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Cole§law: Visualizing the US Legal Code
by Ryan Wold
To take a break from the routine and our official projects, the Sunlight Labs organized an internal "labs olympics", in which teams would compete for outrageous prizes by building an extracurricular project. This installment brings you the contribution from "Team Intern".
As team intern, we felt we had something to prove. Could four unseasoned new recruits withstand the blazing glory of the veteran sunlighters? On the team were Charlie DeTar (from MIT, working at Sunlight Labs on Transparency Data), Dan Schneiderman (from RIT, working on the Fifty State Project), Michael Stephens (from RPI, also with the Fifty State Project) and Ryan Wold (consultant, working on the National Data Catalog).
We started off on Monday morning with a couple of vague ideas of what we might work on (Some sort of direct message/twitter bot for RSS feeds? Something to do with mapping?). We kicked it off with a brain storming session for a couple of hours, putting ideas on post-it notes, sorting them into categories, pruning, and we eventually settled on a "Legalese Translator" service: a wiki which lets people annotate legalese documents – such as Terms of Service and Privacy Policies – with more human-readable summaries, and eye-catching icons indicating major problem areas (such as the company asserting they can change the TOS at any time). We started poking around the MediaWiki codebase to see what it would take to do a few extensions to suit our needs. After spending a couple of hours on this, we started to second guess ourselves: would we be able to pull something off with this worthy of a demo? Challenges included coming up with a taxonomy of legal problems (none of us are lawyers), coming up with enough seed data to make the wiki work, and a realization that the vast majority of the work in a project like this would involve community management, expectation setting, and organization, none of which were particularly strong points in any of our expertise.
So, at 1pm on Monday with 1/4 of the alloted time already consumed, we shifted gears. Gathered around a whiteboard, we almost instantly converged on another topic: mapping the complex references in bodies of law. Legal code tends to refer to itself, often in noodley, snakey paths that are hard to traverse, and most of the laws were written before such a thing as "hypertext" existed. This stayed in our general topic area of "legalese", but gave us a much more finite and concrete objective: visualizing and navigating references in laws. We started exploring a few different bodies of law to choose one for the project, and settled on the US Code – a gargantuan body comprising more than 50 titles broken into more than 60,000 sections with a decidedly complex subsection hierarchy. To get started, we made use of Cornell University's XML translation of the code. For the rest of the day, we worked on importing the code into a relational database from which we could generate the reference hierarchies necessary for our navigation and visualization tools. And a name…. we needed a name. Since we were dealing with the law in a shredded and stringy form, we decided to call it "Coleslaw", or if you prefer, "Cole§law".
The US code is awfully complex. Among the 50 titles of the US Code, there are 168,000 references – including those within and between sections. Now on to the eye candy.
U.S. Code browser
The first tool we created was a django application to import the code, and a simple view to browse the code. In order to make navigating the spaghetti structure of the code a little easier we support opening referenced sections in a pop-up frame. We also provide a list of outgoing and incoming references at the bottom of each section. The stub application is available at http://coleslaw.sunlightlabs.com. The code to the application as well as the python code to import the XML files is available on github.
Next, using exports of the relationship hierarchy between all the references of the code, we developed a set of visualizations. As an example, here are Graph Viz renderings of the relationships contained in titles 3, 11, and 41.
Title 11:
Here is another visualization for titles 11 and 28. Sections are laid out linearly on the X axis, and references are noted with a curve that connects the two corresponding points.
We also used the database we generated to do some statistical analysis of the code's reference structure. This led to some interesting but not altogether surprising insights – for example, 4 of the 10 most widely referenced sections of the code are within Title 26, the Internal Revenue Code. Also heavily referenced is Title 5, Section 552 – the Freedom of Information Act.
During the two and a half days from concept through development we came up with a lot of ideas to add onto Coleslaw. Unfortunately we were not able to implement all of them. Some possible future work includes adding a color code for specific titles or reference types to see how they relate on the arc visualization. Another idea was to create an interactive interface for browsing the code, jumping from one reference to another, within the context of a treemap visualization. Each additional reference would create a long line of visual nodes that would provide the text of the referenced code. A tool like Coleslaw could be adapted to compare changes made to laws, helping people to understand the repercussions of new legislation.
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About the Workshop:The topic of money is highly evocative. It can elicit an array of powerful responses – shame, guilt, hate, fear, hope, despair, resentment. Yet, discussions around money remain largely taboo. The subject of money is often ignored within the field of psychotherapy, both in the literature, in training programmes, and, consequently, in treatment conceptualizations. The aim of this workshop is to provide a platform to discuss balancing the financial and practical requirements for running a successful and ethical private practice, with therapeutic implications when dis/engaging with money matters.
Money conversations in therapy – What payment practices (setting the fee, cancellations, lowering the fee) reveal about the frame, transference, countertransference and the best interest of the client.
Course Material: A course handout containing the presentation slides will be provided at the start of each workshop, which will also include the reference list of course readings.
About the Facilitator: Penny Stopforth is a Clinical Psychologist based in Cape Town. After relocating to Cape Town, she joined the Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry Services at Valkenberg Hospital and opened a private practice. She has previously lectured at Rhodes University and has presented lectures at The South African College of Applied Psychology, the University of Cape Town, and most recently, at the 26thInternational Association for Forensic Psychotherapy Conference in Sicily. She has special interest in developing mindful business practices within the context of psychotherapy in private practice. |
At our R&D Competence Centre you will be an integral member of our team of technicians and engineers, playing a key role in the development of products and product ideas for our LD Systems brand. You will use modern measuring technology to develop audio products such as wireless microphone systems and in-ear monitoring systems for the professional market.
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Founded in 1975, the Adam Hall Group has developed into a collection of modern, innovative event technology companies. This includes an 14,000-square-metre warehouse and logistics centre at its corporate headquarters near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Through its focus on value and service orientation, the Adam Hall Group has been presented with a number of international awards for innovative product developments and pioneering product design from prestigious institutions such as "Red Dot", "German Design Award" and "iF Industrie Forum Design": In particular for the patented, first portable array system with high-definition sound, LD Systems CURV 500®, the radio microphone series LD Systems U500®, and the premium microphone stands from the brand Gravity®. Further information about the Adam Hall Group can be found online at www.adamhall.com.
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You will definitely want to take your time and enjoy all the attractions that the city of Dallas, TX has to offer. There are so many things to see and do that you will just be so happy. First, take a shopping spree and get everything you need for your stay in Dallas at the Grapevine Mills which has 200 of the best names in manufacturers and retail outlets and is about 30 minutes from Dallas. Now that you have everything that you need head on down to the Dallas Zoo which is Open Hours: 9am – 5pm daily; closed Christmas Day the Dallas Zoo has 95 acres of exotic and traditional zoo animals.
Next, you have to visit the Dallas White Rock Lake with Open Hours: 6am – midnight daily plus miles of waterfront trails. There are fishing, sailing and horseback riding. Now move on to The Swiss Avenue Historic District is Open Hours: 9am – 5pm daily. There are approximately 200 houses in Mediterranean, Spanish, Georgian, Prairie School and English Tudor styles for you to take a look at.
Then, you will want to take a look at all the museums. The Dallas Museum of Art, Legends of the Game Baseball Museum, Palace of Wax/Ripley's Believe It or Not, Oil City Park and the Conspiracy Museum. Here are our Dallas Top 10 Attractions:
3000 Grapevine Mills Parkway
Grapevine, TX 76051-2008
Open Hours: 10am-9pm Mon-Sat; Noon-6pm Sun the Grapevine Mills 200 of the best names in manufacturers and retail outlets and is about 30 minutes from Dallas. Places like Rainforest Cafe and Dick Clark's American Bandstand Grill are just some of the dining available and there is also entertainment there too.
650 South R.L. Thornton Freeway
Open Hours: 9am-5pm daily; closed Christmas Day the Dallas Zoo has 95 acres of exotic and traditional zoo animals. There are six natural habitats that are featured: forest, mountain, woodland, river, desert, and brush. There is also a 20-minute monorail ride. This is a great afternoon for the whole family.
West End MarketPlace
603 Munger Ave
Open Hours: 11am-10pm Mon-Thu; 11am-midnight Fri-Sat; noon-6pm Sun retail shops, restaurants, and a movie theater and there is a Planet Hollywood too. The complex contains nightclubs and outdoor stages for entertainment. You will want to spend the whole day and night there because there is just so much to do.
8300 Garland Road
Open Hours: 6am – midnight daily White Rock Lake 9 – plus miles of waterfront trails. There are fishing, sailing and horseback riding. There are several playgrounds and picnic areas are reservable and you will wish to spend the afternoon or evening on the grounds. Admission is free for all.
Swiss Avenue Historic District
Swiss Avenue and Fitzhugh
The Swiss Avenue Historic District is Open Hours: 9am – 5pm daily. There are approximately 200 houses in Mediterranean, Spanish, Georgian, Prairie School and English Tudor styles for you to take a look at. The Dallas Museum of Art offers a guided tour on cassette tape. You will just love the houses.
Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza is open hours: 9am-6pm daily is an exhibit that leads up the events that killed President John F. Kennedy. You will definitely want to go and see this museum. There are also listings of all the accomplishments of the 35th President of the United States.
1717 North Harwood
Dallas Museum of Art is open hours: 11am-5pm Tue-Sun; 11am-9pm Thu is a feature of the Arts District. It houses timeless pieces of art. There are a restaurant and a café for your dining pleasure and a gift shop for souvenirs and gifts. You will spend hours mesmerized by art.
Legends of the Game Baseball Museum
1000 Ballpark Way
Arlington, TX 76011-5168
Open Hours: 9am – 5:30pm Tue – Sat; 11am – 4pm Sun The Legends of the Game Baseball Museum displays include bats, jerseys and trophies of the nations baseball legends. There is also a learning center to teach aspects of science, history and more. A great day will be had here.
Palace of Wax/Ripley's Believe It or Not
601 East Safari Parkway
The Palace of Wax/Ripley's Believe It or Not is open the hours: 10am-5pm Mon-Fri; 10 am-6pm Sat-Sun. A 7-foot Leaning Tower of Pisa, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz are just some of the very interesting pieces in this museum. There are also wax replicas of your favorite celebrities.
Old City Park
1717 Gano St
Open Hours: Buildings: 10am-4pm Tue-Sat, noon-4pm Sun; Park Grounds: dawn-sunset daily at the Old City Park. Inside small buildings, visitors will see volunteers weaving, cooking, blacksmithing and other historic crafts of the era. There is a Candlelight Country Fair and an Old Fashioned Fourth of July and there are other special events too.
Conspiracy Museum
110 South Market St
Open Hours: 10am-6pm daily The Conspiracy Museum has exhibits and likes you to test your own theories on who killed President John F. Kennedy. There is also another assassination attempts information that is on display involving past American presidents. All say it is a very interesting museum and an afternoon of learning.
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2 Dallas Zoo
3 West End MarketPlace
4 White Rock Lake
5 Swiss Avenue Historic District
6 Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza
7 Dallas Museum of Art
8 Legends of the Game Baseball Museum
9 Palace of Wax/Ripley's Believe It or Not
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'Free': Chronicle of a childhood in Albania during the fall of communism
Growing up in Albania, our guest had a childhood of two halves. One was lived in plain sight, since she was brought up at school to believe and love the communist doctrine of Albania's Enver Hoxha and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Childhood obesity in France: The fight against stigma and stereotypes
According to the latest figures, obesity levels are on the rise, especially among France's youngsters. They're up by at least 75 percent, with 34 percent of 2 to 7-year-olds currently considered overweight or obese. But what actually qualifies as childhood obesity, what stigma does it carry and how does it affect children and their health? We speak to Professor Patrick Tounian, an advisor to the Anti-Obesity League.
Eniola Badmus slammed for 'giveaway fee', Pres. Buhari's lockdown ease stirs controversy and more
Violet Johnson returns this week with the top four stories that made our week:
A portrait of Irish travellers: Childhood curtailed
Ireland's traveller communities live on the margins of society. They're often unable to access state services because they have no permanent address, and they're also physically pushed out of the country's urban centres. What's it like growing up as a traveller in modern-day Ireland? German photographer Tamara Eckhardt has been documenting daily life in a traveller community on the outskirts of Galway. She joined us for Perspective ahead of a group exhibition for young photographers here in Paris.
The trans woman who defied her mafia upbringing
Daniela Lourdes Falanga, her family's first male heir, was expected to follow the path of her mafia boss father. She overcame a brutal Naples childhood to become a prominent transgender rights activist.
Interview With a Dreamer: Alex Medrano
Alex Medrano, an account manager at Wells Fargo & Co. and a participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood arrivals program, talks about what it means to him. |
Suffolk Del. Chris Jones is making noise on the tolls that are scheduled to start in July on the Midtown and Downtown tunnels. The delegate is right: they need to slow down and see if there is another way to do this project and, if not, scrap the deal.
And the op-ed Tuesday from Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton was so laughable that I don't know where to start. Instead of trying to tell us what is not in the deal, why not simply release it and let us read it for ourselves? Oh, that's right. Proprietary.
In my book, there's no such thing as "proprietary" when you're talking about binding the taxpayers to a 58-year deal. |
Paul Grimmond's article on 'The gospel and the quiet time' was fabulous. I have noticed over the past few years that The Briefing encourages us in the week between Christmas and New Years of the need to start again in our Bible reading and praying (i.e. in time to get in on our New Years' resolution list). Paul's article does this very graciously. (I've got to admit, this is actually the best way to win me over; I don't usually respond well to the 'firm rebuke'.) So thank you, Paul!
More generally, I would like to thank you for (and encourage you to continue) including at least one article in The Briefing for which I don't require either a theological degree or a good night's sleep to be able to read. I am an educated woman who holds a Bachelor degree in Applied Science, and I run my own small business, but some of the big words and sentences are just too big for me. This is okay, because I'm sure that some of the small words and small sentences that are perfect for me are too small for many other people. Regarding the good night's sleep, my youngest child is now five. I am in no way the worst-suffering of people in this category, but sometimes nappy brain overrides the brain's fundamental functions of alertness and concentration. This makes the big sentences absolutely enormous! And then we don't have time to re-read the same section several times over because someone needs feeding or changing, and so on. So I want to say thank you for keeping at least one article at my level!
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Week ten of The Apprentice provided something of a shock as one of the best sales people was let go by Lord Sugar, despite outselling her teammate by almost 100 per cent on the day.
The task this week was for the candidates to create and run a tour around London and sell as many tickets as possible for it, with the winning team being the one which had the most money at the end of the day.
Each team also had the option to pitch to a visitor centre - a mini task won by the team of Chris, Joanna and Jamie and one which ultimately helped them to win overall, despite Chris promising the centre a massive 20 per cent cut of all their proceeds on the day.
In the boardroom, Lord Sugar acknowledged Liz's sales acumen but noted that she was partly responsible for not securing the facilities of the visitor centre and also pointed out that she was missing the "spark" needed to become his next apprentice.
Commenting on the show, Andy Smith, writing on the blog of motivational speaker and seminar leader Gavin Ingham, said that Liz did not do enough to highlight her achievements, unlike Stuart, whose plea to Lord Sugar impressed him.
"This is actually more of a career tip. Everything you do is evaluated by bosses, customers and colleagues in the light of a story about you that people stitch together in their own minds from what you've done previously," Mr Smith stated.
He said that sales professionals need to consider how they are seen by others, and aim to tell a better 'story' about themselves which will help others to judge their track record in a more favourable way. |
Since its inception, Autodesk Inventor has laid down the gauntlet in the mid-range 3D CAD space. Here's how Inventor 2018 stacks up.
Autodesk began work on Inventor as a reaction to the run-away success of Solidworks. Self-funded by its programmers, this brand-new, mid-priced (roughly $5,000) parametric MCAD program seemed to "come out of nowhere." In a couple of years, Solidworks had become the best selling Windows-based MCAD program, undercutting the high-end ($10,000+) market of Pro/Engineer, UGS and Catia. To this day, it remains such.
At the time, Autodesk offered two AutoCAD-based packages to MCAD designers – Mechanical Desktop (MDT) for 3D modeling and AutoCAD Mechanical for 2D detailing. The AutoCAD engine lacked MCAD necessities like constraints and assemblies and, in any case, it made MDT a hard sell to non-AutoCAD users.
To compete with the Solidworks juggernaut, Autodesk first tried buying them, but lost to Dassault Systemes. So, instead, it launched "Project Rubicon" – a new MCAD system written from scratch.
The word Rubicon refers the shallow river that, in Ancient Rome, marked the northern border of Italy proper. It was made famous when Julius Caesar, and the army he led, crossed it in 49BC, and thereby broke Roman law and irrevocably began a civil war that led to him becoming dictator of the empire.
Since then, "crossing the Rubicon" has become an idiom for committing to a course of action past the point of no return. In the same way, Autodesk committed to challenging Solidworks' dominance of the mid-priced MCAD market by launching Project Rubicon (now known as Inventor) in 1999. The launch was followed by an aggressive twice-yearly update schedule designed to bring Inventor's feature set in line with Solidworks'.
Ultimately, the three-pronged Rubicon tactic failed. Today, analysts believe Inventor might be in second or third place after Solidworks and Solid Edge, maybe. We don't really know, as CAD vendors no longer report exact seat numbers. Analysts estimate that Inventor sold 24,000 seats last year and Solidworks 70,000 seats.
Flash forward nearly a decade and now Inventor needs to be killed off, just as MDT was. Ultimately, Autodesk wants all its software running on the cloud, but Inventor is tied so tightly to Microsoft's proprietary codebase that porting it to another computing environment is neigh impossible. In other words, we'll never see an Inventor 360.
The designated replacement for Inventor is Fusion 360…eventually. Even though Autodesk touts it as a "cloud-based platform," Fusion runs on MacOS and Windows desktop computers with some links to Autodesk's proprietary cloud. Fusion lacks some of the basics that mechanical designers expect from MCAD systems, although it is admired for its HSM CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) component. Fusion files are not compatible with Inventor, or Vault even, with users reduced to exporting non-associative STEP files from Fusion.
To be fair, Dassault Systemes has faced an even more difficult path bringing Solidworks customers to its 3DExperience cloud platform. After ten years of programming effort, it has no cloud-based replacement that Solidworks users want.
At last winter's Autodesk University, Autodesk affirmed that it expects Inventor to keep going for another five to ten years and plans to keep enhancing its functions. Inventor always was strong at industrial machinery design, and that emphasis will continue, the company says.
Inventor 2018 also adds tweaks to reduce delays. Some of these include the following: When parts are not loaded, we still need to see them as 3D bounding boxes; in 2018, we can force the display of bounding boxes even of parts that are loaded. There's faster hidden-line removal and view changes. Two-dimensional elements like sketches, drawing views and raster underlays are displayed faster.
MBD: Model-based design (and its superior cousin MBE, Model-Based Enterprise) is a way to integrate manufacturing information into 3D model files. This lets CNC tools read the 3D model, then produce the part. The idea is to avoid generating 2D plans, which nevertheless remains the common practice.
MBD isn't terribly complex; it's just a 3D model attached with leaders tagged with information the CNC machine needs, like finishes and tolerances. Inventor 2018 integrates this capability, along with a Tolerance Advisor palette that warns which aspects still need MBD data (see Figure 2).
Once we've attached GD&T and other manufacturing data, we export the model as a 3D PDF file or as a STEP file using AP217 standards. If we still work with 2D drawings, then we ask Inventor to add MBD leaders to the layouts automatically.
AutoCAD: In most design firms, a few seats of Inventor are supplemented by dozens of seats of lower cost CAD software for making detail drawings. So it's important that Inventor have access to DWG files, and here 2018 makes things better when we place DWG files as underlays, like raster images.
When it comes to non-Autodesk 3D models, Inventor's AnyCAD function now lets us edit the foreign parts and then update the native assembly. The same AnyCAD system allows Inventor 2017.4 users to natively edit 2018 files.
Autodesk hopes to sacrifice Inventor in five to ten years to the greater good of subscription-only, cloud-based utopia. This may, however, be difficult to execute, given Fusion and Inventor's inability to work inside each other's workspaces. Autodesk suggests using their online A360 project collaboration system, but this isn't an effective workaround. The transition to the future needs to be made clearer to Inventor users; perhaps it will take Autodesk those 5-10 years to accomplish a transition.
Then there is the problem of Autodesk's buy-or-die subscription plan, which all new customers are required to adopt. In theory, Autodesk could turn off subscription versions of Inventor to force customers onto Fusion. There is some evidence Autodesk's subscription plan is giving potential customers pause, as Dassault Systemes credits Inventor's switch to subscriptions for last year's 12% increase in Solidworks revenues.
There are design firms that engage in projects that take years to complete; additionally, access to archival data is required for decades to come. They expect long-range certainty from Autodesk. Even as Inventor users continue to enthusiastically design with "their" software, its future in their livelihoods is precarious. Inventor is being squeezed between a Solidworks of the past and a Fusion of the future. |
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Students are able to change their password and add or change their email address from the Student Dashboard.
Students who have forgotten their password or username should use the Forgot password? page from the login screen and follow the steps prompted to reset their details. As a teacher, you can reset a student's password or change their email address from the Manage Accounts page in the Control Panel.
To change your password or email address, log in to your account and click on your name in the upper right-hand corner of the Student Dashboard. From there, select Account from the drop-down menu that appears.
You will be brought to a page where you can input the details you would like to be updated.
To update your password, enter your current password in the appropriate field, then input your new password twice to confirm. Finally, select the Update password button to save these changes.
Your new password will need to be at least 6 characters long, and cannot be the same as your current password.
To update your email address, input a valid email address in the Email field from your Account page and select the Update Email button to save. |
YNaija Editorial: "No one" is YNaija Person of the Year 2011 … Let's tell you why
December 31, 2011 | Oluwapelumi
Oluwapelumi
We always knew it was going to be a tough one; but who knew how tough? Our search was for the one person, living and working in Nigeria, whose influence on our lives was pervasive, for good or bad, but ultimately decided that the stakes are too high for anything but the positive – this year.
Still, our editors ended up dissatisfied with the nominees we were left with, even after a long debate.
In selecting the final winner however, our job became considerably harder – so hard in fact, that the result was inconclusive.
He has made history as a minority Nigerian who became president, dismantling an old bloc of power players, presenting Nigerians with world-acclaimed elections, and remarkably opening up several democratic spaces; still we find it inappropriate to grant Goodluck Jonathan this title when the country is gripped by debilitating insecurity. We can ignore the perception of leadership defaults, but to ignore the bombs that keep us in fear; the deaths that face us with certainty is impossible. And taking strong and effective measures to end this national siege is his responsibility.
Dr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is a remarkable man; an inspiration to many professional Nigerians and a public official whose candour is well-regarded, but his relentless populism is yet to deliver anything close to economic regeneration. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is an inspirational figure who, despite scattershot criticism, has taken a globally praised move to find some method in her nation's madness; but her unpopular policy directions have yet to be proven correct. And, hailed as the "new Fashola", Governor Rotimi Amaechi, while a refreshing political persona with giant strides in his state, still has a few more steps to go to truly qualify for this national title beyond the bursts of brilliance.
Our reader votes have slanted towards Dr. Sanusi, but if we absolutely had to choose then the choice would quickly, and very easily, be Aliko Dangote. Seen as Nigeria's "Golden Boy" of business, he is without a doubt an inspiration to young entrepreneurs and professionals not just in Nigeria but across the continent courtesy of the single-mindedness with which he has set about building an empire and a legacy. But is that enough? For us, as part of a new generation of Nigerians who desire a difference, we want something more inspiring than topping the list of Africa's richest men.
We could have taken the easy route from the beginning, and indeed we tried, to toe the line of Time, and reward 'The Protester'.
Unfortunately, that would be deception. The last really successful protests Nigeria has had were the EnoughisEnough and Save Nigeria rallies in 2010. The Lekki Toll protesters, while their hearts were in the right place, made negligible impact; and we are yet unsure of the motives of the unsuccessful hunger strike champions. This year, the Nigerian protester did not make impact.
We took an entire edition of our magazine's Issue 5, to pay tribute to the young corps members who lost their lives serving their nation, and so we considered nominating 'The Corper', just as we considered nominating the several victims of bomb blasts, or The Voter; whose intense desire for good government helped Nigeria deliver solid elections this year.
But, again, we resisted the temptation to cuddle ourselves. Yes, the Nigerian voter did vote, but what else after that? The idea of being part of the electorate is not just the act of ballot casting, but also one of vigilance.
How have we held our leaders accountable? How have we held them to higher standards? While we are all angry and frustrated, what have we done beyond the loud criticism to ensure the desires of our hearts are met? It cannot be enough to be a voter. We need to be active citizens, demanding good governance impactful and sustained ways.
We also considered young people, and there were those like the music entrepreneur Don Jazzy, who inspires young Nigerians across the world with his relentless industry and his seemingly endless ability to push boundaries. We are hopeful that the fruits of his vision will begin to bear fruit in 2012. There are also a large number of young people beyond entertainment and the media, for whom the past one year has been one of inspiration, and our January 'The New Establishment' issue will present some of these gems to the world.
Unfortunately, no one of these people can be said to be, for instance, Nigeria's Zuckerberg; affecting our lives pervasively. We blame Nigeria for this – for refusing to rise up to the challenge of being a country where its citizens shine as bright as can be and inspiration is plenteous. In our little way – and of course we are fallible – we decided that reminding Nigerians of the hard truths about our collective lack of distinction is perhaps the biggest favour this exercise can provide.
This year, we decided to search for the positive, because our nation desperately needs the positive; and we are sad to report that there is a scarcity of that which we seek, and that which we need. There are pockets of good, but they are not enough; nay not even nearly enough. And it saddens us.
As we "cross-over" into the New Year, it is our fervent hope, prayer even, that Nigerians – collectively – can take up this challenge and work to change this reality, so that next year we won't need to look so hard to find that one person, who, for good, can unanimously be declared 2012's YNaija Person of the Year.
Happy New Year, and New Nigeria, in advance.
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Thank you YNaija. Very sensible.
December 31, 2011 - 9:30 pm Reply
Chi ibe
I wondered when I saw failure, sorry Jonathan on the list but I respet the analysis and of course heavy a sigh of relief he didn't win.
pwinces
I support this decision totally…
Dipo Mohammed
I believe this decision is wise. This year, i have had cause for concern at the nominees and eventual winners of "man of the year" award through different platforms. It seem to me that our concentration on coming to conclusions of those who win these prizes are not very objective. besides, there are always no clear explanations for the average nigerian who hasn't followed the works of such people through the year on how his welfare has been affected. sincerely, i agree with your decision.
Olumydo
God bless u guys
Gbam.
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We are enjoying beautiful, spring-like weather here is Big Bear, and while that means Mother Nature is still being stingy with the snow this season, it also means that you can enjoy our beautiful mountains in many different ways! The ski and tubing resorts are making snow every chance they get, so you can still come on up and enjoy the white stuff! You can also take a hike, go on a mountain bike ride, walk or bike around the lake, go bald eagle watching, take a stroll though the Village, and so much more!!
We have added a couple of great specials to our website so whether you are coming up for a quick last-minute getaway or want to plan a long weekend, we've got you covered. Head over to RSVacations.net and book your Big Bear Getaway today!!
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Wild Wednesday: Winter Specials on Big Bear Cabins!
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Fun-Fact Friday: Southern California's Largest Snow Play Resort is Right Here in Big Bear!
Are you looking for a great place to spend the day bonding with the kids? Big Bear Snowplay is where you want to go!
Playing in the snow is one of the greatest ways to bond families together and create memories that last a lifetime. Families that seek to capture memories in the snow are in good hands because Big Bear Snow Play guarantees snow-covered hills for tubing all winter long and into spring break. Families return year after year because the Magic Carpet lifts make it very convenient to get up the hill for more downhill fun. Come on up!!
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We continue our mild winter here in beautiful Big Bear Lake with daytime temps in the 50's and lows in the 20's. Clear blue skies and pleasant temps mean you don't have to freeze when enjoying skiing and boarding on the slopes or tubing the snow play hills! Here in Big Bear, we have become very good at outsmarting Mother Nature! Our ski and tubing resorts make snow every chance they get so even when Ms. Nature is being difficult, our visitors still have plenty of snow to enjoy!
If sliding down snow isn't your thing, remember that we have tons more activities and events happening every weekend (and weekday!). From hiking and biking to shopping and night life, we have something that everyone will enjoy!
We do have a few cabins left for this weekend and through the rest of the winter season, and pricing has been lowered to fill in dates. Head over to RSVacations.net and check out our cute and clean cabins. We provide top-notch customer service and our cozy cabins are clean and ready for your arrival! Book your Big Bear Cabin today!
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Fun-Fact Friday: Outsmarting Mother Nature!
Man-made snow is real snow (not "artificial") made by "guns" spraying atomized water particles under high pressure into the cold dry atmosphere, which freeze into snow particles before they hit the ground. The colder and drier the air, the more water can be put through the gun. No additive or chemical is put in the water. The only difference between natural and man-made snow is that the latter falls as small round pellets due to the air turbulence, while natural usually comes in the form of small to large flakes. However, in windy conditions even natural snow will be blown into small pellets or even marble-sized balls called "grapple". Natural snow can be very wet or dry, depending on its water content, the same as with man-made. After two or three days on the ski runs, natural snow becomes indistinguishable from man-made as both are subject to skier traffic, grooming, and the freeze/thaw cycle.
Many miles of buried steel air and water pipe lines, from 2 inches to 2 feet in diameter, deliver the high pressure water and air throughout the mountain. Attached to the main lines are hydrants placed on the sides of runs, every 50 to 150 feet or so. Each resort has about 500 hydrants lining its runs. The "air" guns are attached to the hydrants by air and water hoses and the "fan" guns by water hoses and electrical lines. The guns are placed exactly where the snow is to be made and when enough snow is made at one location, they are moved to another.
We use two types of snowmaking guns. One uses compressed air mixed with water at the gun (which is really just a tube with a small nozzle at the end) to atomize the water into particles small enough to freeze quickly. The other "airless" type uses an electric fan in a 5 foot long by 2 ½ foot wide tube that pushes an air stream into which small particles of water are sprayed by dozens of tiny nozzles on the rim of the tube. (Fan guns aren't completely "airless"; there is a small on-board compressor that helps to atomize the water at the nozzles.) If we just sprayed water straight out from a hose, without atomizing the water, it would be like rain water droplets that are too big to freeze before they hit the ground, which would then freeze on the ground as ordinary ice.
The colder and drier the air, the more snow can be made at each gun since more water can be introduced into the outside air mass because it can freeze faster. In 2006, about 70 "airless" fan guns and about 80 "air" guns can operate at one time at Snow Summit alone. Bear Mountain operates about 45 fans and 90 air guns respectively. (We actually have several types of air guns, but they all function basically the same way.) A number of both types of guns are mounted on towers, from 6 to 20 feet high. While they can't be moved to put the snow exactly where desired, they produce more snow than guns close to the surface because there is more "hang time" for the water particles to freeze before they hit the ground.
Each gun can produce an amazing amount of snow in good conditions (5% to 20% humidity and 10° to 20° F), much faster than Mother Nature. A compressed air gun can convert about 70 gallons per minute (gpm) into snow while a fan gun can convert up to 200 gpm in those conditions. (Consider that a garden hose puts out about 3 to 5 gpm.) So, in ideal conditions, each resort's system can convert about 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of water per minute into snow! That's a good sized stream flow that could fill a backyard pool in about 5 minutes! If a gun is left unmoved in those conditions, it can make several feet in front of it in a few hours, sometimes burying itself.
We can't put 5,000 gallons per minute worth of snow on just one run at a time due to the limitations of pipe sizes and number of hydrants, so instead, we make snow on several runs at one time and might put an average of one foot of snow down on each. In normal snowmaking conditions we can open a run in about 48 hours of snowmaking over bare ground. At the start of the season, we typically open several runs and lifts after a couple of days and nights of snowmaking, and open still more soon after that.
The practically unlimited water source for Big Bear Mountain Resort's large scale snowmaking is Big Bear Lake. It's pumped from the lake to the resorts and then up the mountains. Multi-million gallon reservoirs on the resorts store water for heavy production because the lines from the lake can't flow enough water at those times. This lake water supply is the main reason Big Bear's resorts can virtually guarantee skiing on most runs all winter long, even in the driest winter. Throughout the season, Summit and Bear each can produce at least twice the snow of any other local resort, which rely on limited amounts of on-site well water.
We have an annual allotment from the lake that we have never needed to exceed. If used entirely, it would draw the lake level, when full, down only about 4 inches – and at least 50% of that runs back into the lake during the spring snowmelt!
Grooming by snowcats pushing and tilling the man-made snow is an important element in providing good skiing. While the snowmaking guns are moved frequently, there typically will be piles left in front of each gun which must be graded into a smooth, relatively flat surface before operations. After a good period of snowmaking some of these snow mounds may be as big as a small bus and are called "whales" by the crew. After the new snow is spread evenly, the surface is gone over with a tiller on the back of the cat, which is a sort of grinder that pulverizes the top 3 to 6 inches of the snow to give it the ideal texture for skiing or boarding. Grooming is a real art to know when and how to push the snow around and condition it into a good grippy surface preferred by skiers and snowboarders. Fresh man-made snow is nearly always groomed into a consistently good surface prior to opening. |
As the detectives start to piece together the clues, Chloe realises that she too is in danger – as she uncovers secrets about her own brother's death which someone will kill to keep hidden.
Cover love, here we meet again! I have a thing for anything red. Shoes, blood, titles. And this beautiful contrast of blue and red grabbed my heart. And for once, I was starting a detective series with the first installment! What more could I ask for?
When you read as many crime as I do (or more for some of my blogger friends!!!) you discern a certain pattern. A gripping prologue, complicated detectives, grisly murders. This is what you are looking for. Welcome to The Girls in the Water! The book checks off all the boxes!
And you know what? It adds something more. Something that makes you coming back again even when a niggle appears. Something you are keen to explore. I'm talking about the relationship between the two detectives working together on this wet case!
I'm used to strong characters with complicated lives, and neither Alex nor Chloe escape this description. One older, one younger, both plagued by a past that is clinging at their heels.
While we do get a real team effort here and get to meet different persons, the focus is definitely on those ladies and I couldn't have been happier about it.
It wasn't hard imagining them grabbing something to it, discussing the progress they were making, but beyond this was building a stronger connection. Alex, as a DI, had decisions to make and Chloe, young and promising DC, was the fresh breeze and clear eyes every intricate inquiry requires. Subtly, the author hinted at a relationship that was stronger than one of simple colleagues'. Alex's need to protect Chloe, Chloe's will to find answers by herself without disrespecting her superior. The way some things were natural between them and others so difficult reminded me of the bound between a mentor and a student. That pride, that fear to disappoint, that protective feeling, that need to prove oneself. The trust, stuck between the work, the heavy background of each women, and their personalities. It is absolutely refreshing to find such a female friendship in a crime series!
The fact that this special and original point completely blends into the investigation and adds to it one thin layer after another makes this story so compelling. I will admit that while the plot was interesting and well-crafted, my attention was captured by the characterization and an unhealthy curiosity as to what was going to happen to those women!
Weirdly, none of the facts you learn about her make them very likeable, but as I neared the book, I found I was being less harsh on them. Yes, I still did find Chloe a little bit childish, but her intentions were good. I warmed up a little to Alex in her big house, all alone. Loneliness is something their career often brings, but there are different kinds of loneliness and Alex and Chloe were both stuck in a glass bowl for different reasons. So I can't say I love them, but I do admire what the author managed to do and I am so thankful to see women sticking together instead of hating each other!
