lavishly spread upon its seas and continents. I want to experience different cultures, languages, ways of life. I love to be in a place where the language is unfamiliar, where I'm half guessing at whatever I do. But at the same time, I and my family need the stability of a place to call home; we need to put down roots and sprout wings. I too live with the tension so well described in At Home in the World and struggle to reconcile my wanderlust with my love of keeping a home and filling it with memories and security.
Morocco, 2017, having tea with a semi-nomadic Berber family. There are all kinds of homes in this world, and our lives were enriched by the generosity and kindness of this family who welcomed us into their humble cave.
The Oxenreiders left home without knowing where they would land at the end of their journey. We did the same thing, having sold our home and pulled up stakes in Oregon, we set out into the unknown, trusting that when the time was right, we would know where to settle down. We assumed it would be in a different country, and were surprised to find ourselves back in our hometown a little over a year later, starting over in many ways. Although it wasn't what we had envisioned, it was definitely where we needed to be. Tsh and her family ended up in a familiar place as well, and for largely the same reason - community.
Thailand, 2015. Pearl makes friends wherever we go.
Our children need to grow up not only as part of a global family, but as an integrated part of our local community. We often connect with people while traveling, but for us, there is something to be said for the deep roots that we have put down at home. Being near family and friends who know and love us is something we can't replicate anywhere else in the world. We need to see the world and experience her beauty and culture, but at the end of the day (or the trip), it's good to have a place to call home. I have come to the same conclusion as Tsh, that in the end, we will always long for more, always have lingering feelings that maybe we should be somewhere else. As C.S. Lewis put it, "If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explantation is that we were made for another world."
London, England, 2017. The Dr. Who fans among us were pretty excited to find the TARDIS! Having one of these would make travel so much easier!
I loved reading about the Oxenreider's adventures as they traipsed around the world. It's always fun to meet other traveling families, and though we've never met them in real life, I feel like they're our kind of people, people crazy enough to take risks like selling their home and traveling with a family! Whether you are a jet-setter or armchair traveler, At Home in the World is both a fun and thought provoking read on what it means to find your place on this planet.
Panama, 2013. We stayed overnight in a floating house on Lake Gatun, part of the Panama Canal waterway. Caimans and monkeys and parrots, oh my!
I gasped in surprise and delight as we stepped from the bright desert sunlight of Morocco into the dim interior of the Tibetan monastery used in the film Kundun, about the Dalai Lama and his escape to India. It's a film I've seen several times, and the Tibetan people are dear to my heart after spending time amongst them in Nepal and in Mcleod Gang, India, current home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile.
Before our trip I had learned of the presence of Atlas Film Studios in Morocco, and thought that if we were nearby it might be fun to visit. Peregrine has a keen interest in filmmaking, and when we learned that our trip to the desert would take us through Oaurzazette, we asked our guide if we could tour the studio. It was only about ten minutes away from where we stayed the first night, so the next morning we were excited to go check it out. Our tour guide was quite a character and had clearly given the tour a time or two (thousand). He was full of interesting bits of information and had quite a sense of humor.
The books in the beautiful nooks of the monastery walls weren't books at all, but props made of something like dense foam. It was interesting to knock on "rock" walls, only to find them flimsy and hollow. The set designers are quite amazing! I look forward to watching this film again and spotting some of the places we saw. Our guide told us a cast of 300 Tibetans was on site filming over the course of a couple months. The Atlas mountains, not nearly as high as the Himalaya, served as a decent stand-in!
The courtyard of the monastery.
Pearlie and me in front of the gate into the monastery courtyard.
Leaving Tibet, we stepped into a village that might be ancient Jerusalem. Movies such as The Passion of the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and The Last Temptation of Christ, and Gladiator, and Ben Hur have all been filmed here.
It was interesting to see behind the scenes, as many of the sets are built to be filmed from only one side. Again, we were so impressed with the sets and how realistic they looked! I want to watch some of the movies filmed here now.