I might have noticed something happening, catching a hint here and there about where the story was going, but I was far from discovering what the author had planned. The investigation dragged a little at some point and I remember thinking Alex King did not really act as a seasoned detective, but at least she wasn't jaded with her job! The victims and the killer took a backstage place for me, as Chloe's own thread took more and more room and nothing seemed to progress until a certain point was reached. Still, the stories were believable, the cruelty and blood very present, and the case was good enough to satisfy readers looking for a crime story that doesn't require too much work on their part!
The Girls in the Water is a promising first book in a series that brings a refreshing and needed angle on its detective characters.
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I'm glad you enjoyed this one, Meggy!
The relationship between the two detectives sure seems interesting and unique, reminiscent of the one between Rizzoli and Isles (though in different ways), for instance.
Love the cover as well 😊 Amazing review!
I haven't watched enough of Rizolli and Isles (or read, I think there are book too!) to know but it was nice to have something different 🙂 Thanks a lot!
Very good review with a brilliant opening. I love everything red too 😉 with so many series available, I have to be picky so I think I'll give this one a miss.
Red parts on these crime thriller books really stand out and call out to us don't they. This sounds like a good book, and nice that you could start from the series beginning! I love that when I find the start of a crime series I will enjoy. The 2 detectives sound like they add as much to the story as the plot. Great review, without giving too much away.
Yeah, for once, I'm taking on a series from the beginning… Is it why I did not enjoy it as much as I thought? :p Thanks so much, Amanda 🙂 I really wanted to put the emphasis on the detectives' relationship as it's the only part I really loved!
I totally see what you mean. I sometimes wish I did not have a cover to look at for choosing books!
Yeah, I wonder what books I'm missing out on because I'm not a fan of the cover.
I won't put it on top of the list, but I am curious about what happens to Alex and Chloe!
Awesome review.I love the cover too with all the red.This sounds good though the slow parts worry me.I might consider the series in future though.
Ah yes cover love gets me every time!! Yeah friendship in crime is really uncommon- that's different for sure! Great review!!
That friendship between those two really sounds like the best part of this book. I do love when the chemistry is well-developed between cop buddies. Glad to hear this turned out to be a pretty good debut though!
Yep, their relationship is what really kept me going because the case in itself was not as gripping as I expected, without being too boring. I'm looking forward to the second book to see if I keep going or not with this series! |
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The Top Shooting Ranges in West Virginia
Shooting using different types of firearms helps build your physical discipline, eye and hand coordination, stamina, and gross and fine motor skills. There are several top shooting ranges in West Virginia where you can hone your firearms skills if you live in this state.
340 Defense: Summit Point, WV
Tango Down Range LLC: Hedgesville, WV
Defense in Depth: Morgantown, WV
ATR Performance: Fairmont, WV
Bare Arms Indoor Range: Huntington, WV
West Virginia Clays, Inc.: Hernshaw, WV
Peacemaker National Training Center: Gerrardstown, WV
White Horse Firearms and Outdoor Education Center: Buckhannon, WV
Washington County Machine Guns: West Alexander, WV
Valley Guns II: Inwood, WV
The top shooting ranges in West Virginia are distributed in different areas across the state. Learn more about them.
340 Defense is an establishment that features an outdoor shooting range, a gun sales and rentals store, and a firearms training center. The range serves the Summit Point and the wider West Virginia state as well as other areas including central Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Washington, DC.
The facility has four shooting ranges – a pistol range and three other ranges of length between 50 and 300 yards. The 300-yard range has targets positioned at distances of 200 yards, 250 yards and 300 yards. 340 Defense also allows you to enroll for any type of firearms training. The training is provided by instructors who are NRA-certified.
Tango Down Range LLC is a pistol and rifle shooting range that also has a gun store. The facility also offers training for different levels of firearms skills. The range has 20 shooting lanes for pistol and rifle, with distances of 10 yards, 25 yards, 50 yards, and 100 yards. Steel action and paper targets, as well as ammunition, are available at the range.
In addition to providing space for shooting practice, the Tango Down Range can also be used to host different types of events. You can rent the available space for a birthday party, a wedding or a bachelor or bachelorette event.
Defense in Depth is a firearms training facility that offers customers a good place to practice shooting, to train, and to buy or rent different types of firearms and related gun accessories. The aim of the facility is to bring people together so that they can enjoy the shooting sport and train to protect themselves and members of their families, similar to the gun ranges in California.
The 20,000 sq. ft. establishment features shooting ranges equipped with the latest technology. The technology includes training simulators and automated target retrieval systems. There is also adequate space for you to test a firearm before you purchase it.
ATR Performance is a facility that provides indoor shooting range services, offers guns for sale, and provides basic handgun classes for customers who would like to acquire a Concealed Carry Permit. The organization promotes shooting among women by allowing them to shoot free of charge on Mondays.
The indoor range of the facility features a 25-yard shooting area with 9 separate shooting positions and powered target carriers. You are required to wear eye and ear protection devices all the time that you are at the ATR Performance shooting range. Similar to the range policy in Arkansas gun ranges, these devices are available for rent or purchase if you do not carry your own.
The Bare Arms Indoor Range is an establishment that has a combination of an indoor shooting range, a gun shop, and a training facility. The indoor range features shooting distances of 15 and 25 yards. It is also well-equipped with a range of systems equipment to enhance users' experience.
The range's gun store has a wide variety of guns including rifles, pistols, and handguns. Similar to the gun ranges in Arizona, there is also a large inventory of ammunition, archery equipment, and firearm accessories such as optics and magazines. You can also enroll in training that targets users with different skill levels including Concealed Carry Course and AR-15 Build Class.
West Virginia Clays, Inc. is a shooting range that specializes in activities such as skeet, trap shooting, 5-stand, and sporting clays. The range features two skeet shooting fields and a combination of a trap and a skeet shooting field, similar to the top ranges in New Mexico. The three fields have lighting systems installed, making it possible to do shooting at night.
Users of the facilities at West Virginia Clays also have access to a clubhouse that features a spacious deck. The clubhouse provides a comfortable environment to relax between shooting rounds. The range is open to the public and users do not need membership to take part in shooting.
The Peacemaker National Training Center is a shooting complex whose mission is to offer responsible and law-abiding citizens a place to safely learn and put into practice the different legal aspects of shooting sports. The facility is staffed by its own instructors and NRA range safety personnel.
The facility features rifle, shotgun, and handgun tactical ranges. The 1000-yard rifle range, in particular, stands out because of its ample size as well as the superb arrangement of steel targets that it features.
The White Horse Firearms and Outdoor Education Center is a not-for-profit organization whose objective is to educate citizens on shooting sports and to offer a safe place to practice shooting. The establishment conducts lessons, organizes formal matches, and maintains several ranges.
The facility's shooting ranges have been designed with the needs of families and groups in mind. A variety of activities including plinking and formal gun training can be conducted at the ranges. Shooting using 50-caliber and incendiary rounds is not permitted at the range.
Washington County Machine Guns is an establishment that provides a tactical range for shooting with machine guns, pistols, handguns, and rifles. At this facility, you can also rent machineguns, suppressors, and other guns of your choice. The rental program also allows users to experience today's advanced firearms and classic WWII-era machine guns.
The shooting range of the facility has been designed for users to experience real-world application of tactical skills in the use of shotguns, rifles and handguns. Hence, you can practice rapid-fire assault shooting, quick-draw pistol firing, and pistol and rifle transition drills.
Valley Guns II is an establishment that has been in operation for more than 40 years. The organization provides unrivaled customer service, quality guns, quality training, and expert advice in relation to gun use and gun safety.
Some of the notable features of the facility include a shooting range that has an indoor handgun range and an indoor rifle range, an archery bay, and an online gun and various firearm accessories store. Classes are also offered for basic and advanced gun training, a range feature that can also be enjoyed in some shooting ranges in Alaska.
You need a good place to train so that you can advance your shooting skills and be able to use your gun safely. You can visit any of these leading shooting ranges in West Virginia for your firearms training.
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"Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences."
–King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, April 19, 2011
2.1 The Issue
In the small island country of Bahrain, located in the Persian Gulf (sometimes known as the Arabian Gulf), government and security forces have clashed with protesters seeking democratic reform. Bahrain's leaders belong to the Sunni sect of Islam, a minority in the country; the majority of Bahrainis are Shiite. There is a history of Sunni-Shiite tension in Bahrain, but that tension is only one dimension of the current situation. Broader societal stresses—including repression, disenfranchisement, and limited economic opportunity for the country's majority—also drive calls for reform.
Bahraini activists, inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, gathered in the capital, Manama, in February 2011 to demand reforms from the government. These reforms included a new constitution that provides for an elected parliament and independent courts, the release of protesters arrested in police crackdowns, and freedom of expression. Some opposition groups made more forceful calls for Bahrain to become a true constitutional monarchy and for an end to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's rule. The ruling Al Khalifa family has responded to these protests with force and mass arrests. Several human rights groups have condemned Bahrain's response, citing reports of torture, enforced disappearance, and executions of protesters.
Similar uprisings in the Middle East received robust international support. Most notably, the UN Security Council voted to authorize military intervention in Libya to protect civilians amid a popular uprising against the ruling Muammar al-Qaddafi regime. However, Bahraini opposition movements have not been able to rally the same international support, in part because two permanent UN Security Council members, the United States and the United Kingdom, have long-standing military and economic ties with Bahrain. Nevertheless, continuing unrest and repression in Bahrain raise the question of whether international action is needed to ensure the protection of human rights in Bahrain.
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Unrest in Bahrain has intensified. Last week, opposition protesters, believing that their grievances remain unaddressed and seeking to reenergize their cause, gathered by the thousands at several locations in and around Manama. Speakers at one rally called not only for an end to the monarchy but also for the king and other senior members of the royal family to be tried and imprisoned. Two bombs hit police convoys responding to the protests, killing several police officers and civilian bystanders. The Bahraini government accused opposition activists of carrying out the bombings, but the activists denied responsibility and condemned the acts. Regardless, the attacks only amplified an already severe crackdown by Bahrain's security forces, especially in predominantly Shiite areas. The police killed ten protesters. Hundreds more were arrested and remain in custody.
The government's crackdown has only increased the opposition's intensity. Bahraini activists are speaking out more forcefully, asserting their political demands and calling for the immediate release of those arrested. These activists, along with international human rights organizations, have also begun calling for a coordinated international response. The UN secretary-general has called a meeting of the UN Security Council toassess whether the situation warrants a response and, if so, what kind.
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Published on oktober 3, 2017 oktober 5, 2017 door belgium4tibet
Saturday 30 September 2017 marked the projected end of the Chinese government's evictions and demolitions plan at Larung Gar. Large scale demolitions and forced evictions are currently taking place at Yachen Gar as well.
Since July 2016, these two key Tibetan Buddhist centers in eastern Tibet have been maliciously targeted by the Chinese authorities. Monks and nuns from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (1), the largest and most respected Buddhist institute in the world, and Yachen Gar have been forcibly evicted and their homes razed to the ground. There have been at least 6,500 monks and nuns expelled since July 2016 and around 7,000 houses and buildings demolished. Our common belief is that China's main goal in cutting down the population of the institutes has been to enable easier monitoring and control of the residents at the institute. Furthermore, recent evidence has shown that there are also plans to develop Larung Gar as a tourist destination with growing concern that we will see the renowned institute transformed into a low quality Disneyland-style tourist site.
Compounding this intense crackdown by China on Tibetans' religious freedom, it was announced in August 2017 that Chinese Communist Party members are now positioned in the management committee at Larung Gar and exercise direct control over the management and day to day workings of Institute; a further tightening of China's central control.
In November 2016 six United Nations human rights experts expressed their "deep concern" to China about the serious cultural and religious repression in Tibet raising the mass eviction of Tibetan monks and nuns and the demolition of their homes at the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute as a violation of international human rights laws and "attacks on tangible and intangible cultural heritage, which constitute serious violations of cultural rights of current and future generations." A number of governments, including the EU, have also raised strong concerns about the demolitions and expulsions.
Urgent solutions need to be found to solve the crisis and to stop any further attempts by China to erode the cultural and religious identity of the Tibetan people, including the development of Larung Gar into a tourist destination. With China's 19th Party Congress opening in October, China is further tightening restrictions on everyday life in Tibet, including the practise of religion. This is emblematic of Chinese President Xi Jinping's aim to enforce and promote an authoritarian system of governance with complete disregard for human rights.
Tibetans and Tibet activists continue to work to stop China's abhorrent abuse of Tibetans' rights and freedoms and resolve to help bring freedom back to the Tibetan people.
International Tibet Network, Students for a Free Tibet, Free Tibet and Lungta.
Larung Gar and Yachen Gar are in Serthar County, Kardze, Kham, Eastern Tibet (Ch: Ganzi/Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province).
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No benefit from circuit breaker if players don't get jabbed – Jurgen Klopp
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Jurgen Klopp insists a Premier League circuit breaker is only useful if players get vaccinated.
The Liverpool boss wants players to get their coronavirus boosters if the top flight takes a break.
Klopp's comments came after Thomas Tuchel criticised the Premier League for putting Chelsea at "huge risk" by forcing the coronavirus-hit Blues to play Sunday's 0-0 draw at Wolves.
The league will hold a meeting on Monday over the growing crisis after six games were postponed this weekend and Klopp would be in favour of a break if players had their extra jabs during that time.
Jurgen Klopp (centre), whose side drew 2-2 at Spurs on Sunday, wants players to make use of any circuit breaker (Frank Augstein/AP/PA)
"I don't know, if someone tells me that (a circuit breaker) is the solution, I'm in 100 per cent," said Klopp, after the 2-2 draw at Tottenham. "For us it looks like at the moment we have no cases in the staff, the staff got the booster five or six weeks ago.
"If everybody gets boosted and it is two weeks at home and we have no more cases then fine, let's go home and wait for that. But if we just stop it and don't do anything, then I don't see the benefit."
Chelsea were missing seven players through positive Covid-19 tests and opted not to risk Jorginho at Molineux after inconclusive results for the Italy midfielder.
The Blues saw their request for a postponement rejected, and could only field 14 outfield players in their match squad with N'Golo Kante, Mateo Kovacic and Trevoh Chalobah also struggling for match fitness.
Six of the weekend's top-flight fixtures had already been called off following Covid outbreaks at various clubs but the Blues' game went ahead as scheduled.
"I understand everybody when they say you have 14 players," boss Tuchel said.
"But if you look into detail: Trevoh Chalobah has only had two training sessions, Mateo Kovacic one training session and N'Golo Kante one training session.
"We were put in a huge risk of health and safety to the players, not just because of Covid but also physically.
"I'm not sure if I'll catch Covid. Hopefully I will not catch it.
"We put Kova into a Premier League match on the second day after a Covid infection. OK. If you count this as 14 available players to play in the Premier League, in the toughest league in the world, OK. It's like this."
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A frustrated Tuchel has no idea what will happen with Chelsea's fixtures against Brentford and Aston Villa next week.
"I've got no idea what happens now," he said. "We had an idea (on Saturday evening) what's going to happen, but then that didn't happen.
"We will do tests, continue to test and go to training like we have been doing.
"We as a club have been very, very responsible.
"Now we will sit on the bus for three or four more hours together. And (on Monday) we will do training, do the testing and wait for the results."
Thomas Tuchel cut a frustrated figure at Molineux (Nick Potts/PA)
Asked if Chelsea could close their Cobham training ground to try to limit infections, Tuchel said: "How can we close the training ground when we are allowed to keep playing?
"We have now two days and we cannot close the training ground. How should that happen that we send everybody home? The decisions are the decisions."
After Manchester City's 4-0 win at Newcastle on Sunday, boss Pep Guardiola said he would back the Premier League to make the right calls.
"When the doctors, the scientists, the Premier League or whatever take a decision, I will support 100 per cent," he said.
"We try to create a good environment for our people, our players, the staff and backroom staff to realise the danger is still already here and you have to be alert.
"We have to try knowing that it's not easy because it's not (just a) problem for the Premier League or the football world, it's a problem worldwide that's still out there.
Thiago Alcantara will miss this afternoon's Premier League fixture with Tottenham Hotspur after registering a suspected positive test for COVID-19.
Jordan Henderson is also absent because of illness, but has registered a negative test for COVID-19.
"The virus is still out there, the new variant is there and what the Premier League is going to decide, we are going to support."
Liverpool's preparations for their match at Tottenham were hit by the emergence of another Covid case in Thiago Alcantara. Jordan Henderson also missed out through illness, but tested negative for Covid.
Virgil Van Dijk, Fabinho and Curtis Jones also missed out having tested positive earlier in the week.
After a difficult week, the protocols surrounding postponements in cases of coronavirus outbreaks are set to be discussed at a Premier League shareholders meeting on Monday.
The league has been considering applications on a case-by-case basis but there has been criticism that the criteria is not clear enough. The timing of decisions to call off some games has also caused frustration.
EFL statement: COVID-19 update.#EFL https://t.co/ucPkfwnYCq
— EFL Communications (@EFL_Comms) December 16, 2021
All clubs are expected to be represented at the virtual meeting for senior club representatives. It is understood further calls for managers and captains are likely to take place later in the week.
The issue of vaccination uptake among players is also expected to be discussed in a meeting likely to be dominated by Covid issues.
The English Football League published figures this week stating 25 per cent of its players did not intend to get vaccinated.
The EFL, which has also been hit by a raft of postponements, says it is maintaining constant open dialogue with all clubs over the situation. At present, the league is planning for all four Carabao Cup quarter-final ties to go ahead as scheduled this week.
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Janet Hurst will sign her book, �Homemade Cheese: 50 Recipes from Artisan Cheesemakers,� at 5 p.m. May 6 at Barnes & Noble, 2208 Bernadette Drive. Ken and Jennifer Muno of Goatsbeard Farm will offer cheese samples.
Janet Hurst lays it all out for the home cook in �Homemade Cheese: Recipes for 50 Cheeses from Artisan Cheesemakers� (Voyageur Press, 2011).
The book also features 20 U.S. cheese makers, including those of Goatsbeard Farm in Harrisburg, Baetje Farm in Bloomsdale, Morningland Dairy in Mountain View and Green Dirt Farm in Weston.
Recipes for cheese, supply tips and cheese-serving suggestions are sandwiched between profiles of the farmers who tend their herds and make the cheese. Hurst, who prefers to drink goats� milk and make goat cheese, includes cow and sheep cheese makers in this 160-page volume.
The Hannibal native has been making cheese for 25 years. She lives in New Haven and teaches cheese-making classes in nearby Hermann.
Last week, she spoke over the phone about cheese-making, about the artisans and about her favorite cheese: chevre.
Two ingredients are required in many cheese recipes: rennet and culture. Liquid rennet is available at Clover�s Natural Foods. Culture is available at online cheese supply companies, such as New England Cheesemaking Supply, at [email protected], founded by Ricki Carroll.
These cheese makers� lives are not romanticized in Hurst�s farm profiles. While farmers talk of their connections with the animals, customers, the land and of the satisfactions of farm life, there is no getting around the fact this also is very hard work. |
I love the show. You guys are the best. I recently purchased a new 2014 Can-Am Outlander Max XT 1000 and was wondering how reliable these bikes seem to be.
It was purchased for 2 up riding, hunting, hauling wood for the camp and so on and according to my friends who are all Brute Force riders, the Outlanders are disposable machines and it want last.
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I get around nowadays mostly through public transportation. The infrastructure here is amazing and the associated phone app is almost always on point. I can find my way around easily. I have become a podcast fiend, so my phone always has some goodies for me to listen to while I ride. This is so much better than driving or riding in a car. There is pressure to entertain in the car. You have to listen to agreed upon music or talk about an agreed upon subject. With public transportation it's all about me and what I want to do to pass the time.
This weekend I drove my body to the limits. I don't know why, but I can't stop thinking that I'm still a young buck. This may have been the last straw. Maybe this break up was just what I needed.
It started on Friday. I got off of work at about 7pm and went home to get ready for my boy's party. I missed the last party that they threw, so it was a must that I check this one out. What kind of friend misses two parties? So – arm twisted and everything – I had to go. Plus, our podcast endorsed the party, so basically this was a business trip. Swedie understood.
I had a good time that Friday night. I knew I had to work on Saturday at 9am, so I didn't go too crazy. I had a few drinks and grooved to the great mix of Hip-Hop/Reggae/Dancehall that always accompanies these parties. I even left before the end of the party like a responsible adult. I got home at about 2:30am. |
Bug of Week 9: Mourning Cloak Butterfly
Mourning Cloaks are one of the first butterflies to show up in the spring, and have distinctive markings which make them easy to differentiate from other butterflies. You may notice that these butterflies appear to only have four legs, while insects are supposed to have six. Mourning Cloaks have six legs, but two are very small and hairy at the front of their abdomen.
Please be gentle and respectful to all animals and insects.
Species: Nymphalis antiopa
HABITAT (WHERE THEY LIVE): Mourning Cloaks can be found in all of North America and also parts of Europe and Asia. They roam and migrate, settling in areas that contain host plants like woods, parks, and suburbs.
NUTRITION (WHAT THEY EAT): Tree sap (especially from oaks), rotting fruit, and occasionally flower nectar.
PREDATORS (WHO EATS THEM): The Mourning Cloak's eggs can be eaten by predators like beetles, ants, wasps, and mites. The butterflies' predators include praying mantises, dragonflies, birds, and assassin bugs.
LIFE CYCLE: In early spring, Mourning Cloaks lay their eggs on a host plant, which includes willow and elm. The eggs hatch into caterpillars, which live in a communal web and feed on young tree leaves. Caterpillars form a chrysalis and emerge as adult butterflies in June or July.
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David Durenberger, JD, served as Senior United States Senator for Minnesota from 1978 to 1995. He serves now as Senior Health Policy Fellow at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis Minnesota and chairs the National Institute of Health Policy (NIHP).
The NIHP plays a unique role in health care reform in the United States. NIHP members are health care, health plan, and business organizations from six states in the Upper Midwest whose goal is to change the health care system from the inside out and thereby influence national health policy change.
Senator Durenberger gained national health policy leadership as a 16-year member of the Senate Finance Committee plus six years as Health Subcommittee Chair. He served eight years on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and 12 on the Environment Committee.
Today, he influences the future of the nation's two major public health programs as a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the Kaiser Foundation Commission on the Future of Medicaid and the Uninsured, the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the National Commission for Quality Long-term Care. He is also Advisory Board Chair of the Medical Technology Leadership Forum.
Senator Durenberger was also named by Governor Tim Pawlenty to lead the Minnesota Citizens Forum on Health Care Costs, an inside-out approach to healthcare reform in Minnesota. He is author of Prescription for Change and Neither Madman Nor Messiahs and teaches and speaks nationally on the future of healthcare delivery and policy. |
» Humanitarian crisis in the USA. Undocumented children border
Humanitarian crisis in the USA. Undocumented children border
The government of the United States through the Immigration Department is seeking solutions to the massive crisis that has occurred with the arrival of thousands of children who become undocumented children when they cross the border in the hottest spots, Texas and California.
The numbers are staggering, and can exceed 60,000 cases of children who come to USA without the company of their parents or guardian, this apart from creating a humanitarian crisis within the borders of this powerful country, and are a multi-millionaire expense for the nation.
Two military bases in these 2 states bordering Mexico, have been habilitated, but according to data provided by television stations and government agencies, the origin of these children represent many extreme characteristics.
It's amazing to think that these young kids reach across the borders with success alone.
Where do they come from?
Three quarters of these unaccompanied children come from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. That is how they are classified by the immigration police who have to deal with different problems, especially the lack of information, as the data of these children is not placed on the same data base of older undocumented immigrants, but the laws covering minors are different. The tedious process of locating parents or relatives within the United States and in many cases parents are unaware that their children have crossed the border and are arrested. The worst part is that they are also undocumented and are afraid to talk with the Department of Immigration.
We found chilling data that some have crossed the border from Sri Lanka and other Asian or African countries. How could they reach these boundaries? What dangers did they experience on the long journey? How many thousands died or disappeared in this desperate escape?
Some of these children are as young as five years old, undertaking this dangerous journey through a vast unknown country without speaking the language, at the mercy of criminals, drug dealers, rapists, and organized mafias. All these children come under removal proceedings in an estimated 1-2 years' time they will be returned to the country of departure, because as the Honduran father of two detainees in Texas reported: "It's much more dangerous to stay in our country, to make this trip.
The White House is seeking immediate solutions and are receiving endorsements from some of the largest American companies, saying they need more manpower and supporting immigration reform to legalize immigrants who can work and live freely in this country, a nation known as the land of opportunity, the Promised Land?
Contact an immigration attorney accredited by the Federal Government of the United States, with any questions relating to immigration. |
Samuel Ward Spangenberg is suing his former employer, minicab firm Uber, claiming that he suffered age discrimination and retaliation after whistleblowing on some of the company's practices.
As The Center for Investigative Reporting describes, Uber's former forensic investigator claims that staff regularly snooped on customer records in order to spy on the movements of celebrity customers, ex-partners and spouses.
One of those allegedly snooped upon was pop superstar Beyoncé.
If true, that's pretty disturbing, and suggests a lax attitude to privacy and security at Uber.
Hmm. I notice that Uber is saying that it's untrue that 'nearly all' employees have access to customer data.
But, for whatever reason, they didn't say that.
Readers with long memories may recall the claim that in the early days of Facebook it was possible to access anybody's account by using the password "Chu[k N0rr15" (Chuck Norris). |
My View: War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) PG-13 Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his apes are at war with the humans. After suffering heavy losses, Caesar decides to find the man who is responsible for the suffering, The Colonel (Woody Harrelson), and get his revenge. I have enjoyed this trilogy, and this is the best of the three. If Andy Serkis doesn't get an Oscar nomination, I will be shocked. It's a truly spectacular performance and a moving one. Woody Harrelson is fascinating as the villain of the film, an evil man who wants to destroy the apes. The film moves at such a pace that it seems the action doesn't stop. And, you will fall in love with the chimpanzee named, Bad Ape (played by Steve Zahn). Don't monkey around and miss this film. It's one of the best of the summer and the year! My Rating: I Would Pay to See it Again War for the Planet of the Apes Website
My View: Wish Upon (2017) PG-13 Clare (Joey King) is given a mysterious music box. She is surprised to find her every wish coming true, but soon she learns that there is a price for each wish. Wish Upon is an annoying horror movie where the deaths are right out of the 'Final Destination' series. Joey King is horrible as the teen who causes many deaths due to her wishing, but it takes almost the whole movie to realize that she is the reason for those deaths. The film isn't scary, and all of the dying is predictable. The biggest problem with this movie is that you just don't care about anyone in the film. Almost everyone, including the lead character, is a jerk. Be sure and look quickly for the un-credited role by Jerry O'Connell. If I had a wishing music box, I would wish that I had never seen this film. If you do go see this movie, stay through the first set of credits, as there is a bonus scene. My Rating: Cable Wish Upon Website
Indiefest: Maudie (2016) PG-13 An arthritic Nova Scotia woman, Maude (Sally Hawkins), works as a housekeeper while she practices her artwork and becomes a beloved figure in the community. Sally Hawkins gives a powerful and moving performance of a unique woman who, despite her disabilities, became a nationally known artist. Ethan Hawke plays Everett, Maude's employer, a man who is set in his ways and doesn't give in to anyone, that is until he has been around Maude. This is a love story, not just between Maude and Everett, but also about Maude's consuming passion for painting. This is a beautifully shot film that focuses on how Maude sees the world, through the eyes of a painter. My Rating: Full Price Maudie Website
Indiefest: The Little Hours (2017) R A young servant (Dave Franco) flees his master and takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. From the beginning of the movie when the two nuns shout obscenities at the gardener for looking at them, you know that we're not watching an ordinary movie about nuns in the 14th century. The language and actions of the inhabitants of this movie are more like a sitcom on HBO. The language is modern, bawdy and often vulgar with the dialogue mostly improvised. The characters seem to want to sleep with as many people as they can, and they do. The Little Hours is a comedy that pushes the boundaries, like a Monty Python film for 2017. Like Python, the comedy doesn't always work, but don't worry, there will be something new and hilarious right around the corner. My Rating: Bargain Matinee The Little Hours Website
Indiefest: Chasing Coral (2017) A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out to discover why the world's coral reefs are vanishing. This film is relentless and unforgiving in trying to portray that the cause of the world's reefs dying at an unprecedented level is due to global warming. This movie works, not just because of its stunning cinematography but also because of two of the stars of the film. One is a former advertising executive who has made it his mission to save the coral reefs and another is a young "coral junkie" whose passion for the reefs drives him to do very tiring and sometimes dangerous work underwater. I will warn you that parts of this film are tough and emotional to watch. It's saddening when you see the vast areas of coral reefs that have died and turned an ugly brown. My Rating: Full Price The film does not have a theatrical run but can be found on Netflix. Chasing Coral Website
Indiefest: To the Bone (2017) Ellen (Lily Collins) is a 20-year-old anorexic woman who has spent her teenage years trying to beat her disease through what seems like a million programs without much success. Her family sends her to a group home for youths, where an unconventional doctor (Keanu Reeves) and the home seem to finally offer a solution. Now, Ellen must do the hard work to make it happen. I wanted to love this film, but I only liked it. I never quite got connected to the lead character, so it was hard to root for her. It's a heartfelt movie with some moving scenes, but the plot goes for some easy outs in a film that should have had a harder tone to it. I enjoyed Lily Collins performance and especially enjoyed Alex Sharp's performance as a former dancer who suffered and knee injury and is trying to lick anorexia. I think people that have dealt with eating disorders will enjoy this film, but for others, it will fall a little flat. My Rating: Bargain Matinee The film does not have a theatrical run but can be found on Netflix. To the Bone Website
Forgotten Film: Read My Lips (2001) This French thriller is about a woman, Carla (Emmanuelle Devos), who is almost deaf but can lip-read. She gets involved with an ex-con (Vincent Cassel). I can't give away much of the plot which is full of twists and turns, most of which you won't see coming. I will tell you that Carla's ability to lip-read is crucial to the plot. This very original film is a lesson about the need to connect to another person and how those connections or dis-connections can affect your life. My Rating: Full Price Read My Lips Info
Weird Credits: From the credits of Wish Upon: Swamper
Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You: Wind River (2017) An FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) teams with a town's best game tracker (Jeremy Renner), with deep community ties and a haunted past, to track down a killer on a remote Native American Reservation. Hey, I'll see anything with Elizabeth Olsen in it. She is one of our best young actors out there. Wind River Facebook Page
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Maryland bill a big blow for Wal-Mart?
Other states also considering bills that penalize companies for falling short on healthcare plans.
By Parija Bhatnagar, CNNMoney.com staff writer
January 13, 2006: 3:33 PM EST
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - By passing the so-called "Wal-Mart healthcare bill," Maryland became the first state in the country to set a law that would fine big companies for not picking up their fair share of employee healthcare coverage.
Is this a sign of things to come? Legislators in at least 13 other states proposed similar "Pay or Play" bills in the past year, according to the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL).
Although the efforts failed in Arizona, California, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Tennessee, and was vetoed by Maryland's and Vermont's governors, the measure is still alive in five other states.
They include New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington.
Burt Flickinger, an independent retail analyst, thinks the Maryland bill could have "massive" implications for the world's largest retailer, particularly since state legislators overrode the governor's veto to pass the bill late Thursday.
Moreover, he thinks the Maryland vote on the healthcare bill could trigger many more states to follow suit.
"Ohio and California are already a major battleground," he said, adding that as many as 30 other states have looked at the issue.
What could it mean for Wal-Mart if more states follow Maryland's example?
Obviously, it wouldn't be good for Wal-Mart, Flickinger said. "Consumers have become so used to Wal-Mart's low prices for so long," he said. If Wal-Mart is forced to incur higher healthcare costs at the same time that it's struggling to grow sales at its stores, "the day of reckoning" could come "when Wal-Mart is forced to raise prices 1 percent to 2 percent and cut its labor force by 1 percent to 2 percent."
"Unhealthy" policies?
The Maryland measure, also known as a "Fair Share Healthcare Bill," would require companies with more than 10,000 employees to spend at least 8 percent of their payroll on health benefits, or pay the balance into a state low-income health insurance fund.
Paul Blank, spokesman for watchdog group Wake-up Wal-Mart, said four companies in Maryland currently are covered under this bill -- Northrop Grumman (Research), Giant Foods, Johns Hopkins University and Wal-Mart (Research).
"Wal-Mart's the only one that fails to meet Maryland's Fair Share requirements," he said.
Wal-Mart has been a lightning rod for criticism about its wage, labor and benefits policies. Critics allege the retailer's high healthcare premiums tilt workers toward opting for taxpayer-funded public healthcare options, such as Medicaid, for their healthcare needs.
At the same time, Wal-Mart's big-box peers such as Target (Research), Home Depot (Research) and Lowe's (Research) could fly under the states' healthcare radar because these companies tend to pay higher monthly and yearly incomes compared to Wal-Mart, Flickinger said. "Some of these companies also approve overtime whereas Wal-Mart's been [reluctant] to do so."
For its part, Wal-Mart maintained that the company does adequately provide for the needs of its 1.6 million associates, including 16,988 workers in Maryland.
"More than three-fourths of Wal-Mart associates have health insurance and every Wal-Mart associate in Maryland -- both full-time and part-time -- can become eligible for health coverage that costs as little as $23 per month," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sarah Clark, said in a statement.
"There are 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland and less than one-half of one percent work for Wal-Mart. The legislators who voted for this bill have let down hundreds of thousands of Marylanders in need," she said.
Laura Tobler, a health-policy analyst with the NCSL, said 2005 saw a resurgence of states' interest in the Fair Share Healthcare policy.
"Part of the reason is because states' budgets are relatively tight," she said. "So states are looking at other ways to cover workers without tapping into their own budgets. One way to fortify the employer-based healthcare options is to mandate them, which is what Maryland has now done."
Wal-Mart can choose to contest the law under ERISA laws -- the Employee Retirement Income Security Act -- which preclude states from regulating employer benefits, including pension plans and healthcare coverage. "I'm not saying Wal-Mart will do this," Tobler said.
Or Wal-Mart could decide to shutter its 53 stores in Maryland. But Flickinger said that wouldn't be a smart strategic move for Wal-Mart.
"Maryland is one of the top five markets in the country in disposable income. This is a very attractive state for Wal-Mart, which is trying to move more upmarket," he said.
It would also be a public-relations nightmare for Wal-Mart. "A decision to pull out of Maryland could potentially reinforce opposition in other states," he added.
Wake-up Wal-Mart's Paul Blank offers a third option.
"Wal-Mart can change its business model and be fair to its employees," he said.
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New and Revised Books: A Summary
Several of my recent books have become expensive and difficult to locate due to bankruptcy of publishers. I have made a major effort to revise and re-release some of these books within the last few months. I have been writing books long enough to know this is not a money-making endeavor. That is not my motivation, as I have explained recently and repeatedly.
The full accounting of newly available books is listed below in reverse-chronological order of the original publication date. The list includes my latest book, available in paper and electronic editions. As always, a comprehensive listing of my books, with complete citations, can be found beneath the Written Works tab.
Only Love Remains: Dancing at the Edge of Extinction is available in cloth, paper, and electronic editions. My latest book was reviewed at Readers' Favorite.
The Revised Second Edition of Ms. Ladybug and Mr. Honeybee: A Love Story at the End of Time is available in paperback, electronic, and audio editions. The original publisher declared bankruptcy shortly after the original edition was published in 2015.
The Revised Second Edition of Going Dark is available in paperback and electronic editions. The original publisher declared bankruptcy shortly after the original edition was published in 2013.
The Revised Second Edition of Walking Away from Empire: A Personal Journey is available in paperback and electronic editions. The original publisher declared bankruptcy not long after the original edition was published in 2011. |
Blue Wahoos Help Recognize Two Area Scholarship Winners In MiLB Rising Stars Program
A partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida enabled the Blue Wahoos to help celebrate national recognition for two area high school graduates.
Dashawn Appleberry from Rocky Bayou Christian School in Niceville, along with Rhett Hardy from Pine Forest High School, were both recipients of Rising Star Student awards for $500 through a scholarship program with Minor League Baseball and the national Big Brothers Big Sisters organization.
They were among 20 winners nationwide in a program MILB Charities founded in 2016 for deserving BBBS student enrollees in Minor League Baseball communities across the nation. A partnership began in 2004 with the national Big Brothers Big Sisters organization and Minor League Baseball.
"Think of this, there are 162 teams (in MiLB) and there are 20 scholarships," said Blue Wahoos owner Quint Studer, who participated in a Zoom conference call Monday to honor the two area seniors. "So that means one out of every eight teams could possibly get somebody to be named a winner and we have two.
"On behalf of the Blue Wahoos, we would like to thank Minor League Baseball…we're just carrying a message. It is wonderful testimony to the quality of applicants we have right here (in Northwest Florida)."
Appleberry, whose family moved to the area from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina's wrath in 2005, will be the first from his family to attend college. He will begin classes later this month at Florida State where he will major in Computer Science.
He graduated with a 3.85 cumulative grade point average. He has been mentored by his Big Brother Richard for the past 10 years.
Hardy, who was a member of the Pine Forest baseball team, attained a 4.87 GPA and will attend the University of Florida where he will major in Biomedical Engineering. He has spent three years with his Big Brother mentor, shadowing him once a month in a School To Work program at Navy Federal Credit Union.
"They both blew it out of the park, no pun intended, to apply for this scholarship," said Dana Hall, director of development for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida. "We are so excited they were selected. This is going to help them kick-start their next adventure."
Appleberry and Hardy are classified as "Littles" in the BBBS program. Their mentors are business employees in the community and classified as "Bigs".
"We have done several events with the Blue Wahoos…recruitment events, spirit nights, a Big/Little first pitch," Hall said. "We have been incredible partners with Blue Wahoos.
"So when this opportunity came out from our national office, we really wanted to encourage all of our Big Brothers to get with their Little Big Brother/Sister and apply for this scholarship."
The MILB partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters included scholarship stipends to graduating seniors who start college this fall semester. The application process included either a written essay submitted online or a video presentation of qualifications.
"I'm very grateful I was one of the few who got picked," said Appleberry during the Zoom video conference.
"I want to thank everybody who helped get me this scholarship," said Hardy, who was a member of the National Honor Society at Pine Forest.
Hall thanked Studer and the Blue Wahoos for all the support the team has provided during the nine years of the franchise. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year as part of the national organization.
"Quint is a huge advocate of not only our mission, but just mentoring in general," Hall said. "The Pensacola Blue Wahoos have done so many things in our community. Even with the pandemic going on, they have gone above and beyond with just giving us a little sense of normalcy and still bringing the community together."
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Pulaski Yankees release 2019 charitable contributions
PULASKI, Va. – The Pulaski Yankees today announced the organization made over $282,000 in charitable contributions during the 2019 calendar year, an increase of over $250,000 from 2018. Through the new Calfee Cares community relations program, the Yankees made $253,587 in gift in kind donations and $28,833 in cash donations from in-stadium fundraising efforts.
"When we introduced Calfee Cares in May of 2019, our goal was to prioritize our community relations efforts and continually find and create opportunities to give back to the fans, businesses, and community organizations in Pulaski who support us all season long," said Pulaski Yankees General Manager Betsy Haugh. "We could not be more thrilled with the results from 2019 and the contributions our organization and players made last season."
Yankees players and staff members totaled 536 hours in volunteer efforts and community appearances during 2019 across more than 35 different events, including the Yankees' annual HOPE Week (Helping Others Persevere & Excel) initiative presented by Gay & Neel, Inc.
22 of the team's 34 regular-season home games had a community tie, most notably Agriculture Night 2.0 presented by Farm Credit of the Virginias which led to a $4,250 donation to the Virginia Tech Agriculture Extension and Pulaski County 4-H, and fan favorites such as Heroes Night (SERVPRO of Pulaski County) and Military Appreciation Night (Pulaski Health & Rehabilitation Center).
The Yankees participated in five MiLB Charities national initiatives, including Sun Safety Awareness (American Cancer Society), Domestic Violence Awareness (Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation), Stars & Stripes Caps (New Era Cap Co.), MiLB CommUNITY (Allegiant Airlines), and Hope at Bat (American Cancer Society).
Calfee Park also hosted three community-focused special events – the first-ever Pulaski Yankees 5K benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia, Homers for Hearts benefitting the American Heart Association, and Guns and Hoses benefitting the New River Valley Agency on Aging.
Additionally, the Yankees began partnerships with the American Cancer Society (also an MiLB Charity Partner) and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Virginia, joining a lineup of local community partners that includes Shelor Motor Mile Growing the Future and the Pulaski County 4-H.
"Our community partnerships are so important to us and our efforts to give back to the community," Haugh said. "We look forward to working with these four again in 2020 and introducing a few new community partnerships for the coming season."
Including Pulaski's $282,420, the Appalachian League's reported contributions from 2019 total $2,347,712.
Season tickets and flex packs are now on sale for the 2020 Pulaski Yankees season, which gets underway at Motor Mile Field at Calfee Park on June 22. Tickets can be purchased online at pulaskiyankees.net, by phone at (540) 980-1070, or in person at the Calfee Park offices. Individual game tickets will go on sale on April 1.
The Pulaski Yankees are the Advanced Rookie level affiliate of the New York Yankees playing in the Appalachian League. Pulaski is celebrating its 54th season in the Appalachian League in 2019. Calfee Park has won league championships in 1948, 1969, 1986, 1991 and 2013. Motor Mile Field at Calfee Park opened in 1935 and was renovated for the team's first season as a Yankees affiliate in 2015. The Pulaski Yankees were named the recipient of the John H. Johnson President's Award, Minor League Baseball's top honor, in 2019. For more information, please visit www.pulaskiyankees.net or follow the Pulaski Yankees on social media, @PulaskiYanks (Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram). This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.
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BlueClaws Charities Announces 2019 Grant Recipients
BlueClaws Charities raises money throughout the year across various platforms such as special fundraising events like their Nine & Dine charity golf outing, BlueClaws jersey auctions, a nightly 50/50 raffle that is held at home games. At the conclusion of the season, money raised is distributed through a grant application process.
"We are very proud to support these outstanding Community Partner organizations," said BlueClaws Charities Executive Director Jim DeAngelis. "Not only are these groups on the ground helping the underserved in our communities, but we are pleased that all grant money stays local here in Ocean & Monmouth Counties."
Find the organizations and grant descriptions below:
American Cancer Society – To help fund rides to treatment for cancer patients, a free place to stay when a patient needs to travel for treatment, as well as free wigs for patients.
ALS Association of Greater Philadelphia – To help subsidize our Care Services Program that offers programs and services to families living with ALS at no cost and who live in the surrounding communities of BlueClaws Charities.
Alzheimer's Association Greater New Jersey Chapter – To support youth in our area who are experiencing Alzheimer's in their family.
The Arc, Ocean County Chapter – To support the general operating budget of the agency in order to continue to provide and support 1,500 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Ashley Lauren Foundation – To assist children with cancer and their families through direct family financial assistance.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ocean County – To fund current community mentorship programs.
Jersey Shore Council, Boy Scouts of America – To provide direct support to our Scoutreach (youth at risk) Cub Scout pack at the Clark Elementary School in Lakewood, New Jersey.
Brodie Fund – To financially assist families with pets fighting cancer.
Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey – To help defray the cost of criminal background checks completed on all volunteers prior to assignments.
David's Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation – To provide direct financial aid to New Jersey families affected by cancer during the holiday season.
Dottie's House – To offset the cost of a backflow repair at the facility.
Easterseals New Jersey – To ensure the continuation of employment services programs featuring skills evaluation, resume building, interview skills in addition to placing our participants into jobs within the community.
Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore – To purchase a storage shed to allow the robotics team to store their robot and its components.
Go4theGoal – To support our Kart 4 Kids program in local hospitals that will bring smiles to kids battling cancer.
Guidinglight House Inc. – Fund housing and program services to female veterans transitioning out of the military.
HABcore Inc. – To help fund the supportive services program component of HABcore's Rapid Re-Housing Program in Ocean County.
JAR of Hope – To bring awareness directed to finding a cure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
JF Party Dragon – To purchase food for those in need in Ocean County.
Kids Need More – To enhance the lives of children, families, and young adults coping with cancer and life-threatening illness.
LADACIN Network – To support our Child Care and Preschool program which integrates children with and without disabilities.
Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski Memorial Fund – To assist our organization in its mission of aiding and assisting our wounded warriors and their families.
Mya Lin Terry Foundation – To support our Friends of Michael Campaign, sibling support of oncology children.
NJ TEARS Foundation – To provide assistance to families who have lost a child due to pregnancy or infant loss or sudden loss of a school-aged child in New Jersey with programs offered through our Center for Child Loss in Wall.
Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity – To support elderly neighbors in their progressing age and the infirmities that often come with it by providing safety-related maintenance (such as grab bars and wheelchair ramps) and other home repairs necessary to alleviate structural violations, serious health issues, and code violations.
Ocean County Family Support Organization – To offset the costs of trips for our Youth Partnership Program.
Ocean County Shrine Club – To purchase surgical hardware to scoliosis patients at Shriners Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, specifically, metal instrumentation including, but not limited to, surgical rods and cages used in spinal fusion implant procedures to straighten severe curvatures.
Ocean's Harbor House – To provide housing for homeless, abused, neglected, and tossaway youth between the ages of 16 and 21, serving Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
Ocean Partnership for Children – To provide emergency fund for youth and famliies for immediate needs that cannot be secured at no cost or covered by Medicad or flex funds.
Piece of the Puzzle – To expand our special education curriculum for students with autism and developmental disabilities.
Parents of Autistic Children – To provide a challenger sports league designed to offer a socialization opportunity, through athletic participation, between disabled students and their typically developing peers.
Probation Association of New Jersey Education Fund – To foster and enhance educational/training opportunities for members of PA/NJ through the operation of an annual training conference.
Raising Hope for Others, Inc. – To offset costs of their August fundraiser.
RJM Sportsgroup – To provide support for students in the Jackson school districts with scholarships.
Salvation Army of Ocean County – To support our weekly soup kitchen, which serves 50-100 meals per week.
Seabrook Village – To support the Library at Seabrook Village.
Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide – To support our Ocean County Youth Wellness Summit. This summit is specifically designed to provide students, school administrators, and school staff with the necessary resources needed to encourage and support overall wellness, including the prevention of teen suicide and other upstream prevention measures.
Tom Giannattasio Jr. Memorial Fund – To provide scholarships for graduating high school seniors.
United Way of Monmouth & Ocean Counties – To purchase warm clothing for lower-income children.
USO of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey – To provide funding for 2020 activities and events in support of the annual Month of the Military Child Celebrations throughout April.
BlueClaws Charities unveiled their 2019 Community Impact Report earlier this week. You can view the report by clicking here.
BlueClaws Charities is the official 501c3 of the Lakewood BlueClaws. The organization supports its Community Partners in Monmouth and Ocean Counties with cash grants and other organizations with in-kind donations throughout the year.
The Lakewood BlueClaws are the Jersey Shore's top stop for affordable, family entertainment. BlueClaws ticket packages and group outings are currently on sale by calling 732-901-7000 option 3 or online at BlueClaws.com. Opening Night of the 2020 season is on Thursday, April 16th.
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BlueClaws Charities announced the 39 different organizations to receive a grant as part of their 2018 grant distribution.
LAKEWOOD, NJ – BlueClaws Charities completed their 10th annual grant distribution by handing out grants to 39 area organizations, it was announced on Monday.
BlueClaws Charities Community Partner organizations, all 501c3s that work with the BlueClaws throughout the year, were eligible to apply for a grant and all organizations that applied for a grant received one.
Each applicant was asked to detail a specific use for the grant, with the requirement that all money received from BlueClaws Charities stays in Ocean & Monmouth Counties. A complete list can be found below.
"We are very proud to be support such a wide variety of local organizations that do tremendous work as part of the non-profit community around the Jersey Shore," said Jim DeAngelis, BlueClaws Charities Executive Director. "These organizations are on the ground working with the underserved in our communities, doing spectacular work.
"Further, it is important that all of the grant money donated by BlueClaws Charities stays here in Ocean and Monmouth Counties," said DeAngelis. " It is an honor for BlueClaws Charities to be able to assist these great groups doing their work in our local community."
The following organizations received grants:
– ALS Association of Greater Philadelphia – to subsidize the cost of services for people living with ALS who reside in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
– Alzheimer's Association – to provide services to people living with Alzheimer's and their families.
– The Arc, Ocean County Chapter – to provide funding to the Arc programs that support 1,500 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in residential, vocational, and recreation services throughout the community.
– The Ashley Lauren Foundation – to assist children with cancer and their families through direct family financial assistance.
– Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Ocean County – to continue community mentorship programs in Ocean County.
– Boy Scouts of America, Jersey Shore Council – to provide direct support to the Scoutreach Cub Scout pack at the Clark Elementary School in Lakewood.
– The Brodie Fund – to continue their mission of offering financial assistance to families that have pets fighting cancer.
– Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey – to help defray the cost of criminal background checks completed on all volunteers prior to assignments.
– Cheer Dream Scoliosis Foundation – to enhance the equipment for their special needs team.
– David's Dream and Believe Cancer Foundation – to offer financial assistance and wellness services to families affected by a cancer diagnosis.
– Dottie's House – to provide essential counseling to families to become self-sufficient in their futures.
– Easterseals New Jersey – to teach individuals living with disabilities and special needs and their families about health, nutrition, and exercise education.
– Exit 82 Theatre Company – to assist in their 2019 production season.
– Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore – to fund the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore's outreach program in Ocean County.
– Go 4 The Goal – to support the Kart 4 Kids, a kart stocked with snacks, gift cards, toys, activities, and electronics to entice kids of all ages.
– Guidinglight House – to provide funding for program services for homeless female veterans.
– HABcore, Inc – to help fund the supportive services program component of HABcore's Rapid Re-Housing Program in Ocean County.
– JAR of Hope – to fund research in the hope of eliminating Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
– Kids Need More – to enhance the lives of children and their families dealing with a diagnosis of cancer or life threatening illness.
– LADACIN Network – to support their Child Care and Preschool Program which integrate children with and without disabilities.
– Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski II Memorial Fund – to provide funds to assist in aiding and assistant wounded warriors and their families.
– The Mya Lin Terry Foundation – to support their Holiday Gifting Campaign to benefit pediatric cancer warriors.
– Northern Ocean County Habitat for Humanity – to provide necessary repairs and modifications to a senior's home through their Aging in Place program.
– Ocean County Family Support Organization – to offset the costs of trips for their Youth Partnerships Program.
– Ocean County Shrine Club – to expand and upgrade the hospital's Walk-in and Urgent Pediatric Fracture Clinic.
– Ocean County YMCA – to support kids, families, and seniors through the Y-Cares Financial Assistance Program such that they will be able to benefit from membership regardless of their financial resources.
– Ocean's Harbor House – to replace aging computers in their Emergency Youth Shelter.
– Ocean Partnership for Children – to provide needed equipment for the agency's consulting psychiatrist to use with the youth being seen, as well as to provide books, sensory materials, and toys for the waiting room and psychiatrist's meeting space.
– Piece of the Puzzle – to produce a Corner Cafe vocational curriculum for students with autism.
– Parents of Autistic Children – to provide a challenger sports league designed to offer a socialization opportunity between disabled students along with typically developing peers from across Ocean and Monmouth Counties.
– Probation Association of New Jersey Education Fund – to enhance education training opportunities through the operation of their annual training conference.
– Raising Hope for Others – to offset the cost of their August fundraiser.
– RJM Sportsgroup – to help raise money for scholarships for students who belong to the Jackson School District.
– The Salvation Army of Ocean County – to help fund their weekly soup kitchen meal, which serves 50-100 meals each week.
– Seabrook Village – to provide scholarships to eligible student employees who graduate high school and are participating in a form of higher education.
– Society for Prevention of Teen Suicide – support Ocean County Youth Council programming for the 2018-19 academic year by engaging youth ambassadors in the prevention process and working on suicide prevention projects.
– The TEARS Foundation – to provide assistance to families who have lost a child due to pregnancy or infant loss in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
– Tom Giannattasio Jr. Memorial Fund – to provide scholarships to graduating seniors residing in Brick Township.
– United Way of Monmouth & Ocean Counties – to purchase warm clothing for low-income children.
Money is raised for BlueClaws Charities throughout the year including through a nightly 50/50 raffle at all BlueClaws home games, special jersey auctions, and events like the Nine and Dine golf outing.
BlueClaws Charities, in addition to this grant program, supports hundreds local organizations and fundraising events with gift package donations, golf outing hole-in-one sponsorships, and specialty organizations such as OCEAN, Inc., a federal program that assists the less fortunate in the community. The "Tickets for Kids Program," another BlueClaws Charities initiative, donates over 2,000 tickets to under-served youths in Lakewood and elsewhere in Ocean County.
Other events hosted by BlueClaws Charities include a Challenger Clinic for the developmentally disabled, a food & toy drive during the holiday season, a school supply drive leading into the fall, and baseball camps for the underserved in conjunction with the MLB Players Association.
Organizations that would like to become Community Partners can call Jim DeAngelis at 732-901-7000 ext 114. Space in the program, which includes both fundraising and promotional opportunities, is limited and those interested are encouraged to contact the BlueClaws as soon as possible.
The BlueClaws are the Jersey Shore's top stop for affordable, family entertainment. In 2018, the team debuted a brand-new nine-hole Family Mini Golf Course, Biergarten, and Home Run Pavilion (boardwalk game area) as part of a major renovation to FirstEnergy Park.
2019 ticket packages and group outings are currently on sale by calling 732-901-7000 option 3 or online at BlueClaws.com.
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TinCaps to Honor Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Rising Star Student
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The Fort Wayne TinCaps and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana will recognize Amaya Williams, a local high school senior and one of 20 national Rising Star Students program winners, with an on-field check presentation and a ceremonial first pitch on Friday, June 22 when the team plays the West Michigan Whitecaps at Parkview Field at 7:05 p.m.
The TinCaps and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana surprised Amaya with the invitation to Parkview Field at the Big Futures Graduation on Tuesday night (June 12).
Williams will receive a $500 college stipend as part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Rising Star Students program. The award honors high-achieving students involved in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America mentorship program who are preparing for college.
Amaya, who just graduated from North Side High School in Fort Wayne, plans to attend Ivy Tech and major in Early Childhood Education. Williams wants to impact those around her and always looks for an opportunity to make a difference in her community and within herself. With the influence of her Big Sister, Domini, Amaya feels confident that she's fully prepared for her future in college and in the workplace.
Nominees for the honor were required to provide submissions describing their academic and personal achievements, college and career goals, and how their involvement in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program has impacted them.
"Big Brothers Big Sisters does amazing work in our community and around the nation," said TinCaps President Mike Nutter. "Amaya and Domini are a perfect example of how BBBS can develop young people into our future leaders. We can't wait to honor Amaya at Parkview Field."
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America has been an MiLB Charity Partner since the program's inception in 2004. The mission of the Minor League Baseball Charity Partners Program is to provide national exposure for participating charities, expand current relationships between clubs and local chapters and to foster new relationships where none exist. In 2017, charitable giving by Minor League Baseball teams and MiLB Charities totaled nearly $40 million.
About Big Brothers Big Sisters of America:
Big Brothers Big Sisters provides children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported oneto-one mentoring relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. Big Brothers Big Sisters ensures that the children in its program achieve measurable outcomes, including educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships. This mission has been the cornerstone of the organization's 114-year history. With nearly 300 affiliates across the country, Big Brothers Big Sisters has served more than 2 million children ("Littles") in the past 10 years.
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RockHounds to Donate to Big Brothers Big Sisters on Giving Tuesday
MIDLAND, Texas – The Midland RockHounds announced today that, in partnership with BUSH'S® Beans, they will provide a donation to Big Brothers Big Sisters – Midland as part of #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration, on Tuesday, Nov. 28.
Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the widely-recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving. Since its inaugural year in 2012, #GivingTuesday has become a movement that celebrates and supports generosity and philanthropy.
This past season, B.J. Boyd was named the BUSH'S Most Valuable Player (MVP) at the 2017 Texas League All-Star Game in Frisco, Texas, after collecting three hits and three RBI in a 10-3 win for the South division. As an extension of this award, BUSH'S and the RockHounds will provide a $1,000 donation to Big Brothers Big Sisters – Midland.
"This generous donation by BUSH'S shows their commitment to the communities and great nonprofit organizations within Minor League Baseball cities," said Monty Hopper, General Manager of the Midland RockHounds. "We thank BUSH'S for their donation to Big Brothers Big Sisters – Midland. This donation further strengthens the tie between Minor League Baseball, its member teams, sponsors and local communities."
BUSH'S Beans sponsored 11 All-Star Game MVP awards throughout Minor League Baseball this summer. BUSH'S is making a donation to a local charitable organization chosen by each MVP Award winner's home club.
"One of the things that attracted BUSH'S to Minor League Baseball is how the clubs and their local communities support each other," said Mike Morris, Senior Brand Manager at Bush Brothers & Company. "We are proud to recognize the contributions of each BUSH'S MVP Award winner by giving back to his team's local charity."
Minor League Baseball unveiled a multi-year, strategic partnership with BUSH'S Beans last December, making it the "Official Beans of Minor League Baseball," and a "Preferred Partner" of a number of MiLB teams, beginning in 2017. Bush Brothers & Company is the recognized brand leader in beans. The partnership was activated across a range of touch-points this year, including in-ballpark celebrations such as National Baked Bean Month in July and the integration of a variety of BUSH'S Beans products in teams' concessions.
About the Midland RockHounds
The Midland RockHounds have been bringing the best fun and family entertainment to West Texas since 1972. A member of the eight-team, Double-A Texas League, the franchise began as an affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Angels and since 1999, the Oakland A's.
The RockHounds have won five outright Texas League titles since 2005, including four-straight from 2014-2017. The organization has also received the John H. Johnson President's Award in 2007, the highest award for a franchise and in 2016, the team won the Larry McPhail Award in recognition for the organization's outstanding promotional efforts.
About Minor League Baseball
Minor League Baseball, headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, is the governing body for all professional baseball teams in the United States, Canada and the Dominican Republic that are affiliated with Major League Baseball® clubs through their farm systems. Fans are coming out in unprecedented numbers to this one-of-a-kind experience that can only be found at Minor League Baseball ballparks. In 2017, Minor League Baseball attracted 41.8 million fans to its ballparks to see the future stars of the sport hone their skills. From the electricity in the stands to the excitement on the field, Minor League Baseball has provided affordable family-friendly entertainment to people of all ages since its founding in 1901. For more information, visit www.MiLB.com.
About BUSH'S® Beans
BUSH'S® is all about friends & family, and a certain Secret Family Recipe. When you enjoy our beans (doesn't matter if they're baked beans, chili beans, black beans, pinto beans…well, you get the picture), you can trust that they're the very best. Because we wouldn't serve your family anything less. Since we got our start more than 100 years ago in Chestnut Hill, Tenn., BUSH'S® has always maintained that quality is the best policy. We pursue excellence and exceptional taste in our beans, sauces and everything we do. That's why, from mouthwatering Baked Beans & Chili Beans to satisfying bean recipes, you're cooking up the best with BUSH'S BEST®. For more information, visit www.bushbeans.com.
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BlueClaws Charities Hands Out Grants to 40 Community Partner Organizations
BlueClaws Charities completed their grant program, handing out grants to its Community Partner organizations.
LAKEWOOD, NJ – BlueClaws Charities, the official 501c3 non-profit organization of the Lakewood BlueClaws, completed its 2017 grant program, handing out grants to 40 Community Partner organizations.
All Community Partners applied for and received a grant from BlueClaws Charities this year. Each applicant was asked to detail a specific use for the grant, with the requirement that all money received from BlueClaws Charities stays in Ocean & Monmouth Counties. A complete list can be found below.
"BlueClaws Charities is proud to be able to support such a wide-variety of organizations in our communities," said Jim DeAngelis, the BlueClaws Vice President of Community Relations and Executive Director of BlueClaws Charities. "These organizations have pledged to keep all funds in Ocean & Monmouth Counties and they are doing spectacular work to assist the underserved. It is our pleasure to be able to lend financial support."
BlueClaws Charities raises money throughout the year through special events like the Nine & Dine Golf Outing and Phillies Winter Banquet, through jersey and other specialty merchandise auctions, and a 50/50 raffle at each BlueClaws home game.
"Our fans and donors have been tremendously supportive of BlueClaws Charities over the years, and this year was no exception," said DeAngelis. "We look forward to another successful season in 2018!"
The following organizations received a grant from BlueClaws Charities.
ALS Association of Greater Philadelphia to subsidize their Chapters Care Services Program for ALS patient families in Ocean & Monmouth Counties.
Alzheimer's Association of Greater New Jersey to offset costs for a fundraising event to benefit New Jersey residents.
The Arc, Ocean County Chapter to subsidize costs associated with their major fundraising event, The Arc Walkathon.
The Ashley Lauren Foundation to assist children with cancer and their families through direct financial assistance.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ocean County to provide group mentoring activities which enables children on their waiting list to become involved with the agency.
Boy Scouts of America, Jersey Shore Council to provide program support for their ScoutReach Cub Scout Pack at Clifton Elementary School in Lakewood.
Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey to help defray costs of criminal background checks on volunteers prior to assignments.
Cheer Dream Xplosion Foundation to purchase equipment for their special needs program.
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation to improve the quality of life of those affected by the disease in Ocean & Monmouth Counties.
Daniela's Wish to grant wishes to ill children in their communities.
David's Dream & Believe Cancer Foundation to support families in Ocean & Monmouth counties affected by a cancer diagnosis.
Dottie's House to help funding their transitional housing program designed to provide survivors of domestic violence with tools, guidance and support to achieve financial and emotional independence.
Easter Seals New Jersey to provide individuals with disabilities and special needs the training and skills needed to independently work within their communities.
Emiliana's Hope to spread cheer to pediatric cancer patients in the area.
Exit 82 Theatre Company to help fund their 2018 production season.
Family Options Adoptions to provide funding for birth parent scholarships and supplies for birth mothers that decide to parent.
Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore to help offer over 200 underserved girls from Lakewood the opportunity to attend the Girls Are Great summer day camp.
Go4TheGoal to help kids with cancer achieve their goals.
HABcore to help fund the supportive services program component of HABcore's Rapid Re-Housing program in Ocean County.
Holiday Express to help provide a unique interactive holiday musical program, led by volunteer professionals, to individuals who are often forgotten by society and in need of kindness.
JAR of Hope to help fund research to eliminate Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
Kids Need More to enhance the lives of children, families, and young adults coping with cancer and life threatening illness.
LADACIN Network to support their integrated Child Care program to empower children with and without disabilities to work together to succeed in their future education.
Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski II Memorial Fund to assist the organization in its mission to aid wounded warriors and their families.
Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanities for repairs for the 21 Easter Seals group homes.
Ocean County Family Support Organization to help offset the costs of trips for our Youth Partnership program.
Ocean County Shrine Club to support the hospital's MAGEC System, an adjustable magnetic growing rod used in a non-invasive, non-surgical manner to brace a child's spine during childhood growth to minimize the progression of scoliosis.
Ocean County YMCA to help kids, families, and seniors in the community find assets in YMCA programs and memberships regardless of incomes and backgrounds.
Ocean's Harbor House to provide for the fundamentals of setting up a household after youth graduate from the Transitional Living Program.
Ocean Partnership for Children to provide needy children and teens served by Ocean Partnership with winter attire, including hats, coats, boots, mittens, and gloves.
Piece of the Puzzle to purchase a computer desk and stool for their offices.
Parents of Autistic Children to provide a challenger sports league designed to offer a socialization opportunity through athletic participation between disabled students from different high school and middle schools in Ocean & Monmouth Counties.
Raising Hope for Others to assist with financial cost of organizing and running its major fundraiser.
RJM Sportsgroup to provide scholarships to Jackson Township graduates.
Saint Vincent DePaul Society to help pay for temporary sheltering for the homeless.
The Salvation Army of Ocean County to provide funding to their Feeding Program.
The Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide to help their Youth Council seeking to engage ambassadors in the prevention process.
The TEARS Foundation to provide assistance to families who have lost a child due to pregnancy or sustained the sudden loss of an infant or child in Monmouth & Ocean Counties.
Tom Giannattasio Jr. Memorial Fund to provide a scholarship to graduating seniors.
United Way of Monmouth & Ocean Counties to purchase warm clothing for lower income children.
BlueClaws Charities, in addition to the grant program, supports hundreds of non-profit organizations with gift package donations, golf outing hole-in-one sponsorships, and specialty organizations such as OCEAN, Inc., a federal program that assists the less fortunate in the community. The "Tickets for Kids Program," another BlueClaws Charities initiative, donates over 2,000 tickets to under-served youths in Lakewood and elsewhere in Ocean County.
Organizations that would like to become Community Partners can call Jim DeAngelis at 732-901-7000 ext 114. Community Partners raise money through a BlueClaws fundraiser outing and have the opportunity to volunteer in the FirstEnergy Park concession stands to raise additional funds. These organizations also receive exposure through on-field presentations, table displays, and on BlueClaws.com, plus they have special opportunities to hold events, such as charity walks, at FirstEnergy Park.
The BlueClaws are the Jersey Shore's top stop for affordable, family entertainment. They crossed the 7-million fan plateau in 2017.
2018 BlueClaws ticket packages and group outings are currently on sale by calling 732-901-7000 option 3 or online at BlueClaws.com.
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Andy Shea and Lexington Legends to receive prestigious distinguished philanthropist award
WHITAKER BANK BALLPARK (Lexington, KY) – (November 7, 2017) – The Association of Fundraising Professionals – Bluegrass Chapter presents the Distinguished Philanthropist Award to an individual, corporation, or foundation that has made a significant contribution to our community through their acts of kindness and charitable giving. "Over the years, only a select few have received this special recognition and this year's recipient is definitely worthy of this honor," said Patrick Robinson, AFP President.
On Friday, November 10, during the National Philanthropy Day Luncheon at the Marriott Griffin Gate, Andy Shea and the Lexington Legends will receive the 2017 Distinguished Philanthropist award.
In 2017, the Legends donated over $1.1 million to hundreds of charitable organizations in eastern and central Kentucky. One hundred percent of the Legends staff is currently involved in the community outside of the workplace.
President/CEO Andy Shea is the driving force behind all of the Legends' community initiatives and philanthropic accomplishments. He sets an example of empathy, kindness and selflessness for everyone he meets and encourages others to utilize their unique talents and passions in order to serve others.
Shea serves on the boards for LexArts and Junior Achievement. He has built relationships with 10 little brothers through Big Brothers Big Sisters, three of whom were groomsmen in his wedding this past October. He was also the 2013 and 2015 champion of Dancing With The Lexington Stars, which supports the Rotary Club Endowment Fund and Surgery on Sundays. In 2016, Andy won the American Diabetes Association's Kiss-A-Pig Campaign Individual Winner award for his fundraising efforts towards curing and preventing diabetes. This year, he was humbled to provide the lead gift towards Midway University's new baseball stadium, which will increase the university's athletic merit and offer Midway student-athletes the opportunity to compete in state-of-the-art collegiate facilities for the first time.
"It's clear that Andy Shea and the Lexington Legends make a huge impact in our community," adds Robinson. "AFP – Bluegrass Chapter is pleased to give this prestigious award to both an individual and a team who are touching many lives through their philanthropy."
(The National Philanthropy Luncheon will be held on Friday, November 10, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Marriott Griffin Gate in Lexington. The Distinguished Philanthropist Award will be presented between 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.)
For more information about the Legends, contact Sarah Bosso at [email protected] or 859-422-7855. The Legends, a Class A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals and a member of the South Atlantic League, will return home to Whitaker Bank Ballpark against the Charleston RiverDogs, an affiliate of the New York Yankees, on Opening Day – April 5, 2018. For ticket information, call (859) 422-7867 or visit LexingtonLegends.com
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Fort Wayne TinCaps To Honor Esurance Rising Star Students Program Winner During On-Field Ceremony
FORT WAYNE, Ind. –The Fort Wayne TinCaps, Esurance and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana will recognize Addam Ray, a local high school senior and one of 14 Esurance Rising Star Students program winners, during a pregame presentation at Friday's game versus the Dayton Dragons. The Esurance Rising Star Students program, which highlights and celebrates Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) participants for their outstanding service to their local communities, awards select high school students a $5,000 college stipend each, courtesy of Esurance.
Ray plans to attend Ivy Tech and become a computer programmer. He aspires to start his own company and use it as a platform for doing good in the world. Addam credits his "Big" from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana for "showing him right from wrong, good from bad, laugh in the good times, and talk in the bad times."
The Esurance Rising Star Students program submissions included unique and inspirational stories, academic accolades, college and career plans and more, emphasizing why each individual was a
"Rising Star" in his or her community. To be eligible, nominees were required to be "Bigs" or "Littles" in Big Brothers Big Sisters.
"With the help of Esurance and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, we can recognize a Rising Star Student in our community getting ready for his or her own call-up to college, and honor the student with a unique ballpark celebration," said Mike Nutter, President of the Fort Wayne TinCaps.
Last June, Esurance and Minor League Baseball announced a multi-year partnership making it the exclusive home and auto insurance partner of Minor League Baseball. Together, they created the Esurance Call-Up Worthy platform, which launched exclusively on MiLB.com and MiLB team websites. The platform celebrates the iconic moment in Minor League Baseball when a player is called up to Major League Baseball®, highlighting his journey through shareable digital and social content, such as virtual trading cards, video highlights and the Esurance Farm Report.
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OKC Dodgers to Honor Esurance Rising Star Students Program Winner
OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma City Dodgers, Esurance and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma will recognize Nate Peters, a senior at Union High School in Tulsa, Okla. and one of 14 Esurance Rising Star Students program winners, during a pregame presentation at tonight's 7:05 p.m. game against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. The Esurance Rising Star Students program, which highlights and celebrates Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) participants for their outstanding service to their local communities, awards select high school students a $5,000 college stipend each, courtesy of Esurance.
Peters plans to major in sports business at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and go on to play football at a Division I school. Balancing academics and football was a challenge for the Tulsa, Okla. native, but he maintained his grades and made the honor roll. Nate credits his "Big" from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Oklahoma for giving him "many life lessons, most importantly, how to be a man."
The Esurance Rising Star Students program submissions included unique and inspirational stories, academic accolades, college and career plans and more, emphasizing why each individual was a "Rising Star" in his or her community. To be eligible, nominees were required to be "Bigs" or "Littles" in Big Brothers Big Sisters.
"With the help of Esurance and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, we can recognize a Rising Star Student in our community getting ready for his own call-up to college, and honor the student with a unique ballpark celebration," said Michael Byrnes, OKC Dodgers President/General Manager.
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BlueClaws Charities Completes Grant Program With Grants to 35 Local Partner Organizations
LAKEWOOD, NJ – BlueClaws Charities, the official 501c3 organization of the Lakewood BlueClaws, handed out grants to 35 partner organizations as part of their 8th annual grant distribution.
"BlueClaws Charities is excited to support such a wide variety of outstanding, local, non-profit organizations," said Jim DeAngelis, BlueClaws Charities Executive Director. "These organizations are on the ground working with the underserved in our communities, doing spectacular work. It is an honor for BlueClaws Charities to be able to assist."