Traveling back in time, we entered ancient Egypt! This was a massive hall full of pillars, the court of some Pharaoh or another. Moses, Jewel of the Nile, Cleopatra, and The Mummy have all been filmed here.
Kids, we're not in Kansas anymore! This one reminded me a little of the Lincoln Memorial!
We had such a fun time strolling through history and learning a little bit about filmmaking in the process. I'm so glad we took the time to visit Atlas Film Studios.
Tizi n'Tichka is one of the highest paved passes in the High Atlas. The road leading to the pass was winding and narrow in places, but well maintained, and our driver was cautious and attentive.
The lure of the Sahara was too great to pass up and we knew we had to make an excursion across the Atlas in order to experience a bit of the famous desert of Africa. Many tour operators offer guided trips to the desert, and we spent a bit of time in Imlil looking at different options. In the end, we took a recommendation from someone in our family travel group and booked a four day private tour through Desert Majesty. We've never done anything like this before, usually being content to piece together our own adventures using public transportation and sometimes renting our own vehicle. We were very happy with our experience and felt it was worth every penny to have our own personal guide and driver for the excursion. We definitely saw and experienced things we wouldn't have on our own.
After a hearty (carb-filled) breakfast at the Riad Atlas Prestige, we loaded our bags onto a trusty mule and made our way one last time down the steep, rocky path into the village. There we met Said, who was to be our driver and guide for the next four days. Young and friendly, Said is from a Bedouin family and grew up as a nomad in the desert. At some point his family moved into town so his siblings could attend school; a few days into our excursion he took us to his family home where his lovely mother served us a delicious meal. But I'm getting ahead of things; first we have to get there.
Our first day's journey took us down the valley from Imlil and back toward Marrakech. From there we headed up into the High Atlas and over the Tizi n'Tichka pass. We stopped for lunch at a funny place, clearly set up for tourists, the sort of place we would never eat on our own. The kids were thrilled to have french fries and omelettes, and Erik and I ordered tagines. We joked with Said how we didn't usually eat at places like this, and the next day he took us to the local place instead. Erik and I thought the food was much better, and the kids, well, the kids ate bread for lunch. Goat tagine just didn't appeal to them!
We continued on our way and in the late afternoon took a little detour to stop and walk around the ksar (fortified village) of Ait-Ben-Haddou. It is situated on the southern slopes of the High Atlas along the ancient caravan route that passed through the Sahara to modern day Marrakech. Built of earthen clay, it has been beautifully restored and maintained using traditional materials, primarily earth and wood. There are still a few families that live inside the ksar, but it is mostly empty now. It is preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and dates back at least to the 17th century.
I am always struck by how people who had to work so hard just to survive put in the effort to beautify their surroundings. It inspires me to continue to create beauty in my home, even when it seems that no one appreciates it. I do believe it makes a difference! I love the decorative motifs on the walls.
The surrounding hillsides reminded me of the American Southwest with its deserts and painted hills.
Up, up, up we walked, on ancient stone paths worn smooth by centuries of feet. At the very top there was an additional fortification and a large building that we were told served as a storage facility for food. Each family would contribute to the store, and it was kept for times of drought or siege. Looking out at the surrounding hillsides, I was amazed that people could bring life out of what appeared to be so barren.
Across the river is the "new" town. You can see that Ait-Ben-Haddou is built above an oasis. Morocco is a beautiful country of contrasts, with snow capped mountains rising from the desert!
It's quite likely that you've seen Ait-Ben-Haddou, as it's been the setting of quite a few movies. Morocco has a thriving movie industry, and the next day we visited one of the big movie studios in nearby Oaurzazette. This ksar, being so well preserved and complete, looks like something straight out of the Bible, and has been used as a film set in such movies as The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, The Jewel of the Nile, Gladiator, and more recently, some episodes of Game of Thrones. It's easy to see why this is a favorite location for such movies!
This must be the "yard" of one of few inhabited homes remaining in Ait-Ben-Haddou. Many Berber families still live in close proximity with their animals.