BlueClaws Charities, a registered 501c3 organization, raises money at all 70 BlueClaws home games. A 50/50 raffle, special jersey auctions, and miscellaneous programs are used to raise money during games. The annual "Phillies Winter Banquet," "ALS Celebrity Waiter Event," "Bowling With the BlueClaws," and the "BlueClaws Charities Nine & Dine Golf Outing" are additional fundraising initiatives conducted by BlueClaws Charities.
Below, find a list of organizations and programs supported through the annual BlueClaws Charities grant program:
ALS Association of Greater Philadelphia – For patient care services to help the 50 ALS patient families living in Monmouth & Ocean Counties.
American Heart Association – For their Heart Walk, a community event that encourages physical activity to help lower risk factors that can lead to heart disease.
Arc of Ocean County – For their mission of helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities be accepted and valued as citizens of the community.
Ashley Lauren Foundation – For assisting children with cancer and their families through direct financial assistance.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ocean County – For providing group mentoring activities to children on their waiting list of 180 children, enabling them to be involved with the agency.
Boot Campaign – For raising awareness and assistance for military families and personnel especially relating to the unique challenges they face during and post-service.
Caregiver Volunteers – For defraying the cost of criminal background checks completed on volunteers prior to assignments.
Cheer Dream Scoliosis Foundation – For assisting children with medical needs in their facility.
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation – For improving the quality of life for children and adults affected by the diseases.
Daniela's Wish – For granting wishes to sick children in the community.
Dottie's House – For providing safe housing for women and their children through a program that empowers them to become self-sufficient and free from violence.
Easter Seals New Jersey – For installing a new ram and deck to an existing residential home for Easter Seals program participants.
Exit 82 Theatre Company – For funding their 2017 production season with selected shows.
Tom Giannattasio Jr. Memorial Fund – For providing scholarships for Brick Township High Schools.
Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore – For supporting their summer outreach initiative Girls Are Great, which sends underserved girls to camp.
Go4TheGoal – For helping kids with cancer in the program achieve their goals.
Interfaith Hospitality Network – For supporting their mission of providing emergency shelter and other urgently needed services to a growing number of homeless families in Ocean County.
Kids Need More – For enhancing the lives of children, families, and young adults coping with cancer and life-threatening illness.
LADACIN Network – For enhancing the program offerings at their Adult Day Habilitation program with a new horticulture gardening and farming experience.
Lt. Dennis W. Zilinski II Memorial Fund – For aiding their mission of aiding and assisting our wounded warriors and their families.
Mary's Place By the Sea – For supporting the oncology massage program for women with cancer.
NJ Tears Foundation – For promoting pregnancy and infant loss awareness and support in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity – For assisting in building a home for a single mother and two children in Ocean County.
Ocean County Family Support Organization – For assisting in their spring camping trip for youth partnership.
Ocean Partnership for Children – For assisting needy youth families during the holiday season.
Ocean County Shrine Club – For the Shriners Hospital's Surgical Navigation System for Children's Spine Injuries.
Ocean County YMCA – For helping kids, families, and seniors in the community find the assets they need in YMCA programs and memberships regardless of incomes and backgrounds.
Ocean's Harbor House – For supplementing the salary of a Life Skills counselor working with homeless youths in their Transitional Living Program.
Opportunity Knocks – For assisting in long-term community placement of the disabled.
Parents of Autistic Children – For providing a challenger sports league designed to offer a socialization opportunity for disabled students and developing peers in Ocean and Monmouth Counties.
Piece of the Puzzle – For technology to help students with autism learn and practice vocational skills.
Raising Hope for Others – For assisting the organization with financial costs for organizing and running their major fundraising events.
Salvation Army – For funding their feeding program for local underserved.
St. Vincent DePaul Society – For helping to fund temporary sheltering of local homeless.
United Way of Monmouth & Ocean Counties – For acquiring hats, coats, gloves, and scarves to help keep children warm this winter.
The BlueClaws are the Jersey Shore's top stop for affordable, family entertainment. They have led the South Atlantic League and New Jersey in attendance in each year of existence and will reach the 7-million fan plateau in 2017.
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Nashville Sounds Foundation to Host 2nd Annual "Suites-N-Treats" Event October 26
The Nashville Sounds Foundation will host its second annual "Suites-N-Treats" event on Wednesday, October 26 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at First Tennessee Park.
The pre-Halloween event is designed as an opportunity for underprivileged youth in the greater Nashville area to trick-or-treat in a safe and fun environment. Children can walk the Club Level at First Tennessee Park and visit each uniquely decorated suite to collect treats.
Other activities for children include decorating their own trick-or-treat bags, face-painting, complementary food provided by Centerplate and drinks provided by Coca Cola. Each child will have the opportunity to meet and take pictures with Sounds mascot Booster.
The Sounds have teamed with several non-profit organizations to invite children to the private event. Close to 600 children will participate with the help of the following organizations: Big Brothers Big Sisters, First Steps, Dreams and Wishes, and the Martha O'Bryan Center.
"The Sounds organization is very thankful for the support from these tremendous non-profit organizations," said Adam Nuse, Sounds General Manager and COO. "With their help, our goal of providing a safe and memorable trick-or-treating experience for these children will be made possible."
"Suites-N-Treats" will take place on the Club Level with the help of the Sounds' suite holders, who were invited to decorate their suite so the children could experience a true Halloween-based trick-or-treat experience. The Sounds' front office staff will also decorate select suites and dress up as part of the festivities.
The mission of the Nashville Sounds Foundation is to positively impact the thriving Middle Tennessee community through various programs and initiatives. The Nashville Sounds Foundation supports programs that energize and influence youth through education, physical development and by maximizing community service. For more information on the Nashville Sounds Foundation and its initiatives, please visit www.nashvillesounds.com and click on the Community tab.
The 2017 season will be the Sounds' 40th in franchise history and their third as the Oakland Athletics' top affiliate. Season ticket memberships are available now by calling (615) 690-4487 or by visiting www.nashvillesounds.com.
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Meet Ashley Thompson: Birmingham's Rising Star Student
Student: Ashley Thompson
MiLB: Birmingham Barons
Agency: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Birmingham
College: University of Montevallo
Little Sister Ashley didn't have an easy childhood. She was quiet and shy. She was raised by her grandparents, without her parents. She was held back in school. But she has refused to let those things define her. She was matched with her Big Sister eight years ago. Together, they visited book stores, went to the movies, and cheered on their favorite baseball teams.
Now, she is heading to the University of Montevallo with an academic scholarship. Her Big Sister could not be more proud. "I have watched Ashley develop into an intelligent, dependable, caring, and hardworking young woman," she says. "She excelled academically in high school, joined the band, found her passion for art, and worked part-time."
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Help us recognize area Rising Star Student on 9/4
Join us at Fifth Third Field on Sunday, September 4 as the Hens, Esurance and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Ohio recognize Kendall Smith, one of the 14 Esurance Rising Star Students Program winners, during a pregame ceremony.
About the Rising Star Students Program
The Rising Star Students Program aims to recognize individuals who were 'Rising Stars' in his or her community. To be eligible, the nominees had to be classified as "Bigs" or "Littles" in the Big Brothers Big Sister Program. Nominations for the Rising Star Students program were made in July and August by BBBS agencies.
About Kendall
Kendall is a notable area student who enrolled as a "Little" in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Ohio to help with the challenges of adolescence. During her time at The Toledo School for the Arts, she learned to play 11 instruments and performed well academically.
She is currently studying music at Capital University and aspires to play in international orchestra and teach music as a professor. Smith will be presented with a $5,000 check from Esurance for college expenses.
Help us celebrate all of her accomplishments!
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Celebrate National Siblings Day at April 10th Game
Includes $1 tickets and post-game fireworks
Join the BlueClaws and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ocean County for National Siblings Day at the Friday, April 10th BlueClaws game which starts at 7:05.
Tickets for the game are just $1 thanks to the Asbury Park Press and there will be post-game fireworks thanks to River Rock Restaurant & Marina Bar.
Fans are encouraged to send in a funny picture(s) with their siblings prior to the game. The best ones will be used during the game on the video board (bonus points for pictures taken at FirstEnergy Park or in BlueClaws gear). Please email all photos to Ryan Cassirer at [email protected].
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ocean County will have a table on the concourse, and fans can take pictures with their siblings at the table and share on Twitter & Instagram using the hashtag #BCSibsDay. Winners will be selected and prizes, including tickets to a future game, will be awarded.
There will also be sibling movie clips shown throughout the game as well plus on-field promotions pitting siblings against each other.
To order tickets, call 732-901-7000 option 2 or order online by clicking here.
To learn more about Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ocean County, please click here.
This article originally appeared on the official website of the Lakewood BlueClaws. Click here to view the original story.
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Modeling the progression of SOD1-linked motor neuron disease
BORCHELT, DAVID R
NIH (NINDS)
€ 1,505,160.55
Motor neurone diseases
superoxide dismutase 1, Motor Neuron Disease, Paralysed, Prions, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1)-linked familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (fALS) is an extremely heterogeneous disease phenotypically with diverse clinical symptoms that can originate in upper or lower motor neurons and with a wide range of disease durations, from as short as a year to as long as 20 years. The duration of disease is largely a function of the speed with which symptoms spread along the neuraxis until motor neurons involved in respiration become affected. The question of how the disease seems to spread is one of the major unanswered questions in the study of ALS. Over the past few years, there has been increasing evidence that one mechanism by which the disease spreads may involve a prion-like propagation of a toxic misfolded protein from cell to cell along anatomically connected pathways of the CNS. Proteins that can transmit toxic conformations between cells often can also experimentally transmit disease between individual organisms. To survey the ease with which motor neuron disease (MND) can be transmitted, we injected spinal cord homogenates prepared from paralyzed mice expressing mutant superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1-G93A and G37R) into the spinal cords of genetically vulnerable SOD1 transgenic mice. From the various models we tested, one emerged as showing high vulnerability. Tissue homogenates from paralyzed G93A mice induced MND in 6 of 10 mice expressing low levels of G85R-SOD1 fused to yellow fluorescent protein (G85R-YFP mice) by 3-11 months, and produced widespread spinal inclusion pathology. Importantly, second passage of homogenates from G93A¿G85R-YFP mice back into newborn G85R-YFP mice, induced disease in 4 of 4 mice by 3 months of age. Homogenates from paralyzed mice expressing the G37R variant were among those that transmitted poorly, regardless of the strain of recipient transgenic animal injected, a finding suggestive of strain-like properties that manifest as differing abilities to transmit MND. Although these preliminary findings are very exciting, we recognize that our studies to date are underpowered and we cannot fully assess the ease with which SOD1-linked motor neuron disease (MND) can be transmitted between animals without a much larger effort. Aims 1 and 2 propose such an effort to better understand genotype/phenotype interactions in transmitting MND in these models. We also have very exciting evidence that we might be able to create a model in which we could initiate disease focally, by injecting the ""infectious"" tissue homogenates from paralyzed mice in to the sciatic nerves of vulnerable transgenic models. However, again, our preliminary data is limited and much larger effort is required. Aim 3 proposes such an effort. Collectively, our studies are designed to better establish the biological relevance of SOD1-MND transmissibility and to build model systems that would enable investigations into the mechanisms of disease progression.
PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) seem to spread along neuroanatomical pathways to engulf the motor nervous system, and the rate at which symptoms spread dictates how long patients live. In preliminary studies, we have provocative evidence that spinal cords of mice that model ALS caused by mutations in superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) contain entities that can mediate ""transmission"" of motor neuron disease to genetically vulnerable mice. Our planned studies will further develop these models and define the general transmissibility of SOD1-linked motor neuron disease.
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'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is mesmerizing
By VALERIE WU
March 28, 2022 in Arts & Entertainment, Film, Reviews
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" is a story about an immigrant family meshed with science fiction qualities. Starring Michelle Yeoh, the film urges viewers to consider the consequences of their daily choices. (Photo courtesy of A24)
There's a powerfully thrilling quality to "Everything Everywhere All at Once," a film with so many seemingly separate things within itself that somehow manages to make meaning out of all of them. Directed by Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), "Everything Everywhere All at Once" reinforces the emotional qualities of an immigrant drama narrative with nuances to sci-fi and action genres. This combination might seem odd, but it ends up working out, benefiting the movie and its storyline.
Michelle Yeoh stars as protagonist Evelyn Wang, a middle-aged Chinese woman struggling financially and emotionally. The film opens with Evelyn running a laundromat which the IRS is auditing. Evelyn's daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) is angry with her mother for never accepting her queerness and place in life. Then, just as Evelyn attempts to deal with her taxes, Evelyn's husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) reveals he wants a divorce. All of this stress piles onto Evelyn, and eventually, she's not only caught up in multiple issues but also multiple universes.
The logistics of the whole switching between many universes component are a bit confusing and complicated to understand. Audiences might end up just as bewildered as Evelyn when her "husband" from another universe appears in her current husband's body before a tax audit. This rapid transformation involves Waymond suddenly assuming a confident and commanding demeanor, one much unlike the meek Waymond that Evelyn knows. Also, one thing to note: This Waymond apparently doesn't need glasses.
During this abrupt transition in an elevator, this version of Waymond tells Evelyn that she must save the multiverse from an existential threat — an individual named Jobu Tupaki who wants to absorb the world into nothingness — by transporting herself to other universes. Within these universes are Evelyn's alternate selves, each one of which possesses different skillsets (e.g. Kung Fu) that can help Evelyn defeat her enemies, minions of Jobu Tupaki.
Waymond informs Evelyn that individuals can "jump" to their other selves by establishing pathways, which are oddly specific actions such as eating a stick of ChapStick. Performing these actions can then stimulate the jump between universes.
Although this idea might seem cliché, the film invites audiences to consider all the different lives we might have led had we taken a different path or made a different decision. As viewers follow Evelyn as she exists as diverse versions of herself, we're shown the seemingly unlimited range of possibilities that could have determined Evelyn's identity. Each one appears to have more potential for life than the present Evelyn. All of these sequences are delightfully bizarre and bizarrely delightful.
In one, Evelyn is a celebrity actress. In another, she's a martial artist — a skillset that comes in handy during the excellently choreographed action scenes. One of the most hilarious universes features Evelyn as a teppanyaki chef and Harry Shum Jr. as a fellow chef whose prolific cooking skills are controlled by a raccoon — an intelligently orchestrated nod to the animated film "Ratatouille."
Afterward it's revealed that Jobu Tupaki is, in fact, a version of Evelyn's daughter Joy. It's implied that Joy's villainous alter ego is brought about by her mother's nonacceptance and the emotional and psychological turmoil that resulted from it. The notion of this, which caused her "fractured" mind in the multiverse, is an engaging metaphor that doesn't try to tell the audience that it's significant but, rather, attempts to show through the complicated mother-daughter relationship seen throughout all these different universes.
Even as Evelyn and Joy change forms and fight epic battles that wouldn't have been possible in the current universe, there's always a deeply empathetic quality to their intergenerational interactions. Thus, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" really does make a statement on everything, even if it's in a haphazard way. Yet, paradoxically, the film's haphazardness is what makes the execution of the story genius.
The film beautifully captures the generational trauma experienced by an immigrant family from China to the United States, used as a jumping off point to make a statement about Chinese diasporic identity: What it means to be a child of immigrants. Then, it illustrates, an incredibly imaginative sci-fi take on dreaming, beyond one's own mediocrity.
Given that Yeoh is one of the top actresses in Hollywood right now, it's almost startling seeing her character labeled as a failure. Yet, despite the role's many contradictions, Yeoh brings out the struggles of Evelyn's inner self in a sensitive, three-dimensional way.
Watching her, one doesn't look at Evelyn and think, "Oh, it's Michelle Yeoh." Instead, we see a Chinese immigrant woman who's trying to do her best: One who didn't quite manage to achieve her dreams in life but has the potential to make the life she's living a better one.
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" is quirky and unexpected, a whole multiverse that reaches far into the depths of humanity to consider how we make meaning of ourselves. The process of traversing worlds also teaches us which ones we should value. After all, while there are so many universes in the world, it's this one that we're living in at the end of the day.
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FALL SUPPLEMENT – USC: AFTER DARK
USC: After Dark
Students demand University establish ASL programJanuary 26, 2023 - 12:00 AM
For-credit education on the language would combat stigma, club members argue.
Vigil mourns Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay victimsJanuary 26, 2023 - 12:00 AM
Students, faculty and staff gathered Wednesday to hear speeches and light candles.
Marvel Studios president to speak at commencementJanuary 25, 2023 - 4:47 PM
Kevin Feige graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts in 1995, three decades ago.
Jason King named Thornton deanJanuary 25, 2023 - 12:00 AM
Josh Kun will remain as interim dean for the remainder of Spring 2023.
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Paul Niehaus is an associate professor of economics at the UC San Diego and an affiliated faculty member at the School. He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a junior affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), an affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).
His research deals with program implementation in developing countries and with learning. He is also co-founder and president of the nonprofit GiveDirectly. In 2013, Foreign Policy named him one of its leading 100 "Global Thinkers."
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The Ghost Bat (Macroderma gigas), also known as the False Vampire Bat is a bat endemic to Australia, named for the extremely thin membrane of its wings that makes it appear ghostly at night.
The Ghost Bat is the only carnivorous bat in Australia and is also one of the largest microbats in the world. It is largely insectivorous but will also consume frogs, lizards, and other small animals, including other bats. It hunts by sight as well as with echolocation. After killing its prey with its powerful bite, it carries it to a feeding perch to eat.
Ghost Bats inhabit northern Australia, from the east to the west coast. They roost in caves, mines, and tunnels in small colonies, usually of less than a hundred bats.
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This stunning video comes from a collaboration between photographer Anand Varma and a honey bee research facility at UC Davis. I've read some articles (none of which I can find and link to now) suggesting that caring for small creatures (like insects) can increase demonstrated empathy in children. This video suggests a possible correlation to that: considering or witnessing organisms as "babies" making us more inclined to think positively or protectively of them.
In his TED talk below, you can hear Varma talk about the assignment that led him to keep and document bees and specifically the mites that threaten bees. This work is also an excellent example of how visualization (art, design, alternative presentations of information) can elevate our understanding of complex ecological systems and situations. |
Caravan Stories PS4 MMORPG Review 2020
Caravan Stories is a popular Japanese MMORPG on the PlayStation 4 that finally arrived in North America in 2019. Featuring classic JRPG story-telling, a vibrant world and a large cast of characters, is this free to play title worth playing on the console? Read on and find out!
What is Caravan Stories
The world is Iyarr and it's being threatened by a demon invasion that you and your traveling caravan filled with colorful characters, must save. Caravan Stories allows you to play as an avatar from a few races – Humans, Dwarves, Elves and more, each with a unique story chain that can be experienced even if you picked a different race. With over 2 million players in Japan alone, this PlayStation 4 MMORPG is free to play and let's you travel the world, experience the rich stories and characters and recruit more companions. The game does have PvE group content and PvP content too, although it's split in two distinct sections. The first half is a long tutorial that players will undergo primarily solo. You will however unlock more features like Guilds, Raids and PvP by progressing the main story.
Gameplay and Combat
You'll control your character in third person, and adventures takes place on closed-instanced map areas that are all connected. You begin with two other companions alongside you that are integral to the story. Depending on your chosen class, each character will synergize with you to offer good options during combat. Speaking of, combat takes place on a new screen whenever you "bump" into an enemy on the landscape. In the combat screen you control all the characters in your party formation in real time, executing skills in an RTS like fashion. It's unconventional for an MMORPG, but it works. You can also use the auto-play feature and let the AI handle the micro-management of skill execution. Combat is determined by a few factors like character and companion levels, BP (battle power) and more, so it's wise to always upgrade your gear and recruit more pets, beasts and companions into your caravan to do well in combat.
The game's main story quest chain is excellent if you enjoy JRPGs. It's fully voiced but only in Japanese with English subtitles. However, it still is an enjoyable ride and fleshes out the world and characters more. Once your main avatar is high enough to undergo Reincarnation, you can then pick another race and experience that race's unique story-line, which adds tons of replayability to Caravan Stories.
The MMORPG Portion
Your first couple of hours in Caravan Stories will be main solo. You won't see anyone on the maps but have access to the chat. As you make progress in the main story, more features opens up. The game has dungeons that can be run for currencies and gold solo or with friends, and then the Guild feature opens up. The best thing the game has that offers that MMORPG experience is landscape boss raids. When a demon invasion hits, you can join other players and their parties in taking down a big baddie for good loot. Sadly, it feels like you're not involved and just a bystander, and it's not that immersive. In the PvP department, the game has one mode – a tower defense style battle that pits your caravan and party against the other player. Matchmaking for that is quick and while fun, it feels like a mobile game gimmick more than anything else.
Another feature Caravan Stories has is of course, your own Caravan. You can access it from anywhere in the world and can build the interior. You can place crafting stations, currency generators and other important tools that will help you and your squad in future adventures. It's an interesting system that rewards active players, but there's again, a "gacha" mechanic about the whole thing that really gives off that mobile MMO vibe which isn't a bad thing if you enjoy that aspect.
The Cash Shop
For a free to play game, microtransactions was always a given and Caravan Stories is no different. The game has a premium currency you can get for real money called Phantasm Gems. These can be used for beneficial items in the cash store, or to open loot boxes that may contain high level and rarity upgrade items for gear in addition to evolution items for your character's progression. It's advantageous to a certain extent, but only if you want to swing your ego in PvE. PvP is lacking at the moment, so spending plenty of money won't give you much to shout about. It's also important to note that while there's plenty of stuff in the cash store, a lot of these items can be earned in-game by simply completing achievements to receive these Phantasm Gems to spend.
Should You Play It?
If you enjoy JRPGs and need something to casually play on the PS4, Caravan Stories might be a good fit. It's got a decent story worth experiencing, and the one thing we haven't talked about – the graphics and art – might be attractive too. The game is heavily marketed as an MMORPG, but to be honest Caravan does little to carry that tag. Solo play is something you'll be doing a lot, and getting into Guilds and participating in the same few raids can lose its spark down the line.
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Lime scooters come to Columbia without a city agreement
COLUMBIA - Another scooter company has come to Columbia without first having an agreement with the city.
Lime scooters does not have a business license with the city. The city's Director of Community Relations Steven Sapp said Lime had been in contact with the city for several weeks, but they hadn't come to an agreement prior to its start in Columbia.
Lime is similar to Bird. Bird and Columbia have been at odds in the last couple months because of lack of regulations. The city is working on an outline of an agreement it will use to regulate any scooter company coming to Columbia.
"These are disrupters, and we were going to keep seeing more and more of them," Sapp said. "We can see a potential benefit as long as it's done in a community-acceptable format, and hopefully we can discuss that with these companies."
Sapp said these won't be the last time the city sees new scooter companies in town. He said he expects Pony Scooter, Inc. to drop scooters in Columbia this week, too.
"We don't know what the magic number is," Sapp said. "Certainly we have seen communities struggle when too many of the devices are placed in the community, but it's difficult to say, 'You can come but you can't.'"
The draft agreement will have its first read at the city council's meeting on Nov. 5. On Nov. 19, it will be up for council and public discussion. Sapp said the regulations could take effect shortly after.
One resident said as companies come to town, more issues will arise. She said the city needs to cap the amount of companies it works with before there are too many in one place.
"It's one thing to have something that is convenient for the city, but it's another thing to just have them littering the city," Heather Allen said.
Allen is from California. She said her hometown has many issues with the amount of companies it allows to operate.
"I would hate to see that happen here. It's just too much," Allen said. "If you end up having six competing companies, it'll just take over all the streets and you won't even be able to walk down them."
Sapp said he expects the businesses to "bubble out," with one or two businesses ending up successful in town and the others leaving.
"We will have to take a wait and see attitude as to how this all ends up," Sapp said.
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Mix with fertilizer or add to compost tree, which we know have a low N content and less than 15 of lignin. Then we should mix the leaves with fertilizer or add to compost. Now, in the lower part of Figure 2 we can see that if we look in more detail at the N economy of a maize system, we have other options -maybe add the low N material to the cattle corral (kraal boma) to trap urine N or feed to livestock to produce higher quality organic inputs. Organic resources belonging to the third column from the left could be fed to livestock and the manure thus produced could belong to the first or the second organic resource class, depending on the management of that manure.
For example, cultural eutrophication is a major problem associated with most coastal zones due to disposal of household waste into these zones. The stressor in this situation is increase in nutrients from human wastes living in the area. The response from such activity will be oxygen depletion resulting in fish kill. Fish kill has negative impact on fish populations but this same stressor could produce a different response on other organisms such as phytoplankton bloom in this coastal zone where eutrophication is taking place. For example, opportunistic plant species dwelling in such eutrophic waters will respond positively to this stressor by blooming. Central to defining levels of exposure deemed safe or unsafe for environmental stressors is studying exposure-response and developing exposure-response models needed for ecological risk assessment for public policymakers.
1) bacteria sometimes it is useful in the cheese and yoghurt business, in making compost, in cleaning oil tanks on board ships and in oil refineries Another use of decay is compost a mixture of the organic matter (old potato peelings, grass cutting, shredded newspaper) under right conditions (warmth, moisture, oxygen). Compost holds moisture and plant nutrients (chemicals that the plants need to grow), provides food for earthworms and kills weeds (plants growing where they are not wanted).
Several species of Aspergillus can also cause a lung infection known as aspergillosis. A. fumigatus has been of particular concern around some sludge and yard waste composting sites, where it can apparently grow on woodchips, leaves, and other cellulosic materials. It can tolerate higher temperatures (50 C) than can most other fungi. However, the actual incidence of disease seems to be very low (few or no cases per year), although allergic reactions are more common.
A high diversity of indigenous understorey plants can also occur under monocultures of radiata pine Pinus radiata when conditions are good this may be influenced by soil improvement due to mycorrhizal fungi. An extreme example of high biodiversity in an exotic stand was the occurrence of 30 different indigenous orchids beneath black pines at Itwatahi, while two old radiata pines near Fox Glacier bore 8 species of fern and 11 angiosperms as epiphytes.
Of course, some wastes are being recycled but markets are not widely available (Aquino, 1995 Lund, 2001). Many creative uses have been found for certain wastes, often outside of market transactions (Piburn, 1972), such as the use of waste tires for artificial reefs (see Chapter 5), composting examples described earlier in this chapter, and the recycling of oceangoing vessels by ship breakers (Langewiesche, 2000). An extreme case occurs when trash is used as art (Greenfield, 1986), which reveals a surprising aesthetic value of waste. Finding productive uses for waste byproducts is a goal of ecological engineering, and examples are described throughout the text.
Had the same herbaceous vegetation, differing only in the much smaller proportion of small-leaved lime and a corresponding increase in pedunculate oak and Norway maple. The gap in the regeneration of Tilia cordata extends backwards from about 1923 to before 1870, a period when the area was maintained as a hunting reserve by the Russian Czars. During this period the number of carnivores was kept low and many deer and European bison were kept for hunting. If this helped cause the failure of regeneration of small-leaved lime it did not prevent that of other trees, and the subsequent reduction in numbers of large mammals, such as wild boar, was influential. Cattle grazing, artificial increases and decreases in deer numbers (and hence grazing pressure), and raking and collection of leaf-litter as compost may also have influenced the situation.
Currently moved off the site This arrangement merely allows the polluter to shift the cost burden somewhere else. A more significant 'ecological' achievement would be to move towards avoiding waste altogether through favoring tenant companies that adopt cleaner production technologies, higher rates of recycling and waste exchange, by supporting the production of waste-derived products such as energy, compost and building materials for sale in external markets. At the same time the estate needs to ensure that its own operations are optimized so as to produce as little waste and pollution as possible.
Biodynamic farming is a system of organic farming that includes crop diversification, use of green manures, and use of compost and manures improved by bio-dynamic preparations. The biodynamic preparations consist of selected plant and animal substances that undergo fermentation for a year and then are used to enhance compost and manure used in the farming operation. These preparations can also be applied directly to soil as a spray to enhance biological activity. The use of biodynamic preparations is the main difference between biodynamic farming and traditional organic agriculture.
Beeswax is a renewable resource that creates no problems in its production or use. Organic solvents will be a health risk during application, and can even cause problems in the indoor environment for a short period after application. Re-use of treated materials, recycling, energy recycling and composting or dumping create no problems.
Perhaps their ecological role can be used to improve treatment capacity. One strategy might be to take advantage of their concentration of biomass in mounds by harvesting the mounds in the spring to remove nutrients. This might reduce the cost of harvesting because the muskrats would be doing some of the collection work for free, and the mound material might be used, like compost, as a soil amendment. In a sense the muskrat is a basic element in the ecological and hydrologic self-organization of temperate, humid landscapes. They have evolved to spread water around and regulate wetland processes in marsh ecosystems. It would be a significant accomplishment of ecological engineering if their adaptations could be used productively. Ultimately, a treatment marsh without muskrats is an incomplete ecosystem.
Municipal household or domestic solid waste comprise most of the urban solid waste produced in Australia (42 per cent in 1994). The vast majority of domestic solid waste components, such as paper, organic compostable, plastic and glass, can all be re-used or effectively recycled (WMA 1990). Even smaller volume components such as household hazardous wastes, ferrous wastes and non-ferrous waste have ecologically sound alternatives or can be recycled very successfully, thus reducing the need for mining virgin materials (Ayres and Ayres 1999b WMA 1990). However, Australia's recycling rate is very low despite the ready availability of suitable materials, technology and public demand (WMA 1990 Moore and Tu 1996).
If you can't avoid using an item, and if you can't reuse it, the next best thing is to recycle it. Recycling is a form of reuse that requires changing or reprocessing an item or natural resource. If your city or town has a curbside recycling program, you already separate recyclables from the rest of your garbage. Materials that can be recycled include glass, metals, paper, plastics, and yard and kitchen waste.
A protective covering of compost, paper, bark chippings, cocoa shells, etc. spread over the ground to reduce evaporation, control weeds, enrich the soil, and protect against temperature fluctuations. Straw is used to keep soft fruits such as strawberries (Fragaria ananassa) clean and dry.
Peat Partially decomposed plant material that accumulates in waterlogged anaerobic conditions in temperate humid climates, often forming a layer several meters deep. Peat varies from a light spongy material (sphagnum moss) to a dense brown humidified material in the lower layers. If mineral salts are present in the waterlogged vegetation, neutral or alkaline fen peat is formed (the salts neutralize the acid produced by decomposition). If there are no mineral salts in the water (as in rain), acid bog peat is formed. Peat is used as a fuel and is the first step in coal formation. It is also used to improve soil and as a component of potting compost in horticulture. These uses have led to concern about the destruction of natural peat bogs. See also bog fen.
The putrescible fraction of wastes can produce both nuisance (e.g., odor generation) and hazardous (e.g., hazardous gas generation, such as hydrogen sulfide) conditions, and a major goal of sludge treatment is stabilization with these putrescible materials. Digestion is a biochemical process by which stabilization can be achieved, such that physical reductions will then be realized in both the original solids mass and volume. Both anaerobic and aerobic digestion options are used with liquid-phase sludge processing systems, and aerobic digestion can also be completed in a more concentrated slurry- or solids-type mode using composting procedures.
Biofiltration technology is, in fact, rather similar to that of the attached-growth media-filled biofilters (e.g., trickling filters) described earlier, although in this case the stream to be treated is that of contaminated air rather than wastewater. Similarly, the mode of construction and operation used for biofiltration columns is also comparable to that of bioso-lids composting using aerated piles, although with a goal of treating the incoming gas rather than a solid-phase (sludge) material blended into the pile.
As waste, mortars are normally inert and can be used as fill. Ground lime mortars can be used for soil improvement. Sulphur pollution can develop from gypsum waste because of microbial decomposition. Sulphur waste should be deposited at special dumps, preferably neutralized by adding lime.
Stains are fully open to vapour and therefore the full potential for moisture buffering in the underlayer can be utilized. Stains are also the least resource demanding treatments and they are relatively problem free in both production and use. Exceptions are water stains with metal salts added. These are usually toxic and can seep into the soil. The same can be said for the waste from these stains and they require special waste treatment. As far as the other products are concerned, re-use, recycling, composting and dumping are all relatively problem free. It is only the addition of poisonous pigments that reduce the quality of an otherwise very positive environmental profile. |
Vara Technology, a Kanoria Foundation entity, announced a signed membership agreement with Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution ("C4IR") which will allow the company to participate in various initiatives of the World Economic Forum ("WEF") specific to Blockchain, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Drones.
C4IR is a policy initiative to leverage technology for delivery of public goods and services under the umbrella of WEF. The centre has more than 20 governmental partners. Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom are some of the new members in 2019. The alliance will enable Vara to participate in WEF initiatives both in India as well as through their practice centres in USA, Japan and China.
While the centres will benefit from Vara's technical prowess, the company will have the opportunity to address real world problems. The centre's current area of work includes an identity management platform balancing anonymity and transparency on Blockchain that will be piloted in Columbia this year; an India specific project on precision agriculture that will be scaled up globally. A significant focus area of the Blockchain initiative is to address the food crises through efficient supply chain through the World Food Program. |
GOETHE FILMS brings the best of German film to Toronto audiences.
Ranging from features to docs, shorts to animation, drama to comedy, the experimental to international festival highlights from Berlin, Leipzig or Oberhausen, the GOETHE FILMS series offers film lovers the opportunity to see a top selection of German contemporary arthouse film in Toronto's premier cinema.
Programmed and presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto since 2011, the films are presented in thematic clusters throughout the year at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in downtown Toronto.
Many screenings are enhanced by introductions, Q & A's as well as discussions with diverse German and Canadian artists, curators and experts, who contextualize what happens on the screen and engage with the audience.
As a reflection of the refugee situation in Europe, the GOETHE FILMS series "Europe between Refuge and Fortress" 2016 presented Oscar-shortlisted "We Are Young. We Are Strong" alongside recent shorts and documentaries examining Europe's future. Senator Ratna Omidvar, author and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee and Syrian-Canadian filmmaker Marcelle Aleid hotly debated the role of art in political crises.
Other highlights include "fHEISTy Woman Robbing Banks", featuring female bank robbers from the 1998 classic RUN LOLA RUN to the 2015 one-shot wonder VICTORIA, as well as the series "Copy & Paste" about homages, influences and references between directors, which examined how Murnau & Herzog, Petzold & Farocki and Müller & Girardet remake, remix and reimagine films and film. Thematic retrospectives of Wim Wender's and Fatih Akin's oeuvre proved to be particularly attractive. GOETHE FILMS has been called "one of Toronto's better-kept arthouse secrets" by blogTO.com.
Affan Chowdhry, Marcelle Aleid, Ratna Omidvar & Kamal Al-Solaylee | GOETHE FILMS: A Long Way: Europe between refuge and fortress, 2016 | Photo: Goethe-Institut Toronto "Many excellent German films don't get Canadian distribution and when they do, their theatrical run here is often limited. This is a great opportunity for Toronto audiences to see some of the best films coming out of Germany right now, films that they would probably otherwise miss," explains Jutta Brendemühl, the Goethe-Institut's Program Curator, who founded and is programming the series. "GOETHE FILMS is the heart of our extensive film work. Next to our popular film blog, it's where we get to share our passion for Kino with our loyal Canadian audiences." |
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Facebook Messenger Lets You Unsend Now. Why Doesn't Every App?
With the notable exceptions of Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler in Friday Night Lights, none of us are perfect, especially on messaging apps. We write missives we regret; we make typos; the autocorrect nanny state warps our intentions. Sometimes you want a mulligan. On Tuesday, Facebook made one available to Messenger users, in the form of an unsend feature it had first promised nearly a year ago.
Unsend seems like a no-brainer. Who wouldn't want to erase the dumb and wrong things they've said in their lives? The many, many dumb and wrong things. And yet while Messenger isn't the first chat platform to offer the feature, the ones that do are few and far between. As it turns out, that's for a few very good, or at least understandable, reasons.
First, for those eager to start unsending, here's how Messenger's version works: If you send a message and feel that instant twinge of regret, for whatever reason, you have 10 minutes to scrub it from everyone's view in a chat. Tap the offending message, then tap Remove, then Remove for Everyone. A pop-up will ask you if you're absolutely certain. Tap Remove one more time if you are. Presto, down the memory hole it goes.
You can also remove the message just for yourself if you want to clear away clutter; the only differences in the process are that, instead, you tap Remove for You, and there's no time limit.
Pretty easy! Yet it took 10 months for Facebook to deliver the feature at a broad scale. And even then, Facebook only went public with plans to introduce Remove Message after it came out that CEO Mark Zuckerberg could remove his messages from other people's inboxes at a whim.
Chalk that up less to laziness than to the difficult questions lurking just underneath so seemingly simple a feature. (Also note that Facebook apparently did not bother asking those questions when giving the power to Zuckerberg and other company executives.) "With a feature like Remove Message, we wanted to carefully balance flexibility and control with protecting our users from abuse of the feature," says a Facebook spokesperson. It's easy enough to envision scenarios where bullying or harassment quickly transitions to gaslighting, the offending message disappeared before the victim can grab screenshot evidence.
Three aspects of Messenger's unsend feature hope to combat that possibility. The 10 minute time limit means people can't retroactively vanish old promises whenever they lose interest in keeping them. Facebook will also retain removed messages for an unspecified period of time so that people can effectively still report any that violate its policies against harassment. And while the actual contents of your comment will disappear from the chat, a note will remain in its place that the message was removed.
Facebook has also had a chance to prove those protections out; it began trials of Remove Message back in November in Poland, Bolivia, Colombia, and Lithuania. It also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, which have allowed users to unsend messages for much longer. In fact, Instagram offers few if any of the protections Messenger does; you can remove a message from a DM any time you want, without leaving a visible trace. Which leads to even more questions, specifically about what happens when Facebook merges its three messaging platforms into one.
"I am extremely curious and wary about how those all will come together into something that maintains the integrity of these features and promises that users have come to rely on," says Gennie Gebhart, a researcher at the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, about Messenger. If the Remove Message protections built into Messenger don't carry over to Instagram, for instance, you could find yourself unexpectedly exposed.
Concerns about user protection would be explanation enough for why every messaging app doesn't dive head first into unsend. But there are more pedestrian reasons for its lack of ubiquity as well.
"The technical capability of actually recalling something... is there today."
The one that stands out: Many services prefer ephemerality, in which an entire conversation deletes for both parties after a set amount of time, versus revoking individual chat contributions. Security-focused app Signal introduced disappearing conversations in 2016, with an eye not on privacy but on tidiness. "After all, if someone who receives a disappearing message really wants a record of it, they can always use another camera to take a photo of the screen before the message disappears," wrote Signal protocol cocreator Moxie Marlinspike at the time.
What's more, there seems to be relatively little demand for unsend versus ephemeral messaging. Take the next generation of texting, a protocol known as rich communications services, which Google and others have backed as the heir to SMS. As it turns out, RCS already has the ability to revoke individual messages built right in, which it uses when it has to route a message sent from an RCS client to someone still living in an SMS world.
There are also technical reasons that make it extremely unlikely that Apple, for instance, would ever allow you to unsend iMessages. "When a message is 'delivered' to an iMessage client, your client receives the message, tells the sender that it was received, and then all transmissions are closed," says Michael Facemire, principal analyst at Forrester research. "For Apple to allow that to be edited, they'd have to allow the sender to update data on the recipient's device, which is a harsh violation of how Apple views privacy and sandboxing of user data." Apple did not respond to a request for comment.
In the meantime, the landscape remains scattered. You can delete Twitter and Slack DMs at will, for instance, but SMS, the world's most heavily used chat protocol, has no undo options and never will. And any message that hops across platforms will invariably lose the protections of either.
Like all things messaging-related, it's complicated, and if anything it will only continue to become more so. The best thing you can do to navigate the morass? Be more careful about what you send in the first place. |
Playlists: songs that sound like other songs
January 2, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Stop me if you've heard that one before …
Is there an echo in here? Those with sharp ears will enjoy some remarkable and fun comparisons as this week's playlister Olive Butler perfectly picks out some of the soundalikes from a double topic over the festive period
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Playlists: personal theme and entrance songs
February 21, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Make your entrance here at the Bar. Strict door policy, obviously …
There's a big 2nd anniversary gig going on at the bar, but who will perform after all the songs and bands put forward last week? The Landlord invites you to witness the whole variety show, and also stay for a second stage afterparty
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Grand openings: great tracks to begin albums, mixtapes or radio shows
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Songs or instrumentals, suggest music that sets a tone, a pace, a mood or is a statement of intent, and makes a great start to an album, at the top of a radio show or any other work or event
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Daisy rose, smiling faintly, and went to the table. "Open the whiskey, Tom," she ordered, "and I'll make you a mint julep."
—From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The spectators at the Kentucky Derby often sate their thirst with mint juleps, a mixture of bourbon, ice, sugar and mint. That mint component of the drink is a natural source of menthol, a key ingredient in Bengay. Bengay takes advantage of menthol's cooling properties, because the sensory effect of menthol is cool, while other materials such as capsaicin and mustard oil are perceived as hot. And in fact, menthol is among the most important cooling ingredients in cosmetics and is one of the few materials with an immediately detectable impact. So how does it work?
Extensive information on menthol's use in fragrance and flavor is available in an account from Leffingwell1.
Menthol has stereospecific isomers, meaning the same molecule can have a mirror image with different properties, similar to the relation of your left hand to your right hand. Nature usually makes the left-hand molecule of menthol, which is critical for its activity. The right-hand menthol molecule—or a mixture of right- and left-handed isomers, called "racemic"—won't work. So when using synthetic menthol, it is important to know its "handedness."
Sensing Sensory
Biologically active hot and cold molecules work by binding to receptor sites on sensory neurons, cells that send messages to the brain. Looking at these receptors in detail explains the difference in people's response to temperature and certain chemicals.
You know when you go outside if it is hot or cold. Receptors in the skin detect temperature and send a message to the brain. Important to sensory response is a transient receptor potential (TRP) cation channel that acts as a transduction channel. Transduction means the receptor takes one signal—it could be a sensation of hot or cold, the smell of a rose or any number of things—and turns it into a message for the brain.
Messages are sent along the nervous system by positive ions (cations), which are the biological equivalent of the electric current that turns on a light bulb. The full name of the menthol receptor, TRPM8, means "transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 8."
When the temperature is above 43°C, the TRPV1 receptor is activated. It activates a surface pore that causes calcium ions to flow into the cell. This causes an electrical change in the cell, which sends a message to the brain that it is hot outside. Capsaicin also binds to this receptor and thus sends a signal to the brain that says "hot." When the temperature is in the range ~8–28°C, the TRPM8 receptor tells the brain "cold." Menthol also binds to this receptor and sends the same cold message.
Menthol has more biological activities than just its cooling sensation though. It has analgesic properties due to its activation of some κ-opioid receptors, and this can make the skin less susceptible to the feeling of a sting or rash. Menthol also is an antipruritic, which means it can help treat an itchy scalp.
Put simply, menthol can interact with several receptor areas in the body, and scientists have decoded many of the detailed mechanisms to explain exactly what is happening in these interactions. The effects of menthol are real and well understood.
For beauty and personal care applications, menthol typically has a strong initial effect on the skin and then fades. However, manipulating the molecule to have a milder initial impact but to continue its release over time has long been a desired variant, and a typical approach to this is converting menthol to an ester, which breaks down over time. Menthyl lactate is a common example, and Symrise has commercialized a number of these esters. A recent example is Frescolat X-cool (INCI: Menthyl Ethylamido Oxalate), which the company claims is 82% stronger than its other cooling agent, menthyl lactate. It also is said to be gentle to the skin and has no unpleasant odor.
Beyond Cooling
Another aspect of menthol that can be seen as an interesting trick is its use in the creation of an eutectic mixture—turning two solids into a liquid at room temperature under precise conditions. Eutectic mixtures are familiar to those working with metal alloys, but are much less familiar to those in the beauty industry.
One hundred percent of each separate component is represented on the right and left sides. As blends are created, the melting point drops, meeting at a minimum somewhere in the middle. If this temperature is below room temperature, the result is a liquid. At a molecular level, a eutectic mixture will form when the two components are close enough in structure to dissolve in each other but different enough to disrupt the crystalline structure, lowering the melting point.
One such eutectic menthol mixture has been patented by Sino Lion,2 and consists of a precise ratio of menthol and menthyl lactate. The benefit of this product includes easier handling and the ability to encapsulate the liquid for controlled release in products such as toothpaste.
More Than Menthol
Many other ingredients that provide a sensory impact are also known. For example, Wilkinson Sword did extensive work in the 1970s resulting in two carboxamides with cooling capabilities being marketed, WS-3 and WS-23.
Materials reacting with the hot receptor TRPV1 (vanilloid receptor) have been studied almost as much as the menthol receptor, too. Vanillyl butyl ether (SenseHot from Sino Lion, Hotact VBE from Takasago) is an example. It creates hot sensory effects at levels as low as 0.05%. Pepper spray, based on oleoresin capsicum, is a nasty type of such chemistry. And vanillyl butyl ether can be added to lip products for tingle and plumping, with Smashbox's O-Plump Intuitive Lip Plumper as one example.
Heating and cooling agents can also be combined, as in Mintiva Heat Therapy, which contains 3% menthol and 0.04% capsicum. Another mixture is seen in Kenneth Cole Reaction Deodorant, which contains menthyl PCA, menthyl lactate and vanillyl butyl ether.
New Neurocosmetics?
The compounds considered here are some of the classics of what can be glamorously termed neurocosmetics, and there are many ingredients that can interact with the nervous system to provide sensory benefits. The old standby menthol has a characteristic odor that is not present in many other materials, and the intensity, time of release and irritation potential can all be tuned through clever molecular engineering.
Everyone on product development teams should stay abreast of developments in this area, as they have the ability to give instant impact to consumers and send a message that the product is really doing something.
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Steve Herman is president of Diffusion LLC, a consulting company specializing in regulatory issues, intellectual property, and technology development and transfer. He is a principal in PJS Partners, offering formulation, marketing and technology solutions for the personal care and fragrance industry. He is an adjunct professor in the Fairleigh Dickinson University Masters in Cosmetic Science program and is a Fellow in the Society of Cosmetic Chemists.
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ignored or denied. That's why every workers' compensation case must be prepared as if it's going to go to trial.
The employee requirement
In all 50 states, the general rule is that you must be hired as an employee to be eligible for benefits under your state's workers' compensation laws. For example, Illinois workers' compensation law doesn't cover independent contractors. The two pivotal factors in determining whether a person was an employee are whether the purported employer controlled how the claimant performed his or her job, and whether the employer exercised that control.
Injury in the course of one's employment
Unless there's clear evidence to the contrary, courts are apprehensive about finding that an injury didn't occur in the course of somebody's employment. The issue turns on whether an employee was injured while in furtherance of the employer's business. Even an injury from a fall by tripping or slipping in an employer's parking lot going to or from work is sufficient evidence of being in furtherance of the employer's business.
Notice of injury
Employees in every state are required to give their employer notice that he or she was hurt on the job. Each state has its own notice requirements. An employee's failure to give appropriate notice can operate as an affirmative defense for the employer. Notice must be given in the manner required by law. Improper notice, or no notice of injury can cause a legitimate workers' compensation claim to be lawfully denied.
Showing that you were on the job
Activities in furtherance of an employer's business can go beyond your employer's real estate. Transportation to and from work that's provided by your employer likely puts you under the purview of workers' compensation if you get hurt in an accident Don't think about bringing a workers' compensation claim if you ride the train into downtown Chicago daily and slip on a patch of ice three blocks from your office.
Traveling employees
A traveling employee who files a workers' compensation claim must still be able to show that he or she was engaged in the course of his or her employment when an injury occurred. An employee who landed at Chicago's O'Hare Airport who went directly to his or her hotel room and slipped and fell in the shower is likely covered. Injuries from a fall while bar hopping on Lincoln Avenue probably wouldn't be covered. You've deviated from the course of your employment.
Medical evidence of injury
Aside from notice, the lack of appropriate medical evidence of injury is the second leading cause of workers' compensation claims being denied. Medical evidence includes but isn't limited to:
Medical reports from physicians
Sworn testimony from physicians
Medical evidence will operate to prove the nature and extent of your injury along with any permanent partial disability.
You must prove your damages
Don't expect an arbitrator or judge to award you damages just because you have a viable workers' compensation claim with some time off of work and some medical bills. You're required to prove that your lost earnings and medical bills are compensable under controlling workers' compensation laws. That's where reasonable minds differ on just about every case. Unlike the law of personal injury, workers' compensation doesn't award damages for pain and suffering and other non-economic damages. Claimants are generally limited to:
Lost earnings
Earnings while temporarily totally disabled
Any permanent partial disability
Other forms of compensation are available in more serious cases, including funeral and burial expenses in death cases.
The Law Offices of Briles & Associates said, "A workers' compensation claim is usually an injured worker's sole and exclusive remedy when he or she is injured at work." Other remedies might be available if the worker was injured while at work by somebody who wasn't a co-employee. Always consult with a qualified workers' compensation attorney before making a claim.
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Carthage Specialty Paperboard Inc. was recently cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for serious safety hazards at their New York paperboard mill. OSHA opened up an investigation into the company after receiving a complaint alleging unsafe working conditions.
Investigators discovered that Carthage employees were exposed to serious hazards that could lead to amputations, falls, and related injuries. OSHA has proposed $357,445 in penalties.
New York Paperboard Mill Serves Wide Range of Markets
OSHA received the complaint of alleged unsafe working conditions late in 2016. OSHA's Syracuse office opened the investigation on December 27th of that year, and found safety violations that "put employees at serious risk of injury or even worse," according to OSHA Area Director Christopher Adams.
Carthage states on their website that they are the only secondary fiber mill in North America "dedicated to serving a diverse range of markets from pulp-substitute specialty paperboard to industrial grade chipboards." They produce products like graphic arts boards, caps for pill bottles, packaging items, and more. They were acquired by Brownville Specialty Paperboard Products in 2008 and adopted the name Carthage Specialty Paperboard in 2013.
Carthage Specialty has a large paper mill in Carthage, NY, and it was there that the OSHA investigators found alleged problems.
Carthage Cited for 61 Violations of Safety Standards
According to OSHA, Carthage reportedly did not have safety locks to make sure their machinery didn't automatically start up during regular maintenance work. They also allegedly had not trained employees on the type of protective equipment they needed when working on electrical systems with up to 2,300 volts.
Moreover, the catwalks—some as high as 13 feet—allegedly had no restraints to help prevent falls. Carthage also allegedly failed to test small, confined spaces for potentially dangerous fumes, allowing employees to go into them unaware of any dangers. In one machine room, for example, investigators found an accumulation of explosive paper dust that had not been addressed. In other areas, OSHA found floors that were wet and slippery, creating fall hazards. Snow and ice were found on the stairs and on an exterior walkway. Finally, according to OSHA, the company failed to regularly inspect cranes and hoists to be sure they would not accidentally hit an employee and cause an injury.
Altogether, the violations numbered 61, a number that was "significant," according to Adams, in a single workplace.
Falls Cause Many Injuries Each Year
Among the many alleged hazards present at the paperboard mill were unprotected walkways. Employees were exposed to falls ranging from 7 feet to 13 feet on a variety of surfaces, including platforms in the machine room and basement.
OSHA safety standards require that employers provide fall protection to prevent workers from falling off overhead platforms and elevated workstations. They're to provide a guardrail and toe board around every open-sided platform that is four feet or higher off the ground or next level.
Unfortunately, falls are among the most common causes of work injuries and fatalities.
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The dark-haired Betazoid sat within her brand new ready room, reading over everything regarding the new USS Zealous. It had been almost a year since the destruction of the old ship, but Starfleet had already been working on newer models of the Prometheus-class that were bigger, sleeker, more efficient, and had more amenities for the crew and guests.
Reading all of these reports actually was making her excited . . . making her look forward to the launch of the new ship.
Of course, like anything, some crew members decided to stay on while others left. And, thankfully there were a couple of returning faces as well that would just help to further make the new ship feel like home.
New crew members was always something joyous to celebrate, as there was high hopes for them. Among the hope was that they may not only prove themselves as valued members of the crew that weren't afraid to contribute, but they'd also find a home here among the Zealous and would consider staying for some time to come.
Home . . . this ship really was a brand new home, with brand new hopes and dreams attached to it, along with expectations, anticipation, excitement, and a whole lot more in the future which would be almost impossible for foresee at the moment. It was all about a new beginning, and a brand new start for everyone.
As Azanialix Ja'arda continued to look at the reports, she received an alert on her console. Opening the alert, she was a bit startled to find that a brand new crew member was looking into the Captain's service jacket.
"Hmmm . . . Ensign Zoe Fox," Zania mused to herself. "If you're that curious to learn about your Captain, then we might as well do this in person."
She gently tapped a button on the desk in her ready room, and then called out, "Captain Ja'arda to Ensign Fox. Please report to my ready room." Closing the channel, she took a breath and relaxed, preparing herself to meet one of the crew's newest members. |
One of the things Mia requested for her birthday were sky lanterns. Sky lanterns are believed to be your guide to ancestral spirits. This was how common folk conveyed their wishes to heaven. In Mia's world, she saw this in Tangled, and since Rapunzel had them for her birthday, she wanted them too.
Yes, nakapose kahit sa carseat. We buckled her after this shot. Relak!
We left Manila around 8am for Clark. We had breakfast in one of the gas stations in NLEX. We had to go to a tree planting but since the road was bumpy, I decided to stop in Zoocobia which was the same area as the tree planting and wait for the rest of the group to finish.
Rough road = Grumpy Driver!
Plan B: Zoocobia = FAIL!
It was not part of the package unlike Paradise Ranch (where the tree planting was). That's when we decided to go to Nayong Pilipino instead.
Goofing around. Waiting for the hot air balloon.
We had dinner in an open field. We were called out briefly for the sky lantern ceremony. Finally! What Mia was looking forward to for the whole trip!
We ended the night with performances by 6 cyclemind, Spongecola and Streetbeat. The whole weekend was a blast. And I leave you with this picture.
All I was thinking was I read about you on Fashion Pulis!
Back to work tomorrow! Happy Birthday Mia! Mommy and Daddy love you very very very much!
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More and more people use mobile devices to access web content, so the demand for mobile-friendly websites is ever growing. To meet this demand, the establishment that manages the universal top-level domain extensions, ICANN, launched the dot MOBI extension in 2005. The first registrations were started in September 2006, and the notion behind this extension is that all websites that use it need to comply with specific requirements. In other words, all dot MOBI websites must be designed to be accessed faultlessly by mobile devices in agreement with the so-called "MWI Best Practices for mobile content" created by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) in cooperation with the dot MOBI Registry organization. These have to do with how a website is being navigated, the way it is being displayed (form and size), and so on.
The restrictions have provoked some questions because the TLD is the only one that specifies what devices has to be able to access a website and the way in which this should happen, breaking the so-called principles of device independence, according to which a website should be built in such a way as to be viewed by the majority of browsers and devices, be they mobile or stationary.
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Julie Neff on Music, Confidence & Tackling Big, Life-Defining Choices
Julie Neff's spare acoustic sound and vocals (think Leslie Feist and Florence Welch) explore the cycle of desire and heartbreak, picking up the pieces after everything has fallen apart, and the ways we find a path back to ourselves when we're lost.
Neff is about to release a heart-wrenching EP, aptly called Catharsis, on October 17 at The Painted Lady (218 Ossington Ave.) We asked her about what was happening in her life when she conceived the album, her go-to song for getting shit done, and her ALL-TIME fave singer-songwriter.
SDTC: What was happening in your life when you were putting together this latest EP?
JN: This EP has come together over the past two years while I was really finding my footing and beginning to make some big, life-defining choices. I started a concert series and music hub called Eclectic Comfort, which encouraged me to play and write much more frequently. I got my heart broken a time or two. I quit my job and went freelance. I dove into the music scene and travelled to seven new countries to play and work in music. It has been a time of major shifts, major risks, and major rewards on a soul level.
Fave singer-songwriter of all time and why?
Do I really have to choose? Okay, I would say Nina Simone for her insane musical ability, her raw performance and lyrics, and her incredible body of work.
What's your go-to song for getting stuff done?
Beyoncé's "Grown Woman," but this is more of a precursor to getting shit done than the song playing while I'm doing things. I'm not sure how one would NOT dance while this song is playing.
What advice would you give to your fourteen-year-old self?
Don't be shy.
Who has made a big impact in your life recently, and how?
Emily O'Quinn, my friend and business partner at Eclectic Comfort. She has shown me what confidence and determination look like and has been incredibly supportive and encouraging of my music.
What does your ideal Saturday look like?
A Tim Horton's steeped tea, a walk in the neighbourhood, and an evening of music with friends.
What's the best part of being your current age?
I give less f***s, and I believe in myself.
What do you hope people take away from your music?
Whatever they need to take away or experience at the time. My music tends to be very emotive, and I know that can bring out different things in different people. That's the beauty of art: we all come at it from different angles, at different places emotionally. I want people to feel what they've been needing to feel.
What/who is currently inspiring you?
Kimbra—GET IT, GURL. I love her new album and she always does weird and wonderful things. She also seems to truly enjoy what she's doing and lifts others up along with her.
What artwork would you love to have in your space/on your walls, and why?
I've been working with an incredible artist and illustrator from Chile, Tomas Ives, and he's made the artwork for this album along with a couple other pieces for me. It's such amazing work that I would love to have full-size versions for my house.
Fave rainy day comfort food? Or activity?
Mac and Cheese and a bunch of movies.
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A paediatrician.
What was your favourite game/toy as a child?
I loved to make and design dresses. And also mermaids. All the mermaids.
What adult task would you like to get better at?
My taxes.
If you could spend a year studying something, what would it be?
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Faceted glass beads and tiny mirrorback rhinestones form this necklace by Eugene. The pendant presents a glass bead flower head thatis surrrounded by gilt leaves. It is so chunky that the picture shows shadows where none exist. Please note the beautiful backing with the Eugene plaque. The whole of the necklace is very much in the Haskell style. Inside length 17". Pendant 2 5/8" by 2".
The fun of Lunch at the Ritz jewelry! These earring will spice up the holidays. Light weight with gold plate, enamel and small crystals. For pierced ears. Lunch at the Ritz puts their jewelry on tri-folding cards which tells about them and dates each piece of jewelry. These particular earrings date from their 1990 collection and as such are "old timers" and very collectible! 3 5/8" long,1 1/4" wide approximately.
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Bramald to investigate move from game plan
Lucy Gordon
The Hawks picked up two injuries in their iPro Sport Cup defeat to York City Knights.
The 24-4 home loss came in Hawks' first competitive game of the season and Liam Mackay and Lee Waterman are both in doubt for Sunday's visit of Barrow Raiders in the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup.
Coach Matt Bramald said: "Liam got a shoulder injury.
"He is being assessed, but it looked pretty nasty at the time.
"He felt a crunch and a crack – not necessarily to the bone, but it could be muscular."
Waterman went to hospital after taking a bang to the head.
"He had a scan and got the all-clear," Bramald said.
"He needs a bit of rest and he will do a cog' sport test.
"Hopefully he will be okay if not for this week, then the week after."
Bramald described the game and his side's performance as "ugly", despite a huge individual effort from hooker George Flanagan.
"We turned too much ball over," the coach admitted.
"Our completion rate was about 50 per cent.
"If you turn the ball over to the opposition once every two times you have it you are going to have to do a lot of defending.
"That was the big reason why we didn't finish strongly and we fell away in the last 20."
Bramald added: "The big down side was we had a game plan and a way we wanted to play and for whatever reason, we didn't follow it.
"It wasn't the conditions – it was a simple plan we could have carried out in any conditions.
"We didn't get anywhere near that so I need to get to the bottom of what was going on there."
Article courtesy of the Yorkshire Evening Post |
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Probably the most noticeable way automation is changing the way we work is happening now in retail. Self service kiosks are reducing the need for actual cashiers at some retailers. Earlier this year Amazon announced that their new retail stores will be almost completely automated. A new study has just come out with feedback from job seekers themselves.
A new report titled "State of the American Job Seeker: Automation, AI and Technological Change" was published last week. It analyzes and explores data-based trends as well as the emotions of job seekers on matters such as their current satisfaction level with the job market, their feelings about technological advancements, and their take on automation and what it might mean for their current and future job prospects.
49% of employed job seekers say they "love" or "like" their current job.
Women (35%) are twice as likely as men (17%) to "dislike" or "hate" their job.
58% of millennials (ages 18-37) "like" or "love" their job, and 62% say they are "fulfilled," compared with 37% and 34% of gen Xers (ages 38-52) and 25% of baby boomers (ages 53+), respectively.
More than 2 in 5 job seekers (44%) believe there is no such thing as a bad technological advancement.
While most job seekers have heard of the term "job automation" (77%), less than 1 in 3 (30%) have an actual understanding of the term saying they are very familiar with it.
Nearly 2 in 3 job seekers (64%) believe workers in most industries will be replaced with computers or robots in their lifetime.
60% of job seekers believe that fears around robots taking away jobs are overhyped, yet 7 in 10 job seekers who have heard of automation (70%) are actively looking for jobs less likely to be automated.
For seekers, soft skills are becoming more important.
Soft skills are more common. 50% of job seekers reported having science, technology, or engineering skills, while 79% of job seekers have soft skills.
One-two punch. 47% of job seekers have both soft and STEM skills.
Back to school. Affordability is the main hurdle when it comes to workers making investments in new skills; 67% of job seekers who don't currently have these skills but are making an effort to obtain them are relying on self-training to acquire STEM skills (vs. 60% for soft skills). |
Product Description: Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra's MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, the award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town American senator who heads to Washington D.C. and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. Receiving a total of eleven 1939 Oscar(r) nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director), and winning one (Best Writing, Original Story), MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON is considered one of Capra's, Stewart's and Columbia's finest films.
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Feature-length documentary: Frank Capra's American Dream, narrated by Ron Howard and incorporating interviews with the director's friends, colleagues and admirers. |
Home Tips & Tricks Apple How to Download Paid Apps for Free on an iPhone Without Jailbreak
How to Download Paid Apps for Free on an iPhone Without Jailbreak
iPhones are the best, right? Well, yes, they are very good in pretty much every aspect compared to the other counterparts. iPhone users are generally very happy with their smartphones but one of the problems is that pretty much every good app for iOS is actually paid. That makes a little disturbance and iPhone users always wish to download paid apps for free on an iPhone without jailbreak.
You can download paid apps for free on an iPhone without jailbreak. There are some legit ways of doing that and in this article, we are going to discuss those methods.
Disclaimer: We, at TechLatest, don't support or promote piracy. The below article is for educational purposes only.
Download Paid Apps for Free on an iPhone Without Jailbreak
Using Third Party Stores
By Using Free Trials for In-App Subscriptions
By Installing Apps gone Free for a Limited Time
Most of the times it's a matter of disappointment for iPhone users as a lot of good apps for their smartphones are paid apps and sometimes the app developers release paid versions only for iOS So there are some ways through which you can actually download paid apps for free on an iPhone without jailbreak.
Apple has a dedicated App Store to download apps for iPhones. However, there are some other third-party app stores too which will give you the same apps that you get on the App Store but for free. Some of the most famous third-party app stores for the iPhone are:
AppValley
AppValley is one of the most famous third-party app stores for iPhones. It brings a lot of iOS apps, exclusive, and unofficial apps to your iPhone without jailbreaking and for free too.
Open the Safari browser, go to the AppValley website.
Click on the 'Install' button and you can choose either of the config profiles.
Now you will see a dialog box reading, "This website is trying to download a new configuration profile." Click on 'Allow' to continue.
Once the profile is downloaded, go to 'Settings'.
You will see the 'Profile Downloaded' option, tap on that or you can also navigate to 'General' and then tap on 'Profiles and Device Management'.
Now select 'AppValley' and click on the blue 'Install' button. You will be asked for a passcode, enter, and hit the install button again.
That's it and you are all set now you can see AppValley on your home screen, you can easily search for apps and download them. The other apps on the list also have pretty much a similar way to download and install them so if you want to install the other apps on the list you can follow the same steps.
Yiti Apps
Yiti apps is also one of the best app stores to download paid apps for free. It is compatible with iOS 9 and above versions. The good part is that it doesn't require your Apple ID and password. So do give it a try.
Visit Yiti App
Panda Helper
Panda Helper has over 1000+ plus apps for iOS, it is available for both Android, iOS so you can have it on both platforms. You can easily download most of the tweaked apps, hacked games, modified games with Panda Helper.
Visit Panda Helper
TweakBox
TweakBox is also one of the most famous third-party app stores for iPhones. It has thousands of apps that you can download for free. It gives you hacked games, tweaked apps, and more. A must-try for everyone.
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This is a good part as a lot of apps for the iPhone offer a free trial so that people can try the apps and if the app suits them, they can purchase the app. All you have to do is get the free trial and then cancel the subscription.
Some free trials can be availed directly from the App Store, while some can be availed via in-app purchases. So. you can simply go to the App Store, click on 'Get Trial'. You will be asked for your payment info, enter that, and go for the installation. Once the app is installed, you can cancel the subscription.
This method is only useful if you want to use an app for a limited period of time and just make sure to cancel the subscription before the billing date.
For promotional stuff, some developers will make their apps free for a limited period of time and you should be paying attention to it. You can download some really good apps that go for free for a limited time. This promotional stuff generally happens during some festive holidays, or some developers will make their apps free on the anniversary. There is an app called "Apps Gone Free" that have a list of apps that have gone free, you can install the app and you might bump into some cool apps to download.
So, these were some of the methods by which you can download paid apps for free on an iPhone without jailbreak. Do try these methods and let us know in the comments.
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Op-Ed: Why you Should Consider Forgiving Kamala Harris
Since Kamala Harris' presidential campaign announcement in January, there's been a lot of info floating around about her record as the Attorney General of California.
To start, there are some "facts" floating around need clarification. In particular, the most popular critique of Harris is that she allegedly argued that inmates serving time for low-level crimes be kept in prison because their release would be too big of a blow to California's labor force. This statement was attributed to her because it was argued by one of her attorneys in court, despite the fact that she indicated that she was "very troubled" by the argument. Of course, it's impossible to know whether or not she shares that sentiment, but it's important nonetheless to note that she never publicly stated such an idea.
There are still some grim facts of Kamala Harris' time as a District Attorney and as the Attorney General that are not fake news. She pushed for the death penalty. She worked to uphold wrongful convictions involving misconduct by government actors (and in so doing denied a DNA test to an inmate on death row, only to be nationally challenged and eventually give in). She also sought to avoid investigations of police shootings.
An interesting split emerges in Harris' work, however, when one looks at her policies outside of the realm of punishment. For example, she started initiatives to reform low-level drug offenders and helped put them on a path to educational or occupational opportunities. Under the assumption that attending school minimizes children's likelihoods of turning to crime, she attempted to help parents overcome the obstacles that prevented them from sending their kids to school. When it comes to preventative measures, Harris is all about going easy on people. But when it comes to punishment, she gets tough.
Unfortunately, this toughness isn't anything particularly groundbreaking. Being "tough on crime" earns easy bipartisan support. People, understandably, value their safety and seek ways to protect it, motivating both sides of the aisle to get behind policies that address the people's concerns. Additionally, many of the positions in the judicial system — from district attorneys and sheriffs all the way up to the state Attorney General — are elected positions. Candidates running for these spots find it easy to win votes with promises of keeping the community safe, preying on the electorate's fear of crime to equate being tough with being competent. In order for an elected official to keep their job, they must deliver on these promises or risk facing smear campaigns about the time they "went easy" on a violent criminal.
To see this dynamic at play, one must look no further than Alabama, the only state that still allows judges to override juries' sentencing decisions. In his book Just Mercy (a must read if you're interested in criminal justice reform), Bryan Stevenson notes that during election years, Alabama judges more frequently override a jury's life imprisonment sentence to replace it with the death penalty.
To put it more simply, because the state's eyes are on the judge during election season, they feel compelled to crack down on convicted criminals by sentencing them to death. Additionally, according to a study done by the Brennan Center, increases in TV ads in Supreme Court races led justices to be more likely to vote against a suspected criminal, specifically out of fear of "distorted, soft-on-crime attacks." The election of officials in the criminal justice system creates an environment in which Attorney Generals feel pressured to find an answer for every crime, even if one is not readily available.
All this is not to say that you must forgive Kamala Harris, but rather, to give you a lens through which to view her professional past. When both parties are tough on crime, being too easy means neither party has your back. It's possible that if she had pursued lighter sentences then she would have been replaced by someone who was both aggressive with crime and did not value the positive programs that she implemented. In other words, being tough on crime is not necessarily inconsistent with being a "progressive prosecutor" as Harris has labeled herself. Harris' mixed record on prevention versus punishment demonstrates that being "progressive" is an ideal that she strived for while simultaneously balancing community concerns about crime. It's easier in the short run to respond to crimes rather than to work to prevent them, but Harris nonetheless put in the effort for rehabilitation and preventative programs. Thus, as a high-level prosecutor in an environment where being tough on crime earns bipartisan support and votes, Harris' tough record is potentially more of a reflection of the system than her personal beliefs.
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Karolina Jakaitė (b. 1978) PhD, design historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, co-founder of Design Foundation. In 2012 she defended her doctoral thesis on Lithuanian Graphic Design in 1950s-1970s: between National and International.
Her professional interests include topics from design studies in the 20th century, design and identity, national exhibitions, Soviet design and architecture, contemporary design and policy. She has written articles, edited books and catalogues on Lithuanian design, curated seminars and exhibitions.
Looking at the examples of contemporary Lithuanian design the lecture will try to answer this intriguing question "LITHUANIA: LAND OF DESIGN?" or bold statement (!), full of paradoxes. Today, 30 years after Lithuania regained its independence from the Soviet regime, Lithuanian design enjoys a marked growth, justified by quite diverse design projects, events and important awards. Lithuanian design is also acknowledged internationally. Lithuania does have true success stories, but still, there are some uncommon situations and new challenges which the lecture would like to stress and discuss outside the Lithuanian discourse. |
Barr's Big Day: Attorney General Speaks Up for America's Rule of Law and National Security
02.15.2020 | Commentary | Daily Surge |
Surge Summary: Attorney General William Barr is speaking out on vital national security issues, including the Chinese government's predatory efforts to hack the personal data of millions of Americans and American cities' efforts to abet illegal aliens in evading the law.
by Gary Bauer
Attorney General William Barr had a big day [Monday]. He began the day by announcing indictments against four members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. According to the Justice Department, they are responsible for the massive Equifax hack in 2017 that compromised the personal data of nearly 150 million Americans.
In his remarks, Barr noted that China has demonstrated a "voracious appetite for the personal data of Americans." He cited the Chinese hacking of Marriott hotels, the Anthem health insurance company and the Office of Personnel Management, which exposed the records of millions of U.S. government employees.
While I am glad Barr announced these indictments, it is highly unlikely that these Chinese military officials will ever be brought to justice. The real news is what the indictments say about China's intentions.
As we reported [Monday], Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the nation's governors that there is a real effort by the communist Chinese government to compromise their administrations and to bully state and local officials.