Erik could walk around all day photographing the beautiful doors of Morocco.
One final glimpse of Ait-Ben-Haddou as we crossed back over the bridge to the new village to continue on our journey. I'm so grateful to have seen this place. Many Moroccan villages still blend into their surroundings like this, with walls that match the reddish earth.
As we walked back to our car I was struck by the light on the blossoming trees, their delicate fragrance filling the late afternoon air.
The center of our riad in Oaurzazette. The picture doesn't do justice to the grand scale of the archway.
Five course meal? Yes, this is the way we travel when Desert Majesty books our accommodations!
Upon our arrival in Oaurzazette, we stopped in at the Desert Majesty office to pay for our excursion and get a briefing on what to expect. We were met with a warm welcome, mint tea, and cookies. The office was right on the city square, and as it was Friday, the Muslim holiday, many families were out enjoying the evening. The smell of popcorn hung in the air, and children raced around the square on little battery operated cars and trucks. The city seemed clean and modern and friendly.
The view from our riad in Oaurzazette, looking out over the date palm oasis to the snowy Atlas beyond. Have I mentioned that Morocco is beautiful?
From the Desert Majesty office we drove just a little further through Oaurzazette to the riad where we would stay that night. Our package included accommodation and meals, and we really didn't know what to expect. We pulled into a little courtyard and Said began unloading our luggage. Ripe oranges hung heavy on the limbs of a nearby tree. We walked into a beautiful hotel built in riad style, around an open courtyard. We were given two rooms, so Erik and I each took two kids for the night. We'd left Imlil with slightly damp laundry, so before long my room had clothing hanging and laying out to dry on every available surface! We made our way to the dining room and were surprised to be served a five course meal on white linens. This is definitely not our normal choice of accommodation, but we enjoyed it. The goats bleating outside the window through the night, accompanied by the occasional dog and rooster, reminded us that we were indeed still in Morocco. | 2019-04-23T17:52:46Z | http://www.carriedonthewind.com/2017/ |
Samsung’s 2016 lineup of SUHD TVs has been relatively late in arriving on the market this year, as evidenced by the company’s flagship KS9500 series only turning up in June. Two screen sizes are available, namely the 65-inch UE65KS9500 and the 78-inch UE78KS9500 – we’re reviewing the smaller model.
The Samsung 65KS9500 features 3840×2160 UHD (ultra high-definition) resolution, 10-bit LCD panel, full-array local dimming (FALD) direct-lit LED backlighting, quantum dot colours, Ultra HD Premium certification, four HDMI 2.0a ports, HDCP 2.2 compatibility, as well as a curved screen, but no 3D support. The equivalent model in the USA is the KS9800.
The KS9500 shares similar stylistic cues to the step-down KS9000 which we tested 3 months ago, what with its super-slim bezel, rivetless and screw-less rear, and Y-shaped pedestal stand (though this is finished in matte silver rather than gleaming chrome). Of course, the presence of direct LED backlighting means that the chassis has to be deeper. Build quality is high, and the applied moth-eye filter is probably the most effective on the market currently in reducing reflections from ambient light.
Using a Murideo Fresco Six-G tester, we verified that all four HDMI inputs on the fanless One Connect Mini connection box passed 3840×[email protected] resolution with HDCP 2.2 copy protection without any problem.
Calibrating the UE65KS9500 was trickier than other Samsung sets we’ve worked on in the past. First, bringing up the adjustment slider would alter the greyscale, preventing us from making real-time adjustments. We had to exit the menu completely to obtain an accurate reading before wading through the picture settings to make adjustments using an educated guess. Rinsing and repeating this process more than a few dozen times was an absolute chore.
Second, the 10-point [White Balance] controls were contrast-aligned, so unless [Contrast] was set to a specific value, any adjustment made may be misplaced (for example, adjusting [50%] may affect 40% or even 35% video stimulus).