Now we know that the People's Liberation Army is attempting to capture voluminous amounts of information on as many U.S. citizens as possible. Why?
Barr indicated that the Chinese are using the information to "feed China's development of artificial intelligence" and for "the creation of intelligence targeting." Barr also noted that nearly 80 percent of the government's economic espionage cases "have implicated the Chinese government."
This is not how a trading partner treats its allies. America's corporate and political elites need to wake up and confront the danger coming from Beijing. It is not just a giant marketplace eager to do business with America.
Suing Sanctuary States
After taking on the communist Chinese, Attorney General Barr turned his attention to the left-wing sanctuary states and cities thwarting the Trump Administration's efforts to deport criminal aliens.
Speaking to the National Sheriff's Association, Barr announced that the Justice Department was launching "a significant escalation in the federal government's efforts to confront the resistance of 'sanctuary cities.'"
Barr blasted "so-called 'progressive' politicians" for "jeopardizing the public's safety by putting the interests of criminal aliens before those of law-abiding citizens." He said:
"When we are talking about sanctuary cities, we are talking about policies that are designed to allow criminal aliens to escape. . . Their express purpose is to shelter aliens whom local law enforcement has already arrested for other crimes. This is neither lawful nor sensible."
Barr announced that in addition to pending federal lawsuits against California, the Justice Department will also sue the state of New Jersey and King County, Washington, seeking to overturn illegal "sanctuary" policies. And he made it clear that these actions are just the beginning.
While some try to downplay the connection between crime and illegal immigration, this is an extremely serious issue, which the left completely ignores.
A recent report from Texas revealed that more than 200,000 illegal immigrants were booked into local jails over the past eight years. Combined they committed nearly 500,000 offenses, including:
500 homicides
3,122 sexual assaults
23,954 assaults
2,026 robberies
8,070 burglaries
3,158 weapon charges.
Kudos to the Trump/Pence Administration for taking on the left's open borders extremism, and for putting the safety and security of American citizens first!
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Wind gusts cause hangar collapse at Hobby Airport in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) - Strong winds that swept through the Houston area have caused a hangar to collapse at one of the city's airports, damaging planes and scattering debris.
The National Weather Service says gusts of about 60 mph (100 kph) were recorded late Tuesday at Hobby Airport.
Authorities say the wind appears to have caused the hangar at a private terminal to disintegrate. An airport spokesman, Bill Begley, says the collapse caused millions of dollars of damage. There have been no reports of injuries.
Houston police Lieutenant Larry Crowson says the hangar is owned by Jet Aviation.
Broadcast images show debris atop at least two planes, with the nose of one aircraft pushed to the ground. Airport officials say up to eight aircraft are damaged, but that no commercial flights are affected. |
Screening the Past > Introduction: Emotions, History, and Philosophy in Cinema
Introduction: Emotions, History, and Philosophy in Cinema
Louise D'Arcens and Robert Sinnerbrink
This Special Dossier for Screening the Past grew out of an event organised at the University of Western Australia and the Australian Research Council Centre for the History of Emotions (ARC CHE: CE110001011) in December 2015. A core aspiration of ARC CHE is to take an interdisciplinary humanities-based approach to an understanding of the long history of individual and communal emotions in Europe (1100-1800) and to use this knowledge to illuminate modern emotional, social, cultural experience. The event behind this dossier was a project emerging out of CHE's Shaping the Modern program, which focuses both on the legacies of European premodernity in modern emotional life and on the emotional investments that modern cultures have in the European past.
Participants were invited to explore the nexus between emotions, history, and philosophy in cinema from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives; they were also encouraged to reflect on and respond to the following questions:
1. What kind of contributions does cinema make to the philosophy and history of emotions?
2. How does cinema construct the historical past in emotional terms?
3. How does cinema articulate a philosophy of emotions?
4. What are the philosophical implications of various styles of historical cinema?
This intersection of questions and disciplinary approaches aims to take a distinctive approach to the study of cinema and history, for which Screening the Past is a vital forum. The motivation behind these key questions was to focus attention on some of the complex historicist dimensions that are currently missing from the application of theories of emotion to cinema. By throwing into relief the affective states experienced as a result of the historicity of viewing, the historicity of the cinematic medium, the historicity of the cinematic worlds onscreen, and the historicity of emotion itself, the essays presented here reflect on how our experience of cinema might offer insights into understanding emotion from historical and philosophical perspectives. Contributors were invited to explore how cinema constructs historically specific worlds in a manner that evokes mood, elicits emotion, and contributes to a sense of historical 'pastness'. The question of whether cinema could help articulate a philosophy of emotions was central throughout, along with the idea that varieties of historical cinema have theoretical implications that are yet to be explored. The notion of 'historical cinema' invoked here spans period fictions, genre movies, films dealing with specific historical events, and films concerned reflexively with the question of how cinema bears witness to history.
There has been a significant focus in recent years on theorising emotions in cinema, and the relationship between philosophy and film has also attracted considerable interest. Far less attention, however, has been given to the question of emotions and history in cinema, let alone the manner in which emotions, history, and philosophy are related in our experience of movies. Hence the aim of bringing all three perspectives together in order to explore emotions in historical perspective as well as expanding inquiry into emotion in cinema by focusing on the relationship between emotions and history. The result was a rich series of interdisciplinary contributions bringing together theorists from film/media studies, philosophy, history, art theory, literature, and cultural theory. We hope that these articles highlight the rich potential of interdisciplinary inquiry into the emotions and art, and underline the manner in which the study of emotion in cinema could benefit from more detailed attention to the theoretical implications of understanding emotions as historical and transhistorical phenomena. Movies, we contend, provide a mode of aesthetic experience with the capacity to help us think through the emotional dimensions of historical experience.
The essays in this dossier are divided into two clusters. The first contains four essays that reflect on the specifically historicist nature of the emotions solicited by the viewing of historical films. They are concerned in particular with anatomising how a sense of 'pastness' is registered by modern viewers in affective states that are amorphous and transtemporal, but also shaped by long cultural legacies in which different pasts come to accrue a range of recognised meanings (the classical as heroic and timeless; the medieval as brutal or fanatical; the Age of Exploration as exhilarating yet ominous). Corresponding with CHE's focus on Europe pre-1800, there is a particular emphasis in the cluster on the cinematic representation of distant European pasts: Homeric Greece, "eleventh-century" Scotland (via Shakespeare), and the convivencia of Moorish Andalusia.
A leitmotif through the first three essays is mood as an affective state that registers cinematic historicity. Each author argues that extending the concept of cinematic mood to encompass its cultural and historical aspects can enrich our understanding of the interplay between emotional engagement, aesthetic expression and trans-historical experience in narrative film. Robert Sinnerbrink's essay opens this cluster by exploring the concept of historical mood as it is captured in narrative film. Drawing on phenomenological and cognitivist approaches, his essay examines how historical mood becomes manifest in different kinds of films: those which articulate explicit historical forms of sensibility as part of their fictional world; genre films which evoke historically particular kinds of mood in creating generically distinctive cinematic worlds; and films that implicitly express moods that can be recognised retrospectively as expressing specific cultural–historical milieux. Sinnerbrink also develops a taxonomy in which historical films can be said to express historical mood via immersive or reflective approaches.
Ika Willis's essay explores an instance of a reflectively moody historical film in her analysis of the treatment of time and Homeric 'history' in Ben Ferris's Australian-Croatian film Penelope (2009). Applying a critical framework originally developed out of literary studies, she investigates some ways in which affect is deployed in historical cinema to produce distinctive experiences of temporality. Willis argues that the experience of watching historical film is irreducibly and originarily asynchronous, and that affect – including emotion and mood – produces a circuit of attachment between the present time of viewing and the represented past. Her essay contrasts a mainstream cinematic retelling of Homer's Iliad, Wolfgang Petersen's Troy (2004), where emotion is used to repair temporal disjuncture, to Ferris's more interesting Homeric film Penelope, which explores the experience of asynchrony itself, both through the subjective time of waiting and through an investigation of the 'timelessness' of the classical.
Louise D'Arcens' essay explores historical mood and transhistorical empathy as cinematic experiences with specific cultural valencies in popular medievalist narrative films. Analysing the 2015 Justin Kurzel film Macbeth, her essay develops a critical frame using phenomenology and romantic hermeneutics to illuminate the affective experience of viewing films set in the Middle Ages, exploring in particular the diffuse emotional registers that it calls 'medievalist moods'. D'Arcens argues that the historical moods evoked in and by films such as Macbeth are central to the experience of viewing historical cinema. Using notions of empathy developed within German hermeneutics, especially the concepts of Einfühlung,Verstehen, and Nachfühlen, it accounts for the transhistorical empathy encountered in the viewing of historical films.
Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman continue the emphasis on medievalist cinema in their essay on Youssef Chahine's 1997 film Destiny. Emotion, philosophy, and history intersect in their analysis of how music operates idiosyncratically in the film to offer an affective proxy for the neo-Aristotelianism of the "twelfth-century" Andalusian philosopher Averroes. Pointing out that critics of Destiny assume that its message is that ideas will always trump censorship, they argue that such responses neglect to ask why Chahine chose to make this film a musical of sorts and to what extent the coupling of philosophy with song and dance might work to contest oppressive state and religious power. Song and dance are not simply window-dressing in the film, they argue; rather, they represent defiance in the face of loss and defeat. In Destiny, conviviencia becomes conviviality, but it is ephemeral, doomed to fade along with the music's dying notes.
The second cluster of essays focuses more on films that engage in different ways with the historicity of modernity, where modernity is variously characterised as a period of urban ennui and postindustrial alienation or as an era of mechanised atrocity marked by the experience of mass political violence. The films considered in this section are all distinguished by their relatively recent "twentieth-century" historical settings (Antonioni's L'Eclisse, films by the Dardenne Brothers, Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt, and Paweł Pawlikowski's Ida), and span a range of styles and genres such as modernist, realist, historical biopic, and historically situated narratives. The authors examine a range of issues including the relationship between cinema and the history of painting, the idea of moral beauty in cinema, the historical rendering of philosophical biography, and the aesthetic presentation of grief, absence, and loss in historical cinema. All of the films discussed here could be described as considered cinematic and moral-philosophical responses to the disasters and challenges of modern historical experience.
Richard Read's essay, 'Emotional Historiography of Antonioni's L'Eclisse', explores the emotional dimensions of Antonioni's critique of traditional art forms, and proposes the idea that films can 'express emotions about the history of entire media'. Read examines the relationship between cinema and the history of painting, arguing that a key opening scene in L'Eclisse – in which Vittoria (Monica Vitti), during a protracted and deflationary dispute with her partner, plays with an ornate empty picture frame – enacts Antonioni's specifically modernist cinematic critique of the traditional artistic media, chiming with contemporary critiques of the 'end of art' in 1960s Italy and Europe.
In 'Moral Beauty in the Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers', Damian Cox takes a philosophical approach, arguing that the revelation of moral beauty provides the most ethically defining feature of their work. Taking an historical perspective on the idea of moral beauty, Cox explores the manner in which the aesthetic experience of pleasure in moral beauty in the Dardenne's films intersects with a realist presentation of moral experience in a manner that deftly avoids sentimentality and didacticism.
An historical biopic provides the focus of Ned Curthoys essay, 'Selbstdenken, remembrance, and the future of civil courage in Margarete von Trotta's Hannah Arendt (2012)'. Focusing on Arendt's experiences covering the Eichmann trial (the basis for her book Eichmann in Jerusalem wherein she introduced the idea of the 'banality of evil'), Curthoys argues that the film's presentation of Arendt's struggle to define her idea of the banality of evil – describing Eichmann's institutional abrogation of moral responsibility and calamitous failure to 'think' – does justice to both Arendt's complex psychological character and the volatile social, political, and ideological milieu in which she was writing.
The link with the historical catastrophe of Nazism is continued in Matilda Mroz's essay, 'Framing loss and figuring grief in Paweł Pawlikowski's Ida' (Agate Trzebuschowska). Noted for its austere visual style, this film tells the story of Ida, a young woman about to enter a convent, who discovers her Jewish heritage while vising her family home with her troubled older sister. The sisters learn the shocking truth about their family's fate, their parents and sibling killed by Polish neighbours who then took over the family home. Reflecting on the film's aesthetic figuration of grief and loss, Mroz shows how the experience of historical trauma finds indirect expression in the film's remarkable black and white imagery, empty spaces, silences, and absences. Historical experience is rendered in imagery that is both visceral and austere, opening up an experience of grief that is at once affective and historical.
All of the essays collected in this special issue take seriously the capacity of cinema to render, reveal, and question history. They explore the manner in which films contribute to our understanding of the emotional dimensions of historical experience, and find novel and compelling ways of enacting diverse modes of transhistorical consciousness via aesthetic means. We hope that they contribute to fostering further inquiries into the nexus between emotion, history, and philosophy not only within individual films but by way of cinematic experience more generally.
Louise D'Arcens
Louise D'Arcens is Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the Department of English at Macquarie University. Her publications include Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian Literature 1840-1910 (2011), Comic Medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages (2014) and the edited volumes The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism (2016), International Medievalism and Popular Culture (2014), and Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars (2004).
Robert Sinnerbrink
Robert Sinnerbrink is Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University. He is the author of Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film (Routledge, 2016), New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images (Continuum, 2011), Understanding Hegelianism (Acumen, 2007), and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Film-Philosophy.View all posts by Louise D'Arcens and Robert Sinnerbrink → |
The 33rd Chen Bochuan International Children's literature award was awarded in Shanghai
Shanghai, December 8 (Wang Ji) – the 33rd Chen boblowing International Children's literature award ceremony was held at Shanghai Baoshan International Folk Art Expo on December 8. The special contribution award and the writer of the year award, which have attracted much attention, were awarded to Chinese poet Shengye and British writer Michael mobogg respectively this year
"Chen Bochuan International Children's Literature Award" is named after "Oriental Andersen" Chen Bochuan. It is the first international children's Literature Award in China. This year's Chen boblowing International Children's literature award has received 108 kinds of text books and 347 kinds of picture books from 28 countries and regions. The number of countries and works participating in the evaluation far exceeds that of last year
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Karate Mama
A lot of unexpected things have happened over the past few months. Perhaps the most unexpected of all is that I am now taking karate classes. Well, kind of.
You probably remember that Stow started doing karate just under two years ago (and that he had a totally awesome Nerf Karate Panda party for his eighth birthday). Well, he has continued to do karate, and since so much of Stow's life and routine has been turned upside down by the pandemic, we really wanted to make sure that he could still do it even during the shut down. Fortunately, he had the chance to keep up with lessons by following videos and practicing at home. And, once it was deemed safe for classes to start in person (with safety and social distancing protocols in place), we decided to slowly reintegrate him; we figured that his anxieties about the coronavirus and about socializing and about change would be enough to cause his head to explode if we just threw him back in to classes (that now looked very different due to COVID-related changes). So, the head of the karate school, Mr. N, kindly agreed to give Stow private lessons until he was ready to rejoin the group classes.
Stow practicing at home during the shut down.
Mr. N is a few years older than Ren with a white goatee and shaggy hair. He drives a beat-up van and plays in a rock band on the weekends. And, he's adamant about how things should go at his karate school. He asks parents (who he refers to as "rides") not to coach kids during or after class. His teaching methods require kids to be visually, auditorily, and physically engaged. And, he uses catch phrases about respect, hard work, memory, etc that they can apply to other aspects of their lives.
Taro being entirely unhelpful.
And, by and large, what he does works. Though Stow has turned out to be a challenging case.
Initially, we thought he would do a couple of one-on-one lessons and then rejoin the classes, but as time has passed, the factors that cause Stow to struggle with karate have become clear. It has also become clear that he isn't entirely ready to rejoin his peers. Stow goes from having a terrific class on a Monday to having a disastrous one on a Wednesday. Ren and I could literally do the exact same thing to prepare Stow on both days and get vastly different results. One day, he could do all of the forms and call out the steps in order, and the next he might wander around the mat, crawl on the ground, or run out of the building. Since listening to instructors and showing respect are important parts of karate, the days when Stow doesn't behave are hard on everyone.
It takes about three months of consistent practice and doing well in class to advance from one "color" belt to the next, and there's always a point along the way where we really don't know if Stow will make it. While Stow will agree that he likes karate when he's doing it, and while he has progressed well with the forms, karate is hard for him because leaving the house is hard for him. In fact, if he had his way, he'd probably never leave the house at all. The house is a controlled and safe environment where he can get deep into a world he's created and where he doesn't have to deal with all of the chaos of other people's unpredictability. He doesn't have to figure out what to do with the fear, frustration, and confusion dealing with others causes him. Stow is very much a fight or flight responder when he's overwhelmed, and pretty much anything can overwhelm him.
Stow at a one-on-one practice.
That means, in the process of working toward any given belt, Stow will decide that he wants to quit karate--not because he doesn't like it but because because he is sure that the teachers and the other kids don't understand him and that he will get in trouble. In the one-on-one lessons, when Mr. N corrects him or tells him to try to do something better, sometimes Stow takes it well, and other times, it sends him spiralling out of control. One lesson, Stow flat-out refused to do anything from the start and only agreed to practice for the last ten minutes, when he realized that we weren't leaving until the lesson time had ended. Another, he got so upset that he stomped out to the parking lot and then back in again to yell at Mr. N. Given how tightly Mr. N runs his school, I was sure he would chuck us out for good after that particular class.
Though he has never admitted it, I am SURE all of this is frustrating for Mr. N. Fortunately, Mr. N has been teaching karate for a long time, and once he realized that we were committed to doing right by Stow while also not coddling him, he has worked hard to understand how to reach him. And since I know Mr. N is on board with trying to figure out how to help Stow succeed at karate, it's a little easier for me to feel ok pushing Stow out of his comfort zone.
That's how I found myself taking karate classes. To avoid a repeat of back-to-back classes where Stow refused to participate, Ren and I made a social story, talked about expectations, and provided opportunities for reward. When none of that worked, I unexpectedly announced, "Well, if you're not going to have a lesson, fine. At least I can."
Not knowing how Mr. N would feel about this sudden change of plans, I followed up with, "I mean, if it's ok with Mr. N."
"Sure," he said. "Cool."
And, that was the beginning of my career as an out-of-shape, inflexible karate mama.
Once Stow realized I was serious, he joined me on the floor. We did the warm up and the practice punches I'd watched him do a million times before. Then we moved into various stance drills and hand combinations. Two things surprised me. First, karate is really good exercise. And, second, it's a lot harder than it looks, especially for people with coordination challenges (LOL). I left my first karate practice with a whole new appreciation for what Stow has accomplished.
Some of Stow's belts (he has two more and will soon have another).
Since then, Stow has asked if I could join his class every time, and every time, Mr. N has graciously obliged. Not only that, he has spent time trying to teach my awkward self how to get better at karate. Stow still resists practicing or going to class when it will take him away from whatever world he's absorbed himself in, but on the whole, he has been a little more willing to be pulled away from those worlds now that he can teach me some karate.
I doubt I will ever get my own karate belt, but I am super proud that Stow has been able to do what it takes to achieve his next belt (RED!!) in a couple of weeks. I am also beyond grateful to Mr. N. It's hard to find a coach willing to teach Stow, and his willingness to keep trying means the world to us, even if Stow doesn't entirely understand how lucky he is.
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We Haven't Had Spine Issues for a Whole Year, and I'm Pretty Sure That Triggered the Plague
One year ago today, Ren had what we hope will be his last spine surgery.* He woke up from the hours of pre-op, operation, and recovery, and for the first time in eight years, had a pain level that was bearable. He also had enough titanium in his back to stop a train.** Chronic pain and uncontrolled depression can make life next to impossible, and before surgery #7, we were dealing with both of them. Pain and pain meds can make you angry, and unpredictable, and detached, and a whole bunch of other things, and, because I was struggling to find the right combination of medications to help with my own depression, I had hit the outer limits of my ability to help Ren or to cope with his moods. We were lucky to make it through the spring of 2019.
Ren's rods. There are five of them just to be safe.
Anyway, Ren woke up from surgery a year ago today, and, with pain levels between 2 and 4, his life was different. Even though he had a 15-inch incision and a bunch of new hardware in his back, he felt like a new man after years of being at between 6 and 8 on the pain scale. We kept waiting for the intense pain to return as the "pain pack" the doctors had inserted during surgery wore off. But it never did.
Sometimes you don't realize the load you've been carrying until you aren't carrying it any more. Probably the biggest difference between Ren before surgery #7 and Ren after surgery #7 is that he was suddenly back in our lives again. For years, he spent much of the time we were all home lying in bed or on the couch while I handled child management and dinner prep. He often couldn't come to the kids' events because sitting on classroom chairs or bleachers, standing, or walking were too much for him. While I was becoming familiar with the restaurants and shops around town, and while I was driving kids to events in cities near and far, he was home, practically confined to the four walls of our house. When the back stopped hurting, we suddenly found ourselves together again, trying to put the pieces of our marriage and family back into place. Often that meant me introducing him to a place I've been many times but he'd never been before.
Gratuitous picture of the cat sitting on a puzzle Pink made me stay up half the night to finish.
It's pretty surreal to get the chance to see what comes after everything falls apart. I've learned a lot from it, especially since the pandemic has given us so much time to be together and to reflect. First, I've learned that our kids are hella resilient (and funny, and awesome, and not a little maddening). Those years when Ren couldn't do anything, the kids often didn't understand why he couldn't do what other kids' dads could do. But, instead of becoming angry or resentful, they figured out ways to be expressive and creative and helpful. They also figured out ways to keep being kids, for better or for worse.
False bottom tissue box where Pink stashed candy and wrappers.
Second, some things are worth sticking out. For months and months and months, I wasn't sure Ren and I were going to make it because his pain and my depression made it nearly impossible for us to support each other. On top of that, for years and years, I wasn't sure his back would ever allow him to get to a place where we could enjoy things like travel or hiking again. So many years of uncertainty taught us how to stick it out, though, and I'm glad that we both kept trying. I'm absolutely sure that if either of us was slightly less stubborn, we wouldn't be together today discovering what this life after things fall apart can look like.
And, third, you really just never know, so you might as well try to live in the moment. The past 8 or so years have been hard, and it has taken awhile for me to believe that maybe, just maybe, the other shoe isn't going to drop this time. (I mean, unless you count the whole pandemic thing, which some days totally feels like my fault since surely MY bad luck is the reason this is all happening. I mean, we finally have a summer where someone doesn't need a surgery or a hospitalization, and I finally have tenure, so OF COURSE there's a worldwide plague). It's weird to be on the other side of so many years of chaos and back-to-back emergencies. I'm finding I'm having to rediscover how to "human" again. I am learning how to do things like have hobbies and enjoy down time with the kids (I've done a lot of decoupage and puzzles; and hiking--lots of hiking).
Can you have too many decoupage boxes? Asking for a friend.
I may have a problem. That, or I may just need to figure out new things to decoupage.
Ooooh, round box!
Some days, like when Facebook memories pop up on my page or when my depression isn't so great, I can get really stuck thinking about the trauma we've dealt with (2017, when Ren had heart issues and pulmonary emboli and might have died had we not stumbled our way into getting him the help he needed STILL haunts), but most days, I figure out how to live in the present and lean into this new life of ours.
Puzzle for Sky's room.
So, what am I trying to tell you, my dear readers? Thanks to months and months of brain-numbing quarantine and lack of sustained interactions with other adults, I really don't know. But, I THINK what I am trying to say is that I hope you remember that these current challenges are temporary and that you and the people you love have the capacity to grow and to change and to deal with whatever the universe throws your way. (Though I'm really hoping that once we get "through" the COVID-19 pandemic that the universe just kind of gives us all a few months off to try to regroup, straighten our collars, and have coffee with our friends again).
*In some ways, that is wishful thinking, since we know he has impacted levels in his neck that will most likely one day need attention, but for now, we choose not to worry about those.
** Lol. Not really, but maybe at LEAST enough to keep from another break!
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How to Take a Hike
Until this summer, we literally could not go hiking (which was a bummer since it's probably one of my favorite things to do). We couldn't hike because Ren could barely walk and because we couldn't be sure that Stow wouldn't wander off or get too close to the edge of a cliff and fall over it. But, suddenly this summer is completely different--yes, because of COVID-19, but also because without the constant intense pain, hiking is no longer cruel and unusual punishment for Ren.
Once we started trying to hike, we realized that Ren's back is the least of our problems. In fact, it has taken several attempts to figure out how to complete a hike "successfully."* Each kid has their own hang-up when it comes to hiking. Stow HATES bugs. No really, I'm not sure I can overstate just how much he despises them. A couple of years ago, he refused to sleep in his room for the entire summer because there were stink bugs on his window. He also seems to struggle with body temperature management and gets hot very easily. Pink's asthma can be exacerbated by hiking in humid weather, but only if she hasn't been keeping up with her maintenance medicine or if she spends the first minutes of our hike running, which she likes to do. And, Sky? Well, Sky is just convinced that everything will go wrong. He anticipates all of the potential problems and then panics about them before they even happen.
Now look. I know my kids well, so none of these hang-ups are a surprise to me. The surprise is that I didn't anticipate the degree to which they would make it hard for us to figure out hiking. Each of our hikes has been a "comedy" of errors, if by comedy, you mean people yelling and scuffling and, at least once, a water bottle getting chucked at someone's head.
We're fortunate to live in an area with many forest preserves and state parks, so we've had plenty of chances to practice. Each week, we try a new place. The first time, we went to a state park close to home. Before we even got out of the car, Sky started getting upset with Stow--or, more precisely, he started getting upset thinking about what Stow might do. We hadn't even made it to the trailhead--which was literally just across the parking lot--before the two of us were arguing about his treatment of his little brother. The hike didn't go well.
Sometimes I fail Sky because I ignore his perseveration; he is usually so "NORMAL" and able to handle things that I forget that this repetitive worrying is something he can't control. As a result it took me longer than it should have to realize that his "rant" about how he was sure that Stow would have a meltdown on the hike was a very real and uncontrollable expression of his anxiety about what might go wrong. In fact, it took multiple hikes where I basically yelled at him and told him to get it together before I figured this out.
Every time, the argument would go something like this:
Me--"Jeeze, Sky, would you PLEASE stop pointing out all the things Stow might do wrong? You are going to trigger him!"
Sky -- "I don't understand why you think he will be ok on this hike. You KNOW something is going to upset him or he's going to get tired and want to quit."
Me-- "Ugh, Sky, why are you doing this? You are old enough to be supportive! Besides, HE'S not the one having a meltdown right now; you are!!"
Sky -- "I don't understand why you won't just help me!"
Not surprisingly, the few hikes that started this way were a bit of a disaster. Then a friend suggested I just ask Sky what he was so worried about (Duh! Why didn't I think of that?!?). Which reminded me of how much Sky used to benefit from social stories. So, the next hike, as we were getting out of the car, I spent some time talking to him about what he thought would go wrong and thinking through worst-case scenarios and how we would handle them. Once I started doing that, we were able to make it a bit father into the hike before something went wrong.
Next challenge: Stow and the bugs. Stow and heat. Stow and his siblings. There are, in fact, many, many, many things that can trigger Stow these days. We work constantly to figure out what those things are and to control for them, but we also know that he needs to learn to be flexible in the face of challenges. It's an impossible balance. This is probably the hardest part of autism for people to understand. Stow is a funny, intelligent, kind, helpful, generous soul, but he does not yet have a handle on how to manage all of the stimuli and challenging situations that come at him on a daily basis. And, taking him out of his normal routine increases exponentially the potential for meltdowns (which, to be honest, happen even when he IS in his normal routine).
The other thing that would probably surprise someone who doesn't deal with autism on a daily basis is what the meltdowns look like. When he melts down, Stow isn't covering his head, rocking and stimming in a corner. Instead, when he's triggered, he loses his ability to make good decisions (something he knows happens but that he hasn't figured out how to "fix"--which is its own kind of heartbreaking). Lately, this means that he lets loose a stream of expletives, which one might find quite impressive if they weren't coming from the mouth of a 9-year-old. It took time to train myself not to respond to the words even though they are pretty offensive. What most people think those words mean doesn't really matter because what Stow is really saying when he cusses is, "I am very upset right now, and I want you to help." Some part of his brain understands that if you use shocking words maybe you can communicate to other people just how overwhelmed you feel.
Imagine having the peacefulness of your hike in the woods shattered by the voice of a child yelling, "You go***nm, sh**head, son of a b****!" at the top of his lungs. More than one hike has been interrupted by a series of foul-mouthed statements followed by Sky perserverating over the fact that we "don't do anything about Stow's language." Those of you who have gone through the struggle of helping your child overcome severe speech delays or through the challenges of pragmatic language deficiencies can probably understand why it's hard not to marvel at the sophistication with which Stow puts these words together, even as I am mortified by the fact that he knows and uses them so loudly.
The other thing that usually comes with a meltdown, especially when it is triggered by a sibling, is that Stow reflexively tries to avenge whatever wrongdoing he perceives they have committed. He completely overreacts to whatever the trigger is, and all we can do is keep him (and others safe) until he can get it back together. This one's probably the biggest challenge with hiking because we can't always convince Sky and Pink to leave Stow alone so he won't "freak out." On our last hike, Stow wanted to use my phone to take a picture of the beautiful view, but when he tried to, Sky thought Stow was going to drop the phone so grabbed Stow's hand. The shock triggered Stow and caused him to wrestle with Sky for the phone. Thanks to some good luck and a well-placed chain link fence, all children and phones came through the incident unscathed, but the moment was far from tranquil, and we were once again THAT family disrupting the peace.
Just before the phone camera struggle.
During the phone camera struggle. No children or phones were harmed in the inadvertent taking of this photo.
Pink's asthma turned out to be the easiest of the challenges to handle once I figured out that she'd been skipping her maintenance medicine! These days, when we hike, we make sure she takes her maintenance meds in the morning and that she has a couple of puffs from her rescue inhaler right before we set out on the hike. I also remind her not to take off running right away. The kid is fast and full of energy, but teaching her to pace herself has been key.
The first hike, we made it zero yards without a fight. Ditto the second. Then I remembered to use social stories with Sky, so we did pretty well until Stow got overheated and let off a string of expletives that triggered Sky's anxiety. The hike after that, on top of social story-ing with Sky, we also remembered to make sure Stow had a towel and a bottle of water. That day we made it to the top of the hill before he freaked out because Sky made fun of him at the same time that he saw a spider. Ren had to take him back down to the car. The fifth hike, we got up early and made sure everyone had bug spray, towels, and water bottles, but this time Pink forgot to take her inhaler and so we had to turn back after about a mile and a half. Still, WE MADE IT A WHOLE MILE AND A HALF! The sixth hike, Stow and Sky were champs, but Pink couldn't handle the heat with her asthma. The seventh hike, we remembered everything--the social story, the water, the towel, the bug spray, and both asthma meds--and it went pretty well until Ren misread the map, and we got lost.
But that's the funniest thing about all of this. Aside from misreading the map on our last hike, Ren has never been the one who slows us down. He consistently and patiently climbs and climbs and climbs. And, I guess that's the metaphor here. No matter the challenge, we figure out how to keep going.
*Definitions of "successful" and "complete" may vary.
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I had been a fan of the game DarkStar One for quite awhile, especially since when I nabbed it as a Christmas gift one year ago. With my new computer, it's a lot easier to play it, and I've progressed well, glad to say!
During this day, I decided to draw the decked out version of the ship on my teacher's markerboard. Most of the people in the class got a kick out of it, and when another student tried to draw something else we all joked how it wasn't a "work of art" as the other thing. Eventually my professor erased it, but it was a funny class representation.
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On our way to Washington D.C, we stopped at McDonalds for breakfast. Pancakes were the food of order; definitely enjoyed this, since our syrup never tastes like anything that can be made at home.
Jennifer Fanart Request – Tonks_92
This was another piece that Tonks_92 did of one of my OC's. I actually thought I had lost this one, until I found a USB drive that I hadn't touched for years until recently (it's no longer online). The hair came out real nice in tone. This was the last piece they ever did for me, haven't really talked to them since then.
Space Raptors Art Trade – Benit149
This was part of an art trade I was involved in earlier this summer. Benit149 drew Britney from Space Raptors as a chibi, as I was supposed to draw one of her characters in return. It's so adorable, and quite cute! Do check out their stuff here.
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This caught my eye; apparently one of my chemistry classmates drives a yellow Ford Focus, and has the Rebel Alliance symbol plastered near her driver's door. I'm usually late for class and it's a bit darker out, but I did want to grab a photo of it; to be honest, that's the first time I've seen anyone have any sort of fandom on their car of this nature.
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When my aunt was here a little while back, she got me this spiffy MP3 player. Never had one before, so it was an interesting experience to say the least. At least it's a lot easier to drown out the people at school around me. It's also a lot more convenient than a CD player. If it just had an FM tuner, it'd be the most fantastic thing in the world.
When I was taking a breather, I realized the book I grabbed (Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku) made an interesting reflection and setup in my bedroom mirror; just like it was in a parallel world! So I snapped this quickly. I do apologize for the messy floor a bit, I hadn't quite thought that I would be posting this. Maybe that side of the mirror the floor's clean?
Space Raptors Fanart Request – Tonks_92
When I was getting my feet wet back on the deviantART community, an artist by the name of Tonks_92 drew this picture from my Space Raptor stories. I liked it a whole lot, my cousin liked it a whole lot. In fact, he had it printed out and pasted to his computer hutch for a number of years. This is still a special piece for me because it kind of captures my ambition and ideal of the story for the time.
Custom PC – Original Millenium Project Frame
Here's a quick shot of the "experimental" and original machine that's supposed to span two eras in computing; the Millenium project.
A ghost of a husk of the old family computer, I was never able to get this computer to work for various reasons. First I got a hard drive in 2002 but I had no OS to make it work; then in 2006 I was given an official opinion that the motherboard was broken on it. It was a custom build, with no brand name or manufacturer that had a birth in 1999.
I have cannibalized and gotten a lot of parts, including buying a duplication Biostar motherboard to bring it to life again. It now thankfully powers on again, but I have to get it to work with the hard drive installed, which is hard since I have no OS.
But I have dry-tested startup on some additional parts; two CD-ROM drives (one being the fabled Creative 52X drive), a tape drive from a 386 that broke down, and dual 3.25″ floppy disk drives. I can't get the digital display to work on the front, but everything seems to fire up right.
And while I don't have a picture on the back, I have a SoundBlaster32 for internals (kicking out the ES1868 AudioDrive), an IDE expander and gotten connectors to have some additional serial and parallel ports on the back.
As for now, it's a half-baked PC with no heart or brain, but a working body. Sitting in the corner like some neglected test aircraft down at Northdrop with a bunch of tarps draped over it. When I can get enough cash to get an OS for it, I'll hopefully bring this system to the life it deserves. It's a matter of when, as the frame has sentimental value to me.
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Sadly the artist's dA page is deactivated and I have no idea what happened to him, but if I recall his art style correctly, he did some pretty amazing stuff. I like to think he made it somewhere big doing illustrations.
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"Mr. Emlay is one of the agricultural biotechnology industry's regulatory pioneers," said Eric Rey, president of Arcadia Biosciences. "His deep experience in agricultural and food regulatory activities is an enormous asset to Arcadia as our product development activities continue to intensify." Arcadia's current technology portfolio includes nitrogen-efficient plants; salt- tolerant plants; ricin-free castor plants; and plants that produce high levels of health-promoting omega-6 fatty acids. Mr. Emlay will be responsible for product planning and all regulatory activities related to these products. |
Carriers 'violated federal law' by selling your location data, FCC tells Congress
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More than a year and a half after wireless carriers were caught red-handed selling the real-time location data of their customers to anyone willing to pay for it, the FCC has determined that they committed a crime. An official documentation of exactly how these companies violated the law is forthcoming.
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shared his finding in a letter to Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee that oversees the agency, and others in the House. Rep. Pallone and his colleagues have been active on this and prodded the FCC for updates throughout last year, eventually prompting today's letter.
"I wish to inform you that the FCC's Enforcement Bureau has completed its extensive investigation and that it has concluded that one or more wireless carriers apparently violated federal law," Pai wrote.
Extensive it must have been, since we first heard of this egregious breach of privacy in May of 2018, when multiple reports showed that every major carrier (including TechCrunch's parent company Verizon) was selling precise location data wholesale to resellers who then either resold it or gave it away. It took nearly a year for the carriers to follow through on their promises to stop the practice. And now, 18 months later, we get the first real indication that regulators took notice.
A year after outcry, carriers are finally stopping sale of location data, letters to FCC show
"It's a shame that it took so long for the FCC to reach a conclusion that was so obvious," said Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel in a statement issued alongside the chairman's letter. She has repeatedly brought up the issue in the interim, seemingly baffled that such a large-scale and obvious violation was going almost completely unacknowledged by the agency.
Commissioner Brendan Starks echoed her sentiment in his own statement: "These pay-to-track schemes violated consumers' privacy rights and endangered their safety. I'm glad we may finally act on these egregious allegations. My question is: what took so long?"
Chairman Pai's letter explains that "in the coming days" he will be proposing a "Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture," for several of them. This complicated-sounding document is basically the official declaration, with evidence and legal standing, that someone has violated FCC rules and may be subject to a "forfeiture," essentially a fine.
Right now that is all the information anyone has, including the other commissioners, but the arrival of the notice will no doubt make things much clearer — and may help show exactly how seriously the agency took this problem and when it began to take action.
Representative Pallone issued the following statement after receiving the letter:
Following our longstanding calls to take action, the FCC finally informed the Committee today that one or more wireless carriers apparently violated federal privacy protections by turning a blind eye to the widespread disclosure of consumers' real-time location data. This is certainly a step in the right direction, but I'll be watching to make sure the FCC doesn't just let these lawbreakers off the hook with a slap on the wrist.
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Book 'em! Discover how city directories can help you track down your ancestors' addresses and break through your research brick walls.
You can — if your ancestors lived in a place with a city directory. These valuable books contain an alphabetical list of a city's inhabitants, similar to today's telephone directories, but beginning even before Alexander Graham Bell made his first call. Some city directories date to the 1700s; most American cities began publishing directories annually or every other year in the mid- to late 1800s. City directories list the names of adults, including adult children living with parents. Some also tell residents' occupations, their employers' names, their home addresses and their spouses' names.
You never know what facts you might find in these annual accounts of who's who in a city. Although it's uncommon, I've seen directories that list a death date for someone in the household. Another rare but valuable find is a city directory that lists not only the living, but also everyone who died in the past year, as in the 1889-1890 city directory for Columbus, Ohio. More commonly, you'll find a wife listed as a widow the year following her husband's death: "Kernochan, Abby L. (wid. Edw.)," for example. If a family moved, some communities' directories may even tell where they relocated.
A helpful feature in certain city directories is the householder's index, or criss-cross directory. You'll sometimes find this in the back of the directory, or it may be a totally separate volume. Instead of an alphabetical listing by individuals' names, the householder's index gives you alphabetical-numerical listings of streets followed by house numbers and inhabitants. Just like the census, the householder's index is a wonderful way to discover the names of your ancestors' neighbors, which can be useful for tracking their migrations, as well as uncovering other relatives living nearby.
A helpful feature in certain city directories is the householder's index, or criss-cross directory. You'll sometimes find this in the back of the directory, or it may be a totally separate volume. Instead of an alphabetical listing by individuals' names, the householder's index gives you alphabetical-numerical listings of streets followed by house numbers and inhabitants, just like the census, the householder's index is a wonderful way to discover the names of your ancestors' neighbors, which can be useful for tracking their migrations, as well as uncovering other relatives living nearby.
But each city directory is different, and that's what makes them sometimes frustrating to use. Contents and availability vary from city to city and from one time period to another. You may find several small cities combined within one directory. Most directories were issued annually, others sporadically.
Besides confirming that your ancestor was in a particular place for a certain year, you can use city directories to help you find elusive ancestors' census records. Some censuses haven't been indexed, or the only finding aids are enumeration-district descriptions and maps — for those years, knowing your ancestor's street address is crucial to finding that person in the census. If the city is small, you could look for the family by street address rather than by name. Censuses began listing streets in the form's left margin in 1880; the house number appears with the visitation numbers (dwelling and family). Be sure to check city directories for the year before, the year of and the year after the census to see if your ancestor moved during this time. Keep in mind that information you find in, say, a 1910 city directory was compiled the previous year, 1909 — before the 1910 census enumerator came calling.
If you're trying to pinpoint when an immigrant ancestor arrived in America, it might help to trace the immigrant backward in city directories to determine an approximate year of arrival. Be aware, though, that immigrants might not appear in the city directories for several years after their arrival, or they may show up only sporadically. Historical demographers have noted that most urban immigrant families had a high mobility rate: After coming to America, they moved about every 10 years — whether going across the nation, across town or across the street. City directories can help you track this movement.
So we know that Alex and his wife, Edna, were householders at 528 N. Tejon. While the directory gives no occupation for Alex, it tells us that Edna worked at Carl's Barbecue.
If we want to know who their neighbors were, we can flip to the back of the book to the criss-cross directory of households and look up the Mootafis' address. The streets are arranged alphabetically in this section. Finding North Tejon, then scanning down the numbers to 528, we see that the Mootafises resided at the corner of Tejon and East Williamette Avenue. They were neighbors to the Pick sisters (dressmakers) at 527 N. Tejon. Across the street on North Tejon was Mrs. Lizzie Jackson, living at number 601. Using a city map in conjunction with the householder's directory, we can determine where all of Alex and Edna's neighbors lived — and possibly even find clues to family connections that we could confirm through additional sources.
Female ancestors are often more difficult to trace than men because their surnames changed when they married. Here, too, city directories can help: To take another example, I was looking for a woman in the late 1940s whose maiden name was Mary McFarland. After combing a 1943 city directory, I found a Mary McFarland, a nurse, living at 53 Main St. The next year, however, she wasn't listed. For a clue as to whether she'd moved or perhaps married, I turned to the 1944 householder's index for Main Street, number 53, to see who occupied that household then. The inhabitant's name was Joe Thayer, and he had a wife named Mary. With both names at hand, I could then turn to marriage records to confirm that Mary Thayer was the former Mary McFarland. And sure enough, she was.
City directories can even help you determine what church your ancestors attended. Let's say you have a marriage record for an ancestral couple, and it gives you the name of the minister, Frank A. Kerns, but offers no indication of religious denomination. You can look for Frank Kerns in the city directory under the alphabetical listings and learn that he was the pastor for the Central Christian Church. Then look in the alphabetical listings under Central Christian Church to find its address. Now you can check for church records, if the church still exists.
The bkpr means Charles was a bookkeeper. But how about this one?
To find out what a solr is, you can turn to the list of abbreviations that's almost always at the beginning of the directory. As it turns out, Clarence was a solicitor. You may have to do some additional research to discover old-time occupations.
The n.e.c. here means northeast corner. The most common abbreviations before an address are h for householder or home; r for resides, rooms or rents; and bds for boards.
Keep in mind that city directories, like any other source you consult in your family history quest, aren't always 100 percent accurate. Like census data, the information in a city directory had to be compiled by someone who went door to door, asking inhabitants who the head of the household was, what their occupations were and what other adults were living in that household. If your great-great-grandfather or grandmother wasn't home that day to supply the information, the city directory representative might have checked with a neighbor or merely left them out of the directory.
Here's a good example of how the information you find in a city directory can be misleading or wrong: According to the 1910 census for Austin, Texas, Dominick Casey, age 61, born in Ireland, was separated from his wife, Josephine. Yet in the 1893-1894 Austin city directory, Josephine was listed as the "widow" of Dominick. We can guess whom the city directory compiler interviewed!
The directory also might have a section called "Too Late For Inclusion" or a similar heading. These are people who were missed or weren't home when the directory representative initially visited, but were interviewed on a subsequent try. Although the other listings were already typeset, the directory publisher may have included this addendum.
While you may notice that the listing for your ancestor is the same year after year, don't overlook a single year — you never know if that's the one year the directory will give you new or different information. In the 1791 Philadelphia city directory, for example, Rebecca Powell is listed as a widow. Following her year by year, we can see how she supported herself: By 1794, she was a "layer out the dead" (a woman who prepared corpses for funerals and burials), but the next year, she appears as a "mantura maker" (dressmaker). By 1801, she was laying out the dead again. Yet in 1803, she gave her occupation as a "tayloress." Evidently, she supported herself at both trades, because her directory listings through the mid-1820s keep switching between laying out the dead and being a seamstress.
If your ancestors disappear from the directory for a year or two, don't assume they died or moved. It's common for people to vanish from directories for a year or more, only to show up again several editions later in the very place they were the last time you found them. Once your ancestor disappears for five or more years, then you can pursue the possibilities of death or relocation. Similarly, don't give up too quickly if your ancestor fails to appear where he or she is supposed to be: Take the example of Cornelius Casey, who was supposedly in Austin, Texas, from the 1880s forward. Even though the census taker found him in Austin in 1900, Casey wasn't listed in the Austin directories until 1909.
As a couple's children became adults, they would get their own listing, even if they were still living with Mom and Dad and attending school. But they won't necessarily be listed together, unless their names just happen to be alphabetically adjacent; with common surnames, you might find several unrelated Joneses or Smiths interspersed with members of your family. You need to look at the address to pick out the possible offspring.
So, for example, here's a listing for the Caseys in the 1909-1910 Austin, Texas, directory. Assuming our old friend Cornelius is the father, can you pick out his adult children?
Because of the identical addresses, Cornelius' probable children would be Frank D. and Ida M., but they could also be Cornelius' siblings. You would need to look at other records to confirm relationships now that you have these clues.
Notice no wife is listed for any of the Casey men here. Does this mean that all of these men are single or widowed? Not necessarily. You would need to compare these with other listings in the same book. This directory might not publish wives' names at all. And typically, directories don't name widowers' wives in parentheses the way they do for widows' husbands, as in the listing for Emma Casey. The important thing is not to jump to conclusions — stick with what the directory tells you, then confirm your suspicions or hypotheses in other sources.
So she no longer lives at home; she boards at the State School for the Blind, where she works as a waitress.
Did your ancestors belong to a club or organization? Many city directories list not only the chapters of clubs and organizations in the city, but sometimes the officers, as well. If Great-great-grandpa was a high muckety-muck in the Elks or the chamber of commerce, you may come across his name.
You'll also find listings for libraries, churches, hospitals, newspapers and schools, as well as city government information — just as you would find in today's telephone books. Some city directories include contemporary maps showing the major thoroughfares. These maps can help you to learn about the neighborhood as it was when your ancestors lived there: what churches and schools they might have attended, what funeral homes they might have patronized and so on.
Sounds great, you say, but where do you find these wonderful resources? The surest and most obvious place to look for city directories is of course the local library for the area the directory covers. If you don't live nearby, however, these are reference books that likely won't circulate through interlibrary loan unless they're on microfilm. You can also utilize major city directory collections at many large research repositories, including the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City; the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Ind.; the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston; the Newberry Library in Chicago; and the Sutro Library in San Francisco.
Unless you live near one of those libraries, your best bet is to learn which directories you can borrow from the FHL, which has an extensive collection on microfilm that you can view at your local Family History Center. To find out whether the FHL's directory holdings include the time period and locality of your interest, check the FHL catalog online at <www.familysearch.org>. You can do a massive search by looking under United States, Directories, or narrow your search to the state, county, then city, and look for the subheading of directories. You can also find a state-by-state guide to the FHL's collection of city directories in The Family Tree Guide Book (Betterway Books).
Even if your ancestor was a "country mouse," you may be able to find him or her in a city directory. Some areas published rural directories, or the city directory might have a section listing rural routes and households. Search for rural directories as you would a city directory.
If the FHL has no directories for your area and time period of interest, all is not lost. You can write to the local library that would have the directories you want, and ask the staff to check the directories for you. Some librarians may be willing to conduct a five- to 10-year search in their directories. If the directories have been microfilmed, you may be able to borrow them through interlibrary loan. So remember to ask that in your letter requesting assistance. And you may be able to connect with a helpful fellow researcher in the area through message boards such as GenForum <genforum.genealogy.com> and Ancestry-Roots Web <boards.ancestry.com>, or on a local mailing list for your ancestral homeland (see <lists.rootsweb.com>). If all else fails, you might have to hire a researcher in the area to conduct a more thorough search, especially if you have several names and a broad time span to be checked.
If you're eager to own an actual city directory that lists your ancestors, check auction sites such as eBay <www.ebay.com>. And find out when local libraries have their book sales; some libraries will purge extra copies of directories, or they may decide to get rid of them after they've been microfilmed. Also check Primary Source Microfilm's Web site <wwww.galegroup.com/psm> — but be forewarned that the microfilmed directories there can be expensive to purchase.
Once you locate applicable directories, researching them might provide more information than you ever realized — you could discover another genealogical gold mine.
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National French High Court applies CJEU Marle Participations Decision
FRANCE - National French High Court applies CJEU Marle Participations Decision
In its decision C-320/17 of 5 July 2018, which we wrote about in the Indirect Tax News of December 2018 (Issue 4), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the letting of a building by a holding company to its subsidiary amounts to involvement in the management of that subsidiary. The effect of that conclusion, according to the CJEU, is that the renting of the building must be considered an economic activity if the following conditions are met:
The supply of services is made on a continuing basis;
The supply is carried out for consideration;
There is a direct link between the supply and the consideration; and
The supply is not VAT exempt.
The CJEU considered that:
Expenditure connected with the acquisition of shareholdings in subsidiaries incurred by a holding company that carries out an economic activity has to be regarded as belonging to the holding company's general expenditures. As a result, the VAT paid by the holding company on such expenditure must, in principle, be deductible in full;
Expenditure connected with the acquisition of shareholdings in subsidiaries incurred by a holding company that involves itself in the management of only some of its subsidiaries and which does not carry out an economic activity with regard to the other subsidiaries must be regarded as only partially belonging to its general expenditure. As a result, the VAT the holding company paid may only be deducted in proportion to the expenditures that are inherent in the economic activity, in accordance with the apportionment criteria defined by the Member States.
On 19 December 2018 (n° 396945), the French Administrative High Court of Justice (Conseil d'Etat) applied this decision. Indeed, it considered that since the letting of the building and the land for nine years involved receipt of annual rent of €9,000 that was subject to VAT, Marle Participations (the holding company of the Marle Group) must be deemed to be involved in the management of its subsidiary and it is carrying out an economic activity that gives it the right to deduct VAT on the rent.
For expenses incurred related to the acquisition of shareholdings in another subsidiary, since Marle Participations did not contemplate carrying out a taxable economic activity for the benefit of this subsidiary, it could not deduct VAT related to these expenses even if it claimed that this subsidiary's activities and those of Marle Group complement each other.
This decision is interesting because it extents the meaning of involvement. Indeed, the CJEU had provided a list of activities that could be qualified as economic activities but this list was not exhaustive. Therefore, by adding to the list the letting of a building to subsidiaries, this Court goes further than the CJEU, holding that even a passive activity, such as letting of a building, can be deemed to be involvement in the management of a subsidiary.
But, the practical significance of this decision is limited because the French Administrative High Court of Justice was strict about limiting the right to deduct VAT. The French Court set out the conditions that must be met when allocating the expenditures incurred.
The French Court said that a participation accompanied by a direct or indirect involvement in the management of companies in which shareholdings are held, by the setting up of operations subject to VAT, can be deemed an economic activity. In this case, VAT is deductible:
Where input operations carried out have a direct and immediate link with the output operations giving rise to the right to deduct VAT; or
In the absence of a direct and immediate link between a particular input operation and one or many output operations giving rise to the right to deduct VAT, where costs involved are part of the taxable person's general expenses and are therefore inherent in the price of goods or services provided by the taxable person.
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Shahjahan Baloch, former member of the National Assembly and the leader of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have decided and announced to join the squad of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday.
According to the details, Mr Baloch met former three-time prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in Kot Lakhpat jail and expressed confidence on his leadership.
The former leader People's Party also met Hamza Shehbaz and formally announced to join the ranks with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
While talking to the media, Baloch said that only the PML-N is party of federation and his city needs the party.
He went on to say that the PML-N is going through tough times and he would stand by the party in this time. |
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I think that if Rudy Giuliani ran, then New York would be in play. ::He'll carry New York if he burns through a lot of money, but he'll lose the South to Mitt Romney no matter what he does (being a thrice-married gun grabber and all). McCain is sinking like a rock. [[User:Teresita|Teresita]] 14:52, 9 April 2007 (EDT) == Overhaul == That looked like a very decent analysis by [[user:aschlafly|aschlafly]] but it wasn't sourced, wasn't verifiable, and was highly opinonated. I replaced it with the considerably more vanilla page with the dates of the election, the primary season, and the names of the declared major party candidates. If someone wanted to add the third party and independent candidates and any other facts regarding the 08 election, that would be great. [[User:Myk|Myk]] 08:17, 16 March 2007 (EDT) :I may be wrong, but I think that most of the third party candidates aren't determined until the year of the election. If you know any further information about them, though, by all means add them. You make a very good point about their inclusion in this page. [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 23:11, 16 March 2007 (EDT) ::Third party candidate is kind of a misnomer. Prominent third party candidates a la Perot and Nader will decided some time late this year or early next year to declare as they don't have to worry about primaries. Also, of course, any disgruntled Democrats or Republicans might wait until after the primaries. However, there are many parties that have candidates, just no real recognition. Prohibition Party, Greens, Libertarians, Reforms... then there's lesser known independents like David Koch and a few others. I just don't want to put in the work and then be told that it's trivial and that we're trying to remain concise. [[User:Myk|Myk]] 23:17, 16 March 2007 (EDT) :::What I meant was that, at least in 2004, the Constitution, Libertarian, and Green Parties hadn't nominated by this point. Once we know them, by all means they should be included. [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 23:21, 16 March 2007 (EDT) ::::And what I meant was that there are several declared candidates at this point, for those parties, and that if someone wanted to do the work, they should be listed. I don't want to do the work because it will probably just get deleted. [[User:Myk|Myk]] 23:24, 16 March 2007 (EDT) ::::: I'd back you up in any edit wars/disputes. [[User:MountainDew|MountainDew]] 23:25, 16 March 2007 (EDT) There is at this point a lot of no-longer-relevant information (e.g., Hillary Clinton electability polls). The whole article could use a top-to-bottom revision. [[User:Dadsnagem2|Dadsnagem2]] 10:35, 10 June 2008 (EDT) == Unsourced information == Andy, I didn't delete improperly. Just because it was your information doesn't mean it was improper. The battle ground states section is an ''exceptionally simplistic'' analysis of how elections are waged. There are no sources referencing your analysis. There are places for original research and places for fact. This is the latter. [[User:Myk|Myk]] 17:24, 30 March 2007 (EDT) ==Move== I think this article and its talk page should be moved to [[2008 United States Presidential Election]]. Presidents get elected in other countries, too! :) [[User:GregLarson | Greg]] 15:58, 24 July 2007 (EDT) : I oppose this suggestion at this time, because it would make the title almost twice as long without avoiding any real confusion.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 16:03, 24 July 2007 (EDT) ::However, changing it to [[United States presidential election, 2008]] would help maintain consistency throughout the site (see [[:Category:United_States_presidential_elections]]). [[User:Jinkas|Jinkas]] 16:15, 24 July 2007 (EDT) *Well if that is a problem, I can always do away with that category name. What would you suggest in its stead? Or would you prefer me to choose it? --[[User:TK|<small>Sysop-</small>TK]] <sub>[[User_talk:TK|/MyTalk]]</sub> 22:10, 24 July 2007 (EDT) Greg, how many other countries' election articles have you written? When we have too many for ''election'' to refer to America, we'll consider your suggestion again. This is basically an American encyclopedia, not an international one like Wikipedia. We'll disambiguate, when and if the title becomes ambiguous. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 15:54, 27 July 2007 (EDT) Greg has been permablocked in any event. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 15:57, 27 July 2007 (EDT) =="First Election without incumbants since 1928?"== I thought that in 1952 there were no incumbants. Neither Republican, [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], nor [[Democrat]], [[Adlai Stevenson]], was an incumbant. If this is true then it's really the first election since 1956. -[[User:Additioner|Additioner]] 17:40, 6 September 2007 (EDT) Oh, now I see. [[Alben Barkley]] ran, but didn't get the [[Democratic]] nomination. Thanks for clearing that up on the page. -[[User:Additioner|Additioner]] 14:37, 14 September 2007 (EDT) == Updated electability polls? == With Huckabee now a major candidate, and some of the previous front runners no longer in pole position, maybe we should get some updated polls. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 15:03, 23 December 2007 (EST) :Isn't this like aiming at a moving target? I think that the polls are now moving so fast that it would take almost constant revisions. Is this practical? [[User:Darkmind1970|Darkmind1970]] 20:02, 18 January 2008 (EST) == Uh-Oh! Suspended campaign == What do we do now that [[Mitt Romney]] has "suspended" his campaign? Do we take him off the list? Do we put him under withdrawn candidates or create a new section? -[[User:Additioner|Additioner]] 19:50, 7 February 2008 (EST) ==What's wrong with the photo?== Why is the photo of all the Republican Presidential candidates together in the section on the Republican primary taken down? The person who took it down just said that it's not needed. Why? [[User:Chippeterson|Chippeterson]] April 25, 2008 10:54PM :Please use the resources of the site to ask the person who did it. By the way, it might be helpful to be not quite so shrill when you do that. [[User:Peter Ellis|Peter Ellis]] 07:34, 26 April 2008 (EDT) == Rename and Redirect == Can a sysop please move the content of this article to [http://www.conservapedia.com/United_States_presidential_election%2C_2008 here] and then create a redirect on this page to keep article titles consistent? Thanks! --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 13:12, 10 June 2008 (EDT) ==Battleground States Map== I don't have upload rights, but can someone who does find an updated Battleground States map to replace the current one, which has Bush/Kerry references instead of McCain/Obama? Thanks. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 08:39, 7 July 2008 (EDT) == Polling == I've simplified the polling numbers to the two largest polling firms. The previous information from Real Politics was misleading as it did not weight poll results based upon sample size. In other words if one poll of 3,000 people found the spread to be 3 points and another poll of 1,000 people found the spread to be 9 points, rather than merging them to be 4,000 people and a spread of 4.5 points, they simply treat them as equal and make it 6 points -- poor math and unworthy of our site. The "poll or polls" didn't have any numbers recorded at all, and therefore is not included. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 12:01, 16 July 2008 (EDT) :To put your mind to rest then, I'd be happy to add a table using RCP's results that show the most recent polls, as well as results, MoE, and polling size. Of course, your numbers for Rasmussen didn't explain that you included "Leaners", whereas most polls when publishing their main results will include those separately. So perhaps you'd like to change the number to not reflect the leaners? --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 12:04, 16 July 2008 (EDT) ::A table sounds fine sorted by sample size, the greatest number on top. Rasmussen also reports without leaners, so use that figure for consistency. It will need frequent update, so I hope you are volunteering for that as well. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 12:12, 17 July 2008 (EDT) :::Table has been added, but put in order by date, not sample size, as that's the format that is generally used (so that the latest polls appear on top). --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 12:33, 17 July 2008 (EDT) ::::You should probably add a meaning for RV and LV below for clarity. Also, feel free to add Rasmussen's data without including leaners if that is the way most polls are conducted. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 13:01, 18 July 2008 (EDT) :::::Good suggestion--those abbreviations have been clarified. --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 13:08, 18 July 2008 (EDT) == More Polling == Jareddr, I see you are altering state polling data where you have found more recent polls than Rasmussen's. This is fine, but let's also make sure any source that we use is reputable and known for fairness - and accuracy. Apparently Rasmussen does their polling with only 500 people (state level). I believe this should be our low number, I.E. -- we shouldn't include any polling that samples less than this number. Normally I would want to see a higher count, but Rasmussen also has other checks and balances that help to ensure their data, and I was quite impressed that when other polling units were having wild fluctuations - that Rasmussen was showing consistentcy. I also noticed that some of the sources that you are using have updated polling numbers on other states that you didn't use - numbers that were more favorable to McCain. This could have been coincidence, but please try to be consistent in updating all states where such an update is appropriate. With the trend again heading to Obama, you should be relatively pleased to do so. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 14:59, 6 August 2008 (EDT) Oh, and please use the last date of the polling - not the date it was reported. Thanks [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 15:14, 6 August 2008 (EDT) == Form of Article == As much as possible gentlemen let's try to keep the article focused on the issues and what is occurring in the election. Negatives about either candidate personally should go to other articles as should indepth party platforms that would seem to support one side over the other based on volume of writing if nothing else. We have one of the best written articles on this issue on the internet. If you go to Wikipedia just try to find a chart showing polling of all 50 states. We should be proud of our achievement, which took many edits from different people, and let us work together to continue to strive to keep it that way. Thanks. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 12:19, 18 August 2008 (EDT) ==Taking down polls== I noticed that a lot of the polling for the Presidential election was taken down. I would like to put it back up. This article should be made on a historical content over how the race changes. It's not enough just to have the latest 2-3 polls. [[User:Chippeterson|Chippeterson]] 18 August 2008 :I took them down because the numbers had changed and there seems to be a strong agreement among current polling. The 3 polls removed actually started their polling on July 31st, making their information almost 3 weeks old. While we haven't set a rigid timeline for when a poll's relevance 'expires', in a Presidential race that would seem to be pushing the limit. :What would be a good addition, if anyone has that knowledge, is to set up a tracking graph where we could show trends by week. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 14:16, 18 August 2008 (EDT) Every day Gallup comes up with a tracking graph. You can view it here. http://media.gallup.com/poll/graphs/080818DailyUpdateGraph1_ghbnvcs.gif Maybe you could post that? [[User:Chippeterson|Chippeterson]] 18 August 2008 Something I also want to point out is that the current "relevance" should have nothing to do with it. Look at it this way, if someone in the year 2010 wants to do research on the 2008 Presidential race, they might want to know what the polls said in July. This shouldn't be like a blog with only the latest information. [[User:Chippeterson|Chippeterson]] 18 August 2008 == Edwards and Jackson v. Republicans == LT, I think the information should be considered separately on who is NOT attending the convention. Edwards and Jackson are not attending, I suppose, due to pressure from the DNC. The Republicans are not attending the convention by their own choosing so as to minimize the links drawn between the GOP and the individual politicians in a tough political environment. So, first off, I don't think it's necessarily a "If you don't do it for them, then you shouldn't for the others" type of situation. Frankly, this site is FAR from an equal treatment of one party and the other. But, if necessary, I think BOTH should be included, as opposed to neither. Obviously the GOP side has already been written, and you've modified it to, IMO, water it down slightly, but in any case, it seems to have been agreed upon. I think the Dem side should be added, perhaps here in the talk page first, modified appropriately, and then inserted into the article as well. I'd rather have more information than less. --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 11:57, 21 August 2008 (EDT) :What I am looking for as far as noteworthiness is out of the ordinary occurrences. Based upon what would be expected, how is this convention going to be different than that expectation? Jackson has spoken at every convention for more than 2 decades. At the same time, I don't think we should dwell on it, unless you wish to write separate spin-off articles. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 19:25, 21 August 2008 (EDT) ::Having 8 or 9 Republican Senators, out of 49, not attend the convention I would '''definitely''' consider noteworthy. --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 19:41, 21 August 2008 (EDT) ==Anyway we could stop taking down polling data== This article should be made on a historical content, so we should show what the polls said during the entire Presidential campaign. I would appreciate it if we stopped taking down polling data. [[User:Chippeterson|Chippeterson]] 21 August 2008 :It becomes more "gangly" when there is a ton of polling data in the section. After the election, if you want to go back and provide all the polls throughout the season, then you're more than welcome to do so. But I believe LT and I both agree that it is more streamlined to present just the recent polls. Again, if you want to add a separate section, or a chart, or wait until the end of the season, by all means. But as it is, it seems like 2 editors are for trimming the data, and 1 against. --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 15:22, 21 August 2008 (EDT) OK Jareddr, you win. But I still plan to continue putting up all the latest polls. [[User:Chippeterson|Chippeterson]] 21 August 2008 :Fantastic! Just remember to keep them in date order, and I'll take down the older ones. As a helpful guide, we've been keeping Rasmussen and Gallup on top because they're updated daily, and therefore you don't have to rewrite them, etc.--[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 15:28, 21 August 2008 (EDT) ==This would be great for the party convention sections== I've just found photo's for the stages of the Democrat and Republican conventions. Democrat: http://hotair.cachefly.net/images/2008-08/dncc-floor3.jpg Republican: http://hotair.cachefly.net/images/2008-08/rncc-podium.jpg I think one of the administrators should post these for the section, it would be a nice addition. [[User:Chippeterson|Chippeterson]] 22 August 2008 == Democratic/Republican Strategy == I believe this section is best as a general strategy leading into the start of the one on one battle, and not an update of what each side is or could be doing with any daily event. As such it should generally be complete. For broader campaign issues of what is happening (not theory) and how they affect the polling, I would suggest the Obama vs. McCain section. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 16:05, 2 September 2008 (EDT) :I disagree. The strategy of the one on one battle is clearly handled in the Obama v. McCain section. The Dem v. GOP strategy shouldn't just be party v. party strategy, but rather inclusive of what strategy each side will use given the candidates on each ticket. The Democratic strategy is going to be vastly different with Palin as a V.P. as opposed to, say, Mitt Romney, just as the GOP strategy would change if it was Clinton or Kaine instead of Biden. To discuss the strategy of each party, it's necessary to highlight how they are going to "attack" the other side. That's part of strategy! --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 16:10, 2 September 2008 (EDT) ::New strategies are created and played out daily both from the Democratic and Republican side and they pay people well to come up with them. We could also discuss each ad variant, where it is being played, and what group it is attempting to reach. We can even discuss which people are chosen to place comments for the press to report and why. That is all a part of the strategy. But we will have watered down a strong article in a sea of descriptions of partisan spin instead of describing what is happening and what impact it has. I think we need to keep it on the higher level of what is happening in the election at this point - at least for this article. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 16:38, 2 September 2008 (EDT) == New Edits == Barack's Obama windfall is not part of the Republican strategy. We also report on what occurs. Democratic women say they won't vote for Palin, but what is happening in the recent polling in the race between Obama/McCain? Was there a bounce? That's what we're looking for. If it turns out unaffiliated women went for the ticket instead of Democratic, I'm sure the Republican campaign would be just as happy. Obviously we both know that most Democratic women turned to Obama after Hillary's speech - it could take awhile to unglue them, if it would be successful at all. I have started a fundraising section that notes Obama's fundraising edge and his recent influx of additional capital after the Palin speech. It is noteworthy in a fundraising section, but really has no other place in the article. BTW is it really a one day record? There were some times during the face off with Hillary where the two camps raised incredible amounts of money. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 14:07, 5 September 2008 (EDT) :It's a record. The previous record was in mid-August, when he raised $7.8m in a day. But this is the first time a campaign has raised over $10m in 24 hours. --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 14:17, 5 September 2008 (EDT) ::Hello, I hope everyone is having a blessed day! ::I noticed the mention of the hurricane was truncated a bit (which is fine) but the way it now reads one could mistakenly believe that the Twin Cities were visited by a freakish hurricane. Now, we all ''know'' that this isn't the case but in four years when a child is researching "what happened in 2008" it may well jump out at them. ::Either leave out all mention of the hurricane or re-add some of the old edit(s) to make a more complete picture. ::My vote would go to axing the weather story, (remember the lousy weather of the 2004 RNC? Neither do '''I'''). [[User talk:MargeryCampbell|Marge]] 14:26, 5 September 2008 (EDT) :::The weather is notable as it changed the complexion of the convention. The section should be expanded for clarity if that is an issue. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 14:54, 5 September 2008 (EDT) == Republican Strategy == As written, the quote that the Republican strategy was "not about the issues" was misleading. It is evident that Obama has been winning while talking about issues in only the most general terms. In other words he's been winning under the general idea of 'trust me - and I'll make it right'. It was the Democratic side that made the election about the candidates over the issues, and I'm not saying that's necessarily wrong, but rather it was a strategy that almost certainly would have led to them entering the White House until McCain decided to fight it. McCain did try to make it about issues, such as offshore drilling, and was closing the gap in the polls until Obama then made some general statements that he would consider offshore drilling as part of a larger picture without discussing what he meant - and then McCain lost his poll numbers. They realized that Obama would win without needing to say specifics on any issues unless they could first challenge him as a candidate and make the questions who can really bring about change and who can you trust more? And, at least in the short term, that is the strategy that has brought about results for them and is forcing the Democrats to reconsider their own strategy and how to counter it. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 10:45, 9 September 2008 (EDT) == Vice Presidents section == I'm open to the idea of having a Vice Presidents section as this position seems to have a prominence in the election this year that it usually does not command. It will also allow the discussion of the credentials of Palin and Biden and their respective roles that wasn't fitting easily in the other sections where it was being inserted. Thanks. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 10:49, 9 September 2008 (EDT) == Citation for Biden Vice Presidency Comment == Jareddr, I remember reading a poll on either who people wanted or who they thought would be the VP choice. Biden and Edwards were neck and neck right under Hillary. No one else even cleared single digits. Of course Hillary wasn't considered and Edwards self-destructed, leaving only Biden. The campaign could be coy with their choice and build up suspense, but it wasn't a shock that Obama would choose the applicant that was desired and known. Since you have more knowledge and access to Democratic sites that would have those polls, I would ask you to assist in finding a reference that could be used. Thanks [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 04:54, 10 September 2008 (EDT) :I'm sorry, LT, but I will absolutely not search for the reference. I added the citation tag because it is a ridiculous statement that shows little knowledge of the process in the weeks preceding the pick of Biden. Regardless of who people say they want or think they want, few (if any) of the pundits were floating Edwards' name. In fact, Chet Edwards (D-TX) was mentioned more often in the preceding weeks than John Edwards. Again, in the preceding weeks, it was clear it would be amongst Kaine, Bayh, or Biden. In fact, CP claimed in a front-page headline that it was Kaine at one point. I stand by the fact that Obama's pick of Biden had NOTHING to do with Edwards, as Edwards had already been a VP candidate, and Obama showed no inclination to choose him. --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 08:54, 10 September 2008 (EDT) ::Edwards would not have been considered after he was first found out. It may not have made the 'mainstream' press for awhile, but Obama's team would have been well aware of its veracity and the hidden bomb they would be holding in their hands. But Edwards removal only left Biden with any real name recognition and desire among the the voters. If Biden was just one of a number of candidates with no one knowing who would be chosen, then why did he specifically tell the press it wasn't him? One doesn't have to throw people off the scent unless they are already strongly following your scent. I'll admit it worked with me. It seemed so obvious it was Biden and then when he took himself out, I was wondering who Obama was going to pick. I didn't realize at the time that direct lies to throw people off the track and build up more suspense was an option. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 15:48, 10 September 2008 (EDT) :::All very interesting analysis on your part, but not a single piece of it explains where the rationale comes in that Edwards was the pick (i.e. through some sort of mainstream news analysis of the process, as opposed to some random blogger saying his name) and when he dropped out it was Biden. If you want to say that because of x, y, and z, Kaine and Bayh weren't chosen, leading to Biden, so be it. Or even some anaylsis on why it was Biden and not Hillary. But to say "With the implosion of Edwards, Biden was expected to be chosen" you need to show that 1) Expectation of Biden was related to Edwards' implosion, and 2) Edwards was even being seriously considered! And that second point has yet to be done, and therefore the mention of Edwards is merely to further taint the article. If you want to maintain the pretense of impartiality and objectivity, something that has been forgotten in the Obama, McCain, Biden, and Palin articles--then we should remove the sentence. --[[User:Jareddr|Jareddr]] 15:57, 10 September 2008 (EDT) ::::Actually, I think you misunderstand me. I don't believe that Edwards was 'the pick', but based on his popularity (which was just a bit behind Biden's I believe - with no one else underneath being close) he was one of the possibilities. Obama knows he has the advantages this election and as long as he doesn't make a blunder, McCain will be hard pressed to take the election from him. Indeed, with McCain's current slim lead, he holds it because independents are favoring him rather strongly. If the independent vote was even, the greater number of Democrats vs. Republicans would give Obama an edge that would be next to impossible to overcome. As a candidate who has the advantage, Obama would pick, within reason, the candidate his followers want to help to energize them and, most importantly, keep them. Did anyone apart from the press seriously believe he was going to choose someone with a single digit following among his party? That's only done if the candidate feels they're at a disadvantage and will lose if they don't shake things up. That wasn't Obama's position. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 18:06, 10 September 2008 (EDT) ==Chart== I don't know how to properly edit the chart, but i'd like to recommend that someone can please add a column stating how many electoral votes each state has on the chart for a clearer view of current numbers. == Organization Issues == This article is horrifically organized.--[[User:Rcollins]] 23:58, 5 November 2008 (EST) :Your point might be better recieved if you gave constructive criticism with suggestions for improvement. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 22:38, 6 November 2008 (EST) ::How about mentioning who won the election?[[User:CraigC|CraigC]] 22:54, 6 November 2008 (EST) :::Well how about putting up a map of election result maps and reducing all the pre election clutter. i know its good to compare mccain and obama but now its pretty needless to have a wall of text about it --[[User:Rcollins]] 22:59, 6 November 2008 (EST) ::::I think that this page should be split up into multiple pages. for instance the conventions could be made into a couple pages ex: [[2008 Democratic National Convention]] and 2008 [[Republican National Convention]]. The state by state/region by region breakdown could be removed or analyzed in a post-election day manner. McCain vs Obama strategy could be moved to a new page ::::Adopt this if you want its just ideas --[[User:BVance|BVance]] 22:58, 8 November 2008 (EST) == Helping to learn..... == LearnTogether, Dick Morris is not a Republican, nor does he consult only with Republicans. He writes a syndicated column, which is carried by thousands of publications. --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</font></sup> 22:53, 20 November 2008 (EST) :This election season my friend, it was the Republicans he was advising. I'm afraid of wording that could mislead and making reference to his stint advising the Clinton administration and then only mentioning him as a pundit would do so. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 23:23, 20 November 2008 (EST) ::As conservatives, we are only interested in the truth. I am unaware of any Republican clients Morris had in 2008, and not even Wikipedia makes the claim he is a Republican. --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Talk]]</font></sup> 23:49, 20 November 2008 (EST) :::Morris was using his insights to conjecture what the Republicans needed to do to win. Many of his articles were kept on the NewsMax website for this reason. In the final days each of his updates talked specifically about McCain and what he needed to do to win and what affect his choices were having on his campaign. I can't remember a single article he wrote advising what Obama needed to do to win. They were written from the Republican perspective. Does that make him a Republican? No. But it does mean in his role as a professional he was taking the perspective of the Republicans in sharing his insights and knowledge -- and that is what is important for this article. [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 12:44, 21 November 2008 (EST)
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Ethical and aesthetic in the activities of people and lawyers, taking into account their specifics, constitute an inseparable whole. Any of their actions, actions, including the motive, have both aesthetic and ethical value.