Despite these issues, we were able to obtain highly accurate greyscale and colours on our Samsung UE65KS9500TXXU review sample after calibration. Gear used included a profiled Klein K10-A meter, a Murideo 6-G 4K HDR signal generator, and SpectraCal’s CalMAN Ultimate software.
*Note: [Eco Sensor] was engaged by default in [Standard] mode.
The Samsung UE-65KS9500 featured a VA-type LCD panel whose native black level was deep by LED LCD standards. With [Smart LED] disabled, blacks measured 0.045 cd/m2 on both a full-black screen (with auto-dimming defeated by displaying a pause icon from our Blu-ray player) and a 4×4 ANSI chequerboard pattern once peak white was pegged at our normal dark-room target of 120 cd/m2.
[Smart LED] activates local dimming on the television, which should be engaged to not only extract the deepest blacks from the KS9500, but also attenuate backlight uniformity issues. Using our own custom-authored test pattern containing a small white box crawling horizontally and then vertically along the borders of a black screen, we counted 15 vertical columns and 10 horizontal rows, giving a total of 150 independently dimmable zones, the same number as its predecessor the UE65JS9500.
Two [Smart LED] settings are available in addition to “Off“, namely “Low” and “High“. For SDR (standard dynamic range) content, the latter also dimmed brighter elements on screen and caused gamma to be skewed, so we would advise going with “Low“.
We have been big fans of Samsung’s black frame insertion (BFI) system since we saw its effectiveness in enhancing motion clarity on the South Korean manufacturer’s first (and last) consumer-grade OLED TV, but on the UE65KS9500 it was more miss than hit. While the horizontally scrolling lines in Chapter 31 of the FPD Benchmark Software Blu-ray disc (our go-to test for establishing motion resolution) were clearer with [LED Clear Motion] engaged, it also introduced severe double ghost images which paradoxically muddied motion clarity, resulting in no visible increase in motion resolution.
From our analysis, this may be caused by Samsung’s decision to synchronise the backlight strobing to a higher [Backlight] value (maybe to accommodate the new [HDR+] mode). We discovered that if [Backlight] was bumped up to its maximum value of “20“, the double ghost images became much fainter thus making overall motion clarity higher, but then again running [Backlight] at max would entail other compromises (backlight uniformity issues, overdrive artefacts, etc.).
On balance, the better method to reduce motion blur on the Samsung UE-65KS9500 was by optimising the separate [Blur Reduction] and [Judder Reduction] options under the [Auto Motion Plus] “Custom” submenu, which yielded a motion resolution of 1080 lines without introducing soap opera effect (SOE) to 24p films or interpolation artefacts.
Samsung offers more Ultra HD Premium-certified displays than any other TV maker this year, and with the KS9500 being the company’s flagship, it should come as no surprise that the SUHD television passed the UHD Premium accreditation criteria with flying colours. With white point calibrated to D65, peak luminance in HDR mode measured a blistering 1,455 cd/m2 on UHDA-specified window sizes for Ultra HD Premium certification, and a lower-but-still-impressive 605 cd/m2 on a full-field white raster. And unlike step-down edge-lit sets from Samsung (and other television brands), the UE65KS9500 could hold onto this level of brightness over a sustained period of time.
We were thoroughly impressed by 4K UHD Blu-ray playback on the Samsung 65KS9500 which did a lot of things right. Blessed with copious brightness reserve and appropriate tone-mapping, the SUHD TV presented HDR material with effortless panache, retaining bright highlights without blowing them out even in 4K HDR movies that were mastered to 4,000 nits. Colours were rich with subtlety and vibrancy yet never unrealistic. We didn’t notice any significant judder during slow pans in 24fps Ultra HD Blu-rays.
Unfortunately in an effort to correctly track PQ (perceptual quantizer) EOTF (electro-optical transfer function) whilst resolving detail up to 4000+ nits, Samsung’s tone-mapping algorithm introduced visible posterisation in what should be smooth gradients (e.g. the skies in The Revenant and The Martian). These banding artefacts could be reduced but not completely eradicated by switching to the [Standard] picture preset or engaging [HDR+ Mode], but once we measured and calibrated these modes to track PQ curve and Rec.2020 colours as close as possible (yes, we leave no stone unturned), the posterization reared its ugly head again. Of course, [HDR+ Mode] involved other compromises too (as we’ll describe in the next section), making it a no go.