Revealing the content of social progress, we realized that it is possible only on the basis of humanistic values, morality , beauty , as well as those powers that each person can implement. It is these three most important spheres of people's existence that represent the potential, the realization of which provides humanity with the chance and opportunity to provide itself, its descendants with a positive future, to resolve the palette of global problems that have "risen" before people.
• reasoned, ethically consistent conduct of court hearings.
thinkers, among whom was Mark Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), formed from the notion mos the adjective moralis - morale.
Morality provides a person with criteria by which he can evaluate the actions of surrounding people, understand and comprehend their specific deeds, their lives, formulate for themselves meaningful goals, determine the motives for their activities, attitudes, the meaning of their being. Later, but to the extent of the development of science, culture and public consciousness, ethics and morality have different content. Under morality one of the ways of regulatory behavior behavior of a person, the kind of relationships and interactions between people, one of forms of public consciousness, and ethics - science , studying morality. In the Old Slavonic language, the notions "morals", "morality" the customs established in the society, as well as the internal attitudes of a person who acted on his conscience and free will. This is the etymological correlation of the concepts under consideration, which today have different content.
Morality (Latin moralis , morale - moral) is a form of social consciousness, a set of norms and the principles of human behavior towards other people, as well as to society, inanimate and living nature based on criteria based on the highest good - good.
The content of the category & mor; morality reflects the totality of traits and properties of a person who "mastered" specific morality. By morality, the internal or internalized side of morality is most often meant, while the latter is viewed as an external aspect of the relation to man. In this regard, one can speak about morality of man only from the standpoint of assessing a person's responsibilities relatives, society, Homeland or the highest essence - God.
Morality reflects the inner, spiritual qualities of a person, norms, rules, principles of behavior, expressed in terms of good and evil , justice and injustice , honor and dishonor , etc.
One of the basic rules of morality can be formulated as follows: "(Не) act towards others as you (do not) want them to do to you." This rule people have always attached great importance to, and called the "golden rule". It is firmly entrenched in the public consciousness, as evidenced, for example, by the United States proverb: "What you do not love in another, do not do it yourself."
Moral activity is a special way, within the framework of moral values, a motivated set of operations performed by someone (a person, a group, a community), embodied in a concrete result, having a humanistic content.
In moral activity, all these structural elements must have a moral content. This is especially important for the work of lawyers, where everything should be carried out in the name of interests and for the good of man. For example, when making court decisions, a judge first of all sees a person with his rights fixed in the US Constitution, and then a citizen who has committed certain acts and is responsible for them by law.
The possibility of public evaluation from the standpoint of morality is manifested in life because we are all in a complex system of connections and interactions, which constitute social relations. In their structure they manifest and moral relations.
Moral relations can be called such connections and interactions of people, which are based on the observance by its participants of the basic moral principles, as well as motivated by the interests of good, justice, in the broadest sense of the word - a positive good.
In the vast structure of human relations, moral relations have a special character of connections and interactions. Regulator in them are not only moral principles, but also human feelings, one of which is a feeling of conscientiousness.
Conscientiousness is a manifestation of a person's experiences for what he did not, did not show, although he had all the possibilities to act in the interests of another person.
In other words, moral relations are such connections and interactions between people, between people and other subjects of wildlife, to which the active side will never show disrespect as an opponent, will not put himself "above" opponent, will not use any methods and means that would derogate the dignity of the other party. These are such connections, interactions between subjects that represent a humanistic manifestation in a person.
and the interdependence of people, arising from the simple fact of their life together, and is the objective basis of morality - the leading spiritual regulator of society's life (Figure 13.1).
Disclosing the content of moral consciousness, we necessarily come into contact with moral consciousness rights. If the moral consciousness is correlated and comparable to such a phenomenon as the public consciousness, and is its component part, then the moral consciousness is a part of the human consciousness.
Moral consciousness is a collection of ideas, views, concepts that reflect the palette of social being from the perspective of criteria such as good and evil.
This kind of consciousness is designed to "raise" social being on the level of humanistic relations, humanistic values.
Moral consciousness is a side of human consciousness, a set of ideal images formed by it on the basis of axiological assessments of objective reality, expressed through speech and embodied in reality through practical transformative activity.
Features of the moral consciousness are as follows: a) it differs from other species in having an axiological moment (it reflects not only the nature of the phenomenon, for the subject and thus the relation of the subject to the phenomenon); b) it has the function of orienting human consciousness to certain values through norms, patterns and ideals.
The following elements are included in the structure of a person's moral consciousness: a) subjectively personal (a sense of shame, sovi, self-esteem, etc.); b) rational (moral concepts, beliefs, principles, ideals, etc.); c) emotional (love, hatred, envy, etc.); d) volitional (courage, cowardice, etc.).
In the moral consciousness of a person, we can distinguish the following levels: a) subconscious stimulating actions with needs, affects, stereotypes , attitudes, imitation; b) ordinary level, where actions are motivated by custom, tradition, opinion, authority of leaders, fashion, etc .; c) theoretical, or logic-rational, the level at which the manifestations of human activity are conditioned by interests expressed in the form of program ideas, moral norms, moral codes, sustainable principles.
comprehension of something, develops into a system of knowledge, the core of which are ethical categories : good, evil, justice, etc.
Consider the uniqueness of the social role of morality , i.e. its main functions: regulatory , estimated , educational.
Moral regulation behavior is primarily achieved by targeting a particular person public opinion as an evaluation impact.
The moral norm is a set of prescriptions and wishes, as well as prohibitions that are regulated either by public opinion or the personal will of a person, or on the basis of the rational image of good formed by him.
The moral norm is the requirement , fixed in the public and individual consciousness in the form of a certain verbal formulation. However, the very formulation and the thought or image associated with it are nothing more than a reflection of the prevalent type of behavior of people deemed significant in order to be commended by the social community, class, nation, society as a whole. This is a kind of ideal sample , reference , which is required to comply with everything in a particular community. In the moral norm there is a unity of consciousness and behavior , existing and proper, subjective and objective. It is a generalization of the correct in actions and moral relations. In this regard, the goal of moral education is the transformation of norms into habitual forms of everyday behavior.
Moral norms differ from other types of social norms vast scope, variety and flexibility ways of presenting claims and sanctions for their execution or non-execution. However, under certain conditions, moral norms can be transformed into articles of the law, and some normative acts have their correlates in morality.
Moral norms express their imperativeness , imperative. In this case, imperativeness is in the form of a system of requirements for behavior of persons in whom the common interest of the community of people to which the person belongs belongs. The code of moral principles and norms is called the moral code.
Moral norms secondary , derivatives of social necessity and appropriateness. The set of these norms chosen by people for themselves is ultimately determined by the need for social progress. Say, the injunction Be hardworking can not fail to meet the needs of social progress, and, conversely, the sentence "Be lazy" is not capable of becoming a moral norm.
There are two types of moral norms: 1) imperative; 2) deontical.
Imperative norms are expressed by simple imperative sentences, for example: "Be vigilant!", "Take care of the forest!" Two elements are found here: a) a description of some situation or state (descriptor); b) an indication that the given state already exists or is still only required to be realized (announcer).
Deontic norms oblige, allow or prohibit any actions, express moral necessity and are formulated with sentences with the words "should", "allowed" and is not allowed & quot ;. In this vein, art. 58 of the Constitution of the United States: "Everyone is obliged to preserve nature and the environment, to take care of natural resources."
For a functional analysis of the moral norm, one should dwell on three of its elements: dispositions, hypotheses, sanctions.
Disposition - is the central element of the moral norm, which expresses the content and nature of the requirement. The disposition stimulates positive moral activity. For example, the disposition of the norm-permissions for the heroic deeds "Fatherland is in danger!" encourages people to super-long, to heroic defense of their homeland. Disposition prohibition norm assumes the fulfillment of such requirements, which in their expression exclude a certain act. For example, "Do not lie, but tell the truth."
Hypothesis - the structural element of the moral norm, indicating the conditions of its performance. More often such condition is the instruction of the executor of norm. The hypothetical nature of moral norms is contained in codes of professional ethics, for example, judicial ethics. In them, the performers are people of a certain profession.
Sanction is a structural element of the moral norm, expressing ways or means to ensure its effectiveness: approval, condemnation in different forms and forms. In the formulations of the moral norm, sanction is usually not presented. True, there is an exception that is contained in such a norm: "Do not judge, so you will not be judged". As moral sanction may be emotional reaction of another person or persons to act: verbal approval or disapproval, gossip, boycotting, discussion at a meeting with this or that decision and other forms of expression of public opinion, as well as a court of one's own conscience. Unlike normative acts in morals, sanctions are not so definite and stable, which is due to the peculiarities of the functioning of morality as a regulator of public life.
Characteristic in the context of human performance of moral norms is that moral assessments of people's behavior and actions exist beyond time. The fact is that unlike the validity of other norms that can or can not be observed by people within a certain time, there are no time limits in moral assessments. Here, the actions of people who were committed in the past can be assessed. We can condemn the actions of fascists of the middle of the 20th century, although we realize the futility of these assessments.
self-esteem a man of his own actions and moral qualities. Of course, self-esteem never is not completely adequate the real value of a person as a moral person, as the scale of exactingness can be overstated or understated, because intramoral the criteria reflect the level of morality of the person and can be fixed in the formulas "both people and I", "so taken", "how conscience prompted"
etc. In such cases, it is quite possible that the behavior formally correct , in terms of deviant , the group to which the a specific person, can fall under the provisions of the US Criminal Code. For example, the case of drug use by any person is justified by himself, his group, but convicted by the family, is an offense in accordance with the legislation of the country's pasha.
In the life of society, morality fulfills the most important task of personality formation, is an effective tool for education. education. By concentrating the humanistic experience of humanity, morality makes this experience the property of every new generation of people, becomes one of the indicators of social progress. |
Discussion in 'Modified 1995-2001 Explorers' started by Sonny1597, February 13, 2019.
Try as I may I can't find a current listing for a person or vendor that can make the brackets necessary for the coil over conversion. Desert Rat here in Tucson has done a few of these conversions in the past on Rangers.
Does anyone still make these brackets?
If this info is out there can somebody point me to it.
I hope you got my replies.
The brackets your searching for are not being manufactured by any large company. They are however being made by an individual over on, The Ranger Forum .com There is a waiting period, as he only makes them, after a few orders are made. This is a full bolt on powder coated kit, with the exception of welding on the tower gussets, and trimming the bump stop bracket. Includes ALL Grade 8 hardware. Post 2167 has quoted contact info, pricing, and material list.
If you can weld, I also know of another individual selling a CNC cut no guess DIY weld kit for less. Plain kit, no hardware, and paint it yourself.
Ive been looking at sources for brackets for about a year. Unless you buy the entire ranger lift kit, or know someone who can make you a custom set, These things are harder to find than DB cooper.
$4200 + $600 for a lift kit!? I am in the wrong business I guess.
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The Enugu State Police Command has arrested two members of a vigilance group in Nimbo, Uzo Uwani local government area of the state, for alleged kidnap of one Enechi Ejiofor in December last year.
The command's spokesperson, Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed this to journalists in Enugu on Thursday.
Amaraizu said the suspects abducted Ejiofor, a Special Assistant on Security Matters to Uzo Uwani local government area chairman, in December on his way to an official assignment at Ugwuiyi Ekoro.
He said the kidnappers on December 14, 2016 demanded N10 million ransom from the family but later reduced it to N2 million which one of the suspects collected.
Amaraizu said the two suspects were helping policemen in their investigations.
He said the first suspects revealed that they allegedly collaborated with the community vigilance group to kidnap the victim.
The police spokesman said the first suspect, who claimed to be a Nollywood actor, said he played a big role in monitoring the victim's movement because he knows him very well. |
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When a child receives a truancy ticket it can require the child and the child's parent to appear before the principal or possibly be referred to law enforcement, causing the child and the parent to appear in court.
Another result of receiving a truancy ticket can be that the school develops an intervention plan for the child to try to keep the child in school. The court may order the parent to attend parenting classes or to attend school with the child. The court can also order the child to attend school. The ticket can result in fines of up to $250 plus court fees.
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The PurposeGirl Podcast Episode 027: Combatting Perfectionism to Live a Braver, More Fulfilled Life
I'm the youngest of three, and when I was a little girl my parents used to tell me that they got it right the third time, that I was the perfect child. They meant well, but this set me up to strive for perfection and to fear failure because it would...
I'm the youngest of three, and when I was a little girl my parents used to tell me that they got it right the third time, that I was the perfect child. They meant well, but this set me up to strive for perfection and to fear failure because it would mean others would find out that I wasn't, in fact, perfect. I've spent a lot of time working through this, and on today's episode I have the "perfect" guest to discuss issues around perfectionism and how to combat it. Petra Kolber is a leading happiness, movement, and fitness expert, and her new book is called The Perfection Detox: Tame Your Inner Critic, Live Bravely, and Unleash Your Joy, (available on Amazon).
When I was younger, perfectionism was all about being the perfect daughter; for Petra it was about being perfect on the outside so she could hide the chaos of her family life that was inside of her. Petra talks about how she came to understand her own perfectionism and recognize that, instead of making her a better person, it was actually holding her back and making her world smaller.
Petra discusses "enoughness" and how this leads to so many doubts, and to the fear that we're going to be discovered as a fraud. These doubts hold us back, they push us into waiting versus doing, or watching instead of taking an active role in our own life. And it's important to realize that fear and anxiety can sometimes be a sign that you're about to do something very meaningful to you. What's important is recognizing what's under the fear and then figuring out what action we need to take to address the source of the fear.
Petra's book is full of practical techniques for eliminating the harmful effects of perfectionism, and one of the earlier things she teaches is how to notice the "noise," the critiques we say to ourselves frequently, and then she gives practical strategies for addressing these thoughts. The most frequent self-critiques are often tied to the same root belief; for Petra they tended to be around her sense of "enoughness," that she wasn't smart enough. More recently it tends to be around, "Am I young enough?" But being able to recognize this allows her to work with and eventually dismiss the impact of these thoughts. There are no quick fixes here – this takes work – but Petra shows us how we can actually do this successfully.
By being kinder and more loving to ourselves, we're better able to be kind to other women because we're less competitive and making fewer comparisons with them. It strengthens our sense of community with other women, we can talk more openly with other women about our struggles, and we're better able to help and support other women, and in return they'll be able to support us when we need it.
Perfection doesn't allow for spontaneity, for creativity, for curiosity, for failure, so how can we live bravely perfectly? We can't. Perfection doesn't allow us to live bravely. And Petra's book is a wonderful tool for combatting perfectionism and the limitations it brings, and for living a braver, more fulfilling life.
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And near the end of the episode, Petra mentions The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, which you can find at Amazon.
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During the residency, Ryan will be working on a collaborative project with students exploring the idea of enforcing a methodology to art making 'Auto-Abstraction And Happenstance In Art Making' is about finding systems and devices that exist in the everyday world that create art through happenstance.
About Ryan Gander – Ryan Gander's complex and unfettered conceptual practice is stimulated by queries, investigations or what-ifs, rather than strict rules or limits. For example, what if a child's den of sheets were remade in memorialising marble (Tell My Mother not to Worry (ii), 2012)? What if all the pieces in a chess set were remade in Zebra Wood, so that neither side was entirely black nor white (Bauhaus Revisited, 2003)? Gander is a cultural magpie in the widest sense, polymathically taking popular notions apart only to rebuild them in new ways – perhaps by refilming the same ten-second clip 50 times over, as in Man on a Bridge (A study of David Lange), 2008. Language and storytelling play an overarching role in his work, not least in his series of Loose Association lectures or in his attempt to slip a nonsensical, palindromic new word, 'mitim', into the English language. Born in Chester in 1976, Ryan lives and works in London. Ryan Gander is represented by Lisson Gallery, London.
The Nomadic Residents program was launched in 2006. Residents include Rirkrit Tiravanija (2006) Ann Hamilton (2007), ORLAN (2008), Hal Foster (2009), Adel Abdessemed (2010), Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh (2012), Candice Breitz (2013) and Pedro Reyes (2014). The series continues with the generous support of the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation.
Saturday, January 19 at 1 p.m.
Collaboration is the keystone of many of the exhibiting artists' practices in Onsite Gallery's Winter exhibition, How to Breathe Forever. Taking place at Onsite Gallery, the artists will share their perspective on what collaboration means to them and their practice.
Image: DaveandJenn; No Horizons; 2017; polymer clay, acrylic paint, silicon carbide, fibre, wire, acetate and dichoric film; 8.5" x 11.25" x 19.75". Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of Glenbow Museum, photo by Owen Melenka.
The Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts in Toronto presents a collaborative celebration of the circle using natural materials and encaustic, by OCAD alumni Daniel Beirne and Andrea Bird, who combine their mediums to push into new territory, both as individuals and together.
Artists will be present on October 19.
Lacis is defined by a chain mail pattern of participation that emphasizes an ethos of community, collaboration and mentorship. The exhibition was enkindled by Claire Bartleman, who tasked herself with inviting women from her immediate art community to exhibit alongside her in an effort to visualize the unofficial networks of collaboration, support and mentorship that she sees between her female peers. Each willing participant subsequently invited another, who invited another, and so forth. What results is a collection of works that are linked by relationships rather than aesthetics or content. Consequently, dialogues between the works reflect individual relationships and simultaneously create broader collective narratives. Informed by feminism and personal experience this process-based exhibition highlights the value of fellowship to professional practice.
Emerging photographers 9,000 kilometres apart have collaborated on a cyber-photographic pen-pal project that explores the theme of local cultures and blurring geographic borders. North-Sur Norte-South connects OCAD University students with young photographers in Buenos Aires.
The project is part of PANAMANIA, presented by CIBC, is a 35-day arts and culture festival to enrich the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games experience.
Photographers were chosen for this online photographic exchange project through an open call and by invitation. OCAD U partnered with Toronto's Gallery 44 and Ph15, a non-profit organization in Argentina that uses photography to develop expressive, communicative and technical skills in children and youth who live in vulnerable situations.
North-Sur Norte-South will be exhibited at Gallery 44 from July 17 to August 1; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires from August 29 to September 6, with public displays on billboards and storefronts in both cities.
The images created through this collaboration are exhibited on an interactive website accessible to the Americas and the world.
North-Sur Norte-South was commissioned by the Arts & Culture Program of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games and is also a proud IGNITE community partner.
Lacis is defined by a chain mail pattern of participation that emphasizes an ethos of community, collaboration and mentorship. The exhibition was enkindled by Claire Bartleman, who tasked herself with inviting women from her immediate art community to exhibit alongside her in an effort to visualize the unofficial networks of collaboration, support and mentorship that she sees among her female peers. Each willing participant subsequently invited another, who invited another, and so forth. What results is a collection of works that are linked by relationships rather than aesthetics or content. Consequently, dialogues between the works reflect individual relationships and simultaneously create broader collective narratives. Informed by feminism and personal experience this process-based exhibition highlights the value of fellowship to professional practice. |
SMES generate $1million in taxes daily at border
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SMALL to medium enterprises (SMEs) are generating an average of $1 million a day at the Beitbridge Border Post through payment of taxes, according to Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Minister, Dr Sithembiso Nyoni.
Speaking at a workshop hosted by her ministry on the sidelines of the just ended Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo, Minister Nyoni said cross border traders and vendors that use the Beitbridge border post were paying taxes and thus contributing to the revival of the economy.
"SMEs contribute a big percentage of Government revenue and our women constitute more than 60 percent of people in the SME sector," she said.
Minister Nyoni said through the Customs office at the Beitbridge, cross border traders and vendors were injecting an average of $1 million a day into Government coffers.
"This is a very significant contribution to our economy by this sector that should be applauded," said Minister Nyoni.
She said what was pleasing was that more SMEs were formalising their operations and the figure had jumped from 13 000 in 2017 to more than 18 500 last year.
Minister Nyoni said the figure of registered SMEs was set to increase this year as more operators realised the benefits of formalising their operations.
"The World Bank in 2012 said 85 percent of SMEs in Zimbabwe were informal but now a large number has formalised and meeting tax obligations. You must feel proud because you are undertaking your national duty," she said.
Minister Nyoni said it was important for all businesses to contribute to the running of the country by paying taxes.
She said Government can only meet its mandate of providing services to citizens if individuals and businesses meet their obligation of paying taxes.
Dr Nyoni said SMEs that have not yet formalised were at high risk of being taken advantage of by bigger companies.
Meanwhile, Minister Nyoni castigated corruption by some tax officials saying those who will be found wanting in this regard will face the "long arm of the law".
She said Government was in the process of simplifying its tax system to enable even very small businesses to comply. Government has been encouraging SMEs to register their operations with Zimra. —chronicle.co.zw
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Internet domain names will soon be available in Indian regional scripts
By Virendra Soni on August 13, 2018 No Comments
In a push to make the internet accessible to everyone in India, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that domain names will soon be available in several languages spoken in the country.
What this means for internet users in the country is that they will be able to book a website name extension like .com, .in, .net, in Indian scripts like Devanagari, Bengali, Gujrati and more. According to Zinnov, the domain name registration count in India crossed 5 million milestone in 2017.
"Work is on for nine Indian scripts – Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu. These scripts are expected to cover many different local languages," said Samiran Gupta, Head of ICANN India.
The nine Indian scripts mentioned by ICANN will make the domain names available in around 22 local languages. The aim of domain names in Indian languages is to enable the people with no English language knowledge to go online and access the websites.
Mr. Gupta said that around 52% of the global population have access to internet, while many of the remaining 48% are non-English speaking people who can't type in English. The initiative to make domain names available in local Indian languages will help more people use the internet.
Although people are currently able to register .bharat top-level domain (TLD) in Devanagari script, the internet servers can identify only the limited letters. ICANN has formed Neo-Brahmi script Generation Panel (NBGP) to develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules (RZ-LGR).
The NBGP is a team of over 60 technical experts and linguistics from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. The RZ-LGR developed by this team will enable people from all over the world to register domain names in local Indian scripts.
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Mr. Gupta further added that there are 4.2 billion internet users worldwide, which is expected to grow to 5 billion by 2022.
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Deadly Gas, Cheap Power
Dangerous fumes from an African lake could be the fuel of tomorrow
By SciIll Staff | Published Dec 13, 2008 1:35 AM
To live on the banks of Africa's Lake Kivu is to risk your life every day. Large amounts of methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide gas are dissolved in various layers of the lake's deep waters. Scientists warn that a disturbance such as a volcanic eruption or earthquake could cause a redistribution of the lake's waters and the gases in them. This shuffling, known as an overturn, could unleash an invisible, suffocating cloud of these compounds—a rare event known as a limnic eruption—killing as many as two million people nearby. Now, rather than simply wait for disaster, scientists hope to put some of that gas to use, as cheap energy.
Lake Kivu, located on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is one of Africa's largest lakes. It covers 1,040 square miles and is nearly 1,600 feet deep. The region is particularly volcanically active, and magma and groundwater feed gases and minerals into the lake.
Carbon dioxide dissolves best in high-pressure, low-temperature water like that at the bottom of the lake—and the CO₂ makes the water more dense, so it stays at the deepest levels. Dissolved methane, hydrogen sulfide and minerals also increase the water's density. Organic materials, such as dead plants and fish, decompose on the lakebed, producing additional methane. As a result, the bottom of the lake contains layers of pressurized solutions of water and gas—a lot like a bottle of soda—while the less-dense layers of water on top act like a cap.
Over time, the deepest waters of the lake have accumulated about 60 cubic miles of CO₂ and about 14 cubic miles of methane. With these gases mostly trapped at the bottom, the lake's dark depths are a time bomb.
A disturbance of the lake could have the same explosive effect that occurs when you open the top of a soda bottle or pop a champagne cork—a bubbling over of liquid and gas. In the lake, the cause of the sudden release might be an earthquake or the immersion of hot lava that disturbs the layers of water in the lake. Large amounts of gas would bubble up and, just like it happens in the bottles, the contents of the lake would surge up and spill over.
The lake lies in the Great Rift Valley, where Africa is splitting apart as two tectonic plates move away from each other, making it an earthquake hot zone. Early this year, there were two serious quakes, which killed a total of 40 people.
There have also been volcanic incidents at Lake Kivu in the past. On January 17, 2002, a stream of lava from Mt. Nyiragongo, a volcano approximately 11 miles from the lake, burned its way through the lakeside city of Goma, forcing between 300,000 and 400,000 people to flee and destroying several nearby areas. When the lava hit the water, it created a huge cloud of steam, and some scientists worried that a deadly overturn would result. Luckily, the lava sank only about 300 feet into the lake—not deep enough to release a toxic cloud of CO₂ and methane.
Contract and Extract
An Israeli company, Ludan Energy Overseas, is one of the contractors working to set up a facility that can exploit the lake's gas to produce electricity.
Had the molten rock sank to a depth of 1,000 feet, it might have unleashed a catastrophe like the one that hit Lake Nyos in Cameroon in 1986. In the course of just a few hours, Lake Nyos released enough CO₂ to kill 1,700 people as far as 15 miles from the lake, suffocating them in a cloud of dense carbon dioxide. The event may have been triggered by a landslide, but the exact cause is unknown. And Lake Nyos wasn't the first such disaster. In 1984, an overturn at Lake Monoun, also in Cameroon, killed 37 people.
Samples taken from the sediments on the bottom of Lake Kivu and from deposits on its rocks reveal that overturns like these have, in fact, occurred there within the past 5,000 years—and some scientists believe that another could strike within the next century unless something is done.
Putting Gas in the Machine
In Cameroon, the solution has been to install pumps that gradually pull gas from the bottom of Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun and release it at the water's surface. Researchers now realize that a similar method could bring the methane gas in Lake Kivu up into a power plant onshore. The lake contains enough gas to deliver inexpensive, clean electricity to the region for many years. A preliminary project is now in operation, and the governments of the two countries that share the lake are hoping to produce large amounts of power as soon as 2020. Rwandan officials estimate that Lake Kivu could supply electricity to almost the whole of the country for more than 40 years, with some left over for the Congo.
Both countries have drafted an agreement to put Lake Kivu's methane to good use, and a number of investors, including the World Bank and contractors such as COWI, a Danish consulting group, are working to get the project under way.
From a technical perspective, the process should be simple. A local brewery used methane from the lake bottom for many years to produce its energy, proving that the gas can be brought up from the lakebed and used to power businesses and homes in the area. In the 18 years before it closed, in 2004, the brewery relied almost exclusively on power produced by the lake's gas.
Pumping Lake Nyos
In principle, all that's required is sinking a pipe deep enough to reach the floor of the lake and pumping up the lowest layer of water. As the water rises, its pressure falls, and it releases bubbles of methane, CO₂ and other gases. The bubbles increase the buoyancy of the water and force it upward and out of the pipe, creating a partial vacuum that pulls more bottom water up; eventually, the pump is no longer necessary. The methane can then be separated from the CO₂ and hydrogen sulfide and sent to a power plant, where it will be burned to provide energy for turbines.
Complicating matters, however, is the fact that the lake's CO₂ is not useful, and releasing the greenhouse gas in the process would contribute to global warming. It's the price that must be paid, say those involved, for avoiding a deadly disaster. "If we don't do anything, there will be an eruption," says Finn Hirslund, a senior engineer at COWI. "The question is how to avoid that the right way." For now, the plan is to pump the CO₂ back into the upper levels of the lake water, from which it will slowly dissipate into the air.
A Bottomless Tank
Scientists and engineers estimate that there are almost 10 cubic miles of methane available for extraction in Lake Kivu, and in time they expect that installations will be built to pump gases up from several locations in the deepest parts of the lake.
The Rwandan and Congolese governments hope that by 2020 methane from the lake will provide 400 megawatts of electricity to be divided equally between the two countries. According to one company involved in the project, the resulting power will cost a fourth of the current price of electricity in Rwanda.
In the meantime, as organic material sinks to the bottom of Lake Kivu and decomposes, more methane will continue to be produced—about 3.2 billion cubic feet a year. But rather than threatening the lives of those who make their homes on its shores, the lake could, in fact, be a source of livelihood in the region.
Turn the page to read about Africa's Other Killer Lakes.
Lake Nyos
In 1986, gas released from Lake Nyos in Cameroon killed more than 1,700 people and thousands of animals.
Africa's Other Killer Lakes
Researchers know of three lakes in the world with the geological structure that make them capable of trapping and releasing deadly amounts of gas. All three lakes are in Africa, and in the past 25 years, two of them have demonstrated just how dangerous they are. The disasters at Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun in the 1980s were the first indications to scientists that the phenomenon was even possible. Pumps have been installed in both lakes to pull gas from their depths.
Lake Nyos is located in northwestern Cameroon. Under its waters lies a pocket of volcanic magma, out of which CO₂ seeps and dissolves into the lake's water. On August 21, 1986, something—most likely a landslide, but possibly an earthquake or thunderstorm—triggered the release of a large amount of CO₂ from the lake. The gas spread up to 15 miles from the lake in a thick, suffocating cloud. Some people managed to escape, but 1,746 died, and thousands of animals were killed by a lack of oxygen. On the advice of scientists,
a pumping system was installed in the lake in 2001.
Lake Monoun is near Lake Nyos in Cameroon. On the night of August 15, 1984, people living near the lake heard a strange boom. It came from the lake, which released a CO₂ cloud that spread out and suffocated 37 people, including 10 people in a truck (according to published reports, two people sitting on the truck's roof, above the CO₂ cloud, survived). What triggered the disturbance is still unknown. Pumps were installed in 2003 to avert a repeat disaster. |
There is a new interesting project on the market – a map of developers. Started as a Laramap by Florian Wartner, now it became a broader project, presenting to you PHPMap.co!
The idea is really simple – every developer can register and enter their full address which transforms them onto the map. Here's my spot based in Lithuania – in the top-right corner.
In addition to that, there are two interesting things about the project.
1. It's open-sourced. You can view or contribute to the project on Github – I see already 4 contributors at the time of writing!
2. It's based on Laravel 5.3. Which is an interesting thing – recently released new framework version isn't highly adopted yet, so this is a perfect chance to view the code and see for yourself how it works.
Also you can write articles there – not sure who would do that, since I wouldn't expect too much audience on the site, but you can if you want to. In Markdown – isn't that cool?
Not much more to say about the project, except for thanking the author Florian again. Keep up the good work! |
Jenna Wolfe Gives Birth, Welcomes Baby Girl Quinn With Today Colleague Stephanie Gosk: First Picture
The three of us. Pretty amazing stuff Baby Quinny pic.twitter.com/e8W0qhTMOk
— stephanie gosk (@stephgosk) February 4, 2015
Another addition! Today show weekend anchor Jenna Wolfe and her girlfriend Stephanie Gosk have welcomed their second child together.
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"Quinn Lily Wolfeld-Gosk born at 4:06 6lbs 12ozs Everyone is great," Gosk captioned a pic of their little one on Wednesday, Feb. 4. "Woohoo!!"
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Wolfe, 40, and NBC News foreign correspondent Gosk are already parents to daughter Harper, 17 months. Back in August, Wolfe announced that she was pregnant with baby No. 2.
"Harper is going to be a big sister!" she revealed on-air at the time. "I figured I got pregnant, I did it right the first time. I'm just going to do the exact same thing again and we're going to hope for the best."
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Quinn Lily Wolfeld-Gosk born at 4:06 6lbs 12ozs Everyone is great. Woohoo!! pic.twitter.com/s7luCzDQKs
Hours before her tot's arrival, Wolfe tweeted that she was in labor. "It's time!!!" she wrote. "This little one's as stubborn as her mama (me)," she added later in the day. "Apparently she's going to come out when she's good and ready."
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Last month, Wolfe also shared her joys about motherhood in a Today show blog post. "One of the best things about parenting is collecting all the firsts: the first smile, the first sneeze, the first haircut, the first holiday," she wrote. "Enjoy collecting the firsts, big or small, while you can. Photograph them, talk about them, lock them away in your memory because there will undoubtedly be a time when you'll need just a little nostalgia to hold your hand and get you through your day." |
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