Note: Special thanks to prominent AV journalist John Archer who writes for Forbes for cross-checking this posterisation issue on his KS9500 review unit to make sure it’s not isolated to our sample.
We witnessed more blooming/ haloing (light leakage from bright elements against a black background) than Sony’s XD94; mild vertical bands (outline of the LED array grid?) and DSE in panning shots across a uniformly-toned backdrop; and some localised backlight fluctuation particularly during fade-in from black. Nevertheless, despite these blemishes, we’d rate the KS9500’s HDR delivery one of the most accurate and captivating we’ve seen so far.
All of Samsung’s 2016 SUHD TVs will feature the company’s new [HDR+ Mode] which converts your existing SDR content to produce a pseudo-HDR image (firmware update needed for certain models, but the UE65KS9500 will have it at launch). The technology first analyses the colours and luminance of the original video signal, then performs appropriate mapping of gamut (focusing on preserving hue) and tonal curve respectively, leading to a brighter, more colourful expression in line with possible studio intention.
Among the major TV brands, Samsung’s [HDR+ Mode] SDR-to-HDR conversion technology was easily the most accomplished based on our testing of the 65KS9500. LG’s [HDR Effect] would frequently blow out bright highlight detail and oversaturate the colours; Panasonic doesn’t even offer one at this time of writing; while Sony’s [HDR video] mode made no attempt at correct tone-mapping, resulting in washed-out blacks and contrast.
if calibrated, the settings have to be copied manually to each input (the [Apply Picture Mode] “All Sources” option was greyed out).
In other words, although [HDR+ Mode] is relatively well-designed and should appeal to casual viewers, it will likely be shunned by video purists.
Samsung continues to rule the responsiveness roost: the 65in KS9500 returned an input lag figure of merely 21ms from our Leo Bodnar tester in [Game] mode, making it one of the fastest televisions on the market for playing reflex-based video games.
Lag times in [PC] and [Movie] modes were 38ms and 106ms respectively.
The Samsung UE65KS9500 full-array local dimming (FALD) LED LCD TV represented a clear improvement over the edge-lit KS9000 especially when it came to HDR performance. The presence of 150 dimming zones that could be switched on and off independently of each other ensured that dark areas (including the top and bottom letterbox bars) remained dark even when brighter elements co-existed on screen.
While the KS9500’s higher peak brightness led to more blooming and backlight fluctuation than the Sony XD94, on the positive side this helped the Samsung SUHD television preserve more bright highlights than any other TVs we’ve reviewed to date even for HDR material that’s mastered to 4000 nits. Add in accurate greyscale and colours after calibration in both SDR and HDR modes, and the 65KS9500 is one dazzling display that allows for true expression of the director’s intent.
The only fly in the ointment which prevented the UE65KS9500 from scooping our “Best in Class” award was the presence of pesky posterisation during HDR viewing. As far as smoothness of continuous gradations in Ultra HD Blu-ray movies was concerned, it’s outperformed by other high-end HDR TVs including the LG E6 OLED, Panasonic DX902 and Sony XD94, which is utterly bizarre considering the set’s underlying 10-bit panel. Given Samsung’s impressive track record at responding to constructive feedback, we certainly hope the company can issue a firmware update in the near future to address this issue.
Overall though, the KS9500 is still an outstanding TV owing to its accurate colour output, superb upscaling, high motion clarity, excellent anti-reflective filter and unrivalled gaming responsiveness.
Update 1 August 2016: In light of the results of our HDR TV shootout event, we have upgraded the Samsung UE65KS9500’s rating to “Highly Recommended – Best in Class”. | 2019-04-19T18:24:30Z | https://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/ue65ks9500-201606274305.htm |
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